Clinton, Trump scrap plans to visit Charlotte after mayor’s plea

The mayor of Charlotte is urging Hillary Clinton to postpone her announced visit to the embattled North Carolina city.

Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts, who asked the candidates to stand down on any visits, is among those pushing for the public release of police video of the shooting, which the Scott family has viewed privately.

The mayor of Charlotte told CNN that Hillary Clinton should delay her visit to the Queen City on Sunday and let the city get back to normalcy.

City and Clinton campaign officials say the campaign had conferred with city staff about a Sunday visit before announcing it at around 4:30 p.m. Friday.

“As I said, I think both candidates are making plans”, she said.

The scheduling change came shortly after Clinton on Friday called on North Carolina officials to release dashboard and body camera video of the shooting that left Keith Lamont Scott dead after an encounter with police on Tuesday.

“What I want to say is that we appreciate the support of candidates, we appreciate that they are concerned about Charlotte”, Roberts said.

Police: Man killed in Charlotte shooting was armed Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said during a news conference that officers were searching for a suspect Tuesday when they saw 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott exit a vehicle with a handgun. Meanwhile, his wife pleads with officers not to shoot her husband.

President Obama also weighed in on the protests in a Friday morning interview with ABC News, reminding Americans that other demonstrations against police brutality have been carried out in “the right way”.

“It’s presumptuous for him to make conclusions like that without having thorough conversations with some of the folks who are here on the ground and are really aware of what’s going on and what the reasoning is”, she told CNN’s Carol Costello on “Newsroom”.

After the fatal shootings this week of Scott and another black man, Terence Crutcher, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Clinton said the situation was “unbearable and it needs to become intolerable”. We have so much work to do. He added his belief that drugs are a “very, very big factor in what you’re watching on television at night”.

Scott was the 214th black person to be killed by police in the U.S. in 2016.