Posted on 09/23/2016 2:59:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A cellphone camera video made by the wife of Keith Lamont Scott as he was fatally shot by the police here shows the moments before and after the incident, including the wife’s pleas to her husband to get out of his truck and her pleas to the officers not to shoot him.
But the video, which was given to The New York Times by lawyers for the family Friday, does not include a view of the shooting itself. Nor does it answer the crucial question of whether Mr. Scott had a gun, as the police have maintained.
One of the lawyers, Justin Bamberg, who is representing the family along with Eduardo Curry, said in an interview Friday that the video did not prove whether the shooting was justified or not. Rather, he said, it offered “another vantage point” of the incident. He said he hoped the Police Department would release its own videos of the shooting, as protesters have been demanding since Mr. Scott was killed on Tuesday afternoon.
The lawyers said the cellphone video was shot by Rakeyia Scott, Mr. Scott’s wife on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Scott had parked his truck in a visitor’s space in their apartment complex, where he often waited for one of his children to return home on a bus. The police were there to serve a warrant on someone else.
The lawyers said Ms. Scott had come out of the apartment with a cellphone charger for her husband and noticed that police officers were around the truck.
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Her video is useless.....but the sound is very clear....Put the gun down....put the gun down....put the gun down....
The video was obviously edited so that the portion which showed the man with the gun could not be seen. Notice they said the video showed the time before the shooting and after the shoot.
DUmmyville is erupting with conspiracy theories about planted guns, based on this video...and officers dropping gloves.
They don’t seem to notice the chorus of ‘drop the gun’ and what that may imply.
They were just reminding one another not to forget to drop the drop gun. /s
Yup. Sounds like a me suicide by cop. Sounds like he was ready to get away from that woman for good.
Useless as criminal evidence, maybe. But for the wrongful death lawsuit? Cha-ching, cha-ching.
The DUmmies keep calling this a ‘drop gun’ (like on TV, because that’s real), so maybe they were just yelling at the guy who was supposed to place the drop gun.
I disagree. Put the gun down is pretty bad for him.
Yep, suicide by cop.
>>Mr. Scott had parked his truck in a visitor’s space in their apartment complex, where he often waited for one of his children to return home on a bus. The police were there to serve a warrant on someone else.
We already have SJS for the muslims. Are we seeing the rise of SRS (Sudden Riot Syndrome) in blacks? SRS occurs when a black person sees a police officer doing their job and it enrages them to the point of aving to “take some action”, being unable to keep their dumb butt in the car, leave the gun where it is, and to just obey the orders of the armed person yelling at you.
According to his family, the late career criminal Mr. Scott was a Moslem, too.
She keeps telling her husband “dont do it”, what was she referring to, bending the binding of the book?
Momma says he was reading a Koran.
Want to suicide by police? Don’t put the gun down.
Trash cleanup day?
no need to call de amber lamps
He spent five years in jail preciously for shooting at cops. Think they might have run his plates and been worried? So the baby momma lied as he was a felon with a gun.
Yup,heard it.The urgency in the cop's voice argues in favor of the cop.Let's wait for the three autopsy reports (state medical examiner/family/Department of Just Us) to see what the toxicology report,among other things,looks like.
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