on one hand there hasn t been much conversation, but as we ve learned in recent days there have been at least two allegations about abuse involving this officer in the past including one situation where he allegedly forced his way into someone s home dragged them on the ground and shot them with a taser. i spoeblg to a local spoke to a local business owner who owns a bar on the south side a black community and he said routinely officer slager and other officers, he described it as harassing them over arbitrary code violations. and so beyond that beyond what we ve heard about the two prior accusations and what a few business owners have said we don t know much. but folks are quick to say it s not just about one officer, that there are many officers in this community who have targeted them for stops and arrests but also stopping them disproportionately and not giving them a citation or not giving them a ticket but simply stopping them to have that access point to check and harass the
you need to stay in the car. walter scott bolts out after being warned to stay in the car to be gunned down. meantime, authorities detaining a passenger who was in the car that red circumstance elfle. a passenger in the car with scott. let s take this to our legal panel keith sullivan dan shore associate managing director at risk management firm. dan, let me start with you. this new piece of video from the dash cam we can see officer slager approaching the car initially. then he must go back and do business. you can see then that walter scott tries to get out of the car and he warns him to stay in. then he runs away. what does this bring to what we already know? first of all, it puts the later events in context. we know what precipitated the shooting. mr. scott runs from the car. there s speculation because there was a warrant for his arrest for failure to pay child support. but in no way does it add to justification for the shooting. at the time of the shooting he s
out the taser, the black officer moved out of the way, i old my hand up and he still hit me. when he tased me now, he sat on me and twist me up. he didn t just taze me and put no cuffs on me. they sit there, sit on my back, twist my arm. mr. givens was not arrested, because it was apparently a case of mistaken identity. according to mr. givens account of the incident, the police were looking for his brother. mr. givens later filed a formal complaint against officer slager, but, this is key, officer slager s personnel file shows he was exonerated of wrongdoing in the incident. but now north charleston police spokesman, spencer pryor, tells the ap that the department will review its decision to exonerate officer slager in that case. mr. givens and his attorney held a news conference today and they joins us now. mario givens, mr. givens fiancee also eyewitnessed the incident. mr. givens, let me start with you. when this incident happened, it
video does not help us to answer. that dash cam video getting released by the south carolina law enforcement division. we were discussing last night how they are the investigatory bod for officer-involved shooting. some reporting today from unnamed officials basically saying, we had some questions when we showed up at the site of that shooting and saw what looked pretty clearly like entry wounds in walter scott s back. exactly. and we do know that there were approximately eight shots fired from officer slager s gun. five of them hit walter scott, four of them hit him in the back, one hit him in the ear. none of those shots hit him from the side, nothing from the front. he was definitively shot in the back, as we of course saw in that now-infamous cell phone video. but my biggest question would be the second officer on the scene. the african-american officer who arrives some time around the time that officer slager is standing over the body and dropping whatever that object was near
out the taser, the black officer moved out of the way, i old my hand up and he still hit me. when he tased me now, he sat on me and twist me up. he didn t just taze me and put no cuffs on me. they sit there, sit on my back, twist my arm. mr. givens was not arrested, because it was apparently a case of mistaken identity. according to mr. givens account of the incident, the police were looking for his brother. mr. givens later filed a formal complaint against officer slager, but, this is key, officer slager s personnel file shows he was exonerated of wrongdoing in the incident. but now north charleston police spokesman, spencer pryor, tells the ap that the department will review its decision to exonerate officer slager in that case. mr. givens and his attorney held a news conference today and they joins us now. mario givens, mr. givens fiancee also eyewitnessed the incident. mr. givens, let me start with you. when this incident happened, it