After days of delay, police in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday released extended video footage of the police-involved shooting death of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, according to multiple media outlets. The graphic police bodycam footage shows the final moments of the father of seven after he was shot by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer on Sept. 20 […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police on Thursday released audio from the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott.
What the video does not show is the exact moment Scott is shot on Tuesday by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers, but you can hear four shots fired in the background.
Charlotte police claim Scott was armed, but his family says he was perched in his car, reading a book while he waited for his son after school.
Overnight, protesters blocked off several streets and a portion of I-85 near the scene of the crime, rallying for justice.
Authorities rushed the man to Carolinas Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
“One of the first things I did was to get down to his level, take a deep breath and not say anything for a couple minutes,” Officer Purdy said in an interview with WSOC.
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