Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts (D) said Friday she agrees with community members calling for the release of video showing Tuesday's fatal police shooting of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina. "I would like to have it released," Roberts said, though she noted the footage from body and dashboard cameras leaves the circumstances surrounding Scott's death "ambiguous."
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney announced Thursday the videos would not be released to the public, though they were shown to Scott's family at their request. After seeing the film, the family advocated for its release "as a matter of the greater good and transparency." Roberts herself said she thinks it's "only a matter of time" until the footage is publicly available.
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