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| 'He doesn't have a gun!' Keith Scott's wife yells before he's shot, her video shows | |
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| Keith Scott's family has released a video of police officers fatally shooting him that was recorded by his wife, who was talking to police from a distance. It was released to NBC News after law enforcement once again refused to release their footage. | Keith Scott's family has released a video of police officers fatally shooting him that was recorded by his wife, who was talking to police from a distance. It was released to NBC News after law enforcement once again refused to release their footage. |
| Despite law enforcement’s refusal to release any footage, Scott’s family gave a video recorded by his wife to NBC News. It aired on MSNBC less than an hour after authorities’ press conference ended. | |
| “Don’t shoot him! Don’t shoot him! He has no weapon, he has no weapon,” Scott’s wife says. | |
| Officers then can be heard yelling in the background to drop the gun: “Drop the gun! Drop the f***ing gun!” | |
| “He doesn't have a gun, he has a TBI [traumatic brain injury], he’s not going to do anything. He just took his medicine,” she tells officers. | “He doesn't have a gun, he has a TBI [traumatic brain injury], he’s not going to do anything. He just took his medicine,” she tells officers. |
| Scott suffered the traumatic brain injury about a year ago, the family’s lawyers have said. | |
| Multiple officers can be heard telling Scott to drop the gun, as one yells, “I’m about to get f***ing shot over here!” | |
| Scott’s wife then tells her husband not to let police break the windows of the pickup truck, and begs him to “come on out the car.” | |
| “Keith, don’t you do it!” Scott’s wife yells several times, before at least four gunshots are heard. | |
| “Did you shoot him? Did you shoot him? Did you shoot him? He better not be f***ing dead!” she screamed. “I’m not going to come to you, I’m going to record though!” | |
| The wife then called 911 to report on the officers who shot her husband.“He better live. He better live ‘cause he didn’t do nothing to them,” she tells the dispatcher. | |
| Authorities in Charlotte, North Carolina are refusing to make public the videos of the shooting despite strong public demands. Part of the reason that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department won’t release the footage is because they have turned over the investigation to the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), which will run an independent probe. | Authorities in Charlotte, North Carolina are refusing to make public the videos of the shooting despite strong public demands. Part of the reason that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department won’t release the footage is because they have turned over the investigation to the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), which will run an independent probe. |
| “A thorough investigation relies on multiple factors, and I can tell you one piece of evidence will never, ever make a good case,” Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Chief Kerr Putney told reporters Friday morning. “I know the expectation that video footage can be the panacea, and I can tell you that is not quite the case. There are a lot of other factors that have to support and corroborate even what you might visually see.” | |
| Although police won’t release video they recorded, at least one of the officer’s body cameras were working, Putney said. “I’ve seen it.” |