Clinton calls for release of police shooting video
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Hillary Clinton said Friday that the police video of the fatal shooting of a black man by Charlotte police should be released immediately.
Clinton on Friday postponed a visit to Charlotte, hours after the city’s mayor urged presidential candidates to delay planned visits as the city began to heal in the wake of a fatal police shooting.
Thanking Clinton and her Republican rival, Donald Trump, for their public support, Mayor Jennifer Roberts asked the pair to wait before bringing politics to the city.
“If there would be a way to delay those visits ... that would probably be ideal,” she said in an interview with CNN.
A video recorded by Scott’s wife was released Friday by his family and does not indicate whether Scott had a gun. Police have said he was armed, but witnesses have said he held only a book.
In the days leading up to the debate, both Clinton and Trump have been confronted with questions about police violence after the North Carolina shooting and a separate incident in Tulsa, Okla., where a white police officer was charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man whose vehicle had broken down in the middle of the street.
Clinton said Wednesday that the shootings had added two more names “to a long list of African-Americans killed by police officers.”