we re live tonight from north charleston south carolina where michael slager sits in a jail cell charged with murder and stripped of his police shield. that s how fast things have changed since this video surfaced of slager firing eight shots at walter scott killing him as he ran from the officer. as we reported the video tells a much different story than the one slager gave in his police report and the initial account given to the public. our gary tuchman walks us through the discrepancies. reporter: the questions about officer michael slager came hard and fast. eddie driggers is the chief of the north charleston police. to my knowledge, nobody was witness to anything but slager. reporter: slager handcuffed walter scott after he shot him but the video did not appear to aid him. shortly after the shooting another officer shows up
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white police officers and black suspects, one officer in the u.s. state of south carolina is now facing murder charges in the death of an apparently unarmed black man. the police officer, michael slager, seen here at his bond hearing tuesday, is accused of fatally shooting 50-year-old walter scott saturday during a traffic stop. cnn has obtained cell phone video of the shooting and we want to warn you, the images are disturbing. the video shoes officer slager firing his weapon eight times as scott runs away. according to the dispatch audio, slager says the two men scuffled over his taser. shots fired. subject is down. he grabbed my taser. north charleston s mayor says the five-year police veteran made a very poor decision. take a listen. when you re wrong, you re wrong.
charged with murder in the death of walter scott following a traffic stop. i have watched the video, and i was sickened by what i saw. reporter: the recording shows officer slager firing eight shots at scott as he runs away. slager picks something up and drops it near scott s body. there are questions that i have in my mind that i can t answer right now. reporter: the mayor and chief of police visited scott s family wednesday morning to express their condolences. the parents also appeared on the today show and said that scott may have run because he owed back child support. while the video is painful to watch, they are grateful it has surfaced. it would have never come to light. they would have swept it under the rug. reporter: north charleston s mayor announced he s ordered 150 body cameras in addition to more than 150 paid for by a grant.
whoever does the investigating they know they have to do the right thing. that s how i feel. but we have a wonderful mayor and a chief of police. and they are always there when i call them about complaints, i always get a response right back. councilwoman dorothy williams, thank you for joining us tonight. i want to just reset for folks that might be joining us. some breaking news tonight. a tape has emerged published by the new york times where an officer, 33-year-old michael slager of north charleston, south carolina, after a traffic stop of the man, walter scott, 50-year-old water scott for a broken taillight on his mercedes benz apparently got out of the car, there was an interaction between the two, and a video released showing officer slager firing at a fleeing walter scott, at least eight