Hundreds of protesters defied a midnight (0400 GMT) curfew Friday and continued demonstrations in Charlotte, North Carolina over the fatal police shooting of a black man. 


An AFP correspondent at the scene reported several hundred demonstrators milling around the downtown area of the southern US city for a third consecutive night, amid a strong police presence. 


The protests follow the shooting on Tuesday of Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old African American -- the latest in a string of police-involved killings of black men that have fueled outrage across the United States. 


North Carolina's governor has declared a state of emergency in Charlotte, and several hundred National Guard troops and highway police officers were deployed to reinforce the local force

Source: NNA