Sunday, September 25, 2016

NC Paid Rioters Bussed In

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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