South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) said that the unrest across the country after the deaths of unarmed black men by police officers was hurting, not helping African Americans.
“Black lives do matter and they have been disgracefully jeopardized by the movement that has laid waste to Ferguson and Baltimore,” Haley said, speaking at the National Press Club in Washington Wednesday.
In her remarks, Haley — a daughter of Indian immigrants — contrasted the way her state handled two national headline-making, racially charged events with the protests prompted by the deaths of unarmed black men by police hands in New York, Baltimore, and Ferguson, Missouri.
“In all three of those cases, there was civil unrest at truly awful levels. The riots in Ferguson and Baltimore were senseless. You know what? Black lives do matter,” Haley said. “Most of the people killed or injured in the riots in Ferguson and Baltimore were black. Think about it. Most of the small business or social service institutions that were destroyed and looted in Ferguson and Baltimore were either black owned, or served heavily black populations. Most of the people who now live in terror because local police are too intimidated to do their jobs are black. Black lives do matter and they have been disgracefully jeopardized by the movement that has laid waste to Ferguson and Baltimore.”
She touted how South Carolina handled the shooting of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, by a police officer, by passing a state wide body camera law as well as the state’s decision to remove the Confederate flag from its capitol grounds after the shooting of nine African-Americans at a Charleston, S.C. church.
“In South Carolina we did things differently,” Haley said.
Another anchor baby governor speaks.
The movement that laid waste - would that be cops shooting unarmed men? Because that is the precipitating event.
Yeah, because Baltimore and Ferguson were shiny cities on the hill before #BLM. Everyone was happy, cheery, and holding hands on the corner singing their joyful songs…unless they didn’t make eye contact with the police, or did make eye contact, or jaywalked…
Yes, Nikki was a grudging participant not an actor until late in the game…so, sit down.
Troll troll troll. Clementa Pinckney and his murdered parishoners barely cold and Nicki’s back to race-baiting.
Is it actually accurate to say that anyone died in the Baltimore or Ferguson riots? I know there were adjacent shootings of alleged criminals by police, but I don’t recall anyone dying because a burning building collapsed or anything. Not that Haley’s ilk would ever be bothered with facts, but y’know, TPM could perform a service here by fact-checking the spew.