A large number of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the US city of Charlotte to protest against a decision to not charge an officer in the shooting death of an African-American man.
The protesters were angered by the release of the two-month investigation by the district attorney on Wednesday that determined that the officer, Brentley Vinson, was justified in fatally shooting 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott in an apartment complex parking lot in September in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The protesters marched through the streets of downtown Charlotte on Wednesday night, chanting “No Justice, No Peace!” and “Tell the truth and stop the lies, Keith Scott didn’t have to die.”
“Stop killing black people,” some protesters’ T-shirts read. “How to get away with murder: Become a cop,” said the signs.
“If we don’t get no justice then you don’t get no peace,” the protesters chanted.
A number of people from the local clergy also joined the protesters urging…