An unsettling video showing the moment North Carolina police shot a black man, Keith Scott has been released by his family.
The footage was obtained by NBC News amid conflicting reports about whether a gun was found at the scene of the shooting.
In the video, his wife can be heard pleading with officers not to shoot her husband.
Rakeiya Scott can be heard telling her husband to get out of his car, as Charlotte police surround him.
Mrs Scott told the officers “he doesn’t have a gun. He has a TBI (traumatic brain injury). He just took his medicine”.
“Don’t shoot him, don’t shoot him” as police appear to converge on a white pick-up truck in the parking lot
Family lawyers have previously said Mr. Scott suffered head trauma in a car accident in 2015.
Activists and the Scott family have pressed city officials to release bodycam or dashcam footage of the fatal encounter.
The killing of Scott, 43, sparked three nights of fiery protests and violent clashes between protesters and law enforcement.
A curfew was imposed to prevent a third night of violence over the death of Keith Scott.
Protesters had smashed storefront windows, looted businesses and thrown objects at the police, prompting officials to declare a state of emergency and the city’s mayor to enact the curfew.
However, a largely peaceful protest still took place early on Friday, amid a strong police presence, as they chose not to enforce the curfew prompted by the previous two nights of riots.
Tulsa Shooting
U.S. officials say a police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black motorist in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been charged with manslaughter on Thursday.
Officer Betty Shelby shot and killed Terence Crutcher, 40, last week, while he was standing next to his broken-down car.
Court papers filed by Tulsa County said the officer escalated the situation and overreacted, while lawyers confirmed that if convicted, she faces at least four years in prison.
Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler told reporters that although she was charged, she was presumed innocent until a judge determined otherwise.
