As Charlotte is still reeling from the riots and looting in response to the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, video (below) from Scott’s wife cellphone appears to show what happened before and after the altercation.
In the clip, Scott’s wife tells the officers, “Don’t shoot him. Don’t shoot him,” as the cops yell at her husband to drop the gun.
“He doesn’t have a gun,” she responds, but pictures of the crime scene later show a gun present near his body.
She continues to tell the officers that her husband isn’t going “to do anything to you guys” but her husband continues to disobey the orders of the officers.
(Full video below)
As her husband starts to move around in his vehicle while officers continue to ask him to to drop the gun the wife quickly changes her tune upon seeing her husband poised to be aggressive with his weapon, telling him, “Keith, don’t you do it. Don’t you do it, Keith!”
The video then goes fuzzy from movement but four shots from the black police officer can be heard going off. Scott’s wife addresses the cops saying, “Did you shoot him! He better not be f–king dead!”
She continues confronting the officers, telling them, “He better live. He better live.” As she begins to move towards the cops they tell her stay back to which she yells, “I ain’t going nowhere. I’m in the same damn spot! The f–k!”
Despite the man having disobeyed orders, having a gun, and ultimately being shot by a black cop after not releasing his weapon, the riots will no doubt continue and probably get worse.