MOSCOW (Sputnik) – At least 12 officers have been injured in protests over a police-involved killing of an African-American in the southeastern US city of Charlotte, North Carolina, local police said Wednesday.
"Approximately 12 officers injured. One officer hit in face with a rock," the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) said on its Twitter feed.
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The CMPD said in a statement quoted by local media Tuesday that one of its officers shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, 43, during searches on an outstanding warrant. The department said Scott was armed and "posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers."
Dozens of officers in riot gear faced off with several hundred demonstrators in Charlotte's University City area later, according to the Charlotte Observer daily. Police deployed tear gas after water bottles were thrown their way, the outlet said.
