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Law, as long as that officer is pulling the individual over in a good-faith basis, the stop is good. >> peter gleason, thank you. dennis root, thank you as well. very helpful as we try to parse out what happened before, during and after this incident. before the gun came out in the shooting death of walter scott, we hear and see police saying taser. the officer says, taser. it's a device that is on the hip of more and more police officers these days. so why wasn't it enough to take care of this situation? we have a person coming up from the company that makes this device. he's going to show us...

Called out in that quick of a sequence? i'll begin with you, dennis. is that standard operating procedure for an officer to call it out if he's about to deploy the taser? >> absolutely. it's one of the fundamental elements of the training programs for the tasers. because of the similarities in look of the taser compared to a firearm, the announcement "taser, taser, taser" lets anyone else in the area, especially if it's a law enforcement officer that it's not a firearm being pointed at him, that it's a taser. and then if they hear the pop, they know that's the pop of the taser going off, not a...

And in a case where it's murder, you can bet every moment is going to be litigated with video in a courtroom. dennis root, if i can bling you in on the issue of both of these officers. there's a second officer who shows up at the scene. and the two of them together are, it seems, processing what's happening. but at the same time, like joey jackson just said, not one of them is rendering aid. and yet their police reports all say the same thing, that cpr was administered and that aid was rendered to this victim. let's show the video in real time so we can see exactly what was happening has mr. s...

That's so awful, especially that mother -- >> howling there. >> howling. she's in the middle of it all. it's just awful. dennis, thank you for your insight as well. very helpful to understand this and such incredible information and so necessary for so many members across the country. we are still watching that picture on the bottom right-hand side of your screen, expecting that live news briefing at the u.s. state department at any moment. possibly two updates here. an update on the terror attack at the museum in tunisia and then of course those death threats being made against ambassador c...

Actions with former police officer dennis root who now trains officers in safe arrest tactics. along with me also, hln legal analyst joey jackson and cnn legal analyst danny cevallos. mr. root, if i can ask you right off the bat, these officers -- this has been investigated. these officers are back on the job. it's very hard to know the entire picture by seeing that one body cam perspective. but from what you've seen, did you see anything untowards on the part of the officers in this response? >> you know, when we really take a look at the video, like you've mentioned, it's a very small snapsh...