Days later, in Charlotte, North Carolina, a black police officer who was looking to serve a warrant encountered another man, 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott.
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One man who was shot during the protests died Thursday in a hospital.
An AFP correspondent at the scene reported several hundred demonstrators milling around the downtown area of the southern U.S. city for a third consecutive night, amid a strong police presence. Police say another protester was responsible, and investigators are still trying to determine who pulled the trigger.
Roberts said the curfew will be in effect until further notice from midnight until six in the morning, local media reported.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – A third night of protests over a fatal police shooting in Charlotte gave way to quiet streets early Friday after the city’s mayor enacted a curfew and rifle-toting members of the National Guard arrived to guard the city’s business district.
A long series of controversial fatal police shootings of black men across the United States has sparked more than two years of protests asserting racial bias and excessive force by police and giving rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Police gave Scott other commands and he “did not aggressively approach them or raise his hands” at officers, the statement said. Protesters rushed police in riot gear at a downtown Charlotte hotel and officers have fired tear gas t.
Police have resisted pressure to publicly release police video of the shooting, but they have shown it to Mr Scott’s family.
Police Chief Kerr Putney said Thursday that body camera video doesn’t show “absolute definitive, visual evidence” that Scott pointed a weapon at officers but that a weapon was recovered from the scene.
“The way we change the system requires us to reach out and engage the broader American community and that requires being peaceful”, Obama said in an interview with ABC News.
Bamberg said the family was asking police to immediately make the video public. The family wants the body camera and dash camera video released, Bamberg said.
Bamberg said Scott didn’t own a gun. Speaking later in the day to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Roberts said that she had seen footage. That is the first time anyone connected with the case has said the wife witnessed the shooting.
The Times’ editorial board accuses the Charlotte Police Department of responding to the shooting “in exactly the wrong way”, saying that it had “opted for stonewalling”. Just this week, Tulsa police let the public see video of the disputed September 16 shooting, though the footage left important questions unanswered.
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Police have launched a murder investigation.
