The pokestop was fine until that ONE night. The knockout game wasn't even a real issue around here like it was 3 years ago. One person playing pokemon go got hit, now the same people who were on the opposite end of the park 4 years ago protesting another gun issue where they claimed Obama was gonna take their guns, they show back up.
Maybe a little more background. The source that reported this used a picture of black youths to represent the knock out game players. A couple of years ago, a running/bicycle path called the Swamp Rabbit Trail was in the news for "thugs" attacking people. The trail runs from downtown to Furman University, cutting right through a couple of very poor neighborhoods. The gun nuts got in an uproar and assumed the criminals were black because it couldn't have possibly been poor white kids or any other group. Just black kids. The gun people made asses of themselves on national news blaming Obama for empowering thug culture instead of looking at the local government for putting easy targets, joggers and cyclers, people who are generally unarmed or minimally armed, right in the middle of a secluded area of these historically poor neighborhoods.
Every time they catch one of these "thugs" it is almost always teen aged white kids or a white meth head in his 20s or 30s. Regardless of this, the paper used on their FB page a picture of a group of black youths in a public place near DT. The gun people showed up, not to act as guardians but to get attention and place blame everywhere else.
In the cases where they catch black youths it is unrelated to the issue which was being spotlighted.
As of right now they still haven't caught anyone and the P-GO players have dwindled from that particular pokestop. Please don't take this as an indictment on all gun owners. The ones protesting are the same ones who are still flying Confederate battle flags on their trucks.