Did CMPD Body Camera Video Capture Keith Lamont Scott With a Gun In His Hand After All?
By Bob Owens
On Saturday, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Chief Kerr Putney released a body camera video from one of the officers who attempted to arrest Keith Lamont Scott, a man that a warrant team witnessed brandishing a weapon while smoking a marijuana cigarette (a “blunt”) inside his SUV. Officers told Scott to put down his gun and leave his vehicle 11 times over the next 45 seconds.
Scott left his vehicle, but officers said that he still had his gun in his hands. Moments after backing out of his vehicle, Scott was shot at four times by CMPD officer Brentley Vinson. Scott died soon afterward.
Despite a long criminal history of using weapons that has seen Scott spend years of of his life prison, Scott’s family insists that he did not have a gun
We proved conclusively on Saturday that Scott’s ankle holster was clearly visible in a screen capture from the released body camera footage.
What we didn’t realize at the time is that the same screen capture appears to confirm that Keith Lamont Scott did in fact have the Colt Mustang Plus II in his hand before he was shot.
First, we need to understand that the crime scene photos will not tell …Read the Rest
Source:: Bearing Arms
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