Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump made a decision to postpone respective trips to Charlotte, North Carolina, as protests continue for the forth night.
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Team Clinton announced shortly after 9:30 p.m. Friday that after “discussion with community leaders”, the candidate would push back her journey from this coming Sunday to the following weekend so as not to cause any disruptions. Her campaign did not immediately release details of her visit to Charlotte, where protests have broken out in the aftermath of the shooting.
Her campaign says Clinton will travel to Charlotte one day before her high-profile debate with Trump, her Republican opponent.
In a statement, Clinton’s communications director Jennifer Palmieri said that Clinton had accepted an invitation from faith leaders to visit on Sunday. The reason for Clinton’s visit has note been released.
“Charlotte should release police video of the Keith Lamont Scott shooting without delay”, Clinton said in a statement on Twitter.
Charlotte officials updated the community Friday following the third night of protests over the fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott.
She also said that a new state law, which would deny public access to police body cam and dashcam footage without a judge’s orders, would not apply to the Scott case since the shooting occurred before the law goes into effect October 1.
“We have a history of racial disparity and we are working very hard in our city to bridge that gap”, she said.
In video recorded by Scott’s wife and released on Friday by his family, police can be seen shouting for Scott to drop a weapon. He was shot, police said, after officers determined he posed an imminent, deadly threat.
Clinton has spoken out on this incident and several other police-involved shootings that have left African-Americans dead in recent months.
“We have a much better understanding than Mr. Trump”, she told Costello.
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After the fatal shootings this week of Scott and another black man, Terence Crutcher, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Clinton said the situation was “unbearable and it needs to become intolerable”.
