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When she returned home from work in the evening, she said, she saw casings scattered all over the street, as well as a large police presence. When they approached the residence, the suspect, later identified as Terry Clark Hughes Jr., fired at them with an AR-15-style rifle and a 40-caliber handgun from the second floor of a house, the police said. He was later pronounced dead in the front yard of the residence.
Suspect ID'd after 4 law-enforcement officers gunned down in Charlotte, N.C., day before
"There's indication that the suspect saw them coming to the house prior to them getting to the front door," Jennings said during a news conference Tuesday. As the protest escalated, a group of protesters threw rocks at firefighters who were responding to an emergency call uptown. Officers had one man on the ground in handcuffs as protesters chanted, “no justice, no peace."
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Known to protesters and civil rights advocates as “kettling,” the crowd control strategy consists of police surrounding a group of people, ostensibly in order to isolate them from a larger crowd for the purpose of making arrests. The use of kettling was a flashpoint in protests across the country last summer, particularly in New York. On the same day as the Charlotte incident, New York police blocked off hundreds of people on the Manhattan Bridge, prompting elected officials to warn in real time of the dangers of such a maneuver.
CMPD chief discusses investigation into deadly east Charlotte standoff
Since Floyd’s May 25 death, protests have been carried out in cities across the country - some turning violent and destructive at times. Earlier, people gathered at Romare Bearden and held signs as Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers walked through the crowds and talked with the protesters. Speakers urged fellow protesters to remain peaceful and stay safe. At that time, police said that four arrests were made, including a person who was illegally possessing a gun.
Violent offenses tracked included rape, murder and non-negligent manslaughter, armed robbery, and aggravated assault, including assault with a deadly weapon. According to NeighborhoodScout's analysis of FBI reported crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of one of these crimes in Charlotte is one in 138. If you watched the events in Uptown Charlotte unfold on television, the most frightening part was the speed of escalation. What started as a peaceful protest attended by families with children morphed into a full-on riot with looting, vandalism, and gunshots fired faster than you could get half way through dinner.
Officers then started yelling "Move back!" and some then pushed into crowd with their bikes and knocked over a couple people. Gomez said there were about 100 protesters and about the same number of officers, mostly in riot gear and nearly all on mountain bikes, but some on motorcycles. Prosecutors say Borum was aiming for the police when the bullet hit Carr, who attended the peaceful protests and was on his way to get his car to go to work. Eyer, who had been with the department for six years, "fought for his life for several hours before succumbing to his injuries," the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said in a statement. Ayer is survived by a wife and 3-year-old son, Jennings said Monday night.
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Instead, knowledge about the practice seemed to be imparted on officers informally, Zebrowski found. Police official and early proponent of the tactic, the officer described the use of kettling “as a matter of intuition, gut feelings,” Zebrowski said. The next year, Chicago police kettled and arrested more than 800 protesters at an anti-war protest. During the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, police used mesh fencing to surround protesters on multiple occasions.
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It was the fifth consecutive day of protests in the city, where, like in scores of other places across the country, thousands had taken to the streets following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. About 16 police officers in Charlotte, N.C., were injured when a standoff between law enforcement and demonstrators turned ugly overnight after an officer fatally shot a black man on Tuesday afternoon. As demonstrators were pushed from the park, they dispersed through town, leading to pockets of violence and ultimately the deadly attack on a group of anti-racists. Neo-Nazi James Fields rammed his car into the crowd, injuring dozens of people and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer. Two state police officers monitoring the scene died in a helicopter crash.
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At one point, a person attempted to throw an object at a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer. Sunday started with demonstrators marching in large crowds at various locations in uptown Charlotte Sunday in response to the death of George Floyd. The North Carolina unrest happened the same day rioting broke out between two rival groups of Eritreans in the Netherlands on Saturday night. Police said, during this time, a female protester struck an officer, and a firearm was seized from her person.
He said the goal is usually to raise money to send back to Eritrea. Later in the evening, CMPD said three men were charged with impeding traffic, while a woman was charged with impeding traffic, citing a riot, and assault on a government official. Reported sexual assaults are up by 17% so far this year and aggravated assaults by 2%. The crowd was mainly young, peaceful, and walking together while yelling Black Lives Matter chants, with police following behind them on their bikes.
“I understand you are upset but we have children out here we are not rioting or looting,” said one protest organizer. At 4 p.m., Gov. Roy Cooper said he is deploying 450 National Guardsman in response to the protests in multiple N.C. Officers arrived it tactical gear and attempted to disperse a hostile crowd. One of those groups was those who supported the government of the tiny African nation of Eritrea. The other consisted of those who claimed the president of that nation was a brutal dictator.
Police initially believed there were two shooters involved in the incident, including the individual killed in the initial shootout, but Jennings said Tuesday he's not ready to say there was a second shooter. The two persons of interest are fully cooperating with the investigation and haven't been charged, he said. Saturday’s protests in Charlotte remained mostly peaceful for several hours. CMPD officers marched along with the crowd to make sure the protesters stayed safe and peaceful. On Friday and Saturday, protests turned violent during the evening hours, and it continued through the night. Police said that a large group of protests was marching on Caldwell Street.
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