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Shocking video of a police officer fatally shooting a fleeing suspect, shooting him in the back and it's even more shocking when you listen to the 911 tape of the incident. >> shots fired. get do subject is down. >> that is the dispatch conversation. the tape also includes a description of the subject's wounds to his chest, chest and right side ending with the word "unresponsive." walter scott was a veteran of the u.s. coast guard. his family says he did not have a history of violence and would not have tried to grab the officer's weapon.

But there are other reports, dennis, that show potentially the tase had already happened. the cord from the tase, it's almost imperceivable in some of the video, in some of the pictures. but there are reports that say witnesses and the officer himself said he tased the man aleady. does that not therefore render that taser useless, not dangerous, even if the man took the taser? it's been used. it can no longer present a threat, right? >> well, once the cartridge has been discharged, once he's fired the taser weapon, the probes can't be reset into the cartridge. so what you basically have, witho...

Father of four and a u.s. coast guard veteran. disturbing bystander video shows the shooting in traffic detail. slagger shot at scott eight times as scott was running away. five of the bullets hit scott, killing him. slagger says he feared for his life when he fired those shots. but the video shows a very different account. i'm about to show you the entire video of the incident that was shot by that bystander. everything happens very quickly and it's not always easy to make out what's happening. so i'm going to draw your attention to a few things to watch for as you watch this incident play ou...

Weapon at the pepprpetrator -- e video shows this is not the case in this particular event. once the taser weapon is out of play and the person begins to flee from the officer, the officer's application that the shooting of the individual is unreasonable. there is nothing i can find in the video that would justify the application of deadly force in this event. there's no special circumstances known that i'm aware of about the individual that posed a threat to the public if they were allowed to escape. more importantly, if we know who he is and it's a family-related court bench warrant for chil...

He returned to walter scott and there you see what happened next. something flies out of his right hand, something long, something that looks dark. it is not for me to guess what that is because that is terribly unclear video. but i want to bring in dan shore and joey jackson on this. dan, it's just uncomfortable to see it. it looks like the taser. >> right. in the officer's statements before he knows there's a videotape is that the suspect took his taser. >> grabbed -- >> grabbed. took means he's run off. that means we may have been in a struggle. >> but putting the taser near the body would ...