Keith Lamont Scott: Family releases cellphone video of Charlotte police shooting

Cellphone camera video taken by the wife of a North Carolina man killed by police emerged Friday, showing the moments before and after the man was shot as well as the orders shouted by officers who surrounded his car.

The video, obtained by MSNBC, does not show Keith Lamont Scott as he is shot or whether he was carrying a firearm as police have alleged.

But the footage does contain his wife’s pleas not to shoot her husband as well as her assertion that he does not have a gun.

“Don’t shoot him, don’t shoot him. He has no weapon,” said Rakeyia Scott at the beginning of the footage.

The New York Times reported that when Mrs. Scott yells in the video that her husband “has a T.B.I,” referring to a traumatic brain injury.

Officers can be heard shouting “Drop the gun” in the background as a marked police SUV pulls up and joins other officers.

Scott’s killing prompted three nights of protests in the city of Charlotte as protests have demanded that officials release police body camera footage of the incident. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department shared the footage with Scott’s family but has declined to publicly release the footage for fear of tainting the investigation.

The emergence of the video taken by Scott’s wife provides the first video account of the shooting to publicly surface.

“Keith, don’t let them break the windows! Come on out the car,” Mrs. Scott can be heard yelling, “Keith, don’t do it!”

Several shots ring out and Mrs. Scott runs closer to the scene shouting “”Did you shoot him? Did you shoot him?”

Scott’s body can be seen on the ground as police surround and handcuff him.

“He better live. He better live,” Mrs. Scott said to officers surrounding her husband.

Neighbors and a relative have said Scott was reading a book in his car while he waited for his son in an apartment parking lot but police reported that he had a gun that he refused to drop when ordered repeatedly by officers. Police said a gun was recovered at the scene, but lawyer Justin Bamberg, who is representing the Scott family, said Scott did not own a gun.