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Charlotte protesters attack officers, set tractor-trailer on fire in riot at Eritrean 'cultural event': police
foxnews ^ | 02/18/2024

Posted on 02/18/2024 5:58:25 PM PST by devane617

The Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department said eight people were arrested Saturday during a 10-hour "protest and standoff" that stemmed from an Eritrean "cultural event."

Clashes erupted between rival groups of Eritreans, and police confirmed that officers trying to disperse the unlawful crowds were attacked by people wielding sticks, rocks and other items.

Crowds also set a tractor on fire in North Carolina's largest city, and police seized a total of two firearms over the course of several hours.

Fox News Digital reached out to the department Sunday seeking the identities and more information about those eight arrested.

The incident first began shortly after 11:30 a.m. Saturday, when CMPD’s Providence Division responded to "an unlawful protest happening in the parking lot of a business hosting an Eritrean cultural event" on Monroe Road. "Protesters were on private property and were spilling out into the road, which prompted officers to close Monroe Road. Dispersal orders were repeatedly given to protesters throughout the duration of the protest, however they refused to disperse," police said in a press release. "Charlotte Fire and MEDIC responded to assist."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Iran; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina; Yemen
KEYWORDS: aliens; asylum; charlotte; crime; eritrea; immigration; iran; loveoneanother; mecklenburg; migration; northcarolina; refugees; riot; violence; yemen
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To: Rummyfan

“Charlotte protesters attack officers, set tractor-trailer on fire in riot at Eritrean ‘cultural event”

All ruptures find CULATURAL difference and that is the spark that lights the fights. How do we keep America with so many “different” cultures that are not willing to keep their cultures at home wherever they live. I think America learned that in it’s settlements. WE had to give up some things and Native Americans took the brunt. Maybe the answer will find it necessary to keep cultural gatherings at home base.


41 posted on 02/18/2024 10:53:22 PM PST by WVNan (Only Trump. Never any other president. never ever again.)
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To: desertsolitaire
I believe Eritrea is some temperature of War with its neighbor Ethiopia currently.

Huh?!

Regards,

42 posted on 02/18/2024 11:01:50 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: devane617

Ferals.


43 posted on 02/19/2024 2:57:43 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: WVNan

All we need is sufficient yeomanry, our own version of the Riot Act and the nerve to do a Peterloo.


44 posted on 02/19/2024 3:06:56 AM PST by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: alexander_busek

Auto correct. Not a hot war but have been skirmishes off and on for some time. Hx of dome more major battling.


45 posted on 02/19/2024 4:03:17 AM PST by desertsolitaire
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To: desertsolitaire

My best friend grew up in Eritrea (she’s white but her father had a business there). She says they’re savages.

She has high praise for the food, though.


46 posted on 02/19/2024 5:04:24 AM PST by Andy'smom (Proud member of the basket of deplorables)
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To: devane617

They’re so bound and determined to turn the US into a third world s4!t40l3 that we’ll soon be able to get our news from National Geographic.


47 posted on 02/19/2024 6:06:30 AM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: devane617

We need to send these jerks home.


48 posted on 02/19/2024 8:14:15 AM PST by wjr123 (Gaza)
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To: devane617

Africa wins again.


49 posted on 02/19/2024 8:16:02 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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