A cellphone camera video made by the wife of Keith L. Scott before he was fatally shot by the police shows the moments before and after the incident, including the wife’s pleas to her husband to get out of his truck, and her pleas to the police not to shoot him, a report published by the New York Times said. While the police claim they first tased and then shot Scott because he was armed and “posed an imminent deadly threat”, Scott’s family says he was not armed-except with a book in hand.
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The video was filmed from a nearby curb as the drama unfolded on the street in front of Rakeyia Scott.
In the video, Scott pleads with police to not shoot her husband.
“Keith, don’t let them break the windows – come on out the auto. Come up out the auto”, Ms. Scott says, as the video shows an officer approaching Mr. Scott’s vehicle. Scott’s wife, Rakeyia Scott, can be heard pleading with cops not to shoot and insisting her disabled husband “has no weapon” while cops shout at the man to drop his gun. Rakeyia continues to record, yelling at the officers that she is not going to go near them.
Scott’s family has repeatedly asserted that Scott was unarmed and reading a book in his vehicle while waiting for his son to come home from school before he was shot.
Scott’s family on Friday released cell phone video, recorded by his wife, that shows the moments leading to his fatal shooting by police Tuesday. The source said the blood most likely got on the gun after the shooting.
Putney said three police officers and one member of the National Guard was treated for minor injuries, compared to 44 arrests the previous evening.
Mr Scott was the 214th black person killed by United States police this year out of a total of 821, according to monitoring site Mapping Police Violence. How about that? Yes, we over here at 50, at 50, 9453 Lexington Court. He better not be f-king dead. Police were initially on the scene – an apartment complex near the University of North Carolina at Charlotte – to serve an outstanding warrant to someone else.
Further, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said video from a body camera and dash-cam doesn’t show Scott brandishing a weapon.
Bamberg says he hopes Charlotte police release their own videos of the shooting. Both Vinson and Scott are black, and Vinson was in plain clothes, but wearing a vest with police logos on it.
He better live. I swear, he better live.
RAKEYIA SCOTT: He didn’t do anything.
After the gunshots, Scott can be seen lying face-down on the ground while his wife says “he better live”. “I appreciate those citizens stepping in and saying, ‘this is not the best in America'”. How about that? I ain’t coming to you guys, but he better live.
RAKEYIA SCOTT: Fuck. Did you shoot him?
Mr Putney said releasing video of the incident could make the situation worse.
She said he read the Islamic holy book every day, often while waiting for his son to get off the bus. Curry said that the right-hand dominant Keith shows his right hand, with no gun seen in his hand in the video.
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During the same news conference, Roberts said she believes the video should be released, but “the question is on the timing”.
