Police Encounter and Arrest Incident

You know why I stopped you?

What?

Marijuana. I can smell it so strong right now.

You smoking it?

Man, I don't got no ... Man, look, you see that? What I told you last time.

Okay.

Black and Milds, gang.

That's not a Black and Mild what I'm smelling. Okay?

Step out of the car.

Th- th-

Did you even smell marijuana, though?

Sit down right now.

You didn't even smell marijuana.

Sit down.

I don't-

Sit down.

I'm standing right here.

No, sit down on my car.

Why?

You start-

No, don't touch me, bro.

No, listen to me.

Don't touch me.

All right, you know what? Turn around. Put your- I'm, I'm detaining you.

All right.

That's fine. N- no, no, no. Stop. Stop. Stop.

All right.

Put your hands down or put your phone down.

Let me put my money-

Put your phone down. Put your money down.

Okay, let me put my money-

Video mode.

Why would you do me like this?

Dang, why would you hit me with a Taser, gang?

You just

tried

to kill me.

Official acts of a police officer who was shot and killed nearly two weeks

ago. Good evening, I'm Blair Miller.

Take a look and you will see Sergeant Chris Fisher arresting

Jimmy Steverson on August 27th at this gas station in Warm

Springs. Steverson shot and killed Sergeant Fisher days after

this happened. He was found dead hours later in South

Carolina after

authorities say he shot himself. Atlanta News first anchor, Joe Gorchow,

is here in studio tonight. This newly released video also shows

Sergeant

Fisher tussling with Steverson before placing him eventually under

arrest, right?

And Blair, we just got it with- into the newsroom within the last hour,

and there's

over an hour worth of footage, Blair, that we're combing through right now

detailing some of the things you were just mentioning,

showing not just the arrest,

but a brief conversation between Sergeant Fisher and other law

enforcement officers. So on August 27th, again, you're seeing some of the body

cam video now of that arrest. Sergeant Christopher Fisher pulled

over 23-year-old Jimmy Lee Steverson at a Marathon gas station

after smelling marijuana. Steverson said he was smoking a Black and

Mild when he was then asked to get out of his truck.

Again, that's in a different body cam video clip

that we do have in

our newsroom that we're working, again, going through all the video,

and we will be

presenting that to you throughout our different shows,

especially beginning in the

morning. Now, investigators say Steverson admitted to

drinking and became

combative during a physical search.

That was some of that gas station surveillance video we had

at the beginning of the

show, the top of it, where you saw some of

that interaction where Steverson refused

to stay seated on Fisher's patrol car.

I don't know if we can call that up and go back to that.

It was the beginning, one of the first clips we showed.

Investigators said that the officer tried to detain him,

sparking a

physical struggle. Now, we're not seeing that play out.

Is there any way we can go to that clip, the first one? So we can't.

So we are working to get that to you later in the show.

Uh, eventually Fisher did strike Steverson.

There was, uh, hand-to-hand combat, uh, in that report that we're referencing.

Again, you're not seeing that in this video here.

And days later, on September 1st, Steverson shot and killed Fisher, if you

recall, while he was sitting in his patrol car.

Steverson took his own life hours later in Anderson, South

Carolina. Again, that was just a small snippet of the video we

received from

the Warm Springs Police Department.

We still have at least an hour's worth of footage that we're digging through.

Why Steverson got out of his truck, or what led up to them getting into a

tussle?

I also wanna note, I'd asked for Sergeant Fisher's body cam

footage for days

now, and I asked again today with this new

video coming to light, but was

once again told it won't be released until, quote, "The investigation is

final or terminated." Surveillance video from a gas station

recorded by Jimmy Steverson's brother shows who the family says is Sergeant

Fisher at his driver's side window on August 27th at

10:43 PM. The cellphone then pans down, and moments later

we see Steverson sitting on the hood of Sergeant Fisher's patrol car.

Then in this video, timestamped at 10:46, you see what looks like

Steverson and Sergeant Fisher arguing before Steverson is pushed back onto the

hood of the car. Two minutes later, you see Sergeant Fisher pull what the

family says was his taser and tase Steverson in the back

while his hands

were up before he brings Steverson to the ground and handcuffs him.

Now, what happened in those two minutes is unclear, but according to arrest

warrants, Steverson allegedly punched Sergeant

Fisher in the face,

something the family admits he told them he did.

Now, the family member I talked with admits

what Steverson did was wrong, and that

they have a lot of respect for law enforcement.