The local TV station WBTV, citing sources close to the family, identified the man as Justin Carr, a 26-year-old black man who was in critical condition since Wednesday. Protesters rushed police in riot gear at a downtown Ch.
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NORTH CAROLINA Governor Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency during a second night of unrest in Charlotte, as demonstrators call for justice following the killing of Keith Lamont Scott by police.
So while the video does not appear to show Keith Lamont Scott pointing the gun at anyone it does show him holding it.
The killing was the latest in a long series of controversial fatal police shootings of black men across the U.S., sparking more than two years of protests and giving rise to the Black Lives Matter movement. Protesters chanted “release the tape” and “we want the tape” but remained peaceful a few hours after night fell. They then continued marching as police officers watched.
At one point police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators blocking a main highway.
District Attorney Andrew Murray, the chief state prosecutor in Charlotte, said in a statement Thursday that he was asking for a state investigation into the shooting as requested by Scott’s family.
The wife of the man killed by police in Charlotte Tuesday witnessed the deadly shooting, the family’s attorney told the media Thursday.
CMPD police chief Kerr Putney said in a press conference Thursday that the dashcam and bodycam video would not be released to the public, but the family would be able to view it. Kerr said the video would not be made public. “I’m not going to jeopardize the investigation”, he said.
Just this week, the Tulsa, Oklahoma, police department made public video of the disputed September 16 shooting death of an unarmed black man by a white officer. The NASCAR Hall of Fame was among the places damaged. However, the city’s mayor and police imposed a midnight-to-6 a.m. curfew. Carr died Thursday; police said his death was caused by another civilian.
McCrory deployed the National Guard members and state troopers to help local police, saying Thursday: “We can not tolerate this violence”.
Bamberg represented the family of Walter Scott, the SC man who was shot and killed by a North Charleston police officer, and now represents the family of Alton Sterling.
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Bamberg said Scott was involved in a “very bad accident approximately a year ago, suffered some pretty severe bodily injuries, suffered some head trauma”. The police report says a gun, not a book, was recovered at a scene. “What I can tell you, though, is when taken in the totality of all the other evidence, it supports what we’ve heard and the version of the truth that we gave”. Putney also says the video does not definitively show whether Scott pointed the gun at anyone. He said Scott got out of his vehicle calmly.
