Some protesters banged on glass windows, others threw objects at police and stood on cars as police fired their first round of tear gas, sending demonstrators scattering.
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Police fired tear gas at the protesters and blocked the streets as managers at the hotel used furniture to barricade the entrance.
A protester is in a critical condition after being shot during a second night of unrest over the fatal police shooting of a black man in North Carolina.
Gov. Pat McCory said he will deploy the National Guard and state troopers to assist local police. “Rest assured, we will work diligently to get answers to our questions as quickly as possible”.
Putney said an African-American officer shot Scott after he refused repeated demands to put down a gun. “What are we as an American society going to do about it?” asked a lawyer for one of the victims’ families.
Following the shooting, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said that Scott was considered a threat because he had a firearm with him when officers were looking for a different person with an outstanding warrant at an apartment complex.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch acknowledged the country’s racial tensions after the latest police shootings, but denounced the violence that erupted in Charlotte.
They could be heard yelling, “Black lives matter”, and “Hands up, don’t shoot!”
(AP Photo/Chuck Burton). Demonstrators sit on a street during a protest of Tuesday’s fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, N.C. on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016.
A vial of PCP was later recovered from Mr. Crutcher’s vehicle but no weapon, police said.
The man was shot as police in riot gear protected an upscale hotel in uptown Charlotte.
Neighborhood residents, however, said Scott was holding a book, not a weapon, as he waited for his son to get off the school bus.
His death sparked violent protests on Tuesday night, leaving 16 officers injured. We need to hold police accountable.
Hundreds of people converged on police headquarters calling for the firing of police officer Betty Shelby, who shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher on Friday during a confrontation in the middle of a road that was captured on police dashcam and helicopter video.
William Barber, president of North Carolina’s chapter of the NAACP, called for the “full release of all facts available”, and said NAACP officials planned to meet with city officials and members of Scott’s family on Thursday.
She said she left early when police began efforts to disperse the crowd. “I can tell you we did not find a book”, the chief said.
In the southern state of Oklahoma, Tulsa police chief Chuck Jordan called video footage of Crutcher’s deadly shooting on Friday disturbing and “very hard to watch”.
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Witnesses who attended demonstrations earlier in the evening said they were largely peaceful, but the tone changed markedly to a more violent scene throughout the night.
