A conspiracy theory that explains everything in the world as racism.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
What is a conspiracy theory anyway? Conspiracy theories are, by definition, things that other people believe. Nobody believes in conspiracy theories, they believe that other people do.
As an old dead white Elizabethan male who invented the toilet once quipped, “Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why if it prospers, none dare call it treason.” Like treason, a conspiracy theory with the backing of the establishment becomes an article of faith.
What’s the most dangerous kind of conspiracy theory? The kind no one dares to call what it is.
Political extremism is invariably based on a set of conspiracy theories. And when the extremists take power then their conspiracy theories become establishment dogma. The dividing line is easy to spot. Extremists who aren’t in power invent conspiracy theories about those who are, while extremists who are in power invent conspiracy theories about those underneath them.
The shift from conspiracies about an established upper class to conspiracies about bad ideas held by the lower classes, or from class warfare to political correctness, was also a power shift.
It’s a covert confession about who really runs things by the conspirators who actually do.
While few will agree on what is a conspiracy theory, the most obvious symptom of a conspiracy theory is that it cannot be disproven. The most popular establishment conspiracy theory is systemic racism. Like most conspiracy theories, anything can be ascribed to systemic racism, from mathematics to the existence of a highway, it can be used to explain everything, and yet it so comprehensively pervades everything that its existence can never be disproven.
To test that theory, describe any element of life, no matter how random, milk , traffic signals , or weather , as racist, and you will find that these accusations have already been made, and that there is no way to disprove them in terms that a critical race theory believer will accept.
And no systemic racism conspiracy theory, no matter how absurd, will fail to be accepted.
Faced with contradictory evidence, the conspiracy theory just takes on a new order of complexity. Are Asians protesting affirmative action, are Latinos and black men voting for President Trump? Then use multiracial whiteness to explain the contradictions by redefining racism as endowed with an order of complexity beyond race.
Defending ideas about reality by extrapolating new orders of infinite complexity makes conspiracy theories indistinguishable from religion. And conspiracy theories often serve the same purpose for those who have given up on finding purpose and meaning in religion.
That’s why a sufficiently complex conspiracy theory becomes a cult. And a complex conspiracy theory with the backing of the establishment is a state religion.
The media keeps going on about QAnon even while it’s frantically indoctrinating everyone into its cult with its chosen conspiracy theory that explains all world events, all of human history, all science and technology, all literature and art, and the laws of nature, as reflections of racism.
Now that’s a cult.
And that’s what systemic racism has become. Like any state cult, it’s taught in schools, mandated in government offices, and the faithful spread it through every organization. Faith in critical race theory is becoming a prerequisite for public service and public life. A failure to pay tribute to its tenets, to acknowledge your racism, to ‘lean in’, and promise to ‘do better’ is heresy.
And is punished the way mobs deal with heretics in the absence of judicial authority.
The state cult of systemic racism is less about racism and more about the power of the state. Assigning Robin DiAngelo to government employees isn’t about black people or minorities, it’s a form of unearned moral authority that asks members of an organization to blindly follow a revolutionary reconstruction of that organization or face the sanctions of cancel culture.
Critical race theory demands that leaders and members of an organization abandon all their existing ethical duties, disavow any moral commitments except to the new cult, and dismantle all institutional safeguards that might stand in the way of its fundamental transformation.
Political conspiracy theories often contain the seeds of their own conspiracies. Systemic racism seeks to seize control of the system. It’s the transition point between conspiracy theories about the regime and conspiracy theories about ordinary people, between class warfare and cancel culture, as an ascendant racism movement solidifies its institutional hold over the system.
The difference between actual racism and conspiracy theories about racism is that the conspiracy theories are not actually about racism. Just as JFK conspiracy theories, the other popular conspiracy theory with establishment lefty backing, were not really about JFK. That’s why black people can be accused of internalized whiteness and the right white people can get a pass on racism. Anything with the word systemic in it is about the system, not about race.
Soviet Communists seized the system in the name of the working class before repressing it. The Left wants to seize the system in the name of black people only to repress them the way it already does in most cities. Class warfare and identity politics follow the familiar Marxist pattern of identifying a social problem, launching a hostile takeover in its name, and then replacing the system to fight the problem only to replicate the problem all over again on a much worse scale.
Systemic takeovers rely on creating fear, uncertainty, and doubt, manufacturing a sense of urgent crisis, making examples out of scapegoats, delegitimizing due process, all process, and then the entire existing system, and on rigorously brainwashing everyone still in the system.
None of this would work without a grand conspiracy theory. And that’s systemic racism.
Ordinary racism would not suffice for hijacking institutions and societies. And it is precisely because racism is less visible than ever, while the conviction that it is growing more serious has become widespread due to political and media narratives, that the conspiracy theories spawned by critical race theory have found fertile soil. The less we see racism, the more pervasive it must be. And its very invisibility becomes evidence of a systemic conspiracy to hide it away in the interstices of the ordinary functioning of the system and the humdrum routine of human life.
Individual incidents and viral videos taken out of context take on a force beyond the anecdotal and instead become evidence of a larger conspiracy that had until now remained out of sight.
The viral barrage of stories, photos and videos become the revelatory cadence of a conspiracy being unmasked and a revolution underway, when it’s just another narrative seeded across social media by a political establishment and made to appear like a grassroots campaign.
And so the conspiracy theory comes full circle to become the conspiracy.
Conspiracy theories promise liberation from a life of lies only to enslave followers to lies. Leftists spend their lives inventing grand systemic conspiracy theories, conspiring to fight a conspiracy they invented, and then finally become the very conspirators they had been fighting all along.
As Pogo put it, “We have met the enemy and he is us”. Or as Obama said, “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
Everyone is entitled to their own conspiracy theories, but they’re not entitled to impose them on others. Especially when those theories spawn their own cult and become a religious test for public office. Civil rights has been steadily morphing from what you must not do, to what you must not believe, to what you must believe. Only the first is ever a legitimate area for government, but systemic racism is much less interested in actual racist practices than in conspiratorially inventing racist motives for ordinary behaviors, and then arguing that the only defense against the secret unconscious malice of ordinary people is through indoctrination.
Loyalty tests are an obvious response to a conspiracy so pervasive that it’s everywhere and reprogramming an even more inevitable response to the conviction that people have been programmed to be racist. Just as war is met with more war, conspiracy theories reshape their response to closely echo the tactics of the enemy conspiracies that they claim to be fighting.
To understand what the systemic racist conspiracy theorists intend to do to America, just listen to what they believe America has already done. The conspiracy theory is the conspiracy.
That’s why conspiracy theories like systemic racism have no place in schools, in government, or in workplaces, and their presence there is corrosive and oppressive in any free society.
Liberals argued during the Cold War that there was no room for loyalty tests and hunting subversives in this country, now many have decided that there is plenty of room after all.
As long as they’re on the right side of them.
Critical race theory encompasses racist conspiracy theories that have nothing to do with fighting racism just like setting up a Communist dictatorship had nothing to do with relieving the plight of the working class. When governments, professors, and corporations make subscribing to a belief system a condition of participation in the economy, while accusing those who refuse of playing a role in their conspiracy theory and purging them as a threat, that’s not a theory.
It’s a conspiracy.
Had Obama Not Played the Race Card, George Floyd Might Be Alive A reflection on the Instigator-in-Chief.
Thu Apr 15, 2021
George Floyd might be alive had former President Barack Obama not, for eight years, consistently play the anti-cop race card.
Despite receiving more white votes than 2004 Democratic candidate John Kerry, Obama said: "The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives — you know, that casts a long shadow, and that's still part of our DNA that's passed on. We're not cured of it. ... Racism — we are not cured of it."
Obama's own presidential victory demonstrates that America is not "systemically racist." In 2007, Gallup found that fewer Americans (5%) said they would not vote for a Black person than said they would not vote for a woman (11%), referring to his nomination rival Hillary Clinton. The same Gallup poll found that 24% and 42% of Americans, respectively, would not vote for a Mormon, referring to Mitt Romney, or for a person who would be 72 years old when he became president, referring to Sen. John McCain.
Early in Obama's first term, an incident in Cambridge, Massachusetts, gave him a golden opportunity to defuse the lie that the police engage in "systemic racism" against Blacks. The Cambridge police briefly arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, a Black friend of Obama, in his home. Gates, back from a trip, couldn't open his front door and reportedly asked his driver to help. A neighbor, observing two people she did not recognize trying to force open the front door of Gates' home, called 911. The cops arrived and politely asked Gates to exit the home so the police could determine ownership. Instead, Gates mouthed off and was briefly arrested.
Obama said, "The Cambridge police acted stupidly." But the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association and the Cambridge Police commissioner insisted the officer simply followed protocol. Obama's statement infuriated officers all across the country and set up a template for the Obama administration: Cops systemically engage in unlawful anti-Black racial profiling.
Suppose Obama had not insultingly denounced the Cambridge police. Suppose, instead, Obama had said: "I've just spoken to my friend, professor Gates. I reminded him that he is a role model and that his behavior with the Cambridge police officer, who was merely doing his job, was unacceptable. We need to understand as Americans that officers typically have a difficult job. Yes, there are bad cops, but for the most part, they're trying to do their best. And contrary to popular perception, the police, in recent years, have killed more unarmed whites than Blacks. It is a lie, not supported by the evidence, that cops are killing Blacks just because they're Black. This is not your grandfathers' America. It is our job as civilians to be respectful, polite and by all means comply. Comply; you won't die."
Suppose Obama encouraged Blacks to comply with the police and that if one feels mistreated, to get a name or badge number and sort it out later. Eric Garner died after an encounter where New York City cops arrested him for selling cigarettes. Had he not resisted, he would likely still be alive. Jacob Blake was shot several times by the Kenosha, Wisconsin, police when they suspected him of reaching for a knife. Had Blake complied, he would not be in a wheelchair today. Would that have encouraged Black suspects like George Floyd to respond differently to an encounter with the police?
Obama knows the statistics and studies. He knows there is no evidence of anti-Black "systemic racism" on the part of the police. But the political Obama knows that Black anger and resentment translate into Black votes. How many routine police encounters with Blacks escalate into something far more serious because young Blacks believe the "systemic racism" lie pushed by Black Lives Matter and their sympathizers?
Polls rate Barack Obama as one of the most admired people in America, particularly among Black Americans. Out of office, he maintains respect, power, stature and influence. As president, he could have saved lives by putting truth over politics. He chose not to. As a former president, he still can.
Mr. Obama, tell the truth. Save lives. It's not too late.
Biden's UN Ambassador to World: Constitution is Racist Thu Apr 15, 2021
Inspiring.
America used to be a beacon of freedom. Now it's a black hole of critical race theory and toxic racial identity politics .
White supremacy is woven "into our founding documents and principles," President Joe Biden's ambassador to the United Nations said on Wednesday.
The United States needs to practice "humility" when it comes to promoting "equity and justice" on the international stage, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said after mentioning the administration's intention to rejoin the U.N. Human Rights Council.
“I have seen for myself how the original sin of slavery weaved White supremacy into our founding documents and principles,” she said.
Not only is Thomas-Greenfield a tedious leftist bigot, but she's also illiterate. Then again, I'm sure white supremacy is also 'weaved' into literacy.
Remember when Never Trumpers kept insisting that the Biden Administration would be moderate and repair our national image?
This is what that looks like.
EXCLUSIVE: Daunte Wright had a warrant out for his arrest for attempted aggravated robbery charges after 'choking and holding a woman at gunpoint for $820 in 2019,' court papers reveal
60 Arrested in Minnesota in 3rd Night of Riots After Police Shooting of Daunte Wright AP Photo/John Minchillo 3:52
Police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, arrested at least 60 protesters during a third night of rioting. More than 800 marched to the station following the officer-involved shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man.
Minnesota State Patrol Chief Matt Langer told reporters that officers arrested “upward” of 60 people after protesters threw bricks, cans, bottles of alcohol, and other items at police guarding the station, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. The chief displayed examples of the items that struck multiple officers’ helmets.
A video posted on Twitter shows police responding to large objects over a barrier fence. The officers fired crowd control munitions in response.
The crowd, estimated to be between 800 and 1,000 people, gathered for a third night after Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kimberly Potter allegedly shot and killed Wright after he resisted arrest on an outstanding warrant. A local court issued the warrant after Wright failed to appear in court on a charge of aggravated armed robbery, Fox News reported . Wright resigned from the department on Tuesday.
Peaceful protests began about 4:30 on Tuesday as marchers moved on the police headquarters building. The crowd first marched to the FBI Field Office building and then on to the police station.
At the time of the curfew, police estimated the crowd size at about 800-1,000 people. State police and National Guardsmen deployed by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) stood behind a freshly erected fence to guard the police station.
At about 8:30 p.m., police declared the assembly of curfew violators to be an unlawful assembly and ordered the crowd, including media, to leave the area.
As snow began to fall, officers began moving the crowd down the street and making arrests as they marched forward.
The arrests of more than 60 people on Tuesday follows the Monday night arrests of another 53, Breitbart News reported . Police in Brooklyn Center arrested approximately 40 rioters. Another 13 were arrested in neighboring Minneapolis.
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Another black eye for the police...but is it justified?
The current controversy about the detaining of Lt. Caron Nazario is a classic example of how the media distort events in order to create hostility. Newsweek reported, "In December 2020, Windsor cops Daniel Crocker and Joe Gutierrez pulled over Caron Nazario, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, and drew their guns before using pepper spray and knocking him to the ground." CNN reported, "The Windsor officers pointed guns at, pepper sprayed and pushed a Black US Army officer to the ground during the traffic stop last December." Police body-cam footage of the traffic stop of Nazario was viewed more than 9 million times since it was shared on Twitter Friday. It does not reflect well on the officers or Nazario.
Caron Nazario intentionally created a hostile situation by not obeying lawful orders. He had his cell phone positioned so he could record the incident. It is common sense that if you disobey a police officer's order, you are going to have a problem. The lieutenant could have benefited from watching Chris Rock 's video titled "How not to get your ass kicked by the police!" It is humorous and directed at black people, but it is a serious subject that applies to people of any race. Rock mentions several items, but the first three are the most important: stop immediately, obey the law, and use common sense. Being polite might be optional, but it does not hurt.
When you are stopped by the police, you have no idea why you were stopped. If you were speeding, you might surmise that that was the reason you were stopped. However, your vehicle may have matched an alert for an armed and dangerous subject. When officers approach you with their weapons drawn, you might think it is more than just a routine traffic stop. Nazario informed the officers, "I have not committed any crime." He also informed them, "For a traffic violation, I do not have to get out of the vehicle." Should the officers just have taken his word for it?
Nazario intentionally frustrated the officers, and they allowed themselves to be frustrated. That was the cause of the idiotic comments they made: "What's going on is you're fixing to ride the lightning, son." There was no need to respond to Nazario's remark, "I'm honestly afraid to get out," with "you should be." Nazario was told, "Open the door slowly and step out." He was told "open the door" several times. He responded, "I'm not getting out of the vehicle." In response to his question, "What's going on?," he was told at one point, "Get out of the car. Work with us, and we'll talk to you."
The police claim that he was pulled over because they did not see his license plate. I saw the video and did not see the paper plate. CBS claims that the temporary dealer plate was visible in the officer's body camera video. Was it visible from a distance? Nazario is claiming "racial profiling" in his lawsuit. It is unlikely that he was pulled over because he is Black. The vehicle had tinted windows, and the incident took place at night.
Much is being made of the fact that Nazario was in uniform. He told the officers, "I'm serving this country, and this is how I'm treated." Being in the military is not a guarantee that you are not a threat. Major Nidal Malik Hasan was in uniform when he murdered 13 soldiers. Nazario claims in his lawsuit that the officer's actions "may have negatively impacted his military career." This seems unlikely. Sergeant major of the Army Michael Grinston tweeted that Nazario "represented himself and our Army well through his calm, professional response to the situation. I'm very proud of him." The lesson here is that according to the leadership in the military, it is permissible to disobey police orders as long as you remain calm and professional.
Officer Gutierrez was terminated because he did not follow department policy. News reports do not say exactly what department policy Gutierrez violated. Police violate department policies all the time. Did the Capitol policeman violate the department's use of force policy when he shot Ashli Babbitt ? There does not appear to be much media interest in this particular violation.
The media want to agitate people against the police, and they have been successful, as a large number of the comments on the subject show. You get out of your car. You show your ID, and, in most cases, you go on your way.
John Dietrich is a freelance writer and the author of The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy (Algora Publishing). He has a Master of Arts degree in international relations from St. Mary's University. He is retired from the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. He is featured on the BBC's program "Things We Forgot to Remember :" Morgenthau Plan and Post-War Germany.
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Report: Daunte Wright Had Warrant for Attempted Aggravated Robbery Shafkat Anowar / Associated Press 3:23
Daunte Wright allegedly had a warrant out for his arrest at the time he was shot and killed by a Brooklyn Center police officer near Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Sunday, court papers obtained by the British Daily Mail newspaper suggest.
“Wright was due to face trial on a charge of attempted aggravated robbery – with a possible maximum sentence of 20 years in prison,” the newspaper reported on April 13.
The charge stems from an incident in December 2019 when Wright, then 19 years old, and a second man named Emajay Driver, then 18 years old, allegedly visited a residence shared by two women in Osseo, Minnesota. Wright allegedly tried to hold up one of the women to steal a sum of $820 in cash she had stashed inside her bra. Wright allegedly pointed a gun at the woman, choked her, and threatened to shoot her if she did not hand over the money.
“The $820 cash was tucked in the victim’s bra and defendant Wright placed his hand around victim’s neck and choked her while trying to pull the cash from under her bra,” according to Officer Mikkelson. “Victim was able to get loose from defendant Wright and started to kneel down and scream.”
“After more yelling, Wright allegedly told the woman that he was going to shoot her unless he got the money,” according to the Daily Mail .
Wright’s bail for the charge was originally set at $100,000, “with orders that he should not contact the victim or any witnesses, refrain from drugs and alcohol and not have any weapons. A bond bailsman paid $40,000 for his release,” the Daily Mail reports.
Wright’s bail was revoked in July 2020, however, “due to his ‘failure to not possess a firearm or ammunition’ and not keeping in touch with his probation officer,” according to court papers seen by the Daily Mail . A judge issued a warrant for Wright’s arrest at that time. The arrest warrant was still outstanding on April 11, the day he died.
The Daily Mail addressed claims made in recent days on the internet alleging “Wright may not even have known about the warrant because it was sent to the wrong address and returned to the court by the U.S. Postal Service.” According to the newspaper, “that letter, sent out on February 2 and returned to the court three days later, was just to advise Wright of a change of date for his court hearing.”
Wright was pulled over by members of the Brooklyn Center Police Department near Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 11 for having expired license plate tags. The police officers learned of Wright’s outstanding arrest warrant while verifying his personal information during the traffic stop and tried to arrest him. Wright resisted the arrest and got back into his car as officers attempted to handcuff him. An officer named Kimberly Potter accidentally shot Wright with a gun during the altercation, apparently believing she was firing her Taser, and he subsequently died.
Potter’s bodycam footage of the incident captures her shouting, “Taser, taser, taser,” before she shoots Wright, seeming to indicate she intended to use a taser against him.
Potter resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department on April 13. Wright’s death sparked protests, riots, and looting in Minneapolis on the evening of April 11. The unrest continued in the city for a second night on April 12.
EXCLUSIVE: Daunte Wright had a warrant out for his arrest for attempted aggravated robbery charges after 'choking and holding a woman at gunpoint for $820 in 2019,' court papers reveal
Daunte Wright was shot dead by Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kimberly Potter Sunday after he was pulled over for 'expired license plate tags' DailyMail.com can reveal that Wright, 20, had a warrant out for his arrest for attempted aggravated robbery charges at the time Charging papers allege Wright and a second man, Emajay Driver, attended a party in December 2019 at the home of two women in Osseo, Minnesota The women allowed the pair to crash after they said they didn't have a ride home The next morning, after one of the women went to withdraw $820 in rent money, Wright allegedly held her at gunpoint and demanded she give him the cash His bail was originally set at $100k with orders that he should not contact the victim or any witnesses, refrain from drugs and alcohol and not have any weapon It was revoked in July last year due to his 'failure to not possess a firearm or ammunition' and not keeping in touch with his probation officer DailyMail.com has also learned that online speculation that Wright did not know there was a warrant out for his arrest is false By MARTIN GOULD FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and RUTH STYLES IN BROOKLYN CENTER, MINNESOTA, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 16:40 EDT, 13 April 2021 UPDATED: 17:27 EDT, 13 April 2021
Daunte Wright choked a woman and threatened to shoot her if she did not hand over $820 she had stuffed in her bra, court papers obtained by DailyMail.com allege.
That is the case that led to a warrant for his arrest at the time he was shot and killed by police officer Kimberly Potter in Minnesota on Sunday, leading to days of unrest.
And online speculation that he did not know there was a warrant out for his arrest is false, DailyMail.com has learned. A letter returned to the court for having a wrong address was giving notice of a court date in August and had nothing to do with the warrant.
Wright, 20, was shot dead in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on Sunday by Potter, 48, a 26-year veteran in the Brooklyn Center Police Department.
She says she mistakenly grabbed her gun instead of her taser. After the gun fired, she is heard on body camera saying: 'Holy s**t I shot him.' Potter and Brooklyn Center police chief Tim Gannon both resigned on Tuesday.
DailyMail.com can reveal that Daunte Wright (pictured in his booking photo) 20, had a warrant out for his arrest on attempted aggravated robbery charges after allegedly holding a woman at gunpoint for $820 in December 2019
Wright was fatally shot by Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kimberly Potter (pictured) on Sunday after he was pulled over for what police said were expired license plate tags
Wright was allegedly pulled over for having expired license plate tags, although he called his mother and told her it was for having an air freshener hanging on his rear-view mirror. While checking his details, Potter and other officers learned of the warrant.
When they tried to handcuff him, Wright got back into his car and at that point Potter shot him in the chest after warning fellow officers to get out of the way by shouting, 'Taser, taser, taser.'
Wright was due to face trial on a charge of attempted aggravated robbery - with a possible maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
Charging papers say he and a second man, Emajay Driver went to a home shared by two women in Osseo, Minnesota 'to party' in December 2019. At the time, Wright was 19 and Driver was 18.
The women asked them to leave around 2.30 am on December 1, but they said they didn't have a ride and the women - who are not identified in the court documents - allowed them to sleep on the floor.
In the morning, one of the women went to the bank to get her $820 rent money which she gave to the other woman and then left for work. As Wright, Driver and the second woman were leaving, Wright allegedly tried to hold up the woman.
'The three of them were walking to the door to exit the apartment and defendant Wright turned around and blocked the door preventing victim from leaving,' says the report, written by Osseo Police Officer Shane Mikkelson.
DailyMail.com has learned that online speculation that Wright did not know there was a warrant out for his arrest is false. A letter (pictured) returned to the court for having a wrong address was giving notice of a court date in August and had nothing to do with the warrant
Police body cam footage of the fatal incident showed three officers approaching Daunte Wright's car in Brooklyn Center on Sunday after he had been pulled over for the traffic stop
Potter could be heard shouting 'Taser!' several times in the moments before she fired her gun. Immediately after, she can be heard saying: 'I shot him'. It appears she dropped her gun in the aftermath
Officer Potter and other officers learned of the warrant after pulling Wright (pictured with his son) over for 'expired license plate tags' on Sunday
'Defendant Wright then pulled a black handgun with silver trim out from either his right waistband or his right coat pocket and pointed it at victim and demanded the rent money,' continued Mikkelson.
'Victim said "Are you serious?" Defendant Wright replied: "Give me the f**king money, I know you have it."
When the woman again asked him if he was serious, Wright is said to have replied: 'I'm not playing around.'
Mikkelson's report said: 'The $820 cash was tucked in the victim's bra and defendant Wright placed his hand around victim's neck and choked her while trying to pull the cash from under her bra.
'Victim was able to get loose from defendant Wright and started to kneel down and scream.'
After more yelling, Wright allegedly told the woman that he was going to shoot her unless he got the money.
'Give me the money and we will leave,' he allegedly said. 'Give me the money and we will go.'
Mikkelson added: 'Defendant Wright then tried to choke victim a second time and tried to take her money. Defendant Driver was telling her to give defendant Wright the money.
Daunte Wright's parents Katie and Aubrey said they could not accept their son's death was a mistake after police revealed Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kimberly Potter accidentally fired her gun instead of her taser
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'Defendant Driver then said: "Let's go," and the two defendants left and got into a white Cadillac and left the scene,' wrote Mikkelson.
'Afterwards, victim found that the cash was still in her bra.'
Mikkelson said the woman identified both Wright and Driver through photo line-ups.
Wright's bail was originally set at $100,000 with orders that he should not contact the victim or any witnesses, refrain from drugs and alcohol and not have any weapons. A bond bailsman paid $40,000 for his release.
But his bail was revoked in July last year due to his 'failure to not possess a firearm or ammunition' and not keeping in touch with his probation officer, court papers show.
At that time a judge issued a warrant for his arrest, that was still outstanding on the day he died.
In recent days several people have claimed on the Internet that Wright may not even have known about the warrant because it was sent to the wrong address and returned to the court by the US Postal Service.
But that letter, sent out on February 2 and returned to the court three days later was just to advise Wright of a change of date for his court hearing.
Katie Wright (left), the mother of Daunte Wright, is embraced during a vigil for her son on April 12, 2021 in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Wright was shot and killed yesterday by Brooklyn Center police during a traffic stop
Riot police stand in the middle of a crowd of protesters demonstrating after the death of Wright, outside the police station at 6645 N. Humboldt Ave
It was sent to an address in Minneapolis and marked 'Return to Sender. No such number. Unable to forward' by the USPS.
Wright's killing, just 10 miles from the scene of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis last May, has led to unrest in Minnesota and nationwide.
Overnight protests broke out in New York, Washington, D.C., Portland, Seattle and elsewhere.
Police officer Potter's five-bedroom home was surrounded by cops unloading barricades on Tuesday after her address was leaked online.
A police source told DailyMail.com that they anticipate protests later and said they are taking precautions to prevent the home being wrecked.
'We learned from [Derek] Chauvin. His house got totally smashed up in the protests,' the source said.
Potter left the property late last night with her 54-year-old husband Jeff and their sons Sam and Nick.
Cop who 'accidentally' shot dead Daunte Wright is a 25-year veteran who trained rookies Kimberly Potter, 48, has worked with the Brooklyn Center Police Department for 25 years.
She was training a new officer on Sunday when the fatal shooting occurred.
Potter is a married mother of two, who was first licensed as a police officer in Minnesota in 1995 at age 22, according to state records obtained by the Star Tribune .
She has served on the city's negotiation team, and was among the first to arrive at the scene of another officer-involved shooting, in August 2019. In that case, Kobe Dimock-Heisler died after he allegedly rushed at officers with a knife in a home.
Potter instructed the two officers involved in the 2019 incident 'to exit the residence, get into separate squad cars, turn off their body worn cameras, and to not talk to each other,' according to an investigative report from the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, obtained by the paper. Both officers' actions were found to be justified and no charges were filed.
Potter has been a union president for her department's officers, the paper reported, and was a longtime member of the Law Enforcement Memorial Association.
Potter has two adult sons and lives with her husband, a former Fridley police officer, in a different Minneapolis suburb, the paper reported.
She had annual salary of $86,190, according to public records from 2018.
Jeff Potter, retired from cop work with the Police Department in Fridley, Minnesota, in 2017 after 26 years. He now works as a corporate investigator at Allina Health. A relative was also spotted at the home on Tuesday morning, taking a series of cardboard boxes out of the property and loading it into their car.
Police sources told DailyMail.com that Potter and her family have left the area entirely.
In an interview with Good Morning America on Tuesday, Wright's parents Katie and Aubrey said they could not accept their son's death was a mistake.
'I cannot accept that. I lost my son, he's never coming back. I can't accept a mistake, that doesn't even sound right,' Aubrey said.
'This officer has been on the force for 26 years.'
Wright's mother added that she wants Potter to be held accountable for 'everything she's taken from us'.
His aunt, Naisha Wright, had earlier called for Potter to be jailed for 'not knowing the difference between a fully loaded pistol and a taser'.
'Accident? An accident? No, come on now! I own a 20,000 volt taser. They don't feel nothing like a gun,' she told CNN. 'My family's blood is on their hands.'
Naisha has denied that her nephew's license plate tag was expired, as police have said. She also said a misdemeanor warrant that was out for her nephew was 'just for some weed'.
Wright's shooting death has sparked violent protests and unrest in the city that is already on edge because of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the first of four police officers charged in George Floyd's death.
Police Chief Tim Gannon released footage of the incident from Potter's bodycam that showed her and two other officers approaching Wright's car after he had been pulled over for the traffic stop.
The footage showed one officer trying to handcuff Wright as a second officer told him he was being arrested on a warrant. Wright immediately jumped back into his car in an apparent attempt to flee.
A struggle then broke out between the officers and Wright, who was still sitting inside his car.
'I'll Tase you! I'll Tase you! Taser! Taser! Taser!' Potter could be heard shouting in her bodycam video.
Immediately after, Potter can be heard saying: 'Holy sh*t. I shot him'.
Potter and Tim Gannon both resigned on Tuesday amid mounting pressure for Potter to step down.
In her resignation letter, Potter - who has worked for the department for 26 years - did not address the deadly shooting that has sparked two days of violent protests and unrest across the city.
'I have loved every minute of being a police officer and serving this community to the best of my ability, but I believe it is in the best interest of the community, the department and my fellow officers if I resign immediately,' Potter said.
Potter, a married mother-of-two, had been on administrative leave since the shooting.
Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliot also announced the resignation of Potter's police chief boss.
Gannon was the one who revealed during a tense press conference a day earlier that Wright's death was the result of 'accidental discharge' after Potter mistook her taser for a gun.
The resignations came as pressure mounted for Potter to be fired, including from Mayor Elliot.
Police have said a struggle broke out as they tried to arrest Wright after running his name and realizing he had an outstanding warrant.
53 Arrested During Overnight Protests in Minneapolis Area amid Looting, Violence Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images 2:14
Riots and looting continued Monday night in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, and neighboring Minneapolis. Police officers arrested at least 53 people in the two cities.
A standoff between demonstrators seeking to protest the police shooting of Daunte Wright, 20, on Sunday afternoon turned violent as darkness covered the city of Brooklyn Center. Protesters began throwing rocks and fireworks at police officers outside the station long after the 8 p.m. curfew took effect, Breitbart News reported .
As protesters occupied the attention of police at the headquarters building, looters began targeting businesses in both Brooklyn and Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported . The rioting and looting led to the arrest of at least 53 people in the two cities.
Minnesota State Police Colonel Matt Langer told reporters that officers arrested 40 people in Brooklyn Center. Police booked some of the suspects into the Hennepin County jail while others were cited and released. The colonel said some officers suffered minor injuries from thrown objects. No protesters reported injuries, he stated.
In neighboring Minneapolis, Deputy Police Chief Amelia Huffman told reporters that officers arrested 13 people in that city. Charges ranged from burglary related to looting (4), shots-fired incidents (2), curfew violations (6), and one for an outstanding warrant. The chief said five businesses fell victim to looters.
Police say protests during the daylight hours remained mostly peaceful. However, under cover of darkness, violence broke out mainly from “outliers,” former Department of Public Safety Assistant Commissioner Booker Hodges said in a news conference.
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‘Race Baiting Grifter:’ Diddy Accused of Stiffing Black Artists After Saying Corporations Exploit Black People Larry Busacca/Getty Images for The Walter Kaitz Foundation 2:11
Fashion and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs faced accusations of hypocrisy from fans after he sounded off on General Motors for not making more substantial investments in the black community.
Combs published a letter to his website entitled, “If You Love Us, Pay Us,” in which he slams General Motors for its lack of investment in the black community. Diddy said that blacks are not afraid to “weaponize our dollars” by boycotting products from companies blacks find unresponsive. But despite his demands from American corporations, some turned Diddy’s call back at him, claiming he has repeatedly refused to help a black artist with his Bad Boy Records.
Many recalled when rapper Mase, who rose to fame with several chart-topping hit songs under Diddy’s Bad Boy Records, wanted to buy his own catalog from Diddy for $2 million. But Diddy refused because he thought “some European guy” would pay more than two mil, Page Six recalled. Mase accused Diddy of “starving” his artists.
“Your past business practices knowingly has continued purposely starved your artist and been extremely unfair to the very same artist that helped u obtain that Icon Award on the iconic Bad Boy label,” Mase wrote in January of 2020. “For example, u still got my publishing from 24 years ago in which u gave me $20k. Which makes me never want to work w/ u as any artist wouldn’t after u know someone is robbing you & tarnishing your name when u don’t want to comply w/ his horrendous business model.”
One Twitter user also recalled Mase’s accusations and slammed Diddy for not helping out a black artist even as he points fingers at others.
“Yo @Diddy, how are you going to ask corporate America to pay black people more and fairly when your yourself won’t pay the black people who have helped make you millions?” the Twitter user wrote on Friday. “Lead by example pimp. Give Mase his masters sir.”
Many others piled on.
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Author and political commentator Dinesh D’Souza posted a phone video on Rumble Monday that shows the destruction and looting of businesses in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on Sunday night after a black man with an outstanding warrant allegedly tried to elude police during a traffic stop and was shot and killed.
The officers shot Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man, for allegedly taking off in his car after an attempt to arrest him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Protesters gathered near the site, but dozens of others took advantage of the chaos and smashed windows to enter and loot area businesses.
“God damn, yo,” an unidentified man said as he filmed the damage with his phone, including the looting of the Boost Mobile shop. “They got the phones.”
“They taking everything,” the man who filmed the looting of Five Below, the Dress Barn, and TJ Maxx, said.
“They done fucked this mother fucker up,” the man said as he filmed people leaving businesses with arms full of clothing and other merchandise.
“Dozens of stores near Shingle Creek Parkway were looted overnight night [sic], many of them the same businesses that are covering from the riots after George Floyd’s death last year,” the local Fox News affiliate reported . “There were also reports of looting in other cities including stores along Lake Street in Minneapolis.”
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BLM Goes Hollywood Welcome to the common denominator that unites the founders of Black Lives Matter.
Mon Apr 12, 2021 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
A few years ago, CAA announced that it had signed on to represent Patrisse Cullors. The powerful Hollywood talent agency is considered the biggest firm of its kind and doesn’t usually represent activists. But the Black Lives Matter co-founder isn’t a typical activist either.
By the time that Cullors was being represented by the talent agency, the self-proclaimed “trained Marxist” was going from award dinners to studio events. Most speaking fees aren't made public, but last year, Cullors, along with the other two co-founders of the racist BLM hate group, charged the University of Florida $10,000 each to address students online.
When she isn’t charging thousands to video chat, Cullors curated ComplexCon, a BLM global art show, and worked on an ad campaign for Adidas with Pharell Williams, claims to be a “dancer, choreographer, designer, stylist, producer, and director.”
Cullors got to consult for Good Trouble, a lefty Disney TV series, about two girls, one white and one Latino, who move to Los Angeles and fight racial injustice. Another way of saying that is, she gave a show run by a white lady who used to act on The Bold and the Beautiful street cred.
“You only have to spend about five minutes with Patrisse to be blown away by her as an activist, artist, intellectual and force of life energy, love, joy and humanity,” Good Trouble showrunner Joanna Johnson raved. “She has such a wealth of knowledge and life experience. I’m always looking for that in writers because truth is not only stranger but more nuanced and rich than fiction can ever be."
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Just ask the Black Lives Matter founder who went from a year in which the hate group's race rioters burned buildings and terrorized communities to buying a $1.4 million home in the mostly white Topanga Canyon through a corporate entity.
Like every proper trained Marxist should. As an amateur Marxist, Cullors had to settle for the San Fernando Valley, but as a fully trained Marxist she got “vaulted ceilings clad in knotty pine” and “whitewashed hearth fireplaces.”
Whiteness and whitewashing isn’t all bad. Especially when white studios are paying for it.
The Topanga Canyon home has "soaring ceilings", "skylights", and is ideal for "quietly contemplating cross-canyon vistas framed by mature trees" or the next town your hate group is going to burn. There's even an art studio and politically incorrect "maids quarters".
The house is down the road from one of the homes involved in the Manson murders which seems only appropriate since Manson wanted to start a race war.
And Black Lives Matter is carrying on Manson’s work.
This was reportedly Cullors’ fourth home purchase after buying a ranch on three acres in Atlanta with a private airplane hangar and shopping around for a luxury home in the Bahamas.
Last year, Cullors signed a deal with Warner Brothers to “develop scripted dramas and comedies, docuseries and animated programming for children, young adults and families”.
Cullors also has her own anti-police organization, Dignity and Power Now, run by Lamia Al-Sadek, the former county director of Islamic Relief Worldwide, and two white people, near USC. And she also has her own consulting firm with her lover, Janaya And Patrisse Consulting.
It’s unclear if either of these were the entities that Cullors used to buy her $1.4 million home, or if she has other organizations in her portfolio that have yet to be exposed and revealed.
While Cullors went with CAA, Alicia Garza, the second BLM co-founder, went with ICM, and her book, Purpose Of Power , came out last year. Garza is also due to appear in the HBO adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ racist rant, Between the World and Me .
ICM’s previous coup was boasting about the role of "client Josh Hartnett" in the HBO "documentary" Exterminate All the Brutes which "shifts perspectives by highlighting America's founding as inherently genocidal". It’s no wonder that the entire roster of BLM’s founders have found a comfortable home in an entertainment industry that hates America as much as they do.
Opal Tometi, the third BLM co-founder, got on board with WME, the rival CAA Hollywood talent agency, which Hollywood Reporter noted had signed stars like,“Elton John, Eva Longoria, Shakira, Tessa Thompson, Sarah Cooper, and Opal Tometi.”
You can read about all this in Opal’s official press releases, in between telling a newspaper, “I do this because we deserve to live.”
And deserve to live very well too.
WME used Opal Tometi to launch its Social Justice Now Film Festival through Film Life Foundation, a non-profit founded by Opal and Marvel star, Michael B. Jordan. Sponsored by Sony, Amazon, Heineken, J.P. Morgan, and other great outposts of social justice, the festival’s message is “translate art into change” and features movies like, Who Will Survive America .
It’s hard surviving America while being sponsored by a Japanese electronics firm, a Dutch beer conglomerate, and a banking firm whose predecessors had used slaves as collateral.
Opal also has her own production company, Blue Opal Productions.
Unlike Cullors and Garza, both of whom came out of Los Angeles, Opal came from Arizona, but Hollywood is the common denominator of the founders of Black Lives Matter.
The founders of BLM have gone to work acting, writing, consulting, and promoting for Hollywood because their racist hate movement was always an entertainment industry production. BLM’s race riots destroyed communities and small businesses, but its brands and buzzwords were a corporate marketing campaign backed by industry talent. Like Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio broadcast, it was a production, even if the physical destruction of the riots was all too real.
Why shouldn’t Cullors get a house in the area where Quentin Tarantino filmed a scene in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and where movie stars house their pets at the Topanga Pet Resort?
It’s all made in Hollywood anyway.
Truth is stranger than fiction. But Hollywood also specializes in turning fiction into truth. Why not set the country on fire, elect some Democrats, and get some new content in the pipeline?
Hollywood had been stagnating. Every piece of IP or intellectual property had been locked down by giants like Disney, and the staggering cost of Silicon Valley streamers like Netflix and Amazon Prime sinking billions into developing original content to keep subscription viewers on their plantation had made it impossible for much of the old industry to compete on its own turf.
Now there are books to adapt into movies, TV series to launch, and countless entertainment industry products to sell to guilty liberal suburban moms who joyfully grapple with the depths of their own racism by binge watching black pain. And there are the BLM co-founders to help Hollywood get all the political cred that it needs to make a killing out of racism on a budget.
Forget Hearst’s "You furnish the pictures. I'll furnish the war." The war is easy to furnish. It’s the pictures that are expensive.
The damage from the BLM race riots surpassed $2 billion. That sounds like a lot of money, and individually it wiped out countless businesses, crushed neighborhoods and communities, and took more lives and dreams than will ever be accounted for, but that’s nothing compared to the $17 billion that Netflix blew on programming in just one year. And the best part is that $2 billion was entirely paid for by ordinary Americans, insurance companies, and non-industry types.
Peasants.
Think of the Kenosha riots as the Atlanta burning scene in Gone With the Wind . But no Hollywood studio had to sacrifice its own sets to produce all that footage. Race rioters were happy to burn down American cities as publicity for Hollywood social justice projects.
Some consulting and acting gigs for the marketable founders of the racist hate group is a small price to pay for Warner Brothers to use HBO Max to compete with Netflix. It’s been a long time since Warner Brothers meant the conservative Warner brothers, Jewish immigrants and Republicans who appeared before HUAC, and declared, “We are willing to establish such a fund to ship to Russia the people who don’t like our American system of government.”
Warner Brothers and HBO Max, like CNN, are cultural death rays of the AT&T death star. Or, as a CNN reporter described the riots, “fiery, but mostly peaceful” death rays.
If only there were a fund to ship AT&T, Netflix, and Disney to Russia.
After BLM fades, there will be new productions, spectacles, and extravaganzas to excite, humiliate, and distract the attention of Americans from the havoc being wreaked on their country as a handful of entangled companies fight for supreme dominance in the oligarchy.
And BLM’s co-founders have found a good exit strategy with production companies, organizations, and homes in an industry that knows the value of a good show.
Somewhere, Captain David Dorn’s widow is mourning her husband. And the other victims of BLM are immersed in their own private griefs for lost children, spouses, and parents.
But in Hollywood, the mansions only get bigger and the party never ends.
THERE IS NO SUBCULTURE IN AMERICA MORE RACIST, VIOLENT, ANTI-SEMITIC, ANTI-ASIAN, ABORTED AND HOMOPHOBIC THAN BLACK AMERICA!
Report: Marxist Black Lives Matter Co-founder Bought Four Homes since 2016 Amy Harris/Invision/AP 3:07
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement and a “trained Marxist,” is reported to have bought four homes over the past several years, as her activist profile grew and protests raged around the country.
Last week, real estate website Dirt.com reported that the “37-year-old social justice visionary” Khan-Cullors had bought a $1.4 million compound in Topanga, a remote Los Angeles neighborhood nestled deep in the Santa Monica mountains.
In L.A. terms, $1.4 million is not necessarily extravagant, though the activist took criticism for spending what would be a fortune in most other real estate markets, and for buying in a largely white neighborhood after urging people to “buy black.”
However, it turns out that Khan-Cullors also owns a house in the predominantly black neighborhood of Inglewood — among several other homes. The New York Post reported Saturday that she bought a $510,000 home there in 2016, which is worth about $800,000 today. She also bought a $590,000 home in South Los Angeles that is worth $720,000 today, and bought a ranch in rural Georgia for $415,000 last year, “featuring a private airplane hangar with a studio apartment above it.”
The Post added that Khan-Cullors and spouse Janaya Khan “also eyed property in the Bahamas at an ultra-exclusive resort where Justin Timberlake and Tiger Woods both have homes” called the Albany last year, with the price not disclosed.
Khan-Cullors declared in 2015 that she and the other Black Lives Matter co-founders were “trained Marxists” who are ” super-versed” on “ideological theories.” Last year, as Breitbart News noted, the radical activist signed a content production deal with Warner Bros. Television Group.
The news of Khan-Cullors’s real estate purchases prompted some activists called for a financial investigation of the Black Lives Matter movement. Khan-Cullors is hardly the first to cash in. Tamika Mallory, notorious for her support of the antisemite Louis Farrakhan, has scored product endorsements.
Nor would Khan-Cullors be the first Marxist to succeed in the real estate market with multiple homes. In 2014, Breitbart News reported on local landlords in Santa Monica, California, who are avowed supporters of the Castro regime in Cuba.
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60 Expressway Shootings in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast 1:50
There have been 60 shootings on expressways in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago so far this year.
Fox News notes this puts the city on pace to top the 128 shootings witnessed in all of 2020, and it already surpasses the 52 such shootings which took place in 2019.
Illinois State Police are responding to the gun violence surge by spending $12.5 million on cameras with which to monitor the expressways.
NBC 5 reports one person “was seriously hurt” in the latest expressway shooting. That shooting occurred Thursday morning just after 11 a.m. on I-57.
In non-expressway violence, ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times observed 12 people were shot, one fatally, Friday into early Saturday night in Chicago.
The fatality was a 17-year-old boy who was shot and killed in Bridgeport while “sitting in a parked vehicle about 9:45 p.m. in the 200 block of West 37th Street.”
The Chicago Tribune reports 155 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2021, through April 8, 2021. That is 27 more than were killed during the same time-frame in 2020.
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Ex-con is arrested and charged with hate crimes after unwittingly targeting an undercover NYPD cop with anti-Asian slurs and threating to stab him in the face
Juvian Rodriguez, 35, was arrested and charged with menacing and harassment The former convict is accused of spewing anti-Asian abuse to an undercover cop Police say Rodriguez approached the plainclothes officer in Midtown Manhattan on Friday afternoon 'Go back to China before you wind up in the f***ing graveyard!' he allegedly said He also threatened to 'slap' and stab the officer in the face, according to police By DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 15:27 EDT, 10 April 2021 UPDATED: 15:50 EDT, 10 April 2021
Juvian Rodriguez, 35, was arrested and charged with hate crimes including menacing and harassment on Friday
A New York City man was arrested and charged with hate crimes after allegedly hurling anti-Asian abuse and threats at an undercover cop.
Police say Juvian Rodriguez, 35, unwittingly targeted a member of the NYPD's Asian Hate Crime Task Force on patrol in Midtown Manhattan on Friday afternoon.
Rodriguez, an ex-convict, approached the plainclothes officer outside Madison Square Garden on 33rd Street, and allegedly began spewing hate speech and threats.
'Go back to China before you wind up in the f***ing graveyard!', he said, the New York Post reported.
A police source said Rodriguez also allegedly told the cop: 'I'm going to slap the holy piss out of you and stab you in the face.'
The officer, who was not identified, alerted the precinct and subsequently arrested the man.
Rodriguez, who is reported to have had a number of brushes with the law in the past, was charged with menacing and harassment - as hate crimes - as well as drug possession.
The ex-convict unwittingly targeted an undercover officer from NYPD's Asian Hate Crime Task Force, police said
Rodriguez is accused of threatening to stab the officer and telling him to 'go back to China'
He allegedly remained defiant even after he was busted, telling cops: 'I don't give a f***k if I go to jail,' the Post reported.
When asked to comment by reporters outside the precinct, Rodriguez reportedly shouted: 'Your mother!'
His arrest comes amid a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the city.
The NYPD last month announced it was deploying plainclothes officers as part of their Asian Hate Crime Task Force to help tackle the recent uptick.
The department reports that New York City alone has at least 35 anti-Asian hate crime reports since January, compared to the 28 in all of 2020.
Since the coronavirus shutdown in the US last march, a report from Stop AAPI Hate has documented at least 3,795 racially motivated attacks against Asian Americans in the last year alone.
Raised awareness of anti-Asian hate crimes in the US has led to the popular 'Stop Asian Hate' movement online and in rallies across the nation
Raised awareness of anti-Asian hate crimes in the US has led to the popular 'Stop Asian Hate' movement online and in rallies across the nation.
The movement gained traction after the high profile March shootings at three spas in Georgia, where a gunman killed eight people , including six Asian women.
Last week surveillance footage caught an elderly 65-year-old Asian woman viciously attacked by a stranger who hurled anti-Asian statements in a random attack in New York City.
In 2020 the United Nations brought attention to the issue, attributing 'alarming level' of racist attacks in the US due to COVID -19, the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China.
'Racially motivated violence and other incidents against Asian-Americans have reached an alarming level across the United States since the outbreak of COVID19' the report said.
The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, reported that anti-Asian hate crimes in America's largest cities rose 149% in 2020, while overall hate crimes dropped seven percent.
The report found that the hugest surge was in New York, where anti-Asian hate crimes rose from just three in 2019 to 28 in 2020, a 833% increase.
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Emmy-winning black producer and screenwriter Lena Waithe faces backlash for fueling 'hate crime fantasies' with extreme racial violence in new Amazon series 'Them'
New horror series 'Them' tells the fictional story of a black family who move from North Carolina to an all-white neighborhood in Compton, LA in the 1950s The Emory family aim to escape the Jim Crow South during the Great Migration They soon find themselves facing the peril of both supernatural forces and racism from their new white neighbors who scorch the n-word into their lawn It was created by Little Marvin and Lena Waithe and released on Amazon Prime Video Friday Several people took to Twitter Saturday to slam it over a brutal scene in the fifth episode where a baby is brutally murdered while its mother is raped The furor erupted after the Los Angeles Times published a piece questioning if the series had gone 'too far' Some called it 'propaganda for white terrorists' and 'disgusting' Little Marvin defended the violence saying it showed 'authenticity' He pointed out the key timing of its release as he said it is 'a scary place to be in 2021' amid a nationwide racial reckoning following the death of George Floyd By RACHEL SHARP FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 15:54 EDT, 10 April 2021 UPDATED: 16:34 EDT, 10 April 2021
Lena Waithe is facing a backlash on social media over her new series 'Them', with some saying they 'thought a white person wrote it' because of its portrayal of racial violence.
Several people took to Twitter Saturday accusing the show of appealing to 'hate crime fantasies' due to a scene in the fifth episode where a baby is brutally murdered while its mother is raped.
The new horror series tells the fictional story of a black family who move from North Carolina to an all-white neighborhood in Compton, Los Angeles , during the Great Migration of the 1950s.
Despite hoping the move will be an escape from the Jim Crow South, the Emory family quickly find themselves facing the peril of both supernatural forces and racism from their new white neighbors who, among other things, scorch the n-word into their front lawn.
Lena Waithe is facing a backlash on social media over her new series 'Them' (pictured promo poster), with some saying they 'thought a white person wrote it' because of its portrayal of racial violence
The series, created by black producer and writer Little Marvin and produced by Emmy-winning black producer, actress and screenwriter Waithe, was released on Amazon Prime Video Friday.
But the furor over the series largely erupted after the Los Angeles Times published a piece questioning if the series had gone 'too far'.
The review pointed out a flashback moment in episode five showing the infant's murder before the family moved away from North Carolina.
In the scene, the mother Lucky hides her son Chester in a closet as a white mob break into her home.
The mob find them and the men sexually assault Lucky while the woman stuffs the baby into a pillowcase and throws him around while chanting 'cat in the bag' before dropping the infant to the floor, killing him.
The episode in question was written by Little Marvin and Dominic Orlando and directed by Janicza Bravo.
Social media users slammed the violent depiction and hit out at Waithe, questioning its depiction of violence against black people with some calling it 'propaganda for white terrorists.'
'I've been a horror super fan for over 30 years. Lena Waithe's 'Them' is the cheapest kind of horror,' one person wrote.
'It's propaganda for white terrorists and torture porn fetishists. There is a huge difference between fear and disgust. The show is disgusting.'
The series, created by black producer and writer Little Marvin (left) and produced by Emmy-winning black producer, actress and screenwriter Waithe (right), was released on Amazon Prime Video Friday
Another person chimed in: 'Lena Waithe like a lot of bourgeoise black artists uses black trauma to give their work depth that they are too lazy or incapable of providing.
'Too often people treat a piece of work as profound because black people are being victimized and Waithe doubles down to seem profound.'
Others cast doubt over how any people of color approved the series.
'I think lena waithe should review 'them' and try to decipher who her target audience was,' one person wrote.
'who exactly was she making this series for? honestly, when i saw the trailers for it and read about the series, i thought a white person wrote it. do NOT watch 'them'.'
Another agreed: 'Lena Waithe getting as far as she does might be a sign that there's still little to no diversity in these rooms because there's no way Lena presented this story to an actual living breathing black person and got the green light.'
'Lena Waithe will pay for her crimes against the black community,' one person wrote alongside a meme of an angry Barney the dinosaur.
Several people took to Twitter Saturday to slam what they claim appeals to 'hate crime fantasies' over a brutal scene in the fifth episode where a baby is brutally murdered while its mother is raped
Both Waithe and Little Marvin are black.
Little Marvin defended the show of violence saying it was necessary for 'authenticity' about the experience of black people during that period in America.
'Yes, there is a concern, but at the end of the day, I as an artist have to sit with myself and grapple with the authenticity of the show,' he told the LA Times.
'If I can sleep at night knowing this entire enterprise has an authenticity and integrity to it, then I'm good.'
He said the aim was not to be 'provocative or hot button' but to ask two things: 'what terrified us the most and what felt most true. Typically, those two things were the same.'
The executive producer also pointed out the key timing of its release as he said it is 'a scary place to be in 2021.'
'We're incredibly fractured and split down the middle,' he said.
'There are people who want to take the country back to a time they consider great, and there are folks who are fighting for progress. That's a scary place to be in 2021.'
The nation is facing a racial reckoning following the death of George Floyd and multiple police killings of black people.
The new horror series tells the fictional story of a black family who move from North Carolina to an all-white neighborhood in Compton, Los Angeles, during the Great Migration of the 1950s. A clip from the show
Despite hoping the move would be an escape from the Jim Crow South, the Emory family quickly find themselves facing the peril of both supernatural forces and racism from their new white neighbors who, among other things, scorch the n-word into their front lawn
The trial of white cop Derek Chauvin for Floyd's murder is currently in progress in Minneapolis court.
Floyd's death sparked renewed calls for racial justice and an end to systemic racism but it comes as concerns are also growing over the re-emergence of white supremacy and extremism.
Little Marvin said seeing shocking videos of violence against black people in recent times inspired him to tell the story of 'Them.'
'My inspiration was waking up every day and seeing cellphone videos of black people being terrorized in some ways, either by threats from police, surveillance or something else,' he said.
'That history goes all the way back to the founding of our country. I was also thinking about the American Dream. There's nothing more emblematic of that than owning one's home.
'There's great pride in that, particularly for black people. But as you know, it's been anything but a dream. It's been a nightmare for Black folks.'
Little Marvin defended the violence saying it showed 'authenticity' of the experience of racism and several social media users agreed arguing those criticizing it are just 'uncomfortable' facing up to the reality of racism
Several social media users agreed with the creators, arguing those criticizing the depiction of violence are just 'uncomfortable' facing up to the reality of racism.
'#THEM on Amazon is insane. This new-ish genre of horror that examines Black trauma through racism isn't going away any time soon,' one person wrote.
'And judging by the reviews, it's making our melanin-free friends uncomfortable. So you know it's good.'
Another person agreed, replying: 'Glad you are enjoying(?!) it! I couldn't agree more - I heard one reviewer saying it was just too much and she wished it had been dialed back.
'Missing the entire point there. Really tough show to work on all things considered but I'm glad it's getting the recognition.'
The criticism was largely directed against Waithe who is more well-known than Little Marvin, after she became the first black woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for the Netflix comedy drama series Master of None.
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llinois man who was trying to give phones to the Islamic State to use as DETONATORS in Syria is jailed for 13 years
Edward Schimenti tried to give phones to ISIS to be used as bombs Schimenti didn't know that he was dealing with a government informant when he agreed to get phones to use as detonators, according to prosecutors Prosecutors claim Schimenti trained the informant at a local gym, where Schimenti expressed a desire to 'cut the neck' of non-believers Schimenti apologized for his actions during a sentencing hearing on Friday A co-conspirator, Joseph D. Jones, was sentenced to 12 years last month By ASSOCIATED PRESS and HOLDEN WALTER-WARNER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 22:34 EDT, 9 April 2021 UPDATED: 10:10 EDT, 10 April 2021
An Illinois man who believed he was giving phones to help the Islamic State group commit violence was sentenced Friday to 13 1/2 years in federal prison.
Edward Schimenti was convicted of one count of conspiring to provide material support and resources to ISIS and one count of making false statements to the FBI in 2019 for providing phones to an informant that he thought the Islamic State would use as detonators.
Schimenti was first charged alongside Joseph D. Jones back in 2017, four years ahead of Friday's sentencing.
U.S. District Judge Andrea Wood said Schimenti was more culpable of the two men, who were convicted by a jury in 2019.
Joseph D. Jones (left) and Edward Schimenti (center) posing in front of an ISIS flag
But she also said the crime was 'on the less serious end of a scale that starts at a very serious level,' the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Last month, Jones was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison following his conviction on a conspiracy charge.
Schimenti didn't know that he was dealing with a government informant when he agreed to get phones to use as detonators, according to prosecutors.
'Drench that land with ... they blood,' Schimenti told the man before taking him to an airport for a purported trip to Syria, according to the government.
The FBI began investigating the Zion, Illinois, man based on social media posts in favor of the Islamic State.
Pictured: Edward Schimenti, who sometimes went by 'Abdul Wali' online
Prosecutors allege Schimenti wrote on social media, 'Islamic State will control your country, matter of fact, Islam will dominate the world!!'
Schimenti also allegedly prominently displayed the Islamic State flag on his Google+ account.
The feds set up a 'ruse scenario' to help determine the intentions of Jones and Schimenti, though their lawyers claim they were entrapped.
The U.S. District Court released several social media messages allegedly posted by Schimenti
An undercover agent who referred to himself as Omar allegedly struck up a friendship with Jones after the latter was summoned to a police station in regards to the murder of a friend.
According to prosecutors, Omar informed Jones that he knew someone who could help Jones travel to the Islamic State, although that turned out to be another undercover agent, called Bilal.
Jones and Schimenti then met with Omar and Bilal on December 29, 2015, a meeting prosecutors say Schimenti left when he became suspicious upon being asked about pledging allegiance to the Islamic State.
In November 2016, an informant was allegedly sent to Schimenti's employer, where he earned a job and started socializing with Schimenti.
An alleged social media post from Schimenti threatens to 'slaughter Pagans'
Another alleged post from Schimenti appears to link to Boko Haram, another terrorist group
The informant learned that Schimenti had a brother in the Islamic State and that he aimed to join his brother in Syria, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors claim Schimenti trained the informant at a local gym, where Schimenti expressed a desire to 'cut the neck' of non-believers.
Additionally, the informant allegedly relayed to Schimenti about how Islamic State fighters could use cell phones as bombs and told the two men about a YouTube video demonstrating the tactic.
Schimenti later allegedly helped gather cell phones for the informant while declining payment for his work.
'I know where they’re going,' Schimenti said.
Schimenti also said 'I want to see blood flowing, either way' during a shopping trip with the informant.
On April 7, 2017, Jones and Schimenti dined with the informant before driving him to O'Hare Airport, where they believed he was traveling to Syria.
Pictured: Joseph D. Jones, who was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison last month
His lawyers said Schimenti was 'consistently manipulated' by the government 'until he took the bait.'
Schimenti's defense attorneys also claim he was never taken seriously by a terrorist group, as they never reached out to him.
'In the end, your honor, really I guess I'm just asking for another chance at life,' Schimenti told the judge while apologizing.
Prior to their arrests in 2017, Jones was a part-time chef and college student, while Schimenti worked at a cancer treatment center.
Black Lives Matter of Greater New York chair Hawk Newsome questions how much Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has contributed to charity.
The head of New York City’s Black Lives Matter chapter is calling for an investigation into BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors over a series of million-dollar real estate purchases she’s made.
Cullors, 37, has reportedly purchased four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the U.S. alone, per New York Post
Patrisse Cullors attends last February’s Frieze Project Artist Patrisse Cullors x Summit x Cultured Magazine Dinner at The West Hollywood EDITION. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for The West Hollywood EDITION) More
BLM reportedly brought in $90 million in donations last year, and now inquiring minds want to know if or how Cullors is paid by the organization and how much she has contributed to charity, per Daily Mail Hawk Newsome , the head of Black Lives Matter Greater New York City, is calling for a probe into Cullors’ finances.
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“If you go around calling yourself a socialist, you have to ask how much of her own personal money is going to charitable causes,” he told the Post .
Cullors did not immediately respond to theGrio ‘s request for comment.
“It’s really sad because it makes people doubt the validity of the movement and overlook the fact that it’s the people that carry this movement,” he continued.
In addition to the Topanga Canyon estate, Cullors and her wife, Janaya Khan , also own a “custom ranch” on 3.2 acres in Conyers, Georgia that boasts an airplane hangar. They purchased the property last year for $415,000, according to the report, two years after the publication of Cullors’ best-selling book, “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir .”
Additionally, the Post claims that in recent years, Cullors, a self-described Marxist, paid $510,000 for a three-bedroom home in Inglewood, California. In 2018, she dropped $590,000 for a four-bedroom home in South L.A.
Last October, Cullors agreed to “a multi-platform” deal with Warner Bros. Television Group, she said in a statement, to help produce content for “black voices who have been historically marginalized.”
The Post report sparked debate on social media, with BLM supporters and critics noting that Cullors’ high-end lifestyle doesn’t vibe with her social justice activism.
“She had a lot of options on where to live. She chose one of the whitest places in California,” sports journalist Jason Whitlock tweeted. “She’ll have her pick of white cops and white people to complain about. That’s a choice, bro.”
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Cullors founded the Black Lives Matter movement with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi in 2013. Last month, the organization came under fire after it was revealed that BLM received over $90M in response to the uprisings launched after the deaths of George Floyd , Ahmaud Arbery , Breonna Taylor and others, theGRIO
Black Lives Matter activists are now demanding $20 million from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, including Michael Brown Sr. , whose son Michael Brown Jr., was killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.
Michael Brown Sr. stands as an honor guard enters during the dedication of a new community empowerment center Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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Brown Sr. said he and his advocacy group have been short-changed by the larger BLM organization.
“Why hasn’t my family’s foundation received any assistance from the movement?” he asked in a statement last month.
“On behalf of many activists in the St. Louis area, I’m joined by Mike Brown Sr., the father of Mike Brown Jr. Today, we hold Black Lives Matter accountable,” said local community organizer Tony Russell .
theGRIO’s DeMicia Inman contributed to this report.
The New York Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying a woman who robbed a laundromat and then beat an employee in Brooklyn. PIX11 .
Security footage taken inside 6 Star Laundromat & Dry Cleaners shows the woman, wearing a shirt with the word “LOVE” printed in the front, going behind the counter and opening a cabinet. A 47-year-old Asian employee comes out from the back to confront the suspect, the New York Post reported. When the worker tries to stop the suspect, she gets hit in the head with a detergent bottle. She then goes after the suspect who used the bottle again to repeatedly strike the worker on the head until she falls to the ground. The suspect reportedly fled the scene with a cart from the laundromat. A female bystander was also present at the scene when the incident occurred. Authorities said the victim suffered swelling and bruising to her face and refused medical attention. Though the victim is Asian, the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force has ruled out the possibility of a bias crime.
Anyone who has information can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visit the Crime Stoppers website ( crimestoppers.nypdonline.org ), download the NYPD Crime Stoppers mobile app, or text 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577
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