Questions Remain As Police Release Video Of Fatal Charlotte Shooting

The release of dash cam and body cam footage follows days of protests and demands for footage to be made public

Andrea Germanos
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This image made from video provided by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016 shows Keith Scott on the ground as police approach him in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 20, 2016.

Following days of demonstrations, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department on Saturday released footage of the fatal shooting of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott. The release of dashboard camera and body camera footage came just one day after NBC released footage from Scott's wife, Rakeyia Scott, of the fatal encounter last Tuesday. Scott's

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UN: Police Killings Of Black Men Are Modern-Day Lynchings

There are over four times as many police killings a year as the worst years in lynchings and executions.

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A postcard showing the 1920 Duluth, Minnesota lynchings.

Police killings of Black people in the United States are reminiscent of lynchings and the government must do far more to protect them, a United Nations working group says in a report that will be debated at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday. The hard-hitting criticism—drawing a comparison between modern police behavior and mob killings of

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Oklahoma Police Release Disturbing Footage Of Police Killing Unarmed Black Man

Terence Crutcher, 40, was black and shot by a white police officer on Friday, after an officer stopped to investigate his stalled vehicle in the road.

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Terence Crutcher with his sister. (Facebook)

The Tulsa Police Department has released four videos of the fatal shooting of a 40-year-old black man after his car had stalled in the middle of the road. A pastor who watched the video the day before it was released asserted that the man’s "hands were in the air,” prior to the footage being made public on Monday

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Poll: Almost 70% Of Black Youth Experienced Harassment, Violence By Police

Among young whites and Asians in the new poll, just 3 in 10 say they or someone they know has experienced police harassment, and just 1 in 10 white and 1 in 20 Asians say that was a personal experience.

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Two Chicago police officers take a man into custody during a protest march, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015, in Chicago, the day after murder charges were brought against police officer Jason Van Dyke in the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

DETROIT  — Crystal Webb cringes whenever a patrol car appears in her rearview mirror. She also never wants to see the inside of a police station again. Her personal experience with police, plus recent fatal shootings of unarmed black men by white officers, has led the Apple Valley, California, mother of two to ask: Who are the good guys and who

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Police Already Made 2016 Deadlier Than 2015 By The End Of June

Mental illness was a known factor in almost a quarter of cases in which people were fatally shot by police so far this year, according to The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Fatal Force project.

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MINNEAPOLIS --- As controversy continues to swirl around the issue of police violence in the United States, the media continues to be our main source of data about the scope of the problem. The Washington Post, which tracks fatal shootings by police as part of its Fatal Force project, reports that there have already been 20 more fatal shootings

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Texas Grand Jury Won’t Indict Cop Who Shot Naked, Unarmed Black Teen

The lawyer for the family of the slain teen called it ‘a sad day for justice’ and said the case ‘calls into question the entire grand jury process in cases involving police misconduct.’

Kit O'Connell
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David Joseph, 17 years old, was gunned down by police while naked and unarmed.

AUSTIN, Texas --- On Tuesday, a grand jury declined to indict a police officer who shot a naked, unarmed black teen early this year. Geoffrey Freeman, an Austin police officer, who is also black, shot David Joseph on the morning of Feb. 8 after police received calls about a neighborhood disturbance. Police say Joseph charged at Freeman as he

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