[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQbT0S5XvfE]

Sources (with excerpted text) below:

http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/deadly-police-shooting-sparks-violent-pro...

Putney said Scott exited his car with a gun, then got back in the car. Officers instructed him to drop the gun. As he got out again, officers fired shots. Putney also said officers seized a gun from the scene, but they did not find a book, which family members have referenced.

Officer Vinson was in plain clothes and was not wearing a body camera, according to Putney. The officers in uniform on the scene were wearing body cameras, but it does not give a full picture of what happened.

"I don't know that he (Keith Scott) definitively pointed a weapon at an officer" but he says Scott did have a gun. "The video that I have reviewed, I cannot see in totality, everything that occurred."

https://thinkprogress.org/charlotte-police-video-881c8a875898#.sdbg0iccg

Putney claimed he is unable to release the footage because state law requires a court order to publish such videos. “The law is pretty specific, especially around criminal evidence for an investigation,” he said. “I cannot release that.”

But that’s not true, the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina told ThinkProgress. The controversial law prohibiting police officials from releasing such videos to the public is not yet in effect.

[...]

CMPD attorney Mark Newbold later contacted ThinkProgress to clear up the confusion. Putney was invoking a different piece of law — state statute 132–1.4 — which says that “records of criminal investigations” are not public records. The statute also says such records “may be released” by a court order.

Newbold acknowledged that doesn’t quite amount to an explicit prohibition on releasing videos like this, and that “there’s no matrix that spells things out.”

[...]

If Putney’s own statements at a Wednesday press conference about officer Brently Vinson’s shooting of Keith Lamont Scott are accurate, the decision not to release the footage makes little sense. Putney said there is hard evidence disproving multiple pieces of the story that Scott’s family members told of his death in the hours before a peaceful protest bubbled over into civil unrest that left 16 cops injured.

Family members said Scott was sitting reading a book and did not have a gun. Putney says detectives recovered the gun and did not find a book.

The chief also said Scott was given repeated loud verbal warnings to drop the weapon police recovered. The videos would presumably verify that key point.

Putney did acknowledge, however, that the videos may not contain the entirety of the encounter. “The videos I’ve reviewed, I cannot see in totality everything that occurred,” he said at Wednesday’s presser. He also said it was “a matter of seconds” between officers’ verbal warnings to Scott and Vinson’s fatal shots.

Link to photograph of alleged picture of gun found at the scene of the killing of Keith Lamont Scott: http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/deadly-police-shooting-sparks-violent-pro...

Other Sources:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-north-carolina-shooting-idUSKCN11Q306

Scott was shot by officer Brentley Vinson earlier in the day, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police. The shooting occurred when officers were at an apartment complex searching for a suspect with an outstanding warrant and they saw Scott get out of his vehicle with a firearm, the department said.

Vinson fired his weapon and struck Scott, who "posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers," the department said in a statement.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/keith-lamont-scott-fatally-shot-n-c-...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2016/sep/21/charlotte-police-k...

http://fusion.net/story/349496/who-is-keith-lamont-scott/

A man identified as Scott’s brother said that Scott was sitting in his car, waiting to pick up his son from school. [...]

Shakeala Baker, who lives near the site of Scott’s shooting, told Reuters that she had seem him there waiting for his son on other days, as well.

Scott’s mother, Vernita Walker, described her son to the Charlotte Observer as “a family man,” who was “a likable person. And he loved his wife and his children.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/21/protesters-clash-with-po...

Keith Scott, 43, was shot and killed by Charlotte-Mecklenburg officer Brentley Vinson, who is also black, after being mistaken for a wanted man.

Police said officers went to a Charlotte apartment complex around 4pm looking for a suspect with an outstanding warrant when they encountered Scott, who was not the suspect they were looking for, inside a car.

According to department spokesman Keith Trietley, officers saw the man get out of the car with a gun and then get back in. When officers approached the car, the man got out of the car with the gun again. At that point, officers deemed the man a threat and at least one fired a weapon, he said. A weapon was recovered by detectives at the scene.

According to police, officers immediately began rendering aid after the shots were fired. Scott, a father of seven, was pronounced dead at Carolinas Medical Center.

The police version is at odds with that of Scott’s family who have insisted that he was disabled, sitting in his car reading a book, and had no gun. “He sits in the shade, reads his book and waits on his kid to get off the bus,” Scott’s sister told reporters. “He didn’t have no gun, he wasn’t messing with nobody.”

http://gossiponthis.com/2016/09/20/keith-lamont-scott-wiki-news-updates-...

Scott’s family is disputing claims by officers that he had a gun. According to his sister, her brother was reading a book and waiting for his kids to get off the bus when cops shot him.

“He didn’t have no gun. He wasn’t messing with nobody,” the woman told a news reporter. The sister says the police jumped out, asked him to put his hands up, and shot him on sight. [...]

The victim’s brother also told reporters that his brother got out of his car because he was scared when police approached him. [...]

Another witness on the scene of the shooting said that the victim was unarmed and his hands were to his side when shots were fired.

Daughter’s video in aftermath of shooting:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFRIbmUb83U]