North Carolina Police Create Suspicion And Anger In Declining To Release Footage Showing The Shooting Death Of Black Motorist Keith Lamont Scott By Cop

Keith Lamont Scott, his wife and son
 

Protests turned into riots in North Carolina after 43-year-old black motorist Keith Lamont Scott was shot and killed by police. The officer who pulled the trigger is a black. Police officials state Scott was carrying a gun and ordered to drop the weapon. However, witnesses to the murder stated he did not point a gun at police, but was reading a book in his car, while waiting for the school bus to drop off his son. 

North Carolina police officials first insisted Scott had a gun and brandished the weapon. However, when asked to release dash cam and body cam footage of the shooting death, police declined. Police Chief, Kerr Putney, is now changing his story stating the video of the shooting does NOT illustrate, “Absolute, definitive evidence that would confirm that a person was pointing a gun.” It should be noted, North Carolina is an open carry state, where people are permitted to have weapons on display.

When Scott was ordered to exit the vehicle, he complied. Scott exited the car and slowly walked backwards away from the officer. That is not an aggressive stance. Someone who is an imminent threat would walk towards the officer. However, this is the pattern we keep seeing: black men surrendering to law enforcement in submissive stances and getting shot and killed anyway.

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We’ve even seen a black man running away from police only to be chased down, shot in the back several times, his face pushed into the ground to the point of suffocation to ensure death and a gun planted beside his lifeless body (South Carolina Police Officer Charged With Murder For Shooting A Fleeing Black Man In The Back 8 Times Then Framing Him For Theft).

We've also seen a black woman framed by police, then exonerated by mobile phone audio and video showing she was the innocent victim of their crimes [Cop Tases Woman For Filming Him Engaging In Police Brutality, Calls Her A 'Dumb B***h' And Lies Stating She Tried To Run Him Over (Video)]. 

We've seen cops frame up a number of black people who went to prison for crimes they did not commit (4 Florida Cops Fired For Slurring Black People And Planting Evidence Sending Innocent Minorities To Prison Which Casts Prosecutorial Doubt On Over 50 Criminal Convictions (Video)). There are but a few of many examples. Incidents such as these have fuelled public distrust of police.

Protester, Justin Carr, was killed by police
 

So let's not pretend that some cops do not engage in police brutality, lie in reports about excessive force, tamper with evidence and plant items at crime scenes to frame up innocent people. It has happened many times in well documented cases. Black men in particular are being framed and hunted by police and it is murder. That's not justifiable homicide.

The protests that ensued in North Carolina turned into riots. People were attacked and businesses and vehicles were destroyed, which is all regrettable. Violence only begets more violence. In future, please refrain from turning peaceful protests into scenes of violence. I understand your anger in North Carolina, but don't turn to violence and vandalism. Don't destroy your communities. Be the dignified people I know you are and keep things peaceful.

In closing, irrespective of the fact the officer who shot Scott is black, based on witness accounts and the inability of police to present video to corroborate his story of Scott pointing a gun at him, he needs to be charged with murder and imprisoned for killing a submissive man that witnesses stated was reading a book in his car. How many times have you, as a member of the public, sat in a car waiting for someone, minding your own business, while reading a book, newspaper or your phone. No one deserves to be killed for that.

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Congressman Robert Pittenger Puts His Foot In His Mouth During Interview Stating ‘Black People Hate White People Because White People Are Successful And They Are Not’ (Video)

A sitting member of the U.S. Congress, Robert Pittenger, did a widely televised interview on the BBC, regarding current North Carolina protests and riots, in response to the shooting death of black man Keith Lamont Scott at the hands of an unnamed police officer. Congressman Pittenger, of North Carolina, caused a great deal of offense with his degrading racial statements that are a poor representation of the U.S. Congress.

The interview started quite normally, but then Pittenger began making race based statements that were uncomfortable. BBC newscaster James O’Brien tried to steer him back on the right track, to refocus on the protests and riots that occurred due to the murder of Keith Lamont Scott. However, congressman Pittenger veered off course again, crashed and burned by stating of the black protesters, “They hate white people because white people are successful and they are not.” 

Wow. Just wow.

O’Brien, squinting in utter disbelief then asked, “So a black man gets shot by a black police officer and the people protest because they hate white people?” Pittenger reiterated his statement and blamed it on the brother of murder victim Keith Scott having stated he hates all white people. 

The BBC is one of the largest newscasters in the world. Their broadcasts are translated into many languages and beamed out across the world to countless millions. Therefore, many people witnessed the ignorance Pittenger stated and as a member of Congress. Pittenger apologized last night, but the damage was done. People are now wondering how many other people in Congress hold his ignorant, incorrect view of black people.

Robert Pittenger
 

Yesterday morning in the article “Oklahoma Police Killing Unarmed Black Man Terrence Crutcher For Having Car Trouble And Looking Like 'A Bad Dude' Is Racial Profiling” I stated members of government such as the police are representing America in the world and should be mindful of their actions. 

Pittenger would do well to keep that in mind as well, especially when he decides to do an international interview and defame black people to countless millions around the world. He has poorly represented America on the BBC giving a false, defamatory and offensive impression of black people. The average black person does not hate white people. Black people dislike being singled out for harmful, abusive and deadly treatment, as we repeatedly see with African Americans men being summarily murdered by police. 

Basketball legend and successful businessman Michael Jordan grew up in North Carolina and I can tell you right now, he wouldn’t switch places with Pittenger, me or anyone else, black or white. So please, desist with the egotistical, self-aggrandizing, crazy crap on television like there are no successful black people in existence.

For the record, I’m a black woman and I don’t hate white people. I love white people and all races. Therefore, it is disappointing and offensive to hear people make the type of statements Pittenger did on television.

 
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Many in Baltimore have been protesting and rioting over the murder of innocent man, Freddie Gray, who was illegally detained and killed while in the custody of several police officers. The Judiciary Report is in favor of peaceful protests, as opposed to rioting and looting. Many feel the same. For example Toya Graham, a mother of six, who was watching television during the Baltimore riots on Monday. While watching television she spotted her 16-year-old son wearing a mask and throwing rocks at police officers. This was very dangerous.

Graham went to the riots and retrieved her son from the crowd by force, pulling him by his sweater and slapping him. The story made headlines all over the country as has been featured on many news reports. Graham explained she did not want her son to become "another Freddie Gray" killed by police.

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Today was the funeral of Freddie Gray, a man in Baltimore, Maryland, who was the subject of deadly police brutality and excessive force, simply for running in fear from several police officers. Gray had committed no crime, but became afraid when he saw several police officers staring at him.

Gray ran away and was caught and beaten. Gray was dragged into an ambulance and hours later pronounced dead at the hospital. His spine was snapped and ribs crushed, all while in police custody. No one is saying what truly happened to Gray, which has resulted in rage from people in Baltimore. This rage turned into violence as riots erupted. 

The people of Baltimore have every right to be angry at the violence being directed at black people. However, rioting and looting is not the answer. Peaceful protests would be better. Gray's death is the latest of many at the hands of select police officers in America, who have used an extraordinary amount of force against black people. 

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The FBI opened an investigation Monday into the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who police said was shot multiple times Saturday after being confronted by an officer in Ferguson, a suburb of 21,000 that's nearly 70 percent black. 

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Investigators have refused to publicly disclose the race of the officer, who is now on administrative leave. But Phillip Walker said he was on the porch of an apartment complex overlooking the scene when he heard a shot and saw a white officer with Brown on the street.

Brown "was giving up in the sense of raising his arms and being subdued," Walker told The Associated Press on Monday. The officer "had his gun raised and started shooting the individual in the chest multiple times." The officer then "stood over him and shot him" after the victim fell wounded.

Dorian Johnson offered a similar account when he told WALB-TV that he and Brown were walking home from a convenience store when a police officer told them to get out of the street and onto the sidewalk. Johnson said they kept walking, which caused the officer to confront them from his car and again after getting out of the vehicle.

Johnson said the first time the officer fired, he and Brown got scared and ran away. "He shot again, and once my friend felt that shot, he turned around and put his hands in the air, and he started to get down," Johnson said. "But the officer still approached with his weapon drawn and fired several more shots." "We wasn't causing harm to nobody," Johnson said. "We had no weapons on us at all." Walker said that he did not see a scuffle or the circumstances that preceded the first gunshot...

 

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Threats Of Riots And Death Surround The U.S. Presidential Election Scheduled For Tomorrow

   

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney 

There are many people on social networking sites threatening chaos, riots, violence and murder if President Barack Obama is not reelected in tomorrow's presidential election. No vote anywhere in the world is worth people dying over. This goes against the point of what many have struggled to accomplish over the decades in obtaining the right to vote.

The Judiciary Report understands many people feel passionate about politics, but please be careful and think about the innocent lives that may be lost in pursuing violence if the vote does not go in one's party's favor (I say that to both sides).

Freedom and democracy is not about violence and death. Those contemplating chaos also need to think about what the police and military response would be to serious situations of violence that pose a threat to others, as that too could turn deadly when they return force in attempting to diffuse uprisings. Keep the peace and be safe.

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