Al-Jazeera appears to have not included the rest of Williams' statement, but a video of the full interview was posted on YouTube.

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"I'm telling you what I believe, that it's a cover-up," Williams said. "They made a mistake and they're doing their best to cover up that mistake."

As previously reported by The Root, police said that they were searching for someone who had outstanding warrants when they saw Scott, with what they believed to be a gun, leave a vehicle. They claim that Scott then returned to his vehicle and that when they approached him, he not only didn't follow commands but “posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers,” which caused Vinson to open fire.

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Williams says that couldn't be further from the truth: "It was not a black officer that killed him; it was a white officer that killed him. He was bald-headed. The black officer came on the scene 15, maybe 10 or 15 minutes later. And he was the one doing CPR on him … and I'm pretty sure by that time, the man was already gone. He didn't die at [Carolinas Medical Center] at 4 [p.m.]; he died out here at 2:30 [p.m.].

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"I actually saw the shooting," Williams continued. "I saw that man die. I saw him take his last breath. I saw him move and then there was nothing; he didn't move no more after that."

When reporters asked Williams again did Scott have a gun, she insisted that he did not.

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"He got out of that car with a book," she said. "I saw the book … I can't tell you the name of the book, but it had a black cover."

Williams said she was even close enough to hear Scott's last words.

"He said [with his hands up], 'What is the problem? What did I do? What's wrong?’”

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"While he's saying that," Williams continued, "he's walking to the back of his truck and he's asking them, 'What's the problem?' He was stepping over the book and everything, because it had fell off his lap. He said, 'What did I do? What's the problem?' The police muffled something that I couldn't hear and they shot that man four times."

Despite a widespread media blackout of the rest of Williams' statement, she also went live on Facebook because she said the truth needs to be told.

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"He didn't get out the car with a gun, then get back in the car," Williams said. "He would have been dead the first time."

Witnesses on the scene voiced their fear that police would retaliate against Williams for telling the truth. Someone off camera said that Williams is his friend and that he couldn't make her not tell the truth even if he wanted to do so.

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"We gon' stand on this ground and we gon' fight back," Williams said.

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