Clinton to visit Charlotte Sunday
Hillary Clinton is taking a break from debate prep to visit the site of a fatal police shooting.
{mosads}Clinton on Sunday will visit Charlotte, N.C., where police killed a black man earlier this week, NBC News reported.
Protests erupted on the streets of the city in the wake of his death.
The trip is Clinton’s only scheduled campaign travel before the first 2016 presidential debate Monday night at Hofstra University in New York.
On Tuesday, officer Brentley Vinson fatally shot Keith Lamont Scott, 43, during a confrontation at an apartment complex as the police were searching for another man.
Cellphone video taken by Scott’s wife emerged earlier Friday, showing police shouting at Scott to drop a weapon as the woman pleads with them not to shoot and saying that he is unarmed and has a traumatic brain injury.
Clinton earlier Friday called for police video of Scott’s death to be made public.
Charlotte’s police chief said Thursday his department would not publicly release the video.
“We release it when we believe it’s a compelling reason, but I’m not going to jeopardize the investigation,” Kerr Putney said in a news conference.
Multiple incidents like Scott’s shooting this year have stirred national debate over the relationship between law enforcement and minority communities.
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