Protesters also visited a Walmart on N. Tryon Street, breaking glass doors at the entrance.
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As the various narratives collided, protesters took to the streets of Chartlotte and a number of police vehicles were destroyed in the area near to where the fatal shooting took place.
The ACLU noted that a new North Carolina law restricting release of such footage doesn’t take effect until October 1. Police said they would release the person’s name after the family has been notified.
The ACLU called on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department to release video of the shooting “in the interest of transparency and accountability”, noting that a new North Carolina law restricting the release of such recordings does not take effect until October 1.
An officer subsequently fired his weapon, striking Scott, who police said was treated immediately and later pronounced dead. In the video, she repeatedly said, “the police killed my daddy because he is black”. In the video, she said her father was disabled, didn’t have a gun and was even scared of them.
The mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday called for calm and peace after 16 officers were hurt and police vehicles were damaged overnight during a demonstration against the police shooting of a black man at an apartment complex in the city.
A woman claiming to be Scott’s daughter said her father was unarmed when he was shot.
A police officer shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott Tuesday afternoon. Officers were giving loud, clear verbal commands. “I get exhausted of seeing another black person shot every time I turn on the television”.
“I can tell you we did not find a book that has been referenced to”, Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said, according to the Charlotte Observer.
Detectives recovered a firearm at the scene and were interviewing witnesses, CMPD also said. Police said they were searching for someone with an outstanding arrest warrant when they saw Scott exit a vehicle holding a gun and shot him.
In a tweet on Wednesday, Clinton said: “Keith Lamont Scott”.
Putney adds the officer who shot Scott was not wearing a body cam. Two investigative branches of the department are looking into the shooting, he said.
Despite that, Police insist he posed an “imminent deadly threat” and had a gun.
More than a dozen officers were injured, including one who was hit in the face with a rock. Scott died at the scene of the shooting. In the video, the woman appears to be at the shooting scene, which is surrounded by yellow police tape, as she yells at officers.
People are angry and looking for details over Scott’s deadly shooting, but police and Scott’s family are telling two very different stories of what led to the shooting, reports CBS News correspondent David Begnaud.
The aftermath: Both Baker and Special Agent Audria Bridges of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation declined to answer CNN’s questions about whether Harris was armed.
By 5 a.m.no protesters remained in sight and I-85 was moving again. He was placed on administrative leave.
Scott’s family was expected to meet with reporters at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The death comes just days after police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, fatally shot Terence Crutcher, an unarmed African-American man, as he stood on a highway with his hands up.
Earlier in the evening, police in riot gear reportedly used tear gas on protesters who threw rocks and water bottles at them as they wielded large sticks and blocked traffic.
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Details are still sketchy about what exactly happened in the moments before Vinson made the decision to fatally shoot Scott. At one point a fire flared up.
