Vinson, who joined the Charlotte police force in July 2014, is black, according to the department.
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Putney said the department would be staffed Wednesday in expectation of more protests, which he believes will be peaceful. Police stand in formation in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016.
Police used flash grenades in an attempt to disperse the angry crowd.
Medics took Scott to the Carolinas Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The ACLU says the law Putney is apparently referring to does not go into effect until October first. That new law says footage from police body or dashboard cameras can’t be released publicly without a court order. Scott was fatally shot by Charlotte Police Officer Brentley Vinson, who is also black.
“These tragic incidents have once again left Americans with feelings of sorrow, anger and uncertainty”, she said at the International Bar Association Conference in Washington.
She said: “The community deserves answers and full investigation will ensue”.
Mayor Jennifer Roberts, flanked by other elected officials and community leaders, addresses the media following a night of clashes between police and protesters in north Charlotte after a CMPD officer shot and killed a man who, according to Chief Kerr Putney, was carrying a gun.
At a subsequent news conference of black leaders, a Nation of Islam leader called for an economic boycott of Charlotte. In another video from a police helicopter circling the scene, one officer is heard saying Crutcher is “looking like a bad dude”, and “looks like time for taser”. Both Scott and Vinson are African American. Some have suggested on social media and in local news reports that Scott may have been sitting in his truck, reading a book, while waiting for his children to get off a school bus.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney says officers recovered a gun that they say a man had when he was shot and killed by an officer.
The woman’s claims could not be verified by The Associated Press.
While attempting to serve a warrant to a different person, Officer Brentley Vinson of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department fatally shot Scott, who sat in his auto at an apartment complex.
When officers approached, Scott then exited the vehicle with a handgun and was shot, according to Putney.
The chief said officers were searching for a suspect when they saw Scott exit a vehicle with a handgun.
“They put that officer through a lot”, Newton said.
Racial tensions are high across the country in the wake of other officer-involved shootings.
The chief said 16 officers sustained minor injuries during protests Tuesday night and that one person has been arrested. Scott died at the scene of the shooting. He was waiting for assistance next to his vehicle that had broken down on a road in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when female police officer Betty Shelby, who responding to a domestic violence call, found him.
Charlotte’s mayor and police chief also plan to make statements about the shooting Wednesday morning.
Local and federal investigations into that shooting are ongoing.
Scott’s family was expected to meet with reporters at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Broken glass and rocks littered the ground where a police auto had been vandalized. Less than 5 miles away, wooden pallets barricaded the entrance of a Wal-Mart that had apparently been looted.
The protests broke out Tuesday after 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott was fatally shot by a black officer at an apartment complex on the city’s northeast side. The website says the closure is due to police activity.
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A police spokeswoman declined to comment on the video.
