14 Wounded in Mass Shooting Outside Chicago Funeral Home as Mayor Lightfoot Publicly Rejects Trump’s Help
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At least 14 people are injured following a mass shooting outside of a funeral home in Chicago in yet another act of violence that has been plaguing the city. The incident coincides with Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) publicly rejecting President Trump’s assistance.
Chicago Police First Deputy Supt. Eric Carter confirmed that at least 14 were wounded in Chicago Tuesday evening after suspects in a black vehicle fired at a crowd outside of a funeral home in the city’s Gresham neighborhood:
Multiple people shot at 79th/CarpenterSpoke with people here who said they were inside a funeral home when the shots started.Spoke to a woman who had blood on her jeans. She didnt know whose blood it was.I’m told The funeral was for a shooting victim. @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/Aun75y7VZk— Charlie De Mar (@CharlieDeMar) July 22, 2020
CBS Chicago reported:
Chicago Police First Deputy Supt. Eric Carter said a black vehicle was heading west on 79th Street at 6:30 p.m., when people inside began firing at attendees of a funeral. The funeral was taking place at a funeral home at 1018 W. 79th St.The attendees of the funeral began firing back at the vehicle, which turned north on Carpenter Street and kept firing at people from the funeral before crashing midway down the block.The occupants got out and fled in multiple directions, Carter said.
The victims’ conditions were not immediately known, although there are reports of several victims in critical condition:
Police sources on scene tell @cbschicago at least 9-people in critical conditionAt least one person in custody pic.twitter.com/urcOlHvln5— Charlie De Mar (@CharlieDeMar) July 22, 2020
The funeral service was for Donnie Weathersby,31, shot and killed Tuesday 7-14 at Stewart/74th. pic.twitter.com/ar6kpvIYiu— Charlie De Mar (@CharlieDeMar) July 22, 2020
On Tuesday evening, Chicago Mayor Lightfoot publicly lambasted the president’s move to assist her city, which has experienced a surge of violence in recent days.
“Under no circumstances will I allow Donald Trump’s troops to come to Chicago and terrorize our residents,” she declared:
Under no circumstances will I allow Donald Trump’s troops to come to Chicago and terrorize our residents.— Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) July 21, 2020
Her defiant declaration followed reports of Trump’s decision to send 150 federal law enforcement agents to the Windy City as part of a greater effort to help curb the violence gripping the area.
Trump told reporters on Monday:
How about Chicago? I read the numbers were many people killed over the weekend. We’re looking at Chicago too. We’re looking at New York. Look at what’s going on. All run by Democrats, all run by very liberal Democrats. All run, really, by radical left.I’m going to do something — that, I can tell you. Because we’re not going to let New York and Chicago and Philadelphia and Detroit and Baltimore and all of these — Oakland is a mess. We’re not going to let this happen in our country. All run by liberal Democrats.
Michelle Malkin beaten by BLM thugs and prevented from speaking at Denver pro-police rally
Conservative author and activist Michelle Malkin was brutally assaulted and prevented from speaking as she made her way to the speaker's platform at a pro-police public rally in downtown Denver on Sunday. The patriotic event, the 6th Annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Day billed as "family friendly," was advertised in advance on social media including at Malkin's Twitter, where she has 2.2 million followers.
Michelle Malkin @michellemalkinThere are talkers. There are doers. Which one are you? Coloradans: Join @randycorporon @Casper4Colorado @stevereams me & many other patriots downtown Denver 3pm TOMORROW for 6th annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. NOW MORE THAN EVER. (Hi @jaredpolis)
Advertisement for the Denver pro-police event on social media.
Malkin was live-streaming the event from her cell phone on Periscope Sunday afternoon as the situation deteriorated after masked thugs wearing Black Lives Matter t-shirts assaulted two speakers and then set upon Malkin. A diminutive child of immigrants from the Philippines who legally moved to the U.S. in the late 1960s, Malkin, who was born in Philadelphia in 1970, describes herself as a "little brown woman" with a "big mouth." Malkin linked to the entire 35-minute long Periscope video at her Twitter feed.
On the video, which had been viewed over 150,000 times by early Monday, several individuals identifying themselves as Black Lives Matter accost Malkin as one or more of them unfurl collapsible batons and begin pushing and beating on Malkin. In the process, she loses a shoe and is eventually assisted in escaping to a waiting car by the event's security volunteers, at which point the video feed ends. Malkin was understandably distraught at this unanticipated violent turn of events and expressed frustration that Denver police, who were visibly present in the area, did nothing to stop the attacks or to allow the peaceful pro-police rally to continue.
At 3:55 P.M. MDT Sunday, right after being prevented from speaking, Malkin tweeted:
So @jaredpolis [Colorado Democrat Governor] @DenverPolice [Denver] Chief Pazen, are you ok with pro-police patriots being swarmed, targeted and assaulted in a clearly orchestrated attack??? I caught it all on video and recorded the faces of the brutal animals. Please @realDonaldTrump – we need LAW & ORDER!!! S.O.S!
Screen grab from 31 minutes into Malkin’s Periscope video.
Her description: "This was me shouting at masked BLM/Antifa thugs who swarmed our stage UNPROVOKED. This was me after witnessing a veteran & an organizer who had just led group prayer getting beaten on stage while police did nothing. This was me shouting at masked Antifa wielding a baton." Source: Michelle Malkin’s Twitter.
Hours later, Malkin spent late Sunday night into Monday morning on her Twitter account, issuing a variety of tweets describing what happened as she linked to video clips that documented the events.
Michelle Malkin @michellemalkinThis is the moment the Antifa thugs bum-rushed the stage. I filmed the guy with the huge longboard that pro-police organizer Ron McLaughlin was beaten with just minutes after praying.
Michelle Malkin @michellemalkinHere's where BLM bitches attacked several women on stage. We were sprayed in our faces w/aerosol string, which @kyleclark thinks is hilarious. BLM girl takes off mask & lays hand on woman in front of me as I shout at her to get back.
Michelle Malkin @michellemalkinThis is the moment one of our people was beaten on stage by invading BLM/Antifa. Then BlackBloc lady took out baton. That's why I screamed @kyleclark. The crap BLM bitch sprayed in my face was still all over me.
Malkin took special aim at a local Denver television news reporter who described the BLM "protesters" as meeting the pro-police rally with "opposing free speech."
Michelle Malkin @michellemalkinOpposing “speech?” Why don’t you post the screengrab of the masked Antifa militiawoman wielding a collapsible baton at me or the bloodied organizer on stage beaten with a bullhorn & longboard @KyleClark – you think this is funny?? You are a sick man.
Ken Cuccinelli, the senior official performing the duties of the deputy secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (AKA acting deputy secretary of DHS), took note of the events in a response to a tweet by Portland, Oregon conservative journalist and documentarian Andy Ngô.
Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli@HomelandKenOutrageous violence. These tyrannical, left-wing anarchists hate free speech. If you do not agree with them, they believe you must be beaten down – literally.
Until recently, violence of this kind to suppress conservative free speech was largely limited to the nation's leftist-dominated college campuses. Obviously, a new page has now been turned as many of America's leading cities — all of them under Democrat party control — have abandoned enforcing laws big and small. The expression of free speech is now openly threatened off the campuses. Which one of the Bill of Rights will be next?
Michelle Malkin speaks at an event in Greenville, South Carolina February 18, 2016.
Photo by Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 3.0.
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I’m a Law Professor. Here’s What
Happened After I Spoke Out on Black Lives Matter.
During
his July 4, 2020, speech at Mount Rushmore, President Donald Trump
referred to the “political weapon” of “cancel culture,” describing it as
“driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total
submission from anyone who disagrees.”
I’m a Law Professor. Here’s What
Happened After I Spoke Out on Black Lives Matter.
Cancel culture has nothing to do with criticism or debate, and
everything to do with silencing opposition so there is no debate. Pictured: A
protester holds a sign at a rally in Court Square in Springfield,
Massachusetts, July 13. (Photo: Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe/Getty Images)
William A.
Jacobson, the founder and publisher of Legal Insurrection, is a clinical
professor of law and director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law
School.
Trump’s
cancel culture reference was scorned by liberal media outlets such as The New
York Times, calling such “culture war” comments a “straw-man version of the left.” Similarly, liberal
writer Judd Legum dismissed claims of “cancel culture” as “something
that does not exist.”
Yet
cancel culture is very real, and it’s getting worse with the increased power of
the Black Lives Matter movement. There are numerous documented examples of people being
investigated or losing their jobs for criticizing Black Lives Matter’s origins
or tactics.
Even
left-of-center authors and professors, in an open letter in Harper’s Magazine, decried the growing “intolerance of
opposing views [and] a vogue for public shaming and ostracism … ” They too were
met with denials that cancel culture was a real
problem.
This
cancel culture has nothing to do with criticism or debate, and everything to do
with silencing opposition so there is no debate. I know. I’m going through it
now over my criticisms of Black Lives Matter.
I
am a clinical professor of law at Cornell Law School. In January 2008, I
founded the Cornell Securities Law Clinic, focusing on investment disputes, a popular
and important niche for students seeking to work in the corporate world.
In
October 2008, I founded the Legal Insurrection, a conservative law and
politics website. My non-left-wing politics, though separate from my teaching,
sometimes led to attacks on my job. There were threats, harassment, and demands
I be fired for the first several years of the website, but those always came
from off campus—until now.
That
all changed when I wrote two blog posts the first week of June 2020,
criticizing Black Lives Matter as riots and looting spread around the country
after the death of George Floyd. Now, I am facing cancel culture from within
the law school.
In one blog post, I documented how the “Hands up! Don’t
shoot!” founding narrative of Black Lives Matter was fabricated after the
shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. Even the Obama
Justice Department found that Brown was shot after attacking a police
officer, and did not have his hands raised in surrender or say, “Don’t shoot.”
Yet
to this day, I pointed out, Black Lives Matter protesters chant, “Hands up!
Don’t shoot!”
I wrote a second blog post harshly criticizing the riots and
looting. I argued that such violence reflected a movement “led by
anti-American, anti-capitalist activists … [who] have concocted a false
narrative of mass murder of Blacks at the hands of police, when the statistics
show otherwise.” I called on the federal government to track down “people who
helped coordinate the violence.”
Whether
people at Cornell agreed with my off-campus politics is beside the point. The
purpose of education, particularly law school education, is to be able to
debate the merits of arguments and through that debate come to a better
understanding. But that is not what happened.
The
response was a paradigm of cancel culture. There was a coordinated email and
petition campaign by alumni to get me fired.
A group
of 21 of my colleagues in the clinical program then denounced me in a letter to The Cornell Daily Sun student newspaper.
While my name was not used in the letter, it was shared with students in
advance of publication as a denunciation of me.
The
letter falsely accused me of supporting “institutionalized racism and violence”
and threatened to “continue to expose and respond to racism masquerading as
informed commentary.”
Not
one of the 21 signatories, some of whom had been my colleagues for more than a
decade and I considered friends, approached me with any concerns before running
to the school newspaper and sharing their letter with students. It was
reminiscent of so many revolutionary movements, where friends and neighbors
rush to denounce each other.
George
Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, hardly a political
conservative, criticized my colleagues, writing that their
letter was “a chilling reminder of the rapid loss of free speech values on
campuses,” not allowing that “critics of these protests could have anything
other than racist motivations.”
Turley
noted the intimidation factor, since “[t]o be labelled as a racist is
devastating to an academic career and these professors know that … It is not
just the death of free speech but our intellectual mission on university and
college campuses.”
The dean
of Cornell Law School also denounced me in an institutional statement that promised no adverse employment
action because of my academic freedom and job security, but gratuitously found
that my writings “do not reflect the values of Cornell Law School” as the dean
has “articulated them.”
The
administration never gave me an opportunity to be heard on that damaging
accusation, much less a process to challenge it. That statement serves as a
warning to unprotected faculty, staff, and students who may disagree with Black
Lives Matter to keep their views to themselves.
Student
groups have also joined this cancel culture. A coalition of about a dozen
student clubs are boycotting my course and called on other students to do the
same. They effectively have created a virtual picket line other students must
cross. One of the groups even called on the law school “to critically examine
the views of the individuals they intend to employ,” reflecting a desire for
uniformity of opinion.
I offered
to publicly debate a student representative and a faculty member of their
choice, but that offer was rejected. They don’t want to criticize me. They want
to silence criticism of Black Lives Matter.
While
I refuse to be silenced, others are not able to risk such career pressure.
Although
I am the target, students and free expression are the real victims.
I have received many emails from students telling me that I have a lot of
“quiet” support among students, but that they are afraid to speak up for fear
of the professional or social consequences. Cancel culture has created this
atmosphere of fear and intimidation.
Trump was right about cancel culture, and so were the Harper’s letter signatories. Cancel culture is real and
getting worse due to Black Lives Matter orthodoxy.
Originally
published by RealClearPolitics
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