Tensions flared in Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday after police fatally shot a man in the parking lot of an apartment complex, saying he got out of his car armed with a gun as officers approached him. As darkness fell on Charlotte following the shooting a crowd of protesters gathered near the scene and local WSCOC-TV reported they blocked a road leading to the apartment complex as police in riot gear stood by. 'Demonstrators surrounded our officers who were attempting to leave the scene,' the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said on Twitter, adding that a 'civil emergency unit' had been deployed to safely remove them.
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