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The area around his leg and say that it showed beforehand. the officers say they repeatedly called for him to drop a gun. that was shown in the video that he was holding the gun and they were, in their view, seconds away -- >> there it is right there. >> correct. that's the d.a.'s hand pointing there. that's the right leg gun holster. we know from the video, there was video of the right leg pant being pulled up where the gun was. all of that goes to the idea that this was a threat to the officers. having that said, this was, as i've said in our reporting, not an ideal police encounter. this ma...

Bring a person in a blue uniform in front of the courts. but with that said, to your point, ari, hereby we are goin through surveillance video of mr. scott before his officers. we don't know very much about what the officers were doing before their interaction with mr. scott. the point is, they were there seveni ing serving a warrant on someone else. we're being told they noticed mr. scott rolling a marijuana cigarette and then it starts to escalate from there. from a decision not to be bothered with a minor offense because they're not there for that reason, to somehow being in this confrontat...

And holding a gun and fired at him out of concern for his own and the other officer's safety. joining me now is ari melber. they say the officer acted lawfully. how did they come to that conclusion? >> the gun found on his person, now, this was controversial because in part the multiple video angles never showed mr. scott raising the gun. he didn't fire any shots. so what we saw in this presentation today, and you can see some of the video that we're watching, that was mr. scott that you saw there briefly in the sweatpants, what they showed in addition to this video was new video at a convenie...

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