Tell the truth and shame the devil. https://t.co/dE5M7RKjTj
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) October 12, 2016
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What’s on the agenda?
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Tell the truth and shame the devil. https://t.co/dE5M7RKjTj
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) October 12, 2016
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What’s on the agenda?
Saturday Night Open Thread: “What It Means”Post + Comments (254)
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!!! Trump tells @steinhauserNH1 that he is proud of his birtherism!: "I tried and I was able to do it so I’m very proud of that." pic.twitter.com/V0yLJqF2U9
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) September 29, 2016
Adam Gopnik, in the New Yorker, “The Problem with Trump Isn’t His Debating Skills“:
… Talking, again, about President Obama’s birth certificate, he displayed not only the usual pathological inability to admit to an error—any error, ever—but an underlying racism so pervasive that it can’t help express itself even when trying to pass as something else. There was, after all, never any doubt or controversy about Obama’s being born an American—never any actual “controversy” about his place of birth, any more than there is about Trump’s or Clinton’s. (And Clinton never said there was.) It was a settled matter from the time Obama began running for office. What there was was a racist conspiracy theory, invented by various people on the fringe right, that Trump brought into the center of attention. By 2011, Trump had simply succeeded in making this racist conspiracy theory so prevalent that Obama, who had released his birth certificate three years earlier, concluded that it was more efficient to end it for all time by asking Hawaiian officials for special permission to let him give out the “long form,” archival version than to let it go on. What Obama may not have realized was that in Trump’s world, since he is never wrong, it couldn’t end.
Yet Trump continued last night his self-congratulations for compelling the President to do this, along with the grotesquely racist notion that it was “good for him” (i.e., for the President). It slowly dawned on the listener that this was all of a piece with the rest of Trump’s racial attitudes: he believes that, as a rich white man, he had a right to stop and frisk the President of the United States and demand that the uppity black man show him his papers. Stop-and-frisk isn’t just a form of policing for Trump; it’s a whole way of life. The idea that he had a right to force a black man to go through what Obama rightly saw as the demeaning business of producing his birth certificate showed his fundamental contempt for any normal idea of racial equality. It was of a line with his equally bizarre notion that owning a country club that doesn’t actively discriminate against black people is not a minimal requirement of law but a positive achievement of the owner. This isn’t the case of someone misarticulating an otherwise plausible position; it was just a case of someone repeating, once again, not only a specific racist lie but also the toxic underlying set of assumptions that produced it…
… His cruelty to Alicia Machado was unleavened by any apparent respect for her as a human being in any role other than as an envelope of flesh—an attitude he only doubled down on the following morning by complaining that she presented what he saw as an obvious problem as a reigning Miss Universe: she had gained “a massive amount of weight” (by Trump standards, that is). Again, this wasn’t a problem of how he chose to present his beliefs; the problem is with the beliefs. This wasn’t a question of preparation. It was that the things he actually believes are themselves repellent even when coherently presented. This was not a bad performance. This is a bad man.
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Tremaine Lee of MSNBC is reporting live that police in Charlotte have just fired rubber bullets and what he’s describing as pepper spray (most likely pepper ball less than lethal rounds) into fleeing protestors that were marching peacefully towards I277 over an hour before the midnight curfew. Lee is reporting that the police are moving into the area, they then set up a phalanx, move towards the protestors, and as the protestors begin to move out, the police then fire the rubber bullets and pepper rounds towards them.
Police in riot gear pounding their shields, someone said it sounded like they were firing paintballs #charlotteprotests pic.twitter.com/npsA3r9Qd7
— Katie Peralta (@katieperalta) September 23, 2016
Here’s the link to WBTV 3 Charlotte’s live feed.
The next major conflict point will be at 12:00 AM EDT when the Mayor of Charlotte has called a curfew to clear the streets from midnight to 6:00 AM EDT. It is unclear how law enforcement in Charlotte plan to enforce that curfew given the several hundred peaceful protestors and demonstrators in the streets of Charlotte. Earlier this evening Reverend Barber in an interview on MSNBC indicated that the Mayor of Charlotte had agreed during a meeting with faith leaders earlier today not to impose and enforce a curfew.
For everyone in the Charlotte area please stay safe.
I’ll update as new information becomes available.
Update at 11:15 PM EDT
Mayor Jennifer Roberts just told Brian Williams on MSNBC that:
Mayor Roberts to MSNBC: "We want to be flexible… We're saying midnight. We want to have them cleared as soon after as possible."
— Théoden Janes (@theodenjanes) September 23, 2016
We are 45 minutes away from finding out what this means in practice.
Update at 12:00 AM EDT
The Charlotte municipal curfew is now in effect. Significant number of demonstrators/protestors are still out on the street. Hopefully things stay peaceful.
Police say no injuries tonight. Knock on wood #CharlotteProtests
— Katie Peralta (@katieperalta) September 23, 2016
Update 12:07 PM EDT
2 @CMPD officers being treated by @MecklenburgEMS after they were sprayed w a chemical agent by demonstrators.
— CMPD News (@CMPD) September 23, 2016
There are still people milling about uptown. Police say decision abt arresting them needs to come from chief #CLTProtest
— Katie Peralta (@katieperalta) September 23, 2016
Update at 12:12 PM EDT
Protesters in Charlotte stop to hug National Guard members and thank for service.
— Jeff Siner (@jsiner) September 23, 2016
Update at 12:35 AM EDT
More than 5 hours after gathering, crowd still covers about 3 blocks. pic.twitter.com/i5XQkjFfGo
— Ann Doss Helms (@anndosshelms) September 23, 2016
Update at 12:52 AM EDT:
12:42am. Protests continue, but all peaceful. Police say they can continue. #CMPD #Charlotte https://t.co/bkbdWq3glw
— Molly Grantham WBTV (@MollyGrantham) September 23, 2016
Citywide curfew for #Clt; #CMPD says as long as protesters remain peaceful they can continue #KeithLamontScott @WBTV_News pic.twitter.com/8sHhkp7GEt
— Coleen Harry WBTV (@ColeenHarryWBTV) September 23, 2016
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The economic anxiety of law professorshttps://t.co/CGbBvnabWQ?
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) September 22, 2016
Besides either pointing and laughing or cringing and looking at our fellow countrymen with abject fear and uncertainty, what is on the agenda today
#NotAllAssholes
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.@realDonaldTrump wants to take the controversial stop-and-frisk policy nationwide: https://t.co/N7E3yUVwK8
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) September 22, 2016
Trump will propose nationwide stop-and-frisk to address violence in black community 2nite on Hannity: pic.twitter.com/HDSPYtepqb
— Alexandra Jaffe (@ajjaffe) September 21, 2016
The GOP nominee wants to bring back stop and frisk after it was found to be an unconstitutional practice in court. ?
— Angela Rye! (@angela_rye) September 22, 2016
A 2013 @AGSchneiderman report found that "stop-and-frisk" does not cut crime. It isn't the only one. Trump is lying. https://t.co/jVKxxuS1mK
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) September 21, 2016
Stop-and-frisk (1) is already in place; (2) doesn't really work; (3) suggests Trump isn't really seeking Af-Am votes https://t.co/jkeNoVqpb5
— David A. Graham (@GrahamDavidA) September 21, 2016
Of course, it’s not about encouraging African-Americans to vote for Trump; it’s about appealing to his base, the proud outspoken Basket of Deplorables. He’s doubling down on the white nationalists / neo-nazies / LawnOrdure ‘poorly educated’ that Deadbeat Donald loves so much.
Trump's townhall w/ Hannity on African American issues is now the most ridiculous thing to happen in this election. That's saying something
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) September 22, 2016
Remember when this guy was supposed to be a steadying influence?…
Trump advisers think presence of Rudy on campaign trail will be steadying influence on him. https://t.co/onmpZHlyC4 pic.twitter.com/SMvUd77MkM
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) August 14, 2016
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Clinton up 5 points in national poll after Trump's renewal of birther controversy https://t.co/pWU4sml3CP
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) September 20, 2016
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Apart from running the numbers, what’s on the agenda for the day?
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The must-win states: https://t.co/lZRWJ8yZMs pic.twitter.com/Ga3RtKEpxH
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) September 20, 2016
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There are ongoing demonstrations against the Charlotte Mecklenberg Police Department’s shooting of an African American man this afternoon.
#BREAKING Keep hearing loud pops, protesters clashing with police @WBTV_News pic.twitter.com/SszFDeRm0V
— Alex Giles WBTV (@AlexGilesNews) September 21, 2016
#BREAKING It appears gas has just been sent into the crowd @WBTV_News pic.twitter.com/LTXk8w0vDX
— Alex Giles WBTV (@AlexGilesNews) September 21, 2016
Early today plainclothes, undercover officers from the Charlotte Mecklenberg Police Department (CMPD) shot and killed 43 year old Keith Lamont Scott.
The shooting happened around 4 p.m. at The Village at College Downs apartment complex on the 9600 block of Old Concord Road. Officers said they were searching for a person with an outstanding warrant when they saw a man get out of a vehicle with a firearm.
When the man, later identified as 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, got back into the vehicle, the officers approached. The report states Scott then got back out of the vehicle “armed with a firearm and posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers who subsequently fired their weapon striking the subject.”
His family has argued that he was waiting in his truck and reading a book while waiting for his son to be dropped off from school.
The brother of the man police shot and killed tells me he was holding a book and waiting for his son to be dropped off from school @wsoctv
— Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) September 20, 2016
And they are directly contradicting the CMPD account that he was armed:
Sister of the man police shot and killed: "he didn't have no gun, he wasn't messing with nobody" @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/37k55Lt70H
— Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) September 21, 2016
Not that it makes anything better, but WSOC 9’s Joe Bruno has just reported out that the officer who shot Mr. Scott is also African American:
From CMPD sources: both of the officer and the victim involved in this shooting are African-American @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/fUFYYESz1m
— Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) September 21, 2016
Given the community response to today’s events and the CMPD’s response to the community, this is going to be a fluid, dynamic, and quickly changing situation. As more info comes in, I’ll update until I rack out for the night.
Updated at 11:55 PM EDT
Here’s the link to WSOC TV 9’s Live Feed.
And here’s WBTV 3’s Live Feed.
The Mayor of Charlotte has just tweeted out the following:
The community deserves answers and full investigation will ensue. Will be reaching out to community leaders to work together @CMPD @ncnaacp
— Mayor of Charlotte (@CLTMayor) September 21, 2016
Breaking News: Ongoing Demonstrations in CharlottePost + Comments (100)