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Projectiles still there and the taser hadn't stopped the suspect. something else, anderson that struck me about two minutes into this videotape, watch closely here. you see one of the officers there as you mentioned now on the scene. he appears to bend down and pick something up. now, it's hard to see exactly what that is. we don't know if it could be the taser weapon that the officer says that the victim took or if it was something else but clearly, that officer picked something up from the ground. you see it there again. we also listened to the police dispatch recordings that aired on abc to...

What does this look like to you with your expertise? >> you mentioned two different things. the first thing i'd like to address is the taser weapon. when you slow down the video at the very beginning, to me, as somebody who's trained law enforcement across the united states in the use of the taser as a weapon system, that slowed-down video looks like the taser being left out by the roadway. and now here it is at the end of the video, the officer after apparently dropping something that he went back to the location to retrieve, now he's dropping something that when he picks it up in the video, ...

See his weapon is holstered. is it typical for officers to have tasers holstered on their left-hand side where he's working outside the purview of this camera? >> absolutely. no agencies will require the officer to do cross-draw tooepgs with the taser so they don't have weapon confusion. this way you have the firearm on the right side or left side, whichever the dom hand of the officer is. and you place the taser weapon on the opposite side so they can't unintentionally draw the taser weapon instead of their firearm or vice versa. when i look at the video and see the firearm on his right hip a...

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...

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...