Rioting May Tip Presidential Scales in Crucial North Carolina
- Chaos after police killing culminate years of rising tension
- ‘You’ve got passions that are stirred up and running high’
Clinton Calls Shootings in Tulsa, Charlotte ‘Unbearable’
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Riots threaten to sway a deadlocked presidential race in race-riven North Carolina by pushing enough undecided voters toward Republican Donald Trump to overcome Hillary Clinton’s lead among blacks.
The shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, 43, outside a Charlotte apartment complex was the third at police hands in less than a year in a swing state whose 15 electoral votes are crucial to White House hopes. The ensuing riots culminated a period of charged politics that began in 2013, when Republicans took over both the legislature and governor’s office for the first time in a century.