AFP, WASHINGTON: Charlotte authorities lifted a curfew late Sunday that had been set following sometimes violent protests over a fatal police shooting of a black man in the southern US city.
In a joint statement, Mayor Jennifer Roberts and the chairman of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, Trevor Fuller, urged the community to continue to “show their unity in a peaceful and legal manner.”
The curfew had been in place since Thursday, and was lifted “immediately,” the statement said. A fresh round of protests took place Sunday, but they remained largely peaceful. Activists demonstrated at and boycotted an American football game between the NFL’s Carolina Panthers and the Minnesota Vikings to protest Keith Lamont Scott’s shooting death.
Protesters kneeled while the American national anthem played, in a repeat of protests by high-profile athletes in recent weeks over police brutality toward black men, with police in riot gear standing guard.