>>AS SUSPECTED, LAST FRIDAY JURORS IN THE CASE OF MICHAEL T
SLATER THE OFFICER THAT SHOT WALTER SCOTT AS HE WAS RUNNING
AWAY WILL NOT HAVE TO DEAL WITH A GUILTY VERDICT BECAUSE OF THE
FACT THAT THE JURY COULD NOT
AGREE ON CONVICTING HIM.
THIS ENDED IN A MISTRIAL.
THERE IS
EVIDENCE TO INDICATE
>> THE DEFENSE THINKS IF WE HAVE
A MISTRIAL HERE EITHER THEY ARE
NOT GOING TO TRY HIM AGAIN OR THEY WILL WANT TO SETTLE THIS
THING.
THANK GOD WE HAVE THAT ONE JUROR WHO WILL NOT CONVICT
UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
LET'S PUSH THIS TO A MISTRIAL AND GET
A MUCH BETTER DEAL.
IF YOU THINK THEY CAN JUST TRY AGAIN AND MAYBE YOU CAN GET
THEM CONVICTED OF MURDER.
NO, LIKELY THEY WILL DO A PLEA DEAL.
>> THE JUDGE RECEIVED TWO NOTES DURING THIS CASE.
I WANT YOU TO
KNOW WHAT THE NOTE SAID.
A NOTE
READ BY THE JUDGE ñ THAT IS HOW IT ALL PLAYED OUT.
I KNOW EVERY
TIME WE GIVE YOU UPDATES ON THIS STORY, WE SHOW YOU THE VIDEO.
BUT I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT
HAPPENED DURING THIS CASE.
>> BECAUSE YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE SEEN OUR EARLY COVERAGE OF IT.
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO AND SEE IF YOU THINK THAT THE
OFFICER REALLY THOUGHT HIS LIFE WAS IN DANGER.
>> SHIT, SHIT.
>> WHEN WE DID THE ORIGINAL COVERAGE THERE WAS LONGER VIDEO
THAT SHOWS THE OFFICER DROPPING
THE TASER, PLANTING EVIDENCE RIGHT NEXT TO WHERE HE SHOT HIM.
HE COULD'VE JUST LEFT IT WHERE HE WAS BACK WHERE HE SHOT HIM.
HE GOT HIS TASER OUT AND DROPPED
IT WHERE HE SHOT THE GUY.
HE SHOT HIM AS HE WAS RUNNING AWAY.
HE KNEW HE HAD NO WEAPON.
HE SHOT HIM IN THE BACK FIVE TIMES,
AS HE LAID THERE DYING HE HANDCUFFED HIM.
>> THE FACT THAT THERE WAS INJUSTICE IN THIS CASE ñ IT IS
AS CLEAR AS CAN BE.
THE GUY IS
RUNNING AWAY FROM THE COP.
HE DOESN'T POSE ANY TYPE OF THREAT
OR DANGER BECAUSE HE IS RUNNING
AWAY FROM THE COP.
WHY COULDN'T THEY REACH A DECISION?THE FACT
THAT THAT DIDN'T LEAD TO JUSTICE
IN THIS CASE IS DEVASTATING.
>> LET'S NOTE, THERE WERE 12 PEOPLE ON THE JURY, ONE BLACK,
11 WHITE.
THE LOAN JUROR WHO WAS HOLDING OUT HIS WHITE.
BUT THE
OTHER 10 WHITE JURORS THOUGHT GUILTY.
IT IS NOT LIKE IT IS THE
MAJORITY OF THE WHITE JURORS WERE LIKE I DON'T CARE, JUST
SHOOT BLACK PEOPLE.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IS IN HIS HEAD.
>> I WOULD VENTURE TO SAY THAT
IS PROBABLY NOT THE CASE.
>> WHEN I SAW THE STORY TODAY MADE ME THINK OF A QUOTE THAT
WAS UNSETTLING.
IT WAS TRUMPS QUOTE WHEN HE SAID I COULD JUST
SHOOT A GUY IN THE MIDDLE OF
FIFTH AVENUE AND MY SUPPORTERS WOULD NOT CARE.
>>THAT IS RIGHT.
>>NOW HERE WE HAVE A CASE WHERE A GUY JUST SHOOT SOMEONE, THERE
IS AT LEAST ONE GUY THAT SAYS I
DON'T CARE, NOT GUILTY.