brian hicks, i want to ask you about something you wrote today in your column.ficer slager didn't just wound or kill walter scott he wounded the community. tell me what you mean by that. >> well, he set back community relations with the -- between the neighborhoods and the police by years. he's proven critics of the police department to be correct, at least in this instance and he's created an atmosphere of distrust that was already there. he's basically fanned the flames. i think that most people would say that the city acted swiftly and decisively here when they saw the video and i agree that i think the forensics were such that the state law enforcement division probably would have called foul in this case but still the residents today at a rally a at a press conference very upset, still upset with the city because this this just confirms the pattern many have seen for years. >> ifill: jessica pierce said this is systemic not individual failure. what do you think about that? >> i can't speak for any other police departments. i know a lot of police officers in

joining me now is brian hicks. brian, thank you for being here. the mayor and police chief of north charleston called a press conference to announce the imminent arrest and charging of murder. do you know when they became away of the video and how they got their hands on it? >> they found out about the video just this afternoon when someone from the state law enforcement division showed it to them, and in fact i spoke to the mayor around 3:00 and he hadn't seen it yes. they knew what was in it and quickly made up their minds to fire the officer and charge him with murder. >> the state law enforcement division is essentially like state troopers in south carolina, right? and they also handled earlier prosecution or ongoing prosecution of a south carolina police officer that shot a black man in a gas station that was caught on camera, as well. >> yes, they're like south carolina's fbi. and they investigate all police shootings as a matter of policy in this state. it took them very little time to turn this one around. >> i read accounts of this on sat

joining me now is brian hicks. brian, thank you for being here. the mayor and police chief of north charleston called a press conference to announce the imminent arrest and murder. do you know when they became away of the video and how they got their hands on it. >> they found out about the video just this afternoon when someone from the state law enforcement division showed it to them, and in fact i spoke to the mayor around 5:00 and they had not seen it yet. they knew what was in it and quickly made up their minds to fire the officer and charge him with murder. >> it is essentially like state troopers in south carolina, right? and they handled an earlier. >> yes, they're like south carolina's fbi. >> i read accounts of this on saturday, the day after the shooting happened, and the officer said he feared for his life. he had a lawyer at that point did this get a lot of attention in north charleston when the incident happened? >> it has been pretty big news this weekend. there was -- we had it on our front page. it is one of those things that tend

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hicks. welcome to both of you. >> great to be here. >> thank you for having me. >> you got it to both of you. brian, let me begin with you.question is why not? why is there no official recordkeeping of deadly encounters with police in this country? >> actually the federal government has attempted to collect these numbers but never made it a priority to collect them and never had real punishments for the people that don't submit these numbers. >> so you have been culling numbers state by state. how are you getting information? what conclusions have you arrived at thus far? >> well we get our information from various ways. we do crowd sourcing which means people submit incidents from their own hometowns. we also do public records searches and we have a small team of people who hit state by state doing research on each individual state. we're about 30%, we think, collected. it's going to be two more years before our database is complete. we found some very interesting things. we find that people of color are represented at higher rates than they exist in the general population. we found that mentally ill people are killed at