Police released body camera footage on Saturday of the fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney announced the release of the video at a press conference on Saturday, where he told reporters that releasing the video earlier would have had “a negative impact on the integrity of the investigation” being conducted by the State Bureau of Investigation into the shooting.
Putney said that the video did not give “definitive visual evidence” that Scott was holding a gun or that he pointed it at an officer, but cited other unspecified evidence that Scott “absolutely was in possession of a handgun.”
Watch the body camera video below via BNO News:
And watch the dash camera video below via WCCB Charlotte:
Police also released images of a gun, holster and marijuana which they said Scott had in his possession at the time of the shooting.
Putney indicated that the Friday release of video of the shooting taken by Scott’s wife, Rakeyia Scott, did not affect his decision to release the footage. “Our practice and our protocol is to release as soon as we can to inform,” Putney said. “There are no other factors that influenced that.”
He said that he was not charging any officers in the incident, but noted that the State Bureau’s investigation is ongoing.
Protestors took to the streets in Charlotte on Friday for the fourth straight night of protests over the shooting.
A suspect was arrested Friday morning in connection with the fatal shooting of Justin Carr, a protestor who was shot on Wednesday night when protests turned violent and later died of his injuries, according to police.
