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Way to being a police officer after making thousands of dollars of donations and equipment here in tulsa. sheriffs officers say that is definitely not the case. they say he had gone through training and was well equipped to be involved in a situation like that. john and christine. >> ed lavandera, thanks. a series of developments in the shooting of a fleeing man by south carolina police officer michael slager. a shooting caught on video that now has slager facing murder charges. first, we now ...

South carolina police officer michael slager. the shooting caught on video that now has slager facing murder charges. we now know the name of the man who remained in the car when walter scott took off running. pierre fulton. he released a statement saying ill never know why he ran, but i know he didnt deserve to die. we have a new audio recording of michael slager after the shooting seeming to laugh as he says his adrenaline is still pumping. >> when you get home it is a good idea to jot down yo...

South carolina police officer michael slager. that shooting of course caught on video. now has slager facing murder charges. first, we know now the name of the man who remained in the car when walter scott took off running. his name is pierre fulton. he released a statement, ill never know why he ran, but i know he didnt deserve to die. we have a new audio recording of slager after the shooting laughing as he says his adrenaline is still pumping. listen. >> by the time you get home it will be a ...

Officer. now, obviously, tasers were not in use back in the 1960s. but he is taser certified and receiving that training in 2009. and i would like to correct the record. mr. harris was not subdued at the time mr. bates decided to use or try to use his taser. he was still on the ground. he was not complying with orders. in fact he had resisted arrest ever since he jumped out of the cab of the truck and took off running. so the announcement made by bates, "taser" is to let the other officers know ...

It shows the initial encounter between slager and scott during a traffic stop and then slager goes back to his patrol car and walter scott takes off running. >> theres a gap you see here and cell phone video weve seen that shows officer slager shooting scott five times. there would likely be no gap had the officer been wearing a body camera. one of the first things the mayor of north charleston did was order more of those body cameras. thousands of police officers require their officers to wear ...

Arrested for back child support. tomorrow scott will be laid to rest. for the first time his family met with zaden santana, who caught that deadly shooting on his cell phone, dramatically changing the direction of the investigation and leading to murder charges filed against now fired officer michael slager. craig melvin was there for that emotional meeting. take a look. >> reporter: richard, good morning. the new dash cam footage fills in some of the blanks of what led to that deadly shooting b...

>> that was brian todd reporting for us. lets break down the latest developments and some of the serious questions raised by this just-released dashcam video. cedric alexander is joining us the president of the national organization of black law enforcement executives here in the united states. hes joining us from the cnn center in atlanta. here with me in washington is tom fuentes, our cnn law enforcement analyst, former fbi assistant director. tom, lets start with this dashcam video. it seems ...

Charleston with the story for us there. >> reporter: john and christine, the latest development in the case is a dramatic one. release of the dash cam video from the squad car. the video shows what appears to be routine traffic stop. walter scotts vehicle pulling into the parking lot of the auto parts store. michael slager getting out and talking to walter scott on the drivers side. then slager comes back to his vehicle. walter scott appears to get out of his vehicle briefly and put his hand up ...

Getting out and talking to scott for several minutes. then slager comes back to his vehicle. walter scott appears to get out of his vehicle briefly and put his hand up and goes back in the vehicle. a few seconds later, walter scott is seen taking off running to the left side of the screen. that is the extent of the videotape. we dont know why walter scott took off running. that is a key gap that has to be filled in this case. another new development we have just interviewed another witness. excl...

You better believe he is a focal point of the investigation. he is the one witness left who really could probably tell us why walter scott took off running. >> took off running from the vehicle, then later took off running as we all saw in the other video. brian todd good reporting. thanks very much. lets bring in the lawyers for the family of the shooting victim. they are joining us from north charleston. first of all, i want to get your thoughts on how the family is doing. earlier today we kno...