{"id":50206,"date":"2016-09-24T17:03:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T21:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=50206"},"modified":"2016-09-24T17:04:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T21:04:14","slug":"do-white-lives-matter-in-charlotte-internet-outrage-grows-after-protests-turn-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=50206","title":{"rendered":"Do \u2018White Lives Matter\u2019 in Charlotte? Internet Outrage Grows After Protests Turn Violent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By Heat Street Staff<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing <a href=\"http:\/\/heatst.com\/culture-wars\/charlotte-chaos-continues-state-of-emergency-declared-after-another-man-is-shot-in-violent-clashes\/\">protests in Charlotte over the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott<\/a>\u00a0has some outraged observers wondering if \u201cwhite lives matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Influential finance blogger Zero Hedge, among others, have drawn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-09-22\/do-whitelivesmatter-charlotte\">attention<\/a> to a video posted on social media that appears to show Charlotte protestors \u201cbeating, dragging, stripping, and laughing at an innocent white man.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CharlotteProtest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CharlotteProtest<\/a> Beating man begging for mercy in parking garage. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AC360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AC360<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanhannity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@seanhannity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BretBaier?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BretBaier<\/a> Credit:Lenard Bennett (facebook) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ncnaacp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ncnaacp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YWHEU2UV1n\">pic.twitter.com\/YWHEU2UV1n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vintage Retweeter \u2741 (@NikkiBAEley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiBAEley\/status\/778845840496594944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Many were also outraged by witness reports\u00a0that Charlotte protesters had tried to throw a photographer into a burning fire.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WCCB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WCCB<\/a> witnessed protesters try to throw still photographer into fire in Uptown <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Charlotte?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Charlotte<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T6i8AH5iGu\">https:\/\/t.co\/T6i8AH5iGu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CharlotteProtest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CharlotteProtest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/news?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t26WgIlwOh\">pic.twitter.com\/t26WgIlwOh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WCCB Charlotte&#39;s CW (@WCCBCharlotte) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCCBCharlotte\/status\/778788105469960192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Other videos emerged on social media showing protesters attacking white bystanders. Users tweeted them out using the hashtag #WhiteLivesMatter.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/Emma1510R\/status\/779002312585084928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WHITELIVESMATTER?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WHITELIVESMATTER<\/a>: Charlotte Gang Up on White Man with Hands Up, Drag and Pummel Him &#8211; Breitbart <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2wSLnqJT1G\">https:\/\/t.co\/2wSLnqJT1G<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BreitbartNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Deplorable Clint (@Clint_009) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Clint_009\/status\/778983613241188354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed\"><\/div>\n<p>The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center has described\u00a0\u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201d as a \u201cracist\u201d\u00a0and \u201cneo-Nazi\u201d movement established in response\u00a0to the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/heatst.com\/culture-wars\/white-lives-matter-charlotte\/\">http:\/\/heatst.com\/culture-wars\/white-lives-matter-charlotte\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}