“The community deserves answers and a full investigation will ensue,” Mayor said on Twitter, adding in a subsequent post, “I want answers too.”
Protesters blocked a highway and clashed with police in Charlotte, North Carolina, after officers fatally shot a black man they said had a gun when they approached him in a parking lot.
About a dozen officers and several protesters suffered non-life threatening injuries during an hours-long demonstration near where Keith Lamont Scott, 43, was shot by a policeman on Tuesday afternoon, police and local media said on social media.
Protesters blocked Interstate 85 for over two days, where they stole boxes from trucks and started fires before police used flash grenades in an attempt to disperse the angry crowd, media from US reported.
The police in riot gear reportedly used tear gas on protesters who threw rocks and water bottles at them as they wielded large sticks and blocked traffic. One officer was sent to the hospital after being struck in the head by a rock, police said.
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