Keith Scott was a Muslim suicide reader

Keith Scott’s Mom: Shooting Took Place Near Time Scott Read Quran Daily, "I don’t appreciate that they malign him ." by Jack Davis 9/24/16

The mother of the man shot by police in Charlotte, N.C., said Thursday night that she spoke to her son about 90 minutes before the controversial incident in which Keith Lamont Scott, 43, was killed on Tuesday.

Vernita Scott Walker said she received the call at 2:22 p.m. on Tuesday. The call, which she played for the media, consisted of noises, and Keith apparently saying “Lamont.” “And he done got shot. And he called me. Yes he did, he called me,” she said. “He just wanted me to know that it was him.”

She said the spot where Scott was shot was the place he would wait for his son and read the Quran, which she said he would read every day.“He loved to read that book, he loved to read that book,” Vernita said.

Walker said Scott made another call to her on Tuesday. “I said, ‘I love you son,’ and he said, ‘I love you mama,’ and that’s the first time he ever said it like that,” Walker said.

Walker had messages for two groups — the media spreading word about Scott’s past troubles and the protesters who raged through the streets of Charlotte for two nights after his death.

Scott had served time in a Texas prison for a 2005 conviction on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He had also been convicted on a misdemeanor charge of assault with a deadly weapon in 2004 and had been charged with assault with intent to kill back in 1995.

”I want everybody to know that, no, we’re not perfect,” she said to the media in general. “My son is not perfect. But what he’s done in this time and doing now as dead, I don’t appreciate that they malign him and try to discredit the public, say well, he been this, he been that.”

She also told protesters to behave. “I would appreciate as Keith Lamont Scott’s mother that y’all give up the rioting. Y’all can have a peaceful walk or anything else that y’all want to do but rioting is not helping this situation. It’s making it worse,” she said.

“If he was here and something like that was going on downtown and he found out his boys been down there he would go and get them. He would not have let them do nothing like that.”

She urged everyone to unite in the wake of the tragedy. “The hardest part now is for y’all to ease away, y’all say a prayer altogether and y’all leave all that rioting and stuff alone. Keith is gone. Keith is not here and he can’t see the damages that his family it makes it bad for the family that you all are looting and things like that,” she said.

Ever since Scott was killed, family members have said he was reading a book. However, police have said no book was found at the scene.

“The family is grieving. We get it,” commented John S. Roberts on Young Conservatives. “Still, to push the lie about him having a book instead of coming at cops with a gun in his hand is bogus. And the war on cops continues.”

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