Following is a summary of this DailyMail article:
Keith Lamont Scott, 43, a black father of seven, was shot and killed by a black police officer in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday afternoon, prompting two days of rioting in the city due to widespread belief on social media that Scott was unarmed and only carrying a book.
Police claim that Scott disregarded repeated demands to drop his gun, but his family and neighborhood residents insist he was only holding a book instead of a weapon as he waiting for his son to get off of a school bus.
Violence broke out when Scott’s daughter posted a profanity-laced hour long video on Facebook claiming that he was disabled and was unarmed.
On Wednesday, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said that the officers were serving arrest warrants on another person when they saw Scott get out of a vehicle with a handgun, and a black officer Brentley Vinson shot him after making “loud, clear” demands to drop his gun. Putney made it clear that Scott posted a threat even though he didn’t point the gun at officers, and he said a book was not found but Scott’s gun was found next to him on the ground.
Neighbors claimed that the officer who fired was white and Scott had his hands in the air, but some who said they witnessed the shooting told their versions with an air of certainty even though they were hundreds of yards away.
The three uniformed officers had body cameras, but Vinson, who was plainclothes, did not. The Chief said he cannot release the video because an investigation is underway.
Dozens of demonstrators threw rocks at police and reporters, damaged squad cars, closed part of Interstate 85, and looted and set fire to a stopped truck on Tuesday night. Authorities used tear gas to break up the protests, where sixteen officers suffered minor injuries and one person was arrested.
While the city’s white mayor and black police chief appealed for calm at city hall, African American leaders who claimed to be speaking for Scott’s family held their own news conference near the scene of the incident, reminding the crowd of other shootings and abuses of black men.
Wednesday’s protest started as a downtown prayer vigil, but a hostile group left the event and marched through downtown Charlotte chanting “Black Lives Matter” slogans, then running into officers in riot gear where some marchers threw objects at them, escalating into the riot police firing flash grenades and tear gas to disperse the crowd.
A protester was critically injured after being shot in the head by another protestor, and several members of the media were assaulted and taken to hospitals.
Late on Wednesday, Governor Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency and called in the National Guard and state troopers to restore order and protect the downtown.
In 2013, Charlotte police charged one of their officers with voluntary manslaughter after he shot an unarmed black man who had been in a car accident and was looking for help. The jury deadlocked and the charge was dropped last summer, which resulted in protests but no violence.
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The following videos are from this Infowars article:
Video of Scott’s daughter ranting at the scene of the shooting
In this video, Keith Lamont Scott’s daughter accuses the police of tasing and then shooting her father four times, claiming he was unarmed and only had a book.
Video of Scott’s brother ranting at news media: “All white cops are f*cking devils— and white people!”
The brother of Scott was asked by the media “Is there anything we should know?” To which he replied, “You just know, that all white people are f*ckin’ devils.” And his companion added, “And make sure you get that out!” And then Scott’s brother continued, “All white cops are f*ckin’ devils— and white people!”
A black Muslim leader says what happened is a “modern day lynching,” promising more riots and advocating an economic boycott of Charlotte saying “Don’t spend no money for no white folks who don’t respect us.”
A black Muslim leader B.J. Murphy speaks at a press conference about the riots in Charlotte.
Video of a white man attacked by a mob of blacks in a parking garage during rioting in Charlotte
In this video, a gang of blacks apparently randomly attacks a white man in a parking garage, kicking, stomping and dragging him on the pavement.
A black civilian fires a gun indiscriminately into a crowd of rioters, critically injuring one
During rioting in Charlotte on Wednesday at around 8:30 p.m., a black male civilian fired a pistol indiscriminately into a large crowd outside a hotel, then turned and ran leaving a man laying on the ground in a pool of blood on the sidewalk. After emergency crews reached him, the city of Charlotte tweeted that he had died, then later they said he was in critical condition on life support.
Video of rocks being thrown off of a highway overpass onto traffic below
Agitators filmed themselves throwing rocks off an I-85 overpass to strike unsuspecting motorists below. They ooed and awed as they heard the rocks striking passing vehicles. Click here to watch the video.
A woman and her family who had their windshield shattered by a rock dropped from the overpass is interviewed outside a hospital emergency room: “Unfortunately these protesters, they don’t see the difference. We’re people trying to get home. We haven’t done anything wrong. I fear if we would have had to stop, they would have done something else.”
