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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 Sunday morning, protesters were reportedly planning to block entrances to the stadium ahead of the Vikings-Panthers game, though no such protest had materialized 90 minutes before kickoff.

Both teams arrived without incident, and when Panthers quarterback Cam Newton took the field for warmups, he was wearing a shirt with this quote from Martin Luther King: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

On Wednesday, a day after the shooting, Newton spoke frankly with the media about the issue.

"I'm a firm believer of justice and a firm believer of doing the right thing, and I can't repeat enough about just holding people accountable," Newton said. "I am not happy with how justice has been dealt with over the years.

"But we also, as black people, have to do right by ourselves. We can't be hypocrites. I say that on one voice and also another voice that when you go public, or when things happen in the community, it's not the fact that things are happening, it's the way they're being treated after they happen.

"When you get a person that's doing unjust things or killing an innocent person or killing fathers, or killing people who have actual families, that's real. I have a son and a daughter that I'm responsible for. So how would I be if one day they come home and there's no more daddy?

"We just need people to be held accountable. That's all."