NAACP To Make Sure Police Don’t Violate Rights At Violence Plagued Black Bike Week In South Carolina
Brian Anderson
May 23, 2015
Every year for Memorial Day weekend, thousands of black motorcycle enthusiasts (don’t call them thugs) descend upon Myrtle Beach, SC for Black Bike Week. Each year, the violence perpetrated by participants of this event seems to escalate. Last year, there were a rash of fights, shootings, and property destruction (don’t call it a riot). In an effort to make things worse this year, the NAACP is going to monitor the police to ensure they do not violate the rights of any black bikers.
WMPF reports that the NAACP held a news conference this week announcing their anti-law enforcement agenda:
Local, state and national representatives for the NAACP held a news conference at 5 p.m. Thursday to unveil plans to monitor police and other activity during the Memorial Day Bikefest weekend.
“We don’t want legitimate public safety issues to become a gateway to racial animosity and prejudice,” said Anson Asaka, with the NAACP Headquarters.
Asaka along with several others are in town to keep a close eye on Bikefest 2015.
While Asaka has no problem with blacks shooting each other, he does find white people protecting themselves and their property quite troubling:
The group usually spends the weekend in Myrtle Beach, but new law enforcement tactics and recent national incidents have the group keeping an even closer watch. Asaka says things like the traffic loop, barricades, and increased police and private security presence are worrisome.
The groups is also hoping to get the public to video police officers in hopes of catching abuse:
Since the NAACP can’t be on every street corner, the group is also encouraging folks to document as much as possible. So if any form of discrimination is happening in the city… the group can be ready to respond… as much as it hopes that isn’t the case.
The NACCP even set up a hotline where people can report law enforcement abuse.
To understand the trouble that comes along with Black Bike Week, we need only look at last year’s event in which 8 people were shot, three fatally, in 5 different shooting incidents. The violence was so bad that South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called for Black Bike Week to be cancelled, which of course was a racist thing and so it continues.
Black Bike week is such a problem that many local businesses have tried to close during the event. I say “tried” because the NAACP actually sued businesses like Denny’s and Red Lobster for racial discrimination for closing or cutting back their hours during Black Bike Week.
In response to the fact that many attendees trash their hotel rooms and leave with out paying, many hotels required guests to have proper ID and pre-pay for their stay. Once again, the NAACP thought this was racist and sued in federal court.
When asked about the violence that plagues Black Bike Week, NAACP’s Asaka said he was more concerned about “unfair targeting and profiling” by police.
It’s nice that the NAACP has put so much effort into ensuring that black people get to act like lawless jerks. I’m sure Martin Luther Kings Jr. was thinking that blacks should be free to destroy private property and kill each other when he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.
One thing is for sure: if any fights break out between black bikers, the Myrtle Beach police won’t open fire on them the way officers did on white bikers in Waco, TX.
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