Violence flared on Wednesday in the southern US city of Charlotte, North Carolina, in a second night of unrest ignited by the fatal police shooting of a black man.

Several hundred people taunted riot police in front of a hotel in the city center, while a man fell to the ground. Witnesses said that the police brought him into the hotel after he fell, leaving blood on the sidewalk.

Some protesters banged on glass windows, others threw objects at police and stood on cars as police appeared to fire tear gas, prompting demonstrators to run. Mayor Jennifer Roberts said earlier in the day, "We are calling for peace, we are calling for calm, we are calling for dialogue. We all see this as a tragedy."

Keith Lamont Scott, 43 years old, was shot dead in an apartment complex parking lot on Tuesday after an encounter with officers searching for a suspect wanted for arrest.

The authorities said that 16 officers and several demonstrators had been injured in clashes overnight on Tuesday following Scott's death. This is the latest in a string of police-involved killings of black men that have fueled outrage across the United States.

Earlier on Wednesday, presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton weighed in on the violence in Charlotte, which came on the heels of another fatal police shooting of a black man, Terence Crutcher, on Friday in Tulsa.

Democrat Clinton, signing the post herself twitted, "Keith Lamont Scott. Terence Crutcher. Too many others. This has got to end. -H,"

Trump suggested in a tweet later on Wednesday that the Tulsa officer who shot Crutcher had "choked" , after calling to "make America safe again". He said, speaking at an African-American church in Cleveland, Ohio, "I don't know what she was thinking.”

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By Prakriti Neogi