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| Charlotte police to release body cam, dash cam footage of shooting of Keith Lamont Scott | Charlotte police to release body cam, dash cam footage of shooting of Keith Lamont Scott |
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| Police bodycam and dashcam footage from the shooting of African American Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte on Tuesday will be released to the public, the North Carolina police chief said. | Police bodycam and dashcam footage from the shooting of African American Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte on Tuesday will be released to the public, the North Carolina police chief said. |
| The chief of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, Kerr Putney, green-lighted the release as it will not hamper the ongoing investigation into the incident, he said. | The chief of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, Kerr Putney, green-lighted the release as it will not hamper the ongoing investigation into the incident, he said. |
| The video footage will be released within half an hour, Putney said. | |
| “These are tough times for our city and we're going to get through it,” the police chief said, adding that physical evidence would be released. | |
| “What we are releasing are the objective facts,” he said, calling the shooting “a complex case.” | |
| According to Putney, a “crime was committed” by Scott and that eventually led to him being fired at by police officers. | |
| The fatal shooting of the 43-year-old father of seven, Keith Lamont Scott, led to riots in Charlotte, which largely demanded the release of police footage. | |
| Tuesday’s shooting became the latest in a series of deadly incidents involving police and African Americans in the US in recent years. | |
| Putney said that the suspect “absolutely” had a gun in his hands, which triggered the police response. | |
| "Yes, based on the totality of what we see, he absolutely was in possession of a handgun," the police chief told journalists. |