Charlotte police on Saturday released footage of the fatal police shooting of Keith Scott, a 43-year-old African American man whose death precipitated both riots and peaceful protests in North Carolina this week. Then an officer “observed Mr Scott hold a gun up”, the department said. The video released on Saturday corroborates some of this account, though what is in Scott’s hand remains ambiguous. “The investigation also revealed that Mr Scott was wearing an ankle holster at the time of the event,” the department said. The two-minute video recorded by Scott’s wife, Rakeyia, showed events leading up to the shooting but not the shooting itself.

Source: The Guardian September 24, 2016 16:55 UTC