{"id":153,"date":"2016-09-22T00:12:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T05:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidclarke\/?p=153"},"modified":"2016-09-22T00:12:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T05:12:02","slug":"charlotte-rioters-are-acting-subhuman-and-the-police-need-to-deal-with-them-more-aggressively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidclarke\/2016\/09\/charlotte-rioters-are-acting-subhuman-and-the-police-need-to-deal-with-them-more-aggressively\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte rioters are acting subhuman and the police need to deal with them more aggressively"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/609480564\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/609480564?et=XTzLR22aTwxXCZ9JX8uVYA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=g7tHePcbgbB_Fgn1r5caDv4azHh7vR0-6Wkf58sSbdk=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Seeing the footage of Charlotte, North Carolina, turned into a war zone by rioters protesting the officer-involved shooting looked more like something out of a third world country rather than something going on here in the USA.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I have the same reaction every time this happens in one of our great cities across this country: these Black LIES Matter folks prove themselves to be primitive in their behavior at best, and acting subhuman at worst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They simply react to circumstances instead of relying on a human\u2019s ability to think.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Their actions got so out of hand in Charlotte that innocent motorists were injured and their property damaged. There were 12 officers hurt, some hospitalized, and one got smashed in the head with a rock. Meanwhile, there were no casualties against the riot-makers, but that\u2019s only due to how the officers handled the situation. Their orders to use restraint is\u00a0going to end up getting more officers hurt and killed.<\/p>\n<p>These riot-makers who are looting and\u00a0engaging in criminal behavior need to be dealt with in an aggressive fashion.\u00a0They have to be shown enough force \u2014 reasonable force \u2014 but enough force that will discourage this sort of behavior. Though teargas was used to\u00a0disperse the crowd, it wasn\u2019t enough because too many were still hanging\u00a0around for far too long. Law enforcement officers know that you\u00a0have to deal\u00a0with these threats assertively.\u00a0But you have to be aggressive in\u00a0the early hours of the riots to discourage them\u00a0from this behavior or else you\u2019ll\u00a0see innocent motorists\u00a0getting caught up in the mayhem. Job one is always to protect life and\u00a0property; to use all reasonable\u00a0force, not minimal force, not\u00a0de-escalate, but\u00a0all reasonable force and keep turning it up until you get these riot-starters to disperse\u00a0from the area and behave in a more human fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Our officers have to deal with these tree stumps, folks who haven\u2019t thought anything through. Anger and rage trump facts and the politics of the day have blinded them. This is the Ferguson model; we\u2019ve seen it before. Anarchists are exploiting these poor people in the urban ghettos, recruiting them to be the riot starters. Police commanders need only to look back to the war on cops in the 1960s and see a similar pattern. If like back then, they are too soft in the early stages of a riot, there will be more casualties and injuries than necessary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click CONTINUE to see me discuss this further\u00a0on Fox Business:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/26XfvSvoLNo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being too soft on these riot-makers is going to get innocent people hurt or killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2846,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin 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