Good Kinja.

another was reportedly beaten in a parking garage

As a former Charlotte resident this is sad, always such an easygoing town. However I fail to see how a black officer shooting a black citizen prompts the beating of a white man in a parking garage and a call for a ban on white businesses. The protesters are determined to make this a racial issues and reinforce the…

Or they would focus on facts. And realize this wasn't some guy reading the good book at the time he was randomly shot by a skinhead cop

“Maybe if we keep calling this obvious riot a “protest,” people will actually believe that it was peaceful despite the shooting, looting, and rampant violence! Kinda like how we say ISIS has nothing to do with Islam!”

Don’t worry, all of those same “protestors” that are burning shit to the ground are improving their city; those same people will be back someday to rebuild, to show that they really made a difference. Just like in Baltimore.

I don’t understand the whole looting and property destruction in protests.

I don’t feel like Cam owes it to anybody to make a stand. He’s pretty much proving that he can’t say something as simple as “we should be good people to each other” without coming under criticism.

But, please, by all means let Al Shapton visit the White House as often as he wants and stump in support of Hillary.

I think he’s just a compulsive creep who literally cannot stop himself.

Open carry does not change police use of force procedures and the 2nd amendment isn’t used the way you are saying it is.

Keep your sane and logical reflection on the information out of here please. We are only accepting comments that fit within the established BLM narrative.

Sure, he was within his rights to have a gun. However, when his brother and sister say he was unarmed that would discredit them as reliable witnesses.

Ugh. Thinking that way is part of the problem and contributes to the toxic environment we find ourselves in.

It depends. NC is an open carry state but that really only means you can have a visible gun holstered. Unless your life is in danger it’s still illegal to draw the gun. I’m pretty sure that would be brandishing. We need more information before making final judgments.

It’s not entirely clear that he was unarmed:

Sure, I mean, of course I agree with that, dude, come on. But let’s at least be intellectually honest about it, even when the other side is not. You wrote that “Joe Ricketts believes that Donald Trump is a dangerous, untrustworthy misogynist. But still—better than a woman becoming president.” In fairness — such as it…

True. Very true. But let’s not pretend Sarah Silverman and a whole lot of us on the left didn’t do the same shit (on a much, much, MUCH smaller scale); the only difference is that she was celebrated for it. A lot of Demorats (hi, me!) were horrified at the notion of Hillary becoming president and worked really hard to…

See, the problem is that you think Clinton is left and progressive when she is decidedly not.

Unless you are trolling, Trump learned that move from Hilary suggesting that Obama could be assassinated: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/may/23/hillaryclinton.barackobama