KKK Hooligan Being Saved By African American Cop Pic Goes Viral [See Picture]

By R. Siva Kumar - 20 Jul '15 10:35AM

A touching video became viral recently---a black cop in South Carolina lent a helping hand to a KKK member suffering from heat exhaustion, according to opposingviews.

In a white supremacist rally at the State House in Columbia, South Carolina, the police officer Leroy Smith helped a protester who was suffering from heat exhaustion to move up the stairs and come out of the sun. He was wearing a National Socialist movement t-shirt.

The photo, provided to the Associated Press by photographer Rob Godfrey, went viral Saturday night. It was retweeted 20,000 times. It was also posted into Reddit, and drew much applause that he had helped a KKK in the midst of a racial atmosphere. "This is how you beat racism, slowly, with grace," one viewer wrote on Reddit. "Not by banning the right to say hateful things but by proving them wrong."

"You utterly destroy an enemy when you make them your friend," another added.

"This is why smart folk say, "I haven't the energy to hate."

Time wrote: "The most memorable image of a Ku Klux Klan rally in South Carolina Saturday undercut the group's mission."

The rally of the the Ku Klux Klan was protesting against the removal of the Confederate flag, while on the south side of the statehouse, Black Educators for Justice, in Florida, was staging a counter-protest, according to theindependent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-police-chief-helps-protester-in-nazi-tshirt-at-kkk-protest-with-heatstroke-10399604.html

As several fights erupted, the police intervened. Many people were shot carrying Confederate flags, which was a symbol of the slave owning south states during the American Civil War. They were spotted shouting racist slogans next to the Black Educators.