Three hours on a Sunday afternoon.
It’s not much in the grand scheme of things, and everyone in Charlotte has been thinking about the grand scheme of things a lot this past week.
We lost our city for awhile. Glass broke. Looters struck. Fear reigned. Police suited up in riot gear and used tear gas to disperse crowds violently protesting the death of an African-American man killed by an African-American police officer.
The Carolina Panthers host the Minnesota Vikings at 1 p.m. Sunday in Charlotte, and to describe such a game as “significant” or a “must-win” sounds hollow in the wake of the Charlotte police protests.