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2016 Charlotte Police Shooting Thread
Topic Started: Sep 21 2016, 02:09 AM (75 Views)
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The Guardian: Protesters clash with police in Charlotte after fatal shooting of black man

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Protesters have taken to the streets in Charlotte, North Carolina, clashing with police after the fatal police shooting of a black man earlier in the day.

Keith Scott, 43, was shot and killed by Charlotte-Mecklenburg officer Brentley Vinson, who is also black, after being mistaken for a wanted man.

Police said officers went to a Charlotte apartment complex around 4pm looking for a suspect with an outstanding warrant when they encountered Scott, who was not the suspect they were looking for, inside a car.

According to department spokesman Keith Trietley, officers saw the man get out the car with a gun and then get back in. When officers approached the car, the man got out of the car with the gun again. At that point, officers deemed the man a threat and at least one fired a weapon, he said. A weapon was recovered by detectives at the scene.

According to police, officers immediately began rendering aid after the shots were fired. Scott, a father of seven, was pronounced dead at Carolinas Medical Center.

The police version is at odds with that of Scott’s family who have insisted that he was disabled, sitting in his car reading a book, and had no gun. “He sits in the shade, reads his book and waits on his kid to get off the bus,” Scott’s sister told reporters. “He didn’t have no gun, he wasn’t messing with nobody.”

In a video posted to Facebook Live from the scene, Scott’s daughter Lyric repeatedly can be heard yelling at investigators on the scene not to plant a weapon in Scott’s vehicle. “Because that’s what the fuck y’all do,” she said in the emotional video.

Tuesday night as protests swelled, police used tear gas to attempt to disperse crowds heard yelling “Black lives matter,” and “Hands up, don’t shoot!” One person held up a sign saying “Stop Killing Us”, and another sign was seen reading “It was a book”.

In statements the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police department distinguished between “agitators” and “demonstrators”, blaming the former for damaging police vehicles and causing injuries to at least a dozen officers. One officer was reportedly struck in the face with a rock.

Charlotte mayor Jennifer Roberts tweeted on Tuesday night: “I will continue to work with our manager & Chief on officer involved shooting. We are reaching out to community to ask for calm.”

Police blocked access to the area, which is about a mile from the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, as protesters gathered after the shooting.
Video from WCCB-TV in Charlotte showed police in riot gear stretched across a two-lane road confronting protesters at the apartment complex later in the night. Some of the officers flanked the main line on one side of the road.

The shooting comes quickly on the heels of the death of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man shot by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Both incidents are just the latest in a summer that has been fraught with tensions between law enforcement and black and activist communities outraged by police killings of black people.

Officer Vinson, who has been with the department for two years, has been placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure in such cases.
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CNN: Charlotte Police Shooting - Scott Had A Gun, Not A Book, Chief Says
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Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN)After a night of violent protests in Charlotte, the police chief tried to quash rumors about what happened to Keith Lamont Scott.

Scott, a father of seven, was killed by police in an apartment complex parking lot as officers looked for another man named in a warrant they were trying to serve.

His family said Scott, an African-American, was unarmed and sitting in his car reading a book, waiting for his son to come home from school.

But Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said Scott exited his car with a gun, not a book. He said officers couldn't find a book at the scene.

"It's time for the voiceless majority to stand up and be heard," said the police chief, who is black. "It's time to change the narrative because I can tell you from the facts that the story's a little bit different as to how it's been portrayed so far, especially through social media."

Putney said evidence and witnesses support the officers' claim that Scott was armed.

Officers repeatedly told Scott to drop his gun, the chief said, but he didn't. Officer Brentley Vinson, who is black, then shot him.

The chief said he was not certain whether Scott pointed his gun at officers; Vinson was not wearing a body camera at the time.

North Carolina law blocks release of police recordings. But a person doesn't have to point a weapon directly at police to prompt deadly force, CNN law enforcement analyst Art Roderick said.

"You don't have to actually wait until a handgun is pointed at you because you're talking milliseconds of a decision as to whether you're going to pull your trigger, or that individual is going to pull their trigger," Roderick said.
-Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/21/us/charlotte-police-shooting/
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(The Guardian) Protests are intensifying for the second night in Charlotte, North Carolina after the fatal shooting on Tuesday of a black man, Keith Scott, after a police officer mistook him for a wanted man.

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--Protestors on Trade Street in #Charlotte. Tear gas deployed. (Samina Engel, WXII Winston-Salem - 21 Sept 2016)

Police deployed tear gas on Tuesday night to disperse crowds which had gathered to protest Scott’s death. The Guardian’s Matthew Teague is in Charlotte, and we will bring you more details as they come.
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(The Guardian) One person shot, city official confirms
--No more details are currently known, but a city official just confirmed to the Guardian that one person has been shot.

“Social media reports that more than one person has been shot are incorrect,” the official added. The Twitter account for Charlotte-Mecklenberg tweeted:

--@CMPD reports only (1) victim shot. Social media reports of multiple persons shot is incorrect. (CharMeckEmerMgt, 21 Sept 2016)
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--Tear gas in Charlotte (Rob Zerwekh, Fox News - 21 Sept. 2016)

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(Mark Boyle, WCNC Charlotte - 21 Sept. 2016)
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--Hard to tell, think there are well over 100 police in gear. #charlotteprotest (Tonya Maxwell, Asheville Citizen-Times - 21 Sept. 2016)
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(The Guardian) The person shot during today’s protest today has died

--Charlotte-Mecklenburg police chief Kerr Putney has just told Fox News that the person taken to hospital with “life-threatening injuries” earlier today has died.

The situation surrounding the person’s death, as well as their identity, is still unclear.

--Chief Kerr Putney: "We can confirm that we have one shot [in protests]...last information we got that person is deceased at this point." (Fox News, 21 Sept. 2016)
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--ALERT: Fatal shot uptown was civilian on civilian. @CMPD did not fire shot. City of Charlotte, 21 Sept. 2016)
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--.@jsiner photo from uptown: CMPD blocking Trade and North College streets #KeithLamontScott #KeithScott #CharlotteProtest (Charlotte Observer, 21 Sept. 2016)
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(The Guardian) One police officer has been transported for treatment for injuries this evening, according to the Charlotte city government.

--@MSNBC @maddow @wcnc @KennySmith73 at this time we can only confirm that ONE officer has been transported for treatment for injuries. (City of Charlotte, 21 Sept. 2016)
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--This is what it look like outside the Omni Hotel right now @USATODAY (Lauren Petracca, The Greenville News - 21 Sept. 2016)
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(The Guardian) Eyewitnesses on the ground describe strange, surreal scenes as the situation unfolds in Charlotte this evening.

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--Guy in street clothes directing traffic on College and 4th. Another dude just jogged by on his evening run (Katie Peralta, Charlotte Observer - 21 Sept. 2016)
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--The scene is surreal. It's the fancy part of town, near the Ritz-Carlton. And police are firing teargas canisters and flashbangs. (Cleve Wootson, Washington Post - 21 Sept. 2016)

--Just saw a guy get the crap beaten out of him by another guy in street clothes on 4th street (Katie Peralta, Charlotte Observer - 21 Sept. 2016)

--I just saw a man on 4th get punched and laid out. #KeithScott (Eli Portillo, Charlotte Observer - 21 Sept. 2016)
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--Hornets team store at arena looted #wcnc #KeithScott (Ty Chandler, 21 Sept. 2016)
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--Police fired flash grenades and tear gas against hundreds of protesters during Wednesday's #Charlotteprotest (Boston Globe, 21 Sept. 2016)
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