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A protester told WCNC Charlotte's Lexi Wilson about his experience, as a Jamaican, seeing protests spread nationwide this past week after George Floyd's death in Minneapolis. As officers circled around the woman, protesters rushed to see what was happening. Mack said she believes people from outside Charlotte are intervening in the Charlotte community's peaceful protests. WCNC Charlotte's Lexi Wilson confirms that tear gas and rubber bullets have been used around the uptown protesters. CMPD told protesters If they don't disperse, they will be subject to arrest.
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The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction said in a statement that two of its veteran officers, Sam Poloche and Alden Elliott, were killed. The U.S. Marshals Service confirmed that one of its deputy marshals, Thomas Weeks, was among those killed. The task force is made up of officers from multiple agencies. During the news briefing Saturday evening, CMPD said they were unaware beforehand that a protest had been planned nor were they in the loop about the event.
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The event group was able to leave and protesters eventually dispersed. Later in the evening, CMPD said three men were charged with impeding traffic, while a woman was charged with impeding traffic, citing a riot, and assault on a government official. Around 4 p.m., CMPD said officers had arrested four people.
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He underwent surgery and is stable and expected to make a full recovery, police said. In February, two police officers and a paramedic were killed near Minneapolis after a man, who was barricaded in his home, opened fire on the police. Officers returned fire, and the gunman was later reported dead. In all, four members of the task force were shot, three of whom died.
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They were eventually dispersed from the interstate but continue to protest throughout uptown Charlotte in the hours that followed. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department confirmed in a post to X the protest was being held on private property on Monroe Road. Officers said up to 200 people were present in what was described as a civil rights protest regarding a cultural festival. The Hague Municipality spokesman Robin Middel said a group loyal to Eritrea's government was holding a meeting when the venue was attacked by Eritreans who oppose the African nation's government. Police spokeswoman Kristianne van Blanken said she could not immediately say if anybody was injured or if any rioters were arrested. "Protesters then intentionally set fire to a nearby tractor trailer. The Charlotte Fire Department quickly extinguished the fire and contained the scene," police said.
A Charlotte man named Sam, also known as "the Jesus Saves guy" told WCNC Charlotte's Hunter Saenz that the protests have been an opportunity to show the world that Charlotte loves its community and stands up for its own. Ahead of the second night of protests, a State of Emergency had been declared in Charlotte. Eventually, flashbangs, tear gas, and pepper spray would be used to try and disperse crowds. The charges for all eight suspects included impeding traffic and failure to disperse.
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(WBTV) - Protests went from peaceful to violent as the day was coming to an end during the third night of Charlotte protests on Sunday. Protesters and activists say the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott on the city’s northeast side was merely the tipping point in growing divisions between white and black, rich and poor, police and racial minorities. — More than 30 people were arrested or cited after a huge brawl broke out at a Fourth of July celebration at Romare Bearden Park in Uptown, police announced Wednesday.
As WCNC Charlotte's Hunter Saenz was reporting at the scene, a protester lit a firework. Then minutes later, protesters started retreating again — the cause is not known. The Charlotte Transportation Center in uptown Charlotte has temporarily closed due to the protests.
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"Shortly before 9 p.m., officers assisted with allowing the cultural event attendees to leave the scene. Protesters remained on scene initially but dispersed a short time later." All of the arrested people face charges for Impeding Traffic and Failure to Disperse. One woman was additionally charged with inciting a riot and Injury to Personal Property and Assault on a Government Official. Shortly after 3 p.m., police said protesters who remained in the area were pepper sprayed for blocking the street. Throughout the afternoon, the scene grew more violent after an officer was hit and several protestors were arrested.
Police said at least 30 protesters were arrested over the last few hours of the demonstrations and into the morning hours. The charges ranged from assault to illegal gun possession to possession of a dangerous weapon at a demonstration. Before Scott’s death, police-community relations had already been frayed in 2013, when a white officer shot a 24-year-old unarmed man dead after he crashed his car into a residential area a few miles from where Scott died. After the officer’s trial last year ended in hung jury, the state did not retry the case and the victim’s family settled a $2.25-million civil lawsuit. Scott was the sixth person to be fatally shot by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police since September 2015. The others were a Latino man, an Asian man and three black men.
Four police officers were killed in a three-hour standoff at a home in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Jefferson County, Kentucky grand jury recommended Wednesday three counts of first degree wanton endangerment for former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison for firing shots that went into a nearby apartment the night of Breonna Taylor's death. No arrests or injuries were reported in Charlotte Wednesday night as a result of the protests, according to CMPD.
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