Posted on 09/21/2016 8:43:15 AM PDT by Morgana
CHARLOTTE — Police on Tuesday shot and killed a black man they said was armed outside an apartment complex, setting off violent protests that continued late into the night and left about two dozen people injured.
A large crowd of demonstrators gathered near the University of North Carolina at Charlotte on Tuesday night to protest the killing of Keith Lamont Scott, who was fatally shot by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officer earlier in the day. Scott’s family insisted he was not armed when he was killed near the university campus.
The demonstrations began peacefully, with some people chanting “black lives matter” and “hands up, don’t shoot.” News reports and posts on social media later showed police in riot gear firing tear gas and rubber bullets at the demonstrators and some people smashing out the windows of police cars.
Early Wednesday morning, protesters shut down traffic on Interstate 85. Some protesters opened up the backs of tractor trailers, took out boxes and set them on fire in the middle of the highway, WSOC reported. The station spoke to one truck driver who said people stole cargo from her trailer. Police reportedly used flash grenades to break up the crowd and had cleared the highway by early morning.
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Well, according to the article, lorreta lynch called for the, uh, protestors(?), to remain calm and peaceful. That should calm things down. Right? Despite the “grievances” they may “feel”, this behavior, encouraged by the lyin’ king by his silence, is NOT acceptable in any way shape or form. Instead, he may, with no facts in hand, condemn the LEOs for whatever happened. I’m sure the young man was probably not reading any old book, probably brushing up on his bible verses. Or maybe memorizing the words out of a hymnal for this Sunday service.
Notice these numbers from the washigton (com)post:
“Scott is one of at least 702 people who have been fatally shot by police so far this year, 163 of them black men, according to a Washington Post database tracking fatal officer-involved shootings.”
163 out of 702?
Soros strikes again...his well funded SJW groups are always ready to riot
How do you reason with people this dumb. Hands up was proven false a long time ago. This is what you get from the projects, I guess.
The Post doesn’t bother to report the cop was black until the end of the article
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