The state’s top safety official has said that incident was being reviewed by the district attorney, the Highway Patrol and State Bureau of Investigation.
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Earlier, a tow truck was brought in to take another police cruiser away.
One person is dead after an officer-involved shooting in northeast Charlotte, police sources confirm.
Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts appealed for calm and tweeted that “the community deserves answers”.
At that point, officers deemed the man to be a threat and at least one of them fired a weapon, Mr Trietley added.
In the video she claims her father was parked and reading a book in his auto while waiting for a school bus to drop off his son. Police have yet to release his name. As is standard procedure with any officer-involved shooting, Vinson has been placed on paid administrative leave, police said. Vinson has been with the department since July 2014.
The 43-year-old man was shot and killed after police went to a block of flats in Charlotte, North Carolina, and saw a man inside a auto. His family has been notified of his death.
Officers saw a vehicle in the apartment complex.
More than 200 protesters had gathered in Charlotte after a black police officer shot dead Keith Lamont Scott, just one day after a white officer killed an unarmed black man in Oklahoma.
“The daughter of Keith Lamont Scott says that her father did not have a gun, that he was not armed, and that he was sitting in the auto reading a book waiting on his son to get off a bus from school”, she says. Police say he had a gun and appeared to be a threat; a police spokesman told the AP a gun was recovered at the scene.
Scott’s family denied the police allegations, saying that he was disabled and unarmed as he was reading a book inside his vehicle while waiting to pick up a child from a school bus. Scott then got back into his vehicle and emerged for a second time, still holding a gun.
Brentley Vinson, who is also black, has been identified as the officer who fired the deadly shot.
A woman claiming to be Mr Scott’s daughter has contested the police department’s account in a Facebook video, the Charlotte Observer reports. Detectives were interviewing witnesses, police said.
Protesters blocked an interstate, set fire to it and threw rocks at officers in Charlotte last night after cops killed a black man at an apartment complex.
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By 5 a.m. Wednesday, the streets were quiet with no protesters in sight and I-85 was moving again. The agency’s “civil emergency unit” was deployed to disperse the crowd, and reporters saw tear gas being used. A group of people attempted to break in to a Walmart, WSOC-TV reported, and scattered when police arrived at the scene.
