He has been identified as 26-year-old Justin Carr and had been on life-support at Carolinas Medical Center since Wednesday night.
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Protests of the shooting have turned into violent riots in the city of Charlotte. Neighbours, though, have said he was holding only a book, and that the officer who killed him was white.
Police have identified the officer involved in the shooting as Brentley Vinson, who has been employed with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department since July 21, 2014, and is now assigned to the metro division. “It is impossible to discern from the videos what, if anything, Mr Scott is holding in his hands”, Bamberg said in a statement. “They have a big family and close knit family”.
Police say: Police Chief Kerr Putney said he has no intention of releasing the video. He told reporters the video will be made public when he believes there is a “compelling reason” to do so.
I saw the man go down on the pavement…it was an ambush.
Charlotte remained under a state of emergency declared by Gov.
The protests were calmer than previous nights.
Scott’s killing follows the shooting of unarmed black man Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last week.
Police say: Scott was armed and “made an obvious threat to the officers”, according to a police official who viewed dashcam of the incident.
The police used tear gas to disperse the protesters. The NASCAR Hall of Fame was among the places damaged.
Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts told CNN she will review the footage Thursday.
“I would like to think that but I can tell you this. there’s your truth, my truth and the truth”, the police chief said.
Federal help also is on the way, with the Justice Department sending to Charlotte a team of trained peacekeepers created to help resolve community conflict.
The demonstrators have been demanding answers in Scott’s killing, with some carrying signs that read “Release the tapes”.
Scott was shot by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Tuesday afternoon after, officers say, he failed to comply with “loud, clear verbal commands”.
The family was not present, he says, because they were still grieving.
Bamberg said Scott didn’t own a gun.
Putney warned that video will not provide “definitive visual evidence” that Scott pointed a gun at police officers. He refused to discuss its content with television crews outside of police headquarters, just saying “there are some things to digest”.
Walther said while some of the officers were wearing plain clothes, they still had vests or jackets that said “police” on the front and back. That is the first time anyone connected with the case has said the wife witnessed the shooting.
The protests initially appeared to be peaceful.
His family said Scott was unarmed and sitting in his auto reading a book, waiting for his son to come home from school.
She said the country needs strength, love and kindness and that “we are safer when communities respect police and police respect communities”. The circumstances of his death are disputed, and residents, the NAACP and the ACLU are calling for the release of police video footage of the shooting.
Video obtained and verified by The Associated Press, which was recorded right after the shooting, shows someone lying in a pool of blood as people scream and a voice yells for someone to call for help. “We must come together to make America safe again”.
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“In the interest of transparency and accountability, and particularly in light of conflicting accounts about the shooting, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department should quickly release any and all footage it has of the events leading up to the shooting, as well as the shooting itself”, said Karen Anderson, the ACLU of North Carolina executive director.
