By now, nearly everyone who has spent a few minutes scrolling through the news feeds is very aware of the Keith Lamont Scott shooting in Charlotte, NC yesterday afternoon and the violent reaction that Toni outlined here.

As I’ve noted in several places, those who spent last night trashing a Walmart, shutting down I 85, throwing bricks and rocks at cars, torching buildings and vehicles, and stealing cargo from semi trucks blockaded on the interstate are by no means “protestors.” No, they are CRIMINALS.

All of this started because of an incident involving a man getting shot by police yesterday afternoon. And the criminally violent reaction by the so-called “protestors” is ok, because Keith Lamont Scott was just innocently reading a book. He was? Really?

https://youtu.be/vf7uOYtiKAs

This essentially throws the narrative espoused by the lovely folks with Black Lives Matter along with the criminal protestors right out the window.

https://twitter.com/XTraceyAnn/status/778590548814954496

Ouch. But she’s right. Once again people dove off a cliff like lemmings after leaping to wrongheaded conclusions. Unfortunately for those criminal lemmings, those pesky facts say something COMPLETELY different.

CMPD chief Putney confirms a handgun was found at #KeithScott shooting scene. A book was not pic.twitter.com/XHZWrVTg5m

— Katie Peralta (@katieperalta) September 21, 2016

Not a book hmmm? So he wasn’t holding one of these?

Instead he was holding something along the lines of this.

See any similarities between the two? Yeah, I didn’t think so. And before anyone tries to say Scott wasn’t holding his book gun at any time during the encounter… about that.

One other thing just got clarified: #keithlamontscott had a handgun 2nd time he exited his car, not the first time, CMPD says

— Katie Peralta (@katieperalta) September 21, 2016

For those who are saying the cops didn’t tell Scott to drop his weapon? Might want to rethink that.

Charlotte police chief: Keith Lamont Scott exited his vehicle with a handgun despite officers' commands to drop the weapon. pic.twitter.com/Kv8X9RgNmK

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 21, 2016

Curses! The narrative got foiled again! But that won’t matter to those who have been enjoying their criminal “protest” rampage around the city.

They’ll likely continue to do the same tonight because the latest facts weren’t what they wanted to hear. Which certainly won’t make things any easier for the Charlotte PD, especially since the number of cops hospitalized with injuries has gone from 12 to 16 as of the press briefing this morning.

Make no mistake, anyone getting shot is never a good thing. But as with Ferguson, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, and now Charlotte, the facts and the unfortunate choices of the person who was shot continues to destroy the ‘cops are bad!’ narrative.