He acknowledged that he has promised transparency in the investigation, but said, “I’m telling you right now, if you think I say we should display a victim’s worst day for consumption, that is not the transparency I’m speaking of”.
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Scott’s family has asked to see the video, and Putney said he hopes to accommodate that request.
But Crutcher’s family disputed that account Tuesday, presenting images from video released by police that they said showed the window was closed.
The police have said they shot Scott after he ignored officers’ instructions to drop a weapon.
Just as there are two stories about what happened when Scott was shot, there are also multiple narratives about the shooting of this protester.
Blood covers the pavement where a person was shot in uptown Charlotte during a protest of the police shooting of Keith Scott. It’s reported at the time of this writing that 16 officers have been injured.
There were hints earlier Wednesday that Charlotte would suffer a second night of destruction.
The violence and vandalism carried on until roughly 3 a.m., he said.
Police officers take a moment to rest after a night of clashing with rioters protesting the death of Keith Scott.
A curfew is expected to be imposed on the city later this evening. He said Charlotte now has more resources to deal with problems, following a declaration of a state of emergency and the arrival of the North Carolina National Guard and more officers from the State Highway Patrol.
Putney says he is working to honor the request from the family of Scott to view the video. “We can not tolerate the destruction of property and will not tolerate the attacks against our police officers that is occurring right now”, he told CNN on Wednesday night.
The police say they confronted Scott inside an apartment complex and were forced to shoot.
Debris falls upon Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers and protesters as officers push protesters from the intersection near the Epicentre in Charlotte on Wednesday.
His family said Scott, an African-American, was unarmed and sitting in his auto reading a book, waiting for his son to come home from school.
Police Chief Kerr Putney said during a news conference Thursday that the video does not definitively show 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott pointing a gun at anyone.
Putney says Brentley Vinson, the officer who opened fire, was not wearing a body camera. “He was sitting in his vehicle reading a mother******* book”. So they shot him.
Vinson did not have a body camera.
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The mayor of Charlotte and the Chairman of Mecklenburg County Board of County Commissioners also declared a State of Emergency which is required in order to bring in state assets, including the National Guard, to assist in protecting residential and business properties while the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department continue focusing on public safety needs throughout the community.
The city originally said the victim died, but now says he is on life support.
“It is important that we have a full and transparent investigation of the original incident”, Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts told reporters in a press conference.
Protests that started peacefully on Wednesday turned violent after dark when demonstrators attempted to follow police into the lobby of an Omni Hotel.
Hundreds of protesters rallied overnight, chanting “black lives matter”.
The spokesman for the Diocese of Charlotte told Premier a prayer service had already been held: “The pastor of that church delivered a homily and he said the true battlefield is in the heart”. People are then told to back up from the scene. Hotels in uptown had lobby doors and windows smashed by protesters.
“These are not protesters”, he said. She said she felt like she had to protest, because “if nobody else is going to do it, then we’re still going to be in the same position”.
But she became increasingly anxious Wednesday night as she saw rocks being thrown, fires being set and acts of vandalism committed. She left early when police tried to disperse the crowd. At least one person was arrested, according to Putney. That’s not the answer, to go right to the trigger.
Public anger erupted Tuesday evening after a black police officer shot and killed Kevin Lamont Scott, who was waiting in his vehicle for his son’s school bus in the afternoon.
Calls for police to release the video have increased along with the violent protests, but the police chief has resisted.
Annette Albright, who attended the Charlotte protests, said those misbehaving need direction.
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CNN reporter Ed Lavandera, who was knocked several feet and sent sprawling on the concrete, was apparently not badly hurt.
