CHARLOTTE, N.C. ― Sixteen North Carolina-based activist organizations dedicated to ending police violence released a list of demands to increase transparency in the death of 43-year-old Keith Scott on Friday. Charlotte Uprising, the designation for the recently founded collective, revealed its demands after Scott was shot and killed by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers on Tuesday. For Chief [Kerr] Putney and CMPD to be more transparent and forthcoming around the policies and practices regarding the murders of black and brown people in Charlotte,” Zakiya Scott, a spokeswoman for Charlotte Uprising, told The Huffington Post in an email. The demands include defunding and demilitarizing police forces, immediately releasing those arrested during protests, and prosecuting officers involved in the shooting. On Saturday, the city’s police department did release two partial videos of the Scott shooting.

Source: Huffington Post September 25, 2016 20:03 UTC