Protests Erupt In Charlotte As People Demand Justice For Keith Scott

The report also concluded that Scott may have been under the effects of drugs prescribed to him as officers said Scott appeared to have a “blank stare” and appeared to be “in a trance like state”. Mr. Scott was never shot with his hands up or while holding a book, did indeed purchase a stolen gun and was a convicted felon.

Police said on Twitter that the arrests were after the protesters refused to get out of downtown Charlotte streets and stay on the sidewalk. The protest remained mostly peaceful Wednesday as protesters marched throughout Uptown. The procession returned to CMPD headquarters a few minutes before 9.

The department said its officers now receive implicit bias training and has invited The Police Foundation to review the department’s policies, procedures and relationship with the community.

“Dirty racist a** cops we don’t need ’em, need ’em”.

CMPD said it deployed members of its Constructive Conversation Teams to respond to the demonstrations who were “with protesters – listening to concerns, answering questions and engaging in conversations”.

Vinson, who is also black, shot and killed Keith Scott on September 20.

Police say the man was not shot by an officer and arrested someone on a murder charge.

There is no doubt that officers surrounded him.

Some scuffles between police and protesters occurred at about 8:30 p.m.

BORAKS: The Scott family says it’s disappointed and considering a civil lawsuit against police.

The CityLYNX Gold Line service was suspended for the rest of the night.

But on Wednesday, Murray laid out the most detailed case yet that Scott, 43, was armed when officers confronted him while he was in his parked SUV at his apartment complex. The confrontation sparked two nights of riots.

“Back up, back up, we want freedom, freedom”, other protesters chanted outside the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department.

Scott’s family has said he was not armed.

On Wednesday, Murray suggested the decision not to charge Vinson turned out to be a relatively easy one.

Murray said that while criminal charges are not appropriate, “I know some are going to be frustrated”. She said the episode brought to light problems such as lack of economic opportunity and social mobility for minorities.

When a suspect is clearly armed, is clearly aware that he is being addressed by officers, and still refuses to put the weapon down, he goes from a potential threat (just a person with a gun) to a deadly force threat. Three people who made the claim told State Bureau of Investigation agents in interviews that they hadn’t actually seen the shooting.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police arrested at least four protesters Wednesday night as almost 100 people gathered in the rain to decry the Mecklenburg County district attorney’s decision to forgo charges in the Keith Scott killing. In October, an independent autopsy ruled the shooting was a homicide.

“In this case, there is settlement value but it may not be almost on the scale of other cases”, he said. “It is on us all to remember that – a life was lost, a life that is the embodiment of what is wrong with our broken system”. Prosecutors used those findings to make their decision.