A lawyer representing the family of Keith Lamont Scott has released a video taken by his wife, Rakeiya capturing the moment he was fatally wounded by Charlotte police on Tuesday. The footage provides new insight into the scene at the time of shooting, but neither the audio nor video helps determine whether Keith Scott was carrying a gun, which police say was found near the body, and “posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers”.
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Videos released Saturday do not show Keith Lamont Scott raising a weapon toward officers nor a gun in his hand. Don’t shoot. Don’t shoot.
“Don’t shoot him, don’t shoot him”, Rakeyia Scott begs police before they fire.
“In name of transparency, you’re going to get everything we can deliver”.
Rakeyia Scott can be heard urging her husband to comply with the officers who had instructed her husband to “drop the gun, drop the gun.” . At one point, she tells her husband to get out of the auto so that police don’t break the windows.
During the news conference on Saturday, the Charlotte-Mecklenberg Police chief told news outlets that Scott was in possession of marijuana when officers observed him.
“There is no single piece of evidence that proves all the complexities involved in this investigative process”, he said.
The city has been on edge ever since Scott’s shooting death on Tuesday.
“We thank those in the community who have supported the Scott family during this hard time, and we again ask for peace in Charlotte as we continue to learn more about the tragic events that unfolded September 20”.
“Did you shoot him?!” the woman yells. Protesters have also taken to the streets in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where police officers were shot and killed by gunmen who claimed to be avenging the deaths of black men unjustly slain by law enforcement. At one point in the body-camera video, there is a view of Scott from his right side and he has his arm by his body, but it is unclear if there is a gun. Both men were African-American, a police official said.
Police arrested a man on Thursday and charged him with the murder of a protester who was shot during Wednesday night’s protest and died on Thursday, Charlotte-Mecklenberg police chief Kerr Putney told a press conference on Friday. The source said investigators recovered from the weapon fingerprints, blood and DNA that matched with Scott. After first saying the video shouldn’t be released due to the ongoing investigation, Gov. Shortly after, Scott is shot down.
Putney said Friday that there is footage from at least one police body camera and one dashboard camera that shows the shooting.
Ms Scott cries: “Don’t shoot him”. Even if Scott held a gun and marijuana, as newly alleged by the police, the current evidence does not show that Scott committed “aggravated active aggression” against the still unknownofficerwho pulled the trigger.
“I know the expectation is that video footage can be the panacea and I can tell you that is not the case”, he told the news media.
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“My priority has been, throughout the whole investigative process, to maintain the integrity of the investigation, because that’s essential, that’s essential in a fact finding process that leads you to the truth”, said Chief Putney. He then walks backwards with his hands down prior to being shot.
