What does this have to do with the article?

Please don't lob drive-by inflammatory comments into discussion threads on Hacker News, it ruins them for everyone.

I think it's relevant given that the subject of this post was people boycotting someone for supporting Trump.

Not that I think Trump is a good person, but it's worth remembering the double standards that allow the left to feel morally superior even as they act "deplorably".

Criminals I tell you. /s

For all those that don't know about the geography of Charlotte, NC the city exists along the North Carolina/South Carolina border.

https://mecksheriffweb.mecklenburgcountync.gov/Arrest/Detail... Rock City, SC resident. Reason for arrest: FAIL TO DISPERSE ON COMMAND

In fact it's not 70% out of town but more like 70% Charlotte residents and 30% surrounding areas. The citizens of Charlotte and the surrounding areas are the rioters violent or not.

>“I didn’t quote facts,” Todd Walther, spokesman for the Charlotte/Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police told the Observer on Friday.[1]

I think it's important that this fact is known. The Union Official who does not represent the Charlotte Police Department is trying to frame it as Charlotte versus the outside agitators.

[1] http://fair.org/home/far-right-runs-with-outside-agitator-li...

Good info, thanks.

Now what about the people starting fires and assaulting people?