To get the full story on the Greensboro Riots...Well that was the link. A few screen grabs from the web the rest of the world will see and remember forever: That's right, forever, just like the world remembers Greensboro for the 1979 Klan-Nazi shootings that could have been prevented by a previous corrupt and inept Mayor and Greensboro City Council.
From the Greensboro entry at Wikipedia:
From around the web:
Wait, there's more:
And with each passing day it grows bigger... I could have provided a thousand such screen grabs if I wanted to take the time to do so and not even scratched the surface. A slease bag club owner happy to get free publicity for his club and a failed mayor desperate to be seen as doing one thing right in an election year latch on to a few kids fighting and propell it to a worldwide media event that destroys our city's reputation for generations to come.
But a search on YouTube for the claimed video evidence of Saturday night's downtown riots turns up zero results. Hundreds of city owned video cameras are installed downtown but the City of Greensboro can't provide video evidence. Local television stations show videos of children running from police but zero fights. Greensboro police and local media have yet to name even 1 victim. No proof has been offered that anything more than a couple of fights broke out over the course of about 4 hours and when someone fired a gun-- a police officer maybe? and police deployed tear gas, children began running away.
There was no riot, just a few kids fighting and a who bunch of kids running away from the fights just as their parents taught them to do. Since when do we punish children for running away from fights?
Parents took their children downtown to watch a free movie hosted by the City of Greensboro without adequate adult supervision where their children were assaulted by the Greensboro Police Department and our City's reputation ruined by an overzealous Mayor who needed an excuse to impose a curfew that had already been planned weeks before. That's right, the curfew was already being planned, almost a month before the "riots." How many adults were supervising the event at Festival Park? The City of Greensboro has yet to say nor do they talk about the fact that the movie was shown outdoors in a park with no fences and no barriers to keep children inside or trouble outside.
And the Greensboro City council blames your children for doing exactly what children do.
The Greensboro Propaganda Machine Continues Unabated
The damage done, thank you local media and Mr. Mayor
Mayor Perkins declines to substantiate his remarks on downtown fights, leaves Drudge "brawl' report unchallenged
On Greensboro's Saturday night self inflicted "riot"; The communities' teens were invited downtown
Greensboro Police Department Crime Rate Per 1000 Persons By Census Tract; Look at Downtown's Relative Location
Updateed; An email I sent last night in response to the violence etc... Saturday night in Greensboro
Roch Smith on Greensboro's politics and accomodative news industry
Children below the poverty level and relatively black within walking distance of downtown Greensboro
And the Mayor's solution: an unconstitutional and unenforceable curfew. Greensboro City Council elections are in November, make sure your rising 18 year olds are registered to vote.
