A former police officer in North Carolina&#8217;s Asheville Police Department (APD) both admonished and apologized to the community he served in a heartfelt resignation letter published last week in the local newspaper.
Justin Wilson, who served as a community resource officer for 10 years with APD, explained in an Aug. 21 email sent to neighborhood groups he worked with that he was moving to Colorado to begin a new career because his law enforcement job &#8220;has taken a toll on my personal life,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/09/11/asheville-police-resignations-surge-taken-toll-my-personal-life/3459640001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Asheville Citizen-Times</a> reported.
Wilson also expressed regret for not having offered his community &#8220;more safety and protection&#8221; but maintained that police are being expected to stem the tide of social problems that can only be solved by &#8220;strong communities.&#8221; He further urged Asheville residents to remember that his fellow police officers, who he said &#8220;are good people with good hearts,&#8221; are confronted with real evil that is &#8220;not within our capacity&#8221; to curb entirely.
His full letter reads:
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I wanted to write to a few of you who I have had connections with over the past few years to let you know that I am resigning from APD. I&#8217;m headed out to Colorado to start a new career. Being a cop has been very difficult for me. It has taken a toll on my personal life. I cannot begin to explain the complexities of it to someone who has not been involved in it. I wish I could. I&#8217;m blessed to exit this job with only emotional scars.
I truly wish I could have offered you more safety and protection. My time as a CRO has been a constant balance of defending APD, and acknowledging the short falls of APD. I tried my best to be transparent and honest with you all. I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that APD is tasked with stopping societal issues, and disorder, but it is not within our capacity. We can only put a bandaid on these issues. Strong communities are the real remedy.
I want to sincerely thank you for your patiences, understanding, and support of APD. Officers require your support to function properly (during both the good and bad times).
After ten years at APD, I can say confidently that APD officers are good people with good hearts. Evil is real. Evil exists in Asheville, officers are surrounded by it, and they do their best with what they have. Please remember that.
-Justin
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According to the Citizen-Times, resignations from APD have surged since June 1, with 31 officers having called it quits in what Police Chief David Zack described as an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; trend. For a force of 238, such a number, which does not take retirements into account, equates to one in 10 sworn officers throwing in the towel.
Asheville, a very liberal city with a population of about 90,000 in the otherwise mostly conservative western part of North Carolina, has been roiled with turmoil over the summer. In the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death, APD officers decked out in riot gear engaged in an hours-long standoff with protesters on one of the major thoroughfares leading into the city, <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/06/01/asheville-police-prepare-second-night-demonstrations/5307251002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according to the Citizen-Times</a>.
Asheville also made headlines in July when their city council approved a resolution in favor of &#8220;community reparations&#8221; for its black citizens. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/north-carolina-city-votes-to-offer-community-reparations-for-black-citizens" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire reported</a>, the resolution does not offer direct payments but will instead seek to rectify historical disparities among the city’s black community with investment-based solutions. In a July 30 vote, the city also voted to <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/07/30/defund-police-asheville-votes-limit-budget-50-cut-sought-activists/5550993002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">limit the APD&#8217;s budget</a> amid calls from activists demanding an immediate 50% cut to the department&#8217;s funding.
Asheville is the most populous city in North Carolina&#8217;s 11th Congressional District, which has drawn <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stomp-their-scrawny-pasty-necks-inflammatory-tweets-from-nc-congressional-candidate-resurface" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">national attention</a> for its congressional race between Democrat Moe Davis, a retired Air Force colonel, and Madison Cawthorn, a 25-year-old paraplegic who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/madison-cawthorn-24-wins-republican-run-off-primary-for-meadows-old-seat" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">beat a Trump-backed candidate</a> during a runoff election and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-pbs-journalist-slams-young-paralyzed-gop-candidate-standing-at-rnc-to-recite-pledge-of-allegiance-social-media-erupts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">spoke at the Republican National Convention</a>.
The Davis and Cawthorn campaigns offered differing views to The Daily Wire on Wilson&#8217;s resignation and the larger issues regarding the city&#8217;s hemorrhaging police force. The Davis campaign didn&#8217;t want to speak to Wilson&#8217;s situation specifically because &#8220;he has said it was a personal decision and did not elaborate&#8221; but added that it was &#8220;too soon to know all of the reasons for the recent departures and whether this is temporary or a trend.&#8221;
The Davis campaign continued:
<blockquote>But we can acknowledge that this is a moment of reckoning and transition in our country following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which led to nationwide protests and conflicts with police. Col. Davis has called for reform and advocated for a re-imagining of the role of policing in this country. For example, issues such as drug overdoses are best handled via healthcare, not police.
More than anything, this moment calls for leaders who can work to unite our deeply divided country. That is our best path forward.</blockquote>
A spokesman for the Cawthorn campaign pointed out that he has been &#8220;endorsed by more than a dozen sheriffs and law enforcement groups because he understands that with very few exceptions law enforcement officers are noble, hard-working Americans who risk their lives every day to keep us safe. In fact, no one was more appalled by George Floyd’s killing than law enforcement officers who have dedicated their lives to protecting our basic rights and liberties.&#8221;
Cawthorn&#8217;s campaign went on to urge his opponent to apologize to law enforcement because of &#8220;his barbaric calls for violence,&#8221; referencing <a href="https://www.moetaxes.com/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">unsurfaced tweets</a> that slammed President Donald Trump and his supporters in violent and vulgar ways. The campaign continued:
<blockquote>Davis’ rationalization of his rhetoric (he believes he can say such things because he has a &#8220;D&#8221; next to his name) is a dangerous appeal to the political tribalism Cawthorn condemned in his convention speech. Davis likes to say that not all Republicans are Nazis, but all Nazis are Republicans. Someone with Davis’ education should know better. Dehumanizing political opponents is Germany circa 1930 and the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Davis should unequivocally apologize for not just his rhetoric but the rationalization upon which it is based.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/north-carolina-city-votes-to-offer-community-reparations-for-black-citizens" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">North Carolina City Votes To Offer ‘Community Reparations’ For Black Citizens</a>
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Trump Blue Lives Matter Asheville

‘Evil Is Real’: North Carolina Police Officer Pens Heartfelt Resignation Letter To Community Amid ‘Unprecedented’ Exodus From Force

Defund The Police

Madison Cawthorn

North Carolina

Police

The Democratic candidate for North Carolina&#8217;s 11th Congressional District is drawing scrutiny after profane tweets he made have resurfaced in the wake of his recent debate against his Republican opponent.
Moe Davis, a retired Air Force colonel who is running against 25-year-old <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-fighter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Madison Cawthorn</a> to represent western North Carolina in the House of Representatives, was asked to explain vulgar posts he made on social media in recent years after local radio host Pete Kaliner brought them up to him during the Sept. 4 debate.
&#8220;Colonel Davis, on social media you&#8217;ve suggested Mr. Cawthorn&#8217;s a white supremacist, a racist, a Nazi, a Nazi sympathizer, or all of those things,&#8221; Kaliner said. &#8220;You&#8217;ve called him a far-right hateful extremist, alt-right, a bigot, ignorant, a liar, a poster child for Donald Trump&#8217;s fascism, uneducated, unable to compete, pretty and pampered, lacking any moral core.&#8221;
Kaliner went on to list some of the epithets Davis has hurled toward the president, as well, in which he claimed Trump is &#8220;a 100% purebred worthless scumbag [expletive]&#8221; with a racist agenda and described first lady Melania Trump as his &#8220;foreign-born nude model 3rd wife.&#8221;
Kaliner also laid out the times Davis demonized Trump supporters, likening the Republican Party to the KKK, the MAGA hat to a <a href="https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1088620647205535751" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Klan hood</a>, and a rally held by evangelist Franklin Graham <a href="https://www.facebook.com/473220790132973/posts/democrat-congressional-candidate-moe-davis-mocks-christians-and-rev-franklin-gra/762100151245034/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">to a Klan rally</a>.
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You’ve got to be a 100% purebred worthless scumbag asshole to do a grinning photo doing a thumbs up while your foreign-born nude model 3rd wife holds the baby of 2 parents who were slaughtered by another asshole who was carrying out your racist asshole agenda!<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://t.co/WOoYjfS1Gv">pic.twitter.com/WOoYjfS1Gv</a>
&mdash; Moe Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1159950116444430344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You are obviously entitled to your opinions,&#8221; Kaliner <a href="https://youtu.be/whCBRzsinuQ?t=725" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a>. &#8220;But those examples are obviously in contrast to your promise to represent all of North Carolinians&#8217; 11th District, many of whom are Republicans.&#8221;
Offering him the opportunity to outright accuse his opponent of being a neo-Nazi after he has implied it, Kaliner then asked Davis, &#8220;Do you think this improves the level of discourse in our politics? Isn&#8217;t this the very kind of behavior that you accuse and condemn President Trump of engaging in?&#8221;
Kaliner also offered Cawthorn the opportunity to condemn Trump&#8217;s penchant for personal attacks.
Davis, who did not directly answer Kaliner&#8217;s question, deflected by bringing up accusations against Cawthorn, such as when he allegedly called his friend <a href="https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1299470371062796294" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a variation of the N word</a> in high school.
Cawthorn described Davis&#8217;s responses as &#8220;character assassinations,&#8221; and noted, &#8220;My opponent seems fascinated with going through my old text messages and my old history, because I don&#8217;t believe that he really wants to talk about his positions. When he gave his answer, he didn&#8217;t really answer any of the part of the questions from Mr. Kaliner, which was asking him, &#8216;Why did you call a Franklin Graham rally a Klan rally?'&#8221;
Cawthorn went on to describe Davis as &#8220;a pseudo-carpetbagger&#8221; from Shelby, North Carolina, which is outside of the 11th Congressional District. As The Asheville Citizen-Times <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2020/09/08/moe-davis-military-prosecutor-congressional-candidate/5743421002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>, Davis studied law at the historically black North Carolina Central University, which he said he attended because his status as a white minority in a majority-black school allowed him financial assistance from the state.
&#8220;I qualified as a minority student (at NCCU) because I am white, and so my tuition and a stipend were paid by the state,&#8221; he said.
Davis has <a href="https://nsjonline.com/article/2020/09/nc-11s-democratic-candidate-has-a-number-of-disturbing-tweets/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">taken flak</a> for since-viral tweets in which he savaged his opponent in personal terms, attacking him for being homeschooled and accusing him of being a misogynist and a Nazi sympathizer.
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My 25 year old homeschooled, college-dropout, lying, white nationalist friendly, misogynistic, sexual aggressive, multimillionaire (with no job) opponent with policy views that would make George Wallace proud has the full weight of the Republican Party behind him.
Must be nice. <a href="https://t.co/wsVwbnrzoB">https://t.co/wsVwbnrzoB</a>
&mdash; Moe Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1297569136067973125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Davis also described in graphic detail what he imagines as the proper punishment for &#8220;extremists&#8221; in the North Carolina Republican Party. &#8220;Screw they go low, we go high bullsh*t,&#8221; Davis tweeted a year ago in a tweet that is still up as of publishing. &#8220;When @NCGOP extremists go low, we stomp their scrawny pasty necks with our heels and once you hear the sound of a crisp snap you grind your heel hard and twist it slowly side to side for good measure. He needs to know who whupped his ass.&#8221;
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Screw they go low, we go high bullsh*t. When <a href="https://twitter.com/NCGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NCGOP</a> extremists go low, we stomp their scrawny pasty necks with our heels and once you hear the sound of a crisp snap you grind your heel hard and twist it slowly side to side for good measure. He needs to know who whupped his ass.
&mdash; Moe Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1171977530741526528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Among other tweets Davis has yet to delete since filing to run to replace White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in Congress, he seemed to question Secretary of State Mike Pompeo&#8217;s Christian faith and also attacked the boys from Covington Catholic High School by calling them a variation of maggots.
&#8220;If you think you’ve been called by Christ while you’re serving as the lead fluffer for the profane, serial adultering, immoral, habitual lying, narcissistic, draft-dodging, grifter [Trump] then it’s obvious Jesus butt-dialed you by mistake,&#8221; Davis tweeted about Pompeo.
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If you think you’ve been called by Christ while you’re serving as the lead fluffer for the profane, serial adultering, immoral, habitual lying, narcissistic, draft-dodging, grifter <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> then it’s obvious Jesus butt-dialed you by mistake. <a href="https://t.co/8c6u1vQudA">https://t.co/8c6u1vQudA</a>
&mdash; Moe Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1183200935713148928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Regarding the Covington boys, Davis wrote on Jan. 19, 2019, &#8220;This is how the [Trump] MAGAts treat an American Veteran. It’s time to kick him and his immoral minority to the curb.&#8221; Nicholas Sandmann, the most visible boy from that incident, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/covington-catholic-hs-student-nick-sandmann-settles-250-million-lawsuit-with-the-washington-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recently settled</a> a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post for $250 million.
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This is how the <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> MAGAts treat an American Veteran. It’s time to kick him and his immoral minority to the curb. <a href="https://t.co/1cl2GphpWH">https://t.co/1cl2GphpWH</a>
&mdash; Moe Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1086762811471159297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The race between Davis and Cawthorn has become <a href="https://mountainx.com/news/from-avl-watchdog-debate-fact-checker-zingers-jabs-and-lies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">acrimonious</a> as allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against Cawthorn, according to <a href="https://world.wng.org/2020/08/rising_republican_star_faces_accusations_from_women" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World Magazine</a>. Cawthorn <a href="https://www.blueridgenow.com/news/20200905/guantanamo-guns-sexual-allegations-health-care-topics-of-cawthorn-davis-debate" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">claimed</a>, &#8220;I have never done anything sexually inappropriate in my life.&#8221;
Cawthorn also <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/politics/madison-cawthorn-social-media-post/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">took heat</a> for photos depicting him and his brother during a trip to Europe during which they visited the Eagle&#8217;s Nest, which was once Hitler&#8217;s retreat. He has also been attacked for allegedly sending a <a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/rnc-2020/article244872697.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">white supremacist message</a> through the number of people he follows on Twitter and for doing interviews in front of a Betsy Ross flag.
Cawthorn, who stands poised to become the youngest member of Congress after beating Trump-backed candidate Lynda Bennet in a June 23 runoff election, has since risen to national prominence after visiting Trump at the White House in July and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-pbs-journalist-slams-young-paralyzed-gop-candidate-standing-at-rnc-to-recite-pledge-of-allegiance-social-media-erupts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">delivering a speech</a> at the Republican National Convention.
In a statement provided to The Daily Wire, a spokesman for the Cawthorn campaign said:
<blockquote>Moe Davis’ perverse and graphic call for violence against his political opponents isn’t just an assault against Republicans but our republic. The ability to resolve our differences peacefully isn’t an aspect of our system of government, but its foundation. Thousands of Americans have served and died defending that right, which Davis ridicules. The DCCC’s willingness to tolerate this rhetoric because the candidate has a ‘D’ next to his name illustrates what Madison Cawthorn warned against during his convention speech &#8211; a digital dark ages, a time of tribalism without truth.</blockquote>
The Davis campaign did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment.
This story has been updated to include comment from the Cawthorn campaign.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cawthorn-reparations-will-not-heal-america-but-divide-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CAWTHORN: Reparations Will Not Heal America, But Divide It</a>
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Asheville, North Carolina

‘Stomp Their Scrawny Pasty Necks’: Inflammatory Tweets From NC Congressional Candidate Resurface

2020 Election

Republican Party

Three days after pressure from conservatives, CNN finally covered the alleged brutal execution-style murder of five-year-old North Carolina boy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-man-arrested-for-allegedly-executing-white-five-year-old-boy-in-front-of-sisters">Cannon Hinnant</a> in a 218-word blurb posted early Friday morning.
On Sunday night, 25-year-old Darius Sessoms allegedly ran up to Cannon while the boy was playing on his bike in his front yard and shot him in the head while his two sisters, aged seven and eight, looked on.
According to a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F33uVghqIUU">report</a> Thursday night on Fox News, it&#8217;s suspected that Sessoms, who lives next door to the victim&#8217;s father, was upset that Cannon rode his bike on his lawn earlier in the day.
Medical attention could not save the child and Cannon was pronounced dead at a nearby medical center.
Sessoms was apprehended on Monday and has been charged with first-degree murder.
As noted by The Daily Wire, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/search?q=Cannon+Hinnant">CNN</a>, <a href="https://www.nbc.com/search">NBC</a>, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/search/?q=Cannon+Hinnant">CBS</a>, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=Cannon%20Hinnant">ABC</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=Cannon+Hinnant">New York Times</a>, <a href="https://www.npr.org/search?query=Cannon%20Hinnant&amp;page=1">NPR</a>, The Washington Post, and <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/search/?q=Cannon+Hinnant#gsc.tab=0&amp;gsc.q=Cannon%20Hinnant&amp;gsc.page=1">MSNBC</a> had all neglected to cover the attack as of Thursday.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-carolina-man-shooting-boy">Fox News</a> was one of the only mainstream outlets to cover the tragic news.
This prompted prominent conservatives to question the mainstream media blackout on Cannon&#8217;s murder, sparking a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sayhisname-trends-after-media-refuse-to-report-on-alleged-murder-of-5-year-old-cannon-hinnant">#SayHisName</a> hashtag.
Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh and author Ryan Girdusky were among the first conservatives to draw attention to the case and media blackout.
In a viral tweet on Tuesday, Walsh wrote, &#8220;Say his name. 5 year old Cannon Hinnant was executed in cold blood while riding his bike. The accused killer is Darius Sessoms. He allegedly walked up to the boy and shot him dead in front of his sisters.&#8221;
&#8220;Reverse the races and this is the only thing anyone talks about for a month,&#8221; Walsh posited.
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Say his name. 5 year old Cannon Hinnant was executed in cold blood while riding his bike. The accused killer is Darius Sessoms. He allegedly walked up to the boy and shot him dead in front of his sisters. Reverse the races and this is the only thing anyone talks about for a month <a href="https://t.co/5V72YhAOlI">pic.twitter.com/5V72YhAOlI</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1293208169339133953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We need justice for 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant who was murdered in cold blood,&#8221; Girdusky said Tuesday.
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We need justice for 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant who was murdered in cold blood. <a href="https://t.co/I8DNOPAgVb">https://t.co/I8DNOPAgVb</a> <a href="https://t.co/eA0AIGGn26">pic.twitter.com/eA0AIGGn26</a>
&mdash; Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1293209286840061956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Three days later, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/us/north-carolina-boy-killed/index.html">reported</a> on the murder early in the morning via CNN.com and CNN International.
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Police have charged a 25-year-old man with first-degree murder after they say he shot and killed a 5-year-old boy last week in Wilson, North Carolina. <a href="https://t.co/luzzN139lM">https://t.co/luzzN139lM</a>
&mdash; CNN International (@cnni) <a href="https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1294217724474925056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Police have charged a 25-year-old man with first-degree murder after they say he shot and killed a 5-year-old boy last week in Wilson, North Carolina,&#8221; the report said.
<div class="zn-body__paragraph speakable">&#8220;Austin Hinnant told <a href="https://www.wral.com/father-of-slain-5-year-old-everybody-loved-cannon-he-lit-up-the-room/19233827/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CNN affiliate WRAL</a> he was inside the home when his son, Cannon, was playing outside and was shot,&#8221; CNN added. &#8220;Hinnant says he ran outside and scooped up the injured child and held him in his arms. &#8216;I screamed &#8216;somebody help me, please help me save my son,&#8217; he said.&#8221;</div>
&#8220;I was looking at him as I was picking up Cannon, and I was so full of rage, but I could not leave my son&#8217;s side,&#8221; Mr. Hinnant recalled. &#8220;I just wanted to be with my son.&#8221;
As of Friday morning, <a href="https://www.nbc.com/search">NBC</a>, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/search/?q=Cannon+Hinnant">CBS</a>, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=Cannon%20Hinnant">ABC</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=Cannon+Hinnant">New York Times</a>, <a href="https://www.npr.org/search?query=Cannon%20Hinnant&amp;page=1">NPR</a>, The Washington Post, and <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/search/?q=Cannon+Hinnant#gsc.tab=0&amp;gsc.q=Cannon%20Hinnant&amp;gsc.page=1">MSNBC</a> have all yet to cover the shooting of young Cannon.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-media-refuse-to-cover-murder-of-5-year-old-because-it-doesnt-fit-their-racial-narrative">WALSH: National Media Refuse To Cover Murder Of 5-Year-Old Because It Doesn’t Fit Their Racial Narrative</a>
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Darius Nathaniel Sessoms

CNN Finally Covers Alleged Murder Of 5-Year-Old Cannon Hinnant In 200-Word Blurb

Mainstream media outlets have yet to cover the brutal Sunday night execution of a five-year-old North Carolina boy named Cannon Hinnant, allegedly at the hands of 25-year-old Darius Sessoms, sparking the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SayHisName&amp;src=trend_click">#SayHisName</a> to trend on social media Thursday morning.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-man-arrested-for-allegedly-executing-white-five-year-old-boy-in-front-of-sisters">The Daily Wire</a> reported on Tuesday, Sessoms, who is black, allegedly walked up to young Hinnant, who is white, and shot him in the head at point-blank range in front of the child&#8217;s 7- and 8-year-old sisters.
Sessoms lives next-door to the victim&#8217;s father in Wilson, North Carolina.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/search?q=Cannon+Hinnant">CNN</a>, <a href="https://www.nbc.com/search">NBC</a>, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/search/?q=Cannon+Hinnant">CBS</a>, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=Cannon%20Hinnant">ABC</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=Cannon+Hinnant">New York Times</a>, <a href="https://www.npr.org/search?query=Cannon%20Hinnant&amp;page=1">NPR</a>, The Washington Post, and <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/search/?q=Cannon+Hinnant#gsc.tab=0&amp;gsc.q=Cannon%20Hinnant&amp;gsc.page=1">MSNBC</a>, as of Thursday morning, have yet to cover the attack. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-carolina-man-shooting-boy">Fox News</a> has covered the tragic news.
Some have argued that the lack of coverage is because of the races of the victim and the alleged murderer.
On Tuesday, author and Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh brought attention to the murder via Twitter, using the now-viral phrase, &#8220;say his name.&#8221;
&#8220;Say his name. 5 year old Cannon Hinnant was executed in cold blood while riding his bike,&#8221; posted Walsh. &#8220;The accused killer is Darius Sessoms. He allegedly walked up to the boy and shot him dead in front of his sisters.&#8221;
&#8220;Reverse the races and this is the only thing anyone talks about for a month,&#8221; he argued.
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Say his name. 5 year old Cannon Hinnant was executed in cold blood while riding his bike. The accused killer is Darius Sessoms. He allegedly walked up to the boy and shot him dead in front of his sisters. Reverse the races and this is the only thing anyone talks about for a month <a href="https://t.co/5V72YhAOlI">pic.twitter.com/5V72YhAOlI</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1293208169339133953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The hashtag took off by Thursday, as people grew frustrated from the lack of coverage.
&#8220;Have any mainstream media outlets covered Cannon Hinnant yet?&#8221; asked Informed Dissent host Leonydus Johnson. &#8220;The deception in selective reporting is their most potent weapon because it drives availability bias which, in turn, distorts reality. It is the same as lying. Just imagine if the races were reversed. <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SayHisName?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1293868090183290881%7Ctwgr%5E&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D137769action%3Dedit&amp;src=hashtag_click" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-focusable="true">#SayHisName</a>.&#8221;
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Have any mainstream media outlets covered Cannon Hinnant yet?
The deception in selective reporting is their most potent weapon because it drives availability bias which, in turn, distorts reality. It is the same as lying.
Just imagine if the races were reversed. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SayHisName?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SayHisName</a>
&mdash; Leonydus Johnson (@LeonydusJohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeonydusJohnson/status/1293868090183290881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Actors James Woods and Antonio Sabáto Jr. posted, &#8220;Cannon Hinnant <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SayHisName?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1293777942636408833%7Ctwgr%5E&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D137769action%3Dedit&amp;src=hashtag_click" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-focusable="true">#SayHisName</a>.&#8221;
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Cannon Hinnant <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SayHisName?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SayHisName</a>
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Cannon Hinnant <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SayHisName?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SayHisName</a> <a href="https://t.co/nkdCykb1Cg">https://t.co/nkdCykb1Cg</a>
&mdash; Antonio Sabáto Jr 🇺🇸 (@AntonioSabatoJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/AntonioSabatoJr/status/1293873096949141505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You should know who Cannon Hinnant is and it’s an absolute disgrace that you don’t,&#8221; said radio host Jesse Kelly. &#8220;The American media is putrid.&#8221;
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You should know who Cannon Hinnant is and it’s an absolute disgrace that you don’t. 
The American media is putrid.
&mdash; Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1293646103095771136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cannon Hinnant
Say his name.<a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NBCNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBSNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC</a> <a href="https://t.co/fDn9c9fYjB">pic.twitter.com/fDn9c9fYjB</a>
&mdash; Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) <a href="https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/1293672402484961280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Yesterday a 5 year old was riding his bike playing outside his house with his two sisters. His neighbor with already multiple felony charges walked up to him and shot him dead at point blank. FIVE YEARS OLD JFC. Where the hell is the media coverage?
Say his name. Cannon Hinnant
&mdash; Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) <a href="https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/1293673092296908801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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5-yr-old Cannon Hinnant was executed point blank in front of his 2 sisters in broad daylight while they were riding bikes. Because a violent criminal felt like shooting a boy in the head.
National media remains SILENT on this heinous murder. 
It doesn’t fit their narrative. <a href="https://t.co/uyX4zReX3t">pic.twitter.com/uyX4zReX3t</a>
&mdash; Gina Bontempo (@FlorioGina) <a href="https://twitter.com/FlorioGina/status/1293900081062699009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As noted by The Daily Wire, Sessoms, who took off in a black vehicle after the shooting, was not apprehended until Monday by U.S. Marshals Service Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force, Goldsboro Police, and the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, according to a <a href="https://www.wral.com/wilson-man-wanted-in-fatal-shooting-of-5-year-old-apprehended/19227849/">report</a> from WRAL.com.
The suspect has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond at the Wilson County jail.
Sessoms reportedly had dinner with the victim’s family on Friday night, two nights before the shooting, <a href="https://www.wral.com/man-charged-in-5-year-old-s-death-lives-next-door-to-boy-s-father/19228045/">according</a> to WRAL.com, and was over at the family’s house the afternoon preceding the murder.
“Our neighbor saw it,” one neighbor recalled, <a href="https://abc11.com/25-year-old-wilson-man-sought-in-shooting-death-of-5-year-old/6363046/">according</a> to ABC 11 Eyewitness News. “She said he (Sessoms) just — the young man just walked up to the little boy who was just sitting on his bike.”
“I just don’t understand why he did it,” she said. “How can you walk up to a little boy point-blank and put a gun to his head, and just shoot him? How can anyone do that?”
Hinnant was supposed to start kindergarten next week.
Update: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-finally-covers-murder-of-5-year-old-cannon-hinnant-in-200-word-blurb">CNN Finally Covers Alleged Murder Of 5-Year-Old Cannon Hinnant In 200-Word Blurb</a>
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#SayHisName Trends After Media Refuse To Report On Murder Of 5-Year-Old Cannon Hinnant

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A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck North Carolina on Sunday morning in what seismologists are describing as the most powerful one to hit the state in more than a century.
Centered in Sparta, North Carolina, on the Virginia border, people felt the quake throughout the western portion of the state, as well as in Charlotte. No damage was reported, according to <a href="https://apnews.com/e9c431febbeb3e4fb4f7685abc315f51" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Associated Press</a>.
&#8220;This would be the biggest quake in NC since the 5.1 in 1916 near Asheville,&#8221; tweeted Brad Panovich, chief meteorologist for NBC Charlotte. In 1916, a 5.2-magnitude quake hit Skyland right outside of Asheville, according to the National Weather Service.
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This would be the biggest quake in NC since the 5.1 in 1916 near Asheville.
&mdash; Brad Panovich (@wxbrad) <a href="https://twitter.com/wxbrad/status/1292436808991748096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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According to a research scientist in the Virginia Tech earthquake lab who spoke to The Charlotte Observer, &#8220;there is a history of seismic activity in this region, particularly around the Appalachian Mountains.&#8221; He pinpointed a 5.8-magnitude earthquake in Virginia in 2011 as recent example.
Residents of Sparta, North Carolina, a town of approximately 1,800 people about 100 miles north of Charlotte and about 135 miles northeast of Asheville, posted footage of the damage to their property on Twitter.
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Damage to a home in Sparta NC. 5.1 earthquake. Local report says epi center was at Pine Swamp and hwy 21. Not official that Im aware of yet. <a href="https://t.co/nLJQPtCz1z">pic.twitter.com/nLJQPtCz1z</a>
&mdash; Cello Mom (@Cello_mama) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cello_mama/status/1292453090633945090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Food Lion in Sparta NC <a href="https://t.co/0dlDoEziPy">pic.twitter.com/0dlDoEziPy</a>
&mdash; Cello Mom (@Cello_mama) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cello_mama/status/1292472070463533056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Sparta NC after 5.1 earthquake <a href="https://t.co/RhYdCAN62R">pic.twitter.com/RhYdCAN62R</a>
&mdash; Cello Mom (@Cello_mama) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cello_mama/status/1292472295227895819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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It was very strong outside of Boone at Powder Horn Mountain. The entire house shook.
&mdash; Rhonda Hager (@HagerRhonda) <a href="https://twitter.com/HagerRhonda/status/1292441308166909952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Portia White, a resident of Black Mountain near Asheville, was in bed when the tremors struck. &#8220;The bed springs were bouncing — like cats were jumping on and off the bed,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire. Her husband, a local pastor, was already at church when he &#8220;heard terrible creaks, and the balcony swayed.&#8221;
&#8220;You knew right away it was an earthquake. There was no question about it,&#8221; Charlotte resident Shari Carriker told <a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/article244834402.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Charlotte Observer</a>. &#8220;We have no damage, except the coffee in my husband’s coffee cup that sloshed out,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But it was scary. Really, really scary.&#8221;
According to The Charlotte Observer:
<blockquote>Bemis said the Piedmont region’s saturated soil composition may have made it easier for the earthquake’s energy to move and residents in Charlotte and beyond to feel the rumble.
USGS officials Sunday afternoon estimated there was a 45% chance for <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000bbei/oaf/commentary" target="_blank" rel="Follow noopener noreferrer">aftershock earthquakes of magnitude 3 or greater in the next week</a>. The estimates for another quake magnitude 5 or greater are much lower, at 1%.
”We expect there to be aftershocks after an earthquake of this size,” Bemis said, echoing analysis from USGS scientists.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/north-carolina-county-votes-to-support-reparations-for-black-residents" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Buncombe County</a>, North Carolina, and its major city, Asheville, made headlines recently when they voted in favor of reparations for its black citizens.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/north-carolina-city-votes-to-offer-community-reparations-for-black-citizens" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>:
<blockquote>According to <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/07/14/asheville-passes-reparations-black-residents-historic/5438597002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Asheville Citizen-Times</a>, the resolution, titled “Resolution Supporting Community Reparations For Black Asheville,” was passed 7-0 and does not offer direct payments, but will instead seek to rectify historical disparities among the city’s black community with investment-based solutions.
Establishing as its basis their unjust enslavement, segregation, and imprisonment, the resolution goes on to list alleged longstanding discrimination against Asheville’s black citizens, such as being denied housing because of “racist practices in the private realty market,” facing impoverishment because of “discriminatory wages paid in every sector of the local economy regardless of credentials and experience,” and failing in schools because of “discriminatory disciplinary practices” throughout western North Carolina.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/north-carolina-city-votes-to-offer-community-reparations-for-black-citizens" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">North Carolina City Votes To Offer ‘Community Reparations’ For Black Citizens</a>
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North Carolina Hit With Biggest Earthquake In A Century

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On Tuesday night, a North Carolina county passed a resolution supporting reparations for black residents.
Buncombe County’s resolution states, &#8220;Slavery represented an irreconcilable contradiction in our nation’s founding: a young democracy committed to the ideals of liberty and justice and yet actively perpetuating the degradation of Black people. This contradiction – what some have called our nation’s original sin – has yet to be fully addressed and systemic racism continues to this day,&#8221; <a href="https://www.wyff4.com/article/buncombe-county-passes-reparations-in-4-3-vote/33518446">WYFF</a> reported. Another resolution was passed to declare racism a public health crisis.
In mid-July, the city of Asheville, which lies in Buncombe County, had its city council <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/us/reparations-asheville-nc.html">unanimously approve</a> reparations for black residents, although it did not stipulate direct payments, but will rather aim funds to areas where racial disparities allegedly exist.
On Tuesday, Buncombe County’s commissioners voted to select representatives to join the Community Reparations Commission that Asheville created.
Commissioner Brownie Newman stated, &#8220;The civil rights era is not over, will still have a lot of work to do.” Commissioner Amanda Edwards, who drafted the resolution, added, &#8220;It is not a plan to write checks but to invest in programs and services for the communities of color,&#8221; as Fox Carolina <a href="https://www.foxcarolina.com/news/buncombe-county-board-resolution-to-support-reparations-passes-vote-4-to-3/article_9098e368-d352-11ea-b640-fba45c148194.html">reported</a>.
When Asheville voted for reparations, Councilman Keith Young, one of the two black members on the Council, stated, “Hundreds of years of black blood spilled that basically fills the cup that we drink from today.” The other black member of the council, Sheneika Smith, echoed, “A lot of the feedback that we’ve gotten so far by email is that you know, ‘Why should we pay for what happened during slavery?’ And my pushback against that is reparations is more than restitution for what happened during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It is a dark evil sin of chattel slavery that is the root of all injustice and inequity that is at work in American life today.”
The <a href="https://www.buncombecounty.org/countycenter/news-detail.aspx?id=18817&amp;agency=0">Buncombe County website</a> reported statistics for Buncombe County (based on Buncombe Community Health Assessment data from 2018):
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<li>Life expectancy for Black residents was, on average, 5.9 years shorter (73.4 years) compared to white residents (79.3 years).</li>
<li>The overall death rate for Black residents was 38% higher than white residents.</li>
<li>In 2016, 13.7% of whites experienced poverty compared to 27.2% of Blacks and 36.4% of Hispanics.</li>
<li>The average per capita income for whites was $28,480 compared to $15,335 for Blacks and $13,121 for Hispanics.</li>
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The website states: “Based on this research and the resolution, County staff is directed to look for ways to eliminate racial disparities in areas such as education, housing, health, the justice system, and other areas. There is also a focus to look inward at County policies and practices that could unintentionally support racism such as purchasing and hiring practices.”
County Commissioner Joe Belcher said, “I look forward to the work staff will do and bring back to us, we have a commitment as a Board, staff, and community to work toward positive solutions.” Commissioner Jasmine Beach-Ferrara echoed, “This is an important step forward to come together as a community and name racism as the crisis it is.”
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North Carolina County Votes To Support Reparations For Black Residents

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A group of activists that helps wild bears in western North Carolina is offering a $5,000 reward to anyone who can help them find out who placed a Trump 2020 sticker on a bear&#8217;s tracking collar.
<a href="https://helpashevillebears.org/about-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Help Asheville Bears</a> (HAB), a nonprofit that describes itself as &#8220;a group consisting of a multi-range of professionals&#8221; in the Asheville area who oppose illegal bear trapping, were outraged when they obtained photos of a wild bear with a tracking collar adorned with a sticker advocating for President Donald Trump&#8217;s re-election.
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Local organization &quot;Help Asheville Bears&quot; is offering a $5,000 reward for information on whoever put a &#39;Trump 2020&#39; sticker on this black bear&#39;s collar, spotted in North Asheville. Full story: <a href="https://t.co/07GuqSveyl">https://t.co/07GuqSveyl</a> (Photos by Sheila Chapman) <a href="https://t.co/CqBOm9MRbB">pic.twitter.com/CqBOm9MRbB</a>
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&#8220;Bears are NOT Billboards!&#8221; the group wrote in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/helpashevillebears/posts/321628699209213" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Facebook post</a>. &#8220;Second black bear in Asheville, NC confirmed with political sticker on tracking collar.&#8221;
After a series of emojis indicating anger and sadness, the post continued:
<blockquote>HAB is offering a $5,000 reward for information on the person(s) responsible for putting this political sticker on this beautiful bear who has already been trapped, tranquilized, and collared unnecessarily. This bear must wear this burdensome collar (now with a sticker) and bolts in its ears for worthless data.</blockquote>
HAB went on to recount the story of <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2019/09/06/answer-man-trump-sticker-bear-and-why-thats-really-bad-idea/2219223001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">another bear</a> whose tracking collar had a Trump sticker slapped on it in September 2019, adding:
<blockquote>Whoever put these political stickers on these bears is cruel and heartless. HAB and our followers hope to stop and expose you. This is now the second bear this happened to, which can only mean either someone in the study is doing this or it is someone in the public. Either way, a full investigation needs to be done. Thank you to the amazing follower who sent this report and the pictures to us in order to help get this stopped. HAB agrees 100% with what you say below and we are so thankful to have a true fighter for animals, like you, standing up for the bears. You are a true animal lover and we all applaud your efforts to expose who did this.</blockquote>
The post concluded with an email from the person who first discovered the Trump sticker, who expressed her disappointment with the local bear study responsible for the tracking collar in the first place.
&#8220;The group sounded committed to protecting our Urban bears and promoting their health and well being,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;That is why I was shocked to see this on the bear&#8217;s collar today. I believe this is an abhorrent practice. These bears are already suffering enough with the heavy collars and metal ear mutilations. But to put a political sticker on the collar? No words can describe my anger and sadness.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2019/09/06/answer-man-trump-sticker-bear-and-why-thats-really-bad-idea/2219223001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Asheville Citizen-Times</a>, approximately 6,000 bears roam the mountains of North Carolina and many of them often appear in the Asheville area.
Asheville recently made headlines when its liberal city council unanimously voted to offer &#8220;community reparations&#8221; for its black citizens. The resolution does not offer direct payments, but will instead seek to rectify historical disparities among the city’s black community with investment-based solutions.
UPDATE: In a press release issued after this story&#8217;s publication and sent to The Daily Wire, HAB said the person who placed the sticker on the bear had been identified.
&#8220;Today, with help from the public, the person who placed the sticker on the bear has apologized for their actions and promised not to have any contact with any bears in the future,&#8221; the statement read in part. &#8220;They stated that they placed the sticker in protest of the unnecessary, excessive tagging and collaring of wild bears who suffer enough through North Carolina’s hunting season.&#8221;
The statement added: &#8220;The Good Samaritan who reported the person responsible for the sticker did so because they love the bears. No reward was paid.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/north-carolina-city-votes-to-offer-community-reparations-for-black-citizens" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">North Carolina City Votes To Offer ‘Community Reparations’ For Black Citizens</a>
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On Thursday, law enforcement officials in New Hanover County, North Carolina, confirmed that they found the body of Mike S. Adams, a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, conservative columnist and Daily Wire contributor, in his Windsong Road home after receiving a wellness check call. No cause of death has been given and an investigation is underway.
Adams&#8217; tragic death at 55 years old was first reported by Wilmington&#8217;s <a href="https://www.wect.com/2020/07/23/details-scarce-body-removed-new-hanover-co-home-surrounded-by-crime-scene-tape/">WECT</a>, which notes that it occurred just a month after Adams reached an agreement with UNCW to retire in August for a settlement of $504,702.76 for lost salary and lost retirement benefits. The settlement was reached amid an activist campaign to get the professor fired sparked by a tweet in which he compared the North Carolina governor&#8217;s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic to slavery.
The university issued a statement Thursday night responding to the tragic news. “It is with sadness that we share the news that the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office is conducting a death investigation involving Dr. Mike Adams, professor of criminology. Please keep his friends and loved ones in your thoughts,&#8221; UNCW&#8217;s Office of University Relations said in a statement on behalf of the Division of Academic Affairs, as reported by WECT.
The settlement between Adams and the university followed a meeting between Chancellor Jose Sartarelli and Adams over response to some of his recent social media comments, which including a petition to &#8220;<a href="https://www.change.org/p/uncw-remove-mike-adams-from-uncw-pledge-not-to-financially-support-apply-to-or-fund-uncw?recruiter=1107745180&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_medium=facebook&amp;utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi&amp;recruited_by_id=91a532b0-a662-11ea-b0a1-87847cfc3ae9&amp;utm_content=fht-22591234-en-us%3Av10">remove Mike Adams from UNCW</a>&#8221; that garnered over 27,000 signatures.
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Adams, who is openly pro-life and pro-free speech, has come under fire from the Left in the past. The most recent campaign against Adams was sparked by his May 29 tweet comparing lockdown measures to slavery. &#8220;This evening, I ate pizza and drank beer with six guys at a six seat table top. I almost felt like a free man who was not living in the slave state of North Carolina. Massa Cooper, let my people go!&#8221; he wrote. Critics claimed the post was racially insensitive. Adams <a href="https://www.wect.com/2020/06/04/former-trustee-threatens-withdraw-funding-over-professors-controversial-statements-professor-defends-comments/">defended</a> the post, however, stressing that it was not about race but about the overreach of the state.
Adams&#8217; last piece contributed to The Daily Wire highlighted one of his primary focuses as a columnist: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/adams-a-wake-for-civil-liberties">civil liberties</a>. In the opinion piece, published April 9, Adams condemned what he described as the &#8220;blatant viewpoint discrimination&#8221; by some state and local officials, particularly in the apparent targeting of churches, and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper&#8217;s &#8220;stringent overreach&#8221; in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Adams earned both fans and enemies over his unflinching, openly conservative perspectives, particularly on the issues of abortion and free speech. As detailed in his biography on <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/">Townhall.com</a>, where Adams published opinion pieces for years, Adams and Alliance Defending Freedom won a landmark First Amendment case in 2011 against UNCW that &#8220;held that professors publishing columns and giving speeches have the full protection of the First Amendment when discussing matters of public concern.&#8221; The ruling allows for professors to include such activities in their official review, tenure, or promotion materials and forbids the university from viewpoint discrimination.
Adams says that when he was first hired by UNCW in 1993, he was an atheist and a Democrat. &#8220;A few years later, Adams abandoned his atheism and also became a Republican,&#8221; his bio reads. In his first decade at UNCW, Adams won the university&#8217;s Faculty Member of the Year award twice. Over the course of his career, Adams published three books addressing academia&#8217;s ideological biases and political activism: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Ivory-Tower-Babel-Conservative/dp/1891799177/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Welcome+to+the+Ivory+Tower+of+Babel&amp;qid=1595600447&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1">Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel: Confessions of a Conservative College Professor</a> (2004), <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Feminists-Say-Darndest-Things-Politically/dp/B001BSQNCE">Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts &#8220;Womyn&#8221; On Campus</a> (2008), and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Young-Progressive-Protesting-Understand/dp/1621570312">Letters to a Young Progressive: How to Avoid Wasting Your Life Protesting Things You Don&#8217;t Understand</a> (2013). 
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A teachers&#8217; union in North Carolina is demanding sweeping benefits for illegal immigrants to lower COVID-19 cases and reopen schools.
In a <a href="https://daenc.com/2020/07/13/statement-on-school-re-open-plans/">recent statement</a> denouncing the school district&#8217;s reopening plan, the Durham Association of Educators (DAE) called for universal healthcare, as well as guaranteed income regardless of a person&#8217;s immigration status.
After claiming &#8220;Trump, DeVos, and Berger want schools to open because they care about protecting wealth and big business,&#8221; the union&#8217;s statement continued, &#8220;There are concrete policies that have permitted other countries to flatten the curve and return to public life: moratoriums on rent and mortgage, universal health care, direct income support regardless of immigration status.&#8221;
&#8220;We must fight together, collectively, for changes that will permit our communities to thrive during this pandemic and beyond,&#8221; the statement added before linking to a petition.
Many teachers <a href="https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/teachers-balk-at-plan-to-reopen-schools-in-august/19188760/">have balked</a> at Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper&#8217;s <a href="https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/cooper-some-businesses-must-remain-closed-so-schools-can-begin-to-reopen/19187322/">plan to reopen schools</a> in mid-August, for which reason Durham Public Schools voted unanimously to postpone in-person instruction, instead holding virtual classes for at least the first nine weeks of the school year.
DAE is not the first to use the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to implement far Left policy goals. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schools-cant-reopen-unless-charter-schools-shut-down-police-are-defunded-los-angeles-teachers-union-says">Earlier this week</a>, the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) — a 35,000-member union in the Los Angeles Unified School District — stipulated that the district cannot reopen until charter schools are closed, the local police are defunded, the wealthy are taxed more, there is &#8220;Medicare-for-All,&#8221; and the district is bailed out by the federal government.
&#8220;It is time to take a stand against Trump&#8217;s dangerous, anti-science agenda that puts the lives of our members, our students, and our families at risk, UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz said. &#8220;We all want to physically open schools and be back with our students, but lives hang in the balance. Safety has to be the priority. We need to get this right for our communities.&#8221;
In New Jersey, the state teachers&#8217; union listed among their &#8220;acceptable standards for a return to in-person instruction&#8221; both weekly COVID-19 tests for all students and mandatory door-to-door mask-wearing. &#8220;Consequences for refusal to wear the required mask shall be clearly delineated in board policy and in the student/parent handbook, and shall include consequences up to and including suspension,&#8221; the union said.
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Insanity in New Jersey: the <a href="https://twitter.com/NJEA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@njea</a> &#8211; the state teachers union &#8211; plans to demand <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SARSCoV2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SARSCoV2</a> tests for all students before they return to school, WEEKLY tests, and DOOR-TO-DOOR mandatory masks for all students. <a href="https://t.co/1tb112jGNG">pic.twitter.com/1tb112jGNG</a>
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President Donald Trump met with pushback from many teachers&#8217; unions earlier this month when he threatened to yank federal funding from schools that do not reopen in the fall. On July 8, Trump tweeted, &#8220;In Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and many other countries, SCHOOLS ARE OPEN WITH NO PROBLEMS. The Dems think it would be bad for them politically if U.S. schools open before the November Election, but is important for the children &amp; families. May cut off funding if not open!&#8221;
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In Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and many other countries, SCHOOLS ARE OPEN WITH NO PROBLEMS. The Dems think it would be bad for them politically if U.S. schools open before the November Election, but is important for the children &amp; families. May cut off funding if not open!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1280853299600789505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The American Academy of Pediatrics stressed the importance of in-person schooling for children in <a href="https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/clinical-guidance/covid-19-planning-considerations-return-to-in-person-education-in-schools/">a lengthy statement</a> released last month. &#8220;[T]he AAP strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with a goal of having students physically present in school,&#8221; the statement read in part. &#8220;The importance of in-person learning is well-documented, and there is already evidence of the negative impacts on children because of school closures in the spring of 2020.&#8221;
The AAP released another statement on July 10 that clarified their previous one, saying in part:
<blockquote>Returning to school is important for the healthy development and well-being of children, but we must pursue re-opening in a way that is safe for all students, teachers and staff. Science should drive decision-making on safely reopening schools. Public health agencies must make recommendations based on evidence, not politics. We should leave it to health experts to tell us when the time is best to open up school buildings, and listen to educators and administrators to shape how we do it.</blockquote>
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North Carolina Teachers’ Union Demands Benefits For Illegal Immigrants Before Returning To School

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The city of Asheville, North Carolina, which is in the 11th Congressional District I am running to represent in the next Congress, threw itself into the national conversation on race Tuesday when <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/north-carolina-city-votes-to-offer-community-reparations-for-black-citizens" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the city council voted</a> to approve reparations for the city&#8217;s black residents.
The debate about reparations is not new but has taken on new resonance following the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent protests, some of which have been mindless, violent, and nihilistic. Conservatives need to offer a direct and thoughtful response that defends our founding principles and Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream, while also countering the destructive impulses of the woke progressive mob.
The text of the council’s resolution offers an instructive starting point. The council’s self-stated goals are, “Increasing minority home ownership and access to other affordable housing, increasing minority business ownership and career opportunities, strategies to grow equity and generational wealth, closing the gaps in health care, education, employment and pay, neighborhood safety and fairness within criminal justice.”
That sounds fairly benign, aspirational, and in line with The Opportunity Agenda and sweeping criminal justice reform that President Donald Trump and Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott have successfully enacted.
In 2018, Scott said of Opportunity Zones, “To create a brighter tomorrow for communities that have been left behind, we need to capitalize on the private-sector resources that can help boost these areas in ways we haven’t seen before.”
There is very little disagreement between the council and the Trump administration about goals, but a mainstream media that wants to frame everything as a race war won’t tell that story. That is, in part, why the council’s use of reparations as a policy tool is so divisive, destructive, and short-sighted.
One problem with reparations is America already fought a bloody and costly war to end slavery. The Civil War cost the lives of 600,000 people just like you and me — with hopes, dreams, aspirations, and fears. In today’s numbers, the war&#8217;s death toll would be 7 million (2.5% of our population). Reparations say those sacrifices weren’t enough and that we need to collectively punish all Americans, forcing them to atone for sins committed more than 150 years ago.
Yet, woke progressives argue we need reparations today because systemic racism is ongoing. I have yet to hear a coherent definition of systemic racism, but what is clear is that the Left’s definition of &#8220;systemic&#8221; is highly selective.
The reality is that America is divided not just on race but also class, geography, ideology, and age. The woke progressive mob doesn’t want a systemic conversation. For instance, our nation’s most persistent problems of race and poverty are focused in urban areas that have been predominantly represented by Democrats for decades. That fact is conveniently left out of the conversation about systemic racism.
Many other key facts are left out as well, such as the fact that seven children, including a 20-month-old, died in shootings in Chicago during one two-week period this summer. Where are the protests for these children and the families devastated by their loss? Is it politically incorrect and not woke to say that black child lives matter? Or do black lives only matter when they are taken by white police officers?
With such an abysmal record, I understand why Democrats want to change the subject. But we dishonor our neighbors when we shy away from an open and inclusive conversation about all the facts and all the challenges facing minority communities.
At a time when our country needs to move forward and focus on the future, a debate about reparations takes us backward. The Asheville city council seems to be inspired by the 1619 Project, which says our national foundation is slavery, not our Constitution. Instead of adding to our national understanding about slavery, that project seeks to cancel our history. The 1619 Project is vehemently opposed by many civil rights leaders, including Robert Woodson, who launched his own <a href="https://1776unites.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">1776 Project</a> to challenge the 1619 Project’s shoddy and biased scholarship.
The woke progressive mob that wants to tear down monuments commemorating Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator has become the 1692 Project, the year that marked the start of the infamous Salem Witch trials. Those trials were a shameful episode of mass hysteria, mindless persecution, superstitious dogma, and cruelty that culminated in the hanging of 19 women. Today, anything short of total adherence to the woke mob’s dogma on race can lead to physical violence or professional ruin, as was the case with centrist New York Times writer Bari Weiss, who claims she was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gadfly-bari-weiss-quits-new-york-times-savages-them-if-you-speak-your-mind-youll-be-hung-out-to-dry" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">bullied into resigning</a>.
I refuse to be silenced and intimidated by the mob. I’ll continue to listen to all voices and counter the dividers who use fake disagreements as a distraction. In Congress, I want to build on what’s working and turn all of western North Carolina, and all of America, into an opportunity zone.
MLK’s dream is my dream: That people will be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. MLK was echoing the dream articulated by our imperfect founders, who said that we are all created equal and that our rights don’t come from the state, but our Creator. America needs to reawaken that dream and not let a debate about reparations distract us from the serious work of reform.
<a href="https://www.madisoncawthorn.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Madison Cawthorn</a> is the Republican congressional candidate for North Carolina&#8217;s 11th Congressional District.
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CAWTHORN: Reparations Will Not Heal America, But Divide It

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The city council of Asheville, North Carolina, voted unanimously on Tuesday night to apologize for the city&#8217;s role in historic discrimination against its black citizens, and offer reparations for their descendants.
According to <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/07/14/asheville-passes-reparations-black-residents-historic/5438597002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Asheville Citizen-Times</a>, the resolution, titled &#8220;Resolution Supporting Community Reparations For Black Asheville,&#8221; was passed 7-0 and does not offer direct payments, but will instead seek to rectify historical disparities among the city&#8217;s black community with investment-based solutions.
Establishing as its basis their unjust enslavement, segregation, and imprisonment, the resolution goes on to list alleged longstanding discrimination against Asheville&#8217;s black citizens, such as being denied housing because of &#8220;racist practices in the private realty market,&#8221; facing impoverishment because of &#8220;discriminatory wages paid in every sector of the local economy regardless of credentials and experience,&#8221; and failing in schools because of &#8220;discriminatory disciplinary practices&#8221; throughout western North Carolina.
The resolution also claims black people die in larger numbers because of discrimination from medical professionals who allegedly give them &#8220;inadequate, if not detrimental, health care as exemplified by disproportionate morbidities and mortality rates that result from the generational trauma of systemic racism[.]&#8221;
The resolution also takes aim at the police, alleging that the black community is &#8220;unjustly targeted&#8221; by them and imprisoned, for which reason they are prevented from &#8220;the full participation in the benefits of citizenship[.]&#8221; Among its other claims are that black people have been forced to live near toxic waste sites, are unjustly confined to the routes of public transportation, and are kept from sources of nutritious food.
The resolution maintains that &#8220;systemic racism was created over centuries and will take time to dismantle,&#8221; and that &#8220;state and federal governments have a responsibility to adopt programs, policies, and funding to address reparations.&#8221;
To make amends, the city council apologized for slavery and segregation and called for the creation of a Community Reparations Commission that will be &#8220;empowered to make short, medium and long term recommendations that will make significant progress toward repairing the damage caused by public and private systemic Racism.&#8221;
Asheville, the population of which was 13% black as of the <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2015/02/07/unsettling-state-black-asheville/23055193/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2010 census</a>, is a staunchly liberal bastion in the middle of the otherwise deeply conservative western part of North Carolina. Protests erupted in the small North Carolina city following George Floyd&#8217;s death, which has led to calls <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/06/22/asheville-protest-defund-police-painted-street-george-floyd/3235511001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">demanding that the Asheville Police Department be defunded</a> and that the <a href="https://www.wyff4.com/article/city-of-asheville-passes-resolution-to-remove-vance-monument-other-confederate-monuments/32830776#" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">downtown obelisk</a> commemorating Zebulon B. Vance, the state&#8217;s governor during the Civil War, be removed.
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HAPPENING NOW: two different groups of protesters in front of Vance Monument
One shouting “all lives matter”, the other “no lives matter until black lives matter.” <a href="https://twitter.com/WLOS_13?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WLOS_13</a> <a href="https://t.co/cStA2vtxsj">pic.twitter.com/cStA2vtxsj</a>
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Slavery, though it <a href="https://mountainx.com/news/asheville-archives-slavery-in-wnc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">existed in western North Carolina</a>, was practiced considerably less compared to Virginia, South Carolina, and the eastern parts of the state, where some counties had slaves <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_North_Carolina#/media/File:North_Carolina_Counties_Slave_Percent_in_1860.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">exceeding 60%</a> of the population. According to the 1860 census, Asheville&#8217;s Buncombe County had 1,907 slaves and 283 slave owners, which was about 15.4% of the population.
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-conference-of-mayors-backs-democrats-plan-for-slavery-reparations-commission" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">U.S. Conference Of Mayors Backs Democrats’ Plan For Slavery Reparations Commission</a>
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North Carolina City Votes To Offer ‘Community Reparations’ For Black Citizens

On Wednesday morning, protesters in North Carolina decided to demonstrate against racism by slowing down en masse on a North Carolina highway, thus delaying traffic and possibly endangering people by slowing the response of first responders. But after roughly 40 minutes, State Highway Patrol officers started pulling over the demonstrators.
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BREAKING: Multiple arrests following a demonstration for social justice on I-40 that slowed traffic to a crawl <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/abc11?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#abc11</a> <a href="https://t.co/K0aHMwxfW3">pic.twitter.com/K0aHMwxfW3</a>
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The demonstration, which ABC 11 reported was titled, &#8220;SlowDown2StopRacism,” commenced on Interstate 40 at 8:46 a.m. and then traveled to I-40. “Drivers were asked to slow the traffic to ‘advance the people&#8217;s movement to end systemic racism,’ ABC 11 stated, adding, “A flier for the event said demonstrations were happening all over North Carolina … Participating drivers were asked to stay in their cars and maintain a safe distance from other vehicles.”
An announcement of the planned protest <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheFayettevilleVoice/posts/609717076344678">on Facebook</a> stated, “Join in by slowing down to advance the people’s movement to end systemic racism. At 8:46 a.m. slow down to 10 mph anywhere on I-40. This is the people’s protest.  The slowdown can be individually or a collective effort.” It added, “Maintain safe distances. Stay in your vehicles. End at 9:30 a.m. Spread the word.” The announcement named cities where the protest should take place, writing, “Calling all N.C. cities: Raleigh, Durham, Fayetteville, Charlotte, Greensboro, Asheville, Wilmington. Join in.”
<a href="https://www.wral.com/cars-come-to-a-standstill-on-i-40-in-raleigh-to-protest-george-floyd-s-death/19159312/?fbclid=IwAR0MuFF91q92m0dEsLruT0gXQ2t_TYN5mGhm8r1CCDxbxBbeVdSDyl8YWKU">WRAL</a> reported, “Although the protest was advertised as ‘statewide,&#8221;’ the slowdown appeared to be limited to Raleigh,” adding that the was planned for 8:46 a.m. to commemorate the eight minutes and forty-six seconds a Minnesota police officer knelt on George Floyd’s death before he died.
“Zainab Baloch, a former Raleigh mayoral candidate and Young Americans Protest co-founder, said the slowdown is meant to bring more attention to demands to defund police and hold them accountable. In Raleigh ‘the City Council has yet to do any kind of comprehensive police reform,’ she said. ‘It’s unacceptable,’” the <a href="https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article243743152.html">News Observer</a>reported.
The Raleigh City Council recently approved a $1.1 million increase for the <a href="https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/wake-county/article243542042.html">Raleigh Police Department. </a> “The budget, which the City Council approved unanimously, includes a $1.1 million increase for the Raleigh Police Department but not an additional $5.2 million sought by the police and fire departments … Nearly $3 million of the $5.2 million would have funded 28 new police positions including two specialized units focused on mental health and homelessness and parks and greenways,” the News Observer noted.
Last Friday, two Confederate statues in Raleigh were torn down by protesters, but police ultimately didn&#8217;t stop them. &#8220;A spokeswoman for the State Capitol police said officers were told to stand down not long before protesters toppled monuments on the capitol grounds. She said the chief of State Capitol police made the call to &#8216;protect protesters, bystanders and law enforcement,'&#8221; WRAL <a href="https://www.wral.com/officials-explain-lack-of-police-intervention-during-height-of-friday-s-protest-monuments-removal/19153912/">reported</a>. Initially, officers cut the ropes of protesters and engaged with protesters, injuring several police officers, but State Capitol Police Chief Chip Hawley decided to pull police back after protesters  again tried to attack the monument, according to N.C. Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Pam Walker.
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WATCH: NC Drivers Slow Down Highway Traffic To Protest Racism. Then State Troopers Arrest Them

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The editor of the progressive outlet &#8220;Indy Week&#8221; in North Carolina learned the hard way, last weekend, that nefarious individuals were using national anti-racism protests as cover for violence after rioters broke into her office, forcing her to take shelter in the basement as they ransacked the newsroom.
The <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/journalist-supported-protesters-until-they-stormed-her-office?fbclid=IwAR1oCGNFQfp9HNZm-pDbld0TYoCwhojX2KS2xVMSnh6wYVVSfo5ahc-SrRg">Post Millennial reports</a> Leigh Tauss, &#8220;an editor for the progressive news outlet Indy Week in North Carolina, was stunned to find that the protesters-turned-rioters did not look favorably upon her business when they swept the area.&#8221;
She reported on some protests in Raleigh, North Carolina, early on Saturday, noting that they were &#8220;extremely peaceful&#8221; and that &#8220;many are wearing masks and trying to keep a distance,&#8221; observing anti-coronavirus measures.
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The crowd is extremely peaceful and groups and many are wearing masks and trying to keep distance. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Raleigh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Raleigh</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GeorgeFloydprotest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GeorgeFloydprotest</a> <a href="https://t.co/1XgZc3nuvp">pic.twitter.com/1XgZc3nuvp</a>
&mdash; Leigh of House (@LeighTauss) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeighTauss/status/1266861806003380224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Later on, though, Tauss&#8217;s attitude changed. In Raleigh, as in many other cities, the protests quickly gave way to rioting as a separate element of rabble-rouser took over, using the massive gatherings as cover to riot and loot. The &#8220;Indy Week,&#8221; which certainly supports the protests, was, much to Tauss&#8217;s shock, one of many small businesses targeted in the destruction.
&#8220;I went into the hallway. I heard someone l enter the office and what sounded like smashing inside. We are a small newspaper with a handful of desktops. I’m now hiding in the basement,&#8221; Tauss tweeted.
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I went into the hallway. I heard someone l enter the office and what sounded like smashing inside. We are a small newspaper with a handful of desktops. I’m now hiding in the basement.
&mdash; Leigh of House (@LeighTauss) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeighTauss/status/1266914164414414849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Fortunately, Tauss emerged from the ordeal unscathed, which is more than can be said for &#8220;Indy Week.&#8221; And the next morning, Tauss was very confused as to why the alternative newspaper was targeted, attacked, and defaced, given how committed the publication is to social justice.
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I’m devastated. We are a progressive newspaper. Last night I was inside when the first brick was thrown <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Raleigh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Raleigh</a> <a href="https://t.co/MJvPdscyqf">pic.twitter.com/MJvPdscyqf</a>
&mdash; Leigh of House (@LeighTauss) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeighTauss/status/1267085577419186178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2020</a></blockquote>
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She then began reporting on the extensive damage.
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Several business with windows smashed in Wilmington street. All the wreckage from last night was cleaned up this morning. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Raleigh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Raleigh</a> <a href="https://t.co/MQvYEqo0lx">pic.twitter.com/MQvYEqo0lx</a>
&mdash; Leigh of House (@LeighTauss) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeighTauss/status/1267293479153152002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Later on, though, she seemed confused as to why Raleigh police officers were taking an aggressive stance toward &#8220;protesters&#8221; after darkness fell in North Carolina.
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Not sure why, but dozens of officers just charged at the few remaining protesters. Smoke bombs and fireworks go off in the street <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Raleigh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Raleigh</a> <a href="https://t.co/ur2sp8UaHP">pic.twitter.com/ur2sp8UaHP</a>
&mdash; Leigh of House (@LeighTauss) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeighTauss/status/1267313541444448257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Tauss&#8217;s experience is not unique. A number of progressives wondered aloud on social media about why the protests had turned destructive.
Some, like ESPN reporter Chris Palmer, had epiphanies in real-time as the looting and rioting moved ever closer to their neighborhoods. After tweeting &#8220;Burn it down,&#8221; in response to Minneapolis protesters torching the city&#8217;s 3rd district police headquarters, Palmer did a 180-degree turn, excoriating rioters for attacking his &#8220;sister neighborhood&#8221; in Minneapolis and destroying a Starbucks, eventually calling the rioters, &#8220;animals.&#8221;
&#8220;They just attacked our sister community down the street,&#8221; Palmer tweeted. &#8220;It’s a gated community and they tried to climb the gates. They had to beat them back. Then destroyed a Starbucks and are now in front of my building. Get these animals TF out of my neighborhood. Go back to where you live.&#8221;
Rioting and looting were largely out of control earlier this week, but far fewer incidents occurred Wednesday night, leaving some major cities to believe some of the more nefarious elements are under tenuous control. More protests are planned for Thursday and throughout the weekend.
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Editor For Progressive Outlet In North Carolina Celebrated Protesters. And Then They Stormed And Trashed Her Office.

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On Tuesday, Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper officially rejected the Republican Party&#8217;s demand that he pre-authorize a &#8220;full&#8221; Republican National Convention as planned in Charlotte in late August. In response, President Trump announced that his party will now be looking to bring their economy-boosting, job-creating convention to another state.
In a letter sent to Republican leaders on Tuesday, Gov. Cooper said that he, under the advisement of public health officials, could not pre-authorize the party to hold a full, in-person convention, citing the ongoing COVID-19 &#8220;states of emergency&#8221; across the country.
&#8220;With the Nation, the State of North Carolina, and the city of Charlotte still under states of emergency, it&#8217;s important to conduct the RNC convention accordingly,&#8221; Cooper wrote Tuesday in a <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000172-7625-d3d2-ab7a-77255eb70000">letter</a> to Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.  &#8220;As much as we want the conditions surrounding COVID-19 to be favorable enough for you to hold the Convention you describe in late August, it is very unlikely. Neither public health officials nor I will risk the health and safety of North Carolinians by providing the guarantee you seek.&#8221;
&#8220;The people of North Carolina do not know what the status of COVID-19 will be in August, so planning for a scaled-down convention with fewer people, social distancing and face coverings is a necessity,&#8221; the governor wrote, adding that he would be glad to consider discussing a scaled-down convention.
In response, Trump announced in a three-tweet statement that the governor&#8217;s refusal has forced the Republican Party to &#8220;spend millions of dollars&#8221; somewhere other than Cooper&#8217;s state. The governor&#8217;s decision, he wrote, will end up costing North Carolina jobs and &#8220;hundreds of millions of dollars&#8221; in potential revenues.
&#8220;Had long planned to have the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, a place I love,&#8221; Trump tweeted Tuesday. &#8220;Now, [NC Gov.] Roy Cooper and his representatives refuse to guarantee that we can have use of the Spectrum Arena &#8212; [s]pend millions of dollars, have everybody arrive, and then tell them they will not be able to gain entry.&#8221;
&#8220;Governor Cooper is still in Shelter-In-Place Mode, and not allowing us to occupy the arena as originally anticipated and promised,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;Would have showcased beautiful North Carolina to the World, and brought in hundreds of millions of dollars, and jobs, for the State. Because of [Gov. Cooper], we are now forced to seek another State to host the 2020 Republican National Convention.&#8221;
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Had long planned to have the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, a place I love. Now, <a href="https://twitter.com/NC_Governor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NC_Governor</a> Roy Cooper and his representatives refuse to guarantee that we can have use of the Spectrum Arena &#8211; Spend millions of dollars, have everybody arrive, and&#8230;
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1267985989471002626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8230;millions of dollars, and jobs, for the State. Because of <a href="https://twitter.com/NC_Governor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NC_Governor</a>, we are now forced to seek another State to host the 2020 Republican National Convention.
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1267985991408799745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump&#8217;s statement followed McDaniel&#8217;s statement earlier in the day that the party would be looking elsewhere to hold its convention if Cooper continued to &#8220;drag his feet,&#8221; explaining that the RNC has &#8220;an obligation to our delegates and nominee to begin visiting the multiple cities and states who have reached out in recent days about hosting an historic event to show that America is open for business.&#8221;
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In a tweet Tuesday, Cooper wrote, &#8220;We have been committed to a safe RNC convention in North Carolina and it’s unfortunate they never agreed to scale down and make changes to keep people safe. Protecting public health and safety during this pandemic is a priority.&#8221;
McDaniel replied: &#8220;What’s unfortunate is that you still have yet to give guidance on what &#8216;scaled down&#8217; means. Currently, you allow 10 people to gather indoors. Is that what scaled down means? Or is it 100 people? 1,000 people? Total lack of clarity from you.&#8221;
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What’s unfortunate is that you still have yet to give guidance on what “scaled down” means. Currently, you allow 10 people to gather indoors. Is that what scaled down means? Or is it 100 people? 1,000 people? Total lack of clarity from you. <a href="https://t.co/4ceHrGRGu3">https://t.co/4ceHrGRGu3</a>
&mdash; Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1268005940730699776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Roy Cooper

Democrat NC Governor Rejects GOP Convention Demand; Trump: You Just Lost Your State ‘Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars,’ Jobs

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Economy

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper shot down President Donald Trump’s push for a “full” Republican National Convention in August.
Cooper, a Democrat, sent a letter to Republican National Committee chairwoman Rona McDaniel and Republican National Convention President Marcia Kelly Lee on Tuesday saying that any GOP convention in the state would have to be “scaled down.” Last month, Trump threatened to pull the convention out of North Carolina if any limits were placed on capacity due to the pandemic.
“We still want a safe RNC convention in Charlotte that follows the health guidelines set forth in the CDC’s interim guidance regarding mass gatherings,” Cooper wrote in a <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000172-7625-d3d2-ab7a-77255eb70000">letter</a> obtained by Politico. “The people of North Carolina do not know what the status of COVID-19 will be in August, so planning for a scaled-down convention with fewer people, social distancing and face coverings is a necessity.”
&#8220;With the Nation, the State of North Carolina and the City of Charlotte still under states of emergency it’s important to conduct the RNC convention accordingly. As much as we want the conditions surrounding COVID-19 to be favorable enough for you to hold the Convention you describe in late August, it is very unlikely. Neither public health officials nor I will risk the health and safety of North Carolinians by providing the guarantee you seek,” Cooper concluded.
On May 25, Trump sent a message to Cooper <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-strong-arms-democrat-nc-governor-on-shutdown-guarantee-well-pull-economy-boosting-gop-convention">pushing</a> the governor to allow a “full” convention to take place or Trump would find another state to host the massive gathering. The convention is a four-day boon for the economy of the host city and state as tens of thousands of politicos, reporters, and tourists converge on the site.
“I love the Great State of North Carolina, so much so that I insisted on having the Republican National Convention in Charlotte at the end of August,” Trump said a series of tweets. “Unfortunately, Democrat Governor [Roy Cooper] is still in Shutdown mood [and] unable to guarantee that by August we will be allowed full attendance in the Arena.”
“In other words, we would be spending millions of dollars building the Arena to a very high standard without even knowing if the Democrat Governor would allow the Republican Party to fully occupy the space,” he continued. “Plans are being made by many thousands of enthusiastic Republicans, and others, to head to beautiful North Carolina in August.”
“They must be immediately given an answer by the Governor as to whether or not the space will be allowed to be fully occupied,” Trump said. If Cooper fails to offer Republicans a &#8216;guarantee&#8217; that they will be able to hold the convention as planned, he warned, they’ll be “reluctantly forced” to go elsewhere. “If not, we will be reluctantly forced to find, with all of the jobs and economic development it brings, another Republican National Convention site.”
“This is not something I want to do,” he concluded. “Thank you, and I LOVE the people of North Carolina!”
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North Carolina Governor To Trump: ‘Full’ GOP Convention Isn’t Going To Happen

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In the wake of President Trump threatening to move the economy-boosting GOP convention from the state of North Carolina if the governor cannot guarantee all invitees will be allowed to attend the event, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia has offered to host the convention in his state.
“With world-class facilities, restaurants, hotels, and workforce, Georgia would be honored to safely host the Republican National Convention,” Kemp tweeted on Tuesday. “We hope you will consider the Peach State, @realdonaldtrump!”
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With world-class facilities, restaurants, hotels, and workforce, Georgia would be honored to safely host the Republican National Convention. We hope you will consider the Peach State, <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realdonaldtrump</a>!
&mdash; Governor Brian P. Kemp (@GovKemp) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovKemp/status/1265278545628221440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Monday, President Trump issued a barrage of tweets ripping North Carolina&#8217;s Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper for not guaranteeing that the GOP would be able to operate at full capacity when the convention opens in late August.
“I love the Great State of North Carolina, so much so that I insisted on having the Republican National Convention in Charlotte at the end of August,” Trump tweeted. “Unfortunately, Democrat Governor [Roy Cooper] is still in Shutdown mood [and] unable to guarantee that by August we will be allowed full attendance in the Arena.”
The president said that this uncertainty creates a problem by essentially forcing the GOP to spend millions of dollars preparing for an event without a guarantee it will actually go according to plan.
“In other words, we would be spending millions of dollars building the Arena to a very high standard without even knowing if the Democrat Governor would allow the Republican Party to fully occupy the space,” Trump said. “Plans are being made by many thousands of enthusiastic Republicans, and others, to head to beautiful North Carolina in August.”
“They must be immediately given an answer by the Governor as to whether or not the space will be allowed to be fully occupied,” he continued. “If not, we will be reluctantly forced to find, with all of the jobs and economic development it brings, another Republican National Convention site.”
“This is not something I want to do,” he concluded. “Thank you, and I LOVE the people of North Carolina!”
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&#8230;full attendance in the Arena. In other words, we would be spending millions of dollars building the Arena to a very high standard without even knowing if the Democrat Governor would allow the Republican Party to fully occupy the space. Plans are being&#8230;.
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1264891998017859584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8230;to find, with all of the jobs and economic development it brings, another Republican National Convention site. This is not something I want to do. Thank you, and I LOVE the people of North Carolina!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1264892000052088832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Though Gov. Cooper has not personally responded to the president&#8217;s tweet, The Charlotte Observer<a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article242978726.html"> urged the governor</a> to call President Trump&#8217;s bluff and not allow the RNC to move forward with the convention, arguing that it&#8217;s better to be safe than sorry.
&#8220;If the president wants a guarantee right now, Cooper should call his bluff with the only answer he can provide right now: No,&#8221; asserted the publication.
&#8220;The alternative – giving an unqualified nod to the convention – is untenable,&#8221; it continued. &#8220;No one, including Trump and Cooper, knows what COVID-19 will look like late this summer. It’s possible North Carolina could see the kind of coronavirus progress that allows for a large-scale indoor event to be safely held here. It’s just as possible that loosening restrictions in May and June could result in a spike of infections in July and August, and that the convention will be unsafe for Charlotte and its global guests.&#8221;
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Georgia Governor Offers To Host GOP Convention As North Carolina Remains Closed

Brian Kemp

Georgia

President Trump demanded on Monday that North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) make a decision as soon as possible about his state&#8217;s lockdown orders for the coming months, threatening to pull the Republican National Convention — scheduled to take place in Charlotte the week of August 24 and expected to draw more than 50,000 participants — if he fails to provide Republicans a &#8220;guarantee&#8221; that they will be able to hold the convention as planned. Pulling the convention from the state, Trump reminded Cooper, would have a significant economic impact.
&#8220;I love the Great State of North Carolina, so much so that I insisted on having the Republican National Convention in Charlotte at the end of August,&#8221; Trump said a series of tweets Monday. &#8220;Unfortunately, Democrat Governor [Roy Cooper] is still in Shutdown mood [and] unable to guarantee that by August we will be allowed full attendance in the Arena.&#8221;
&#8220;In other words, we would be spending millions of dollars building the Arena to a very high standard without even knowing if the Democrat Governor would allow the Republican Party to fully occupy the space,&#8221; Trump emphasized. &#8220;Plans are being made by many thousands of enthusiastic Republicans, and others, to head to beautiful North Carolina in August.&#8221;
&#8220;They must be immediately given an answer by the Governor as to whether or not the space will be allowed to be fully occupied,&#8221; said Trump. If Cooper fails to offer Republicans a &#8220;guarantee&#8221; that they will be able to hold the convention as planned, he warned, they&#8217;ll be &#8220;reluctantly forced&#8221; to go elsewhere. &#8220;If not, we will be reluctantly forced to find, with all of the jobs and economic development it brings, another Republican National Convention site.&#8221;
&#8220;This is not something I want to do,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;Thank you, and I LOVE the people of North Carolina!&#8221;
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&#8230;full attendance in the Arena. In other words, we would be spending millions of dollars building the Arena to a very high standard without even knowing if the Democrat Governor would allow the Republican Party to fully occupy the space. Plans are being&#8230;.
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1264891998017859584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8230;to find, with all of the jobs and economic development it brings, another Republican National Convention site. This is not something I want to do. Thank you, and I LOVE the people of North Carolina!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1264892000052088832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump&#8217;s comments follow recent statements by RNC organizers that they fully intend to hold the event as planned. As reported by <a href="https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/trump-threatens-to-move-rnc-out-of-charlotte-over-gov-coopers-covid-19-restrictions/275-d02c3bdc-1ef2-4387-b3d3-464a54be5ada">WCNC Charlotte</a>, the event organizers said during a recent virtual press conference that they are moving &#8220;full steam ahead&#8221; on the convention but stressed that some key decisions are still hinging on COVID-19-related developments.
&#8220;Officials said it&#8217;s too soon to make any definitive call on what they&#8217;ll do. With 50,000 expected visitors coming to Charlotte for the RNC, that&#8217;s 50,000 people who will need food, hotel rooms and transportation,&#8221; WCNC reported Monday.
Marcia Lee Kelly, president and CEO of the 2020 Republican convention in Charlotte, said during the press conference that delegates may be asked to wear masks inside the venue, WCNC notes.
Like Trump, Kelly emphasized the economic impact of the convention, which will be held in Charlotte&#8217;s Spectrum Center, describing it as &#8220;an economic catalyst for the Charlotte community,&#8221; WCNC reports.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-hits-trump-for-golfing-trump-he-left-out-some-key-facts">Biden Shames Trump For Golfing; Trump Swings Back: He Left Out Some Key Facts</a>
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Trump Strong-Arms Democrat NC Governor On Shutdown ‘Guarantee’: We’ll Pull Economy-Boosting GOP Convention

Students who were dubiously accused of sexual assault through the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s kangaroo court system – even more than a decade ago – will soon have their names made public, along with the offense of which they were accused, and the punishment they received if found responsible.
Noticeably absent from the information will be the details of the allegation, which would help to explain whether the student was wrongly found responsible and to what extent UNC-CH went to find them responsible anyway.
The information release was ordered by the North Carolina Supreme Court last week in response to a lawsuit filed by four news organizations: The Daily Tar Heel campus newspaper, the Charlotte Observer, the Herald-Sun and Capitol Broadcasting, <a href="https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article242437976.html">according to the News &amp; Observer</a>. UNC-CH, had previously denied the papers access to the information, saying it would violate the federal student privacy law known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). UNC-CH continued to oppose the lawsuit up to the NC Supreme Court, but it now must release the information to the news outlets, who will no doubt make it public. The information request dates back more than a decade, meaning students who managed to graduate after being accused and have gone on to build productive lives without any additional issues will soon have their lives and careers upended by news outlets trying to prove their alma mater doesn’t take allegations of sexual assault seriously.
UNC-CH has been one of the top targeted schools for this claim, despite numerous stories and lawsuits from accused students who were denied basic due process rights and punished over dubious claims.
One such allegation – which I <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2017/09/27/campus_rape_investigation.html">detailed extensively</a> for Real Clear Investigations back in 2017 – involved a he said/she said situation in which friends of the female accuser said she did not appear drunk yet she still reported to police and campus authorities that she had been raped. She and her feminist attorney would eventually hold a press conference to display what appears to be a digitally altered photograph of the accuser’s neck that made obvious hickeys appear as bruises from choking. UNC-CH eventually found the accused student not responsible based on a preponderance of the evidence, under the new NC Supreme Court ruling, the entire incident could be reported as: [Accused student’s name], the allegation of rape, and the finding of not responsible. Without the details of the allegation, this information will surely be used to claim UNC-CH doesn’t take sexual assault seriously.
The school is also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/education-department-will-review-anti-male-bias-ashe-schow">being investigated</a> by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights over allegations of anti-male bias in its policies. An allegation that their Title IX processes were biased against male students would not be investigated.
Accused students typically struggle to clear their name in court due to the overwhelming costs of fighting their schools. Lawsuits against universities for denying constitutional due process rights can cost more than 100,000, meaning low-income students are the most vulnerable to an unfairly ruined reputation. Further, schools refuse to release evidence and documents relating to an accused student’s case, citing FERPA. The schools say that releasing the information violates the accuser’s FERPA rights.
But the NC Supreme Court ruled that FERPA make an exception for such disciplinary records.
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University Of North Carolina Ordered To Release Names Of Any Student Ever Found Responsible For Sexual Misconduct In Kangaroo Courts

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It&#8217;s right there in the First Amendment: &#8220;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.&#8221;
The Founders knew that protest — as long as it&#8217;s peaceful — is an important part of a democracy, and they wanted to ensure Americans that in the new experimental government, they would have a way to express their displeasure (not exactly OK when dealing with a king).
But the coronavirus is changing everything, and it&#8217;s even beginning to challenge the concepts set out in the Bill of Rights.
During a protest last week in North Carolina calling for the reopening of the economy, the Raleigh Police Department arrested a person for violating the state&#8217;s stay-at-home orders.
When someone asked on Twitter, &#8220;What part of the governor’s order was violated here?&#8221; the police department answered, &#8220;Protesting is a non-essential activity.&#8221;
Who has the power to do what during a pandemic is unclear. Kristie Graunke, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, told <a href="https://reason.com/2020/04/15/raleigh-police-department-protesting-is-a-non-essential-activity/">Reason</a> that the First Amendment applies even under emergency orders, with caveats.
&#8220;Enforcement of emergency orders should not exacerbate racial disparities and should not lead to custodial arrest unless doing so is the last resort, because arresting people and sending them to jail is antithetical to public health. The goal of enforcement should be to facilitate long-term compliance rather than to punish non-compliance,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Even under emergency orders, the First Amendment right to protected speech, including protest speech, remain in effect,&#8221; Graunke said. &#8220;But government officials may temporarily limit in-person gatherings in circumstances where medical and scientific experts agree that assemblies of people pose an immediate and grave risk to public health. Any public health measure limiting civil liberties must be re-evaluated when the medical and scientific consensus changes.&#8221;
Shea Denning, a criminal law expert at the University of North Carolina school of government, told the <a href="https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article242010496.html">News &amp; Observer</a> newspaper that &#8220;police do have the power to use criminal charges to enforce Cooper’s stay-at-home order.&#8221;
<blockquote>“I think what people might be thinking about is, ‘Well, don’t I still have constitutional rights? And can a state statute take away my rights?’” Denning said.
The answer, she said, is yes to both: A state of emergency doesn’t completely take people’s rights away, but it does let the government do things that might otherwise infringe on people’s rights.</blockquote>
The demonstration came a day after North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said lifting his executive orders on COVID-19 would be a “catastrophe,” with experts saying it could flood the hospitals with patients. Since then, a social media campaign using the hashtag #ReopenNC has drawn much attention, with organizers calling for Cooper to recall the orders.
“We continue to see the spread of the virus accelerate through North Carolina but at a much slower pace because people are following the executive orders on social distancing,” Cooper said. “These models show consistently that our executive orders work and that wholesale lifting of those orders would be a catastrophe.”

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On Tuesday, police in North Carolina&#8217;s capital city arrested at least one protester who had joined a peaceful protest outside the state&#8217;s General Assembly building to call on the governor to &#8220;reopen&#8221; the state. In explanation of why the protest was broken up and at least one demonstrator arrested, the Raleigh Police Department <a href="https://twitter.com/raleighpolice/status/1250111779574894594?s=20">explained</a> on Twitter that &#8220;protesting is a non-essential activity.&#8221;
Nearly every state in the country is now under stay-at-home orders, which bar activities state governors deem to be &#8220;non-essential.&#8221; In the stunning sequence of events on Tuesday in Raleigh, North Carolina residents were told that exercising the First Amendment-protected rights &#8220;peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress &#8221; are among the activities deemed &#8220;non-essential&#8221; by state authorities.
On March 27, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) issued an <a href="https://files.nc.gov/governor/documents/files/EO121-Stay-at-Home-Order-3.pdf">executive order</a> detailing his &#8220;stay-at-home&#8221; mandate, including the barring of gatherings of 10 or more people in enclosed spaces and the forced closure of businesses and organizations deemed &#8220;non-essential.&#8221; Amid devastating unemployment numbers, which have now reached 17 million nationwide, and with North Carolina not particularly hard-hit by the pandemic, some North Carolina residents have begun to push back on the state-wide mandate.
On Tuesday, a group of around 75 to 100 &#8220;Reopen NC&#8221; demonstrators gathered outside the state&#8217;s General Assembly building to call on Cooper to ease the restrictions so more people can begin to get back to work. As noted by <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/14/north-carolina-reopen-protests-coronavirus/">The Daily Caller</a>, Reopen NC&#8217;s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1071729406534210/">Facebook page</a> has now amassed nearly 30,000 members.
The Raleigh Police Department issued a series of tweets on Tuesday detailing their response to the protests. &#8220;We are aware of the [Reopen NC] protest that is occurring in Downtown Raleigh on Wilmington and Jones Street and are monitoring the situation,&#8221; the department tweeted. &#8220;The protestors are in violation of the Governor’s Executive Order and have been asked to leave,&#8221; Raleigh Police added in another tweet. &#8220;We are reopening Wilmington and Jones Street. The protest has been cleared. There was one arrest made.&#8221;
In response to someone asking &#8220;what part of the governor&#8217;s order was violated&#8221; in this instance, Raleigh Police responded: &#8220;Protesting is a non-essential activity.&#8221;
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We are reopening Wilmington and Jones Street. The protest has been cleared. There was one arrest made. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Raleigh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Raleigh</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReopenNC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ReopenNC</a> <a href="https://t.co/DnQbFZusJy">pic.twitter.com/DnQbFZusJy</a>
&mdash; Raleigh Police (@raleighpolice) <a href="https://twitter.com/raleighpolice/status/1250104269300215818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Protesting is a non-essential activity.
&mdash; Raleigh Police (@raleighpolice) <a href="https://twitter.com/raleighpolice/status/1250111779574894594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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ABC 11&#8217;s Jonah Kaplan reported from the scene, posting a series of tweets, along with photos and video (posts below).
&#8220;Protestors set up camp outside [NC General Assembly building], demand [Gov. Cooper], [NCDHHS Sec. Mandy Cohen] &amp; [North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services] lift [stay-at-home] orders and [reopen North Carolina],&#8221; wrote Kaplan. &#8220;There’s palpable anger [and] frustration amidst the crowd, which includes struggling small business owners.&#8221;
 &#8220;The group [&#8216;ReopenNC&#8217;], which organized the protest, had originally called on other small business owners to stay in cars [and] honk horns. Demonstration has now morphed into campaign-style rally,&#8221; he added. &#8220;As [Raleigh Police and Capitol Police] get involved, some shout of &#8216;tyranny,&#8217; &#8216;Gestapo&#8217; &amp; &#8216;Comrade [Cooper].&#8217; Despite increase in volume, protest still peaceful. There are several families and school aged children here as well. My educated guess is about 75-100 people now, with about half in their cars. Every 15 minutes or do demonstrators let loose with their horns.&#8221;
Raleigh Police Department &#8220;appears to be closing streets around [the assembly building],&#8221; Kaplan wrote in updates. &#8220;Officers now warning the demonstration violates [Gov. Cooper&#8217;s] [stay-at-home] order &amp; public health orders. Two warnings now that arrests will soon begin. Third &amp; final [Raleigh Police] warning appears to working as much of the crowd disperses. [Wake County Sheriff&#8217;s Office] prison transports also arriving now, as officers also start walking through the parking lot and going to car to car.&#8221;
In a post that includes video of the incident, Kaplan reported on the protester who was arrested for protesting the government. &#8220;At least one person now under arrest by [Raleigh Police] for refusing to leave [Reopen NC] demonstration outside the [NC General Assembly building]. At its height, there were probably 100+ people at the tailgate-style rally.&#8221;
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UPDATE: <a href="https://twitter.com/raleighpolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@raleighpolice</a> appears to be closing streets around <a href="https://twitter.com/NCLeg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NCLeg</a>. Officers now warning the demonstration violates <a href="https://twitter.com/NC_Governor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NC_Governor</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StayAtHome?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StayAtHome</a> order &amp; public health orders. Two warnings now that arrests will soon begin. <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC11_WTVD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC11_WTVD</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABCPolitics</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirusNC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirusNC</a> <a href="https://t.co/RoAUUHR3lq">pic.twitter.com/RoAUUHR3lq</a>
&mdash; Jonah Kaplan (@KaplanABC11) <a href="https://twitter.com/KaplanABC11/status/1250098174217400321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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NEW: At least one person now under arrest by <a href="https://twitter.com/raleighpolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@raleighpolice</a> for refusing to leave <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReopenNC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ReopenNC</a> demonstration outside <a href="https://twitter.com/NCLeg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ncleg</a>. At its height, there were probably 100+ people at the tailgate-style rally. <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC11_WTVD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC11_WTVD</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABCPolitics</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirusNC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirusNC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StayAtHome?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StayAtHome</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/abc11?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#abc11</a> <a href="https://t.co/so9ZIzzqpY">pic.twitter.com/so9ZIzzqpY</a>
&mdash; Jonah Kaplan (@KaplanABC11) <a href="https://twitter.com/KaplanABC11/status/1250101103175380992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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