the Protest was initially peaceful, calm process. Several hundred demonstrators maszerowało the streets of the city when shots rang out. According to initial reports, killed one of the protesters men, but then stated that the victim is alive, although in critical condition. Police reported that the man was shot by another civilian.
After this incident, the protesters began to smash Windows in buildings in downtown Charlotte, loot shops and burn fires on the streets. Police in helmets and batons blocked the main streets. Against the protesters was used tear gas. Satellite showed the police in a separate receiver tank and aresztujących the most aggressive of the protesters.
Governor of North Carolina announced Charlotte state of emergency. It introduced a curfew, declaring that everyone who will remain on the streets will be arrested. The city sent for the support of the local police, guards and traffic police.
During the same riots in Charlotte the previous night, several dozen police officers were injured in clashes with demonstrators. Came to him, after the murder of 43-year-old black whale Lamonta Scott.
According to initial data, based on the relationship between her daughter and Scott’s widespread in the Internet, he was unarmed, and was reading a book in the car. The police had to shoot him for no reason. The book, however, the scene could not be found.
Yesterday morning at a press conference the chief of police in Charlotte Kerr Putney said that the incident had a completely different course than it has followed from-daughter relationship Scott.
the Police, as reported – came to the village to find one of the apartments belonging to the suspect. In front of the building, the police found the car, which left Scott. According to Putney,” he had a gun in his hand. The police began to shout at him that he threw him to the ground.
- he Said it once, second, third, but he didn’t listen. Then one of the officers to him, shot, recognizing that Scott is a threat, ” said Patni.
the Shot was fatal. Gave it to the policeman Brantley Vinson, also black, who had served for two years. He was urlopowany during the investigation that the police Department has instituted into the incident.
Putney said that Scott was doing with a gun something uzasadniałoby shot him – for example, that wore a gun and pointed it towards the police.
Black residents of Charlotte are unable to understand why the murder occurred. In North Carolina the law allows the carrying of legally available weapons. Some lawyers argue that the police had no grounds to demand from Scott to drop the gun.
- When new Jersey wytropiono a terrorist who planted a bomb in new York, the police didn’t kill him; there was a shootout and he was shot. Why he enjoys such a life of a terrorist, was not spared the life of a man who didn’t threaten anyone? said one of the women in Charlotte CNN.
One of the leaders of the Afro-American nationalists, the Nation of Islam, B. J. Murphy, called for a boycott of Charlotte. – If black life doesn’t matter, that their money should not matter, ” he said.
the killings of black men by police happen more often in the United States. A few days ago a similar tragedy happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Many of the victims were not armed.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday expressed condolences to the bereaved families and spoke on the phone with the mayors of Charlotte and Tulsy. On the killings of Blacks voice was taken by the presidential candidates in the November elections, Hillary Clinton and Donald trump.
African-Americans believe that the basis of these incidents are racial prejudices of police officers. Many commentators blame but the education of police, which too quickly uses the weapon and it is fatal. Others pay attention to the ease of access to weapons in the United States.
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