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 Unsettling footage obtained by NBC News shows the moments leading up to the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina. 
 
 The video, taken by Scott's wife, does not clearly show the exact moment he was shot by police on Tuesday. Scott is seen on the ground surrounded by police officers moments after the shots were fired. 
 
 "He better not be f---ing dead, he better not be f---ing dead," Rakeyia Scott can be heard shouting at the officers. "He better live, he better live!" It is not clear what preceded the shooting. 
 
 The killing of Scott, 43, sparked three nights of fiery protests and violent clashes between protesters and law enforcement. Activists and the Scott family have pressed city officials to release bodycam or dashcam footage of the fatal encounter. 
 
 A police officer shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, 43, near the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. via Facebook 
 
 In the two-minute, 12-second footage provided by the Scott family's attorney to NBC News, Rakeyia Scott can be heard saying, "Don't shoot him, don't shoot him" as police appear to converge on a white vehicle in the parking lot of a condominium complex. "He has no weapon — don't shoot him!" 
 
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 Rakeyia Scott can be heard urging her husband to comply with the officers who had instructed her husband to "drop the gun, drop the gun." 
 
 "Keith, don't let them break the windows! Come on out of the car," she can be heard yelling, "Keith, don't do it!" 
 
 "Keith, Keith, Keith — don't you do it!" 
 
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 It's at that moment that four gunshots can be heard, as Scott's wife screams: "Did you shoot him? Did you shoot him?" 
 
 In the aftermath, police officers can be seen attending to Scott's prone body as his wife apparently calls 9-1-1. 
 
 The footage was obtained by NBC News amid conflicting reports about whether a gun was found at the scene of the shooting. Police say he had a handgun on him and posed "an imminent, deadly threat." The family says he was not armed and did not pose a threat to the officers. 
 
 No gun is clearly visible in the video footage, which appears to have been recorded from a nearby patch of grass. A photo, previously obtained by NBC News from local affiliate WCNC, appears to show an object at the scene that police sources identified to the affiliate as a gun. It is not known how long after the shooting the photo was taken. 
 
 Here's what we know about the shooting: 
 
 Police arrived at The Village at College Downs complex near the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to search for someone else with an outstanding warrant. Officers said they saw Scott holding a handgun as he exited his car and returned to his vehicle. He then exited again as officers approached him and became threatening, police said. 
 
 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said three officers at the scene were wearing bodycams, although the officer who fired the fatal shot was not. 
 
 Protesters have demanded that police release their videos, but Putney has refused, saying that he didn’t want to jeopardize the investigation. The State Bureau of Investigation is leading a review into the shooting. 
 
 Putney said Thursday that the videos he has seen don’t show "absolute, definitive, visual evidence" that Scott pointed a gun at the officers. 
 
 Justin Bamberg, an attorney for the Scott family who also watched the police videos, said they fail to prove that he was armed. Scott can be seen in the video calmly walking back after he was approached by police, according to Bamberg. 
 
 "It is impossible to discern from the videos what, if anything, Mr. Scott is holding in his hands," he said in a statement. 
 
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 CMPD Officer Brentley Vinson, who like Scott is African-American, has been placed on paid administrative leave, as is standard procedure. 
 
 Bamberg said Thursday that the family wants the police videos made public. 
 
 "It was incredibly difficult for members of the Scott family to view these videos, but as a matter of the greater good and transparency, the Scott family asks that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department publicly immediately release both of the videos they watched today," Bamberg said. 
 
 The NAACP on Friday also urged the police to release the videos. 
 
 Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts said Friday that she watched some of the police footage and does want it released, but the ongoing investigation must be taken into consideration. 
 
 "The question is on the timing," she said. 
 
 The State Bureau of Investigation, which is investigating the shooting, said Friday it would not release the police videos at this time. Special Agent in Charge of the Charlotte District Audria Bridges said she had no comment on the video released by Scott's wife. 
 
 "We are well on our way to conducting a thorough and comprehensive investigation," Bridges said. ||||| Video 
 
 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A cellphone video made by the wife of Keith Lamont Scott as he was fatally shot by the police here shows the moments before and after the episode, including the wife’s pleas to her husband to get out of his truck, and her pleas to the officers not to shoot him. 
 
 But the video, which was given to The New York Times on Friday by lawyers for the family, does not include a view of the shooting itself. Nor does it answer the crucial question of whether Mr. Scott had a gun, as the police have maintained. This question and others surrounding the case have transformed Charlotte into the latest crisis in the divisive debate over police treatment of minorities. In the last several nights here, hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets demanding justice. Many have done so peacefully. Others have vandalized property and clashed with the police. 
 
 One of the lawyers, Justin Bamberg, who is representing the family along with Eduardo Curry, said in an interview on Friday that the video did not prove whether the shooting was justified. Rather, he said, it offered “another vantage point” of the episode. He said he hoped the Police Department would release its own videos of the shooting, as protesters have demanded since Mr. Scott was killed on Tuesday. The video provided a vivid glimpse of the drama that played out as Mr. Scott’s wife of 20 years, Rakeyia, first pleaded for a safe outcome to her husband’s encounter with the police, and then was heard reacting in uncomprehending horror as he was shot to death. 
 
 Mr. Scott, a father of seven, had parked his white Ford Explorer in a visitor’s space at the apartment complex where he lived, about a half-mile south of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He often waited there, on a tree-lined stretch of Lexington Circle, for one of his children to return home from school. 
 
 Officers of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department arrived in unmarked vehicles shortly before 4 p.m. to serve a warrant on another person. Ms. Scott left their apartment to bring Mr. Scott a cellphone charger, the lawyers said, when she saw the officers around him and began recording the scene on her phone. 
 
 The Police Department has said that officers saw Mr. Scott, who was black, standing beside his S.U.V. holding a handgun, then saw him get into the vehicle. 
 
 The video, which lasts 2 minutes 12 seconds, begins with shaking images of grass and the voice, apparently that of an officer, shouting, “Hands up!” 
 
 Immediately, Ms. Scott said, “Don’t shoot him,” and began walking closer to the officers and Mr. Scott’s vehicle. “Don’t shoot him. He has no weapon. He has no weapon. Don’t shoot him.” 
 
 An officer can then be heard yelling: “Gun. Gun. Drop the gun.” A police S.U.V. with lights flashing arrived, partly obscuring Ms. Scott’s view, and a uniformed officer got out. From that point, there are five officers, most of whom appeared to be wearing body armor over plain clothes, around Mr. Scott. 
 
 “Don’t shoot him, don’t shoot him,” Ms. Scott pleaded, her voice becoming louder and more anxious. “He didn’t do anything.” 
 
 Officers continued to yell “drop the gun” or some variation of it — at least 12 times in 38 seconds. 
 
 “He doesn’t have a gun,” Ms. Scott said. “He has a T.B.I.” — an abbreviation for a traumatic brain injury the lawyers said Mr. Scott sustained in a motorcycle accident in November. “He’s not going to do anything to you guys. He just took his medicine.” 
 
 “Drop the gun,” an officer screamed again as Ms. Scott tried to explain her husband’s condition. The officer then said he needed to get a baton. 
 
 “Keith don’t let them break the windows. Come on out the car,” Ms. Scott said, as the video showed an officer approaching Mr. Scott’s vehicle. 
 
 “Drop the gun,” an officer shouted again. 
 
 Ms. Scott yelled several times for her husband to “get out the car,” but on the video, he cannot be seen through the window of the S.U.V. 
 
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 “Keith, don’t do it,” Ms. Scott shouted, as the video showed her backing away and panning to the ground. 
 
 Mr. Bamberg said that Ms. Scott was trying, in those statements, to “get him to stand still” after he got out of the car. 
 
 It was only in the final moments before the shots — less than two seconds on the video — that the camera panned back and Mr. Scott could be seen, still unhurt. He was standing between the vehicles and officers, wearing bright aqua pants, a dark T-shirt and a white ball cap, his head turning from side to side. 
 
 Neither of his hands — and what, if anything, he was holding — could be seen clearly. Friends and neighbors have raised the possibility that he was holding a book. The police claimed that he was holding a gun, and that a gun was recovered from the scene. But the police chief, Kerr Putney, has acknowledged that in police videos of the shootings, he could not see Mr. Scott’s hands. 
 
 “The video does not give me absolute, definitive visual evidence that would confirm that a person is pointing a gun,” he said on Thursday. 
 
 Fifty seconds into Ms. Scott’s video, four shots rang out. The Police Department has identified the officer who fired as Brentley Vinson, 26, who is black, and has been with the force since 2014. 
 
 Ms. Scott seemed to flinch at the first gunshot, and the picture immediately left her husband. 
 
 “Did you shoot him? Did you shoot him?” Ms. Scott shouted, her voice becoming louder each second. “Did you shoot him? He better not be [expletive] dead.” 
 
 She moved closer, and the video showed Mr. Scott lying face down on the pavement, his white sneakers pointed to the camera, with officers standing and kneeling around him. 
 
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 “I’m not going to come near you. I’m going to record, though,” Ms. Scott said. “I’m not coming near you. I’m going to record, though. He better be alive.” 
 
 Mr. Bamberg said of the video: “Right now, we don’t have enough facts to say whether this shooting was justified or unjustified. That’s what we’re trying to find out.” 
 
 The lawyers also brought attention to an object that they said could be seen on the ground near Mr. Scott after he was shot. They said the object seemed to appear in the video after the camera panned away briefly, in a place where no object was previously visible. 
 
 The video had been widely viewed both online and on television by Friday afternoon. City and police officials did not respond to Ms. Scott’s video. 
 
 But in a statement on Friday, Jennifer Roberts, the mayor of Charlotte, pressed the state’s Bureau of Investigation to speed up its efforts to release the police recordings. 
 
 “I urge it to use every resource at its disposal to get this done, and release the information to the public as quickly as possible,” she said. 
 
 Chief Putney arranged for Mr. Scott’s family members and their lawyers to privately view two police videos on Thursday. Beforehand, they had been uncertain whether the videos should be released to the public, Mr. Bamberg said, but after seeing them, they called for release of the recordings. While the family members differed with the police on some major points about the videos, they seemed to be in agreement with the police chief on one aspect. “It is impossible to discern from the videos what, if anything, Mr. Scott is holding in his hands,” they said in a statement. 
 
 Mr. Bamberg and Mr. Curry also described the two police videos — one from a dashboard camera and the other from a body camera — that the police allowed the lawyers and family members to view. The body-camera video, Mr. Bamberg said, provided few significant details of the shooting. But he said the dashboard video showed two officers taking up positions behind a pickup truck and yelling commands at Mr. Scott, who was inside his vehicle. 
 
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 The dashboard video, the lawyers said, appeared to show that the front window on the driver’s side was rolled up. 
 
 The video, Mr. Bamberg said, then showed Mr. Scott stepping out of the vehicle, his hands down, with his right hand empty and “some type of object” in his left hand. “It’s impossible to make out what it is,” the lawyer said, noting that Mr. Scott was right-handed. 
 
 “He doesn’t make any dramatic movements,” Mr. Bamberg said. He also said Mr. Scott seemed “confused.” 
 
 In the video, Mr. Scott took a couple of steps forward “in a nonaggressive manner,” the lawyer said, and then a step back. Then shots were fired. 
 
 According to court records, Mr. Scott, who was born in South Carolina, was charged in that state with a number of offenses including check fraud, aggravated assault and carrying a concealed weapon. Later, he moved to Texas, where he shot and wounded a man in San Antonio in 2002. He was convicted and sentenced, in 2005, to seven years in prison, and was released in 2011. 
 
 His lawyer in the Texas shooting case, Gloria Yates Early, said Mr. Scott had claimed his family was being “stalked.” 
 
 “Allegedly, people were following them around with weapons, pointing them at their bodies,” Ms. Early said. “He carried a gun around and he admitted to shooting a guy. He alleged self-defense of himself and his family.” 
 
 When asked on Friday if Ms. Scott knew whether her husband owned a gun at the time he was shot by the police, Mr. Curry replied, “Not that she knew of.” ||||| (CNN) The family of Keith Lamont Scott has released cell phone video, recorded by his wife, that shows the moments leading to his fatal shooting by police in Charlotte, North Carolina. 
 
 The video is the first publicly released footage related to Tuesday's shooting of the black man, which spurred days of protests in Charlotte 
 
 "Don't shoot him. He has no weapon," Rakeyia Scott can be heard saying. The first portions of the shaky video appear to show a number of police officers surround a vehicle in a parking lot. 
 
 A man repeatedly yells for someone -- apparently Keith Scott -- to "drop the gun." 
 
 "He doesn't have a gun. He has a TBI (traumatic brain injury)," Rakeyia Scott says. "He's not going to do anything to you guys. He just took his medicine." 
 
 She goes on to say: "Keith, don't let them break the windows; come on out the car. Keith! Don't do it. Keith, get out the car. Keith! Keith, don't you do it. Don't you do it. Keith! Keith! Keith!" 
 
 The video shakes, and for a moment, a man in bright blue pants is seen near the surrounded vehicle. Gunshots are heard as Rakeyia Scott says again, "Don't you do it." 
 
 She then yells: "Did you shoot him? Did you shoot him? He better not be (expletive) dead." Two people kneel over the figure with blue pants, apparently Keith Scott, now lying on the ground. 
 
 Police said an officer shot Scott after he failed to heed commands to drop a gun. His family has said he didn't have a gun. 
 
 The gun police say they recovered from the scene was loaded, a source close to the investigation told CNN. The source said investigators recovered from the weapon fingerprints, blood and DNA that matched with Scott. The source said the blood most likely got on the gun after the shooting. 
 
 'We want the public to take a look at this tape' 
 
 An attorney for the Scott family told CNN the tape was released because officials would not furnish the police footage to the public. 
 
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 "We want the public to take a look at this tape and see what was in the video before he was shot, and what was there afterward, and ask how it got there," family attorney Eduardo Curry said. 
 
 "My understanding (is) that he had had an accident last year that was pretty traumatic, and as a result, made him at least disabled in some particular instances (and was) taking medication for it," Curry said. 
 
 The Scott family said it released the video in the "name of truth and transparency," according to a statement released by attorney Charles G. Monnett. "We encourage everyone to reserve judgment until all the facts are known. This is simply one step in our quest to find the truth for this family." 
 
 The status of other videos -- held by authorities -- has been a point of contention between police and the family. 
 
 Police allowed the family to see the police-held footage Thursday, but the public has yet to see it. 
 
 On Friday, Charlotte-Mecklenberg police Chief Kerr Putney said he expected police videos of the shooting -- from dashboard and officer body cameras -- to be released eventually when investigators decide it can be done as part of a package with other information, so the videos aren't made public without context. 
 
 That stance differed from the chief's message a day earlier that the public shouldn't expect the videos' release. 
 
 Curry said he believes police have a copy of Rakeyia Scott's video. He said he doesn't expect her to speak publicly soon. 
 
 "Give the family a chance to mourn and grieve," Curry said. "At some point we'll revisit (whether she'll speak)." 
 
 The shooting 
 
 The shooting is one of a number of controversial police shootings of black men in recent years -- killings that have spurred debate about how and when police should use deadly force. Hundreds of people have protested Scott's shooting each of the past four nights in Charlotte. 
 
 Though Thursday and Friday were relatively peaceful, violence rocked the first two nights, with businesses vandalized and one protester shot dead in front of a hotel. Police arrested Rayquan Borum on Friday in connection with the fatal shooting of Justin Carr. 
 
 No arrests, injuries or property damage were reported from protests Friday night into Saturday morning, police said. 
 
 Central to the protests are the differing accounts between police and Scott's family over what led to his death. Authorities said a black police officer fatally shot Scott, a father of seven, in an apartment complex parking lot as officers looked for another man named in a warrant they were trying to serve. 
 
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 Police said Scott had a gun as he exited his vehicle, and that Officer Brentley Vinson shot him after Scott did not comply with officers' commands to drop the weapon. 
 
 Scott's family has said he was reading a book and waiting for his son to come home from school at the time. Police said no book was found at the scene. 
 
 What the police videos are said to show 
 
 Officials are discussing whether and when to release the police dashboard and body camera videos, Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts said. One factor affecting the timing, she said, is that investigators want to record witness' accounts and that they don't want witnesses' recollections altered by what they see on the videos. Vinson was not carrying a body camera, police said. 
 
 Scott's family said the police videos showed him acting calmly and nonaggressively. Scott didn't own a gun or habitually carry a gun, family attorney Justin Bamberg said. 
 
 "When he was shot and killed, Mr. Scott's hands were by his side, and he was slowly walking backward," he said. 
 
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 The police chief has said the video does not provide "definitive visual evidence" that Scott pointed a gun at officers. The investigation has been turned over to the State Bureau of Investigation, which said the Charlotte-Mecklenberg police are still the custodians of the videos and can release them if they want. 
 
 North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said Friday that the bureau has been looking for several days into the deadly encounter between Scott and police. State investigators have interviewed most of the critical witnesses in the shooting, McCrory said. 
 
 Meanwhile, a photo obtained by CNN affiliate WSOC-TV shows the immediate aftermath of the shooting, a source close to the investigation told CNN. 
 
 A black object near the bottom of the photo is a gun that police found at the scene, the source said. 
 
 A source close to the investigation says this photo, obtained by CNN affiliate WSOC, shows the scene. 
 
 North Carolina recently passed a law that blocks the release of police recordings from body or dashboard cameras with limited exceptions. That law is set to take effect in October. 
 
 The mayor said an attorney for the city told her the law will not affect decisions about whether to release the videos in Scott's killing, because it was not in effect at the time of the shooting.
– The public received its first look at footage of the shooting death of Keith Scott at the hands of Charlotte police when lawyers for his family released cellphone video Friday showing the moments before and after he was killed, NBC News reports. The video was taken by Rakeyia Scott and features her pleading with police not to shoot her husband while telling him to listen to officers. "He has no weapon—don't shoot him," Rakeyia Scott says in the video. And to her husband: "Don't you do it...Come on out of the car." According to the New York Times, Rakeyia Scott told police her husband has a traumatic brain injury but: "He's not going to do anything to you guys. He just took his medicine." Four shots are heard in the video, and Rakeyia Scott screams. She tells officers, "He better not be fucking dead" and, "He better live." Rakeyia Scott's video doesn't show a gun. Police have claimed Keith Scott had a gun and was an "imminent, deadly threat." Family says he was unarmed. The family's attorney says they hope releasing the video will convince police to release theirs, CNN reports. "We want the public to take a look at this tape and see what was in the video before he was shot, and what was there afterward, and ask how it got there," Eduardo Curry says. Scott was waiting for his child to get home from school when officers arrived at his apartment complex to serve a search warrant on another man.