VOA常速英语：一人死于二次夏洛特暴力，警察开枪射杀黑人
Violence erupted for a second straight night in Charlotte, North Carolina, where marchers filled the streets to protest another fatal police shooting of an African-American man.
City officials said one person was shot dead during the protests, but that the individual was killed by another civilian.
Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse the crowd. Some protesters threw the gas canisters back at police and smashed the windows of a souvenir shop near a large hotel.
At one point, a CNN television correspondent broadcasting live from the scene was thrown to the ground by angry protesters.
The first night of violence injured about 24 people, including 16 police officers. Protesters blocked a major highway and set a truck on fire.
Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts pledged a "thorough and transparent" investigation into the shooting, calling for peace, calm and dialogue.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday telephoned Roberts and Mayor Dewey Bartlett of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where a white officer shot a black man to death last Friday, sparking protests in that city.
The White House said all three leaders insisted that any protests must be calm, and the president offered any assistance necessary to both cities.
A black Charlotte police officer shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, 43, while he and other police were serving an arrest warrant at an apartment building.
Police Chief Kerr Putney said the officers saw Scott emerge from a car with a gun, and that Scott ignored their "loud, clear" warnings to drop it.
Scott's family, however, said he was carrying a book, not a weapon, and was simply waiting for the school bus to drop off his son. Witnesses said he had his hands in the air when the officer opened fire.
But Putney said police found a gun, not a book, lying beside Scott's body.
Police body cameras captured the shooting, but the video will not be released as long as the investigation is underway.
Scott's mother said her son was a devoted family man. But Scott also had a long criminal record, including assault with a deadly weapon.
Scott's killing and the fatal shooting in Tulsa added to the growing list of highly publicized police shootings of black males over the last two years.
A lawyer for the Tulsa police officer who shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher said she feared for her life and fired when Crutcher reached through a window into his car.
But Crutcher's family said video showed the window was closed and that he had his hands on the car to show he had no gun.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the killings are "unbearable and need to become intolerable."
She said the country needs strength, love and kindness and that "we are safer when communities respect police and police respect communities."
Republican Donald Trump tweeted "the situations in Tulsa and Charlotte are tragic. We must come together to make America safe again." He said he hopes the violence and unrest in Charlotte comes to an immediate end.
The Washington Post reports that of the more than 700 deadly police shootings of criminal suspects so far this year, 163 were of African-American men.
Civil rights activists are calling for a boycott of white-owned Charlotte businesses.
They say the high number of young black men shot dead by police is a symptom of racism in the U.S., along with the lack of job and educational opportunities for many blacks.
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