new information. what s that bolling on the floor there. oh, that s a bolling of air freshener. a bottle of what. it s air freshen. it s not liquor or anything. okay. do you have a license on you? the bottle said gin but the driver said it was a bottle of air freshener. turns out mr. dubose was right, there was no licker in the bottle. moments after the questioning, the officer shot mr. dubose in the head at point blank range. go ahead and take your seat belt off. stop stop! the car rolls off, and crashes to a stop. officer tensing, as you know has been charged with murder. cnn s jean casarez joins me now along with sunny haase tin. if it wasn t gin in the bottle what was it? the coroner s office confirmed with cnn that it is compounds associated with fragrance or pur perfumes.
that s what he said. he said it was air freshener. here s what s interesting. they are doing a lot of toxicology testing here. other items in the car being tested and they say they will not come out with any other results until they have conclusionary results on all of them. why did they come out with this? this is a preliminary result but obviously it s more likely true. does this change anything? because at issue isn t so much what came before. it was the moment whether i mean i don t know at what point you believe things started to lead to the shooting but the car was start, the officer reached in. and the gun went off. i think it certainly changes the complexion of the stop. when you are stopping someone and perhaps you think there is alcohol or drugs in the car it s clear to me and i think everyone when you look at the bottle it was filled with a yellow liquid. gin is clear. certainly i think the officer knew right away it wasn t gin. but it may have changed the
everyone when you look at the bottle. it was filled with a yellow liquid. gin is clear, transparent. so i think the officer knew right away it wasn t gin. it may have changed the stop. ratcheted things up. the officer didn t make a big, he didn t mention it looked at it. held it to the camera. then he moved on. mr. dubose didn t tell the truth about having a suspended license. again. off he did tell the truth about having the air freshener. it s not illegal to have a closed bottle of alcohol in our car. many of us have gone to the wine shop bought wine and are driving back. that in and of itself isn t illegal. it may have changed the conton yum of the traffic continuum of the traffic stop. he was fishing, asking questions looking for things in plain view in a car that is perfectly legal. again to jeanne s point it is interesting that he was being very transparent about that particular issue what was in the