The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Charlotte Mecklenburg police officer Wende Kerl’s immunity in the 2019 fatal shooting of 27-year-old Danquirs Franklin. Earlier this week, the panel of judges ruled that the officers intensified a situation that had subsided and that a “reasonable jury” would have concluded that Franklin did not pose a threat to anyone when he was shot.
The Gantt Center opens a digital arts center that the public can use for free to work on art, animation, graphic design and other projects, using high-tech equipment.
WFAE's All Things Considered host Gwendolyn Glenn talks to UNC-Chapel Hill archivist Nicholas Graham about a controversial visit poet Langston Hughes made to the university in 1931.