Protestors have returned to the streets of Charlotte North Carolina to protest the shooting of an African American man by law enforcement.
An officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma is also under investigation for a separate incident.
U.S. President Barack Obama called the mayors of both cities after he returned from the United Nations General Assembly.
Our U.S. correspondent Priscilla Huff reports on the latest chapter of the black lives matter movement.
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Protestors returned to the streets of Charlotte North Carolina
They are upset that the local police shot to death Keith Lamont Scott, an African American man.
Charlotte police say he was carrying a gun.
His neighbors say he was carrying a book.
And it's legal to carry a gun openly in North Carolina
This
and a separate incident in Tulsa Oklahoma
have brought the treatment of African Americans by law enforcement back to the top of the news and the top of the political discussion.
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The U.S. Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the death of Terence Crutcher.
Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan has confirmed that Crutcher was not carrying a gun when he was shot to death by a police officer.
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After returning from the United Nations General Assembly in New York
U.S. President Barack Obama called Mayor Dewey Bartlett of Tulsa and Mayor Jennifer Roberts of Charlotte
They agreed that the protests should happen peacefully, and if necessary,
local law enforcement should find ways to calmly and productively engage those protesting.
And yet Pastor Amere J. May Sr. with the
Abundant Faith Word Church in
Charlotte North Carolina
isn't convinced the message is getting through.
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Other local activists note that are
tired of talking and talking and candlelight vigils and dialogue and nothing getting done."
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