Hillary Clinton called on police to release their own footage “without delay” Friday morning.
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CNN and Fox News have aired the video, with CNN crediting NBC News while Fox credits The New York Times.
Rakeyia pleads with the police: “He doesn’t have a gun”.
Putney echoed her remarks, saying that the video’s release is “a matter of when; it’s a matter of sequence”.
Charlotte police were set to be out in force again Friday night to head off a fourth night of violence.
“I can tell you a weapon was seized – a handgun”, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said a press conference Wednesday.
RAKEYIA SCOTT: He’s not going to do anything to you guys.
Several neighbors have told AFP the 43-year-old Scott was disabled, and had a stutter among other issues.
Shots can be heard on the video, after which Rakeyia is heard asking: “Did you shoot him?” Don’t shoot him. He has no weapon. “Don’t shoot him. He didn’t do anything”.
“He doesn’t have a gun. Drop the f***ing gun!”
“He is not going to do anything to you guys”.
“Don’t shoot him”, Scott’s wife Rakeyia warns in the video, in a moment of foreshadowing that used to be reserved for the movie screen, but now seems par of the course on city streets throughout the United States. She also makes a reference to her husband having just taken his medicine. “Come on out of the vehicle”, she screams, “Keith, don’t do it!”
Repeating her question, she says, “He better not be [expletive] dead!”
“Keith, don’t you do it!”. Don’t do it. Keith, get out the auto. Keith, Keith! Don’t you do it. Don’t you do it!
At that point, the police gunshots are heard.
In the footage, Rakeyia Scott tells husband Keith Scott to get out of his auto as Charlotte police surround him. “Did you shoot him?” Did you shoot him? “He better not be fucking dead”, she says. “I know the expectation that video footage can be the panacea, and I can tell you that is not quite the case”. He better not be dead.
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“I’m telling you right now, if you think I say we should display a victim’s worst day for consumption, that is not the transparency I’m speaking of”, said Putney.
