Police say Scott was holding a handgun, which investigators recovered from an apartment complex in Charlotte, and posed a threat because he was not obeying police orders to remain in his vehicle and drop the weapon. "We release it when we believe it is a compelling reason, but I'm not going to jeopardize the investigation," he told reporters. When the Scott family was asked if the video they saw matches what police has described, their attorney replied, "No comment."Įarlier, Putney reiterated that he has no plans to publicly release the video, arguing that it would jeopardize the integrity of the investigation. "So what I can tell you, though, is when taken in the totality of all the other evidence, it supports what we've heard and the version of the truth that we gave about the circumstances that happened that led to the death of Mr. "I did not see that in the videos that I reviewed," Putney said at a news conference. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said earlier today that the footage he reviewed does not provide "definitive visual evidence that would confirm that a person is pointing a gun." Police in Charlotte have confirmed to ABC News that they have video that shows Scott had a gun in his hand during his interaction with police officers before he was fatally shot. The family of Keith Lamont Scott has reviewed the video that shows the moment when police fatally shot him in North Carolina on Tuesday, the family's attorney said.
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