Headline Roundup September 21, 2016
Riots Hit Charlotte
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USA TODAY
There are conflicting stories about what led up to a Charlotte police officer shooting and killing Keith Scott. Police say he was armed with a gun. Witnesses and family say he was armed with a book. Now, anger is filling the streets.
Salon
Large protests erupted throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, late Tuesday night after police shot and killed a black father.
The family of the victim, who was identified as 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, says he was disabled, and was unarmed and reading a book in his car when he was killed. Police claim Scott was armed.
Blaze Media
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.
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