A video filmed by Rakeyia Scott, wife of the Charlotte shooting victim, Keith Scott, has caused an uproar from many Black Lives Matter protesters. In the video Keith Scott was in his car waiting to pick up his daughter, when the police confronted him. According to this Washington Post Article, the police were waiting for the arrest of someone else, but saw Keith sitting in his car with a marijuana joint, and a gun. In the video his wife is saying that he had just had a brain procedure and his medicine was making him loopy, but the police still continued to ask Mr. Scott to step out his vehicle. After a while you can hear the police officers repeatedly asking him to put the gun away, but his wife repeatedly says that he does not have a gun. Later you can hear 4 gunshots as the police fatally shoot down Keith Scott, even after the wife begs them not to. The public and most Black Lives Matter protesters are asking the police to release their video of the shooting, because in Mrs. Scott's video, it is unclear whether or not Keith Scott had a gun or not. The police have yet to release their video of the shooting, which has led to the speculation of whether or not they are editing the video to match their story. Protesters want the police to show "full transparency" of the incident, and the more the police withhold their video, the more suspicious everyone will be.
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