She said the video was “inconclusive” as to whether Mr Scott was holding a gun.
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The smartphone footage filmed by his wife Rakeyia Scott, released by her lawyers to media including AFP, will add to mounting pressure on Charlotte authorities to make the video public.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Chief Kerr Putney, however, did allow the family to view the police footage on Thursday.
It isn’t clear if Scott is holding anything in those videos, and he was slowly walking backward with his hands by his side when he is shot, family attorney Justin Bamberg said.
Mrs Clinton earlier weighed in about the video issue, tweeting that police should release its footage “without delay”.
As depicted in the eyewitness video, the scene plays out under bright sunlight, from a vantage point that’s a short distance from the confrontation between Keith Lamont Scott and Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers that began in the tree-lined parking lot where Scott reportedly had a habit of sitting in a vehicle to wait for his son to get off the bus from school.
Although police won’t release video they recorded, at least one of the officer’s body cameras were working, Putney said. He better live. You all hear it, you see this, right?
About a half-dozen gunshots can be heard in the video, followed by Rakeyia Scott’s scream, “Did you shoot him?” She also can be heard telling police that her husband had a TBI, or traumatic brain injury, and had just taken “his medicine”. I’m not going to come near you; I’m going to record, though. 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.
She then yells: “Did you shoot him?”
[.] “Keith, don’t let them break the windows!” Police say the footage confirms the police account even though it doesn’t show Scott pointing a gun at officers.
The New York Times posted the video in its entirety Friday after receiving it from the Scott family’s lawyers.
Shortly after Rakeyia convinces Scott to get out of the auto, gunshots erupt. Keith! Don’t you do it!
SCOTT: “F***. Did you shoot him? Did you shoot him?” the wife is overheard yelling on the tape.
“The officer perceived his failure to comply with commands, failure to drop the weapon and facing the officers as an imminent threat”, Putney told Fox News. I know that fucking much. “He better not be dead”.
The family wants police to release the videos immediately to the public, Bamberg said. Many have called for the video’s release, including members of Congress, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the NAACP.
Clinton on Sunday will visit Charlotte, N.C., where police killed a black man earlier this week, NBC News reported. He has said previously that the video will be made public when he believes there is a “compelling reason” to do so. That’s what we’re trying to find out.
In contrast to the tension in Charlotte, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was calm after a white police officer was charged with first-degree manslaughter on Thursday for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, Terence Crutcher, that was also captured on video.
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Apparently, Chief Putney is not planning to release the video today but perhaps the release of the family video will change his mind.
