Charlotte cop cleared in killing of black man
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A prosecutor’s decision to clear a Charlotte police officer in the killing of a black man left some African-American community leaders saying while the shooting may have been legal, it wasn’t right.
They called on Charlotte police to alter their policies to encourage officers to use non-deadly force, improve their negotiating skills and train them to work on deescalating confrontations before they turn deadly.
“People of color are being shot in situations, many times, where persons who are non-black, doing some of the same things, or worse, are not shot. That is deeply concerning. Criminal activity does not automatically legitimize assassination or death on the spot,” said the Reverend William Barber, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP.
Barber and others called for a full federal investigation into the shooting of Keith Scott by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Officer Brentley Vinson in the parking lot of his apartment complex in September. And Scott’s family said they would conduct their own investigation now that the State Bureau of Investigation’s evidence in the case has been released.
Scott family attorney Justin Bamberg said he understood why the district attorney decided not to file charges. “That does not mean that this officer’s killing of Keith Scott was right. All that means is that under the view of the DA’s office, it wasn’t criminal. And those are two completely different things.”
Charlotte-Mecklenburg District Attorney Andrew Murray welcomed a long, hard look at the evidence. He gave reporters a 40-minute presentation, then released his report online.
Several dozen protesters gathered on Wednesday night at Charlotte police headquarters, saying Murray’s report was a cover-up to protect white officers who actually shot Scott.
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