LAMONT SCOTT DEATH VIDEO RELEASED BY CHARLOTTE POLICE (EDITED OR UNEDITED?)

LAMONT SCOTT DEATH VIDEO RELEASED BY CHARLOTTE POLICE:

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**** Charlotte shooting: Police release video and photo evidence

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Police photos show pistol, holster and marijuana cigarette officers say were retrieved at scene.
Dashcam and body-camera videos do not show Scott pointing a gun at officers.

Videos released Saturday by the Charlotte police department of the fatal encounter between Keith Scott and officers do little to answer some of the most significant questions about the shooting.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney has said as much since the Tuesday shooting that sparked protests and brought nationwide media attention once again to the use of deadly force by law enforcement.

Authorities have said an African-American officer shot Scott, who was black, when he made a threatening move with a gun. Saturday, police released photos of a pistol and ankle holster recovered at the scene.

Scott's family has said he had no gun, that he was reading a book, and he was being non-aggressive when police were surrounding him.

Neither police dashcam nor body-camera footage shows Scott pointing a gun at police officers. At one point in the body-camera video, there is a view of Scott from his right side and he has his arm by his body, but it is unclear if there is a gun.

"You can't clearly identify what, if anything, is in his hand," attorney Justin Bamberg, who represents the Scott family, said at news conference Saturday evening.

Putney had said, before the videos were released, that "there is no definitive visual evidence that he had a gun in his hand."

The chief has also said the videos are part of the evidence, the totality of which will show the shooting was justified.

Police say officer saw gun

The release comes one day after a video recorded by Keith Scott's widow was released publicly. Putney said the cell phone recording didn't factor into his decision to release dashcam and body-camera video of the fatal shooting.

"Our practice and our protocol is to release as soon as we can, to inform," Putney said, adding that he waited until the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation assured him it would not adversely impact its investigation.

Tuesday's shooting of Scott, a black man, by a black police officer at an apartment complex parking lot has led to protests -- which turned violent at times -- in Charlotte over the past five nights. It is among a number of shootings in recent years that have spurred debate about how and when police should use deadly force and how race factors into whom police shoot.

The status of the videos held by police -- body-camera and dashcam footage -- was a point of contention between police and Scott's family, with authorities declining to release them throughout the week.

Demonstrators on Saturday gathered for a fifth day in the city's center. A diverse crowd of hundreds of people marched from Marshall Park after a short rally. The crowd stopped at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police headquarters and chanted: "No tapes; no peace."

'Don't shoot him'

Scott's widow released her cell phone recording of the shooting -- the first to be released publicly -- on Friday.

"Don't shoot him. He has no weapon," Rakeyia Scott can be heard saying in the footage. The first portions of the shaky video appear to show a number of police officers surround a vehicle in a parking lot.

A man repeatedly yells for someone -- apparently Keith Scott -- to "drop the gun."

"He doesn't have a gun. He has a TBI (traumatic brain injury)," Rakeyia Scott says. "He's not going to do anything to you guys. He just took his medicine."

She goes on to say: "Keith, don't let them break the windows; come on out the car. Keith! Don't do it. Keith, get out the car. Keith! Keith, don't you do it. Don't you do it. Keith! Keith! Keith!"

The video shakes, and for a moment, a man in bright blue pants is seen near the surrounded vehicle. Gunshots are heard as Rakeyia Scott says again, "Don't you do it."

She then yells: "Did you shoot him? Did you shoot him? He better not be (expletive) dead." Two people kneel over the figure with blue pants, apparently Keith Scott, now lying on the ground.

Smashed windows to handshakes: 24 hours in Charlotte

Police said an officer shot Scott after he failed to heed commands to drop a gun. His family has said he didn't have a gun.

The gun police say they recovered from the scene was loaded, a source close to the investigation told CNN. The source said investigators recovered from the weapon fingerprints, blood and DNA that matched with Scott. The source said the blood most likely got on the gun after the shooting.

'We want the public to take a look at this tape'

Another attorney for the Scott family told CNN the recording was released because officials would not furnish the police footage to the public.

"We want the public to take a look at this tape and see what was in the video before he was shot, and what was there afterward, and ask how it got there," Eduardo Curry said Friday.

Rakeyia Scott mentioned a traumatic brain injury in the recording, and Scott's family has said he was disabled after being in a near-death motorcycle crash last year.

"My understanding (is) that he had had an accident last year that was pretty traumatic, and as a result, made him at least disabled in some particular instances (and was) taking medication for it," Curry said.

The Scott family said it released the video in the "name of truth and transparency," according to a statement released by attorney Charles G. Monnett. "We encourage everyone to reserve judgment until all the facts are known. This is simply one step in our quest to find the truth for this family."

Police allowed the family to see the police-held footage Thursday.

The shooting

Central to the protests are the differing accounts between police and Scott's family over what led to his death. Authorities said a black police officer fatally shot Scott, a father of seven, at the apartment complex as officers looked for another man named in a warrant they were trying to serve there.

Clinton, Trump change plans to visit Charlotte after mayor's plea

Police said Scott had a gun as he exited his vehicle, and that Officer Brentley Vinson shot him after Scott did not comply with officers' commands to drop the weapon.

Scott's family has said he was reading a book and waiting for his son to come home from school at the time. Police said no book was found at the scene.

HILLARY & TRUMP'S POST PROTEST APPEARANCES REJECTED (LAMONT SCOTT'S VIDEO)

HILLARY AND TRUMP CANCEL POST CHARLOTTE PROTEST APPEARANCES:

Sources: Charlotte Observer, CMPD, Fox News, Youtube

***** Clinton, Trump postpone Charlotte visits at request of mayor, governor

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton have postponed scheduled visits to Charlotte after a televised plea from Mayor Jennifer Roberts and, in the case of Trump, a request from Gov. Pat McCrory.

Clinton had announced a Sunday morning visit, likely to an African American church, after her campaign conferred earlier Friday with city officials.

And Trump had earlier announced a Tuesday appearance, which would have been his first following Monday’s first presidential debate.

Both visits could have come during the state of emergency that has followed Tuesday’s police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott and the violent protests that followed.

City and Clinton campaign officials say the campaign had conferred with city staff about a Sunday visit before announcing it at around 4:30 p.m. Friday. Then later Roberts cautioned against the campaign visits during an appearance on CNN.

“We appreciate the support of the candidates,” she told CNN’s Erin Burnett. “We appreciate that they are concerned about Charlotte. At this point, we do have very stretched resources for security and they are working around the clock.

“If there would be a way to delay those visits in terms of giving us a chance to get our city back to order and back to more of a state of normalcy, that would probably be ideal.”

Trump’s decision came after a phone conversation late this week from McCrory.

“The governor was concerned about resources and was grateful for Mr. Trump’s interest and hopes to welcome him to North Carolina after the state of emergency has been lifted,” McCrory spokesman Ricky Diaz said Saturday.

Trump mocked Clinton’s decision in a tweet late Friday night.

“Crooked Hillary's bad judgement [sic] forced her to announce that she would go to Charlotte on Saturday to grandstand. Dem pols said no way, dumb!

Gregg Watkins, a spokesman for Roberts, said between the time the mayor’s office talked to the Clinton campaign Friday afternoon and the time she went on CNN, they realized that it would not be prudent to have the presidential campaigns come in on top of everything else.

“We asked that the campaigns delay their visits to a more convenient time because we’re concerned about stretching our law enforcement resources too thin at a very unusual and critical time,” Watkins said.

Clinton will come to North Carolina Tuesday, but not Charlotte. Her campaign has not announced where she will go.

HILLARY TO ADDRESS CHARLOTTE PROTESTERS (LAMONT SCOTT VIDEO)

HILLARY TO VISIT CHARLOTTE; CALLS FOR RELEASE OF LAMONT'S DEATH VIDEO:

PRAY FOR LAMONT SCOTT'S FAMILY.

PRAY FOR OUR LEADERS AND THE POLICE.

PRAY FOR HEALING AND PEACE.

Sources: Charlotte Observer, Fox News, YouTube

**** Hillary to visit Charlotte, urges release of police video

Hillary Clinton said Friday that the police video of the fatal shooting of a black man by Charlotte police should be released immediately as she prepared to make a pre-debate visit to the embattled North Carolina city.

Clinton wrote on Twitter that authorities in Charlotte should release the police video of the Keith Lamont Scott shooting "without delay. We must ensure justice & work to bridge divides."

The Democratic presidential nominee's campaign said she would travel to Charlotte on Sunday, one day before her first high-profile debate with Republican Donald Trump. Her campaign did not immediately release details of her visit to Charlotte, where protests have broken out in the aftermath of the shooting.

A video recorded by Scott's wife was released Friday by his family and does not indicate whether Scott had a gun. Police have said he was armed, but witnesses have said he held only a book.

leading up to the debate, both Clinton and Trump have been confronted with questions about police violence after the North Carolina shooting and a separate incident in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where a white police officer was charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man whose vehicle had broken down in the middle of the street.

Clinton said Wednesday that the shootings had added two more names "to a long list of African-Americans killed by police officers. It's unbearable and it needs to become intolerable."

GOV MCCRORY ENFORCES MARTIAL LAW OVER LAMONT SCOTT SHOOTING PROTESTS

MARTIAL LAW ENFORCED IN NORTH CAROLINA BY GOV MCCRORY DUE TO THE LAMONT SCOTT POLICE SHOOTING:

Sources: NC Governor's Office, Al Jeezra, CBS News, CNN, YouTube


****** National Guard called in as violent protests roil Charlotte

North Carolina’s largest city is under a state of emergency, after another night of violence over the police killing of a black man.

The governor has ordered the National Guard to Charlotte, where thousands of workers at Bank of America’s downtown headquarters have been told to stay home Thursday.

For the second straight night, the streets of Charlotte erupted in violence as protesters clashed with police over the death of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, reports CBS News correspondent David Begnaud.

One person was shot during the protest, who city officials initially said had died, but they backtracked, and now say he is on life support. We’re told Charlotte police never fired a shot.

“The whole reason we had to protest was because somebody was shot unarmed. Another unarmed person is shot today,” said protester Gloria Merriweather, choking up on tears.

Police ordered the crowds to disperse after some protestors started damaging businesses. Officers fired tear gas and flash grenades, but hundreds of people remained well after midnight.

journalists were attacked, store and car windows smashed and a night that started as a peaceful prayer vigil had descended into chaos.

“Yes we came down here to protest but we can’t tear up downtown. That’s not going to solve anything,” said a protester.

Four officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries and at least three civilians were hospitalized. At one point, several protesters ran onto Interstate 277, stopping traffic and surrounding drivers.

“Some of this is just absolutely insane, like these people didn’t do anything to us. If you’re going to revolt against somebody, revolt against the people who deserved it,” said another protester.

“My heart bleeds for what our great city is going through,” North Carolina Governor Pat McCory told CBS News affiliate station WBTV-TV about the two nights of violence.

The Federal Justice Department is still determining whether or not they will open an investigation into Scott’s death. In a statement, Scott’s wife, Rakeyia Scott, said they still have more questions than answers surrounding the shooting, but they are calling for an end to the violence.