Unrest in Charlotte, Stop and Frisk the Nation
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Black Lives: One person was shot and critically wounded in Charlotte, NC, during a second night of disturbances after the police killing of a black man in a parking lot while officers were looking to serve a warrant on someone else. Protesters beat on a police car and chanted “hands up, don’t shoot.” Police fired teargas.
The man killed two days ago, 43-year-old Keith Scott, was a father of seven.
Stories conflict. Scott’s family said he was sitting in his car reading a book, waiting for his son to come home from school. But the cops said Scott got out of his car with a gun and refused orders to put it down. They said they never found a book at the scene.
Scott was shot by a black officer, and the chief of police, who is also black, said, “He did have a weapon when he exited the vehicle. Officers were giving loud, clear verbal commands. The suspect exited the vehicle with a handgun, threatening officers.”
An investigation is also underway in the shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer in Tulsa, Okla. last week video shows 40-year-old Terence Crutcher with his hands in the air when he was shot by Off. Betty Shelby. Crutcher had many run-ins with the law over the years, and was once found armed with a .25 caliber pistol, but he did not appear to be a threat when he was killed.
The Candidates: Donald Trump, the “law and order” candidate who is trying to appeal to more nonwhite voters, yesterday said he wants the police to engage in more random “stop and frisk” enforcement in troubled inner city neighborhoods. “I think you have to,” he said. “We did it in New York, it worked incredibly well and you have to be proactive.”
How well it worked is a matter of debate in New York City. It was ruled unconstitutional. And people like Donald Trump, running from the building they own to their limousine, were never stopped and frisked, no matter how suspicious their activity.
>Hillary Clinton, who struggles to make headlines while campaigning on actual issues, has outlined plans to increase job opportunities for people with disabilities. “Whether they can participate in our economy and lead rich, full lives that are as healthy and productive as possible is a reflection on us as a country,” she said in Orlando.
The Roundup: The US is investigating the possibility that the Islamic State fired a mustard gas rocket at American soldiers in Iraq — Secy. of State John Kerry has called for the grounding of all aircraft in critical areas of Syria to save the troubled ceasefire — Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, pledge $3 billion to eradicate disease.
Weiner World: The British tabloid The Daily Mail reports that former Congressman Anthony Weiner, the man with the internet sex compulsion, carried on an online sexual relationship with a 15-year-old high school girl for months. While not admitting anything, Weiner told the Mail, “I have repeatedly demonstrated terrible judgment about the people I have communicated with online and the things I have sent.”
The flirtation is said to have taken place using an app that deletes messages, but the girl took pictures of her phone screen with pretty hard core mash notes.
Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, who is Hillary Clinton’s closest aide, dumped him over this kind of thing, but he’s an embarrassment even from the outhouse.
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