Suspect arrested in Charlotte protester’s death

The protesters stopped for about 15 minutes to chant and block an intersection near Bank of America’s headquarters. Photos and videos from Twitter and other social media show fires that were set near trucks and protesters attempting to loot cargo from trailers.

Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, arrested a man accused of fatally shooting a man outside a hotel amid protests against police violence, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Chief Kerr Putney said Friday at a news conference. She further tells him, “don’t do it”, but it’s not clear exactly what she means.

Thursday night’s protests in Charlotte over Scott’s death were more peaceful.

City officials said Wednesday night that the victim had died, but then corrected the statement to say he was in critical condition. By Thursday, Putney said investigators were checking allegations that a police officer might have fired the shot, and were reviewing video to determine who did it.

The video was not immediately released, and Putney did not say what the motive in Carr’s shooting might have been. The North Carolina National Guard helped patrol the city Thursday.

Protests erupted following the death of Keith Lamont Scott, who was shot Tuesday while police tried to serve a warrant for another man. Police say that Scott walked out of his vehicle with a gun and was shot when he wouldn’t drop the weapon.

Jay Price of member station WUNC describes the mood as “mellow”, and says that police and protest leaders worked to keep the marchers moving, doing laps of uptown Charlotte.

Scott’s family viewed two police videos on Thursday.

Carr was shot around 8:30 p.m. on East Trade Street, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say.

A line of police officers with shields and face masks advanced on the protesters, and many dispersed and climbed back up embankments off the road.

Demonstrators protest Tuesday’s fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, N.C. on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016.

Charlotte police have released details on charges against five people in the protests that followed the shooting of a black man by an officer. “People were running. some were tripping over others”.