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Charlotte protesters demand mayor's resignation over black man's slaying
Reuters ^ | 27 July 2016 | Emily Harris

Posted on 09/28/2016 9:25:18 PM PDT by Lorianne

Dozens of protesters took their fight for racial equality in policing to the heart of Charlotte's power structure on Monday, demanding the resignations of the mayor, police chief, and lawmakers in the wake of the police slaying of a black man.

Residents and activists, many of whom have participated in street demonstrations every day since the death of Keith Scott on Tuesday, spoke at a packed city council meeting of frustrations with racial discrimination in the North Carolina city of about 792,800 residents.

Many speakers said city officials were responsible for ensuring police officers treat everyone fairly, and called on Mayor Jennifer Roberts, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Oikuce Chief Kerr Putney, and members of the city council to resign.

"If you can't do your job, let's find someone who can," said Darcel Chandler, an attorney.

"We can't choose who we want the laws to apply to."

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: northcarolina; police
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To: Lorianne

They do not want to solve anything. They want black people who are dicey not to be arrested. They want to run the city as they see fit.


21 posted on 09/28/2016 9:59:15 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Lorianne

I’m white, and I know darn well that if I was brandishing a gun and refusing to obey police orders that the cops would just stand there until I got tuckered out and then buy me a steak dinner and slip a few hundred dollar bills in my pocket.


22 posted on 09/28/2016 10:01:25 PM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: goldstategop
more black thugs are going to die in the future.

But that's not the concern of these professional agitators. They're going to do what Soros is paying them to do regardless.

They never let a crisis go to waste, and they sure don't give one whit about dead blacks. If they did, they'd clean up their own neighborhoods.

23 posted on 09/28/2016 10:04:21 PM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: Lorianne

“Charlotte protesters demand mayor’s resignation over black man’s slaying”

“Charlotte protestors”. Would those be the bussed in professional agitators Soros pays to create chaos, and generally muck up the works? Yes, I believe they are.

To the Mayor, C.O.P., and the Council suggest you extend the appropriate finger in the general direction of the lot of them.


24 posted on 09/28/2016 10:09:39 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (America IS sick, and tired of the Clintons. It's time to say goodbye.)
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To: Molon Labbie

What do the mayor and chief’s dresser drawers have to do with it?


25 posted on 09/28/2016 10:11:52 PM PDT by arthurus (Hillary's campaign is getting shaky)
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To: Lorianne

This is from the Egypt Arab Spring playbook, just smaller scale. Same techniques.


26 posted on 09/29/2016 1:23:16 AM PDT by Ray76
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To: Lorianne

Heh heh heh.


27 posted on 09/29/2016 1:51:21 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Lorianne

Dozens of professional grievance-mongers. Big deal.

The Democrat establishment will have to decide whether they favor LGBT or black as the top-dog victim class.


28 posted on 09/29/2016 2:50:34 AM PDT by Tax-chick (The coming of a Cthulhu presidency will be heralded by a worldwide wave of madness.)
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To: Lorianne

I agree with them. Total incompetence.


29 posted on 09/29/2016 3:06:57 AM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: Lorianne

30 posted on 09/29/2016 3:25:02 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: LouAvul

I take solace in the fact that “black America” is so unhappy with how things turned out after 8 years of our first mulatto president.


31 posted on 09/29/2016 3:38:07 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Yes, she is......


32 posted on 09/29/2016 4:31:58 AM PDT by Vinnie
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America’s biggest enemy is the Media/SocialMedia.

The overwhelming majority of Americans would have NO PROBLEM with the cops turning the fire hoses on these looters/arsonists, however, the powers that be have become CONVINCED that them media narrative is the truth and are deathly afraid of being called “racist” by a handful of people while the silent majority go to work and seethe at this madness.


33 posted on 09/29/2016 5:39:25 AM PDT by Maverick68 (p)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

I think he’s a Democrat.


34 posted on 09/29/2016 6:09:00 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: kearnyirish2

I keep reading that O’Bummer has a ninety percent approval rating among blacks.


35 posted on 09/29/2016 7:31:10 AM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: LouAvul

I don’t believe those numbers anymore; I work with blacks that are nanny-state liberals and they took down the Obama pictures years ago. They are a miserable lot, and openly gripe as the black segment of our workforce is replaced by Hispanics. The “black wall of silence” prevents them from breaking plantation ranks and openly criticizing him, but they really miss George W. Bush (who they openly disliked).


36 posted on 09/30/2016 3:28:24 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

So, that “hope ‘n change” didn’t work out too well for them either?


37 posted on 09/30/2016 7:18:37 AM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: LouAvul

No; they’re very sad, and act as though a wealthy white homosexual has been in the White House for the past 8 years.


38 posted on 10/02/2016 4:50:11 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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