than just this case, to having seen other officers in situations like this being treated much more lightly. so moments like that seem to carry much more surprise. yeah. absolutely. i think first of all it is so rare. it is factually so rare for a police officer to be charged, let alone convicted and that hasn t happened yet for the killing of a civilian. it is incredibly exceptionally rare. most of time what you have is even prosecutors, as you saw in ferguson, seem to take the side of the officer at face value even when there are witnesses who are countering the officer s claim. i think there is a sense that with baltimore and with this case and with the case in brooklyn, there s starting to be a breakthrough where prosecutors are taking seriously these long-standing charges that police sometimes do the wrong thing. that you shouldn t just take their word for it. let s listen to what officer
least after plp dubose is shot. certainly if there is more video, at some point we may find out that officer tensing had a legitimate basis to discharge his weapon. we may find out that officer tensing had a reasonable belief that he was in danger. that the public was in danger. that in fact mr. dubose may have used the automobile as a deadly weapon. based on the information we have right now, it appears that officer tensing did not need to discharge his firearm and that there certainly wasn t a dragging based on what we can see right now. i want to listen to one other thing that officer tensing s lawyer said about the officer s state of mind and what will in effect be his self defense claim. that s correct. let s listen to this. he was fearful for his own life. he thought he was going to die. he thought he would be sucked under the car and be run over.
officers who were on the scene that day. officers phillip kidd and david lindhensmit. the university placed both on administrate ef leave today and will conduct an investigation in to what happened. the prosecutor s office released the two officers body camera videos. we have slowed down officer lindhen smit s video so you can see officer tensing getting up from the ground. officer kidd s body cam does not show officer tensing getting up from the ground but you hear officer kidd dor rob rate officer tensing s story. dragging me. yeah, i saw that. thought i was going to get run over. are you good? i m good. got my hand and arm caught. yeah i saw that. joining us christopher cooper former washington, d.c. police officer and expert in police conflict resolution and
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