Charlotte goin down down baby.

[6souls]

Just actin out cuz y not.

In London & Charlotte at the same time.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...FB_mirror_main

[thetruepandagod]

I've been BAMBOOZLED

Spoiler: show

This is what I get for going to reddit

[NynJa]

No video released and its just from a source so still nothing solid to go on. This might be one of those times to accidentally leak the video.

No one will believe it, they'll just cry how its fake and what not.

[Galkaeater]

The family is saying he was reading a book, he didn't have a gun, and was even afraid of guns. It's crazy that some people can roll into Starbucks with AR15s and nothing happens.

Thats believable

[Xno Kappa]

Thats believable

[Fiye]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/22/us/charlotte-protests/

Get ready for more protests/riots folks.

After violent protests raged for the second night in Charlotte over the police shooting of a black man, the city's police chief told reporters Thursday he has no intention of releasing dashcam video of Keith Lamont Scott's shooting "to the masses."

It would be inappropriate to present footage of "a victim's worst day" for public consumption, Chief Kerr Putney said. Asked if there was a time at which the public could expect to see it, the chief said there should be no such expectation.
Scott's family has asked to see the video, and Putney said he hopes to accommodate that request. He warned, however, that the video will not provide "definitive visual evidence" that Scott pointed a gun at police officers. But other evidence and witness accounts support the police narrative that officers opened fire only after Scott refused to drop his weapon, he said.

Also in case you're wondering

North Carolina recently passed a law that blocks the release of police recordings from body or dashboard cameras with limited exceptions. But that law is not set to take effect until October.
"Technology like dashboard cameras and body cameras can be very helpful, but when used by itself technology can also mislead and misinform, which causes other issues and problems within our community," Gov. Pat McCrory said after signing the bill into law in July.

I fucking hate this governor.

[Xno Kappa]

It'll be overturned. It's straight up unconstitutional spitting in the face of FOIA. Unless its lewd and lascivious acts with a minor, the police have no leg to stand on to withhold this video after the investigation is complete.

[FNH]

It'll be overturned. It's straight up unconstitutional spitting in the face of FOIA. Unless its lewd and lascivious acts with a minor, the police have no leg to stand on to withhold this video after the investigation is complete.

iirc, FOIA only applies to the Federal Executive branch. State agencies would be subject to state laws, which NC has the above posted law.

[Yuri-G]

what's the point, so cops can say "no trust us man we saw the video evidence"? which brings us right back to where we were before bodycams, great plan guys!


seriously. what part of "if you haven't done wrong, you have nothing to hide" and "public trust is one of our most valuable assets" is so hard for some people in the policing sector to understand?

[dasva]

To play devil's advocate here things can look bad at the casual glance a lot of the public will take at these things and not actually be wrong. You can in fact sort of have something to hide from the general public even you did nothing wrong.

The real crux of this will be exactly who will be the ones normally reviewing it and the exceptions. Like as a matter of course pretty much anyone related to any the potential case should obviously have full access and some outside organization should view it. And there is no good reason family shouldn't get to see it

[Fiye]

People should have the choice of whether or not to see it. But to be simply told 'No, we're not releasing this footage to you' makes for a sour start to relationships. The police in charlotte haven't really done much besides say "officers gave Keith Lamont Scott, the 43-year-old black man who was killed by an officer Tuesday, multiple warnings to drop his gun before shooting him." and right now we're at the he says she's say narritive where police are saying "He had a gun" and his family are stating "He had a book"

Its a bad look for police and shutting themselves up raises more questions than answers.

http://www.theatlantic.com/news/arch...rotest/500918/

[Roranora]

When will this website allow webm's protester just got shot and killed in charlotte.

http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1474510133529.webm

so this guy that was dead then critical condition is dead again. Protesters say he was headshotted by a non-lethal (usually) round from riot police, was KO'd, and crushed his head again on the fall? whatchu know BG

[Quicklet]

Plausible, but unconfirmed. Police were adamant that it was "civilian-on-civilian" violence last night but walked it back today and basically said they don't know and are investigating. Not sure what the ramifications are if it does turn out to be true.

[Ezek]

merica you crazy

[GoggleHead]

I can see this being a path to authoritarian rule. You let shit like that slide often enough until the only option to curb it is to deploy some sort of military force to restore the peace and voila, dystopian nightmare.

[Day]

I keep seeing this vid randomly...with different soundtracks... thoughts?

[Niiro]

Most white people are killed by white people.

Most Latinos are killed by other Latinos.

"But black on black" crime is a red herring that's meant to change the subject without addressing the actual issue.

A clearly biased video of very specifically chosen footage is never a valid argument, it's a video about feels and creating a specific, extremely superficial narrative.

"Here's a supercut of black people doing bad things and cops doing good things, and a token black guy supporting my opinion"

[Day]

I think it could be said that BLM is a narrative as well. I mean I would be led to believe cops are killing blacks left and right all over the place in comparison to whites. I would be led to believe all officers have it out for blacks if I followed that narrative, and I can't say I agree.

I think the point is that everyone is so quick to protest a cop shooting but are completely indifferent to homicides. If I had to take a wild guess the difference in those totals would be staggering.

[Cjskater]

A clearly biased video of very specifically chosen footage is never a valid argument, it's a video about feels and creating a specific, extremely superficial narrative.

"Here's a supercut of black people doing bad things and cops doing good things, and a token black guy supporting my opinion"

I hope you didn't just assume that based on the subject and not actually watch it.

[Niiro]

I think it could be said that BLM is a narrative as well. I mean I would be led to believe cops are killing blacks left and right all over the place in comparison to whites. I would be led to believe all officers have it out for blacks if I followed that narrative, and I can't say I agree.

I think the point is that everyone is so quick to protest a cop shooting but are completely indifferent to homicides. If I had to take a wild guess the difference in those totals would be staggering.

Homicides are not committed by the state, and police don't need to kill anyone in order to exacerbate the problems of poor minorities.

Police are not the root nor the only cause of problems in black neighborhoods but they're the most visible daily reminder of institutional racism in our society, it's much harder to get upset about generations of redlining and underfunded schools.