UPDATE: 10:00 a.m. ET -- Both teams arrived at the stadium without incident:


Protesters in Charlotte plan to march to Bank of America Stadium in an attempt to block all the entrances to the stadium, including those for players and officials, ahead of Sunday's Vikings-Panthers, reports ESPN's Michael Eaves.

This development comes after the interim mayor declared Sunday's game an "extraordinary event," which, according to a memo from the Charlotte Chief of Police to the mayor, is defined as a "large-scale event or an event of national or international significance which might attract a significant number of people to a certain geographic area of the city."

There have been protests -- both peaceful and violent -- in Charlotte every night since Tuesday, when 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, an African American, was shot and killed by an African American police officer not far from Bank of America Stadium.

On Saturday night, Panthers president Danny Morrison told ESPN that "We are good to go" for Sunday's game.

"This offseason, we constructed four new security posts around the stadium to account for people coming onto the property," Morrison continued. "There are now 95 walk-through magnetometers, which will be used in place of the wanding procedure for screening. Additionally, camera coverage and explosive detection canine teams have been enhanced."

ESPN's Adam Schefter reports that the NFL's new Vice President of Security, Cathy Lanier, will attend Sunday's game in Charlotte. This is her first week on the job.

There's not a more fitting and appropriate place for the NFL's new VP of Security to be than Carolina, site of protests this past week, but Lanier is there, and she will be joined by the NFL's COO Tod Leiweke as well. But it should be known that the NFL is more concerned about the security inside stadiums and outside the stadium, it defers to government entities to handle the protests and keep the peace.