A video released by NBC News this afternoon reportedly filmed by Keith Lamont Scott’s wife shows the moments leading up to and following Scott’s shooting at the hands of CMPD officers. The video is rolling at the moment Scott is shot, but does not capture the shooting on screen.
The video is sure to raise more questions than it answers, as no gun can clearly be seen at any point in the video. Scott’s wife, Reykia Scott, does warn police near the beginning of the video that Keith does not have a weapon and that he just took his medicine for a traumatic brain injury, referring to a bicycle wreck Scott suffered a year ago that left him disabled.
Reykia repeats “he better live” — an expression that had already been used widely on social media as a hashtag just minutes after the video’s release — to officers as he lies on the ground of Lexington Circle, where he was waiting for his son to return home from school.
The shooting sparked protests in Charlotte throughout the last three days that ended in damaged property and a man shot dead in Uptown on Wednesday night. We will update this story with the thoughts of local leaders as it develops.
This article appears in Sep 21-28, 2016.
Looks like the officer in red is guarding something with his foot..gun that we see in other photos.
Why would a man who’s life has changed as a result of a tramatic brain injury have a gun that his family knows nothing about? Why would his wife keep telling him not to do it? Depression? Suicide by cop?
Ankle holster on Scott’s leg, Scott’s Finger Prints and DNA on gun, sworn statements by multiple police officers and witnesses that all prove Scott had gun.
Gun was stolen and thief already in jail signed statement that he sold gun to Scott. Scott’s wife previously signed sworn statements that Scott was a felon and carried a gun in a domestic battery complaint. No book found or seen in any video. Scott’s family lied and incited riots and should be charged.