When officers approached the vehicle, the person got out with the gun again. Animal control workers found an ID chip with outdated information, but two local women were determined to reunite the dog with her owners.
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The death comes just days after police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, fatally shot Terence Crutcher, an unarmed African-American man, as he stood on a highway with his hands up.
“Reading a book, waiting for his kid to come home”.
But over time it became “very disruptive”, she says. He said a statement might be issued on Thursday.
Protesters clash with police in Charlotte, N.C. on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016.
The North Carolina and Oklahoma incidents are the latest in a string of police shootings that has gripped the USA and led to mounting racial tensions across the country.
The ACLU noted that a new law restricting release of such footage doesn’t take effect until October 1. The protests escalated after “a number of agitators. joined demonstrators”. “They have once again highlighted – in the most vivid and painful terms – the real divisions that still persist in this nation between law enforcement and communities of color”.
Lynch made her comments at the beginning of her address to the International Bar Association Conference in Washington. She cursed at officers at the scene, saying her father was disabled and didn’t have a gun. “He was an undercover and he just jumped out and yelled “gun” and shot at him”.
Authorities said that detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Homicide Unit are investigating the deadly shooting.
In 2013 a white police officer killed an unarmed black man, Jonathan Ferrell, in Charlotte.
At the press conference Wednesday, the police chief said about 16 officers were injured over the course of the night, none of them seriously.
Officer Vinson was in plain clothes and was not wearing a body camera, according to Putney.
Police had been called to the scene to serve an arrest warrant on another man.
According to the police, officers approached Scott after he got back into the vehicle. He says the man was shot because he posed a threat. “Since black lives do not matter for this city then our black dollar shouldn’t matter”, the man said, “We’re calling for economic boycott in the city of Charlotte”.
Scott, 43, was killed by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Brentley Vinson Tuesday afternoon, while officers from the department sought out a suspect with an outstanding warrant.
Speaking in New York City alongside relatives of Crutcher, civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton said his death was an outrage, and he urged both candidates to broach the topic of police shootings on Monday at their first head-to-head debate.
Scott died from his wounds.
Barnett did not immediately name the witness. Officers dressed in riot gear fired tear gas to break up the crowds of people who shut down Interstate 85.
By 9 p.m., large crowds had gathered in the area. Two investigative branches of the department are looking into the shooting, he said.
Scott’s family was expected to meet with reporters at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Violent protests broke out in Charlotte, North Carolina, Tuesday night after a police officer fatally shot an African American man outside an Charlotte apartment complex.
By Wednesday morning, the wire service reports, the streets were quiet – broken glass and rocks the only evidence of the night’s unrest. Less than 5 miles away, wooden pallets barricaded the entrance of a Wal-Mart that had apparently been looted.
Hours after the shooting, protests began. At one point a fire flared up. The website said the closure was due to police activity. Protesters have been demanding justice and an end to police brutality for months.
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“One television news crew retreated from the scene after demonstrators began rocking their remote van, which was parked near the apartment complex where the shooting occurred”.
