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Were convinced there must be a second campsite with possible evidence about the killing of shauna tiaffay. so detective miller went up with the police air unit to have a look around. >> those two pilots decided that they were going to fly that whole area for us, and they actually located the second campsite. and we entered and we found a citation in the name of noel stevens. so we were at the right place. >> reporter: so they spread out. kept looking. and pretty soon, one of them called out. >> about 175 feet from the tent, he found a bush. and under the bush he saw a pair of rolled up denim j...

Has come out. we don't have the details from the official autopsy done by the coroner. what do you make of how the investigators have done their work and what information they've now revealed to the public? >> well, listen. a shot in the back is a shot in the back. so i don't know what the official police department coroner autopsy is going to show. and i understand that police departments have a symbiotic relationship with the coroner so i hope it's not very contrary to what the independent autopsy showed. but these officers acted reckless and without regard. they were in a position of cover ...

As being victims. that's where we start. an air unit was actually above the officers, directed them to a front yard. initially they got the suspect to halt, but he took off running again into a backyard. that backyard was his grandmother's. now we pick up this whole incident on a body cam of the officers. what is really interesting to me is, the officers had a place of tactical advantage and cover at the corner of the house and they see the suspect who was in the open in tall grass and they say, "let me see your hands," and then without even hesitation, it is almost a run-on sentence, "let me ...

The property crime escalating this quickly with the advantage of cover for the officers and an air unit that is above them using imaging to actually watch the whole situation. >> laura: yeah, they were watching it unfold, from above, unfold. >> yes. so the suspect is not going to get away. this is personal from my experience in the lapd, our tactics would be, get on the ground flat with your arms outstretched. you don't ask a suspect to see his hands. that's what he did. he showed in his hands, he had a cell phone. when you say "gun, gun, gun," he might think that is a gun and he might take so...

Every officer has to see something that he deems to be the action of deadly force needs to be used to overcome that threat. it's not, one person sees a gun. >> laura: mark, i have to ask you the race question, because the race question is what's motivating, i think, these protests, they are getting mild out there. people are very upset, and i would be upset if this were a relative of mine. but his race at the heart of this, do you think, knowing what you know now? there was a black police officer involved and a weight off police officer or is this, perhaps, bad police? >> they have an air unit...