Black Police Chief Helps Neo-Nazi in SC

[jln]

He is a much better person than I would be.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-police-chief-helps-protester-in-nazi-tshirt-at-kkk-protest-with-heatstroke-10399604.html

A picture of a black police chief helping a man wearing a swastika T-shirt suffering from heatstroke during a KKK rally at the South Carolina has gone viral.



The picture of Leroy Smith, the director of the South Carolina Department of Public Safety, showing compassion to a man wearing a swastika T-shirt and protesting against a decision to remove the Confederate flag has been retweeted over 2,000 times since it was shared on Twitter:

Commenting on the picture, Twitter users praised Mr Smith for rising above the hatred and the bigotry:

The picture was taken as three people were arrested during two separate protests outside the South Carolina statehouse in the state capital Columbia on Saturday.



The Ku Klux Klan protested the removal of the Confederate flag and on the south side of the statehouse Black Educators for Justice, based in Florida, staged a counter protest.



Police were quick to intervene as several fights broke out.



Several people were spotted carrying Confederate flags, the symbol of the slave owning south states during the American Civil War, and shouting racist slogans alongside the Black Educators protest.

The SC department of public safety estimated about 2,000 people were at the statehouse in total. South Carolina has become the centrepoint of the debate over the use of the Confederate flag after white supremacist Dylann Roof shot nine people dead in a Charleston church last month.



South Carolina governor Nikki Haley urged Columbia residents not too go near the KKK rally, adding that doing would honour the memory of Roof’s victims.

[meltoine]

Damn.

Good for you, Officer Smith.

I'd like to know what the KKK guy is thinking here. I'd like to hope it changed his mind a little, but I doubt it.

[sfy]

Jul 19, 2015 20:57:36 GMT -5 meltoine said:

Damn.

Good for you, Officer Smith.

I'd like to know what the KKK guy is thinking here. I'd like to hope it changed his mind a little, but I doubt it.

I doubt it, too.  It isn't like racists don't know that there are good black people in the world, they just don't care.  All the kindness shown to him during that Bible study didn't stop Roof from killing those people and I doubt it will make this asshole change his mind.  Chief Smith is far nicer than I, because this guy could have passed out and died for all I cared.  His old ass should be sitting in the shade somewhere, but he's too busy protesting for hate.  Idiot.

[iammalcolmx]

Another example of how I ain't shit.

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Jul 19, 2015 20:57:36 GMT -5 meltoine said:

Damn.

Good for you, Officer Smith.

I'd like to know what the KKK guy is thinking here. I'd like to hope it changed his mind a little, but I doubt it.

Yeah probably not.

This reminds me of one of the stories my dad told me about racism growing up in Baltimore.

Once a little old white lady fell getting off the bus, so my dad rushed over to help pick her up from the ground. Her response was "get your n***er hands off me, n****er!"

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Jul 20, 2015 9:34:45 GMT -5 sfy said:

Jul 19, 2015 20:57:36 GMT -5 meltoine said:

Damn.

Good for you, Officer Smith.

I'd like to know what the KKK guy is thinking here. I'd like to hope it changed his mind a little, but I doubt it.

I doubt it, too.  It isn't like racists don't know that there are good black people in the world, they just don't care.  All the kindness shown to him during that Bible study didn't stop Roof from killing those people and I doubt it will make this asshole change his mind.  Chief Smith is far nicer than I, because this guy could have passed out and died for all I cared.  His old ass should be sitting in the shade somewhere, but he's too busy protesting for hate.  Idiot.

Dying at his old ass should be sitting in the shade somewhere. Truth.