Charlotte City Council blasted over police shooting reaction

But because he was rolling a joint while waiting, Scott’s regular family ritual ended with the death of yet another black man at the hands of trigger-happy police and led to days of civic unrest that have once again put both the nation’s racial tensions and the war on drugs in the spotlight.

A weekend without street violence was highlighted Sunday as the city hosted the National Football League game between the Carolina Panthers and the Minnesota Vikings without interruption.

He presented a list of demands that included a call for police to release of all tapes related to Scott’s death and an independent investigation by the Justice Department. In addition to facing calls to step down from demonstrators, the North Carolina Republican Party has criticized her for the way she handled the shooting and the protest, according to The Charlotte Observer.

Putney referenced that conversation in July, following the killings of five Dallas police officers in a fiery speech that ended up getting more than 2 million views online. The protester, 26-year-old Donnell Jones of Missouri, was not hurt and was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, police said. Charlotte officials had warned earlier Monday that marching or demonstrating in the streets without a permit is illegal. Inside the stadium, Carolina safety Marcus Ball raised his fist during the anthem.

Police did not capture key video footage of the fatal shooting because a responding officer apparently didn’t turn on his body camera until after Scott had already been shot – a violation of department policy, WBTV reported. Police also said that they observed Scott smoking marijuana in his vehicle and then wielding a gun outside of his apartment complex before he was approached by officers. Police sources told WBTV that an unidentified burglar allegedly stole the firearm during a break-in at a residence sometime before the September 20 shooting.

In a video released last week capturing the moments before and after Scott was shot by police, Rakeyia Scott can be heard telling officers: “Don’t shoot him!” His family says he was holding a book.

The question of whether or not Scott had a gun on him when police took action against him looks more and more like it’s closer to being answered.

Four shots are heard.

The two videos, one from a dashcam and the other from a body camera, do not offer a conclusive account of what happened.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said they found Scott’s DNA and fingerprints on a handgun recovered at the scene, and that he was wearing an ankle holster when he was killed. Dozens of people on Sunday stopped by a makeshift memorial near the site where Scott died. The video is not clear enough to see whether something is in Scott’s hand. Bamberg said that after Scott was badly hurt in a motorcycle accident in November 2015, his wife of 20 years nursed him back to health. And you have to believe that the police had no good reason to think that the armed man standing in front of them, a man who refused to drop the gun after being ordered to many times by police ordering him to do so, threatened their lives.

According to CMPD policy, uniformed officers are supposed to activate their body cameras before interactions with citizens that involve traffic stops, suspicious vehicles, “voluntary investigative contact” and arrests. You don’t want a confrontation.

“We hate you”, one protester said. Lawyers for a coalition of media groups have written a letter asking for more video footage and other information related to a fatal police shooting.

Scott, who was living in Charlotte, was from James Island.