With every wave of anti-police violence and rioting, the chance of a backlash from fed-up voters grows.
I doubt very much if articles like these helps much:
NAACP Leader on Keith Scott
Shooting: ‘It Really Doesn’t
Matter If He Had a Gun’
| | Mediaite, by Alex Griswold Original Article | | Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/22/2016 12:59:20 PM Post Reply | A local NAACP leader told CNN’s Carol Costello Thursday that it didn’t actually matter whether or not black Charlotte man Keith Scott had a gun on him when he was shot and killed by police. Scott’s death led to protests and violence for the past two days, after his family reported that he was holding a book when he died. Charlotte police have called that false, saying that police body camera footage shows he was brandishing a gun and that they recovered a weapon from the scene. But the president of the Charlotte chapter of the NAACP Corine Mack said
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Dear Media: Please Stop Calling
Violent Rioters ‘Protesters’
| | Mediaite, by Alex Griswold Original Article | | Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/22/2016 12:52:04 PM Post Reply | Watching coverage of the unrest in Charlotte, North Carolina last night, I was struck by a common trend in how the most violent acts were being covered. Here are the three most-shared tweets of the night, but notice what they all have in common. (Snip) Looting a Wal-Mart, destruction of property, attempted murder, all carried out by… “protesters.” There are thousands of protests in America every year, all of which manage to be nonviolent. I’ve been to quite a few of them, including entirely peaceful Black Lives Matter protests. None of them involved throwing people into a fire. Heck, none
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Charlotte violence sparks self
defense gun buying spree
| | Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard Original Article | | Posted By: JoniTx- 9/22/2016 3:41:49 PM Post Reply | | The explosion of racial violence in Charlotte, N.C. has led to a gun buying spree by locals worried about their safety. At Hyatt Guns, one of the nation´s largest, staff arrived Thursday morning after the second night of riots and encountered a line of buyers. "First off, our prayers are with law enforcement this morning. People are afraid. They see lunacy in the streets being perpetrated by criminals and they are gearing up to protect themselves," Justin Anderson, director of marketing for Hyatt Guns told Secrets. (Tweet) Anderson said that sales of self defense weapons has been swift this week, |
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