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 plu

his name is faden santana. tonight he's speaking out for the first time about what he saw and what he recorded that day. i spoke with him just a short time ago. what made you pick up your phone and start shooting on saturday? >> well when i saw the scene, i was walking to my job. i was walking to my job. i see mr. scott, rest in peace, and i saw police after him, chase him. i was on a phone call. and i decide to go over there and see what was going on. >> was there a struggle? >> there was. they went down on the floor. they went down on the floor. before i started recording they were down on the floor. i remember the police had control of the situation. he had control of scott. and scott was trying just to get away from the taser. taser you can hear the sound of the taser. >> he'd been tased at that point? >> yeah yeah. before i started recording. and i believe he just wanted to get away of the taser. like i said he never used the taser. >> so mr. scott runs away. >> yeah. >> and then what's the police offic do

. >> reporter: he is faden santana. he said he was on his way to work when he saw them together. he saw them argue. he saw them fall to the ground. he saw the chase. he saw it all. scott's family telling us they are very grateful that he decided to come forward. they're not the only one who is are grateful. the city's mayor speaking out saying he too is grateful this young man stood up and brought the video forward. >> reporter: the nay your and police chief interrupted by vocal and angry protesters demanding answers after seeing the video that shows michael slager repeatedly shooting walter scott in the back. she's in jail charged with murder. the video has ignited calls for reform who say police are too quick to use excessive force. how did the incident unfold? according to police the officer pulled over scott right up the street there for a broken taillight. there is the empty lot where the shooting took place. right next to it is the alley where the man was standing who recorded it all. the video starts as slager and scott appeared to wrestle over an object possibly a taser.

this new video from another officer's dash camera shows faden santana recording event on his cell phone. it also shows officer slager standing over scott's body. state investigators said they knew immediately something was wrong when they arrived on the scene. >> see where the man was killed? >> reporter: the man who shot the videotape was walking along this fence line. the place that walter scott collapsed is now marked by a small cross and flowers. even as he was being buried today, people were coming by to remember him. the passenger in scott's car now has an attorney. he and his client met with state investigators yesterday. slager meantime, remains in an isolation unit for his own protection at the charleston county jail. slager's mother and wife, who is eight and a half months pregnant, went to visit him there for the first time fridays. a preliminary hearing for slager could take place within the next two or three months-- two or three weeks, i should say. and, jim,ab indictment is expected next month. >> axelrod: vicente arenas, in north charleston, south carolina, thank you. a

>> there is someone else as well, i'm sure you've heard of him by now, faden santana, he recorded that infamous video of the shooting. he met with walter scott's family last night. and this is what it looked like. as you can see, terribly emotional. they were greeted. there were hugs. the family showing him their appreciation for being brave enough to show that video, take that video and show that video. last night on cnn's "anderson cooper 360" santana described the confrontation between the officer and mr. scott. >> they went inside a parking l lot. that's when i started witnessing everything. >> what was the first thing you saw happen between them? >> i went to the scene and mr. scott was already on the ground. the cop was on top of him and he was tasing him, tasing mr. scott. >> you could actually hear the taser? >> yes, yes, i heard the taser. i could hear the sound. >> santana also told anderson that he did not see mr. scott grab for that taser. i want to bring back in our law enforcement experts to break down the dashcam video and the new information that it brings to this story

this video now seen by millions shot by faden santana who says he realized the magnitude of what he had in danger. i thought about racing it and getting out of the community of north charleston and living some place else. >> santana's video helped piece together saturday's events. tuesday officer michael sleigher was charge the with murder. >> do you have any questions for me, sir? >> no. >> reporter: over the past year video has been a catalyst for protest and nationwide cries in police procedures following the shooting death of 18-year-old michael brown in ferguson missouri. since then the following have surfaced. cell phone video of staten island police putting eric garner in a chokehold. garner died. surveillance video in cleveland, ohio showing police and killing 12-year-old tamir rice after responding to a reports that he had a gun. turned out it was a pellet gun. >> may i see your license, please. >> get out of the car, get out of the car, and this one also in south carolina where a state trooper shot and wounded a man for reaching for his license. >> why did you shoot me? i just

my colleague craig melvin spoke with faden santana who described what he saw before he started filming. >> i just went to the scene to see what was going on and when i saw him, you know that they were on floor, saying he may have fell down or tackled by the police. i saw he was down and the police was up trying to -- to get control of him and i approached the seen and when i see that the police was pushing him and tasering him. >> so you saw the police toys him? >> you can hear the sound before i started with the video. i never thought that the police would shoot him right at scene. like i say, man was running away from the police. he -- i believe that maybe he was scared of the taser, you know maybe like he was hurt by the tears, and he just was looking for a way to -- to get away from the police. >> did you hear the officer say anything before he fired the shots? >> no not really. >> well craig joins me now from north charleston there in south carolina. craig. feidin santana also told you that he considered erasing this footage. think about where we'd be without it but fearing his li

>> reporter: i just heard you talk about him, faden santana.alking to work that morning, and he heard at first the officer, mr. scott, in an exchange and he immediately whipped out his camera and took the video we've all seen. it was also very interesting to hear him talk about precisely why he considered strongly considered deleting that video. he said he feared for his safety. he also told me at one point he went to the police station here in north charleston and essentially said officers i was there. i've seen the local coverage. i read the police report. what you're saying and what i'm hearing doesn't match what happened. i have video to support that and the officers basically said to him, whoa whoa. really? officer leaves. officer comes back and says wait right here, and at that point he basically told me that he knew how that movie was going to end. he hopped up left the police station and got an attorney. this is just -- a little built more of what he told me yesterday. take a listen. >> i never thought the police would shoot him right o

faden santana speaking with lester holt a little while ago. think he's quite articulate explaining what happened and what he saw. i commend him for having taken those void video and having an officer taken off the street. >> he decided to go public. your reaction. >> he's a hero. as everyone has been saying without that videotape we would not be here now. it's important, he says it looks to him that the police officer had control of the situation. that the man ran at that point because he was trying to get away from the taser which was the electric shock and he was shot in the back. very important information to glean from that interview. >> don will have a lot more 10:00 p.m. eastern on his program. thanks very much. i want to get to another breaking story we're following. the united states warning the escalating warfare in yemen is strengthening al qaeda's most dangerous affiliate. the group has seized new territory. we're joined now live by the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, congressman red royce of california. what's your