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Cin · 09-22-2016, 12:59 PM

Huffington Post refers to Glenn Reynolds the USA Today columnist and University of Texas law professor who tweeted for people to run down protesters blocking a highway in North Carolina as a conservative, but he identifies as a libertarian. People are protesting the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott. It seems kind of drastic to advocate running people down for exercising their first amendment rights.

Here is the article in Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0e80b1ba06a85

USA Today Columnist Urges Motorists To ‘Run Down’ Protesters On North Carolina Highway
Twitter suspended the account of Glenn Reynolds after the inflammatory comment.

Conservative USA Today columnist and University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds caused an uproar on Twitter when he urged motorists to drive over protesters blocking a highway in North Carolina.

“Run them down,” Reynolds, who also produces the Instapundit website, tweeted late Wednesday with an image of the protesters on I-277.

Twitter suspended the account, but The Huffington Post preserved a screenshot of the tweet:

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