Charlotte Riots, Cable News Coverage and Police Tactics
Protests and riots erupted in Charlotte, North Carolina, following a police shooting of a Black American man. Cable news networks including CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News provided live street-level coverage of the escalating civil unrest. Reports from the scene detailed the police use of tear gas, concussion grenades, and flash bangs to disperse crowds as agitators clashed with law enforcement.
charlotte· north carolina· cnn· msnbc· police shooting· tear gas· flash bangs
00:00 Directors, directors, directors. Adam Curry John C Devorah It's Thursday September 22nd 2016 this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 862 This is no agenda Bringing back the art of reporting from the crowd and broadcasting live from the capital, The Drone Star State here in Austin Tejas FEMA Region 6 In The Morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where i don't see much enthusiasm for my part but i see a lot of traffic. I am John C DeVore. It's Crackpot & Buzzkill! In The Morning!
00:38 Well, I don't have the enthusiasm you have. You're all...you're pumped up today! Yeah, I'm always enthusiastic Look at my life. Look at my life This is way up there. No no look at my life. You lie. Okay, I get the joke There's no reason for enthusiasm Okay I was up late last night of course Uh okay why? I was watching the live coverage does it get any better Live coverage of riots in Charlotte Oh sure, you know I'm glad you did that because i paid zero attention to the Charlotte thing. Oh it oh wow this is very interesting um in order to uh really make the most of it all three cable news networks were live on the street they had guys on the street it was fantastic there was a
01:25 I watched a lot of CNN. MSNBC was okay, but Fox didn't have it. But CNN really did a very good job with a lot of funny bits as one reporter... You know some guy he's reporting, this guy comes over and body checks him to the ground? Yes! I did see that. I can't say anything else about it. That was all over the place. Let me see what do we have here… I have, okay some...I have to say that my favorite piece was... Why don't you give a little background around this for people who might be in Germany for example. That don't know what your talking about? So we had another police shooting of the black American and immediately it was unarmed, this makes no sense, cops are killing everybody
02:21 without any information really about what was going on. And there were so many different shootings, it's like it was almost confusing where... What happened? Where was it? Um and everyone just got really super pissed off in uh in Charlotte North Carolina and I mean it's black white all everything all mixed through each other. Everyone was pissed off Although I did know it is involved. Well, this I wanted to exactly took the words out of my mouth black women really at the front line and They all took its very interesting when you look at this It's almost as everybody wants their stance in front of the police You know the front of the riot right police To be kind of like the life photo of the year And I mean everybody's got some kind of pose some kind of
03:08 thing going on. It was, I don't know... Everybody's filming everybody else? Yeah! No it's out of control! Ah yeah and of course the sad thing is we really don't know exactly what happened so this may all be-I mean it doesn't mean that people aren't pissed off that still you know I understand but uh you just can't go out and just riot the whole time and it was rioting this time Big time. And you know, smashing and looting came to that eventually but the cops were using tons of tear gas they were using... what do you call it?
03:49 flash bangs they were using. Oh, that's actually interesting I was watching a little bit of Fox here's Megan Kelly had a guy out on the street and here is his report. There are explosions of all varieties there's tear gas canisters being fired there's also very loud concussion grenades and flash bang grenades which make a huge flash in allowed explosion designed to chase the crowd back which certainly it has been effective. Now did you hear what he said how we corrected himself? Yeah, plenty. Oh no just tell me oh he said the flash bangs was used to terror I mean to push the crowd back No, they're meant to terrorize you got it right the first time
04:30 Terrorizing people. So Anderson Cooper had a pretty good bit on and it would just keep going back to this one guy live down in the street, and I just figured we'd listen to that for a moment because it kind of got me to itch a little bit. Okay let me bring Boris here. Hey Anderson, they just started shooting tear gas. The crowd of people broke up and we are running from the scene so there were agitators that were getting pulled in by police and a couple people started sitting down but uh police grabbed one and that's when everything just went out of control you can see a police you can see police are trying to
05:10 control the situation but there's tear gas everywhere people started launching the tear gas back at the police oh man anyway Anderson so reinforcements are in you can tell police are trying to grab people and bring them behind the line but again things escalating very quickly here it comes against you. So there were two lines of SWAT teams lined up by the Omni Hotel hey watch out! There is gas on you get out of There are more cans of tear gas getting thrown into the street right now, Anderson. We're trying to get out of the way so there were two lines... Ah my eyes! Anderson I gotta send it back to you.
