We host a roundtable on police killings of black men. Protests escalated in
Charlotte, North Carolina, overnight when hundreds took to the street and
blocked Interstate 85 to express outrage over the police shooting of 43-year-old
African American Keith Lamont Scott on Tuesday. Video footage shows people
blocking the highway, where fires were lit. This comes as police in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, have released a video showing a white police officer shooting and
killing 40-year-old African American Terence Crutcher while his hands were in
the air. We are joined by Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for
Constitutional Rights; Bree Newsome, artist and activist from Charlotte who
scaled the 30-foot flagpole on the South Carolina state Capitol and unhooked the
Confederate flag last year; and Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color of
Change. He has launched a new petition called "Terence Crutcher died for being
Black. Indict Officer Betty Shelby."
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