happened was the girlfriend of mario gibbons brother, the ex-girlfriend is the one who called 911. but when police arrived at the house they were looking for the brother but got mario instead. bun of the things that s significant about that there s a significant difference in the height of the two brother. mario is tall and brother is 5 5 . so the ex-girlfriend was witnessing what happened and yelling it s not him. you got the wrong guy. according to the complaint, the officer who we know is the same officer, officer slager continued to tase mario while he was on the ground. so i also wanted to ask because the officer was in fact cleared in this incident whether or not he was fighting the officer orangeor angry, this is what the neighbor had to say about that. and when you saw this incident happen did mario seem afraid, seem angry? he seemed more afraid and little angry.
he didn t want to go to jail. he said i didn t do anything. i didn t do anything. he was more like scared because it took him by surprise by the way he was explaining it. that s the way it sounded to me just snatched him out of the door. he kept saying, you just snatched me out of the door. i didn t do anything. thomas officer slager was cleared in this incident. now that he is charged with first degree murder there s a renewed interest in this former case. we re waiting for the press conference by mario gibbons and his attorney. case of mistaken identity where he was released without charge. the hook here is the fact when they went on to review that former complaint, that slager was exonerated of using any type of excessive force in what turned out tok a case again of mistaken identity where mario gibbons wasn t wanted for anything and was released. we ll have more from you as we continue to follow developments from the press conference coming up. straight ahead we have new
identity case. now he was initially accused of resisting the arrest of officers and later released without charge and then slager was exonerated through the formal complaint leveled against him about using his taser. so we re going to hear from mario gibbons coming up. a huge symbolic move out of the white house, president obama is standing behind efforts to end the controversial practice of conversion therapy or repar tif therapy for lgbt youth. the announcement is in direct response after the suicide of trans teen leelah alkorn in december. they said they loved him unconditionally but didn t support my mom started taking me to therapist but only to christian therapists all very biased. i never got the therapy i needed to cure me of my depression.
let s go to the latest on the investigation of the north charleston police officer charged with murder and walk you through the latest. investigators could be releasing the dash cam video of officer slager at any moment. it could shed more light into the moments during michael slager s traffic stop of walter scott for broken brake light. slager has hired a new attorney charleston defense attorney savage. we re learning more about the background which does include a complaint for improper use with a taser. he was exonerated from that. gibbons is the man who had the run-in with officer slager and a neighbor who witnessed that event talked with joy reid. take a listen. he kept saying what did i do? you just knocked on my door as soon as i came to the door you snatched me out and tased me. what you tase me for? i didn t do nothing.
his crimes. you ve seen it from the video on the cam of the young man who offered it for the scott case. we believe that at the particular time in mr. gibbons house what went on was wrong. it was ruthless. it was lawless. it was outside the procedures of what he d been trained and the procedures of the department. mr. gibbons so we re listening to the attorney here who s representing mario gibbons, who brought a formal complaint against officer slager and the north charleston police department after a case of mistaken identity in 2013 where he was tased. slager was later exonerated. we re back with more after this. i m brian vickers, nascar® driver. i m kevin nealon comedian. and i m arnold palmer, professional golfer. know what we have in common? we talked to our doctors about treatment with xarelto®. me, when i had a blood clot in my leg that could have traveled to my lungs. that s why i took xarelto®, too. xarelto® is proven to treat