which he cold bloodedly killed this man is not representative of the masses of police officers who put that blue uniform on every day and serve and protect. also, greta, i have listened to the family and i m very happy with this family. because this family refused to play the race card. this family has said that they wanted justice. and i have got to tell it you. we also have to take our hats off to the north charleston police officials there and that department because they moved in a very aggressive manner to seek justice for this family in light of that video. you know, ted it s so hard to watch this because you are so right. there are thousands and thousands and thousands of police officers tonight protecting you, protecting me. protecting the rest of us. and then you have the situation where someone, and it appears he hasn t had his trial but it s it not like we are watching this video. he chases him down, he fires it 8 times in his back.
charleston. one thing that the mayor is not waiting on though, greta, he announced today that he now has enough money and has just purchased 251 body cameras so that in the near future each and every member of the north charleston police force will have a camera on their person so that will leave no doubt as to what happens during these incidents. greta? john, in looking at the video it looks like and i say looks like that the police officer goes back and puts something near the decedent as he is lying down. is that true did he put something near the decedent? they don t know yet. the south carolina law enforcement division is handling the investigation here and talking to all parties involved. here s the story that he told. he said that the man, walter scott, grabbed his taser. that he had stopped him for a traffic stop taillight was out. he ran into a nearby lot. he tried to hit him with his taser. the officer says that they wrestled for the taser that scott grabbed the taser and
fatally shot him after a traffic stop. charged with murder after video of the shooting surfaced. today the north charleston police chief talked about this disturbing video and gruesome shooting. i have watched the video. i was sickened by what i saw. i have not watched it since. fox news senior national correspondent is live in north charleston, south carolina, john, what is the latest there? greta, good evening to you. every time something like this happens across the country comparisons to ferguson, missouri are made. but what s most striking about what happened here in north charleston is. this is what everybody thought was under the impression was told happened in ferguson. and unarmed black man shot in the black by a white police officer as he was
rest of the world. and become weaponized even against us. i think we should if the negotiations reasonable chance but we should be clear that these questions have to be answered. indeed. dr. kissinger, thank you. thank you, sir. now to horrific news out of afghanistan. american soldier murdered and several others wounded when an afghan soldier opened fire on troops today. catherine james joins us live from kabul. catherine, what happened to our soldier? hi greta. the american soldier who was killed was with a number of other u.s. soldiers within the compound of a provincial governor. a u.s. diplomatic mission was visiting the provincial governor in the east of afghanistan in mangahar.
he shoots scott, he walks over, he handcuffs him behind his back, i think scott is already almost dead at that point. he runs back, grabs what was on the ground and places it at his feet. questions are being asked was that the taser in question here that slager says that scott had on his person when he shot him in the back five times. john, thank you. and good for south carolina moving very swiftly on this one and it s good that we have that video. thank you john. just how important will that video be as this case moves forward defense lawyer and former homicide detective ted williams joins us. ted, the video, i guess it s not often we saw with eric garner but not often we get to watch it in realtime. what happened? yeah, that video tells just about the complete story, greta. but, let me start off by saying, greta. i ve received numerous phone calls from many law enforcement officers today and they wanted me to tell our viewers that officer slager and the manner in