North Carolina Shooting Sparks Protests; New Discovery in Tulsa Shooting

The streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, erupted in protests Tuesday night after the fatal shooting of a black man by a black police officer.

The victim, 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, was shot earlier Tuesday by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officer at an apartment complex on the city's northeast side.

Police said Scott was armed, and they recovered a gun at the scene.

Demonstrators gathered near the shooting site and became violent, injuring 12 officers and destroying police vehicles. One officer was hit in the face with a rock.

Photos and media footage shows officers in riot gear and police firing tear gas to break up the crowd. Dozens of protestors were seen looting semi-trucks and setting the contents on fire on Interstate 85.

Meanwhile, a new discovery is shedding light on another police shooting in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Terence Crutcher, a 40-year-old unarmed black man, was shot on Friday during a confrontation in the middle of a road by a female police officer, Betty Shelby. The entire conflict was captured on police dashcam and helicopter video.

Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan told reporters during a press conference that the footage is "very disturbing and difficult to watch."

Scott Wood, Shelby's attorney, has said Crutcher was not following the officers' commands and that Shelby was concerned because he kept reaching for his pocket as if he were carrying a weapon.

"He had a very hollow look in his face, kind of a thousand-yard stare, so to speak, and would not communicate. And she could tell he was not normal. She thought that when she saw him," Wood told CNN.

Investigators now have found PCP in Crutcher's vehicle. Still, the attorney for Crutcher's family said that if Crutcher was under the influence of drugs, it's irrelevant.

"If we started to condemn everybody to death who might have some drugs in their system, all our neighborhoods would be affected," Attorney Benjamin Crump warned.

Another attorney representing Crutcher's family says Crutcher committed no crime and gave officers no reason to shoot him.

The Justice Department will continue investigating this case.