Twitter suspends Instapundit for suggesting people not become victims of racist thug rioters (Update)
September 22, 2016
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The rioting in Charlotte turned even uglier overnight, after the apparently false claim that a black man was shot dead by police for pointing a book.
All evidence so far shows that the "victim" was a career criminal who had a gun and turned towards police.
This appears to be another false media narrative, just like "hands up, don't shoot" in the Michael Brown case, but it was enough to spark mobs of racist rioters and looters who attacked people and each other, including people trapped in cars.
Anyone who was old enough to remember the 1992 Los Angeles riots after the police in the Rodney King case were found not guilty is old enough to remember Reginald Denny: