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Two dead and 12 wounded in shooting at Juneteenth celebrations in North Carolina where five partygoers were hit by cars 'while fleeing gunmen and at least 70 shots were fired'
UK Daily Mail ^ | June 22, 2020 | Lauren Fruen and Jack Elsom

Posted on 06/22/2020 6:18:22 AM PDT by C19fan

Two people were shot dead and 12 others wounded at Juneteenth celebrations in North Carolina Sunday night. Five of those injured were hit by cars while running from the gunfire, which scattered the large crowds around midnight at an 'impromptu block party' in Charlotte. Cops arrived on Beatties Ford Road in northern Charlotte to find hundreds of people in the street. One woman was pronounced dead at the scene, a second victim died later at the hospital.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: black; murder
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To: C19fan

“ Five of those injured were hit by cars while running from the gunfire”

NPR will be along shortly to let us all know the drivers were “far right wingers”.


41 posted on 06/22/2020 8:46:48 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
"Black Lives Splatter"

LOL!! Can I steal that??

42 posted on 06/22/2020 9:14:57 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: MrChips

That’s an overwhelmingly Black part of town. If the shooters were White it would have been emblazoned all over the headlines.


43 posted on 06/22/2020 9:47:34 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: C19fan
I try to stop at the Mecklenburg county line these days

Beyond that line? Here, there be dragons.

44 posted on 06/22/2020 10:25:50 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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To: mass55th

Sure! Bail me outta jail in the future when I need for using it.


45 posted on 06/22/2020 12:26:58 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
"Sure! Bail me outta jail in the future when I need for using it."

You got it, but we might end up in the same jail cell, then what?

46 posted on 06/22/2020 12:32:43 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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