RIOTING IN CHARLOTTE After Police Shooting – Officers Injured, Reporter Hit in Head with Rock, Police Cruiser Trashed
Protests erupted in Charlotte, North Carolina Tuesday after 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott was shot and killed by a police officer.
The man was reportedly shot by a black officer.
Protesters attacked police, hit a reporter in the head with a rock and trashed a police cruiser.
The shooting occurred around 4 p.m. at The Village at College Downs apartment complex in northeast Charlotte.
According to WBTV, officers said they were searching for a person with an outstanding warrant when they saw a man get out of a vehicle with a firearm.
Lamont Scott got out of the vehicle “armed with a firearm and posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers who subsequently fired their weapon striking the subject.”
Black Lives Matter activists gathered tonight to protest the shooting.
They’re hurling water bottles at police.
Water bottles being thrown at police @WBTV_News pic.twitter.com/iT3Z1mYB9W
— Sarah-Blake Morgan (@SarahBlakeWBTV) September 21, 2016
The protesters confronted police.
Water bottles being thrown at police @WBTV_News pic.twitter.com/iT3Z1mYB9W
— Sarah-Blake Morgan (@SarahBlakeWBTV) September 21, 2016
Pictures from #KeithLamontScott fatal shooting scene in #Charlotte. https://t.co/drIqdwslHl
— Katie McKiever WBTV (@KatieMcKiever) September 21, 2016
A police cruiser got trashed.
this is happening in my city right now. #KeithLamontScott #cmpd #charlotte pic.twitter.com/HcqNxXpTAs
— sedra (@sedrakurdi) September 21, 2016
And one protester gave a speech from the top of the cruiser.
A #BlackLivesMatter protester gives a speech standing on the police car roof in #Charlotte..
Is THAT peaceful protest???#KeithLamontScott pic.twitter.com/PVxZoYTjzM— Tennessee GOP (@TEN_GOP) September 21, 2016
WBTV reporter was hit in the head with a rock.
Coleen got hit by rock & @SarahBlakeWBTV hit by something as well. Knocked wind out of her. @WBTV_News is live. #KeithLamontScott #Charlotte https://t.co/OHIfucEIgS
— Katie McKiever WBTV (@KatieMcKiever) September 21, 2016
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