spoke to us on the today show. officer slager said he feared for his life. fired to protect his own life after he thought walter scott gained control of his taser but so many people have seen that video, that cell phone video, mr. montgomery, that shows mr. scott being shot in the back as he ran away. when you got into that jury room after the trial, how did you deal with that? at first, we looked at the evidence that has been presented and looking at the video, of course, the video was something that s very shocking. so not knowing everything that we know now, of course, we can speculate but after seeing the video and the evidence, we understand just a little bit different now. you personally when you prepared and started deliberating, were you prepared to convict officer slager? at that point in time, yes. at that point in time. what charge? initially, it was going to be murder. but after, we looked at the evidence and read the laws and
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terrible person mr. scott was. we would hear maybe he was a thug, a criminal. we would hear him being vilified, much like the media did and the police department with eric garner and much like they did with mike brown. but for this video, there would only be one version. great deference is given to police officers. so when an officer says something, by and large, he s taken at his word. thank god for this cell phone video. now i m hoping that the peck specktive jurors will understand that every now and then a police officer will be dishonest when he s excessive in the discharge of his duties, and now he has to manufacture a situation to justify something that s unjustifiable. and that video, cheryl, as you mentioned, showing mr. scott being shot in the back at least