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Carolina that's now become a high-profile case. cheryl dorsey is a retired lapd sergeant she served on the force for 20 years. good to see you. and hln legal analyst, joey jackson joining us from new york city. plus criminal profiler pat brown, joining me from washington, d.c. good to see you all, as well. all right. cheryl you first. let's talk about this out of san bernardino. involving san bernardino police. you were a police officer in los angeles for 20 years. and when you look at this video of how this suspect was apprehended and how he was treated, what goes through your mind in terms o...

Of his home at a 459 investigation, beat him, tasered him and took him to the police station because he wasn't convinced when the man came to the door in his underwear and t-shirt he was a resident. and when his mother said my son lives here -- took him to the police station, to do what i don't know. but this was not the first time he used excessive force. >> we're talking six years on the force, you have a complaint. and what you're doing is convicting this guy everything andment i'm not saying he shouldn't be convicted. i'm saying stick to the facts of what we do know. >> history will be som...

All along. we're just starting to see it more and more. and so i like to refer to this as a pack mentality. when you have a group of officers at the end of a foot pursuit, a vehicle pursuit, they become involved in tunnel vision. and a beating is generally what happens. and we understand that officers do this routinely. >> routinely. so joey we've got cheryl saying as a former lapd officer, this happens all of the time. it's a systemic problem. that people are seeing it with new eyes by way of videotape. in this case a news helicopter in the case of south carolina a bystander's cell phone. wha...

This is charleston. was officer slager trying to plant evidence to justify the shooting? our report. >> reporter: officer michael slager shooting walter scott is shocking enough but it is this moment says los angeles defense attorney darren that is something he's never seen. >> it looks like the officer is dropping an object. we see him drop the taser there or what appears to be a taser. i never had the kind of corroborating evidence that this particular piece of tape represents. but i've heard the complaints over and over and over again. it's a common experience. >> reporter: frequent claims ...