Monday, June 22, 2020

VIOLENT CRIME IN DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES



The FBI has identified Tandre Buchanan as one of the people who looted Colossal Cupcakes in Cleveland on May 30. [FBI provided photo]
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Nolte: Violent Crime Explodes in Democrat-Run Cities






NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 03: Police gather at the scene where two New York City police officers were shot in a confrontation late Wednesday evening in Brooklyn on June 03, 2020 in New York City. The officers were hit by gunfire in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn just …

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Over the weekend, a dozen people were either injured or killed by gunfire in Minneapolis. According to PowerLine’s John Hinderaker, “This took place in the heart of Uptown, an entertainment and shopping district, within a few blocks of some of the city’s most expensive neighborhoods.”
Just a couple blocks from the shooting, this act of lawlessness was allowed just a night or two before:


“We have seen, unfortunately, over the past several months, an uptick in violent crime in Minneapolis,” Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said Sunday. “We are certainly doing our best to address that.”
The Democrats who run Minneapolis, and who have run Minneapolis for nearly 50 years, just passed a veto-proof pledge to dismantle that city’s police department.
Elsewhere…
Over the weekend, there was a fatal shooting in Seattle’s CHAZ, the six-block zone left-wing anarchists have successfully liberated from the city with the mayor’s blessing.
A 19-year-old man was killed and another man was injured by the gunfire. Here’s what happened when police attempted to access the crime scene:
Democrats have run Seattle for 30 years.
Elsewhere…
Over the weekend, more than 100 people were shot and 14 died in Chicago. This happened just two weeks after Chicago suffered its most violent day in 60 years. In May of 2020, 409 people were shot in the Windy City, an increase from 332 in May of 2019.
Overall, shootings in Chicago are up 71 percent.
Murders in Chicago are up 60 percent.
Democrats have run Chicago since 1933.
Elsewhere…
Over the weekend, shootings in New York City soared — this is not a typo — 358 percent over last year.
Over this same weekend in 2019, 12 people were shot. That number jumped to 55 this weekend. During the month of May, when compared to last year, murders jumped by 79 percent, shootings by 64 percent, and burglaries by 34 percent.
New York just disbanded one of its most effective anti-crime units, ceased stopping and frisking those suspected of carrying a firearm, and instituted the lunacy of bail reform.
In just a few short years, New York’s Democrat mayor, Bill de Blasio, has unraveled the miracle of Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s New York, a New York that had been a cesspool of crime and filth before Giuliani transformed it into a model of big city safety, cleanliness, and prosperity.
All of the above is what happens when you give Democrats political power — chaos, death, despair, poverty, homelessness, violence, blight, and crashing property values.
And in the wake of the George Floyd protests and riots, in the wake of every Democrat politician seeking to appease and mollify those who will never be appeased and mollified, the left-wing terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter, these Democrat-run cities and countless others are only going to get worse — much worse.
The movement to defund, abolish, and weaken law enforcement embraced by Democrats and their media enablers is recipe for disaster, most especially in predominantly black neighborhoods.
Unless the Democrats who run these cities wake up, the violence we just saw over Father’s Day Weekend will soon be remembered as “the good old days.”
The same Democrat mayors who are solely responsible for every police department where deadly force has been used against an unarmed black American, are the same Democrats proving once again how little they care about black lives by abandoning black neighborhoods to rioters, gangs, cartels, looters, drug dealers, and armed criminals. 
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The FBI has identified Tandre Buchanan as one of the people who looted Colossal Cupcakes in Cleveland on May 30. [FBI provided photo]
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At Least 100 Shot over Father’s Day Weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - APRIL 16: Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot arrives at Wrigley Field on April 16, 2020 in Chicago Illinois. Wrigley Field has been converted to a temporary satellite food packing and distribution center in cooperation with the Lakeville Food Pantry to support ongoing relief efforts underway in the city …
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At least 100 people were shot, 14 fatally, in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago over Father’s Day Weekend 2020.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports the first non-fatal shooting of the weekend occurred around 6:30 p.m. Friday, when a vehicle pulled up near a 35-year-old woman and the occupants opened fire. The woman was transported to hospital with gunshot wounds to her arm.
NBC Chicago reports the last non-fatal shooting of the weekend took place around 12:30 a.m. Monday, when an 18-year-old woman was shot while “driving in the 5100 block of South Calumet.”
The first fatal shooting of the weekend occurred at 9:52 p.m. Friday, when a car pulled up on three men and the occupants opened fire. Two 34-year-old men and a 43-year-old man were shot, and the wounds of one of the 34-year-old men proved fatal.
The last fatal shooting of the weekend occurred just after midnight Monday morning, when occupants of a car opened fire on a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old as they walked “in an alley in the 4700 block of West Superior.”
On June 21, 2020, Breitbart News reported at least 56 people had been shot in Chicago by Sunday morning of Father’s Day Weekend alone. Nine of those shooting victims died.
More than 30 were shot, two fatally, in Chicago last weekend and 35 were shot, five fatally, the weekend prior.
The Sun-Times reported 85 shot, 24 fatally, in Chicago during the last weekend of May 2020.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkinsa weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.



The FBI has identified Tandre Buchanan as one of the people who looted Colossal Cupcakes in Cleveland on May 30. [FBI provided photo]
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Ken Blackwell: Slaughter of Blacks Is Reality in Democrat-Run Cities

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Democrats blame the “boogeyman of systemic racism” to avoid responsibility for the volume of violent crime in black communities in cities they run, said Ken Blackwell, former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, who offered his remarks on the Wednesday edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
“The real systemic and deadly reality is that black men and women are being slaughtered in cities and communities of color across the country in numbers that can only be compared to war zones in Iraq and Syria,” said Blackwell, reflecting on a column he wrote with former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik regarding crime in Democrat-run cities, “Every single one of those cities have been run by Democrats, and in some cases, [for] as long as 40 years. [Kerik and I] just took exception to the fact that these mayors were passing the buck. These local officials were passing a buck.”
Blackwell and Kerik wrote:
To be clear, whether they were armed, or unarmed, or in possession of a toy that looked like a real weapon, in every single category, blacks were not killed more often than whites. Given the numbers — 14 unarmed blacks killed out of 10 million arrests, which equates to a rate of 0.00014 percent — this is NOT evidence of systemic racism.
LISTEN:
Blackwell remarked, “You can’t paint safety forces with a broad brush saying that they are riddled with systemic racism when the facts don’t bear that out, but what is [borne] out by the facts is that these local leaders have found some comfort in the status quo. They have embraced a narrative that pushes the blame from their incompetence [to] this boogeyman of systemic racism where it doesn’t exist.”
Black and minority communities are being “marginalized and destroyed” by Democrat policies, Blackwell determined.


Blackwell recalled the weeks of unrest following the death of George Floyd.
“Fifteen innocent civilians and two police officers were shot and killed,” Blackwell stated. “Hundreds of civilians brutally beaten, and more than 700 police officers were injured nationwide. Hundreds of millions of dollars of property have been destroyed as businesses and places for people to make money and raise their families in 42 states.”
Left-wing and Democrat characterizations of America as a “racist nation” amount to a “false narrative,” said Blackwell.
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Report: Florida Man Confesses to Murders of Protester and Elderly Woman

Aaron Glee Jr. was arrested by the Orlando Police Department. Glee is suspected of killing two Tallahassee women. Orange County Jail
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A suspect has reportedly confessed to killing a female protester and elderly woman whose bodies were found June 13 in Tallahassee, Florida.
“Aaron Glee Jr. confessed several times that he kidnapped and killed both Oluwatoyin Salau, a student and protester, and Victoria Sims, a volunteer and retired state worker, in grisly crimes that have horrified the community,” according to the Tallahassee Democrat.
Glee recently waived his right to remain silent and gave his account of the killings to officers with the Tallahassee Police Department and Orlando Police Department, court documents said.
The Democrat report continued:
They include shocking new details, including that Glee kept Salau a prisoner in his run-down home on Monday Road for several days, raping her and eventually deciding to kill her to avoid getting caught.
The documents also reveal that Salau, 19, and Sims, 75, apparently met one another in the last days of their lives, after Glee arranged for Sims to pick both him and Salau up at a bus stop.
Officers traced Sim’s cellphone to Glee’s home on June 13 and found her body under a bloody sheet in a bedroom and Salau’s body under a pile of leaves behind the house.
Following his arrest, Glee, who has a lengthy prison record, said he tied up Salau in a manner he thought would cause her death and left her alone in a room.
“Glee explained how over the course of several hours he would re-enter the bedroom multiple times to see if (Salau) was still alive,” the arrest report stated. “Ultimately, he entered into the bedroom and determined (she) was deceased.”
Police said Sims was also bound and they believe Glee ransacked her apartment on Blair Stone Road, stole her vehicle, and kidnapped her.
Later, authorities found Sims’ vehicle stuck in the mud outside his home.
Glee was charged with two counts of kidnapping and murder, and one count of sexual assault, according to Fox News.
In court Saturday, Chief Circuit Judge Jonathan Sjostrom ordered the suspect held without bail at the request of Assistant State Attorney Callaway Scott, who said he was a “danger to society.”

















FBI Data: Blacks, Who Are Only 13.4% of the Population, Were 54.9% of Known Murder Offenders in 2018
06/18/2020
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What with race and law enforcement being much in the news this month, you might think we’d see more reference to the most authoritative official statistics on the subject. Here are the latest FBI statistics on murder offenders by race:
At this point, 29.5% of 2018 murderers are of unknown race, whether because the case hasn’t been cleared yet or because the local agency didn’t get around to reporting the race to the federal government.
Of the 11,514 murder offenders in 2018 where the race of the offender is known by now, 6,318 of the offenders were black: 54.9%.
Blacks make up 13.4% of the population at present.
So, blacks in 2018 were 7.9 times more likely per capita to be murder offenders than the rest of the population.
Here’s how to do the arithmetic:
(54.9% / 13.4%) / ((100% – 54.9%) / (100% – 13.4%))
In recent generations, this black to all else homicide offender ratio goes up and down somewhat, depending upon what drugs are hot, the political climate, and so forth, but usually winds up a little under 8X. For example, in 2011 the Obama Administration’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that blacks made up 52.5% of homicide offenders over the 29 years from 1980 to 2008:
These stats would seem rather relevant to current discussions, but for some reason, the just never see to come up…




Over 56 Shot by Sunday Morning on Father’s Day Weekend in Chicago

Police stepped up patrols near Belmont and Central avenues in Portage Park after a shooting Sunday night.
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More than 56 people were shot, nine fatally, by Sunday morning on Father’s Day Weekend in Democrat-controlled Chicago.
WLS reports “two teen boys and a three-year-old are among the dead.”
The three-year-old boy was killed when a car pulled up next to his father’s car and the occupants opened fire “just before 6:30 p.m. Saturday night.” The three-year-old was shot in the back and the wound proved fatal.

Our city's collective heart breaks to hear the unfathomable news of a 3-year-old boy who was shot and killed tonight on Chicago's West Side. There are simply no words to describe such a heinous, unconscionable act of cowardice to shoot at a toddler.




NBC Chicago reports a 13-year-old girl was shot and killed in a separate incident.
Breitbart News reported over 30 were shot, two fatally, in Chicago last weekend. Thirty-five were shot, five fatally, the weekend prior.
Police in Democrat-controlled Cleveland are investigating six shootings which occurred between Saturday morning and Sunday morning in their city.
Fox 8 reports the shootings began Saturday around 9 a.m., with the last one occurring Sunday about 6 a.m.
The individuals were all shot while outside and the conditions of all victims are not known.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkinsa weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.



Her Name Is Mari McElyea: White Woman Murdered By Black Career Criminal Da'qon Sipple Speeding Away From Shooting
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Want to learn about Black Privilege? This is the story of Da’qon Sipple, the poster child for what happens when Criminal Justice Reform unleashes black criminals back into the general public, when instead they should be locked away in the deepest, darkest prison and the key conveniently lost:
A man convicted of an aggravated assault at the scene of the 2016 shooting death of Kansas City, Kansas police Capt. Dave Melton is now in the Jackson County Jail, charged with murder in a shooting and crash from last week.
Daqon Sipple, 22, is charged with second-degree murder in a fatal crash that happened last Wednesday on U.S. 24 Highway and Sterling Avenue. Police said the crash happened after Sipple had fled the scene of a shooting on North Emery in which a woman said Sipple shot into her vehicle.
Independence police said Sipple ran a red light and hit a vehicle that was going south. The driver, Mari McElyea, died.
Sipple remains in the Jackson County Detention Center on $250,000 bond.
Sipple is one of two men who were charged in a July 2016 incident that involved the fatal shooting of Melton, 46, who had responded to assist other officers in the search for drive-by shooting suspects. A man named Jamaal Lewis came up behind Melton, who was still in his vehicle, and fired several shots into the police car, killing the police captain.
Mari McElyea was a white woman, who was murdered in her vehicle as Da’qon sped away from a shooting he had just engaged in (firing rounds into the car his ex-girlfriend was driving). Da’qon – it should go without saying – is a black male, who is the type of repeat black criminal the GOP is so desperate to let out of jail via the First Step Act and restore their voting rights since he is obviously a natural conservative/Republican.
Friends mourn innocent woman allegedly hit, killed by man fleeing Independence shooting, FOX4KC.com, May 29, 2020
A 22-year-old who is well known to police on both sides of the state line is in custody after police say he hit and killed an innocent woman while running away from a shooting.
Friends said Mari McElyea was always trying to help people and loved working with children. Her death is hitting friends and family hard, especially because of the way she died and who allegedly killed her.
“I miss her. I can’t even believe she’s gone,” her best friend Marilyn Evans said.
A knock on the door by two Independence police officers is not how Evans thought her friendship with McElyea would end.
“You know, they said there’s no easy way to tell you this. There was a car accident, and Mari didn’t make it,” Evans said.
On Wednesday, McElyea was on her way home from work at Sugar Creek Elementary School when she was hit by a car speeding through a red light at 24 Highway and Sterling Avenue in Independence.
“Maybe a little bit worse because it was someone who was doing bad things,” Evans’ husband Jonathan Hutchins said of the man accused of killing McElyea.
Sipple has a long rap sheet, including a drive-by shooting in KCK that prompted a call to police and ended in the death of Capt. Dave Melton. Sipple spent about two years in prison for his role in that incident, and police said Sipple is up to his old antics.
Prosecutors said Sipple shot at his ex-girlfriend at their Independence home and then took off. He was allegedly running from that incident when he hit and killed McElyea.
“If it had just been an accident, then it would be just something random. But this was worse than that,” Hutchins said.
Evans said the two were more like sisters than friends, who went fox hunting, camping every summer, and were members of SCA, a historic recreation group.
The two expected to be friends for a lifetime. Mari even gave Marilyn the Blue Zones Diet cookbook so they could live to be 100.
“And I was pouring through it. We were figuring out how we were going to cook all these things,” Evans said. “And we had a passion for Indian food. We both love Indian food, and I don’t think I’ll eat Indian food again without getting kind of messed up about it.”
McElyea was an accomplished equestrian who taught riding lessons to children and adults, including Evans and her husband. They said her passion for animals, including horses and cats, and her love of children will be her legacy.
“Going through her things, I’m finding so many notes and cards from people thanking her and wishing her well,” Hutchins said. “She appreciated them I guess.”
Sipple has been charged with second-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action.
FOX4 spoke to Sipple’s extended family who said the police have the story all wrong, but they would not speak on record to tell their story.
Had Da’qon been locked away for good in a prison rotting for the rest of his life, Mari McElyea would still be alive, working with children at the elementary school where she was employed. Instead, because we are in the early stages of making it illegal to arrest black criminals, he was allowed out and on probation and promptly engaged in more criminality (firing rounds at his ex-girlfriend), before trying to speed away from the police and killing an innocent white woman.


Do Progressives Actually Know HateStats About Black Crime?
06/19/2020
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iSteve commenter Mr. Blank says in response to my posting official FBI crime statistics showing that blacks are 7.9 times as likely as the rest of the population to be a murder offender in 2018:
From time to time, I’ve been tempted to post figures like this in response to some of the crazier stuff my lefty friends have been putting on social media lately. Because the way they’ve been talking lately, it seems like they really are completely ignorant of all this stuff.
But I always stop myself, because I think about it for a moment and realize, “of course they know this stuff.” The way they conduct themselves and order their lives testifies to the fact that they are perfectly aware of these facts. (Though one occasionally runs across a true believer who REALLY IS completely unaware of the facts, those people tend to have pretty short lifespans.)
When I was growing up, it used to be that everybody knew this stuff, but it was considered poor taste to mention it publicly. But everybody — black, white, liberal, conservative — knew the facts. It wasn’t talked about, but nobody pretended it wasn’t true.
But now we have to navigate an additional level of protective stupidity, where not only are we not supposed to mention the truth, but we are supposed to make a great show of being utterly ignorant of it — while simultaneously retaining enough awareness of the truth to behave in ways conducive to self-preservation.
I don’t know how people can live this way without going crazy. I look at my lefty friends, and they seem so normal and well-adjusted. I don’t know how they can keep all those plates spinning in their heads without eventually suffering a nervous breakdown. But then again, maybe that explains what we’re seeing now…
Has anybody ever studied these questions?
One reason I pay attention to government crime statistics and the like is because I don’t have particularly adept natural instincts. I’m not good at tacit knowledge. To know something, I usually need to articulate it. I’m especially not good at doublethink. I only have room for one set of truths in my head.
A lot of people seem more functional than I am. The know these hatestats when buying a house in a fashionable neighborhood. But they don’t know these stats if any were so gauche as to mention the numbers. But on the other hand, we are watching our society plunge into dysfunction because people’s doublethink capabilities are breaking down under the long assault on Implicit Bias and the like.

FBI Data: Blacks, Who Are Only 13.4% of the Population, Were 54.9% of Known Murder Offenders in 2018
06/18/2020
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What with race and law enforcement being much in the news this month, you might think we’d see more reference to the most authoritative official statistics on the subject. Here are the latest FBI statistics on murder offenders by race:
At this point, 29.5% of 2018 murderers are of unknown race, whether because the case hasn’t been cleared yet or because the local agency didn’t get around to reporting the race to the federal government.
Of the 11,514 murder offenders in 2018 where the race of the offender is known by now, 6,318 of the offenders were black: 54.9%.
Blacks make up 13.4% of the population at present.
So, blacks in 2018 were 7.9 times more likely per capita to be murder offenders than the rest of the population.
Here’s how to do the arithmetic:
(54.9% / 13.4%) / ((100% – 54.9%) / (100% – 13.4%))
In recent generations, this black to all else homicide offender ratio goes up and down somewhat, depending upon what drugs are hot, the political climate, and so forth, but usually winds up a little under 8X. For example, in 2011 the Obama Administration’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that blacks made up 52.5% of homicide offenders over the 29 years from 1980 to 2008:
These stats would seem rather relevant to current discussions, but for some reason, the just never see to come up…

Her Name Is Mari McElyea: White Woman Murdered By Black Career Criminal Da'qon Sipple Speeding Away From Shooting
06/20/2020
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Want to learn about Black Privilege? This is the story of Da’qon Sipple, the poster child for what happens when Criminal Justice Reform unleashes black criminals back into the general public, when instead they should be locked away in the deepest, darkest prison and the key conveniently lost:
A man convicted of an aggravated assault at the scene of the 2016 shooting death of Kansas City, Kansas police Capt. Dave Melton is now in the Jackson County Jail, charged with murder in a shooting and crash from last week.
Daqon Sipple, 22, is charged with second-degree murder in a fatal crash that happened last Wednesday on U.S. 24 Highway and Sterling Avenue. Police said the crash happened after Sipple had fled the scene of a shooting on North Emery in which a woman said Sipple shot into her vehicle.
Independence police said Sipple ran a red light and hit a vehicle that was going south. The driver, Mari McElyea, died.
Sipple remains in the Jackson County Detention Center on $250,000 bond.
Sipple is one of two men who were charged in a July 2016 incident that involved the fatal shooting of Melton, 46, who had responded to assist other officers in the search for drive-by shooting suspects. A man named Jamaal Lewis came up behind Melton, who was still in his vehicle, and fired several shots into the police car, killing the police captain.
Mari McElyea was a white woman, who was murdered in her vehicle as Da’qon sped away from a shooting he had just engaged in (firing rounds into the car his ex-girlfriend was driving). Da’qon – it should go without saying – is a black male, who is the type of repeat black criminal the GOP is so desperate to let out of jail via the First Step Act and restore their voting rights since he is obviously a natural conservative/Republican.
A 22-year-old who is well known to police on both sides of the state line is in custody after police say he hit and killed an innocent woman while running away from a shooting.
Friends said Mari McElyea was always trying to help people and loved working with children. Her death is hitting friends and family hard, especially because of the way she died and who allegedly killed her.
“I miss her. I can’t even believe she’s gone,” her best friend Marilyn Evans said.
A knock on the door by two Independence police officers is not how Evans thought her friendship with McElyea would end.
“You know, they said there’s no easy way to tell you this. There was a car accident, and Mari didn’t make it,” Evans said.
On Wednesday, McElyea was on her way home from work at Sugar Creek Elementary School when she was hit by a car speeding through a red light at 24 Highway and Sterling Avenue in Independence.
“Maybe a little bit worse because it was someone who was doing bad things,” Evans’ husband Jonathan Hutchins said of the man accused of killing McElyea.
Sipple has a long rap sheet, including a drive-by shooting in KCK that prompted a call to police and ended in the death of Capt. Dave Melton. Sipple spent about two years in prison for his role in that incident, and police said Sipple is up to his old antics.
Prosecutors said Sipple shot at his ex-girlfriend at their Independence home and then took off. He was allegedly running from that incident when he hit and killed McElyea.
“If it had just been an accident, then it would be just something random. But this was worse than that,” Hutchins said.
Evans said the two were more like sisters than friends, who went fox hunting, camping every summer, and were members of SCA, a historic recreation group.
The two expected to be friends for a lifetime. Mari even gave Marilyn the Blue Zones Diet cookbook so they could live to be 100.
“And I was pouring through it. We were figuring out how we were going to cook all these things,” Evans said. “And we had a passion for Indian food. We both love Indian food, and I don’t think I’ll eat Indian food again without getting kind of messed up about it.”
McElyea was an accomplished equestrian who taught riding lessons to children and adults, including Evans and her husband. They said her passion for animals, including horses and cats, and her love of children will be her legacy.
“Going through her things, I’m finding so many notes and cards from people thanking her and wishing her well,” Hutchins said. “She appreciated them I guess.”
Sipple has been charged with second-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action.
FOX4 spoke to Sipple’s extended family who said the police have the story all wrong, but they would not speak on record to tell their story.
Had Da’qon been locked away for good in a prison rotting for the rest of his life, Mari McElyea would still be alive, working with children at the elementary school where she was employed. Instead, because we are in the early stages of making it illegal to arrest black criminals, he was allowed out and on probation and promptly engaged in more criminality (firing rounds at his ex-girlfriend), before trying to speed away from the police and killing an innocent white woman.



Man arrested after 73-year-old woman punched in face on subway platform

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New York police have arrested a homeless man suspected to be the Bronx subway station attacker who pushed a 73-year-old woman last week.
Authorities announced on Saturday night that 23-year-old Ahmed Kromah had been apprehended and charged with assault after an appeal, reported CBS News.
Kromah is alleged to have punched a woman, who was hospitalised, in the head on Wednesday night.
She had been waiting on the Manhattan-bound side at 174-175 St Station in the Bronx, when a man walked up to her and punched her in the side of her face, said police.
The suspect, who was pictured in surveillance photos, then fled the station sometime after 7pm on Wednesday.
Police had appealed on Saturday night for further information regarding the suspect, who was later arrested.
The 73-year-old victim, who told police that she had not communicated with Kromah prior to the attack, was taken to Bronx Care Hospital on Wednesday night where she was treated for pain and swelling.
The Bronx attack comes after a 92-year-old woman was shoved to the pavement in Manhattan last week in another unprovoked attack.
New York police later arrested the suspect, who had been convicted with sexual assault in 2014 and charged multiple times prior to his latest arrest.
John Cardillo, an ex-New York cop and political commentator, said on Twitter on Sunday night it was now “open season on the most vulnerable”.
Mr Cardillo, who served with the NYPD in the 1990s, commented that New York was now comparable to “pre-⁦Rudy Giuliani NYC”, when the Republican replaced Democratic mayor David Dinkins in 1994.
“I’ve been telling you, it’s open season on the most vulnerable,” wrote Mr Cardillo. ”I’ve been down this road before in pre-⁦Rudy Giuliani NYC. It’s only going to get worse.”
The Independent has contacted New York mayor Bill de Blasio’s office for comment.

Report: NYC Shootings Surge 358% over Same Time Last Year

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 03: Police gather at the scene where two New York City police officers were shot in a confrontation late Wednesday evening in Brooklyn on June 03, 2020 in New York City. The officers were hit by gunfire in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn just …
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New York City shootings have surged to the point they are now 358 percent higher than they were at this time last year.
NBC 4 reports data released Monday shows there were 55 shootings in the last week compared to 12 for the same week in 2019.
Over 70 people were injured in the shootings, with victims “[varying] in age from 16 to 47.”
On June 21, 2020, Breitbart News reported shootings had risen sharply during Monday-Friday of last week. The increase in numbers came after the NYPD disbanded its plainclothes anti-crime unit.
The NBC 4 report notes the shootings continued to pile up over the weekend but NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) indicated no support for bringing back the anti-crime unit. Rather, he said, “We are not going back to the bad old days where there was too much gun violence in this city, nor are we going back to the bad old days.”
The New York Post quoted an anonymous law enforcement to the change in police policy, saying, “This is what the politicians wanted — no bail, nobody in Rikers, cops not arresting anyone.”
The source added, “All those things equal people walking around on the street with guns, shooting each other.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.