where this controversy surrounds is in this music video, which you can see part of here, there are clips, it s filled with them of crimes, protests, riots, and some of those scenes are from the black lives matter demonstrations a few years ago. jason aldean says that might fly in the city, try that in a small town. well, this week, cmt, country music television, stopped areaing that air aing that video. partly since the courthouse where the video was filmed was the site of a race riot in the 1940s and where a mob hanged a young black man in 1927. that controversy is playing out a whole lot differently here at the country thunder music festival where fans said anyone who s from a small town where you know your neighbors, those folks know exactly whattal dean s song is about. yes, there s violence in every town, but i don t think he s pronoting violence. promoting violence. look at what s happening in all these big cities, and you re