CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police refused under mounting pressure Thursday to release video that could resolve wildly different accounts of the shooting of a black man, as the National Guard arrived to try to head off a third night of violence in Charlotte. He told reporters the video will be made public when he believes there is a “compelling reason” to do so. “I’m not going to jeopardize the investigation.”An undisclosed number of National Guardsmen assembled in Charlotte, sent in by Gov. In Tulsa, Okla., on Thursday, prosecutors charged a white officer with manslaughter for killing an unarmed black man on a city street last week. The police chief said a gun was found next to the dead man and that there was no book.
Source: National Post September 23, 2016 03:22 UTC