State governor Pat McCrory has declared a state of emergency in Charlotte as protests over the police shooting turned violent for a second night.
Mr McCrory said he was also sending the National Guard to Charlotte as scattered groups of protesters continued to attack reporters and others, break windows and start fires.
The state of emergency was declared as protests over the police shooting of a black man turned violent.
The protests, on Wednesday’s, started as a prayer vigil, but a group split off and marched through the city centre.
The march turned violent after a protester was shot and critically injured. City officials say police did not fire the shot.
After the shooting, police in riot gear began firing tear gas and marching through the city centre arm-in-arm.
A protester is fighting for his life after being critically wounded at a dusk prayer vigil as authorities in North Carolina’s largest city tried to quell public anger following the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer.
Protests cause
According t local media, Tuesday’s violence broke out shortly after a woman who appeared to be Mr Scott’s daughter posted a profanity-laced, hour-long video on Facebook, saying her father had an unspecified disability and was unarmed.
In the footage she is at the cordoned-off shooting scene, yelling at officers. “My daddy is dead!” the woman screamed on the video.