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We haven t seen. here is what you need to know when you talk about north carolina law. when it om r cocomes to officer deadly force, a court will not look at what we all know to be true, he was unarmed. they ll look at his officer s point at that time. they ll give him deference. police were responding to what they believed at the time was a home invasion, a very dangerous felony. and if in their mind it was reasonable that this deadly force was warranted, then this may be a defensible case. what this will come down to is this gentleman s two brother officers, what they will say at trial. if they say they saw the guy go for something in his waistband, that s a flag that they re on his side. if they go the other way ashleigh they have to have talked already. we ve got a police statement saying the evidence revealed mr. ferrell did advance on the officer and the investigation showed the subsequent shooting of mr. ferrell was excessive. our investigation shows that ....
Officers thought they were responding to. charlotte police believed jonathan ferrell came to this house looking for help after surviving a car crash just down the street. it was saturday, about 2:30 in the morning. the woman inside panicked and called 911. i need help. where are you at? there s a guy breaking in my front door. there s a guy breaking in your front door? yeah. he s trying to kick it down. reporter: the homeowner pleads for help. he s in the front yard yelling. oh, my god. please. reporter: police say ferrell was unarmed when he approached the three officers who responded. one of them used a taser to try to subdue ferrell without success. police say officer randall kerrick fired 12 shots. ten hit ferrell, killing him. dash cam video has not yet been released, but an attorney representing the ferrell family says they have met with police and seen the video from that night. you can see, you can tell he s unarmed. he begins to approach the officers, and the ....
An unarmed young man gets into a serious car accident and then, when escaping the deadly accident, actually goes looking for help. instead, he was met by ten gunshots from one police officer s gun. and now this all-american 24-year-old, former football player from florida a&m university is dead. alina machado is in charlotte, nk it orth carolina. reporter: charlotte police believe jonathan ferrell came to this house looking for help after surviving a car crash just down the street. it was saturday, about 2:30 a.m. the woman inside panicked and called 911. i need help. where are you at? there s a guy breaking in my front door. there s a guy breaking in your front door? he s trying to kick it down. reporter: the homeowner pleads for help. he s in the front yell . oh, my god, please. reporter: police say ferrell was unarmed when he approached the three officers who ....
Don t hear the shooting but you get a better sense of what police thought they were responding to. charlotte police believe jonathan ferrell came to this house looking for help after surviving a car crash just down the street. it was saturday about 2:30 in the morning. the woman inside panicked and called 911. i need help. where are you at? there s a guy breaking in my front door. there s a guy breaking in your front door? he s trying to kick it down. reporter: the homeowner pleads for help. oh, my god, please. reporter: police say ferrell was unarmed when he approached the three officers who responded. police say officer randall caric fired 12 shots, 10 hit ferrell, killing him. dash cam video has mott been released but an attorney representing the ferrell family says they have met with police and seen the video from that night. you can see, you can tell he s unarmed. he begins to approach the ....
Kerrick with felony voluntary manslaughter. we re confident that the resolution of this case it will be found that officer carrick s actions were justified on the night in question. reporter: ferrell s mother says she forgives the officer who killed her son. i pray for him either and etch day, but i do want justice. reporter: officer kerrick is free on a $50,000 bond. at this point it is unclear if police will be releasing that dash cam video. the family attorney says it answers many questions he he even though police say you can t actually see the shooting, you can only hear the gunshots. ashleigh? alina machado reporting in charlotte, north carolina, thank you for that. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst paul callan, a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor, also cnn legal analyst and defense attorney danny cevallos. the charge at this point is voluntary manslaughter. i m not sure how good you are with north carolina statute, but what does that mean? well, what ....