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RIOTING IN CHARLOTTE After Police Shooting – Officers Injured, Reporter Hit in Head with Rock, Police Cruiser Trashed

By Jim Hoft
Published September 20, 2016 at 10:46pm
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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.”

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Black Lives Matter activists gathered tonight to protest the shooting.
They’re hurling water bottles at police.

The protesters confronted police.

A police cruiser got trashed.

And one protester gave a speech from the top of the cruiser.

WBTV reporter was hit in the head with a rock.

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Jim Hoft
Jim Hoft is the founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news outlets in America. Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016.







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