Protests breakout in North Carolina following deadly police shooting

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Demonstrators in the U.S. state of North Carolina clashed with police, looted a Walmart store and blocked an interstate. Several trucks were broken into and some of their contents burned.

CCTV America’s Jim Spellman reports.

The protests took place after a police officer shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old African American father of seven.

Scott was shot by a plain clothes officer who police said is also African American.

Some witnesses said Scott was sitting in a car reading a book waiting for a school bus to drop off his son.

But police said Scott got out of the car holding a gun. They say no book was found.

Police officials have not released dash cam video of the shooting.

The North Carolina shooting comes just days after a white police officer shot and killed Terence Crutcher, an unarmed 40-year-old African American in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The federal government is investigating the Tulsa shooting as a possible civil rights violation, while closely monitoring the incident in North Carolina.


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