POLICE BRUTALITY CASES: WALTER SCOTT MURDER & MORE

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The video-taping witness, Feidin Santana ^ told NBC's "Today" that 50-year-old Walter Scott was trying to get away from Officer Slager's Taser when he was shot dead on Saturday.

The 23-year-old, who is originally from the Dominican Republic, had been walking to the barber shop where he works last Saturday morning along his usual route when he saw Mr Scott being chased by the cop.

He said he knew that Officer Slager tasered Scott because he heard the sound and the victim yelling out. Mr Santana said he did not hear the officer yell stop before he fired eight shots at Scott.

The witness continued to film and moved closer to where the victim was lying lifeless on the ground. Mr Santana said that Officer Slager was aware he was at the scene.

'Maybe he could feel that somebody was there. I wanted him to know that he was not by himself,' he said.

The 23-year-old witness said that he did not see any officer perform CPR on Scott. He saw Slager check for a pulse and a second officer, life up the victim's shirt to look at the wounds.

Mr Santana said he decided to reach out to the Scott family with the tape of their loved one's death - which contradicted the police report that Slager filed on the incident.

'I thought about his position, their situation ... If I were to have a family member that would happen [to], I would like to know the truth,' he told NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt.

'Mr. Scott didn't deserve this, and there were other ways that can be used to get him arrested, and that wasn't the proper way to do that.'