Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, have released officer bodycam and dashcam footage of a controversial shooting of a black man on Tuesday. They also released pictures of a handgun and marijuana that police say Keith Lamont Scott possessed. Calls for the footage to be released increased in the four days since Mr Scott was shot, and comes after the release of footage shot by his wife. The family of Mr Scott says he was carrying a book and not a gun. Charlotte police chief Kerr Putney told reporters the victim was "absolutely in possession of a handgun".No longer UNARMEDBLACKTEEN. Just "a black man". And the statements by the police are given without the usual razor-wire fence of so-called alleged and I quote .... unquote so-called self-styled self-described. More than anything else, bodycams are an EMPATHY TOOL. Everyone gets to see FROM COPS-EYE VIEW the tricky and ambiguous nature of violent situations, and everyone starts to understand how cops must make a life-and-death decision in 10 milliseconds. What was that object in the suspect's hand? Looks like a gun to me. Would you want to wait for a more precise determination, or would you want to STOP him? When the police make the correct decision, which is about 90% of the time, we can understand it. When the police are clearly wrong, which is about 10% of the time, we can understand it. Without the bodycam, Soros and Sharpton own the world. With the bodycam, even BBC, the deepest of Deepstate, has to pause and think.
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