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Our southern-based reporter, Matt Teague, is in Charlotte and has filed a full news story on the night’s developments.

He describes how the protests erupted into violence when a protester was shot and crowds used flowerpots as missiles against the police, the “dirt from the pots mixed with the wounded protester’s blood on the sidewalk, trampled by the opposing ranks of police and protesters”.

He also describes the ebb and flow as the demonstrators vied with police for control of the streets:

Protesters lost and regained and then lost territory again into the night, and eventually started flinging wine bottles and at least one Moltov cocktail at the lines of police. Once protesters threw bottles police started firing orange plastic bullets filled with white powder. The shots – which made the sound of automatic gunfire – scattered crowds before they gradually reformed.

Read his full dispatch here: