Attorneys for the family of Keith Lamont Scott, who was shot and killed by police in Charlotte this week, have released a cellphone camera video taken by Scott’s wife Rakeyia of the moments immediately before and after the fatal shooting on Tuesday.
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CHARLOTTE’S POLICE chief said yesterday (Sept 22) that he plans to show the video of an officer shooting a black man to the slain man’s family.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said Scott got out, had a gun on him, and put the officers in imminent danger.
Rakeyia also shouts to officers that he has a “TBI” – an abbreviation for traumatic brain injury – and “just took his medicine”.
“Don’t shoot him. Don’t shoot him, he has no weapon”.
Rakeyia Scott: Keith get out the vehicle. “Come on out of the auto”, she yells.
Moments later you hear four gunshots and Keith’s body on the ground. “We want those eyewitnesses to tell us without being led or have their memories changed by what they heard or saw”, she told reporters.
Rakeyia Scott came out of the apartment after getting a cell phone charger, according to NBC News.
There is reportedly police body camera and dashcam footage that shows what happened as the officers opened fire.
The video, which NBC obtained “amid conflicting reports about whether a gun was found at the scene of the shooting”, appears to corroborate the family’s insistence that Scott did not have a weapon on him. Police have said he was armed, but witnesses say he held only a book. While it should not apply to the Scott footage, a record that was created before the date the legislation goes into effect, that may not be a guarantee that the law does not eventually provide the department cover to prohibit the release of the footage. He better live cause he didn’t do nothing to them.
Clashes between police and protesters shouting “black lives matter” have taken place in the city.
Hillary Clinton called Friday for officials in Charlotte, North Carolina, to make public a police video showing the fatal shooting. He said that in the video, Scott gets out of his vehicle calmly.
Police have said Scott was shot to death on Tuesday (Wednesday NZT) by a black officer after he disregarded repeated warnings to drop his gun.
He was arrested earlier in the morning, Police Chief Kerr Putney said, and charged with murder. Scott’s wife is heard yelling after the shots are fired.
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Putney said the investigation was soon going to be turned over to North Carolina’s State Bureau of Investigation.
