Calm urged in Charlotte, North Carolina after 16 officers hurt in protests
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Police officers wearing riot gear block a road during protests after police fatally shot Keith Lamont Scott in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 20, 2016. REUTERS/Adam Rhew/Charlotte Magazine
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - The mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday called for calm and peace after 16 officers were hurt and police vehicles were damaged overnight during a demonstration against the police shooting of a black man at an apartment complex in the city.
Police Chief Kerr Putney disputed claims made by some protesters that the man killed on Tuesday, 43-year-old Keith Scott, had been unarmed.
"We did find a weapon," he told reporters in Charlotte at a press conference held with Mayor Jennifer Roberts.
(Reporting by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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