Charlotte Police & Keith Lamont Scott’s Family Differ On Chain Of Events
Authorities and Scott's supporters gave two separate press conferences on Wednesday morning.
At the center of the Keith Lamont Scott shooting investigation is a major discrepancy between authorities and Scott’s family about what led to the fatal incident.
Charlotte police claim Scott was armed, but his family says he was perched in his car, reading a book while he waited for his son after school. Scott, 43, was a husband and a father to seven children. According to his family, he was also disabled.
On Wednesday morning, Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney held a presser relaying that authorities followed protocol: ordering Scott to stand down before they fired, NBC News reports.
Putney also referred to reports from yesterday, confirming that a gun was recovered at the scene and that the officer involved, Brentley Vinson, was in plainclothes at the time of the shooting. Police did not find a book at the crime scene, Kerr said during the presser.
“We are calling for peace, we are calling for calm, we are calling for dialogue,” Roberts said to reporters, also noting that she previously spoke with the White House and the governor’s office.
Putney added that Vinson was not wearing a body camera, but the three other police officers on the scene were. According to Kerr, there are no plans to release the videos anytime soon, due to the ongoing investigation.
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory recently signed a bill preventing the release of body camera footage, scheduled to go into effect October 1.
Scott’s supporters held a different presser, according to WCNC, calling for a separate independent investigation and an economic boycott in Charlotte.
Reverend BJ Murphy of the Nation Of Islam said: “Our black men here, and our black people, are being gunned down in the street and we don’t get no justice. So what I’m calling for, and we’re calling for, is an economic boycott of the whole city of Charlotte. Since black lives do not matter for this city, then our black dollars shouldn’t matter.”
Leaders also paid tribute to other Black men killed by police. Civil rights activist John Barnett said the community is “sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
SOURCE: NBC News, WCNC, YouTube, Twitter | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty, Twitter
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109 Black Men And Boys Killed By Police
109 Black Men And Boys Killed By Police
1. Andrew Brown, 40
1 of 1092. Matthew Williams, 35
2 of 1093. Daunte Wright, 20

4. Marvin D. Scott III, 26

5. Kurt Reinhold, 42

6. McHale Rose, 19
6 of 1097. Xzavier Hill, 18
Source:Change.org 7 of 1098. Frederick Cox, 18

9. Patrick Warren Sr.

10. Carl Dorsey III, 39
10 of 10911. Dolal Idd, 23

12. Andre' Hill, 47
12 of 10913. Joshua Feast
13 of 10914. Maurice Gordon

15. Casey Goodson Jr.

16. Rodney Applewhite

17. A.J. Crooms
17 of 10918. Sincere Pierce
18 of 10919. Walter Wallace Jr.
19 of 10920. Marcellis Stinnette, teen killed by police in Waukegan, Illinois

21. Jonathan Price
21 of 10922. Deon Kay
22 of 10923. Daniel Prude
23 of 10924. Damian Daniels
24 of 10925. Dijon Kizzee
25 of 10926. Trayford Pellerin

27. David McAtee
27 of 10928. Natosha “Tony” McDade
28 of 10929. George Floyd
29 of 10930. Yassin Mohamed
30 of 10931. Finan H. Berhe
31 of 10932. Sean Reed

33. Steven Demarco Taylor

34. Ariane McCree

35. Terrance Franklin
35 of 10936. Miles Hall

37. Darius Tarver

38. William Green
38 of 10939. Samuel David Mallard, 19
39 of 10940. Kwame "KK" Jones, 17

41. De’von Bailey, 19
41 of 10942. Christopher Whitfield, 31
42 of 10943. Anthony Hill, 26
43 of 10944. De'Von Bailey, 19
44 of 10945. Eric Logan, 54
45 of 10946. Jamarion Robinson, 26
46 of 10947. Gregory Hill Jr., 30
47 of 10948. JaQuavion Slaton, 20
48 of 10949. Ryan Twyman, 24
49 of 10950. Brandon Webber, 20
50 of 10951. Jimmy Atchison, 21
51 of 10952. Willie McCoy, 20
52 of 10953. Emantic "EJ" Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., 21
53 of 10954. D’ettrick Griffin, 18
54 of 10955. Jemel Roberson, 26
Source:false 55 of 10956. DeAndre Ballard, 23
Source:false 56 of 10957. Botham Shem Jean, 26
Source:false 57 of 10958. Antwon Rose Jr., 17
Source:false 58 of 10959. Robert Lawrence White, 41
Source:false 59 of 10960. Anthony Lamar Smith, 24

61. Ramarley Graham, 18

62. Manuel Loggins Jr., 31

63. Trayvon Martin, 17

64. Wendell Allen, 20

65. Kendrec McDade, 19

66. Larry Jackson Jr., 32

67. Jonathan Ferrell, 24

68. Jordan Baker, 26

69. Victor White lll, 22

70. Dontre Hamilton, 31

71. Eric Garner, 43

72. John Crawford lll, 22

73. Michael Brown, 18

74. Ezell Ford, 25

75. Dante Parker, 36

76. Kajieme Powell, 25

77. Laquan McDonald, 17

78. Akai Gurley, 28

79. Tamir Rice, 12

80. Rumain Brisbon, 34

81. Jerame Reid, 36

82. Charly Keunang, 43

83. Tony Robinson, 19

84. Walter Scott, 50

85. Freddie Gray, 25

86. Brendon Glenn, 29

87. Samuel DuBose, 43

88. Christian Taylor, 19

89. Jamar Clark, 24

90. Mario Woods, 26

91. Quintonio LeGrier, 19

92. Gregory Gunn, 58

93. Akiel Denkins, 24

94. Alton Sterling, 37

95. Philando Castile, 32

96. Terrence Sterling, 31

97. Terence Crutcher, 40

98. Keith Lamont Scott, 43

99. Alfred Olango, 38

100. Jordan Edwards, 15

101. Stephon Clark, 22
Source:false 101 of 109102. Danny Ray Thomas, 34
Source:false 102 of 109103. DeJuan Guillory, 27
Source:false 103 of 109104. Patrick Harmon, 50
104 of 109105. Jonathan Hart, 21
105 of 109106. Maurice Granton, 24
106 of 109107. Julius Johnson, 23
107 of 109108. Jamee Johnson, 22

109. Michael Dean, 28

109 Black Men And Boys Killed By Police
UPDATED: 3:08 p.m. ET, April 21, 2021 -- The centuries-old American tradition of police shooting and killing Black males suffered an untraditional jolt on Tuesday when former cop Derek Chauvin was found guilty and convicted on all counts for murdering George Floyd by kneeling on the unarmed, handcuffed man's neck for more than nine minutes. https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1384614198282530816?s=20 But the anomaly of a guilty verdict was far from enough to offset the apparent violent rite of police passage that is still thriving in 2021 and only seems to be gaining momentum instead of slowing. It should give any American citizen pause as a steady number of Black people -- especially males both young and old -- continue to be added to a growing list of victims with what seems like a new shooting every week. MORE: #SayHerName: Black Women And Girls Killed By Police In the wake of repeated brutality and police violence waged on Black communities, a 40-year-old Black man from North Carolina was shot and killed by police on Wednesday morning. https://twitter.com/WAVY_News/status/1384904119551397895?s=20 According to WAVY, the victim was identified as Andrew Brown, a resident of Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Details are still being revealed about the shooting, but according to local law enforcement, the incident took place around 8:30 a.m. as Pasquotank County Sheriff's deputies attempted to serve a search warrant. Brown, who was unarmed and a father of 10, reportedly exited the residence and drove away in his car when police fired a total of six to eight shots. Brown's family says that he did not hurt anyone prior to him being shot. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation has been called in to take over the investigation and local authorities will hold a press conference at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon to discuss the shooting. A crowd of demonstrators began gathering near the area in protest. Brown's killing comes one day after the guilty verdict in the murder of George Floyd, and the shooting of Ma'Khia Wright, a 16-year-old Columbus, Ohio girl. Brown's name joins a long list of other Black men and boys killed by the police, including but certainly not limited to: Tamir Rice; Botham Shem Jean; E.J. Bradford; and Michael Brown. But two of the most recent names that can tragically be included in this deadly equation are Michael Dean, a 28-year-old father who police shot in the head on Dec. 3, 2019, and Jamee Johnson, a 22-year-old HBCU student who police shot to death after a questionable traffic stop on Dec. 14, 2019. One of the most distressing parts of this seemingly nonstop string of police killings of Black people is the fact that more times than not, the officer involved in the shooting can hide behind the claim that they feared for their lives -- even if the victim was shot in the back, as has become the case for so many deadly episodes involving law enforcement. In a handful of those cases -- such as Antwon Rose, a 13-year-old boy killed in Pittsburgh, and Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old killed in Sacramento, both of whom were unarmed -- the officers either avoided being criminally charged altogether or were acquitted despite damning evidence that the cops' lives were not threatened and there was no cause for them to resort to lethal force or any violence for that matter. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who has been retained in so many of these cases, described the above scenarios in his new book, "Open Season," as the "genocide" of Black people. As NewsOne continues covering these shootings that so often go ignored by mainstream media, the below running list (in no certain order) of Black men and boys who have been shot and killed by police under suspicious circumstances can serve as a tragic reminder of the dangers Black and brown citizens face upon being born into a world of hate that has branded them as suspects since birth. Scroll down to learn more about the Black men and boys who have lost their lives to police violence.
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