Five Reasons Police Were Justified In Shooting Keith Lamont Scott

By Bob Owens

“Mostly peaceful” anti-police protestors turned up in downtown Charlotte last night to denounce the (frankly obvious) decision make by prosecutors to not file criminal charges againstCharlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officer Brantley Vinson for the death of armed felon Keith Lamont Scott.

The march was generally peaceful, especially compared with the sometimes violent protests in the days after Scott’s death in September. A heavy rain that soaked protesters around 7 p.m. Wednesday may have kept some people from participating.

However, scuffles between police and protesters broke out around 8:30 p.m. at the EpiCentre as the march continued through uptown to the Transit Center. The procession returned to CMPD headquarters a few minutes before 9.

CMPD said its officers had arrested a total of three people as of 9 p.m. for obstructing traffic.

Protesters tried to lower the American flag in front of CMPD headquarters, but officers stopped them. Some chanted that CMPD “murdered” Scott, while others there are “no good cops in a racist system.”

Around 10 p.m., protestors left CMPD headquarters and marched north on Trade Street.

Despite a State Bureau of Investigation report into Scott’s death, some protesters insisted Wednesday that a white police officer – not Vinson, who is black – shot Scott.

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