On September 20, 2016, Keith Lamont Scott, a black man, was shot and killed by a Charlotte Mecklenburg Police officer, also a black man. Protests and riots erupted in Charlotte following the fatal shooting. Here you will find WFAE's coverage of the shooting and its aftermath.
View our special report on the first year after the shooting and unrest:
One Year Later: Anniversary of the Keith Lamont Scott Shooting and Protests
Video montage of the police encounter with Keith Lamont Scott and the unrest:
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If the Charlotte Citizens Review Board was a courtroom jury, it would be a hung jury in the case of CMPD officer Brentley Vinson. Members considered…
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Today marks the third day for the Charlotte Citizens Review Board’s hearing on whether CMPD should have disciplined Officer Brentley Vinson for fatally…
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The Charlotte Citizens Review Board will reconvene Thursday in the case of CMPD officer Brentley Vinson, the officer who fatally shot Keith Lamont Scott…
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The Citizens Review Board began a hearing Tuesday on CMPD’s internal exoneration of the officer who fatally shot 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott last year.…
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The Charlotte Citizens Review Board is now holding a hearing on last year's fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott. WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn was at the…
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The fatal police shooting last year of Keith Lamont Scott will get another hearing Tuesday before Charlotte’s Citizens Review Board. At a hearing in June…
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The officer who fatally shot Keith Lamont Scott last September might now face consequences. CMPD initially cleared officer Brentley Vinson of any…
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is standing by its internal investigation that found last year's shooting of Keith Lamont Scott was justified.…
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By a vote of 8-2, Charlotte’s CitizenS Review Board decided that evidence exists that CMPD officials were wrong when they said last year’s fatal police…
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Changes are coming to Charlotte's Citizens Review Board. That's the group which hears appeals of disciplinary decisions involving CMPD officers. The board…