Police
Estimate Majority Of Charlotte Rioters Came From Outside N.C. "If you go back and look at some of the arrests
..." by Jack Davis 9/23/16
The riots that gripped Charlotte for
two nights this week were not a reflection of that North Carolina community,
according to a spokesman for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of
Police.
Instead, they are the work of people
who came from out of state to cause trouble, Todd Walther said on CNN’s Outfront.
Protests continued in Charlotte
Thursday night, but unlike the violence that flared on Tuesday and Wednesday
night, the protests were mostly peaceful.
“This is not Charlotte that’s out
here,” Walther said Thursday, reflecting on the first two nights of violence.
“These are outside entities that are coming in and causing these problems.
These are not protesters, these are criminals.”
“I’m not saying all the people, but
we’ve got the instigators that are coming in from the outside. They were coming
in on buses from out of state,” he said.
“If you go back and look at some of
the arrests that were made last night. I can about say probably 70 percent of those had out-of-state IDs. They’re not coming from
Charlotte,” he added.
President Barack
Obama noted that, despite violence that
left multiple Charlotte business damaged and several police officers injured,
he believes “the overwhelming majority of people who have been concerned about
police-community relations (are) doing it the right way.”
“Every once in a while you see folks
doing it the wrong way. Looting, breaking glass, those things are not going to
advance the cause,” he said on Good Morning America.
“I think it’s important to separate
out the pervasive sense of frustration among a lot of African-Americans about
shootings of people and the sense that justice is not always color blind,”
he said.
Although the rioting began when
police shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott on Tuesday, one local political
leader said the rift runs deeper.
“The grievance in their mind is the
animus, the anger,” said Rep. Robert Pittenger, R-N.C. “They hate white people because white people are
successful and they’re not”
“I mean, yes, it is, it is a welfare
state. We have spent trillions of dollars on welfare, and we’ve put people in
bondage so they can’t be all that they are capable of being,” said Pittenger,
who later offered an apology for the comment, saying his “anguish” over the
rioting resulted in him speaking out “in a way that I regret.”
Pittenger said he has been focusing
to mend the lack of economic mobility for African-Americans “because of failed
policies.”
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