North Carolina police chief ousted after criticism of Black Lives Matter

[Yahoo! News]

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - A North Carolina police chief said he was forced to retire after he described the Black Lives Matter movement as "an American-born terrorist group" in a post on his personal Facebook page this month. The town council in coastal Surf City approved Police Chief Mike Halstead's retirement during an emergency meeting on Tuesday, the Star News reported. The Black Lives Matter movement gained fresh momentum last year after the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

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