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A dug sting gone bad. a fatal ending for a carolina teenager. >> the police officer has been cleared but dash cam video shows the actual incident. nick valencia is covering this. >> the family, what they saw is not what the solicitor saw. they believe federal charges should be brought forward. todd rutherford says he will continue to open the case. the video you are about to see could be considered graphic by some. >> reporter: you can hear the tires screech as lieutenant mark tiller pulls into the fast food parking lot. in less than a few seconds, gunfire. >> the two shots killed the driver. ...
Up her mind even before she leveled her ruling that there would not be any charges filed against lieutenant mark tiller. they are pushing for federal charges. the video you are about to see could be considered graphic by some. he pulls into the parking lot. in less than a few seconds, gunfire. the two shots killed the driver, 19-year-old zachary hammond. he was unarmed. investigators say he had drugs in his system and packaged cocaine in his pocket. listen as lieutenant tiller described why he opened fire. the police dash cam video shows what seneca south carolina police say was a drug sting. ...
Easier but you sort of expected it? >> yeah. >> eric, lieutenant mark tiller has stood by his claim that he acted in self-defense. you don't think that that is what we see, do you? >> oh, absolutely not. he put himself in harm's way and now he's claiming that it was in self-defense. it's clear that the car was not ever directed towards him and was arcing to leave the parking lot. there's no academy that would teach an officer to do what lieutenant tiller did. he came in and didn't identify himself as police. he drew his gun and immediately tell had he graphed what he was going to do when he sa...
>> video showed my son when he pulled away did everything to avoid hitting tiller. zach cared more about tiller's life than tiller cared about zach. >> you would need a set of glasses that doesn't even exist to say lieutenant tiller was in danger of being struck by that automobile. lieutenant tiller put himself in that situation. >> well, the solicitor in this case says that lieutenant had about 3 seconds to make the decision in that moment whether to shoot in a matter of self-defense or if that indeed was or was not a threat to his life. but she also admitted there were mistakes made. in this...