The police chief said officers were serving arrest warrants on another person when they saw Scott get out of a vehicle with a handgun. Today, CMPD announced the Scott family will be allowed to view the shooting video. Many police shootings result from suspects who fail to comply with reasonable orders, or who decide to test officers in high stress situations. That is the first time anyone connected with the case has said the wife witnessed the shooting. According to Putney, officers were looking for someone else with an outstanding warrant when they approached Scott, who was sitting in his vehicle.
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A dashboard camera was rolling and multiple officers were wearing body cameras when Officer Brentley Vinson fired the shot that killed Scott.
Mayor Jennifer Roberts said the clashes on Wednesday night “were not the Charlotte that I know and love”.
Mr Putney said no curfew would be imposed on Thursday night but that security would be heightened.
The governor declared a state of emergency in response to the chaos.
The streets were mostly quiet Thursday, but Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Duke Energy all told employees not to venture into North Carolina’s largest city after Gov. “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. 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 department’s Community Relations Service has been deployed to other cities roiled by tense flare-ups between police and residents.
Putney said two officers and nine civilians were injured and 44 people arrested late Wednesday in several hours of violence that broke out following peaceful protests.
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.
“The night began with such promise and beauty, seeing people frankly come together in our community in protest”, Tanner, chairwoman of the Charlotte Clergy Coalition for Justice, told reporters Thursday at a news conference hosted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Charlotte, a major banking center and a rapidly growing city, has a population of more than 800,000 people – approximately 45 percent white, 35 percent black and 13 percent Hispanic, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The killing of unarmed black men has rocked cities like Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo.in recent years, leading to millions of dollars in damage, and McCrory called in the National Guard on Tuesday to minimize harm to the city. Two of those officers suffered minor eye injuries, and three others were treated for heat-relates problems. Pat McCrory after a second straight night of racial unrest of the sort that has convulsed other USA cities and seemed at odds with Charlotte’s image as a diverse, forward-looking city of the New South.
“In conversations – both informal and organized by the city’s institutions and places of worship – there are questions, tensions and a realization that Charlotte isn’t the place many thought it was”, Curtis wrote. Authorities had said the protester was shot by a civilian, adding that police did not open fire. Videos and pictures on Twitter showed reporters and other people being attacked. Keith’s family insists he was not armed at the time of the shooting, and instead was just reading a book in his auto, while Officer Vinson begs to differ.
Police said officers then approached Scott when he returned to the vehicle. We need to take a stand and do it the right way.
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