Each of us has different experiences in life. I want to share my curfew story.
We moved to North Carolina in the summer of 1970. In Pittsburgh, I had been selling newspapers on the street starting at the age of 10. After a while, I was given the better job of going to the movie theater on Saturday night to sell the Sunday newspaper early edition, mostly when the movie let out. That meant I often did not get home until well after midnight.
The day I turned 16 in Statesville NC, I got a job in a drive-in restaurant and started making serious money – $.90 an hour. Even though I was 16, I didn’t have a driver’s license, so I rode home on my bicycle, often after 1 am – labor laws said we could not work past midnight, but I didn’t object. Eventually I had enough money to afford to pay for my car insurance and my parents bought a new used car, and let me have the old 1962 Plymouth Valiant to drive to work.
At some later point, we made a trip back to Pittsburgh possibly for my eye surgery. We stayed with some old family friends who lived in Bridgeville and things were going along pleasantly enough and then “the siren” went off. Our hosts turned to me and announced that the siren was for the curfew. It was now illegal for me to go outside of their house, even out to our car. I asked why – is there some problem going on? The answer was that the curfew was longstanding and had been put in place to stop teenagers from getting into trouble.
I was appalled. That was the moment I decided I would never ever move back to Pittsburgh. In fairness, this was not a city wide policy, it was specific to this one borough. By that time, Bridgeville was an empty ghost town and the teenagers who used to do whatever they used to do were middle aged. But the curfew lived on.
In 2016, it still exists
http://ecode360.com/14257289
Last night the mayor of Charlotte imposed a midnight to six AM curfew over the entire city of Charlotte, not just uptown. There are relatively few exceptions. At least in the beginning, the police chief didn’t want a curfew. Just like the major employers telling employees to stay home, the curfew is a sign of fear and weakness, which will further empower the protestors / rioters. No people driving down the streets means no witnesses, nobody to help strangers who might get in trouble.
This has no direct impact on me, as I am unable to drive in the dark, but I am not happy. Maybe this will motivate people to send Jennifer to get a quick exit as mayor. She can move to San Francisco and live with her kind and be the superintendent of transgender bathroom safety.
I like it. She looks like a deer in the headlights. Everything she has done and is doing shows nothing but weakness to the thugs torching the city. San Francisco is a good choice. I would gladly buy her airfare.
Typical of liberals to cave-in. She knows her masters’ desires are precisely that. Support BLM thugs, by doing nothing against them. Incidentally, that white guy driving through the riot showed some guts. I don’t know if it was real or contrived. If I am going to show I was armed to a feral crowd, there is no way I am going to hold my weapon with my left hand flashing it outside my car as I am driving. I would flash it in my firing hand, slightly at the same level of my hear pointing up to try to intimidate the brutish element.
Just heard at WMAL that 74% of the “protesters” arrested have out-of-town IDs. This is just another rent-a-mob by the Soros et al group.
It would be interesting to know where from – my guess would be Durham and Atlanta. If that turns out to be true, it’s consistent with my opinion that local blacks are not so quick to anger and want to destroy their city.
I know this is a stretch, but if I grew up in public housing in South Chicago without a dad, went to public schools where the teachers had given up trying to teach and crime seemed the only way to survive, with the right provocation, I would riot – but none of that applies to black people who grew up here.
My observation, which may or may be accurate is that native black Charlotteans are a little surprised (and pleased) when I engage them in conversation and talk about the good old days. I think most of their encounters with white people are with the immigrants from New York who don’t see past the skin color and think they are looking at one of the government welfare hatchlings whose only function in life is to vote for Democrats.
Here is a story about this
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-22/who-behind-riots-charlotte-police-says-70-arrested-protesters-had-out-state-ids
Note it is out of state IDs, not outside of Charlotte. If they’re from Fort Mill SC, which is 10 minutes away, that is one thing. If they are from out of state, they must be staying somewhere. If they can tie financing back to Soros, it would be great if the DA indicts Soros and extradicts him, even if the case is tenuous.
On the other side, the spokesperson is from the police union whose job is to be an advocate for the officer. The booking photos and IDs are public record and should contain where people live. Maybe I need to evolve “Guess my crime” game into “rentathug or not?”
Turns out WMAL and zero hedge were wrong shocking!)
According to a local activist, 33 of the 45 (73%) arrests WERE Charlotte residents
https://mobile.twitter.com/andrew_dunn?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
NBC has video shot by the wife. It clears up some of the issues, but not others. All of the police were identifiable as police and wearing protection, and they basically wait until a marked car arrives in case there is any doubt they might be fake police.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/charlotte-shooting-video-footage-shows-fatal-encounter-between-police-keith-n653426
The most troubling thing is the video shows no gun on the ground, but it is possible the angle is hiding it. If the gun is a drop gun and he was unarmed, there will be hell to pay.
The curfew is lifted. The only arrests on Sunday were curfew violations, a white guy going to the Panthers game with a gun in his backpack, a looter from Wednesday they were looking for, and a few people standing in the street to stop traffic.