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the final minutes ledding up to the deadly shooting of walter scott, a black man shot four times in the back by a white police officer. in the video scott pulls over in a parking lot. the officer approaches the car and goes back to his squad car. questions arise at the time about whether scott owns the mercedes he's driving in. >> so you don't have any paper work in the glove box? >> no, sir. >> no registration no insurance? >> he has all that stuff. >> a short time later scott opens the door to the car. you see him here. he takes off running and fast. this as a new eyewitness to those last minutes come forward to cnn. she describes a confrontation that came before the shooting. >> i don't know if it was a fight but it was a tussle. when i came to the corner of the advance auto parking lot and saw them it was a tussle. >> also tonight, the mother of officer slager breaks her

silence in tearful interview with abc news. >> i can't imagine him doing something that it's not like him. that's not his character. i just have to -- i just -- i gist have to let it be and hope god takes care of everybody involved. not only my family but the scott's family. because i know they are grieving just like i'm grieving. >> two grieving families. a lot to get to tonight. we begin with jason carol who is in north charleston with the new dash cam video. take us through this video step by step. it's the moments before the shooting. there's a lot of new information in there. >> reporter: we've watched it and i know you've watched it. it gives a minute by minute moment by moment account of what

happened during that initial traffic stop. investigators call it a key piece of evidence to help them explain what happened that day. this is the dash cam video from officer michael slager's patrol car. it showed what happened leading up to the traffic stop that ended in the deadly shooting. the video shows him following scott who is driving a mercedes. he's pulled over still a routine traffic stop for a broken taillight. the officer approaches scott's car. >> license and registration. >> reporter: slager returns to his patrol car and for a moment scott gets out. >> stay in the car. >> reporter: he's instructed to get back inside his car but then momentums later scott makes a run for it. slager gives chase. the dash cam video does not show the struggle between scott and slager nor the fatal shooting that followed. >> nothing in this video demonstrates that the officer's life or the life of another was

threatened. the question here is whether the use of force was excessive. [ gunshots ] >> reporter: the cell phone video captured by bystander still the most compelling piece of evidence. it shows the officer shooting scott in the back firing five times and radioing dispatch saying scott grabbed his taser. >> subject is down. he grabbed my taser. >> reporter: the investigation in the hands of the south carolina law enforcement division or s.l.e.d. scott was not alone when he was pulled over. he was with a friend. investigators at s.l.e.d. will want to speak with him as well. according to the police incident report an officer who responded says i also spoke to the passenger of the vehicle that was stopped. the passenger was we tandetained. he was later released. an attorney for scott's family says that passenger who has not been identified did not see the

shooting. investigators will also review the police accounts of what happened. >> if it's determined that multiple officers attempted to cover for the shooting officer and it's shown those reports were false, this will be a devastating blow for law enforcement everywhere. >> reporter: you look at that dash cam video, jim, and questions arrive in terms of why scott decided to run. according to the charleston court documents scott owed more than $18,000 in back child support, had not made a payment since july of 2012. there was a bench warrant issued against him. perhaps that's one of the reasons why scott decided to run. investigators also trying to determine why slager decided to shoot. jim. >> scott's brother raised that very concern last night. thanks very much to jason carol. tonight, retired nypd detective,

attorney daryl parks. he represents the family of michael brown. we also have cnn legal analyst. tom, i want to start with you. this new dash cam video shows the initial traffic stop between the officer and michael scott. we see scott open that car door and run. this is the second time on video we see him run. i wonder from the police perspective, when a, i don't want to say suspect because we don't know if there's enough information to call him suspect but a person of interest runs from you, what's the protocol? what right are you taught you have to use there in response? >> clearly, in this case we had someone stopped for a traffic infraction. >> light was out. brake light was out. >> just a minor every day traffic infraction. the officer comes to find out he's wanted on a bench warrant. he has to arrest him.

>> you say the officer knew he had warrant out. >> we don't know. >> all we can tell there's questions arise about who owns the car. he didn't have insurance and registration. >> that will raise his level of suspicion to what's going on he's got the taillight out. that's going to raise my suspicion and think does he own the car. is he up to something? i'm going to review and if everybody checks out then he gets a summons. >> at that point he runs. >> once he runs something a little bit beyond that is going on. >> as a police officer are you told to chase him. he runs and you chase him? >> i would attempt to get ahold of him for sure if i can do that. >> paul legally, you have him. he's stopped at a traffic stop here. he's got a brake light out. no threat from the brake light. it's a question of why he's running. later in the video the shooting

video we see him running from the cop as well. from a legal perspective, is deadly force or any kind of force justified based on what you've seen in the videos in the two videos now? >> no i don't think so. i say that because this is a rapidly evolving situation and the officer's right to use force can change during the course of the situation. he had a right to run after him to find out what was going on why he was running. he had been stopped to be given a ticket and he's running to avoid that. maybe the cop over the radio heard about the warrant. we don't know a lot about that. if there's a second confrontation where the two men tussle. we heard the witness identify that. >> you can also on this video, you hear some audio in the video later. it's off camera but you hear something of a tussle and you hear the word taser mentioned. >> had the officer been struck

by mr. scott during that tussle, the officer would have had the right to use force to defend himself, including the use of his weapon if he felt that he was under that kind of a threat. >> even if that tussle because based on the time line the tussle that's off camera happens a couple of minutes before possibly several minutes. >> i'm not talking about the final shooting. i'm saying if he had used force at that time because he was afraid for instance the suspect was trying to take his gun, was trying to hurt him, possibly force could have been used at that point. i said evolveing situation. the suspect runs again and puts a consider amount of distance between himself and the officer. the suspect is unarmed. he doesn't appear to be endangering anybody else and the officer shoots him as many as five times in the back. that's an excessive use of force under the circumstances because at this point in time the suspect poses no threat to the officer what so ever. >> you have some space and time.

>> that's correct. you have to evaluate it at each step in the proceedings and at that final step when the shots are fired it doesn't appear to be justifiable. >> daryl, in that dash cam video we hear the officer's original conversation. let's have a listen so our viewers can hear. >> you don't have any paper work in the glove box? >> no, sir. >> no registration or insurance? >> he has all that stuff. >> you're buying the car? >> yes. >> daryl does that raise any questions for you? i'm not making a leap to say there's any justification for deadly force, just about the sort of progression of reaction from the police officer. he stopped for a broken light. now there's questions about who owns the car. then a possible tussle does it change the way you see this case at all? >> not at all. when you listen to the questions by the officer initially they are the typical questions you

would see in traffic stop. all of that seems to be well within line. >> the answers to the questions, when i get stopped i say i got insurance and here is the registration. he has a wishy washy answer to who owns the car. >> it's obviously an issue. it's not clear to what the issue is. none of those issues have anything to do with the tape that we ultimately see and the death of walter scott. >> fair enough. that's something to be clear. there's a considerable amount of time to allow for decision making. tom, we were talking earlier, you were on the force for 22 years. you describe violent encounters you had with people but you also said you never fired your weapon during your time. you can still be in a tussle and that doesn't lead to justification of deadly force. >> whether or not you have the ability, it all depaendsends your threat level at that point. here it seems there were a

couple of options. he could have chased him again. he could have called over the radio to have someone intercept him. he could have done both. to go right to deadly physical force, that didn't really seem like the first viable option to choose based on what we know. >> talking about escalation. this was a massive and very quick escalation of force. >> it happens sometimes but there has to be a justifiable reason for that in order to use your firearm. >> raises some interesting questions. tom, daryl, paul great to have you on. appreciate your analysis. a new witness is speaking out for the first time. what did she see in the moments before the shooting? that exclusive is coming up. did officer slager try to plant a taser gun by walter scott's body after the shooting? new details on that shooting next. a large and extremely tornado just touched down in iowa. tonight, severe weather across

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officer in south carolina. a new witness speaking out. gwen nickels says she saw how it began. she witnessed the crucial moments after he was pulled over but before he was shot and killed. bryan todd spoke with her and has much more of her account. >> reporter: the video of walter scott's shooting not only shows the end of his life, it shows tend of a confrontation that began yards away. she saw how it all began. she followed them to the advance parking lot where advance michael slager pulled him over. >> i didn't hear him saying stop

or halt. >> reporter: that's when she saw a physical confrontation. >> before what you saw on the video tape there was like a little tussle over there like at the end of that gate down there. >> were they on the ground rolling? >> no it wasn't on the ground. it was like a tussle type of thing like what do you want or what did i do type of thing? >> reporter: she she has yet to speak with police. newly released vid yes shows scott car pulling over. slager having a conversation and later scott opens the door and takes off. why would scott have run? faden santana said of one possibilities. >> before the video, i saw he was trying to get away of the taser. his reaction was just to get away of the taser. >> reporter: the confrontation ended up a long way from where

it started. more than two football fields. so far it appeared he was the only bystander in the immediate area where the shots happened. this house abandoned. this is the spot where faden santana picked up and started filming. gwen says her son has a run in with the police after a routine traffic stop. she said chef overwhelmed when she heard the gunshots that killed walter scott. >> i started to cry. sorry. i started to cry because i thought about the altercation with my son and it could have been my son. it could have been any one of these young black young men around here. >> reporter: she says she still believes there's a lot of good

police officers in north charleston but they have to do more community policing. just more kind of pounding the beat on foot and getting to know neighborhoods on day-to-day basis. there's one other important witness in this case. that's the passenger who was in walter scott's car. so far we have not yet heard from him. jim. >> no question. we see the passenger in the dash cam video. thanks very much to bryan todd. pastor thomas dixon has been meeting with the family. he's going to join us in a moment. first i want to go back to paul. one of the new pieces of information plus speaking to that eyewitness is there was a tussle before we get to that infamous video of the actual shooting. i just wonder does that in your view as lawyer decrease the chances of murder and start bringing up other lesser charge manslaughter et cetera if you had some sort of confrontation before? >> let me talk about how defense attorneys for the police officer

will handle this. they will say this is not a murder case because in murder cases in south carolina you need malice aforethought. that's the word they use. in other states they call it premeditation. defense attorneys will say this was a heat of passion shotting. it's something he did suddenly after an altercation, physical at altercation with the suspect. that would constitute manslaughter and it makes a huge difference in sentencing. >> even fp it took place some time. he had some time to think about it. it's a couple of minutes removed from it. >> you can form the intent to kill and premeditation quickly, matter of seconds you can form it. jurors being sympathetic to police officers as they usually are might say it's a heat of passion killing. it's bad judgment by the cop. ooip that's how defense attorneys will urge the prosecutor to go

lighter in this case. >> new information coming out every day. pastor dixon you've been very outspoken against the police department here. you think this is cut and dry that the officer had no reason to shoot walter scott. you hear this new witness and see the dash cam video, does it change your mind at all? >> no. i believe officer slager mike slager had no right or reason to feel it was okay to draw his firearm and level it and fire at this fleeing suspect. there's no reason that i can see why walter scott is dead today. >> pastor i want to ask you because we're hearing from officer slager's mother. here is what she told abc news a short time ago. i want to get your reaction. >> i can't imagine him doing something that it's not like him. that's not his character.

i just have to -- i just have to let it be. i hope god takes care of everybody involved not only my family but the scott's family because i know they are grieving just like i'm grieving. >> she says two grieving families. i wonder what your reaction is. >> it's heart wrenching to hear how her heart feels at this particular time. we must take into consideration there's another mother who has lost her son and will never see him again. at least she can go to where ever he winds up and visit him. the other mother's son she'll never be able to visit with or hug or to caress anymore in life. any way that i look at it, the mentality of an individual who will in cold blood fire eight

shots at an individual who is fleeing from him, an individual who's worst crime was the fact he was stopped randomly with a criminal background that included failure to pay child support and driving under suspension and he had to flee for his life and then a sentence of life was doled out by this officer. you can't discount that. i don't understand what kind of mind would do that. >> there's a legal standard for for -- can you explain the standard? >> there was a doctrine called the fleeing felon doctrine. if you run away from the cops they're going to shoot you. everybody knows that. in 1985 the supreme court of the united states says you can't take a person's life because they are running away and

committed a felony. that person has to pose a substantial threat to the officer or to the community. only then can you use deadly physical force. i don't see any threat to the officer. i see no threat to the community and i don't think he has a viable defense to some kind of a homicide charge where it's murder or manslaughter. that will be up to grand jury. >> pretty clear cut judgment in your part. pastor dixon i know you met today with the scott family. tell us how they're doing. >> they're holding up well. they're holding up well by their faith. their faith and the fact they will get through this. their belief in everything happens according to the will of the god they serve. even with the loss of a loved one they can move forward knowing and believing that out of his death something good will happen. that something good they are expecting to happen will be that there will be a new sentiment across this country that will stop the deaths the senseless

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welcome back. our breaking news tonight, newly released dash cam video shows the initial moments when officer michael slager pulled over walter scott for having a broken taillight. firing off those eight shots. four of them in scott's back and killing him. there's many questions about this particular moment slager is seen dropping something near scott's body. was he trying to plant a taser gun next to him?

>> reporter: officers michael slager shooting walter scott is shocking enough but it's this moment says los angeles defense attorney that is something he's never seen. >> it looks like the officer is dropping an object. we see him drop the taser there. i've never had this corroborating evidence that this particular tape represents. i've heard the complaints over and over and over again. it's a common experience. >> reporter: frequent claims by suspects alleging police planting evidence have been difficult to prove. in the late 1990s more than 70 officers in the lapd's division were implicated in tampering with and planting evidence in thousands of cases. officers were fired or prosecuted but the public never saw the lapd planting evidence. with more smart phone, cameras and policing there's more video capturing how police engage with the public.

erm earlier this year dash cam video captures a stop in detroit. he approaches gun drawn. the police officer punches dent in the head. in the police report he says he was only protecting himself. after seeing the video the judge dismissed resisting arrest and assault charges against dent. the video also captures the officer handling what appears to be a plastic bag. he said he retrieved it underneath the seat but the lawyer says he planted drug and charged dent with possession of crack cocaine. the officer is on paid administrative duties while the city and state investigate. >> does it happen? yes. does it happen often? no. it's very rare that something like that does occur. >> reporter: harry is a retired detective. he worked for the department's internal affairs.

he says just like there are bad people there's bad cops. what they have now, the fired officer's video appearance in court. >> what really caught my eye was the stoic look on his face. i saw no emotion. here was a man standing there who just murdered a man as a police officer standing there with no emotion at all. i thought that was very very telling to me. >> one of frustrations in this story there's not a lot of good data of police shootings. is there comprehensive data of police misconduct where officers have planted evidence. has anyone studied this? >> there's nothing we could find. we couldn't find any governmental agtsency looking at this. it's very difficult to police local police as far as the data front. there's been a long held suspicion among defense attorneys and activists that poor minority communities are affected by this but, jim, there's no data to support that.

>> that leaves a lot of questions open. tom is back with us now. i want to replay parts of this video that we're talking about here just to remind our viewers. we see a dark object that could be taser on the ground as scott is running away. after walter scott was shot we see the officer leave him and go back to that stop pick up that same object possibly the taser and he walks back next to where scott's body was. see it here. drops that right next to scott's body. it's hard to say for sure it's taser. it's possible. you're watching this video, what do you see here mark? >> i see at least what looks to be an officer planting evidence. i would need to see a closer look. i think a reasonable person if we're invoking a reasonable person standard here a reasonable person given the context, evidence back story would say this is an officer

planting evidence and attempting to construct a narrative that he was assaulted and he was fearing for his life. >> it's incredible as you see him doing it. he looks so calm and cool and collected as he does it. tom, president obama alluded to this shooting today during a visit in jamaica town hall here. let's play hawhat he had to say. >> we have to have effective policing which means policing that's protecting as opposed to some of the things we have been seeing of late in the united states. >> what do you think of president's comments? that's pretty direct criticism of the police force. >> yeah. i can agree with him. he's the president. i probably should agree with him. i have no problem with the actual statement that he made in one sense because we do need police officers to be responsible and professional and be setting a certain standard that people expect of the local police.

some instances that we have seen over the last year that have been very high profile cases, some of them reenforce a lot of preconceived notions that people have about policing and this enforces the worst of the worst. >> we have seen more of these. you have the ferguson shooting and other ones caught on video. we have tried to report this out, there aren't good numbers. are we seeing it more people more people have cameras or is it happening more or perhaps is it just it's been happening for a long time and because through are more cameras out there, police get caught in the act? what do you think? >> that's it right there. i think the last claim is the most credible one. the number of black people and brown people and poor white people who claim they were assaulted on the business end of excessive force haven't gone up in the last decade or two. people have been saying this for a very long time. what's gone up is the number of officers we have caught on tape.

even in this exact case, it would be naive this was his first time at the rodeo. look how calm he is. either he's done this before or he's been instructed on what to do in this type of circumstance unless he's the world's biggest sociopath. even if he is the world's big egs est and everybody else is okay. the odds don't suggest, common sense doesn't suggest that. this is pattern. >> i wonder what you think, tim. as a network, we're not tarring all police with the same brush but in your experience do you believe this is a systemic problem or very isolated that we are catching isolated incidents? >> this is not the norm. this is the exception. i've policed for almost 22 years here in new york city. i'm obviously as white as you'll get and i worked in many communities of color. never had any complaints from people of color against whatever

action i took against them whether it's verbally or summons wise. that didn't by accident. i attempted to be the best police officer and detective i could be. there's hundreds of thousands of interactions that take place every day that we don't hear about. it's the incidents that we do hear about. i do believe that with the oncoming of this digital age that we're in you are going to catch more people doing more things. that's a good thing. if there are officers then they should be taken off the police department that they are in. >> i think we have to make a distinction between saying something happens all the time. snowstorms in new york are the norm. it doesn't snow most of the norm but i would say it's the norm in winter time in police. we see lots of bad officers that do things. it doesn't mean that all

officers are like that. we shouldn't have to offer that. >> it doesn't have to be the norm to be a problem. it could be an extensive problem without affecting the majority of police but something that is revealed by the presence of cameras. tom, great to have you on. mark always good to have you on. next the young man who captured the shooting says he almost erased it because he feared for his life. hear him in his own words, next. the iotola making new demands. is the nuclear deal dead?

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warrant. new dash cam video showing officer michael slager pulling over michael scott. it was this traffic stop that ultimately proceeded this. officer slager firing his gun eight times. half of those shots hitting scott in the back and killing him. the video is key. it's what led to slager being charged with murder. the man who captured it is providing investigators with key details about what happened saturday morning. miguel is outfront. >> reporter: the man who took this now world famous video on his cell phone adds details. what led up to the deadly shooting of 50-year-old walter scott. >> you heard the taser. what did it sound like? >> it was sounding like he was using taser. >> reporter: when the taser does not make a prop connection the

sound is loud. >> when you deploy this in the open it's a loud spark. clearly you can hear that. >> reporter: steve tuttle the maker of the taser use that faden heard the taser is a telltale sign. >> what is the saying? >> silence is golden. >> meaning what? >> that means if you're not hearing that cycle and you delivered the two probes to a good target area you should have an effective deployment. >> reporter: from the scott where he was pulled over to where the video starts is about 500 feet. scott runs another 150 feet before falling. hit five times with rounds from the service weapon. off to one side was about 100 feet from the incident when he started filming. he told nbc officer slager had scott down on the ground when he

first heard the taser sound. >> before the video i saw that he was trying to get away of the taser. his reaction was just to get away of the taser. >> reporter: slager radioed the dispatcher scott grabbed his taser. santana say he only saw him try to escape. if he proper hit him with all 50,000 volts it should have incapacitated the 5'5" 180 pound man something like this training video. walter scott clearly running unaffected by any taser until michael slager made the decision to use deadly force. >> another witness tells cnn that she never heard slager say anything about stopping or stop where you are to mr. scott as he

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could the iran nuclear deal be dead? the man with the final say on any agreement challenges two key american demands on the pace of sanctions relief and inspections of some of the most sensitive nuclear sights. aye aye ayeatollah ayatollah. why did we start to talk? talk to the state department's point man on iran and isis in just a moment but first outfront tonight, jim acosta is traveling with the president. this kind of language from iran at the moment at a minimum certainly couldn't have been helpful. >> reporter: definitely not helpful, jim. as they are going to only cause more doubts up on capitol hill where lawmakers have lots of questions about the wisdom of this nuclear deal with iran and after all, jim, as you know the timetable for lifting these

sanctions is the backbone of any final nuclear deem. the white house insists they said again today these sanctions will be lifted on a gradual basis. not as soon as a deal is reached, as the aye toeatollah was demanding earlier today and they sort of expected this bluster to come out of tehran. this is something they think is really an appeal to hard liners. they have to keep satisfied during the course of these negotiations for a final deal. and they recall just a couple weeks ago, jim, and you know this. the ayatollah was agreeing with a crowd chanting death to america. they're expecting this sort of rhetoric over the next couple of months as we move forward here but asked about this deal earlier today in jamaica, the president said there is no deal until there is a final deal. he did say he wants the iranians to prosper but said that's not going to come at any price. here's what the president had to say. >> we want to make sure our allies in the region have confidence that they're not going to be threatened by the

looming cloud of a nuclear iran. and we're going to make sure that happens hopefully through diplomatic means. >> reporter: now the president is going to have his hands full down here in panama over the next couple of days. he's trying to normalize relations with cuba expected to have his first face to face conversation with cuban leader raul castro for the summit of the americas and jim, the president just landed here in panama city in the last couple of minutes but hanging over his head over the next couple of days will be this nuclear deal with iran and all the questions about it. you were asking earlier, is the deal dead? this kind of rhetoric coming out of tehran means more near-death experiences like this as we move forward, jim. >> lot more work to do. thank you, jim acosta with the president in panama. >> that's right. we're joined outfront tonight by brett magurk deputy assistant of state for near eastern affairs. brett, great to have you on.

increasingly when you listen to the public comments of american and iranian officials, it seems like the tale of two agreements. immediate sanctions relief, a non non-starters for the obama administration and nuclear, another non-starter. do these public statements kill the deal in your view? >> i say let the negotiators do the work. as the president said the secretary said there's three months to hammer out the details and they'll do that behind closed doors. there's going to be a lot of background noise. the imitation of the joint framework has gone extremely well. and it has really beat the expectations and answered the questions of those who said it would not be implemented well. that framework agreement that jpoa freeze every pathway that iran had to a nuclear capability a nuclear weapon and the comprehensive joint plan of action which the negotiateors try to close by tend of june work to

do that on a multiyear and long-term basis. there's a lot of work ahead and i just you know i can't speak for the iranians. but let's let the negotiators do the work and hammer out the final details of this accord. >> as isis has reared its head beyond iraq and syria, you've seen them active in libya. some changing into from aqap crossing over to isis in yemen. some signs of possible training in afghanistan, perhaps some of it symbolic but still, getting a regional presence. is u.s. military action against isis outside of iraq and syria on the table? as an option. >> well jim, we have a lot of tools to protect ourselves and our national security interests. some of which are military tools and of course we apply those tools when the president determines and our chain of command makes the recommendation that that is the right thing to do. i will say, however, jim, it's very important. we are focused first and foremost on what they describe

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tomorrow a special edition of outfront live from south korea. erin will sit down with ashton

carter for his first in-depth interview since becoming secretary of defense. that's tomorrow night at 7:00 eastern. thank you so much for joining us. i'm jim sciutto. it's been great to be here in new york. "ac360" starts right now. hey, good evening, thanks for joining us. a lot happening tonight. tonight is second killing in the video of walter scott. confirmation with the man of the first one who likely changed the course of justice. feidin santana is his name the bar baric shoothing the man over and over again. >> honestly i wasn't scared. i didn't fear anything. just, you know there was something i never imagined that would have happened and maybe that was the reason why i didn't why i wasn't scared of this. >> he said he wasn't scared then. he is concerned for his safety now. we'll talk about that. much more