Scott, 43, was killed Tuesday while police were serving a warrant at The Village at College Downs apartment complex on Old Concord Road, in northeast Charlotte.
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The family said the video showed Scott acting calmly and nonaggressively on Tuesday, the day he was shot. “For those who wish to protest, we urge you to do so peacefully”. “Hopefully we will have peaceful protests and do things the Charlotte way”.
In the shaky video she took, the wife is overheard yelling “Don’t shoot him”.
“He has a TBI, he’s not going to do anything to you guys”, she says, referring to a traumatic brain injury. “He just took his medicine”, she tells officers.
As she approaches the area, an officer apparently tells the woman to keep her distance; in response, she yells, “I’m not coming near you – I’m going to record, though”.
“What we’ve seen over the last several years is the overwhelming majority of people who have been concerned about police-community relations doing it the right way”, he said.
They raised their hands to signify “don’t shoot” and lay down on the ground as if they’d been shot.
About 100 protesters have gathered at a park in uptown Charlotte, launching a third night of demonstrations over the fatal shooting of a black man by a Black police officer.
Bamberg says the family will view police video of the shooting later Thursday.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Chief Kerr Putney said there may be other suspects in the shooting.
Police have declined to release video footage of the incident despite calls from Scott’s family and protesters.
While earlier in the evening tear gas was used and police in riot gear pushed a crowd from a highway, demonstrators elsewhere marched with their hands in the air as National Guard troops looked on.
The killing has sparked three nights of protests and led North Carolina’s governor to declare a state of emergency in Charlotte. Protesters were allowed to remain past a midnight to 6 a.m. curfew imposed by Mayor Jennifer Roberts because the gathering was largely peaceful.
Captain Mike Campagna said the curfew was a tool the police could use if it became necessary, but they hoped that would not be the case.
Numerous protesters dispute the official account of Scott’s death. The police chief denied that there was a book, saying a gun was found next to the dead man. “The question is on the timing”.
Charlotte has witnessed racially charged protests before, but nothing on the same scale as the current violence.
Reporters and others were attacked Wednesday night as protesters set fires and smashed windows of hotels, office buildings and restaurants in the city’s bustling downtown section.
City officials said police did not shoot the man and no arrests have been made over 26-year-old Justin Carr’s death.
Numerous protesters on Thursday night – as on previous nights – were calling for the release of video footage of the shooting, The Associated Press reports.
However, it was unclear if he was holding a gun, as police say. The Scott family’s lawyers said in a statement afterward the family still has more questions than answers, and now wants police to make the videos public immediately.
Mr Putney said he had seen the video and it did not contain “absolute, definitive evidence that would confirm that a person was pointing a gun”. When Scott failed to comply and brandished a gun, that’s when officer Brentley Vinson, who is black, shot and killed Scott, Putney said.
Justin Bamberg, one of the family’s attorneys, told The Times that the video offered “another vantage point” of the incident but didn’t prove whether it was justified.
When told by police to exit his vehicle, Mr. Scott did so in a very calm, non-aggressive manner.
Law enforcement officials have said that they intend to release the video but have not determined the appropriate timing.
The protest began around the same time that attorneys for Scott’s family said they had watched police video of Scott’s shooting, but were unable to ascertain if Scott indeed had a gun in his hands.
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Scott never aggressively approached officers and was shot as he walked slowly backward with his hands by his side, Bamberg said.
