carolina when what you ve seen would you also issue charges potentially against the second police officer who arrived on the scene after the shooting, officer clarence habersham? well, i think it s important to remember that the officer that came up habersham, obviously came up app as backup to officer slager. so i think what has to be determined in all fairness one involved wolf there needs to be an ongoing investigation to make real determination what was the language used at that scene and what was meant by it and i think that s not going to be determined by the video we see or the short piece of footage that we re listening to but it s going to require further investigation in all fairness to that officer, to that department and to that community overall. fairness is clearly important. very important. serm.certainly. what about the new exchange of audio we just heard? you can hear the police officer, michael slager responding to a
reporter: the controversy in north charleston is growing and the trouble spreading to at least one other police officer. the second officer who arrived on the scene is now under intense pressure and there s new audiotape of the officer who fired the fatal shots, michael slager and what you hear him doing has outraged people inside and outside the law enforcement community. in the harrowing moments after walter scott is gunned down police are desperately trying to process the scene. tonight, for the first time we hear the voice of the man who fired the fatal shots. officer michael slager in new dashcam audio, is apparently heard speaking to a senior officer about what s next. the senior officer advises him to go home wind down. go hem, probably a good idea to kind of shut down your thoughts jot down what happened adrenaline quits pumping. it s pumping. oh yeah oh yeah. reporter: slager s apparent laughter is an outrage to one
law enforcement veteran. disturbs me greatly. the worst possible thing can you do take another person s life. i as a professional law enforcement person very disturbed over that. reporter: another says take into account the stress of the moment. understands he s done something wrong and has a problem. his nerves releasing somehow and i wouldn t read much into the laughter. reporter: the first officer ton the scene is under intense pressure. the officer is seen in the amateur video tending to scott s wounds. under scrutiny is this moment when slager returning to where scott s body lies appears to be seen throwing an object next to the body. it may or may not be a taser. habersham appears to be a couple of feet away but nowhere in habersham s initial police report does he mention this moment. the national bar association, a group of african-american attorneys and judges is calling for habersham to be fired and indicted saying officer
look at the entire piece of footage from the time that the shots were fired up until the time he walks towards the body we saw very little concern, emotion or help being offered to the victim at that time. so if you put it and you compartmentalize it that way, none of it looks, feels or is perceived as being someone that is trying to provide some help, even after he shot and killed the victim here. do you believe race was a factor in the shooting death of walter scott? let me say this i don t know what was in the head of officer slager. i hope race was not. but i can t tell you definitively that it wasn t. i can only hope that in today s policing that we have advanced ourselves with all of our officers way beyond that and hopefully that is not the case but i don t know what s in the head of that officer. most police office almost all around the country, are decent hard-working they want to protect us.
did not respond. officer michael slager s attorney did not respond to the criticism of his apparent laughter right after the shooting. a second new audiotape, brian that has surfaced right after the shooting. right? reporter: captures a little emotion right afterward, yes. the second audio taken from dashcam video from inside a patrol car captures a phone call between lag slager and someone cnn believes is his wife. hey, hey, everything is okay. i just shot somebody. he grabbed my taser. says yeah a couple times. he was running from me. i m fine. wolf? another major development, brian. thanks very much. let s go live to south carolina now. martin savage in north charleston where the pain is deep outrage, and the family of walter scott, are they looking to see the second police officer who arrived on the seen do they want him investigated, maybe even charged? reporter: at this particular point they say no. comfortable with the fact is