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Police Who Fatally Shot Black Man in Charlotte Will Not be Charged

by VOA News

   No charges will be filed against the police officer who shot and killed
   a black man in Charlotte, North Carolina in September.

   "I believe Officer Vinson acted lawfully," District Attorney of
   Charlotte-Mecklenburg Andrew Murray announced Wednesday, saying that 15
   prosecutors on the team voted unanimously in the case of Keith Lamont
   Scott.

   Murray showed surveillance footage of Keith Lamont Scott from a
   convenience store he visited earlier that day showing a bulge on his
   ankle, bearing a striking resemblance to the gun and holster found on
   the scene.

   Murray did, however, confirm that all dash cam and body cam video from
   the scene does not show Scott's hands at the time of the shooting -
   making it impossible to confirm that he was threatening to shoot the
   officers.

   Scott, 43, was shot to death on September 20, triggering days of
   protests in North Carolina's largest city.