Was up all night watching the info pour in... Seems a local guy didnt listen to police commands to show and/or drop what was in his hand quickly enough and got extra holes in his body for his trouble. By about 3am, the crowds had blocked both directions of the interstate, were pulling stuff out of stopped semi-trucks and lighting it on fire in the roadway, etc... This was all about 10 miles up the road from me.
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Riot On I-85 In Charlotte Over Night
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If these "people" insist on behaving like animals, there is a way to discourage this kind of behavior.
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I understand that the officer who shot him was also black?
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Liberty University gradute in criminal justice and football player. He wanted to be an officer like his dad. Was his second year as an officer on that force. From what I could find no one had anything bad to say about him. I feel bad for him. Rookie in a bad situation and its likely to destroy his career.Weetabix wrote:I understand that the officer who shot him was also black?
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This shit makes me sick. How is looting a Walmart or destroying a trucker's livelihood going to correct your injustice? They just want an excuse to act like animals. All CNN does is inflame the situation. I never imagined I would see this kind of behavior openly on the streets.
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I may have said this before but I would have more respect for these thugs if the attacked the police HQ instead of a Wallmart. That would require actual courage and conviction, when the guys really just want an excuse to steal stuff and break things.
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BingoKommander wrote:I may have said this before but I would have more respect for these thugs if the attacked the police HQ instead of a Wallmart. That would require actual courage and conviction, when the guys really just want an excuse to steal stuff and break things.
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That's a good point... The guys who targeted police officers at least had the courage to fight and die for their beliefs, even if those beliefs were crap. Of course if BLM as a movement did adopt that approach, they'd set their own purported cause back at least 80 years.
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Indeed, but the local police station is very seldom stocked in sneakers. You fail to understand the motivation for the rioting. It's not justice, it's new "kicks". Seriously, don't listen to the dialogue, watch what they go for when the dialogue ends. It's always the sneakers.Kommander wrote:I may have said this before but I would have more respect for these thugs if the attacked the police HQ instead of a Wallmart. That would require actual courage and conviction, when the guys really just want an excuse to steal stuff and break things.
If Wal-Mart would simply pick a group of BLM people at random and send them 500 pairs of new sneakers, they would save a lot of money on cleaning up the store later.
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I gather they trashed/looted the NASCAR Hall of Fame as well.
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