WE HAVE AN UPDATE ON THE WALTER SCOTT STORY.
THIS IS THE 50-YEAR-OLD
AFRICAN-AMERICAN GENTLEMAN IN SOUTH CAROLINA WHO WAS SHOT
FROM BEHIND BY OFFICER MICHAEL SLATER.
THAT TRIAL WAS HAPPENING AND WE HAVE A JUROR IN THAT TRIAL WHO
IS SAYING THAT HE CANNOT CONVICT SLATER FOR MURDER OR
MANSLAUGHTER.
HE JUST WILL NOT DO IT AND RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE CONSIDERING A
MISTRIAL BECAUSE OF THAT.
IN CASE YOU NEVER SAW THIS FOOTAGE, I WANT TO SHADE NOW.
LOOK, IF YOU ARE UNDERSTANDABLY SQUEAMISH ABOUT THE STUFF, YOU
MIGHT NOT WANT TO SEE IT BECAUSE SOMEONE IS ABOUT TO BE MURDERED.
WHAT APPEARS TO BE MOST RATIONAL HUMAN BEINGS WHEN YOU'RE
ABOUT TO SEE IS MURDER BUT THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO
DECIDE HERE AND ONE PERSON APPARENTLY THINKS IT IS NOT
EVEN MANSLAUGHTER.
THE COP WHO PULLED HIM OVER AND THEN HE WAS QUESTIONING HIM.
WALTER SCOTT MADE A MISTAKE, AND A QUESTION ABOUT IT I
DECIDED TO RUN AWAY.
HE SHOULDN'T HAVE, BUT THAT DOESN'T GAVE THE OFFICER
THE RIGHT TO SHOOT THEM FROM BEHIND, WHICH IS WHAT YOU
WILL SEE IN THIS VIDEO.
SHOTS FIRED.
SUBJECT IS DOWN.
SUBJECT IS DOWN AT 938.
COPY.
THERE MANY DISTURBING PARTS OF THAT TAPE THAT WE BROKE IT
DOWN FOR YOU GUYS IN THE STORY FIRST BROKE AND YOU SEE THE TAPE
HIM DROPPING THE TASER NEXT TO MICHAEL'S LATER.
YOU HEAR HIM SAY HE TRIED TO GRAB MY TASER.
HE DID NOTICE BEING RECORDED BY SOMEONE ELSE.
NO, IT APPEARS HE DID NOT GRAB HIS TASER.
HE PLANTED THE TASER NEXT TO HIM TO PRETEND THAT THERE WAS A
SCUFFLE OVER IT.
YOU SAW HIM VERY CALMLY SHOOTING MICHAEL, WALTER SCOTT FROM
BEHIND.
NOW HONESTLY LETTER PEOPLE ARE UPSET FOR THE MOMENT BEING
IT LOOKS LIKE THE OFFICER IS NOT GOING TO RECEIVE THE JUSTICE
THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE THOUGHT HE SHOULD BASED ON THE EVIDENCE.
PEOPLE ALSO NOTICE THAT THE JURY WAS SIX WHITE MEN, FIVE
WHITE WOMEN AND ONE BLACK MAN.
IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A JURY OF YOUR PEERS.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT CONCLUSION IT LEADS INTO THAT ONE OF THEM
WAS BLACK AND ONE WAS WHITE BUT IT DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU
HAVE THE CHILD THAT WE DON'T KNOW THE RACE OF THE
POLITICS OF VENTURA WHO WILL NOT BEND ON THIS ISSUE.
FOR EXAMPLE, IT IS THEORETICALLY POSSIBLE THAT IT IS A LIBERAL
WHO SAYS, NO I AM A STICKLER FOR THE LAW AND THE PROSECUTOR
DID NOT DO ITS JOB OF GIVING YOU OVERWHELMINGLY EVIDENCE
BOND A RESUME OFÖ DON'T KNOW THAT I COULD BE THE OPPOSITE.
THE COP HAS A TOUGH JOB, SOMETIMES IT'S JUST YOU
PEOPLE THE BACK AND KILL THEM.
IT'S HARD TO KNOW.
NOW IN THE RACIAL ISSUE, ALL OF THE OTHER JURORS WHO ARE
ALMOST ALL WHITE OR SAYING THEY ARE TO CONVICT.
TO THEM, IT SEEMS ABUNDANTLY CLEAR AS IT DOES TO THE
REST OF THE COUNTRY.
IF YOU ARE UPSET ABOUT THE ONE JUROR, ALSO REMEMBER THE
OTHER JURORS.
INFLUENCES IT WITH THEIR OWN I STARTED EARLY IN THE WEEK THE
JUDGE SAYS I WILL OUT THE PROSECUTORS TO CHARGE
MANSLAUGHTER AS WELL.
MURDER IS A MUCH HEAVIER CHARGE, SO HE IS LIKE, YOU CAN
CONSIDER MANSLAUGHTER.
THEY GO BACK IN THE ONE JUROR IS LIKE NOT EVEN MANSLAUGHTER
TAUGHT NOTHING AT ALL.
PERFECTLY INNOCENT.
THE STORY BROKE RIGHT BEFORE WE WENT ON AIR, AND I WOULD LIKE
TO BE ABLE TO LOOK INTO THIS, BUT THERE WAS A FEDERAL COURT
THAT RULED COPS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO, A SUSPECT RUNNING FROM YOU
IS NOT ENOUGH REASONABLE DOUBT OR PROBABLE CAUSE I SHOULD SAY.
JUST THE FACT THAT A SUSPECT OR SOMEONE IS RUNNING AWAY
FROM YOU IS NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU TO EVEN STOP THAT PERSON
AND ASK QUESTIONS.
THAT'S RIGHT.
THERE WAS A RULING THAT JUST HAPPENED.
THE REASON I BRING THAT UP IS BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY IN THIS CASE,
IT IS NOT EVEN INVOLVING A COP TRYING TO STOP SOMEONE AND ASK
THEM QUESTIONS BECAUSE THEY ARE RUNNING AWAY.
IT INVOLVES A
COP SHOOTING SOMEONE LITERALLY FIVE TIMES AS THEY RUN AWAY.
THAT PERSON DID NOT POSE AN IMMINENT THREAT TO
THE POLICE OFFICIAL AND THE FACT THAT HE PLANTED
EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT THE COP KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING WAS WRONG.
OTHERWISE, WHY WOULD HE PLANT EVIDENCE?
I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS HOLDING THIS JUROR UP BUT WHAT DOES
THAT RULING MEAN FOR THIS CASE, IF IT MEANS ANYTHING AT ALL?
THE MORE RELEVANT ONE, ANNA GIVES YOU THAT EXAMPLE TO SEE
HOW EXTREME THIS IS, BUT THE QUESTION IS WHAT IS THE STANDARD
FOR SHOOTING SOMEONE WHO IS RUNNING AWAY FROM YOU?
THE
STANDARD IS YOU HAVE TO THINK THAT EITHER YOUR LIFE IS IN
IMMINENT DANGER OR SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE IS AN IMMINENT
DANGER FOR YOU TO SHOOT AT A GUY RUNNING AWAY FROM YOU.
WALTER SCOTT DID NOT HAVE A GUN.
THAT IS ABSOLUTELY CLEAR.
THERE IS NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT.
THE TASER IS PLAINTIVE, YOU SEE IN THE VIDEO.
THEY BROKE THAT DOWN IN COURT EVEN MORE.
HE WAS SHOT IN THE BACK.
THE JUROR MUST HAVE THOUGHT THAT GUYS STILL LOOKS LIKE A
DANGER TO ME.
WALTERS GOT COULD'VE KILLED SOMEONE THE OFFICER HAD NO
CHOICE BUT TO SHOOT HIM AND KILL HIM ON THE SPOT SHOULD THEM
IN THE BACK.
LOOK, A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY ARE GOING TO BE UPSET
SAYING IS THERE ANYTHING THAT A CAR CAN DO WHERE HE WOULD BE
CONVICTED?
OR, CAN YOU KILL ANYONE OR MAYBE ANY BLACK PERSON AND GET
AWAY WITH IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES IF YOU ARE A COP?
AND IT'S A FAIR QUESTION.
I ALSO JUST WANT TO KNOW THAT BODY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE IS
NOT THE ANSWER TO STOPPING WHAT WE ARE SEEING THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
THIS VIDEO IS AS CLEAR AS IT COULD POSSIBLY BE IN TERMS
OF WHAT OCCURRED DURING THE SHOOTING AND IT STILL
WASN'T ENOUGH EVIDENCE.
THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE A MISTRIAL AS A RESULT OF
THIS ONE JUROR.
WE NEED TO THINK MORE COMPREHENSIVELY ABOUT HOW
WE WANT TO ADDRESS THIS PROBLEM AND IT HAS TO DO WITH HOW
WE TRAIN POLICE HOW WE EMPHASIZE LOSING NONLETHAL WEAPONS
DIED OR KNOW WHY HE DIDN'T JUST USE THE TASER IF YOU REALLY
WANTED TO STOP THE GUY.
HE DIDN'T WANT TO RUN AFTER THE GUY YOU THINK OH CRAP, BANG
BANG BANG, WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO, HE GRABBED MY TASER, AND A
WALK OVER THERE, I DON'T WANT TO RUN.
IíM GOING TO DROP MY TASER.
THAT'S WHAT CREEPS ME OUT THE IT'S ALL TERRIFYING AND
TERRIBLE.
BUT IT'S JUST SOME MELLOWNESS.
IF YOU ARE AFRAID FOR YOUR LIFE, DIDN'T SOUNDED, IT DIDN'T
LOOK IT.
THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GOING TO BRING UP.
IT IS THE INCREDIBLE INDIFFERENCE TO WALTER
SCOTT'S LIFE.
YOU COULD RUN AFTER THE GUY YOU COULD'VE TACKLED THEM OR TASERED
THEM YOU COULD HAVE DONE 1000 THINGS BUT TO HIM WALTER SCOTT'S
LIFE DIDN'T MATTER AT ALL AND IF YOU NOTICE AT THE END OF THE
TAPE HE HANDCUFFED HIM AS HE WAS BLEEDING OUT AS HE WAS DYING
THERE AND HE DIDN'T CALL FOR ANYTHING HE DIDN'T SAY BRING AN
AMBULANCE TOTAL INDIFFERENCE TO THE EVEN MANSLAUGHTER?
UNDERSTAND THE CONTEXT.
WHEN THERE'S A MOVEMENT THAT SAYS BLACKLIST MATTER, THAT
EXIST BECAUSE SOMETIMES LIKE MICHAEL SLATER THINKS IT
DOESN'T MATTER.
MAYBE HE IS A PSYCHOPATH AND TO HIM BLACKNESS HAD NOTHING TO DO
WITH IT AND HE WOULD JUST MURDER ANYBODY IN THE STREET, SHOULD
THEM IN THE BACK BECAUSE NO LESS MATTER TO HIM.
THEN AT THE VERY LEAST, MANSLAUGHTER.
BUT YET RIGHT NOW, HE'S OUT.
SOMETIMES IF IT'S A MURDER TRIAL, THEY DON'T LAY YOU
OUT BUT SOMETIMES THEY DO.
HE'S A COP SO THEY LET THEM OUT.
NOW IS GONNA BE OUT FOR A LONGER DIE THEY'RE GOING TO RETRY
AM A WE DON'T KNOW IS GOING TO HAPPEN AND THAT.
THIS PARTICULAR TRIAL HAS NOT BEEN TO CLEAN A MISTRIAL
YET BUT THE JUROR WENT HOME SAYING NO I WILL NOT
CONVICT HIM FOR MURDER OR MANSLAUGHTER.
THEY SAID WHAT HE SAID APPARENTLY UNDER ANY
CIRCUMSTANCES.
I JUST SAY THIS BECAUSE I REALLY DO BELIEVE IN SEEKING
SOLUTION BECAUSE THE REALITY OF THE MATTER IS THAT BLACK PEOPLE
ARE NOT GOING TO BE PART OF A MASS EXODUS BACK TO AFRICA AND
LAW-ENFORCEMENT IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE SO WHAT YOU WERE
TALKING ABOUT IS THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS A LOT OF COPS
DON'T GET PAID A LOT OF MONEY, THEY DON'T GET PROPERLY TRAINED,
THEY GET SENT OUT TO THESE NEIGHBORHOODS THEY ARE NOT
FAMILIAR WITH AND THEY TO DEAL OF PEOPLE THEY HAVE BEEN
PROGRAMMED TO BE AFRAID OF AND THE HUMANIZATION OF PEOPLE OF
COLOR SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN THE
PROGRAMMING THAT WE ARE CAUSALLY FACED WITH AND THEN YOU HAVE
PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE A HIGHER EDUCATION, THEY ARE FRUSTRATED
AND BROKE, THEY DON'T GET PAID A LOT OF MONEY AND ALWAYS EARN
FEAR THEIR LIFE AND THEY GO INTO THIS COMMUNITIES AND HAVE TO DO
A PEOPLE THEY ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE THESE ARE THE ISSUES SO
HOW DO WE GET TO SOLUTIONS.
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT PROPERLY TRAINING OFFICERS, TALKING
DEAR KILLS IN TEACHING TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT LAW-ENFORCEMENT,
AND I DON'T MEAN TEACHING BLACK CHILDREN.
I'M TALKING ABOUT TEACHING ALL CHILDREN BECAUSE I ASSUME
SOME PEOPLE TALK TO COPS IN A WAY THAT I AM LIKE DAMN, I
DON'T HAVE THE BALLS TO DO THAT AND I'M A GROWN UP.
I COME FROM THE GUTTER AND I WON'T TALK TO A COP LIKE THAT.
I JUST THINK WE HAVE TO FOCUS.
YOU SAID SOMETHING AT THE BEGINNING THAT REALLY RESONATED
ABOUT US DROPPING DOWN EACH OTHER'S THRONE WE'RE NOT GETTING
ANYWHERE WITH THAT BUT AT SOME POINT, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME
SORT OF SITDOWN BECAUSE THIS IS GETTING WORSE AND I DON'T KNOW
IF IT'S BECAUSE THE INTERNET IS EXPOSING IT OR BECAUSE IT
IS GETTING WORSE BUT IT FEELS LIKE IT IS GETTING WORSE.