In one of the police videos, a dashboard-mounted camera from a squad auto showed Scott exiting his vehicle and then backing away from it. Police shout to him to drop a gun, but it is not clear that Scott is holding anything.
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But the Charlotte police chief, a black man, says there is evidence and witness accounts that support the officers involved, that they only fired when Scott refused to drop his weapon. “If he had one, he never raised it”, Reda Burch said.
Earlier Sunday, about 100 demonstrators gathered across the street from Bank of America Stadium before the football game to protest the Scott shooting. The new footage, however, questions that, as Scott is seen walking slowly backwards with his arms at his side when the round of shots was sacked.
Inside the stadium, people attending the game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Carolina Panthers watched the protesters from access ramps to the upper level.
Protesters clambered onto Interstate 277 through the city’s downtown Sunday night and tried to block traffic until police arrived. Protesters remained peaceful outside the Charlotte Panther’s football game against the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday afternoon.
But Scott’s family, which released its own video of the encounter on Friday, said the police footage showed the father of seven was not acting aggressively and that the police shooting made no sense, with no attempt to de-escalate the situation.
In the dashboard camera video, Mr Scott could be seen slowly backing away from his SUV with his hands down.
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“Don’t shoot him! He has no weapon” she cries as police yell at Scott, “Drop the gun!”
Police released photos of a marijuana cigarette, an ankle holster they said Scott was wearing, and a handgun, which they said was loaded and had Scott’s fingerprints and DNA.
After the police vehicle dashboard camera and police body-cam videos were released, a fifth day of protests against Scott’s fatal shooting was largely peaceful. According to the Guardian, which counts the number of killed people by police in the USA, more than 200 of 793 Americans, killed by the police are black.
The laws’ backers say restrictions are needed to protect investigations and crime victims, as requests for videos are made in circumstances other than shootings, including in cases of domestic violence and cases involving children.
A Panthers fan sympathized with the protesters but did not think they would succeed in changing policing. Forty-four people were arrested after Wednesday’s protests, and one protester who was shot died at a hospital Thursday. However, earlier in the week, even Putney acknowledged that “the video does not give me absolute, definitive visual evidence that would confirm that a person is pointing a gun”. The dashboard camera footage opens with a police vehicle pulling up as two officers point their guns at Scott, who is inside the SUV with the doors closed and windows rolled up.
Ray Dotch identified himself as Scott’s brother-in-law.
Another lawyer for the Scott family, Charles Monnett, said, the family did not know enough of the facts to know whether the officer who killed Scott should face charges. For the protection of AP and its licensors, content may not be copied, altered or redistributed in any form. Doing so may result in civil and/or criminal penalties.
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Most state open records laws already include provisions that allow withholding sensitive information involving personal privacy or law enforcement investigations, Marshall noted.
