#HNNGunViolence Keith Lamont Scott had a GUN NOT a BOOK so Police SHOT him DEAD--Chief

Keith Lamont Scott

UPDATE: New videos suggest that a gun may have been planted beside his body. There is the police footage, wife's footage and body can footage. The wife's footage has her yelling "Don't do it Keith".... Do what? Kill police? It is all confusing. Meanwhile the whole of downtown Charlotte has been trashed by protesters!

The armed man fatally shot by North Carolina cops Tuesday was given multiple warnings to drop his weapon, police officials said in the wake of violent late-night clashes between law enforcement and protesters. The killing of Keith Lamont Scott, 43, set off a night of protests and violence that left 16 officers injured as demonstrators threw rocks and blocked a highway, authorities said.

"The extent of injuries varied, but all are minor enough that they would be released," Putney said.

Scott had been sitting in his car at The Village at College Downs complex near the University of North Carolina at Charlotte when officers arrived before 4 p.m. ET.

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