Man I'll say. The video on CBS This Morning did show a taser line, so something happened, but the guy ran away in slow motion and that cop could have easily caught him. He's gone. And YOU KNOW that that video is making all the rounds at police shift meetings.
In addition to trailing wires, it also looks as though he tosses the Taser to his right immediately prior to drawing his pistol.
These two things seem to challenge the narrative that Slager thought Scott may have the Taser.
Then there's the little jog back to grab a little something near where it appears he would have dropped the Taser whose wires we saw earlier.
If I were a finder of fact, that wouldn't do too much for my confidence in the narrative that the possibility Scott had the Taser played into Slager's assessment of the situation.
I am open to new interpretations of what I have seen.
But on its face, what I have seen is not assuredly kosher.
There're sufficient reasons to question Slager's honesty on this matter.
And then the dropping of a little something near Scott...
Again, an action which seems to bear attention from a finder of fact, imho.
I am open to reasonable doubt about Slager trying to use the Taser as planted evidence to justify his shooting. Maybe there was some other thought process going on.
I'm open to hearing Slager's version of what he picked up, what he dropped, and why.
I'd really need a very good explanation about how the fleeing Scott was a grave imminent danger to Slager or the community at large.
So far, Scott fleeing doesn't seem that threatening.
I am having trouble picturing likely scenarios in which the video corresponds to the fleeing Scott being such a danger.
Doubtless others have totally worked out the most likely scenarios in which Scott presented a danger worth deadly force.