Quote:CHARLOTTE — Demonstrators started a fire and shut down part of Interstate 85 early Wednesday and about 12 police officers were injured and squad cars damaged when protests erupted after an African-American man was shot and killed by another officer.


Police began using tear gas and flash bangs to disperse demonstrators, who police said had been joined by "agitators."


Police were guarding a Walmart store early Wednesday after protesters smashed the store's doors, according to media reports.
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Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts appealed for calm.

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The protests erupted Tuesday night over the officer-involved shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott, 43. Officers were searching for a suspect with an outstanding warrant Tuesday afternoon at The Village at College Downs when they observed a person — not the suspect they were looking for — inside a vehicle at the apartment complex, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police.

Protesters face off with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers in north Charlotte Sept. 20, 2016. (Photo: WCNC-TV, Charlotte)

The man exited the vehicle armed with a firearm, then got back in. When officers approached the car, the person got out of the car with the gun again. The officers considered the man to be "an imminent deadly threat to the officers who subsequently fired their weapon striking the subject," officials said.


Emergency responders transported the man to Carolinas Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
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No officers were injured in that incident. Detectives recovered a firearm and were interviewing witnesses.


The officer who fired the fatal shot was Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Brentley Vinson, a police statement said. Both Scott and Vinson are African American, the [i]Charlotte Observer reported[/i].


Vinson was placed on administrative leave, which is standard procedure, the Observer reported. Vinson has been with the department for two years, according to the Associated Press.


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Racial tensions are high across the country in the wake of other officer-involved shootings. The shooting death of an unarmed black man named Terence Crutcher on Friday night in Tulsa came under the spotlight Monday as video footage that captured the encounter circulated on social media.

As night fell, a crowd of about 100 people gathered, chanting in protest, the Associated Press reported. Police blocked access to the area, which is about a mile from the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

(09-21-2016, 09:30 AM)GMDino Wrote: This is madness.

I hold on to the belief that the people doing the destruction either don't really care about the incident or they are too dumb to understand it.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/09/20/susect-killed-police-involved-shooting-charlotte/90755694/



This type of behavior does NOTHING to help the situation.  

(09-21-2016, 10:42 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Police officer shoots armed suspect, people get mad.  Sadly there are a lot of people who think like you.  You're the last person who should be expressing surprise over this.

(09-21-2016, 10:59 AM)GMDino Wrote: If more people thought like me we'd have peaceful demonstrations, thoughtful dialogue and real discussions on the events.

But thanks for another personal attack.  You're at least good at that.  

(09-21-2016, 11:11 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Family says he was sitting in the car waiting for his kid to get off the bus, had a book not a gun. Cops say they recovered a firearm.

(09-21-2016, 11:06 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Pointing out your past posts is not a personal attack.  Sorry you're so thin skinned that pointing out your own words comes off as an attack. 

(09-21-2016, 11:15 AM)GMDino Wrote: Misinterpreting my posts is.

Please stay on topic.  Thanks.

(09-21-2016, 11:14 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Remember the teenager who got shot in the St. Louis area not long after Mike Brown?  His family said he was holding a sandwich.  Turned out the sandwich was actually a handgun.  I'm sure the more conspiratorially inclined among us will bring up a plant gun.  Alex Jones had multiple children who are now part of the anti-law enforcement movement.

(09-21-2016, 11:19 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: You started the off topic conversation, please keep up.  Again, you have a history of posts that are anti-law enforcement and have demonstrated an inclination to dismiss the accounts of LEO's.  Pointing out that these protesters, who are protesting the shooting of an armed man, share that particular trait with you.  Hence your surprise at their behavior seems rather fake to me.  Forced at the very least.

(09-21-2016, 11:39 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Police said he had a gun.  Police recover a gun.  Officer responsible is Black.

Reports of rioters yelling "Black lives matter", "Hands up, don't shoot".

Time to shut down the Interstate and loot the local Walmart..  Police in riot gear, getting pelted with bottles and rocks.

I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of this crap.

(09-21-2016, 12:01 PM)CageTheBengal Wrote: How come police can't stop people who aren't an immediate threat without killing them? They should be trained and willing to do everything possible to avoid death. Tasers, beanbags and shooting someone in the leg ass opposed to killing them all seem like realistic options. Also they should actually be physically fit so there not intimidated by a big  man which results in fearful decision making. If they could defend themselves without weapons they wouldn't have to hide behind one at the first instance of fear. Killing someone for simply not following precise orders is more like living in an country ruled by order not freedom. Whether the person is messed up on drugs, (Most people are these days when opoids are handed out like candy. It's not just "low lives") or just simply deaf or hearing impaired more than likely you're gonna get shot (more then once.) or tar knocked out of you. Everyone has a right to a trial but it never gets to that point when you're 20 feet underground.

Officers take these jobs knowing there is danger involved but want to cry foul if they sense they might ever get a scratch on them. Am I going to take a job a roofer and then complain when I have to stand on a hot roof and my back aches? These people chose this profession if they can't handle it because they are physically unfit or mentally unstable they need to get out of the line of work. Nobody said it was an easy job.

(09-21-2016, 12:01 PM)CageTheBengal Wrote: How come police can't stop people who aren't an immediate threat without killing them? They should be trained and willing to do everything possible to avoid death. Tasers, beanbags and shooting someone in the leg ass opposed to killing them all seem like realistic options. Also they should actually be physically fit so there not intimidated by a big  man which results in fearful decision making. If they could defend themselves without weapons they wouldn't have to hide behind one at the first instance of fear. Killing someone for simply not following precise orders is more like living in an country ruled by order not freedom. Whether the person is messed up on drugs, (Most people are these days when opoids are handed out like candy. It's not just "low lives") or just simply deaf or hearing impaired more than likely you're gonna get shot (more then once.) or the tar knocked out of you. Everyone has a right to a trial but it never gets to that point when you're 20 feet underground.

Officers take these jobs knowing there is danger involved but want to cry foul if they sense they might ever get a scratch on them. Am I going to take a job a roofer and then complain when I have to stand on a hot roof and my back aches? These people chose this profession if they can't handle it because they are physically unfit or mentally unstable they need to get out of this line of work. Nobody said it was an easy job.

For the record I don't believe it's just a race issue that's just a piece of the puzzle. I think low income families in general get judged and treated unfairly as well.

(09-21-2016, 12:01 PM)CageTheBengal Wrote: How come police can't stop people who aren't an immediate threat without killing them? They should be trained and willing to do everything possible to avoid death. Tasers, beanbags and shooting someone in the leg ass opposed to killing them all seem like realistic options. Also they should actually be physically fit so there not intimidated by a big  man which results in fearful decision making. If they could defend themselves without weapons they wouldn't have to hide behind one at the first instance of fear. Killing someone for simply not following precise orders is more like living in an country ruled by order not freedom. Whether the person is messed up on drugs, (Most people are these days when opoids are handed out like candy. It's not just "low lives") or just simply deaf or hearing impaired more than likely you're gonna get shot (more then once.) or the tar knocked out of you. Everyone has a right to a trial but it never gets to that point when you're 20 feet underground.

Officers take these jobs knowing there is danger involved but want to cry foul if they sense they might ever get a scratch on them. Am I going to take a job a roofer and then complain when I have to stand on a hot roof and my back aches? These people chose this profession if they can't handle it because they are physically unfit or mentally unstable they need to get out of this line of work. Nobody said it was an easy job.

For the record I don't believe it's just a race issue that's just a piece of the puzzle. I think low income families in general get judged and treated unfairly as well.

(09-21-2016, 12:01 PM)CageTheBengal Wrote: How come police can't stop people who aren't an immediate threat without killing them? They should be trained and willing to do everything possible to avoid death. Tasers, beanbags and shooting someone in the leg ass opposed to killing them all seem like realistic options. Also they should actually be physically fit so there not intimidated by a big  man which results in fearful decision making. If they could defend themselves without weapons they wouldn't have to hide behind one at the first instance of fear. Killing someone for simply not following precise orders is more like living in an country ruled by order not freedom. Whether the person is messed up on drugs, (Most people are these days when opoids are handed out like candy. It's not just "low lives") or just simply deaf or hearing impaired more than likely you're gonna get shot (more then once.) or the tar knocked out of you. Everyone has a right to a trial but it never gets to that point when you're 20 feet underground.

Officers take these jobs knowing there is danger involved but want to cry foul if they sense they might ever get a scratch on them. Am I going to take a job a roofer and then complain when I have to stand on a hot roof and my back aches? These people chose this profession if they can't handle it because they are physically unfit or mentally unstable they need to get out of this line of work. Nobody said it was an easy job.

For the record I don't believe it's just a race issue that's just a piece of the puzzle. I think low income families in general get judged and treated unfairly as well.

(09-21-2016, 12:07 PM)bfine32 Wrote: "Shoot them in the leg" for real? Why not just shoot the gun out of their hand?

As to the rest: I'm sure each office has evaluation critera both physical and mental that LEO's must meet or excede. Because they are are not to the standard that you require is irrelivent.

(09-21-2016, 12:01 PM)CageTheBengal Wrote: How come police can't stop people who aren't an immediate threat without killing them?