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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - An attorney for the family of the black man shot by Charlotte police says newly released video recorded by the victim's wife does not prove whether the shooting was justified.
Instead, Justin Bamberg tells The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/2daBBaR), the video shows "another vantage point" of the incident, in which 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott was fatally shot. Bamberg says he hopes Charlotte police release their own videos of the shooting. They've so far refused to do so. Police Chief Kerr Putney says there's at least one video from a body camera and one from a dashboard camera.
The police video could resolve wildly different accounts of the shooting.
Police have said Scott refused repeated commands to drop a gun; residents say he was unarmed. It's unclear from the video shot by Scott's wife whether he had a weapon.
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North Carolina's attorney general is calling on Charlotte officials to release police video of the shooting of a man by an officer this week.
In a statement from his campaign office Friday morning, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate says one way to pursue truth in the shooting of 43-yea-rold Keith Lamont Scott would be to release the videos to the public.
Scott was shot Tuesday afternoon by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer.
Police Chief Kerr Putney has refused to release the videos from at least one body camera and one dashboard camera, saying it could jeopardize the investigation. The State Bureau of Investigation has taken over the case.
Cooper says releasing the video would help bring the community and law enforcement together.
Cooper faces Republican Gov. Pat McCrory in November.
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