Charlotte police chief: Officers recover gun after shooting

“My big thing is holding people accountable- no matter what the race, no matter what the gender is, no matter what the age is.”, Newton said at his weekly news conference Wednesday.

“The police just shot my dad four times for being black”, she said the woman on her social network account. His family insists he was not armed and wasn’t given a chance to comply before he was shot.

Scott has a lengthy criminal record, including convictions in Texas, North Carolina and SC. Mecklenburg County records matching Scott’s name and birth date show he was charged in April 2004 with multiple counts, including felony assault with a deadly weapon.

She said he was reading a book while sitting in his vehicle and waiting for the school bus to drop off his son.

Scott’s relatives told local media that he was not carrying a gun, but had a book in his hands when he was gunned down, which police disputed.

“That’s a tough issue”, Rivera said.

The North Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union urged Charlotte police to release any footage from body or dashboard cameras of a fatal shooting this week.

Nut, as reporter Nick Ochsner pointed out in the above tweet, the law isn’t supposed to take effect until October.

And in IL, the Chicago Police Department plans to hire more than 970 officers in the next two years.

The Associated Press said his comments were an apparent reference to a profanity-laced, hourlong video that a woman claiming to be Mr Scott’s daughter posted to Facebook soon after the shooting, saying that her father had an unspecified disability and was unarmed. “The weapon was there and witnesses have corroborated it, beyond just the officers”, Putney said. Both Vinson and Scott are black. Fortunately, only a handful of civilians, protestors, and CMPD officers were injured, all of them non life-threatening, but the unruly and tense night has definitely left a desolate taste in the mouths of Charlotte residents.

He is then shot once by officer Betty Shelby, and falls to the ground.

According to The Guardian, Scott’s daughter, Lyric, was heard shouting to investigators not to plant a gun inside her father’s auto.

When officers arrived, Scott “exited his vehicle armed with a handgun”, Putney said. However, family members of Scott assert that he was disabled and was merely holding a book.

Officer Vinson was in plain clothes and was not wearing a body camera, according to Putney.

A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officer killed Keith Scott, 43, who had been seen entering a vehicle with a handgun, Chief Kerr Putney said at the same news conference.

Officers saw Scott get out of the auto with a gun and then get back in, Trietley said. He says the man was shot because he posed a threat. The officers immediately requested Medic and began performing CPR.

The officer has been placed on paid administrative leave, Mayor Jennifer Roberts said. At least 16 officers were injured, and one protestor was arrested, Putney said.

Putney said the department would be staffed Wednesday in expectation of more protests, which he believes will be peaceful.

In it, she appeared to be at the shooting scene, which is surrounded by yellow police tape, as she yelled at officers. Because of the ongoing investigation and state law, none of that video would be made public, Putney said.

Black activists and pastors called for an economic boycott of the city, and a several dozen students held a “lay-in” protest at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Less than 5 miles away, wooden pallets barricaded the entrance to a Wal-Mart that had apparently been looted.

Tuesday’s shooting came after officers were sent to an apartment complex with a warrant to search for a suspect.

Earlier in the evening, police in riot gear reportedly used tear gas on protesters who threw rocks and water bottles at them as they wielded large sticks and blocked traffic. By the early hours of Wednesday morning, demonstrators occupied a segment of Interstate Highway 83. At one point a fire flared up.

NBC Charlotte’s Mike Hanson reported around 11:45 p.m. that the CMPD deployed flash bangs and tear gas upon protesters. Police said they found PCP in the vehicle but no weapon. The city managed to pull through a racially charged shooting three years ago without the unrest that erupted in recent years in such places as Baltimore, Milwaukee and Ferguson, Missouri.