Monday, September 14, 2020

ANARCHY IN AMERICA - HORRIFIC SHOOTING OF TWO COPS IN COMPTON CA - Black Lives Matter & murder celebrates!

'We Hope They Die!'

Black Lives Matter mob blocks emergency room for L.A. County Sheriff’s deputies gunned down Saturday night.

 

Lloyd Billingsley

 

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On Saturday night, two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies stationed their patrol car near the Willowbrook Metro station in Compton. At approximately 7 p.m., a masked gunman appeared to walk past the vehicle then turned and fired multiple shots, hitting both deputies.

Fox News Los Angeles reporter Bill Melugin obtain video of the shooting and confirmed a “100 percent ambush. A man slowly creeps up to the vehicle like he’s stalking it, fires shots through the window.” The Sheriff’s department posted the video and Sheriff Alex Villanueva held a press conference wearing a bullet-proof vest.

The ambushed deputies were a 24-year-old male and a mother of 31, both recent additions to the department.  “I want everyone to have a prayer for them for their recovery at this time,” the sheriff told reporters. “This was a cowardly act,” Villanueva said, and “words have consequences,” a reference to anti-police rhetoric now raging in Los Angeles and across the country.

As Villanueva wrapped up, a mob confronted sheriff's deputies, with one member shouting “It’s a celebration! It’s a celebration!” Others taunted deputies and took videos with their phones. As this played out, the ambush victims encountered other conflict at St. Francis Hospital in Lynwood.

A Black Lives Matter mob assembled outside the hospital chanting “Death to police!” The mob blocked entrance to the hospital emergency room, where family members of the wounded officers were present. “I hope they fucking die,” one man yelled, with another adding “Y’all gonna die one by one. This ain’t gonna stop.”

As police struggled to disperse the mob, a woman ignored commands to stay back and interfered with an arrest. Unidentified in some reports, she turned out to be Jodie Huang a reporter for KPCC radio. Huang attended the sheriff’s press conference and did not identify herself as a reporter on arriving at the hospital.

KPCC is part of Southern California Public Radio, which proclaims, “as an organization we condemn systemic racism — and racism of any kind — and remain committed to reflecting the diverse communities we serve. With that in mind, we say the statement “Black Lives Matter” reinforces our commitment.”

In July, Huang tweeted, “Black Lives Matter is a spiritual movement,” and authored a report on a BLM action at the Federal Building in Los Angeles, in solidarity with rioters in Portland.

“Longtime activist Akili had this message for federal authorities,” Huang wrote, “Do not come to L.A.!” Black Lives Matter also used the event, “to remind protesters what they were fighting for in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by a police officer in Minneapolis, and to urge unity against President Trump, as well as fascism and capitalism.” Black Lives Matter activist Janaya Future Khan told followers, “See yourselves as the movement, not adjacent to it. You are the revolution.”

President Trump, in Nevada for a campaign event Saturday, retweeted the video of the ambush, adding that those who perpetrate such attacks are “Animals that must be hit hard!” California assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, a Democrat and African American, told  reporters, “this was an unprovoked, cowardly act. This individual will be caught.” Nick Hanna, U.S. Attorney for the California’s Central District, called the ambush “a cowardly and despicable act.”

Murdering police officers is standard practice for black radicals such as Joanne Chesimard of the Black Liberation Army. Now a fugitive in Cuba, Chesimard is known as Assata Shakur. As Black Lives Matter of Los Angeles proclaimed last year, “Assata’s words and living example serve as an inspiration to Black Lives Matter and ground us in our collective purpose, to fight for freedom and win.”

The shooting of the two deputies maintained the targeting of police, but the attempt to block the emergency room could mark an escalation to terrorist practices.  In December 2015, for example, Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik murdered 14 people in San Bernardino and rigged bombs to take out the first responders.  In similar style, blocking wounded victims from an emergency room strengthens the case that Black Lives Matter, like Antifa, is a domestic terrorist group.

The shooting of the deputies, followed by mobs at the press conference and hospital, suggests a coordinated action. Jody Huang, arrested in the BLM action at the hospital, also writes for LAist, which is part of KPCC and Southern California Public Radio. A publicly funded entity thus engages in open promotion of Black Lives Matter.

On Sunday, President Trump tweeted that if the deputies die, “fast trial death penalty for the killer. Only way to stop this!” Joe Biden tweeted “This cold-blooded shooting is unconscionable and the perpetrator must be brought to justice.” Kamala Harris, formerly attorney general of California, told reporters “the perpetrator must be brought to justice.”

Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti wrote, “we strongly condemn this cowardly ambush & stand prepared to offer aid.” Governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday denounced the “cowardly, horrific act” and called for the perpetrator to be “quickly brought to justice.”

At 7 a.m. Sunday, NBC News reported, both deputies were still alive and out of surgery. The Sheriff’s department announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the shooter, described as a 28- to 30-year-old black man wearing dark clothing.

The horrific Compton shooting should be a clarifying moment in America

By Andrea Widburg

As I write this, the Compton shooter is still unknown, the two Los Angeles sheriff's deputies are still clinging to life, and the Democrat party is failing its Sister Souljah moment — that is, the moment when it must repudiate a failing, unwholesome principle if it is to survive politically.  Instead of disavowing the police hatred they fomented, the Democrats are using the shooting to push for gun control.

Black Lives Matter is an anti-police movement.  It started in 2013, when George Zimmerman, a Hispanic man, killed Trayvon Martin, who was trying to kill him.  It found its footing in 2014, when a police officer shot Michael Brown after Brown tried to wrestle the officer's gun away from him.  BLM's power grew when Eric Garner, an obese man illegally selling cigarettes in New York City, resisted arrest and died in a police chokehold.  Since then, every time police have killed or wounded a black man resisting arrest or threatening either explicitly or implicitly to kill the police, BLM has been on it.

And almost from the beginning, BLM has consistently advocated murdering police, as exemplified by their chant of "pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon."  (A chant BLM still favors in 2020.)  At a BLM protest a week ago, one protester proudly held a sign saying, "All my heroes kill cops."

For BLM, the out-of-context George Floyd video, which seemed to show the police smothering Floyd, was the mother lode.  The reality was that George Floyd, who had a serious heart condition, was already dying from a drug overdose when the police came upon him.  The video caught the police following their department guidelines and trying to restrain Floyd for his safety as they waited for the ambulance to arrive. 

Facts didn't matter to BLM.  What mattered was that they had found a martyr, and they were taking the war to the police and to American cities.

And through it all, the Democrat party has been there for those who hate the police, egging them on:

In a New York high school, a teacher who could only have been a Democrat gave students a handout comparing police with slave-owners and the KKK.  And do we even need to discuss the mayors in New York City, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and any other Democrat-run city?

Given the Democrats' universal support for the police-hating BLM movement, Biden and Kamala should have had a Sister Souljah moment.  Instead, they issued the standard political boilerplate about the two sheriffs and failed to say a word about how BLM is feeding the hatred for police.

While the party standard-bearers are mealy-mouthed, others are toxic.  At Facebook, if you look for a "blue lives matter" gif, the first thing you get is "I can't breathe."

In addition to the appalling BLM protest at the hospital (which the Democrat leadership has not condemned), people on the street celebrated the shooting as it happened:

Talbert Swan, an NAACP chapter president, tweeted out that the deputies made a choice that justified the attempted assassination.  He followed that with a tweet saying that if you support Kyle Rittenhouse's shooting attackers in self-defense, you must also support the Compton thug shooting two deputies as they sat peacefully in their car:

The horrific assassination attempt on the two deputies could and should have been the moment when the Democrat party, from its presidential nominee on down, stood up to BLM.  Instead, other than saying the shooting was a bad thing, not one Democrat said a word about BLM and the virulent hatred for police it's been disseminating in America.

That's bad.  What's even worse is that Biden, after failing to condemn BLM, then had a "hold my beer" moment when he politicized the shooting by demanding gun control.  Think about that: the BLM movement has seen police defunded, stripped of defensive tools, shot, and murdered, with a concurrent rise in deadly crime in every major Democrat-run city — and Biden's answer is to disarm you.

Democrats have been tried and found wanting.  They're not fit to have a role in American politics.


How Detroit's Police Chief Saved His City from Black Lives Matter

By T.R. Clancy

 

 Detroit Will Breathe, the Motor City's BLM franchisee, won a hollow victory last week when a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order that bars Detroit police from using certain non-lethal tactics on "peaceful protesters."

Detroit police chief James Craig responded to the TRO with a shrug.  It changes nothing, he told reporters, because that's how his department always handles peaceful protesters.  "Every time we've had to use less-than-lethal force, it's been to address violence by protesters, resisting arrest, or when they've tried to take over an intersection in violation of the law." 

Compared to the conflagrations BLM has incited in cities like Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, New York, Chicago, and even Kenosha, Detroit Will Breathe has been an epic flop.  Drawing mostly small crowds and desperate for media attention, DWB's been stifled from the get-go by Chief Craig's zero-tolerance approach to thugs and looters posing as demonstrators.  The first three nights after George Floyd's death, when radicals — most from out of town and some armed with bricks and railroad spikes — ignored a curfew and tried to turn the city into another Minneapolis, Detroit police pushed back hard, using tear gas and making over 140 arrests.  That quieted things.  A few days later, Detroit Will Breathe somehow finagled a meeting with Mayor Mike Duggan and Chief Craig to lay out their list of demands, like "demilitarizing the police" and making Detroit a sanctuary city.  Group organizer and Keeper of the Bullhorn Tristan Taylor felt cocky enough to brag to reporters that the meeting "was on our terms" because "[t]he movement is strong."  But not strong enough to mau-mau Duggan and Craig, who nodded pleasantly and then lost their copies of the list.

A few weeks ago, bored with peacefully marching all over without a news crew in sight, DWB decided to try occupying a major downtown intersection.  After an hour of demonstrators defying orders to disperse, police moved in and arrested 44 DWB members, encountering the predictable violent resistance.  When the inevitable hue and cry was raised over how rough some of the arrests were ("I've never seen a use of force that looks good," Craig remarked), the chief stood his ground.  "I am not going to let any group set up a Seattle zone of lawlessness here in the city of Detroit," Craig said.  "That is non-negotiable."

After that, the group added Chief Craig's resignation to their list of demands.

Craig sees right through Detroit Will Breathe's "untruthful" message and calls their leaders "misguided radicals."  He grew up in Detroit, where he witnessed the 1967 riots — the worst in American history until L.A. took the record in 1992 after the Rodney King verdict.  Craig was there for that mayhem, too, as an LAPD officer.  After the L.A. riot was declared an insurrection, the Marines and the U.S. Army ended it.  Craig knows firsthand that the worst thing you can do when faced with radical lawlessness is agree to negotiate. 

He gets away with his outspoken disrespect for DWB because he has Mayor Duggan's support (a Democrat!) and understands that Detroiters at large are "fed up" with groups like DWB "fomenting chaos."  He also knows that their agenda doesn't have widespread support from Detroiters, "because the vast majority of the people who attend these protests are from outside the city."  Of the 44 people arrested in August, 27 were from other Michigan cities; one came all the way from California. 

At the news briefing the day after the failed occupation, Deputy Chief Todd Bettison's message for the group was also short and to the point: "Detroit Will Breathe, you are not welcome.  Go."  Area leftists, who called Bettison's message "blunt, if not anti-democratic," took issue with the suggestion that most Detroiters weren't happy with DWB's agenda.  The Metro Times, the area's pinkish entertainment tabloid, argued illogically that Detroiters must support the protests because they're "organized by Detroit activists."

Because even the activists didn't believe that, they quickly ran to federal court and filed a lawsuit against the police department, the city, Craig, and about a hundred officers, alleging they'd been victims of "excessive force," arrested "en masse" without probable cause, and variously maltreated for no other reason than their peaceable stand against systemic racism.  Federal lawsuits are a surefire way to attract media attention, at least for one news cycle; and even if you're sure to lose in the end, you can demand an injunction on the first day, pleading all sorts of ugly stuff the other side must be immediately stopped from doing.  If the judge grants your injunction (they're temporary, and this one is for only two weeks), you get to claim victory.

Chief Craig didn't blink.  The reason he could say "nothing has changed" is that what U.S. District Judge Laurie J. Michelson's order requires of his officers "is no different than what we've always done" and even '"reinforces' the department's policy."  For him, the lawsuit amounts to just "another example of the perpetual false narrative" of systemic police misconduct.  His officers don't use force with peaceful protesters, he says, but "[i]f someone is resisting arrest, or trying to attack our officers, we will use the force that's both reasonable and necessary to overcome the resistance."  City attorney Lawrence Garcia, who says he's "pleased" with the lawsuit and looks forward to filing a countersuit, can see how DWB deliberately provokes conflict with police: "Wearing a bulletproof vest to a protest shows a certain desire and intent."

Last week's court order is hardly the judicial rebuke DWB-supporters were hoping for.  That's because it prohibits the use of several non-lethal tactics, but "against any individual peacefully engaging in protest or demonstrations who does not pose a physical threat to the safety of the public or police."  (italics mine).  The judge also takes note that police "have difficult and often dangerous jobs that require them to make split-second decisions" and must be allowed "to respond appropriately when the safety of the officers and the City's citizens are threatened."  Nowhere in her opinion does she credit the ubiquitous BLM nonsense that all demonstrators are angels and all police officers are white supremacist stormtroopers.

Craig's no-negotiation stance with the likes of Detroit Will Breathe, which in essence rejects DWB's basic premise, is leaving the group toothless — and irrelevant.  Unexpectedly, while most of urban and corporate America is being held hostage by social-justice terrorists, the "blackest city in America" is proof that no one ever had to negotiate with Black Lives Matter.  

That's a counternarrative the left can't tolerate.  So on Tuesday, Rashida Tlaib and three other politicians released a letter demanding more investigations into Detroit's policing and accusing Craig of having "a dismissive attitude of the movement for racial justice" (that is, dismissive of Black Lives Matter).  On Thursday, representatives from more than 35 "grassroots community organizations," including the Democrat Socialists of America and the Motor City Street Dance Academy (!), announced their demand for Craig's resignation.  On Friday, to help counter Craig's statements that Detroiters don't support DWB's agenda, the Detroit News published poll findings that 94% of Michigan's black voters support Black Lives Matter (and 0 black voters think Trump can improve race relations).  The survey didn't track the percentage of respondents who always lie to pollsters. 

On Saturday, with Chief Craig still at his post, DWB celebrated its 100th day as a social irritant.  One hundred fifty people marched from police headquarters through downtown, "with flags, drums and [of course] megaphones."  There was no violence beyond a vandalized statue of Alexander Macomb and the invasion of a restaurant patio to spoil people's dinners with social-justice chants.  Organizer Tristan Taylor gave a speech about how they've all been through a long struggle and fight and sacrifice, and how they're still standing anyway.  "And not just standing, but moving that needle," he said. 

Moving what needle?  The only needle we've seen move is the one Chief Craig used to burst these phonies' over-inflated balloon.

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