Protests erupted in Charlotte, North Carolina Tuesday after 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott was shot and killed by a police officer.

The man was reportedly shot by a black officer.

Protesters attacked police, hit a reporter in the head with a rock and trashed a police cruiser.

The shooting occurred around 4 p.m. at The Village at College Downs apartment complex in northeast Charlotte.

According to WBTV, officers said they were searching for a person with an outstanding warrant when they saw a man get out of a vehicle with a firearm.

Lamont Scott got out of the vehicle “armed with a firearm and posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers who subsequently fired their weapon striking the subject.”

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Black Lives Matter activists gathered tonight to protest the shooting.

They’re hurling water bottles at police.

The protesters confronted police.

A police cruiser got trashed.

And one protester gave a speech from the top of the cruiser.

A #BlackLivesMatter protester gives a speech standing on the police car roof in #Charlotte..

Is THAT peaceful protest???#KeithLamontScott pic.twitter.com/PVxZoYTjzM — Tennessee GOP (@TEN_GOP) September 21, 2016

WBTV reporter was hit in the head with a rock.