CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA – North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory has declared a State of Emergency upon the request Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney. The governor has also initiated efforts to deploy the North Carolina National Guard and the State Highway Patrol to assist local law enforcement.
The Mayor of the City of Charlotte and the Chairman of Mecklenburg County Board of County Commissioners have declared a State of Emergency which is required in order to bring in state assets including the National Guard to assist in protecting residential and business properties while the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department continue focusing on public safety needs throughout the community.
These actions are in response to a police shooting of an allegedly armed African-American male who was shot dead by police, leading to protests which are devolving into violence and riots.
According to Charlotte, North Carolina police:
On Tuesday, September 20, 2016, at 3:54 p.m., officers from the Metro Division Crime Reduction Unit were searching for a suspect with an outstanding warrant at The Village at College Downs.
Officers gave loud and clear verbal commands, corroborated by witnesses, for the subject to drop the weapon.
In spite of these verbal commands, Mr. Scott exited the vehicle still armed with the handgun as officers continued to tell him to drop his weapon.
The subject posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers and Officer Brentley Vinson subsequently fired his weapon striking the subject. The officers immediately requested Medic and began performing CPR.
Medic responded to the scene and transported the subject to Carolinas Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased.
Detectives recovered the firearm the subject was holding at the time of the shooting in close proximity to the subject.
Per department protocol, the Officer Vinson will be placed on Administrative Leave.
At approximately 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 20, 2016, CMPD Officers encountered protesters following the officer involved shooting incident.
At approximately 8:00 p.m., officers encountered the crowd transitioned from peaceful protestors to a more aggressive group of agitators as events of the night developed.
The CMPD Civil Emergency Unit was deployed at approximately 8:30 p.m., to deescalate the situation and restore order.
Air support from the CMPD Aviation Unit provided an overhead view of rapidly changing conditions on the ground.
At approximately 9:00 p.m., multiple subjects began damaging police vehicles and throwing objects at officers on the scene.
At 10:54 p.m., the CMPD Civil Emergency Unit gave a dispersal order to the group. After an additional dispersal order was ignored by demonstrators, CEU officers deployed tear gas to disperse the unruly demonstrators, who continued to throw objects and damage property.
At approximately 1:45 a.m., an additional group of protestors gathered in both lanes of travel on Interstate 85 and started a fire. Both north and southbound lanes were shutdown. Dispersal orders were given at 3:00 a.m., tear gas was deployed and I-85 reopened at approximately 3:30 a.m.
Despite repeated directions to stop, demonstrators attempted to push through the police line, resulting in the arrest of one person. As of today, we know of a total of 16 officers who were injured. Multiple police vehicles were damaged, as officers attempted to deescalate the situation and protect our community.
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Putting out fires in uptown @WBTV_News pic.twitter.com/YD6c1o8ipP
— Sarah Blake Morgan (@StorytellerSBM) September 22, 2016
Tear gas near epicenter earlier @WBTV_News #KeithScott pic.twitter.com/e1StM1Btkq
— Sarah Blake Morgan (@StorytellerSBM) September 22, 2016
.@CMPD in riot gear in uptown. @WBTV_News #keithlamontsmith pic.twitter.com/fBSgJUXWjb
— Sarah Blake Morgan (@StorytellerSBM) September 22, 2016
Here's the man's sister. She says he did not have a gun. @CMPD says he did. @WBTV_News pic.twitter.com/JwHMixy9m7
— Sarah Blake Morgan (@StorytellerSBM) September 20, 2016
It looks to me that Sarah-Blake Morgan @ WBTV is purposely trying to put out false information to incite a riot.
It is obvious that the citizens of Charlotte,NC and America are being mis-informed.
Why aren’t our leaders telling the people that it is illegal to resist arrest.
Why isn’t our President telling the citizens of this country to follow our laws of the land? In all these incidents if the people involved would have followed the officer’s directions they would all still be alive.
Hillary Clinton and Obama are promoting this violence with there silence! At least Trump has said he wants law and order for everyone.
Vote Trump 2016
You phony Constitution lovers…remember that part about being able to resist unlawful arrest? All you 2nd Amendment tough guys are now calling for complete subservience and capitulation to police…because this particular resistor is BLACK. Besides 2 things are of importance, 1. they say he was carrying a book 2. he’s a licensed conceal carry gun owner. Hypocrisy gets you again Watchdog. Why don’t you just put the white sheet over your head with 2 eyehole cutouts and get it over with?
Shoot them all.
Shoot who? The racist bigoted rednecks scattered across North Iowa? Not a half bad idea. But let’s make it official and charge them with something first, then the government can come for them, and when they resist, they can legally be shot dead. Sounds like a plan.
How about we start with you.
What a cowardly, cop out response to Peter L. Comments like yours contribute nothing to this conversation.
Screw you, big mouth troll.
Nobody would miss Peter. In fact people would care so little, it would take days of silence coming from the basement before his mother even noticed he was missing.
Where is the story about the home owning taxpayer getting shot by police? Oh yah, he was at work instead of participating in suspicious activity.
Where is the natural emotion of sad/tears, if this happened to my relative or friend a natural reaction would be distraught/crying/sad, work of the sorcerers Christ told us about in Rev 2:9, 3:9 stirring up false flags to the Goyim.
The disabled man was able to hold a gun, now He is more disabled