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Dahboo77 Video: Charlotte Protests: Protesters Shutdown Highway in North Carolina
Authorities used tear gas to disperse protesters in an overnight demonstration that left about a dozen officers injured in North Carolina’s largest city and shut down a highway after the fatal shooting of a black man by Charlotte police who said he was armed and posed a threat.
The protests broke out Tuesday night after 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott was fatally shot by a black officer at an apartment complex on the city’s northeast side. They continued into early Wednesday morning, when TV footage showed dozens of protesters on Interstate 85 apparently looting semi-trucks and setting their contents on fire on the highway.
Following the shooting and prior to the protest, an online post on Facebook by a woman claiming to be Scott’s daughter angrily asserted that he was unarmed when police shot him. The Associated Press was not able to immediately verify the authenticity of the post.
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