The video shows Rakeyia Scott filming police as they arrive on the scene.
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Mr Scott, 43, was fatally shot in an apartment complex vehicle park on Tuesday by police who were searching for another person wanted for arrest.
“Don’t shoot him, don’t shoot him”.
After the police fired shots at Scott, Rakeyia can be heard crying repeatedly, “He better not be dead”. It was not clear from the video whether police heard Mrs Scott.
“He has no weapon”.
After the gunshots, Scott can be seen lying on the ground, as his wife says, “He better live”. The curfew has ended for Friday in Charlotte following a night of mostly peaceful protests of the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by an officer. At one point, she can be heard telling police, “He has a T.B.I”. He’s not going to do anything to you.
In the footage, obtained exclusively by NBC News, you can hear Scott’s wife, Rakeyia Scott, tell police her husband does not have a weapon. Justin Bamberg, the family’s lawyer, told Gutierrez that Keith Scott’s brain injury that Rakeyia referenced in the video had been sustained during a motorcycle accident in October 2015.
Repeating her question, she says, “He better not be [expletive] dead!”
“He didn’t do anything”, Rakeyia Scott says. Police have been reluctant to release dashboard and body camera footage of Scott’s death. I’m not coming near you, I’m going to record though.
The department has thus far refused to release their video evidence to the public, but they have shown it to the family. “There are a lot of other factors that have to support and corroborate even what you might visually see”. And he better live. He’s not gonna do anything to you guys. He better be alive because …
RAKEYIA SCOTT: He better live.
The footage appears to corroborate an image that police released Thursday – in both, Scott is seen lying face-down on the asphalt, wearing bright blue trousers and white-soled sneakers. He better f-king live. I’m in the same damn spot. Police say they don’t want the release of the videos to hamper their investigation. What the fuck. That’s O.K. did you all call the police? I mean, did you all call the ambulance?
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said Friday that he would not release the videos, which are now in the hands of state investigators.
