<p>Protestors filled the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina last week following the fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by a police officer on Tuesday. ;</p>
<p>Local police were looking ;for a suspect in University City when they spotted Scott, a 43-year-old black man, sitting in his car. Scott was not the suspect police were searching for, but they rightly assumed he was a threat when he refused to lower his weapon.  ;Scott was shot and killed by black police officer Brently Vinson.</p>
<p>Unverified reports insist Scott was holding a book, not a gun, but Charlotte Police Chief Kerr Putney states that &ldquo;a weapon was seized; a handgun. I can also tell you we did not find a book.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Charlotte erupted into protest shortly thereafter, and it wasn&#8217;t long before the &#8220;peaceful march&#8221; turned into a violent riot. Officers ;were forced to use tear gas when the crowds refused to disperse, and bystander 24-year-old Justin Carr ;was shot to death. ;</p>
<p>A spokesman for the area&rsquo;s Fraternal Order of Police told CNN that most of the &ldquo;instigators&rdquo; were from out of state. &ldquo;If you go back and look at some of the arrests that were made last night, I can about say probably 70% of those had out-of-state IDs,&rdquo; said Todd Walther during an interview with CNN.  ;The <em>Charlotte Observer</em> later confirmed that this was not quite true, however many out-of-state individuals were indeed arrested.</p>
<p><strong>Author&#8217;s Note:</strong> ; It seems to us if a black person is shot by a police officer (even a black police officer) in your neighborhood, you can expect Black Lives Matter to send in thugs to help destroy your neighborhood. I&#8217;m wondering how many of the riots around this country have been created from nothing by Black Lives Matter, to the chagrine of the local community.</p>