KLS-Racial Diversity and Locations

In the early afternoon of Tuesday, September 20, 2016, 43-year-old black father Keith Lamont Scott was shot while waiting for his son to return home from school. He was located just half a mile from UNC Charlotte. Within an hour, Scott’s name was trending on Twitter and almost one hundred people had gathered at the site of Scott’s murder, including a large number of UNC Charlotte students. Protests expanded over the next hours and days. Social media played a large role in organizing these uprisings. Over the next ten nights, the Queen City was rocked by marches, civil disobedience, and acts of public disruption in what came to be known as the Charlotte Uprising.