No, Keith Scott Rioters, Brandishing a Weapon Is Not Lawful Open Carry

By Bob Owens

Rioting broke out in Charlotte, NC last night after police officers searching for a man with an outstanding warrant in an apartment complex in the northeast part of the city encountered another man they say was brandishing a firearm. When officers approached the man, he allegedly “posed an imminent deadly threat” and was shot.

Charlotte’s Tuesday night protests began on Old Concord Road at Bonnie Lane, where a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer fatally shot a man in the parking lot of a University City apartment complex Tuesday afternoon.

The man who died was identified late Tuesday as Keith Lamont Scott, 43, and the officer who fired the fatal shot was CMPD Officer Brentley Vinson, a police statement said.

Police said they had been searching for someone who had an outstanding warrant at The Village at College Downs complex on Old Concord Road when they saw Scott leave his car holding a gun.

Officers approached Scott after he got back into the car. He emerged from the car again armed with a firearm “and posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers, who subsequently fired their weapon striking the subject,” police said in a statement. “The officers immediately requested Medic and began performing CPR.”

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Source:: Bearing Arms