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clearly shows, why did the officer fire? >> he wasn't walking away. so let's look at the facts of the video. he, laquan, or i just say the individual. >> he was walking away from all officers. >> first off, we have to look -- we have to understand that before this officer shot him, there was already a series of events that have happened that set this in motion. what you see there is the end of these events that are going on in which he, i guess, had apparently slashed some tires of a cop car and had been breaking into vehicles. hold on a second. i'm giving you the facts of how this happened. so they respond to the call. they see this individual walking down the street as they're converging on him, and he has a knife. it's clear in the video, the way he's holding the knife outocati. as he walks parallel to the officers and they are responding, he is within, i would say, because if you look at the lines on the street, within ten feet. now, we're taught in law enforcement within 21 feet, that that is a potential lethal area