As Twitchy reported, hundreds of protesters in Charlotte, N.C., briefly shut down part of I-85 late Tuesday night following the fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott that afternoon by a police officer. At least a dozen officers were reported injured during the protests, as demonstrators threw objects and surrounded police cruisers.

While protesters at first converged near the site of the shooting, others headed for a nearby Walmart well after midnight, where they continued their “protest.”

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To the untrained eye, yes, it might look like looting, or at least attempted looting, but these are trained journalists.

Looting isn’t a form of protest? That’s some 2008 thinking right there.

Remember just last month when the sister of a man shot in Milwaukee made her “call for peace” on CNN, admonishing protesters for looting and burning a local beauty supply store (“We need our sh*t! We need our weaves.”) and urging them to “take that sh*t to the suburbs” instead?

Looting can be protest, as long as it’s done in the proper place.

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