Charlotte police footage shows shooting of Keith Scott

Authorities have said an African-American officer shot Scott, who was black, when he made a threatening move with a gun. It’s not apparent in the video if he’s holding anything shortly before he was shot.

The family’s attorney, Charles Monnett, said in a statement that the Scott family are keeping up the pressure on Charlotte authorities to release all videos of the incident. Four shots are heard, and he falls to the ground.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police released the body cam and dash cam video of the Keith Scott shooting Saturday evening. Police blocked off downtown streets late into the night as they had throughout the day, allowing demonstrators to take over roadways without confrontations with vehicles.

Police said officers were looking for someone else when they saw Scott get out of a auto with a gun, and that the officer fired after Scott ignored warnings to drop the weapon.

Speaking to reporters Saturday, Putney said there was no single piece of evidence that shows the complexities of the case.

Putney said he waited until now to release the police video because he needed reassurance from the SBI that it wouldn’t negatively impact their investigation. PROTESTS CONTINUE FOR FOURTH NIGHTDemonstrators carried signs, chanted and marched in a peaceful protest hours after Scott’s family released video showing the events leading up to his death. “He is doing the opposite: He is passively stepping back”.

A cell phone video shot by Scott’s wife, Rakeyia Scott, released by her attorney on Friday, showed her trying to approach the scene, shouting “Don’t shoot him!” to officers and claiming that he did not have a gun, but had traumatic brain injury and had just taken his medication. Scott gets out and starts walking backward before shots are fired. Putney said the video supports other evidence that all must be considered together. Scott can be seen in police dashboard camera video backing away from his SUV with his hands down, and it’s unclear if there’s anything in his hands.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police chief Kerr Putney, right, gestures as Charlotte mayor Jennifer Roberts, left, watches in Charlotte, N.C. Friday, Sept. 23, 2016 during a news conference concerning protests and the investigation int. Kerr said he is not charging any officers in relation to the shooting but the state investigation is still ongoing.

The video was released to the media at 6:30 p.m. The first portions of the shaky video appear to show a number of police officers surround a vehicle in a parking lot. But the officers were heard opening fire minutes after they shouted commands to Scott to drop a gun.

The department said two plainclothes officers were preparing to arrest someone else when they saw Scott sitting in an SUV, rolling a marijuana joint.

Authorities have released footage of a fatal shooting of an African-American man in the U.S. city of Charlotte.

On Thursday Gov. Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard after protests Wednesday night turned violent, with windows of businesses smashed, police using tear gas and more than 40 people arrested.