Yesterday we told you about how the news media slandered Charlotte police officers, suggesting that they were white racists monsters who shot an innocent black man who was merely reading a book. These reports sparked riots that have now raged in the city for two nights.
And it was all a lie. Keith Lamont Scott was not reading a book. He was brandishing a gun. He was not acting innocently. He was acting in a threatening manner toward a police officer, who by the way was black, and as a result, the officer made the perfectly reasonable and by-the-book decision to protect his own life by taking Scott down.
It is terrible that Scott died, and the officers on the scene acted heroically to try to save him. But this is the farthest thing that something can be from the media's favored racist-white-cops-kill-innocent-black-man scenario. Yet it's far too late. This notion was pushed early and often by the media and others with a vested interest in pushing the white-racist-cops narrative, and every one of the people who did this shares in the responsibility of having caused this riot.
And we can now add another irresponsible liar to share in that responsibility. I bet you can guess who it is: