Roy Cooper finds himself in the same position politically that Nifong was in: seeking office, depending on the black vote as a Democrat. This alone tells me that Cooper will not do what's right, but what is politically expedient for him.
The article authored in the Wilmington Journal really reads: No Justice/No Peace. It's a wordy rehashy threat of the LA Riots. It's a "we've done it before, we can do it again" threat. I suspect no politican, of any stripe, here in the Old North, south, would relish the idea of actually going against the dictates of a mob mentality, by which the MSM, predictably would fuel the mob in order to slur anyone as "evidence of more racism going on in the old south". I suspect this is the reasoning behind the smarmy and smug recent release from the NAACP.