New documents obtained by Channel 9 this week outline the battle that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department had with participants of street takeovers, culminating in a back-and-forth that resulted in a new law at the state level.
Between late 2022 and early 2023, Channel 9 covered at least four street takeovers in Charlotte. In March of 2023, we filed a request with CMPD trying to get an inside look at how the department was responding to keep people safe.
Three years later, CMPD sent us more than 100 pages of emails and internal documents…