“We can not tolerate the destruction of property and will not tolerate the attacks towards our police officers that are occurring right now”, Governor Pat McCrory told CNN after announcing on Twitter that he was activating the National Guard and the state highway police to reinforce Charlotte’s police force.
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Protesters across the country have been demanding justice and an end to police brutality for months.
Roberts said Scott’s family will watch the police shooting video Thursday.
The major unrest comes after several police shootings of black peopleover the last week, including 13-year-old Tyree King who was carrying a BB stun gun in Columbus, Ohio, an unarmed 43-year-old called Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who was holding his hands above his head and then, in North Carolina, Keith Scott, a father to seven children who was reportedly sitting in his vehicle, reading a book.
Putney says he is working to honor the request from the family of Scott to view the video. Police did not release dashboard or body camera footage, but said Scott had a gun and refused several orders to drop his weapon. “There were a couple of different body cameras, there was a dash camera, but as you know sometimes those can be not clear”.
Life is returning to normal on downtown streets in Charlotte despite two nights of violence. Five officers and nine civilians were injured in the unrest.
The shooting set off a long night of violent protests and Wednesday the demonstrations continued for a second night, starting off as a peaceful march through downtown Charlotte.
A protester was critically wounded and on life support, the city said, after erroneously reporting that the person had died.
“We will achieve justice in this case”, the Tulsa police chief told a news conference.
In the southern state of Oklahoma, Tulsa police chief Chuck Jordan called video footage of Crutcher’s deadly shooting on Friday disturbing and “very hard to watch”.
And while community leaders also said they don’t condone violence, B.J. Murphy of the Nation of Islam called for a different kind of protest. In the footage, she is at the cordoned-off shooting scene, yelling at officers.
The police chief said 16 officers suffered mostly minor injuries and police cars were damaged after people began throwing rocks.
Authorities said that the shooting was “civilian on civilian”, and that police did not open fire. The City of Charlotte tweeted that the shot did not originate from police, a claim repeated by CNN, NPR, Fox News, and NBC, among others.
The department’s Community Relations Service has been deployed to other cities roiled by tense flare-ups between police and residents.
Detectives recovered a gun at the scene and were interviewing witnesses.
“We can not tolerate violence”.
Mayor of Charlotte, Jennifer Roberts, also tweeted in response to the protesters.
The North Carolina National Guard arrived at a Charlotte armory early Thursday and some Guard vehicles left the armory about 8 a.m.
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Last week’s fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sparked protests after video of the killing was aired Monday.
“It’s a lie”, said Taheshia Williams, whose daughter attends school with the victim’s son. Team members are being asked to work from home or work from alternate locations if they are able. But several groups of a dozen or more protesters stayed behind, attacking people, including reporters, shattering windows to hotels, office buildings and restaurants and setting small fires.
But the city isn’t entirely back to normal. One person was arrested.
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“My plan is to have my people ready, we are”, Chief Kerr Putney said Wednesday morning.
