The brother-in-law of Keith Lamont Scott said Saturday that the family was "delighted" that Charlotte police released videos of Tuesday's fatal shooting but that "unfortunately, we are left with far more questions than answers."
"Our goal has been from the beginning to get the absolute unfiltered truth," Ray Dotch said at a news conference. "The only way to get that is for the police to release the videos that were released today.
"Unfortunately, we are left with far more questions than with have answers," he added. "It just does not make sense — and it is not clear in the videos released."
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney released the videos earlier Saturday. One was taken from a dashboard camera and the other from a police body camera.
Neither video shows Scott, 43, holding or pointing a gun at officers — but both show him walking back from police before he was shot after being repeatedly told to drop a weapon.
Putney also released photographs of a gun that he said was found at the scene and an ankle holster they said belonged to Scott.
The family saw those photographs for the first time, attorney Justin Bamberg said.
"This is our first time seeing a photograph of not just that gun, but the holster and everything else," he told reporters. We are investigating and looking into the facts."
The videos, he added, proved that Scott was "absolutely not" holding a gun when he exited his white SUV.
"From the dash-cam or the body-cam, you can't clearly identify what, if anything, is in his hand — and that has not changed."
Bamberg also zeroed in on the time lapse between when Scott left the vehicle and the moment he lay dead on the parking lot of his apartment complex.
"When you look at this dash-cam footage, when you look at the time frame between Mr. Scott stepping out of his vehicle, to the moment he unfortunately passes away on the pavement, it is that do those actions, those precious seconds, justify the shooting?
"That is the most important question that has to be answered," Bamberg said.
"What we see when we look at this dash-cam video is that Mr. Scott steps out of the vehicle. He is not acting aggressive towards any officers on the scene. He doesn't appear to be making motions or gestures.
"He doesn't lunge at the officers," the attorney continued. "He appears to have his hands by his side.
"There is no definitive evidence in this video as to whether or not there an object in his hands and what it is.
"But the moment that he is shot, it appears as though he is not aggressively moving towards law enforcement," Bamberg said. "He is doing the opposite: He is passively stepping back."
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