{"id":28787,"date":"2016-09-21T03:33:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T03:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/keith-lamont-scott-protests-erupt-over-police\/"},"modified":"2016-09-21T03:33:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T03:33:25","slug":"keith-lamont-scott-protests-erupt-over-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/keith-lamont-scott-protests-erupt-over-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Lamont Scott: Protests erupt over police killing"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Killing in North Carolina of 43-year-old said to be unarmed and disabled follows fatal shooting of black man in Tulsa.}<\/p>\n

A US police officer has shot a black man at a housing complex in Charlotte, authorities in North Carolina say, prompting street protests late into the night.<\/p>\n

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) said on Twitter on Tuesday that demonstrators were destroying marked police vehicles and that approximately 12 officers had been injured.<\/p>\n

Witnesses contradicted police reports that the man killed was armed, saying that he was unarmed and disabled, according to reports.<\/p>\n

The man “has been named as Keith Lamont Scott”, said Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher, reporting from Greensboro, North Carolina.<\/p>\n

He said at least one protester was also injured in the protests.<\/p>\n

The police officer was named as Brentley Vinson. Associated Press news agency said Vinson is black.<\/p>\n

Tense situation<\/p>\n

Television coverage showed police firing tear gas to break up the crowd protesting against police brutality.<\/p>\n

“It is tense. There are still people on the streets,” our correspondent said.<\/p>\n

Police killings of black men over the past few months have seen anger swell as many fear civil rights are being eroded.<\/p>\n

According to a tally being kept by the Guardian newspaper, police have killed at least 193 black men so far this year. In all of 2015, police killed at least 306 black men.<\/p>\n

The protests came only hours after another demonstration in Tulsa, Oklahoma, over the shooting there of an unarmed black man by police.<\/p>\n

Charlotte police went to the complex about 4pm looking for a suspect with an outstanding warrant when they saw the man – not the suspect they were looking for – inside a car, police said.<\/p>\n

Officers saw the man get out of the car with a gun and then get back in, police said. When officers approached, the man exited the car with the gun again.<\/p>\n

At that point, officers deemed the man a threat and at least one fired a weapon.<\/p>\n

Scott, the victim, was taken to Carolinas Medical Center and pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

Officer Vinson, who shot Scott, has been placed on administrative leave, which is standard procedure in such cases. Vinson has been with the department for two years.<\/p>\n

{{‘Stop killing us’}}<\/p>\n

Detectives recovered a firearm at the scene and were interviewing witnesses.<\/p>\n

Police blocked access to the area, which is about a mile from the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, as protesters gathered after the shooting.<\/p>\n

Video from WCCB-TV in Charlotte showed police in riot gear stretched across a two-lane road confronting protesters at the apartment complex later in the night.<\/p>\n

Some of the officers flanked the main line on one side of the road.<\/p>\n

Some protesters were heard yelling “Black lives matter,” and “Hands up, don’t shoot!” One person held up a sign saying “Stop Killing Us.”<\/p>\n

In Tulsa, hundreds of people rallied outside police headquarters calling for the firing of police officer Betty Shelby, who shot Terence Crutcher, 40, on Friday in a confrontation that was captured on police dashboard camera and helicopter video.<\/p>\n

Shelby’s lawyer has said that Crutcher was not following the officers’ commands and that Shelby was concerned because he kept reaching for his pocket as if he was carrying a weapon.<\/p>\n

A lawyer representing Crutcher’s family says Crutcher committed no crime and gave officers no reason to shoot him.<\/p>\n

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