Republican challenging the incumbent mayor of winstonsalem for the mayors job, James Lee Knox has just lost the support of his local Republican Party. The forsythe county Republican Party has announced that they no longer support James Lee Knox in his bid to become the next mayor of winstonsalem. This comes after mr. Knox admitted using with the local paper describes as several derogatory terms including the n word in a confrontation with a local elections worker last year. Mr. Knox acknowledged that he used the racial slur after the 2012 election. He said he was trying to find out the name of a black elections employee with whom he had exchanged words during early voting. During a conversation with another county worker, mr. Knox referred to the woman using several derogatory terms including the n word. Mr. Knox says he does not believe in using such words but that he, quote, got frustrated. Thats how he explains it. He got frustrated. You get frustrated and out pops the n word. She w
Of winstonsalem. This comes after mr. Knox admitted using with the local paper describes as several derogatory terms including the n word in a confrontation with a local elections worker last year. Mr. Knox acknowledged that he used the racial slur after the 2012 election. He said he was trying to find out the name of a black elections employee with whom he had exchanged words during early voting. During a conversation with another county worker, mr. Knox referred to the woman using several derogatory terms including the n word. Mr. Knox says he does not believe in using such words but that he, quote, got frustrated. Thats how he explains it. He got frustrated. You get frustrated and out pops the n word. She was black. You know, as you do. So reportedly the state Republican Party in North Carolina decided to not get involved in this situation in winstonsalem, but the local party did drop their support for mr. Knox. After initially telling the local paper that he felt that the local Rep
Incumbent mayor of winstonsalem for the mayors job, James Lee Knox has just lost the support of his local Republican Party. The forsythe county Republican Party has announced that they no longer support James Lee Knox in his bid to become the next mayor of winstonsalem. This comes after mr. Knox admitted using with the local paper describes as several derogatory terms including the n word in a confrontation with a local elections worker last year. Mr. Knox acknowledged that he used the racial slur after the 2012 election. He said he was trying to find out the name of a black elections employee with whom he had exchanged words during early voting. During a conversation with another county worker, mr. Knox referred to the woman using several derogatory terms including the n word. Mr. Knox says he does not believe in using such words but that he, quote, got frustrated. Thats how he explains it. He got frustrated. You get frustrated and out pops the n word. She was black. You know, as you
Tonight, police main charlotte, North Carolina, say keith scott refused to drop a gun. Residents insist he was unarmed. City Officials Say they wont provide the public with Video Evidence. Outrage turn eed violent last night in North Carolina. Nine people were injured, 44 arrested. Overnight during the protest that turned into riots at times throughout the night with looting as well. Just now, coming into fox, we can confirm that scotts family was shown that police video of the shooting this afternoon. Jonathan surry is in charlotte with the latest. Reporter good evening. Lawyers would not confirm to reporters or would not comment to reporters on how that viewing went down. They do tell reporters that mr. Scott did not own a gun. They say that he was not known to carry a weapon. They also say that his wife witnessed her husbands shooting on tuesday. Something they say will remain with her for the rest of her life. They did not call on police to make that Video Evidence public. Our prac
Im with you. All right. You all have a great day. You, too, fred. So much more straight ahead in the newsroom. Im fredericka whitfield, newsroom starts right now. We begin with that brazen Cyber Security breach aimed at shaking up the american race for president. Just 100 days from the general election now. And the fbi and the Justice Department are both investigating a data hack of a Computer Program used by the Clinton Campaign. The breach is believed to be similar and maybe even linked to two previous intrusions that Democratic Party organization reported earlier this week when wikileaks published more than 20,000 private emails detailing internal private strategies. Theres strong evidence that breach came from russian hackers. The latest reported hack comes after Donald Trumps controversial comments that seemingly encouraged russians to do more. Russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. Trump later said he was being sarcastic with the