north charleston police are facing growing accusations that michael slager would have got away with a cover up had a bystander video not emerged - as questions emerge over his colleagues ' conduct after the shooting - as handcuffed walter scott lay dead or dying with five bullet wounds to the back .
but the wounds were to the back do not feature in subsequent accounts of the shooting given to the media , in the force 's incident report filed after the shooting .
officers also told an internal report that they gave scott cpr , but the video only shows them checking his pulse and standing over his body .