Charlotte police chief: Shooting video won't be made public

CNN ^ | 22 September 2016 | Ed Lavandera, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Holly Yan

[Theoria]

After violent protests raged for the second night in Charlotte over the police shooting of a black man, the city's police chief told reporters Thursday he has no intention of releasing dashcam video of Keith Lamont Scott's shooting "to the masses."

Asked if there was a time at which the public could expect to see it, Chief Kerr Putney said there should be no such expectation.

"Transparency's in the eye of the beholder," he said. "If you think we should display a victim's worst day for public consumption, that is not the transparency I'm speaking of."

Scott's family has asked to see the video, and Putney said he hopes to accommodate that request. He warned, however, that the video will not provide "definitive visual evidence" that Scott pointed a gun at police officers. But other evidence and witness accounts support the police narrative that officers opened fire only after Scott refused to drop his weapon, he said.

At the request of Scott's family, Mecklenburg County District Attorney R. Andrew Murray has asked the State Bureau of Investigation to investigate Scott's death, according to his office. State law requires the prosecutor to reach out to the bureau if the family requests it.

Reinforcements coming

Putney also used the news conference to send a message to those who would continue looting and destroying property in the city, which resulted in 44 arrests and injuries to nine civilians and five police officers: "We're not going to tolerate the behavior." Two of the officers suffered minor eye injuries, while three others had heat-related ailments.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Body cams don't always reveal the action that we think it will. It's not like on TV. Movement makes the camera shake, and a shaky camera doesn't show clear details, a lot of time. And even then, video cannot provide numerous angles, or add other context that might factor in. In this day and age of American Idol and all those other audience participation shows, people think they need to have their voices heard, even if they're not trained to consider all the evidence.

There is probably already an investigation, and they will see the video. They will also have other evidence, and they will make their decision.

The problem we have now is that the investigative process is not respected. That's a larger problem than police shootings.

[Salamander]

Hopefully you can see this even if you’re not on FB.

https://www.facebook.com/hagerstownpolicedepartment/videos/1792656384117947/

*This* video is not going viral but her friend’s video of the “poor victim” is.

WARNING! LANGUAGE! Not safe for work!

[tumblindice]

“Sorry, this content isn’t available right now”
Down she goes into Zuckerberg’s memory hole?

[az_gila]

just asking, are the 2 race baiters jackson and sharpton in that city now? With the many race riots, they cant be at every city at the same time s/

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Yep, rev al is busy in Tulsa -

http://observer.com/2016/09/al-sharpton-demands-immediate-justice-for-terence-crutcher-killed-by-tulsa-cops/

rev jessy is pushing looting = blue collar crime -

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/5137138478001/rev—jesse-jackson-banks-over-charging-is-blue-collar-looting/?#sp=show-clips

[miss marmelstein]

Very interesting point of view. I just saw a disgusting interview with the Reverend Jackson and Neil Cavuto. Jackson’s a pig.

[Old Yeller]

He got a call from Obama not to show the evidence.

[Zeneta]

FWIW.

The race baitors and Rat politicians never say anything that is definitive. It’s always a few “Sound bites” that are picked up by their clueless followers.

The utterly meaningless phrase of “Hope and Change” comes to mind.

They don’t want to “define” the facts or any issue for that matter.

Doing so would not be in their best interest and they have found a sizable market of willingly ignorant people that feed this insanity.

[PAR35]

Sounds like the video doesn’t show what the cops said. No wonder there is rioting in Charlotte and not in Tulsa.

The idiots in Charlotte apparently aren’t familiar with “The Rule in Nixon’s Case”

[Hugin]

If the vid shows he was armed and they don’t release it any further riots are the chief’s fault.

[minnesota_bound]

This is the same mistake they did in Ferguson.
This is why.

Rush today: Obama and Hillary Want These Riots
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/09/22/obama_and_hillary_want_these_riots