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You can argue all day and all night, in terms of whether the teenager should have been stopped. he was. and the officer had a basis to do it. whether the officer was right or wrong in stopping him, certainly, the officer believes he was right. there's an ordinance that suggests you can. but where the case will live or die is, was the officer at the time, the critical moment that he felt he needed to fire that shot, was he right? did he use excessive force or did he act as a reasonable officer would, in a same situation? and that's why i think it would be a difficult case for the family to purs...

>> so he is say this guy tried to take my taser. >> i guess he said the taser didn't work. he shoots him eight times with a gun and you see that. it looks like he's planting something. that will come out in evidence. you can't unsee that. your eyes see what you see. he's putting something next to him. >> you saw that as plant also. >> i saw that clearly. that's admitted as an acknowledge of guilt that he knew he done something wrong. that's not necessarily racial. tragically there's a police culture among bad cops you plant a gun if you've shot somebody and it's bad shooting. some cops have ca...

If you aren't capable of handling it. >> it's your job. you respond. things happen. >> you don't get a pass to only respond when you're out on the street to only these kinds of incidents or those kinds of incidents. i think what they're going to say is, i think they're already developing the defense, they're going to say this officer was out there, they had a 911 call. the woman was clearly frightened and agstated and scared. they responded. the taser was used. for whatever reason, either the taser malfunctioned or dntd have the impact it was supposed to. therefore he fired his weapon and disc...

The more able you are to kind of think rationally in an emergency. >> you shouldn't be responding to this type of call if you aren't capable of handling -- >> but it's your job. you respond. things happen. >> mark? >> you don't get to -- right. you don't get a pass to only respond when you're out on the street to, you know, only these kinds of instances, these kind of incidents or those kind of incidents. i think what they're going to say i think they're already developing the defense. they're going to say, look, this officer was out there, they had a 911 call, the woman was clearly frightened...