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| Black police chief helps protester in Nazi T-shirt at KKK protest with heatstroke | |
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| A picture of a black police chief helping a man wearing a swastika T-shirt suffering from heatstroke during a KKK rally at the South Carolina has gone viral. | A picture of a black police chief helping a man wearing a swastika T-shirt suffering from heatstroke during a KKK rally at the South Carolina has gone viral. |
| The picture of Leroy Smith, the director of the South Carolina Department of Public Safety, showing compassion to a man wearing a swastika T-shirt and protesting against a decision to remove the Confederate flag has been retweeted over 2,000 times since it was shared on Twitter: | The picture of Leroy Smith, the director of the South Carolina Department of Public Safety, showing compassion to a man wearing a swastika T-shirt and protesting against a decision to remove the Confederate flag has been retweeted over 2,000 times since it was shared on Twitter: |
| not an uncommon example of humanity in SC: Leroy Smith helps white supremacist to shelter & water as heat bears down. pic.twitter.com/GoF23r3mRe | not an uncommon example of humanity in SC: Leroy Smith helps white supremacist to shelter & water as heat bears down. pic.twitter.com/GoF23r3mRe |
| Commenting on the picture, Twitter users praised Mr Smith for rising above the hatred and the bigotry: | Commenting on the picture, Twitter users praised Mr Smith for rising above the hatred and the bigotry: |
| @bijancbayne @RobGodfrey @robgreeneII This kindness chokes me up. How do SC people find that well of caring in the midst of so much hatred? | @bijancbayne @RobGodfrey @robgreeneII This kindness chokes me up. How do SC people find that well of caring in the midst of so much hatred? |
| .@RobGodfrey @robgreeneII This is why smart folk say, "I haven't the energy to hate." | .@RobGodfrey @robgreeneII This is why smart folk say, "I haven't the energy to hate." |
| @imraansiddiqi @RobGodfrey I hope he changes his ways after this episode of humanity at its finest. Well done to the police officer. | @imraansiddiqi @RobGodfrey I hope he changes his ways after this episode of humanity at its finest. Well done to the police officer. |
| I would do the same as the police officer! Love conquers all! "Black police officer, assisting KKK member, after heat stroke" | I would do the same as the police officer! Love conquers all! "Black police officer, assisting KKK member, after heat stroke" |
| Lets take a moment to respect and try to be more like this black police officer helping a KKK member with sun stroke. pic.twitter.com/qsztGcEMEH | Lets take a moment to respect and try to be more like this black police officer helping a KKK member with sun stroke. pic.twitter.com/qsztGcEMEH |
| The picture was taken as three people were arrested during two separate protests outside the South Carolina statehouse in the state capital Columbia on Saturday. | The picture was taken as three people were arrested during two separate protests outside the South Carolina statehouse in the state capital Columbia on Saturday. |
| The Ku Klux Klan protested the removal of the Confederate flag and on the south side of the statehouse Black Educators for Justice, based in Florida, staged a counter protest. | The Ku Klux Klan protested the removal of the Confederate flag and on the south side of the statehouse Black Educators for Justice, based in Florida, staged a counter protest. |
| Police were quick to intervene as several fights broke out. | Police were quick to intervene as several fights broke out. |
| Several people were spotted carrying Confederate flags, the symbol of the slave owning south states during the American Civil War, and shouting racist slogans alongside the Black Educators protest. | Several people were spotted carrying Confederate flags, the symbol of the slave owning south states during the American Civil War, and shouting racist slogans alongside the Black Educators protest. |
| The SC department of public safety estimated about 2,000 people were at the statehouse in total. South Carolina has become the centrepoint of the debate over the use of the Confederate flag after white supremacist Dylann Roof shot nine people dead in a Charleston church last month. | The SC department of public safety estimated about 2,000 people were at the statehouse in total. South Carolina has become the centrepoint of the debate over the use of the Confederate flag after white supremacist Dylann Roof shot nine people dead in a Charleston church last month. |
| South Carolina governor Nikki Haley urged Columbia residents not too go near the KKK rally, adding that doing would honour the memory of Roof’s victims. | South Carolina governor Nikki Haley urged Columbia residents not too go near the KKK rally, adding that doing would honour the memory of Roof’s victims. |
| Additional reporting by AP | Additional reporting by AP |