VIDEO: Charlotte Police Shooting: 'He Doesn’t Have a Gun,' Wife Tells Cops

Keith Scott's family has released a video to the press showing the events surrounding the man's killing at the hands of police, which sparked three nights of protest in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The video, shown below, does not show the shooting itself, though the shots can be heard while the camera is turned away. It was recorded by Scott's wife, Rakeyia Scott. The recording has also been turned over to the police.

In a statement to the press, Charles G. Monnett, an attorney for the Scott family, said that the video was released "in the name of truth and transparency."

He continued: "The family is still hopeful that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and the city of Charlotte will release all available video of the incident to the public so that people can draw their own conclusions about Keith's death. 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 statement also asks for peace in Charlotte.

Police maintain that Keith Scott was armed when he was shot, and in the video they can be heard ordering him to "drop the gun." If the officers saw a gun and believed themselves to be in immediate danger from Scott, investigators would likely conclude that the killing was justified.

However, Rakeyia Scott can also be heard telling the police that Keith Scott does not have a gun, that he has a traumatic brain injury and that he just took his medicine.

In the protests that followed Scott's death, many have called for police video of the incident to be released. While Scott's family has been allowed to see the police's recording and have called for it to be made public, the police have thus far refused to release it.

Friday afternoon, Hilary Clinton joined those calling for the the video to be made public on Twitter, indicating with her signature "-H" that the quote came directly from the candidate:

Clinton later announced that she would be traveling to Charlotte on Sunday.

Police Chief Kerr Putney has said publicly that the video does not definitively prove the officers' story. Rakeyia Scott's video, too, appears not to provide evidence on the crucial details of the incident.

Watch the Rekeyia Scott's video below (warning: it contains graphic footage and language, and it may be disturbing to some viewers):

The New York Times also provided the following transcript of the recording, which shows that police and Rakeyia Scott appeared to disagree in the moment about whether or not Keith Scott was armed (expletives have been edited out by Patch):

OFFICER: Hands up!
RAKEYIA SCOTT: Don’t shoot him. Don’t shoot him. He has no weapon. He has no weapon. Don’t shoot him.
OFFICER: Don’t shoot. Drop the gun. Drop the f------ gun.
RAKEYIA SCOTT: Don’t shoot him. Don’t shoot him.
OFFICER: Drop the gun.
RAKEYIA SCOTT: He didn’t do anything.
OFFICER: Drop the gun. Drop the gun.
RAKEYIA SCOTT: He doesn’t have a gun. He has a T.B.I. (Traumatic Brain Injury).
OFFICER: Drop the gun.
RAKEYIA SCOTT: He is not going to do anything to you guys.
RAKEYIA SCOTT: He just took his medicine.
OFFICER: Drop the gun. Let me get a f------ baton over here. [muffled]
RAKEYIA SCOTT: Keith, don’t let them break the windows. Come on out the car.
OFFICER: [muffled]
OFFICER: Drop the gun.
RAKEYIA SCOTT: Keith! Don’t you do it.
OFFICER: Drop the gun.
RAKEYIA SCOTT: Keith, get out the car. Keith! Keith! Don’t you do it! Don’t you do it! Keith! OFFICER: Drop the gun.
RAKEYIA SCOTT: Keith! Keith! Keith! Don’t you do it! [SHOTS]
RAKEYIA SCOTT: F---. Did you shoot him? Did you shoot him? Did you shoot him? He better not be f------ dead. He better not be f------ dead. I know that f------ much. I know that much. He better not be dead. I’m not going to come near you. I’m going to record, though. I’m not coming near you. I’m going to record, though. He better be alive because ...I come You better be alive. How about that? Yes, we here, over here at 50 ... 50 ...9453 Lexington Court. These are the police officers that shot my husband, and he better live. He better live. Because he didn’t do nothing to them.
OFFICER: Is everybody good? Are you good?
RAKEYIA SCOTT: He good. Nobody ... touch nobody, so they’re all good.
OFFICER: You good?
RAKEYIA SCOTT: I know he better live. I know he better live. How about that I’m not coming to you guys, but he’d better live. He better live. You all hear it, you see this, right? He better live.
OFFICER: [muffled]
RAKEYIA SCOTT: He better live. I swear, he better live. Yep, he better live. He better f------ live. He better live. Where is...He better f------ live, and I can’t even leave the damn...I ain’t going nowhere. I’m staying in the same damn spot. What the f---. That’s O.K. did you all call the police? I mean, did you all call an ambulance?

Photo credit: Screenshot of Rakeiya Scott's video