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		</div><p>Video footage of a deadly encounter between Charlotte police and a black man shows his wife repeatedly telling officers he is not armed and pleading with them not to shoot her husband as they shout commands to drop a gun.</p>
<p>The video, recorded by Keith Lamont Scott&#8217;s wife and posted online by The New York Times on today, does not establish whether he had a gun.</p>
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<p>Video footage of a deadly encounter between Charlotte police and a black man shows his wife repeatedly telling officers he is not armed and pleading with them not to shoot her husband as they shout commands to drop a gun.</p>
<p>The video, recorded by Keith Lamont Scott&#8217;s wife and posted online by The New York Times on today, does not establish whether he had a gun.</p>
<p>The two-and-a-half-minute video does not show the shooting, although gunshots can be heard.</p>
<p>Mr Scott&#8217;s wife tells officers that he has a traumatic brain injury.</p>
<p>At one point, she tells her husband to get out of the car so police do not break the windows.</p>
<p>As the encounter escalates, she tells them repeatedly: &#8220;You better not shoot him.&#8221;</p>
<p>After the gunshots, Mr Scott can be seen lying on the ground while his wife says &#8220;he better live&#8221;.</p>
<p>She continues recording and asks if an ambulance has been called as officers stand over Mr Scott.</p>
<p>It is not clear whether they are checking Mr Scott, who appears to be lying on his chest, for weapons or attempting to give first aid.</p>
<p>The video emerged after a third night of protests over the shooting gave way to quiet streets as a curfew enacted by the city&#8217;s mayor ended early today.</p>
<p>The largely peaceful Thursday night demonstrations in the city&#8217;s business district were watched over by rifle-toting members of the National Guard.</p>
<p>Protesters called on police to release video that could resolve wildly different accounts of the shooting earlier this week.<br />
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said today that there is footage from at least one police body camera and one dashboard camera.</p>
<p>The family of Mr Scott, 43, was shown the footage yesterday and demanded that police release it to the public.<br />
The video recorded by Mr Scott&#8217;s wife had not been previously released.</p>
<p>Demonstrators chanted &#8220;release the tape&#8221; and &#8220;we want the tape&#8221; yesterday while briefly blocking an intersection near the Bank of America headquarters and later climbing the steps to the door of the city government centre.</p>
<p>Later, several dozen demonstrators walked onto an interstate highway through the city, but they were pushed back by police in riot gear.</p>
<p>Charlotte is the latest US city to be shaken by protests and recriminations over the death of a black man at the hands of police, a list that includes Baltimore, Milwaukee, Chicago, New York and Ferguson, Missouri.</p>
<p>In Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Thursday, prosecutors charged a white officer with manslaughter for killing an unarmed black man on a city street last week.</p>
<p>Yesterday&#8217;s protests in Charlotte lacked the violence and property damage of previous nights, and the curfew encouraged a stopping point.</p>
<p>Local officers&#8217; ranks were augmented by Guard members carrying rifles and guarding office buildings against the threat of property damage.</p>
<p>Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts signed documents last night to be in effect from midnight until 6am each day that the state of emergency declared by the governor continues.</p>
<p>After the curfew took effect, police allowed the crowd of demonstrators to thin without forcing them off the street.</p>
<p>Police Captain Mike Campagna told reporters that officers would not seek to arrest curfew violators as long as they were peaceful.</p>
<p>So far, police have resisted releasing the footage of Mr Scott&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>Mr Putney said today that releasing it could inflame the situation. He has said previously that the video will be made public when he believes there is a &#8220;compelling reason&#8221; to do so.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a personal struggle, but I have to do what I think is best for my community,&#8221; Putney said.</p>
<p>During the same news conference, Ms Roberts said she believes the video should be released, but &#8220;the question is on the timing&#8221;.</p>
<p>Earlier in the week, the Charlotte protests turned violent.<br />
On Wednesday, demonstrators attacked reporters and others, set fires and smashed windows of hotels, office buildings and restaurants.</p>
<p>Forty-four people were arrested after Wednesday&#8217;s protests, and one protester who was shot died at the hospital yesterday.</p>
<p>City officials said police did not shoot 26-year-old Justin Carr. A suspect was arrested, but police provided few details.</p>
<p>Police have said Mr Scott was shot to death on Tuesday by a black officer after he disregarded repeated warnings to drop his gun.</p>
<p>Neighbours have said he was holding only a book. The police chief said a gun was found next to the dead man, and there was no book.</p>
<p>Mr Putney said he has seen the video and it does not contain &#8220;absolute, definitive evidence that would confirm that a person was pointing a gun&#8221;.</p>
<p>But he added: &#8220;When taken in the totality of all the other evidence, it supports what we said.&#8221;</p>
<p>Justin Bamberg, a lawyer for Mr Scott&#8217;s family, watched the video with the killed man&#8217;s relatives. He said that in the video, Mr Scott gets out of his vehicle calmly.</p>
<p>&#8220;While police did give him several commands, he did not aggressively approach them or raise his hands at members of law enforcement at any time.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is impossible to discern from the videos what, if anything, Mr Scott is holding in his hands,&#8221; Mr Bamberg said in a statement.</p>
<p>Mr Scott was shot as he walked slowly backwards with his hands by his side, Mr Bamberg said.</p>
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