Glenn Reynolds, a conservative USA Today columnist and University of Tennessee law professor known by the moniker Instapundit, was suspended from Twitter on Wednesday for urging drivers to hit protesters blocking a highway in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Reynolds tweeted a link to a live video stream of demonstrators stopping traffic on I-277 during the chaotic second day of protests over the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott. His comment read “Run them down.”
Twitter suspended his account shortly after the tweet went up and outraged commenters accused Reynolds, who also runs the Instapundit website, of inciting violence. Several users preserved screenshots of the tweet.
Wednesday’s protest began as a prayer vigil in downtown Charlotte but became more volatile later in the evening, with one protester hospitalized in critical condition with a gunshot wound and camera crews getting knocked down during live shots. Police fired tear gas and flash grenades at protesters in the city’s downtown.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) has declared a state of emergency in Charlotte.
Lose his twitter account? He should be fired from his job as tenured professor at a public university.
We don’t want taxpayer money supporting people who incite murder!
I hope UTenn is deluged with complaints over Reynold’s remarks.
… heh, indeedy.
It’s right there in the Constitution. You have the right to free speech and assembly, unless you inconvenience me, and then I can kill you.
I forget, perhaps a conservative can remind me: what part of the Bible says its OK to run down women and children in the streets? Is it Two Corinthians?
This guy is from my town and went to high school here. He’s fairly sharp on nano-technology issues, but is a pretentious jackass on political matters. This is the original “instapundit” who used to circulate neo-con pro-Iraq War blogs with “Indeed”. He regularly confuses contrarianism with intelligence. Note that his comment was not in response to actual rioting in the street, but to peaceful protest along a highway. I guess he could only hold back his inner redneck so far.
White people can’t incite riots. It is in the Trump Constitution.