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Protestsnrlotte turn deadly tonight with multiple officers injured and a civilian killed. The chaos is not over. This could have been bad, it could have went really bad. How police make those splitsecond decisions. We h an insk at how Tampa Police Officers train. No complaint of having a nice picture drawn of them. That is a tattoo of Hillary Clinton. Why one winter haven man i wearing hisupportndis sleeve. Welcome. Im kelly ring. And im mark wilson. Thanks for joining you. Chaos on the streets of charlotte tonight. They started screaming no shot him. Did you see it happen . Es seone shot and kild a protes that set off this wild scene with protestors throwing bottles and rocks at officers and Police Officers responding with tear gas. A number of people likel arrested and chris has been watching this for us. It looks ugly, chris. And its the feed coming into our news room, chaos in charlotte. Police are saying that a civilian shot and killed a man during tonights protest but a lot of pr
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