It also does not show whether he was holding a weapon.
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Putney has said the video does not provide “definitive visual evidence” that Scott pointed a gun at officers.
As Scott’s wife records, police are heard yelling “Drop the gun!”
“Don’t shoot him. He has no weapon”, Rakeyia Scott can be heard saying. Drop the fucking gun.
RAKEYIA SCOTT: He doesn’t have a gun. He has a TBI [Traumatic Brain Injury]. “Crooked Hillary’s bad judgement forced her to announce that she would go to Charlotte on Saturday to grandstand”, he tweeted.
Forty-three-year old black man Keith Lamont Scott started Tuesday as a father of seven.
“Did you shoot him?” She also tells him, “don’t do it”, but it’s not clear exactly what she means.
The killing of Keith Scott and its aftermath are playing out in a state that has been at the forefront of some of the country’s most bitter political fights in recent years. “He better be alive”.
The City of Charlotte said the video they have from dash cams and body cams is not going to be released, even though the city has asked them to.
Curry told CNN that the tape was released because officials would not furnish the police footage to the public. “That’s why we’ve had four days of protests”.
The smartphone video does not conclusively answer the question of whether he was armed or not. “This video shines some light, fills in some blanks”.
Scott’s death was the latest in a string of police-involved killings of black men that have fueled outrage across America.
He cautioned that people should not expect the footage to be released because doing so could “jeopardize the investigation”.
“When you are still gathering eyewitness accounts, they are still talking to folks. We want those eyewitnesses to tell us without being led or have their memories changed by something else they heard or saw”.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney has said that video taken by police body cameras supported the police version of events, but he has refused to release the video publicly.
The protesters’ sentiments were similar to those of protesters of fatal police shootings at Baltimore, Milwaukee, Chicago, New York and Ferguson.
Armed National Guard troops stood by as the protest worked its way along the city’s streets – with a curfew set to come into force at midnight local time, 6am GMT.
Clinton said Wednesday that the shootings had added two more names “to a long list of African-Americans killed by police officers”.
During a press conference on Friday morning, Putney stated authorities arrested Rayquan Borum and charged him with the murder of Justin Carr.
For the fourth night in succession, anywhere up to 300 people carrying banners and chanting, marched through the North Carolina city in a peaceful display of anger and determination.
Police claimed Scott, who was waiting in his auto for his son’s school bus, got out of the vehicle with a handgun and refused to obey orders to drop the weapon.
Protesters have dismissed police officers’ claims that Scott had a gun.
It was not the first time USA police was allegedly involved in covering up shootings of the black. “And it was not easy to see … so it is ambiguous”.
Meanwhile, the widow of Mr Scott has released footage she recorded herself immediately before her husband was shot.
We can’t see what Scott has in his hands at the moment of the shooting because his wife is on the other side of a police SUV. “It caused him to stutter his words and sometimes he couldn’t remember what he said”. Based on a transcript of the video made by the NY Times, police order Scott to “drop the gun” 11 separate times over about 45 seconds before shots are fired.
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Attorneys for the family of Keith Lamont Scott, 43, released cellphone video of Tuesday’s shooting taken by his wife, Rakeyia Scott.
