Officers didn’t appear to be trying to arrest people or force them off the streets several minutes after midnight passed, however.
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Clinton now plans to visit Charlotte on Sunday, October 2.
Police officers in riot gear stand by as protesters gather in Charlotte, N.C. on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016.
But the city’s mayor Jennifer Roberts said on Friday night that she would prefer presidential candidates delay their visits so as to not further tax the city’s resources.
She expects it to be in place for multiple days until officials determine they no longer need it. They then continued marching as police officers watched.
In a Twitter post Friday, Clinton wrote: “Charlotte should release police video of the Keith Lamont Scott shooting without delay”.
Family viewed the video Thursday, saying now they have “more questions than answers”.
Several local residents, however, claimed Scott was carrying a book, not a gun, when he stepped from the auto after police approached. But Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said earlier in the day the footage of Scott’s killing could undermine the investigation.
The video will be made public when he believes there is a “compelling reason” to do so, he told reporters Thursday.
He added that it was important that white Americans understand the legacy of “lawful segregation in this country just a decade ago”, adding: “It’s unrealistic to think that somehow that all just completely went away, because the Civil Rights Act was passed or because Oprah’s making a lot of money or because I was elected president”.
The mayor of Charlotte is urging Hillary Clinton to postpone her announced visit to the embattled North Carolina city. The officer involved was charged Thursday with manslaughter in that case, which did not trigger widespread local demonstrations.
The protests erupted after Scott, 43, was killed Tuesday while police were serving a warrant at The Village at College Downs apartment complex on Old Concord Road.
But Roberts said she and Charlotte council members have been in conversations all week with protesters about their motivations. “Because most Charlotteans are very respectful of our city”.
“Another unarmed Black man was shot in a police incident”.
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A curfew was imposed in the United States city of Charlotte as protests against the police continued after a black man was shot dead.
