No charges filed in Charlotte shooting by cops: stand by

A black Charlotte police officer who shot and killed a black armed man at an apartment complex will not face charges, a North Carolina prosecutor, Andrew Murray, said today.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg DA Murray determined that Officer Brentley Vinson's actions in killing Keith Lamont Scott were justified.

Basically, what the officer did was to protect himself and the lives of other officers by shooting Scott, who was ordered about ten times to drop the gun he held in his hand. 

Hopefully, this will be the end of BLM protests along with others who see all blacks, regardless of the situation, as victims of police brutality . . . but I doubt it.

Scott's wife said that her husband was not armed when he was shot--this proved to be false. Others said that the officer who shot Scott was white--this proved to be a lie. Some say Scott was merely holding a book when he exited the vehicle, had his hands in the air when he was shot--this proved to be another lie by a witness who wasn't actually on or near the scene.

"We cannot know what Scott's intention was that day," Murray said.

I would guess that a man with a gun, cocked with a round in the chamber, after smoking pot and having taken medication that often causes aggressive behavior, may have had bad intentions.

Murray held a news conference and showed a nearby store's surveillance video that indicated what appeared to be a holstered gun in a holster on Scott's ankle. All four cops at the scene agreed that Scott had a gun and held it in his hand. Even before the incident, Officer Vinson informed another officer that he saw Scott with a gun.

After Scott was shot, the gun fell to the ground. It was cocked and a round chambered.

Scott's DNA was found on the slide and grip of the gun. It was illegally purchased on September 2nd, Murray explained. "Basically, the seller saw, what we all saw, the video of the incident and said, 'I know that guy and I know that gun,'" he said.

But nothing, absolutely nothing, will matter to people who want to protest for the sake of protesting something, anything that will help them feel morally superior, or simply express free-floating hatred.

Scott's final moments were videod by his wife, Rakeyia, and she shared it with the world on social media. She is heard screaming to police that her husband "doesn't have a gun." She was wrong or she was lying--I prefer to believe the former.

Following the shooting there were two nights of violent protests, including a fatal shooting in downtown Charlotte the next night. The city had to institute a curfew to keep violent protesters from protesting what they called violence by police.

How ironic.


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CNN Bias as usual

Blue Lives Matter, a law enforcement group, is charging CNN (aka Communist News Network) of editing video of the racially charged shooting of a Charlotte, NC man in order to make the police look like racist murderers. 

It used to be the networks reported the news, now they make it.

The organization is made up of active and retired law enforcement officers. They claim CNN edited video of the September 20th fatal shooting of Keith Scott, editing out the video in which the police repeatedly ordered Scott to "drop the gun." Of course, this poured gasoline on the anarchists' fires where they claim Scott didn't have a gun, but had a book when fatally shot by Officer Brentley Vinson.

Vinson is black but that didn't stop the anarchists from claiming racism was the motivation for the shooting. It doesn't matter the color of the cop, only the color of the victim when shot by a cop. It doesn't even matter when a black thug shoots a black child in, say, Chicago. If it doesn't fit their tiny-minded agenda, it simply doesn't matter to the hypocrites.

"The editing was clearly intended to give viewers the impression that Scott wasn't armed. By intentionally excluding information to promote the false narrative that the officer-involved shooting of Keith Scott was unjustified, CNN directly contributed towards inciting violence and destruction in the Charlotte riots," Blue Lives Matter said in a statement. "Innocent citizens were hurt during the Charlotte riots, but editing like this also incites violence against police officers long after the riots are over."

The video in question was taken by Scott's widow, Rakeyia Scott. You can hear her telling the police, "He has no weapon." That's what CNN viewers heard. What they didn't hear was the police yelling at Scott to drop his gun, which was found at the crime scene.

Police later released video showing Scott in his SUV rolling a joint, getting out of the vehicle and backing away from police as they had their guns drawn and assumed the shooting position. The video is grainy and we can't see if there was a gun in his hand, but police recovered a stolen, loaded handgun at the scene and revealed that Scott was wearing an ankle holster.

The full, unedited video includes a cop shouting, "Gun. Gun. Drop the gun."

Rakeyia Scott yells, "Don't shoot him. Don't shoot him. He didn't do anything." Police continue yelling for him to drop the gun at least 12 times in 38 seconds.

The edited video, Blue Lives Matter claims, helped create the false impression that the police acted with unnecessary force and it may have played a role in the rioting [along with George Soros, I bet].

"There are consequences to editing video like this, and it may cost more officers their lives," Blue Lives Matter said.

But the network is no stranger to the editor's cut. In August, they were accused of editing comments from the sister of a black man, Sylville Smith, killed by a black police officer in Milwaukee. Smith was ordered to put down his gun and he refused. 

The incident touched off riots, as usual.

CNN made it appear the sister, Sherelle, was calling for peace. She was quoted as calling for an end to violence "in the city." But CNN left out what came after that statement: a call for protesters to burn down the suburbs.

CNN's so-called 'correspondent' Anna Cabrera, tweeted an apology for the edit. "We short-handed sister's quote. Unintentionally gave the impression she was calling for peace everywhere. Correction."

Four people on Twitter read that tweet.

CNN isn't in the habit of apologizing on air as there may be over 1,000 viewers who see it.

You can see why the public no longer trusts journalists and the media.



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Keith Scott had abusive history and a gun

Charlotte, NC -- The new Black Lives Matter poster person (if I use the word 'boy' that would be considered a racist micro-aggression by college leftists who monitor those things) Keith Lamont Scott, 43, was shot and killed in Charlotte, NC after a confrontation with police. 

The police claimed Scott was holding a gun and refused to drop it, but his wife, Rakeyia Scott, claimed that he was holding a book. 

What has just been learned is that Scott had allegedly stabbed his wife in the back, hit one of his children and threatened to kill his family, Rakeyia claimed in multiple requests she made for domestic violence protective orders, one of which was filed last year.

According to local media who obtained documents, in 2004, Rakeyia Scott wrote that her husband "assaulted me several times by stabbing me in the back almost puncturing my lungs, he sliced me [sic] ear, and bruised my body," Fox 46 reported.

The more recent report written in October 2015 said: "He hit my 8 year old in the head a total of three times with is [sic] fist . . . He kicked me and threaten [sic] to kill us last night with his gun. He said he is a 'killer' and we should know that."

She also said that Keith carried a 9mm handgun but had no permit for the weapon.

The October 2015 order was dismissed later that month after Rakeyia claimed that her husband no longer posed a threat to the family. But the status of the 2004 request is not yet known.

Scott's wife reportedly recorded video of Keith's encounter with police last week. Police say he was armed with a gun, which was recovered at the scene which police say had been stolen and later sold to Mr. Scott. You can hear Rakeyia in the video yelling at her husband, "Don't do it. Keith, don't do it."

The two and a half-minute video doesn't show the shooting but gunshots can be heard after police command Scott to "Drop the gun," several times.

Portions of body cam video of the shooting has been released and more is hoped to be released after a State Bureau of Investigation probe is complete. Police Chief Kerr Putney said  that a new state law takes effect Oct. 1st requiring a judge's approval for further release of video footage.

Over 100 angry low-information protesters jammed City Council chambers Monday to vent their frustrations with police. Without knowing the full story, the fact that any shooting of a black person by a police officer, black or white, is a racist act in their mind, regardless of whether the cop's life was in danger. 

Keith Scott, Michael Brown and all of those who failed to comply with law enforcement and in many cases, broke the law, are not victims of police racism or brutality. Many of them are simply thugs who were too stupid to comply with police and posed a danger to them. But Black Lives Matter does not care about facts. They care about the script they pretend is playing out.

Knowing now what we have learned about Keith Lamont Scott, it becomes easier to believe law enforcement's version of the story. And until other facts prove otherwise, Black Lives Matter and all the rest of the race hustlers can sit on it.



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