cell phone video showows scott running, the officer firing eight shots at his back. while officer slager faces murder charges witness his emotional mother is defending him, saying she can t believe the accusations. i m not going to worry. i just have to take one day at a time. what will happen will happen. at the same time scott s family is now planning to file a federal civil rights lawsuit saying his life was taken unjustly. i think people are wanting to wanting to get justice. and i m mot more concerned about4j getting justice than tearing up my where we live. another man just came forward saying that he filed an excessive force complaint against officer slager two years ago after being shot with a taser in his home. he is now planning to file his own lawsuit. patricia, thank you.
not been able to watch the full video of her son being gunned down. it was taken four days ago by a bystander and he took it to show the family after what the police said about this shooting was not true. the officer firing shot after shot eight shots in all. that s what the video shows after fleeing walter scott whose back was turned the entire time. take a look. that obviously is the pivotal sequence, but there are other moments i just want to highlight for you. i want to show you in this video that are vital to telling the entire story. take a look at this moment. there is the officer, officer slager running back to pick something up. the question is what was it? was it the taser that he claimed walter scott ran off with? then there s the moment when he drops an object he walks back to walter scott s lifeless body
and a video again. today in south carolina a white police officer was charged with murder after a video showed the officer firing eight shots and killing an apparently unarmed black man as he was running away. 33-year-old michael slager said he feared for his life because the man identified as 50-year-old walter scott took his stun gun and used his taser during a traffic stop on tuesday. the video of the shooting appears to tell a very different story. as a warning, this video is disturbing. [ shots ] this afternoon while activists began to gather the police chief announced the officer had been terminated from the police force. we do not condone wrong. doesn t matter who it is. this has been a horrible tragedy
log on to learn more. convention got under way here in new york city. a big focus, the news of the police shooting in south carolina, an officer firing at a man running away. it was tragic and senseless. but at the convention new york
you re watching cnn newsroom. thanks for staying with me. i m errol barnett. a white police officer in south carolina has been charged with murder in saturday s shooting death of an apparently unarmed black man. the charge comes after a bystander s video surfaced. it shows the officer firing at the suspect eight times as he was running away. u.s. officials say hackers working for the russian government accessed sensitive information by breaking into the white house computer system. it includes nonpublic details of the president s schedule. the white house had said earlier last year s breach was only affected an unclassified system. the u.s. is speeding up aid to the saudi-led coalition. a school was hit by air strikes metropolitan for a nearby base.