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This should be across the board across the nation, a professional standard for professional law enforcement and police officers. i mean if you can imagine the benefactor of some hospital being allowed to stand shoulder to shoulder with the experienced surgeon and hold the scalpel and use the scalpel. it's absurd. law enforcement, police work is a profession and must be treated and respected as such and without that type of national professional standard you will find individual departments, entities and agencies winging it. perhaps selling out access and this really puts the public at danger. ...

>> i just want to say that it really isn't up to the individual officer's perspective in reality. what it is up to is the training and knowledge and understanding and the rules and regulations. police departments and the military also you know really have rules in order to make sure there is some sort of order and discipline. discipline involved. so it does escalate the situation. it isn't necessarily up to the full discretion of the officer. the officer has to be guided by rules, the law and common sense as well. >> mark claxton with the black law enforcement alliance. great to see you. thank...

Adrenaline. not that's an excuse for what occurred yesterday. but it is certainly a challenge that deputy sheriffs and law enforcement officers across the country face. >> the fbi is opening an incident. joining me is mark claxton, director of the black law enforcement alliance. well, mark what the heck is going on here? >> what's going on in this case and in other cases around the nation is you know videotape is really bringing to light some of the issues that have been expressed in communities of color for a long period of time. what's sad, what strikes me are the comments made by the sherif...

Agencies tax funded agencies should be more diversified and should be reflective of the community, but that in itself will not change or transform the thinking, the mentality, the procedures, the protocol and prevent these type of tragedies. >> mark claxton director of the black law enforcement alliance. thank you for your time today. >> thank you. just getting started on this friday edition of "the rundown" and this could be the weekend hillary clinton announces her candidacy for president. two sources say as early as sunday. but she's doing things a bit differently this time around and her...

Every shot in this video is from the back. so if the autopsy bears that out, you should have had some detectives saying wait a minute we have mr. scott shot in the back five times, even before this surfaced. but it is a blockbuster video that shows a cold blooded murder and shows the officer go back get the taser and try to drop it next to mr. scott to try to make it look justified. >> mark claxton, if we have an honest police report by the other officer on the scene there, one who kneels down and takes the pulse of the victim an honest police report would say that he saw the officer slager pi...