What We Know About the 2013 Excessive Force Complaint Against SC Police Officer

Two years before Police Officer Michael Slager was charged with murder this week for shooting an unarmed black man in North Charleston, South Carolina, Slager was the subject of an excessive force complaint by another unarmed black man.

One morning in September 2013, Mario Givens was asleep at his North Charleston home when Slager banged on his door and demanded to be let in, Givens said. Slager didn't identify himself as a police officer, Givens, 33, said at a news conference today.

Givens said he was then told to put his hands up. "I threw my hands up and he still tased me," Givens said.

An attorney for Givens said today they are planning to sue after a review of the complaint "exonerated" Slager.

"If they had even tried to listen to me and investigate him, [Walter Scott] would have been alive because [Slager] wouldn't have been an officer in the field," Givens said. "

* Givens said the electric shock from the Taser was painful and caused him to fall and injure his arm. He said he started yelling for his mother after the shock. "Thank God my mom had been there," Givens said, otherwise it would have been "a lot worse."

Givens was then dragged outside, handcuffed and put in a police car, according to an earlier interview he gave to the Associated Press.

The narrative from the police report obtained by ABC News says Givens "refused to exit the residence and tried to close the door because he is afraid of the police."

Givens was initially accused of resisting arrest, he told the AP, but was later released without being charged.

It turns out the police had been looking for Givens' brother,"

*Slager "was cocky," Brown told the AP. "It looked like he wanted to hurt him. There was no need to tase him. ... He was no threat -- and we told him he had the wrong man."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/2013-excessive-force-complaint-sc-police-officer/story?id=30174722