“Get the hell out of my yard, assholes.”
--Charlotte, NC, homeowner Rheba Hamilton, driving off Customs & Border Protection officers who had accosted two landscapers hanging Christmas lights on her property
Also a partial political reason behind the invasion of masked, beefy men who seem to enjoy their work roughing up people, breaking car windows, and disrupting commercial life: The Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, Garry McFadden was "one of five sheriff candidates, all Black Democrats in urban North Carolina counties, who won office in 2018 after campaign pledges to end cooperation with federal immigration enforcement."
Add to that clear provocation for putting a Black sheriff in his place the grotesque, on-camera killing of Iryna Zarutska last August by a deranged Black man on the city’s light rail, and you've got the perfect set of symbols for armed racial profiling.
Stay strong, Charlotte.
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