![]() ![]() The wife's video release led to heightened calls for cops to go public with the police videos of the Tuesday shooting.ĭemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts were among those urging a release of the videos as quickly as possible. Cops in her video can be heard ordering Scott to "drop the gun" at least 10 times The video shot by Rakyeia Scott captures only her husband lying facedown and motionless on the pavement, with no sign of a gun. ![]() Cops say there was no book.Ī police source later told local television station WSOC-TV that Scott had a gun and that tests revealed that his fingerprints, DNA and blood were on the weapon. While police said Scott was armed, some witnesses reported that he was carrying nothing more lethal than a book - and his mother said it was a copy of the Koran. In the wife's video, her phone veers wildly once the first shots are fired. No footage of the actual shooting has been released. The video was provided by the Scott family's attorney to NBC News and The New York Times. Scott, who was black, was shot and killed at an apartment complex near UNC Charlotte by police officers, who say they warned Scott to drop a gun he was allegedly holding. Protesters tend to a seriously wounded protester in the parking area of the the Omni Hotel during a march to protest the death of Keith Scott Septemin Charlotte, North Carolina. ![]()
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