Fiveyear veteran with the Charleston Police department being charged with murder. This comes incredibly quickly. This shooting took place saturday afternoon, just four days ago. And the state Law Enforcement department there in the state of South Carolina has charged him with murder. In this video, its dramatic, you see in the initial moments of the video the victim in this case, 50yearold walter scott, very close to the officer but starting to run away. You see some objects fall to the ground. Officer slager apparently said that he feared for his life or he felt like he was in danger because the victim had reached for his taser. But walter scott gets about 25 feet away, four seconds later and eight shots, walter scott drops to the ground. He is later pronounced dead at the scene. And then one interesting piece, if you look closely at the video, at one point you see slager go back to where the initial confrontation had taken place and dropped something next to Walter Scotts body. Its n
This turning video emerged of the shooting itself. [ gunshots ] i want to bring in cnns ed lavandera for the latest. Reporter john and christine, this dramatic video has ended with officer Michael Slager of the Charleston Police department being charged with murder. This comes incredibly quickly. This shooting took place saturday afternoon, just four days ago. And the state Law Enforcement department there in the state of South Carolina has charged him with murder. In this video, its dramatic you see in the initial moments of the video the victim in this case 50yearold walter scott, very close to the officer but starting to run away. You see some objects fall to the ground. Officer slager apparently said that he feared for his life or he felt like he was in danger because the victim had reached for his taser. But walter scott gets about 25 feet away four seconds later and eight shots, walter scott drops to the ground. Is he later pronounced dead at the scene. And then one interesting p
You agree with them or not to protect our people. Its exercising the worst judgment possible. They quickly passed a bill to train and equip Syrian Rebels in saudi arabia. We will work with you as closely as we can and should. You cannot sit on the sidelines, at least i cannot. Good to have you with us tonight, folks. We start with breaking news and its 5 00 on the east coast and polls have closed in the scotland. Right now the race for the Scottish Independence is just too close to call. Another breaking story at this hour here on u. S. Soil, members of the house of representatives are doing what they do best. Theyre quitting and going home. Republican Majority Leader Kevin Mccarthy announced late this afternoon that the house of representatives will not be back in washington until december or excuse me, until november 12th. Before the house members skip town they put on a second act of political theater. Members of congress grilled secretary of state john kerry about the obama adminis
Plan to try to close down that camp for good. But first, north korea denying any responsibility and now saying it wants to help in the investigation of the massive cyber attack on Sony Pictures, one day after the fbi pinned the hack on north korea. President obama promising a response to the attack that led to the cancellation of the film the interview, depicting the fictional death of north Korean Leader kim jongun. Hackers promised violence if the movie was to be released. Sony caved in and pulled it. Will carr has more with the very latest on this story. North korea has come out and said it not only wants to help but calling for a joint investigation with the United States and said if that doesnt happen, they are going to be grave consequences. This comes on the heels of the fbi coming out yesterday and pointing the finger directly at north korea for the massive cyber attack at sony and making terrorist threats against people who would go to see the movie, the interview on Christmas
Economic club where trump will be outlining a wide ranging economic speech, policies he sees fit should he be elected next president of the United States. According to a Senior Campaign aide there will be a handful of issues that trump will get in today today, among them the need for tax reform, trade reform and Energy Reform as well to name a few. Some bullet points from each of those. Trump will call for on the tax side of 15 percent business tax, drafted down from the current 35 percent rate along with three tax brackets for individuals. Regulatory reform, he says it elected president he would order a moratorium on new agency regulation. His trade talk will be much of the same, calling for a need to withdraw from the Transpacific Partnership along with his idea to renegotiate nafta. Perhaps his toughest language will come in the form of Energy Reform, he will say that he would want to end the paris climate agreement along with encouraging transcanada to renew its permit for the keys