article_snippet.sent: Nothing in The video demonstrates that the officer's life or the life of another was threatened," National Urban League President Marc Morial said.
article_snippet.sent: The question here is whether the use of force was excessive.
article_snippet.sent: But one witness is speaking of a struggle before the shooting.
article_snippet.sent: I didn't hear Officer Michael Slager saying 'Stop!'
article_snippet.sent: Defense attorneys will say this was a heat of passion shooting -- (that) this was something that Criminal defense attorney Paul Callan did suddenly after some kind of an altercation, a physical altercation with a suspect," Criminal defense attorney Paul Callan said.
article_snippet.sent: But the account from the witness who recorded the cell phone video, Feidin Santana, paints a different picture.
article_snippet.sent: Feidin Santana said Feidin Santana could hear the sound of a Taser in use.
article_snippet.sent: Feidin Santana said Feidin Santana didn't see Scott go after Taser, as Officer Michael Slager initially claimed.
article_snippet.sent: Neither the struggle nor the use of Taser Taser was captured on video, because Feidin Santana started recording shortly after that.
article_snippet.sent: Investigators from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division found troubling inconsistencies from the very start, Investigators from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said in a statement.
article_snippet.sent: We believed early on that there was something not right about what happened in that encounter," division Chief Mark Keel said in a statement.
article_snippet.sent: The cell phone video shot by a bystander confirmed We initial suspicions.