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This is not an official statistic. you guys have been doing this. what do we know so far about the cases where prosecutions have happened and the role video has played? >> of course. video has played a major role. the two that will stick out are sam dubose here and walter scott in charleston. those are two of four. there have been four cases of the 558 where an officer in 2015 has been charged with a crime of shooting someone. in all four cases, there is video of the shooting. walter scott, samuel dubosa, eric harris in tulsa, oklahoma, and then a fourth shooting of david, a 59-year-old white ...

Statistic. you guys have been doing this. what do we know so far about the cases where prosecutions have happened and the role video has played? >> of course. video has played a major role. the two that will stick out are sam dubose here and walter scott in charleston. those are two of four. there have been four cases of the 558 where an officer in 2015 has been charged with a crime of shooting someone. in all four cases, there is video of the shooting. walter scott, samuel dubosa, eric harris in tulsa, oklahoma, and then a fourth shooting of david, a 59-year-old white man stopped at a traffic...

Tase asked then shot in the back twice. so that video has not been released, although there is still a decision being made by a judge of whether or not it will be released. but what we know is that in all four cases, where an officer has been charged for an onduty shooting, there is videotape, in several cases because of a body camera and in other cases because of bystander video. the natural empirical question, what this would all look like if we had videotape for the 50 plus shootings and killings of unarmed civilians if we had videotape for that. the fact that we have a much higher prosec...

Givens is convicted of attempted aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and sentenced to 11 months, 29 days. >> get out! on the ground! [ sirens ] >> more and more, police are relying on tasers. >> it's an excellent tool. it keeps us from having to fight somebody hands on. >> detective jared mathern should know. he along with two other officers are with the homer, louisiana, police force. they were uninvited guests who brought tasers to a wedding that went very, very wrong. instead of a toast, the groom got a tase, and the bridal party got a shower of mace. >> what is going through my...

December 3rd, 2007. tallahassee, florida, police officer, donald poppy, is on patrol. dash cam rolling when a car pulls ahead. the driver hits 65 in a 35-mile-per-hour zone, and he also hits a fence. the speeder, antonio givens, tries to bolt. poppy responds, taser drawn. >> stop, now! on the ground, now! >> givens drops his gun and grabs for it. poppy fires at givens with a tase of up to 50,000 volts. but givens isn't done. poppy goes for his firearm. as givens rises, his weapon in hand. >> drop it! >> poppy fires twice and givens goes down. incredibly, he's only wounded.