Naacp of North Carolina

NAACP Wants SBI to Look at Shootings: Push for a new law covering shootings by police comes after witnesses' description differed from officers' in Charlotte man's death

Charlotte Observer: Charlotte's latest police-involved shooting has state NAACP leaders pushing for a law that would require the SBI to investigate all such shootings across the state.

The agency intends to take its message to Raleigh this month, after Aaron Winchester was shot twice in the back May 20 by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer, said the Rev. William Barber, North Carolina's NAACP president. He met with community leaders and ministers in Charlotte on Thursday to discuss the shooting that happened after Officer David Jester questioned Winchester about a domestic dispute and an ensuing car crash.

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Stop the Epidemic of Police Shootings of African Americans!

Joint Statement On Charlotte Police Shootings

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II.  State NAACP President

Frank A. Humphrey, Branch Administrator

Rosemary Gladden, Branch President

Amina J. Turner, State Executive Director, NAACP

Prompted by the death of a 21-year old African American at the hands of a Charlotte police officer in broad daylight in late May, which is merely the latest in a string of six shootings of citizens by Charlotte police in the first five months of 2008, African American leaders in Charlotte and the media have raised troubling questions.

 

The North Carolina State NAACP in concert with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Branch at the urging of Rev. Dr. Ricky Wood, on behalf of a coalition of Charlotte Ministers, will study the epidemic (16 people killed by Charlotte police in the last 10 years with 6 shootings in just the first 5 months of 2008) of police shootings and come up with some ways to stop it. We will be calling the Mayor of Charlotte and the Attorney General of North Carolina to let them know of our interest, and, with our local Branch, will be convening a meeting to make further plans.