*In Charlotte, NC, a dozen police officers were injured Tuesday night (09-20-16) in clashes with several hundred people protesting an officer-involved fatal shooting in the city’s University City area.
Shouting protesters continued to block streets well after midnight, despite the use of tear gas by police in riot gear.
The protest began on Old Concord Road at Bonnie Lane, where a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer fatally shot a man in the parking lot of a University City apartment complex Tuesday afternoon.
The protests continued into early Wednesday as crowds blocked Interstate 85 and started a fire at the center of the highway. Vehicles and tractor-trailers stalled as far as the eye could see as police cars with flashing lights hovered nearby, according to CNN.
The man who died was identified late Tuesday as Keith Lamont Scott, 43, and the officer who fired the fatal shot was CMPD Officer Brentley Vinson, a police statement said. Both men were African-American, a police source confirmed.
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