The national guard has been deployed in the US city of Charlotte, after a second night of violent protests over the police shooting of a black man. <br /><br /> A state of emergency is also place amid growing anger over Keith Lamont Scott’s death. <br /><br /> While strongly disputed by the 43-year-old’s family, earlier Charlotte’s police chief said evidence, though not definitive, supported the officer’s claims Scott was armed. <br /><br /> Kerr Putney, Charlotte-Mechlenburg’s Police Chief said: <br />“The video does not give me absolute, definitive visual evidence that..that would confirm that a person is pointing the gun. I did not see that in the videos that I’ve reviewed”<br /><br /> One person was shot and seriously wounded and at least 44 people arrested after protests turned ugly in the North Carolina city late on Wednesday.<br /><br /> Nine other demonstrators and two officers were also hurt in the clashes downtown. <br /><br /> The disturbances grew more violent as officers carrying riot shields moved in. Looting also took place. <br /><br /> But Scott’s death and last week’s killing of Terence Clutcher in Oklahoma, who was unarmed, has once again raised questions of racial bias in US policing.<br />
