Streaming Video: Hundreds Protest in Charlotte After Officer Shoots Reportedly Unarmed Black Man

Smoke, Possibly Tear Gas Being Dispersed

43-year old Keith Lamont Scott is dead after a Charlotte, North Carolina police officer shot and killed him around 4 PM Tuesday. Officers claim Scott, a father of seven, was armed, but relatives insist Scott only had a book in his hand. The local media appear to be siding with law enforcement’s story:

Some reports, including Raw Story’s, describe Scott as disabled.

Sometime before 11 PM EDT police in riot gear apparently used smoke and/or tear gas to disperse hundreds of protestors.

“He was waiting on his son to get from school and police came out with no.. he didn’t have on no uniform to determine if he was a police or not — he was an undercover and he just jumped out and yelled ‘gun’ and shot at him,” Keith Lamont Scott’s brother told NBC Charlotte. “I think they shot him four times, I’m not sure, but he’s dead.” 

A woman who identified herself as Scott’s daughter told WBTV her father did not own a gun and was unarmed. She says hjer father was reading when police showed up and started shooting, claiming Scott was armed.

Police say the officer who killed Scott believed his life was in danger. They tweeted one officer was injured:

Law enforcement say they recovered a gun.

“Officers observed a subject inside a vehicle in the apartment complex,” CMPD police say in a press release. “The subject exited the vehicle armed with a firearm. Officers observed the subject get back into the vehicle at which time they began to approach the subject.”

“The subject got back out of the vehicle armed with a firearm and posed an imminent deadly threat to officers who subsequently fired their weapon striking the subject.”

Heavy reports “Keith Lamont Scott’s daughter, Lyric Scott, streamed live video on Facebook from the scene of the shooting for about an hour Tuesday afternoon, showing confrontations with police and the raw emotions of a family who just lost a father and brother.”

 

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