Four shots then ring out, and Scott drops to the ground.
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At the same time, the department released photos of the weapon Scott was holding, and the holster and drugs it said he possessed at the time of the shooting. The authorities said the 194th black man killed by USA police this year had a handgun that he refused to drop. What is being disclosed is footage from when the encounter started until when Scott was shot, he said.
She also said that a new state law, which would deny public access to police body cam and dashcam footage without a judge’s orders, would not apply to the Scott case since the shooting occurred before the law goes into effect October 1. When Mr Scott comes into view, his hands are at his side and he is standing beside his SUV.
The cell phone video does not clearly show the exact moment Scott was shot by police on Tuesday.
“One of the biggest questions is, do those actions, do those precious seconds, justify this shooting?” he said.
Keel granted that video such as the newly released images from Terence Crutcher’s shooting in Tulsa or Laquan Mcdonald’s in Chicago can look bad but said his default decision is that police video should be made public. “The footage only supports all of the other information” such as physical evidence and statements from witnesses and officers. Putney said that Scott was “absolutely in possession of a handgun”, and that officers also saw marijuana in his auto _ prompting them to act. The cops were screaming “drop the gun” at him repeatedly, and if that was an effort to “frame” Scott it was a darned clever one since they would have had to have been working on it before they even shot him.
Two plainclothes officers in an unmarked vehicle were preparing to serve a warrant on someone else when Scott pulled up and parked next to them, according to the document.
“Officers going into a home where you have children, that’s a classic example”, he said.
Now you have a case where they likely did recover a gun, but the video is at best indefinitive as to whether that gun was held and whether Mr. Scott was acting in a manner would get him killed.
“There is no definitive visual evidence that he had a gun in his hand”, Putney said. First, the real tinfoil hat crowd can still say that the gun was a plant and the cops just threw his book away.
Video caption Dashcam and bodycam footage released by the police.
Officers wearing black riot gear ringed the stadium, and police on bicycles lined up wheel-to-wheel to surround the protesters – demonstrating after the shooting death last week of a man by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer.
Charlotte declared the game an “extraordinary event” under its municipal code, giving police the power to stop people from carrying blades, projectiles and other objects into a certain area.
The shooting has inflamed tensions across the city, and extra security was in place for Sunday’s Carolina Panthers game. City officials said police did not shoot 26-year-old Justin Carr, and a suspect was arrested. After two nights of unrest, Putney says Thursday night’s protests were relatively peaceful.
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A curfew was imposed in the USA city of Charlotte as protests against the police continued after a black man was shot dead.
