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The controversial fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina on 20 September 2016 has once again set off a national debate about the treatment of minorities by the police and has sparked widespread outrage, touching off numerous protests and demonstrations in the streets of Charlotte. And once again, the Charlotte protests have touched off rumors that such demonstrations are primarily composed of outside agitators and criminals hailing from other areas (with the implication that the bulk of the protesters were brought to Charlotte from other states by a furtively-run group and/or were paid to take part in demonstrations there): But it wasn't true, as widely reported, that 70% of the protesters arrested in Charlotte had out-of-state IDs. That claim was based on a remark made by Todd Walther, the spokesman for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police, during an interview with CNN host Erin Burnett: However, Walther acknowledged to the Charlotte Observer that he hadn't actually reviewed police arrest reports (either before or after his CNN interview) and that his comment was based on pure conjecture, saying: I didn’t quote facts. It’s speculation. That’s all it was. Moreover, the Observer noted, their review of arrests made in connection with the Charlotte protests up to that time found that nearly 80% of the arrestees were in fact Charlotte residents, and most of the rest were from other parts of North Carolina:
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