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CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR:American communitieson edgeafter a violent night in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a shooting in Tulsa, Oklahoma. That's first up on today's show.

In Charlotte Tuesday, a 43-year-old African-American man named Keith Lamont Scott was shot and killed by an African-American policeman. Officers were searching for another person at an apartment complex when they encountered Scott. Police say he got out of his car with a gun and did not drop it after police repeatedly told him to. An officer then shot and killed him.

The Scotts family said he had no gun. That he was siting in his car reading a book and waiting in one of his children to come home from school.

Tuesday night, there were protests and violence in Charlotte. Stores were looted. Trucks wereset on fire. Some demonstratorsshut downa major expressway running through the city. Sixteen police officers were injured as well as several civilians¹. Wednesday, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police chief said evidence and witnesses supported the officer's claim that Keith Lamont Scott did have a gun and no book was found at the scene of the shooting.

Charlotte's mayor asked for calm and said a full investigation² would be made.

More tensions and protests in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where last Friday, a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black man named Terence Crutcher. His family says he was waiting for help on the road after his carbroke down. The officer's lawyer says Crutcher was behaving strangely and at one point, he appeared to be reaching into his car for what the officer feared was a weapon. That's when the officer opened fire.

But Tulsa's police chief later announced Crutcher had no gun, though investigators³ say they found the drug PCP in Crutcher's car. A lawyer for the Crutcher family says it's irrelevant⁴ if Crutcher was intoxicated⁵, that police should not have used deadly force.

Crutcher's father wants the officer charged with murder. State, federal and local authorities are investigating in Tulsa.

1 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

2 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

3 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 irrelevant   

adj.不恰当的，无关系的，不相干的

参考例句：

• That is completely irrelevant to the subject under discussion.这跟讨论的主题完全不相关。
• A question about arithmetic is irrelevant in a music lesson.在音乐课上，一个数学的问题是风马牛不相及的。

5 intoxicated   

喝醉的，极其兴奋的

参考例句：

• She was intoxicated with success. 她为成功所陶醉。
• They became deeply intoxicated and totally disoriented. 他们酩酊大醉，东南西北全然不辨。