The week began with tragedy. Four law enforcement officers were killed Monday afternoon in Charlotte when they attempted to serve arrest warrants on 39-year-old Terry Clark Hughes, Jr., who shot at the officers when they arrived at his East Charlotte home. Officers returned fire, and Hughes was eventually shot and killed. The slain officers are Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Weeks, CMPD Officer Joshua Eyer, and Sam Poloche and Alden Elliott of the Department of Adult Correction. Four other CMPD Officers were injured, but are expected to make a full recovery. Two women, one of whom is 17, were in the home during the shooting. They were taken into custody, but neither has been charged with a crime, and it is unclear whether more than one person fired shots. An AR-15 rifle and a .40 caliber handgun were recovered from the scene. The Charlotte Observer has the story here. Campus unrest. Tuesday morning began with news of law enforcement officers forcibly dispersing pro-Palestinian protesters from a tent encampment they had set up on Polk Place at the heart of UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus. The News and Observer reports that 36 people who refused to leave were detained. Thirty people (including ten UNC students) were cited and released. Six were arrested. Later that afternoon, protesters who had returned to Polk Place took down an American flag and raised a Palestinian flag in its place. Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts, UNC Police Chief Brian James, and other officers then made their way to the flagpole and [...]
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