On Monday, protests broke out across the nation over the shooting of Terrence Crutcher, a 40-year-old black man from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Crutcher was shot by a white officer after 911 calls identified him as a man who had abandoned his car in the middle of the road and appeared to be on drugs. He also had a history of drug crimes and gun crimes. Crutcher did disobey police orders, but he had his hands up before he approached his vehicle. Then he sort of lowered his hands and was shot. The police are undertaking a full investigation, of course.

The officer

will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law if the tape is representative of the events

that occurred. Then on Tuesday, a black officer from Charlotte, North Carolina, shot and killed

a 43-year-old black guy named Keith Lamont Scott in a university city apartment parking lot.

The police had been looking for somebody with an outstanding warrant when they saw Scott leave his car with a gun.

After Scott got back in the car, the police approached him, at which point he emerged with the gun,

and, quote, posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers who subsequently fired their weapon,

striking the subject, and

killing him. The cops called a medic who began performing CPR. Despite the apparent fact that Scott

was armed and tried to do something to the officers, his daughter released a video online

and saying that he was unarmed, that he was reading a book while waiting for his son to be

let off the school bus, and that he was disabled, which is a great story, except none of it

is actually supported by any of the facts that we've seen. Scott's death prompted a race riot

in Charlotte, 12 officers injured, including seven hospitalized, one struck in the face by a rock.

The rioters didn't merely attack cops. They were throwing rocks and bottles from freeway

overpasses onto drivers below. They also looted a Walmart as a protest

for some reason, and they injured three reporters, including one who had to be hospitalized.

The Black Lives Matter movement has been an utter disaster for the country. It's based on a

provable lie that unarmed black people are disproportionately shot by the cops. It assumes

Americans also don't care if unarmed black people are shot by the cops.

But it actually does a disservice to innocent black people who do die at the hands of cops

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