'I didn't quote facts': Charlotte police official walks back statement on protesters

[deminks]

http://www.businessinsider.com/i-didnt-quote-facts-charlotte-police-official-walks-back-statement-on-protesters-2016-9

A representative for Charlotte, North Carolina’s Fraternal Order of Police said he "didn't quote facts" Friday when he stated the majority of protesters arrested in this week's demonstrations were from out of state, The Charlotte Observer reported.

"If you go back and look at some of the arrests that were made [late Wednesday into Thursday], I can about say probably 70 percent of those had out-of-state IDs," Todd Walther, the spokesman for the police organization, told CNN in an interview on Thursday.

In the interview, he referred to protesters as “instigators that are coming in from the outside.”

An independent analysis from the Observer found that 79 percent of the protesters arrested were in fact Charlotte residents. The rest lived in other parts of North Carolina such as Albemarle, Gastonia and Greensboro.

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CNN’s Erin Burnett called out by NC reporters for bungling Charlotte coverage

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/cnns-erin-burnett-called-out-by-nc-reporters-for-bungling-charlotte-coverage/

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This week it was CNN host Erin Burnett’s turn. The New Yorker didn’t even have to leave the comforts of her television study to earn the ire of protesters and local media. Burnett tweeted that her anonymous sources indicated that 70 percent of the protesters arrested in Charlotte “had out of state ID: ‘these are not protestors, these are criminals.'”

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But Charlotte Observer reporter Mike Persinger called BS, referring to one of their own stories that outlined the arrests.

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“A spokesman for Charlotte’s Fraternal Order of Police told CNN that 70 percent of the protesters arrested in Charlotte this week were from out-of-state,” the Charlotte Observer reported. “But he acknowledged Friday that his statement was nothing more than speculation. It was also inaccurate, according to a Charlotte Observer review of police reports.”

“I didn’t quote facts,” Todd Walther, spokesman for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police, explained. “It’s speculation. That’s all it was.”

Burnett’s tweet got over 4,000 retweets. As of publishing this story, she has yet to correct the tweet or tweet out new information about the arrests in Charlotte this week.

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Corporate agenda much?

[GeorgeGist]

1. Idiocracy!

[bulloney]

2. Anything to incite divisiveness in this country. Facts are not a priority.

That's why I don't consider our MSM any more credible than supermarket tabloids. They should be monitored but not taken seriously. They're just a tool of the corporate machine.

[Augiedog]

3. AGAIN, bad cop, NO doughnut

[jtuck004]

4. The name Erin Burnett now puts me in mind of these lyrics...

...I treat a man like he treats me. The difference between a hooker and a ho ain't nothin' but a fee
So hold your tongue tightly, wish you could be like me
...
I know exactly what you say when I turn and walk away
But that's ok cuz I don't let it get it to me...

One could replace man with audience...

It's a good video...

RIP Mark Haines

[BumRushDaShow]

5. This is why the media won't call out Trump

because as the "media" they delay investigating "facts" about any OTHER case either, and they will rarely if ever correct themselves in any meaningful and public way. That's why they call what they do "infotainment".

[wildeyed]

6. I don't watch corporate news about things like this anymore.

Learned that lesson during Ferguson. I go straight to citizen livestreams. Watched one from the Charlotte protests last night. The young man filming stops and points his phone at a cable news set up and says, Look, there is the cable news set up in front of the only loud and obnoxious group out here tonight, encouraging them to be even louder.

And that is pretty much the deal. They are so anxious to fill endless airtime and score ratings that they actually distort and influence the event.

I live in Charlotte. People from all over keep asking if I am OK. F'ing Facebook wants me to "check in safe" from the Charlotte protests. That is bizarre. The facts, two people died, both black men, both in close proximity to police officers. More people probably died in traffic fatalities during the same period, but we are not asking them to check in after their evening commute.

There was very limited looting on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. I own a business near the protest area and was not worried. I drove with my teenage daughter at night in that area this week. Not worried. My kids attended their majority black middle and high schools during that time. Not worried. Actually got a robocall from the HS principal that included a message about how proud he was of his students during this time. My daughter went to the football game at the HS last night where students planned a peaceful protest and I was not worried (well a little. There is a boyfriend now.....).

I trust my neighbors and community to work this out in a productive manner.

But the news media has ginned this up into some massive unrest that puts all law abiding people at risk and the police seem to be instrumental in instigating that narrative to justify their own brutality. Such bullshit.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

7. Another "not intended to be a factual statement"?

Why say it then, asshole?