Residents of Charlotte, North Carolina defied a curfew order and state of emergency and took to the streets for a third consecutive night in the latest outburst of unrest provoked by brutal systemic violence against Black and brown communities in the United States. The protests, which come in response to the fatal police shooting of Keith Scott, come mere days after the extra-judicial killing of Terence Crutcher by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

On Friday, Scott's wife Rakeyia released her own cellphone-recorded video of the killing. In the video, several officers bark the command "Drop the gun" at Scott, to which Scott's wife exasperatedly responds, "He doesn't have a gun. He has a TBI [a Traumatic Brain Injury]. He's not going to do anything to you guys. He just took his medicine."

After three nights of continuous rebellion filled with chants and singing punctuated by the sound of chopping helicopter blades, sirens, and flash-bang grenades, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police attempted Thursday to keep a low profile while local pastors fanned out to soothe the anger of community members. Favoring golf carts and bicycles rather than armored personnel carriers and SWAT phalanxes, the CMPD did their best to passively defuse the peaceful protests while police aircraft and National Guard humvees similarly maintained a discrete presence. However, protesters soon converged on a local freeway, leading to the redeployment of riot squads clad in heavy crowd control gear.

While the protests showed the possibility of tapering down on Thursday night, the videotaped execution will likely rip open the still-fresh wound resulting from Scott's killing.

Meanwhile, in a blatant expression of white nationalism, U.S. Rep. Robert Pittinger (R-NC 9th District) claimed: "the grievance in their mind is — the animus, the anger — they hate white people because white people are successful and they're not."

There's no doubt that the intolerable conditions for Black and brown communities — which U.S. media attempt to trivialize as some "crisis in community-police relations" — will continue to claim more lives and provoke further rebellion.

teleSUR takes a look at the latest flare-up in the ongoing resistance by oppressed communities against police terror.