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Updated: Sunday, July 19, 2015 | Sean Rowe
... When the North Carolina-based Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan rallied at the steps of the South Carolina statehouse to protest the removal of the Confederate flag, one older protester was affected by the heat. A photographer captured what happened next: Police Officer Leroy Smith, who is black, helped the protester, who was wearing a National Socialist movement T-shirt, up the stairs and out of the heat ...
http://www.abc6onyourside.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/GOING-VIRAL-Black-Cop-Helps-White-Man-at-KKK-Rally-169186.shtml#.VavZGCpVhHw
http://time.com/3963726/south-carolina-kkk-rally-black-cop/
progressoid
(49,990 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Because the black community is doing what is right before the eyes of god and man.
They will be the moral example in the long run.
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)Quackers
(2,256 posts)We can't let hate keep dividing us. The black officers family looks up to him. He showed compassion and love to someone that hates him. That's a role model any family should want for their kids.
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)Quackers
(2,256 posts)struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)who seems to have a serious mental problem
I have no idea what the incident meant to the sick old white supremacist -- but I suspect he simply thought he was receiving some assistance from someone he thought was obligated to render it: the supremacists are a strange bunch of psychologically disoriented ingrates
Lancero
(3,003 posts)It's that exact line of thinking which has played a part in recent AA deaths in America.
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)Lancero
(3,003 posts)"Let the piece of shit die"
"Let the animal die"
Got any more cop logic you want to pass off?
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Really, that anyone would wish death on anyone. Clearly, that police officer has moral standards that you would not even recognize.
smh
cwydro
(51,308 posts)If you came upon an accident scene, would you interrogate anyone who was injured as to their political beliefs before you helped them?
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)him.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)do not let racists affect your humanity
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Very sad to read comments like that here.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)it is very sad indeed
Uncle Joe
(58,362 posts)Thanks for the thread, struggle4progress.
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,477 posts)It would be nice if so, but it probably didn't happen.