PBS高端访谈:枪击案过后夏洛特爆发抗议和示威

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　　The drama began with a Tuesday confrontation² that sparked a night of trouble.

　　William Brangham begins our coverage³.

　　WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Within hours of the fatal shooting, protests boiled over in North Carolina's largest city. The victim was 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott.

　　And his sister, who didn't give her name, said he was unarmed.

　　WOMAN: They said, hands up, he got a gun, he got a gun. Pow, pow, pow, pow. That's it. He had no gun.

　　WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Another woman, claiming to be Scott's daughter, went on Facebook, saying he'd had a book, not a gun, and also had an unspecified disability.

　　In short order, a crowd blocked traffic on Interstate 85, throwing rocks, and destroying police cars. Some looted a tractor-trailer and set it on fire. Others broke into a nearby Wal-Mart. Police eventually used tear gas to quell⁴ the violence, but 16 officers were injured.

　　This morning, police chief Kerr Putney urged people to step back and be calm.

　　枪击案过后夏洛特爆发抗议和示威

　　KERR PUTNEY, Charlotte Police Chief: It's time to change the narrative⁵, because I can tell you from the facts that the story is a little bit different as to how it's been portrayed⁶ so far, especially through social media.

　　WILLIAM BRANGHAM: As Putney told it, officers had been at an apartment complex, searching for a suspect, when they saw Scott get out of a car. They say he did have a gun, and refused to put it down.

　　KERR PUTNEY: In spite of the verbal commands, Mr. Scott, as I said, exited his vehicle armed with a handgun, as the officers continued to yell at him to drop it. He stepped out, posing a threat to the officers, and officer Brentley Vinson subsequently fired his weapon, striking the subject.

　　WILLIAM BRANGHAM: The officer, who is also black, was placed on administrative⁷ leave, which is standard procedure in such cases.

　　Meanwhile, local activists⁹ and ministers called for an economic boycott¹⁰ of Charlotte.

　　JOHN BARNETT, Civil Rights Activist⁸: Across the country, we are being shot down, shot down. Very few cops go to jail for that.

　　WILLIAM BRANGHAM: And by late this afternoon, protests were starting up again. This incident came just a day after graphic¹¹ video from Tulsa, Oklahoma, that showed an officer shooting an unarmed black man.

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