“If I were to put it out indiscriminately, and it doesn’t give you good context, it can inflame the situation and make it even worse,” Putney stated. Scott reportedly took a couple steps forward “in a nonaggressive manner” when the officers opened fire.ĭuring a news conference on Friday, Chief Putney once again reiterated why his department continues to suppress the police footage. “He doesn’t make any dramatic movements,” Bamberg told The New York Times. After watching the videos, one of the attorneys, Justin Bamberg, said Scott appeared “confused” while exiting his truck. According to his family, Scott had been reading a book in his truck before the incident occurred.ĭespite the fact that Charlotte Police Chief Kerr Putney has refused to release police footage of the fatal shooting to the public, attorneys representing Scott’s family have viewed a dash cam video and body cam video of the incident. Rakeyia turned the camera away as the officers unleashed a volley of bullets at her husband.Īlthough the police initially claimed that Scott had been armed, the footage does not seem to show any weapons near Scott’s body. He just took his medicine.”Īfter asking for a baton, one of the officers can be heard breaking a window moments before they opened fire on Scott. “He is not going to do anything to you guys. (Traumatic Brain Injury),” Rakeyia explained from a distance. “He didn’t do anything,” Rakeyia informed them.

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