Officer Dropping News Today

when theres life and light and love. and that if we can just get to the light and life and love, 51% of the time, then we are having a good day. and we are having a good era. dont let the perfect be the enemy of the good. and i think that america is a marvelous example of a human community that gets so much wrong but which knows intuitively that if you do the right thing, everybody benefits. and we have to see each other as neighbors and not as enemies. >> do not despair, do not give u...

And i think if the video never surfaced, it would just be the officers word against mr. scotts. >> is it your belief that the -- that after the shooting and the video when you can see the officer dropping something next to mr. scotts body on the ground, that what hes dropping is his service issued taser? >> i think the video speaks for itself. its pretty clear. if you put that together with the rationale that he wrote in the incident report, in his public statements, that he got ahold of my tase...

Something. we see the officer dropping something near the body. its not clear what it is. a lot of people have suggested what the officer was dropping was a taser. do you have any information on that? >> were under no obligation to turn an investigation over. we could have investigated this ourselves. but we chose to turn it over because thats the right thing to do. to have an independent agency do the investigation. there are questions that i have in my mind that i cant answer right now. and th...

[ inaudible ] -- and who was the first officer on the scene -- is that [ inaudible ] -- >> yes. >> should that have been performed -- >> [ inaudible ]. we saw the officer dropping something near the body. its not clear what that is. a lot of people suggested what the officer is dropping was a taser. do you have any information on that? >> were under no obligation to turn an investigation over. we could have investigated this ourself. >> yeah, right. >> but we chose to turn it over because thats ...

Here. you can see the officer dropping something right there. he picked it up previously. >> he had gone back to pick this object up. obviously its been affected. we slow it down and show it. he goes over. drops it. and then eventually picks it back up and puts it onto his pack or onto his waist. everyone is assuming thats the taser. everyone is also kind of pointing the finger that that means coverup. is there any protocol that you would pick something up, which was now a crime scene, if you wi...

It appears to show the officer dropping something near mr. scott. he is walking back to the vick time in slow motion, he appears to drop the stun gun near mr. scott that is the stun gun he ran back to retrieve in the video. he was arrested, his murder charge brings a possible sentence of 30 years to life in prison with the death penalty. joining me now is brian hicks. brian, thank you for being here. the mayor and police chief of north charleston called a press conference to announce the imminen...

Finally in this final piece of video, you will see at regular speed, and then in slow motion, it appears to show the officer dropping something near mr. scott. this is the video of officer slager walking back to the victim in slow motion. the officer appears to drop the stun gun near mr. scott. thats the stun gun he had run back to retrieve earlier in the video, or appears he had ran back to retrieve. south carolina law enforcement division arrested the officer. his murder charge brings a possib...