A dozen police officers were injured Tuesday night in clashes with several hundred people protesting an officer-involved fatal shooting in the University City area.
Shouting protesters continued to block streets well after midnight, despite the use of tear gas by police in riot gear.
The protest began on Old Concord Road at Bonnie Lane, where a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer fatally shot a man in the parking lot of a University City apartment complex Tuesday afternoon.
The man who died was identified late Tuesday as Keith Lamont Scott, 43, and the officer who fired the fatal shot was CMPD Officer Brentley Vinson, a police statement said. Both men were African-American, a police source confirmed.
Police said they had been searching for someone who had an outstanding warrant at The Village at College Downs complex on Old Concord Road when they saw Scott leave his car holding a gun. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article103009432.html
So, once again, a bunch of thugs are rioting over an armed black man, who the cops weren't even concerned about. Now, he's dead and the cops go home and a bunch of thugs riot.
Hope and change, hows that working?
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