Asked if she saw a gun in the video of Scott being shot, Roberts answered: “There were two videos I was able to see, (and) the visual clarity made those videos inconclusive”. Another officer then moves in, and the officers seem to be rendering care.
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RAKEYIA SCOTT: Fuck. Did you shoot him? CNN is asking police whether the tapes have been selectively edited, either in audio or video.
Clinton wrote on Twitter that authorities in Charlotte should release the police video of the Keith Lamont Scott shooting “without delay”. The department also included photos of an ankle holster and what it said was a marijuana cigarette.
“We are releasing everything that we can at this point”, Putney said.
The release comes one day after a video recorded by Keith Scott’s widow was released publicly. “And the story has been lumped together with the earlier fatal shooting by a white officer of Terence Crutcher, a black Tulsa resident who police say did not have a gun”, said Kurtz.
On Saturday, he said that after speaking with state investigators he concluded the video could now be released without “adversely impacting” the investigation.
Police have said they have no immediate plans to release two recordings of the shooting, one captured by a police dashboard camera and another by a body camera worn by an officer at the scene, according to attorneys for the family. It is among a number of shootings in recent years that have spurred debate about how and when police should use deadly force and how race factors into whom police shoot.
A North Carolina law that takes effect October 1 will declare that the video is not a public record and that only a judge can release it, potentially making the issue far more complicated than if police simply shared the footage on their own.
Demonstrators on Saturday gathered for a fifth day in the city’s center. Among the most common chants by protesters was, “Release the tapes”.
The city has been on edge ever since Scott’s shooting death on Tuesday. These are the police officers that shot my husband and he better live.
Among protesters gathering beside a large oak tree in Marshall Park was Temako McCarthy, whose son died in 2011 after being hit with a Taser by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer.
OFFICER: “Drop the gun”.
“He doesn’t have a gun. He is not going to do anything to you guys, he just took his medicine”.
“Keith, don’t let them break the windows – come on out the auto”.
The dashcam footage released on Saturday shows Mr Scott getting out of his auto and walking backwards with his hands down.
RAKEYIA SCOTT: Keith! Don’t you do it. Keith! Keith! Don’t you do it!
“I did not see that in the videos that I reviewed”, he told reporters Thursday.
After the gunshots are heard, Scott can be seen laying on the ground while his wife says “he better live”.
“Don’t shoot him”, she says. Did you shoot him? He better not be f****** dead!
SCOTT: “Keith, don’t do it”. After verbal commands to drop the gun, police say Scott left the vehicle. A gun was found next to the dead man, and there was no book, he said. Some have said the shape is a weapon. The source also told WBTV the case in the gun was loaded. The family, through an attorney, requested they be immediately released to the public.
Scott’s family cast doubt on this account. “So that means if the police don’t release a video, it’s because it implicates the police in illegal or unethical conduct”, he says. “This is simply one step in our quest to find the truth for this family”.
Police allowed the family to see the police-held footage Thursday, but the public has yet to see it.
Varying interpretations have emerged of the videos that are said to show the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, after both law enforcement and the victim’s family viewed the footage. That includes the videos, which should be released by about 5:15 p.m.
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Curry said he doesn’t expect Rakeyia Scott to speak publicly soon.
