Two days after a black Charlotte police officer shot and killed 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, Charlotte Hornets owner and Hall of Fame basketball legend Michael Jordan issued a statement Thursday urging “peaceful demonstration and conversation” after nights marked by violence and unrest in which hundreds have taken to the streets of North Carolina’s largest city to protest the growing number of fatal shootings of black men across the United States by members of law enforcement.
Here’s Jordan’s statement, as released by the Hornets:
“First, I want to express my condolences to the Scott family for their loss.