North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Deborah Ross spoke with Roland Martin during a special Tom Joyner Morning Show / NewsOne Now simulcast about her campaign to win a Senate seat.
Keith Lamont Scott was shot in the back, the abdomen and the wrist by officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
Several days of unrest exacerbated by the city's lack of transparency in Scott's shooting death brought forth emotional reactions during a Monday night city council meeting.
Reviewing the videos, neither police dashcam or body-camera footage, shows the slain man pointing a gun at police officers.
What the video does not show is the exact moment Scott is shot on Tuesday by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers, but you can hear four shots fired in the background.
The Georgia NAACP is calling for a weekend of demonstrations in response to the fatal police shootings of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte and Terrance Crutcher in Tulsa. Activists want participants to wear black to show solidarity. And organizers stress—that participants must REMAIN PEACEFUL. Information on the rallies is below. I’ve also attached flyers for […]
Taheshia Williams claims that the police are lying and trying to cover-up their "mistake." Meanwhile, police chief maintains that Scott was armed, despite reviewed video lacking “definitive, visual evidence that would confirm that a person is pointing a gun."
Police Chief Kerr Putney prematurely declared the man's death Wednesday night, but later corrected the statement early Thursday morning. The city also corrected the news on their Twitter account.
Sherman's comments on Wednesday are starkly different from previous comments he made in July 2016, when he doubled down on previous "all lives matter" comments in response to the rally cry, "Black Lives Matter."
B.J. Murphy discusses the latest developments on the ground in Charlotte following a night of unrest.
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.
Overnight, protesters blocked off several streets and a portion of I-85 near the scene of the crime, rallying for justice.
