From W.NYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is out this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

In Charlotte, North Carolina this week, protest, disorder, and violence in the wake of the latest fatal police shooting of a black man in a parked car.

The victim was 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott.

Police say that it all started when officers went to arrest another man and encountered Scott instead.

Police say this man posed an immediate risk to the officer who shot and killed him.

But the man's family says he didn't even have a gun. It was a book.

At various points, the anger boiled over into mob destruction, and one protester died at the hand

of an unknown assailant, all because yet one more African American, Keith Scott, was shot

dead without provocation. Or maybe because he was threatening police officers with a gun and refused to drop it.

The cops say the latter, Scott's family, the former.

The police just shot my daddy four times for being black.

They're going to tell us my daddy had a gun, so that's why they shoot him.

My daddy ain't do nothing.

They just pulled up undercover.

Scott's daughter at the scene shortly after the shooting.

The family said Scott was brandishing not a weapon, but a book, Charlotte Mecklenburg

Police Chief, Kerr Putney.

We did not find a book that has been made reference to, and we did find a weapon, and the weapon was there,

and the witness has corroborated it to beyond just the officers. Nonetheless, he says video of the

incident from police body cams is inconclusive. He showed that video to Scott's family, presumably to put

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