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Friend coming to mess with me and give me a bear hug. it turned out quickly it wasn't. when he picked me up, he did pretty much hug me but body slammed me, put me on the ground and told me to turn over and shut my mouth and put the cuffs on me. >> yikes. joining me now to discuss cnn legal analyst joey jackson. first to you. just get me up to speed on where they stand in this case right now. >> the nypd essentially said today that blake was totally innocent, that he should not have been detained the way he was, that was inappropriate and he was handcuffed inappropriately. they say this was a c...

Courtroom? what are we expecting? >> reporter: well, ashleigh, our understanding is that michael slager will actually appear via videoconference. we'll have to wait and see what, in fact, happens. as you heard michael slager's attorney said there's much more to the story beyond what you see in that disturbing video shot by that witness. they also say their client has been held in solitary confinement without bond since his arrest in april and they're hoping to change that this afternoon. now slager was fired within days of the shooting shortly after the video surfaced and was charged with murd...

At him and slager's told nbc news an enhanced version of that bystander video shows his client is telling the truth. >> they were both on the ground. it wasn't just firing a shot in the distance. it was a close-in, physical confrontation. >> three seconds of the video were out and everyone thought i shot him in the back for no reason. >> in the meantime new court documents filed earlier this week show that walter scott did, indeed, have trace, trace amounts of cocaine in his system when he was killed. joining me to discuss this, cnn's molina machado reporting from the scene and, first to you, ...

Felony in south carolina, then he has a good motive to flee and those are the kinds of cases sometimes you have no bail placed. and this is what i think the real back story of this case is, because anybody who looks at that video knows this man was shot in the back as he was running away. the officer has to be in danger at the time he fires the shots. how are you in danger -- >> or the person has to have some kind of a dangerous weapon that could hurt, kill, or injure others. >> other people. the claim here now is morphing into maybe the cop thought he had a gun on him and he was running in th...