The ongoing protests in Charlotte over the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott has some outraged observers wondering if “white lives matter.”
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Influential finance blogger Zero Hedge, among others, have drawn attention to a video posted on social media that appears to show Charlotte protestors “beating, dragging, stripping, and laughing at an innocent white man.”
#CharlotteProtest Beating man begging for mercy in parking garage. @AC360 @seanhannity @BretBaier Credit:Lenard Bennett (facebook) @ncnaacp pic.twitter.com/YWHEU2UV1n
— Libertarian Queen (@LibertarianQn) September 22, 2016
Many were also outraged by witness reports that Charlotte protesters had tried to throw a photographer into a burning fire.
#WCCB witnessed protesters try to throw still photographer into fire in Uptown #Charlotte. https://t.co/T6i8AH5iGu #CharlotteProtest #news pic.twitter.com/t26WgIlwOh
— WCCB, Charlotte's CW (@WCCBCharlotte) September 22, 2016
Other videos emerged on social media showing protesters attacking white bystanders. Users tweeted them out using the hashtag #WhiteLivesMatter.
Videos emerge of protesters attacking white bystanders in Charlotte https://t.co/WDZd75jxAY via https://t.co/3Ko4xD48FY #whitelivesmatter
— Emma (@Emma1510R) September 22, 2016
#WHITELIVESMATTER: Charlotte Gang Up on White Man with Hands Up, Drag and Pummel Him – Breitbart https://t.co/2wSLnqJT1G via @BreitbartNews
— Deplorable Clint (@Clint_009) September 22, 2016
The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center has described “White Lives Matter” as a “racist” and “neo-Nazi” movement established in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.
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