it takes a while. you have to get investigation, you have to get analysis of the gun. the police did a good job in going out and finding where did that gun come from, where was it located. all that investigation has to come to us. and then we have to evaluate. in this case, there were 63 sbi agents called in from around the state to do the investigation. with over 2,300 hours of their time to do this investigation. that s a quarter of the entire sbi. that s how important this case was. that s the but that doesn t happen overnight. so that s why i m asking the community to take a collective pause. next question. you said he did not raise the gun. he had a wild look in his eye. based on the medication. and it s difficult to hear the officer but it sounds as though the bottom line what you re saying because he had the gun in his hand, he had a zoned-out look in his eye, the decision was made to shoot because they
given by witnesses who claim that they saw mr. scott with a book. i d like to address erroneous claims that someone other than officer vinson shot mr. scott. first, officer vinson took responsibility for the shooting from the outset. every officer s gun was seized and ammunition was, ammunition count was done by investigators. each one had the full complement of ammunition with the exception of vinson who was four rounds short of a full compliment. in the vidos, the sound of four shots were clearly heard and four shell casings were recovered at the scene. each officer is issued a firearm with a unique serial number. officer vinson s gun as well as the four shell casings were sent to the lab for analysis. expert firearm analyst found the
to do with the analysis since officer vincent and none of the officers knew about the medical. it s the scene and what occurs at that split second and everything surrounding that decision. reporter: the officers said they saw marijuana, that was one of the reasons they approached him in the first place. why was there no test in the toxicology report, for marijuana. first of all, the drug was tested. it was marijuana. the prescription bottle or empty yellow bottle had residue that was marijuana. a later test was done and mr. scott did test positive for recent consumption of marijuana. reporter: where is that information? it s not in the toxicology report. it s not in the thank you so much for joining us, everyone. kate bolduan along with john berman. we have been watching this press conference from the charlotte mecklenburg county district attorney andrew murray, making a very big announcement that there are no charges against the
ourselves that in these cases, we should not jump to conclusions until we have all of the facts. in the days that followed mr. scott s death we watched as long-simmering frustrations boiled over. i heard observers say this is not charlotte. this is not the city that we love. but it is. this is charlotte. this is where our friends, families, neighbors and colleagues felt so passionate that they marched on our streets to call for change. let me be clear. i have not and will not condone violence or property damage as a means of expression. but the fact that criminal charges are not appropriate under the law in this particular case does not mean we can dismiss the concerns expressed by those who raised their voices to raise the consciousness of this community. i think it s high time that all of us recognize that this is
points. body cam video, police dash cam video and of course video released by scott, keith lamont scott s wife. the best vantage point was the dash cam video. the body cam footage didn t tell the whole story. the officer we did get the best view from the body cam footage, he actually turned it on after the shooting. the reason we saw a couple of seconds before that is because of the buffer feature on that body camera that was able to turn on. and that s why we were able to see 20 seconds before. there s questions about whether that did or did not follow policy. the district attorney said he wasn t there to decide on that. he was there to decide whether the officer acted lawfully and in this case he said he did. i want to go back to something else. we also learned a lot from this news conference and something that fuelled that anger, that ld to that two nights of rioting.