The video is the first publicly released footage related to the shooting, which spurred days of protests in Charlotte.
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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.
“There’s a knee jerk reaction on the part of police departments”.
The new law takes effect October 1. “Now it’s just a blue wall”. Neighbors say the cell phone video could enrage people and they are urging city officials to release the video immediately. They are also charged with breaking and entering, larceny after breaking and entering and conspiracy. “All questions related to the investigation need to be referred to the SBI”.
This won’t convince anyone who believes the police may have planted the gun. He added: “You can not let the mob run how a police department runs an investigation”.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, within days of a white officer fatally shooting an unarmed black man whose vehicle had stalled in the center of a road, the public was privy to several videos, including from a police helicopter as well as from the dashboard of a cruiser. Don’t shoot him. He has no weapon. Within days of the September 16 shooting, the police chief disclosed that Crutcher was unarmed.
Saying they wanted to avoid the violence – including the shooting death of one protester by another man – that marred previous nights, the marchers moved through the city’s uptown neighborhood chanting, “This is what democracy looks like” and “Release the tapes”, a plea for officials to share police video of the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott Tuesday.
Scott’s family initially contended that he was carrying a book, but after viewing the police video on Thursday the family said it was “impossible to discern” what, if anything, Scott was carrying.
In the video, released by the Scott family to US media outlets, Scott’s wife can be heard shouting “Keith, Keith, don’t do it”, although it is not clear whether she is directing her comments to her husband or police.
“Don’t shoot him! He has no weapon”, she can be heard telling officers as they yell at Scott, “Drop the gun!”
The disturbing video emerged as unrest in Charlotte carries on into a fourth night of protesting and pressure mounts from both local and national officials for police to release dashcam footage of the shooting.
The status of other videos – held by authorities – has been a point of contention between police and the family.
Police said at 11 p.m. that there were no reports of violence.
The shooting happened in the parking lot of the Hardee’s restaurant in Seneca in the course of a botched police drug sting. Tenth Judicial Circuit Solicitor Chrissy Adams decided against charging the police officer. Rakeyia Scott can be heard yelling to the officers that her husband was unarmed.
Adams acknowledged, however, that the video showed Tiller running up to the door of Hammond’s already-moving auto, losing control of the situation and acting contrary to training.
Given that few facts remain known to the public because of the police’s refusal to release the footage any time soon, a possible cover-up by the police was on the minds of many locals. The family later received a $2.1 million settlement after suing the city, the Seneca Police Department and Tiller. In several high-profile cases, the citizen video has served to refute police accounts that a suspect had refused commands or done something to warrant deadly force.
Meanwhile, a photo obtained by CNN affiliate WSOC shows the immediate aftermath of the shooting of Scott, a source close to the investigation told CNN.
That differed from his message a day earlier, when the chief said the public shouldn’t expect the videos’ release. “Everybody deserves a thorough and vetted investigation”. Putney said that authorities would withold the video pending a probe into the shooting, which has been taken over by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations.
Two major employers in downtown Charlotte have their employees back at work after protests were more peaceful in the wake of the shooting of a man by a city police officer.
“It’s become a fetish – the video, the video, the video”, Klinger said. They did not disclose Carr’s age.
State Sen. Kevin Matthews, who represents the north Tulsa community where the shooting took place, credits Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan for organizing a meeting with black leaders and the victim’s family two days after the shooting and showing them the video before it was released to the public.
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Scott is seen on the pavement moments after the shots were fired and surrounded by officers. “People are still emotional when they see it, but at least there is no dispute about what’s seen on the scene”.
