But the reaction on the streets in each was vastly different.
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Charlotte police have released details on charges against five people in the protests that followed the shooting of a black man by an officer.
About 300 protesters took to the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, in a fourth night of demonstrations on Friday, calling on authorities to “release the tapes” of the fatal police shooting of a black man, hours after his family released its own video.
As Scott’s wife records, police are heard yelling “Drop the gun!”
The patient had been in critical condition, officials said.
The wife of the African American man whose death has triggered days of unrest in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Friday released dramatic video footage of the moments before and after he was shot by police.
“You shouldn’t expect it to be released”, Putney said.
Other cities have released footage of police shootings.
National Guardsman stand on the street in downtown Charlotte, N.C. on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016.
In other cities, including Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, demonstrations turned dangerously violent. It was nearly like they didn’t know how to respond.
Charlotte police confirmed Thursday night that Justin Carr, 26, died at the hospital after being shot in the head Wednesday night.
Charlotte’s police chief says there is at least one video from a body camera and one other video from a dashboard camera that captured the deadly shooting of a black man by an officer.
The officer says he fired after Keith Lamont Scott exited his vehicle with a gun in his hand and repeatedly refused to comply with commands, one of which was to drop the gun.
“I think there will be some people that do not have the trust level the police would like them to have”, he said, “so they might jump to a conclusion without any further evidence and say that gun was not his, so obviously they dropped it here because his wife did say he doesn’t have a gun”.
“It’s going to come out no matter what”, he said.
The smartphone video does not conclusively answer the question of whether he was armed or not.
Scott: Keith, don’t let them break the windows.
Max Geron, a major with the Dallas police department who has studied police responses to protests, said officials should generally release as much information as possible. It is about 2 minutes and 30 seconds long.
The family initially contended that Scott was carrying a book, but after viewing the police video on Thursday, the family said it was “impossible to discern” what, if anything, Scott was carrying. Gray suffered a fatal neck injury while handcuffed in the back of a police transport van. Pizza Touch is testing three pizza vending machines at Florida gas stations, two in Orlando and one in Lakeland.
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Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts signed documents to keep the curfew in effect from midnight until 6 a.m. each day until the state of emergency declared by the governor ends. Police have said he was armed, but witnesses have said he held only a book. Bowzer was arrested and charged with injury to real property. But Clinton made a decision to postpone the trip hours later after Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts – also a Democrat – told CNN her city’s security resources were stretched thin and urged Clinton to delay her visit.
