Report: Democrats Very Frustrated with Joe Biden over DC’s Soft-on-Crime Bill Debacle AP Photo/Evan Vucci 3:16
Congressional Democrats are reportedly very upset with President Joe Biden over Washington, DC’s soft-on-crime bill debacle that “blindsided” some of them.
On Thursday, Biden’s Twitter account published what appeared to be a stunning policy shift on a local soft-on-crime law that took Democrats by surprise. Biden said he would sign a Senate Republican-led resolution to block the District’s soft-on-crime law after allegedly opposing the Republican’s resolution, though Biden had expressed no explicit veto threat.
House Democrats indicated Biden would veto the disapproval resolution on the District’s soft-on-crime law, according to Punchbowl News. “That’s why party leaders worked to limit the number of Democratic defectors when the House voted Feb. 9 on the measure – thus ensuring they were under the threshold for overriding a presidential veto,” Punchbowl reported. “Democratic leaders whipped everyone but Battleground Democrats on the measure.”
“They [White House] gave a signal that led the House Democrats to take certain actions and the president then took a different position when he came to the Senate — speaks for itself,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin told reporters about being blindsided by the president.
Moreover, Biden’s public statement on signing the Republican resolution frustrated Democrats further when he highlighted the reduced punishments for carjackings in the District’s law as the reason for supporting the Republican resolution.
“I don’t support some of the changes D.C. Council put forward over the Mayor’s objections – such as lowering penalties for carjackings,” Biden’s Twitter account said . “If the Senate votes to overturn what D.C. Council did – I’ll sign it.”
Aides and lawmakers reportedly were infuriated that Biden would point to the soaring crime rate. House Democrats, many of whom had already voted to block the GOP resolution, supported a reduction in carjacking punishments at a time when crime is skyrocketing in the District.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, 94 carjackings have occurred so far in 2023. Homicides have dramatically increased (25 percent), along with theft from auto (21 percent), theft (16 percent), and arson (300 percent).
On Monday, District Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) issued a letter to the Senate to withdraw the soft-on-crime portion of the District’s law before the Democrat-controlled Senate votes for the Republicans’ resolution. It appears Mendelson’s letter was a preemptive attempt to cancel the soft-on-crime law to protect Biden from having to take action on the resolution, pending the Senate’s approval. At least five Senate Democrats had pledged to support the GOP resolution overturning D.C.’s soft-on-crime law pending Biden’s pledged signature.
The district’s criminal law, which reduced punishments for a variety of serious criminal offenses, was enacted by D.C.’s city council, which overrode the mayor’s veto — all while crime increased at the beginning of 2023.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @W endellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality .
Inconvenient Fact About Mass Killings: White Males Are 'Under-Represented' While Blacks and Asians Are 'Over-Represented' When reality dismantles leftist myths.
Wed May 25, 2022
Larry Elder
After the mass murder of 10 in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket committed by a man who posted a racist manifesto, Wesley Lowery, a CBS reporter, said: "Let's be clear, the stuff Tucker (Carlson) and Laura Ingraham say every night, it could be written by white supremacists very often. There's a section of this manifesto where the shooter starts talking about, 'People will always say diversity is strength. How is it a strength?' And I could hear it in Tucker's voice. He says this all the time, right? But the Ben Shapiros of the world say this. ... There are plenty of people in our politics, in our media, who advance these ideas and advance them frequently. ... We have to have a conversation about our political rhetoric in our country, right?"
Where to start? This "reporter" implies that "right-wing rhetoric" incited the 18-year-old Buffalo supermarket killer. Where's the evidence? For all we know, he might've been an avid viewer of CBS News.
The next day after this mass murder, an Asian man opened fire on churchgoers in an Orange County, California, church, killing one and injuring five. Most of those at the church were reportedly of Taiwanese descent. But no doubt the shooter routinely DVR'd the Tucker Carlson show. Days later, a black man, who reportedly hated Asians, was arrested for injuring three Korean Americans in a shooting attack at a Dallas hair salon.
Lowery implies that "right-wing rhetoric" turns white males into mass killers. But there's a problem with this narrative — the facts. When it comes to mass murderers, almost all of which are men, white men are actually underrepresented and black men overrepresented when compared to their percentages of the American male population.
In October 2017, Newsweek , in a story headlined "White Men Have Committed More Mass Shootings than Any Other Group," wrote, "Statistics show that since 1982, the majority of mass shootings — 54 percent — were committed by white men, according to data from Mother Jones." But a few paragraphs later it added, "The high number of white men committing mass shootings is also explained, at least in part, by the fact white people make up a majority of the U.S. population (63 percent) and men are more likely to commit violent crime in general." Wait, white males commit 54% of the mass shootings while the white population is 63%?
About the Newsweek article, PolitiFact said: "Critics argue that when you consider that non-Hispanic white men make up about 63 percent of the male population, white men appear proportionally less likely to commit a mass shooting, according to the Mother Jones statistics showing white men account for 54 percent of mass shootings."
UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh noted that blacks and Asians, from 1982 to 2021, committed 17.4% (12.3 % of the population) and 6.6% (3.6 %of the population) of mass shootings, respectively. Volokh wrote, "Non-Hispanic whites don't seem to commit mass shootings at greater than their share of the population. The groups that appear overrepresented are blacks and Asians."
An opinion piece last year in The Washington Post called "The Numbers Undercut Myths About Mass Shootings and White Men" found: "So it appears that the number of white men committing these crimes is close to what we'd expect from pure chance, maybe even slightly lower — the opposite of what we'd see if white supremacy culture were at fault."
Again, the inconvenient fact is that white males, as a percentage of the American male population, are underrepresented when it comes to mass shooters. Black and Asian males, as to their percentage of the male population, are overrepresented. The left-wing media hyperventilate about "underrepresentation" or "overrepresentation" when it comes to poverty, prison population, admission to elite colleges and universities, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, NFL head coaches or Academy Award winners. But when it comes to mass shooters, suddenly "over-representation" becomes irrelevant.
Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host.
Democrats Used A Massive Race Hoax To Gain Power By Kathleen Brush
For two years, a U.S. presidential administration has perpetrated a
racial hoax. Teamed up with Black Lives Matter (BLM), an
unscrupulous, failed , corrupt organization that promotes violence ,
Americans have been duped by the world’s largest racial hoax.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/09/democrats_used_a_massive_race_hoax_to_gain_power.html
“Black Lives Matter” has been used to indoctrinate children, scatter anti-racist eggshells around every workplace, and threaten people’s jobs, livelihoods, and their lives. Under the banner of Black Lives Matter, “protesters” have wrecked restaurants, businesses, government buildings, public monuments, and homes. It’s given race hustlers a license to ruin sports, ruin entertainment, ruin business, ruin commercials, ruin the military, ruin law enforcement, and ruin race relations. Black Lives Matter has been emblazoned on T-Shirts and all sorts of paraphernalia. It’s been painted on streets, painted on pro football fields and basketball courts. It’s been used to rewrite history, topple statues, rename schools and pro sports teams; and its flag has been flown at stores, in classrooms, over government buildings, even over embassies around the globe. WILL ALEXANDER
BLACK LIVES MURDER
THE BLACK SUBCULTURE OF VIOLENCE
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/05/black-lives-murder-most-violent.html
Four BLACK teens will be tried as adults on
second-degree murder charges in New Orleans
after prosecutors said they carjacked 73-year-
d grandmother Linda Frickley and dragged her
down the street while she was still attached to
her vehicle until her arm was severed. She died
on the scene moments later, WWL reported .
WINDOW INTO THE DEPRAVED BLACK SUBCULTURE
https://www.city-journal.org/html/window-depraved-culture-14929.html
Heather Mac Donald
Public safety
The Social Order
As for interracial violence generally, blacks disproportionately commit it. Between 2012 and 2015, there were 631,830 violent interracial victimizations, excluding homicide, between blacks
and whites, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Blacks, who make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, committed 85.5 percent of those victimizations, or 540,360 felonious assaults on
whites, while whites, 61 percent of the population, committed 14.4 percent, or 91,470 felonious assaults on blacks. Regarding threats to blacks from the police, a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.
https://www.city-journal.org/jazmine-barnes-murder?utm_source=City+Journal+Update&utm_campaign=acbb7c6b94-
2 8 BLACK-ON-WHITE HOMICIDES (Counting White Hispanics, Middle Easterner, Unspecified Juveniles etc.): June 2022—Another Month In The Death Of White America
https://vdare.com/articles/28-black-on-white-homicides-counting-white-hispanics-middle-easterner-unspecified-juveniles-etc-june-2022-another-month-in-the-death-of-white-america?utm_campaign=7.25.2022+bulletin&utm_content=28+BLACK-ON-WHITE+HOMICIDES+%28Counting+White+Hispanics%2C+Middle+Easterner%2C+Unspecified+Juveniles+etc.%29%3A+June+2022%E2%80%94Another+Month+In+The+Death+Of+White+America&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendx
Apart from the usual toll of white women in relationships with black men, this month’s total includes three white police officers and four home invasions—this last a trend we are watching with interest.
HOW MUCH DO BLACKS CONTRIBUTE TO THE STAGGERING VOLENT CRIME TIDAL WAVE ACROSS AMERICA? - On Juneteenth, Bullets Fly From Obama Boulevard to John Lewis Way Juneteenth marked by mass shootings across America
THE DEPRAVED GHETTO BLACK CULTURE IN AMERICA - Is it the world’s most violent subculture?
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/10/ghetto-black-violence-in-america-dr.html
Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites
So, we have local black gang associates posting terror threats on social media -- threats of murder, by burning, directed at the women and children family members of white police employees -- immediately before the murder, by burning, of the white teenage daughter of a local police department employee. Plus, the killing took place only minutes after the victim was seen on video at the same location as the husband or boyfriend of the person who posted the threats, as he was filling a handheld can with gasoline.
THE CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN OBAMAVILLE, CHICAGO
When You're Running Out Of Excuses... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8i5wUDkKJY
In America, former president but lifelong Marxist Barack Obama can slander proponents of secure borders as racists , and nobody bats an eye. Babbling Vice President Harris can promise to disburse federal funds for victims of Hurricane Ian based on Americans' skin color , and corporate news talking heads applaud.
Why Shoplifting is Getting out of Control in California | Vern Pierson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuPXKYifSbs
The Current Crime Wave Is Unlike Any Ever Experienced In America By Vince Coyner
On the one hand, George Soros-backed Democrat prosecutors from coast to coast are demonstrating their pro-criminal empowerment bona fides by refusing to seek bail for most arrestees, refusing to prosecute countless misdemeanors, and simultaneously undercharging countless violent crimes as said misdemeanors. On the other hand, you have Democrats effectively decriminalizing an entire swath of crimes or eliminating bail for almost every offense .
The Current Crime Wave Is Unlike Any Ever Experienced In America By Vince Coyner
This past week New Orleans reclaimed the title of America’s deadliest city after seeing murders jump 141% over the last couple of years. In New Orleans, the murder rate is a staggering 52 per 100,000 people. That compares to the national average of 6.9, the highest it’s been in a quarter century, and the 50 per 100,000 in Venezuela, the most dangerous country in the world .
“Black Lives Matter” has been used to indoctrinate children, scatter anti-racist eggshells around every workplace, and threaten people’s jobs, livelihoods, and their lives. Under the banner of Black Lives Matter, “protesters” have wrecked restaurants, businesses, government buildings, public monuments, and homes. It’s given race hustlers a license to ruin sports, ruin entertainment, ruin business, ruin commercials, ruin the military, ruin law enforcement, and ruin race relations. Black Lives Matter has been emblazoned on T-Shirts and all sorts of paraphernalia. It’s been painted on streets, painted on pro football fields and basketball courts. It’s been used to rewrite history, topple statues, rename schools and pro sports teams; and its flag has been flown at stores, in classrooms, over government buildings, even over embassies around the globe.
FRONTPAGE MAG
WATCH – Mob of Juveniles Ransack Store in Philadelphia: ‘It’s a Shame’
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2022/09/26/watch-mob-juveniles-ransack-store-philadelphia-its-shame/
WATCH – Mob of Juveniles Ransack Store in Philadelphia: ‘It’s a Shame’ https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2022/09/26/watch-mob-juveniles-ransack-store-philadelphia-its-shame/
The question is, why is this happening? What has caused an increasing number of black Americans to believe they can rob, beat, and even kill their fellow citizens with impunity? VINCE COYNER
We see large groups of young people blitzing stores, grabbing merchandise off shelves, and running out with smiles on their faces. We see “shoplifters” methodically clear store shelves of merchandise and simply stroll out the door, unconcerned about getting stopped or arrested and often assaulting employees along the way.
VINCE COYNER
Police: Teens Arrested in Connection to Fatal Stabbing of NYC Man https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/09/will-black-lives-matter-and-murder-shut.html
“Crime continues to be an overriding issue for New Yorkers. At least 90 percent of voters from every party, region and race say crime is a serious problem in the state, with at least 57 percent saying it’s a very serious problem, including 79 percent of Black voters who say it’s a very serious problem,” Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg said.
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CAN YOU THHINK OF A SINGLE THING THE BANKSTER REGIME OF BARACK OBAMA, ERIC HOLDER AND 'CREDIT CARD' JOE BIDEN DID FOR BLACK AMERICA???
THE CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN OBAMAVILLE, CHICAGO
When You're Running Out Of Excuses... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8i5wUDkKJY
"That phase of the takeover was started in 2008 by President Barack Obama. Throughout his eight years in office, Obama practiced divisiveness and hammered away at the Second Amendment while pouring gallons of fuel on the fire of the "Black Lives Matter" lie. His administration was rampant with corruption, pushing the envelope with every new scandal." RICK HAYES
Democrats Used A Massive Race Hoax To Gain Power By Kathleen Brush
For two years, a U.S. presidential administration has perpetrated a
racial hoax. Teamed up with Black Lives Matter (BLM), an
unscrupulous, failed , corrupt organization that promotes violence ,
Americans have been duped by the world’s largest racial hoax.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/09/democrats_used_a_massive_race_hoax_to_gain_power.html
“Black Lives Matter” has been used to indoctrinate children, scatter anti-racist eggshells around every workplace, and threaten people’s jobs, livelihoods, and their lives. Under the banner of Black Lives Matter, “protesters” have wrecked restaurants, businesses, government buildings, public monuments, and homes. It’s given race hustlers a license to ruin sports, ruin entertainment, ruin business, ruin commercials, ruin the military, ruin law enforcement, and ruin race relations. Black Lives Matter has been emblazoned on T-Shirts and all sorts of paraphernalia. It’s been painted on streets, painted on pro football fields and basketball courts. It’s been used to rewrite history, topple statues, rename schools and pro sports teams; and its flag has been flown at stores, in classrooms, over government buildings, even over embassies around the globe. WILL ALEXANDER
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THE CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN OBAMAVILLE, CHICAGO
When You're Running Out Of Excuses... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8i5wUDkKJY
Democrats Used A Massive Race Hoax To Gain Power By Kathleen Brush
For two years, a U.S. presidential administration has perpetrated a
racial hoax. Teamed up with Black Lives Matter (BLM), an
unscrupulous, failed , corrupt organization that promotes violence ,
Americans have been duped by the world’s largest racial hoax.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/09/democrats_used_a_massive_race_hoax_to_gain_power.html
“Black Lives Matter” has been used to indoctrinate children, scatter anti-racist eggshells around every workplace, and threaten people’s jobs, livelihoods, and their lives. Under the banner of Black Lives Matter, “protesters” have wrecked restaurants, businesses, government buildings, public monuments, and homes. It’s given race hustlers a license to ruin sports, ruin entertainment, ruin business, ruin commercials, ruin the military, ruin law enforcement, and ruin race relations. Black Lives Matter has been emblazoned on T-Shirts and all sorts of paraphernalia. It’s been painted on streets, painted on pro football fields and basketball courts. It’s been used to rewrite history, topple statues, rename schools and pro sports teams; and its flag has been flown at stores, in classrooms, over government buildings, even over embassies around the globe. WILL ALEXANDER
Lawrence Jones: America has a new murder capital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4qfN6W8Abs
BLACK CARJACKINGS EXPLODE ALL OVER AMERICA
Tucker Carlson: This is a clear indication of things unraveling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8p0-0kvOW4
WHAT DOES BLACK CRIME COST AMERICA?
black violence operating with impunity
Tucker Carlson: This is what the collapse of civilization looks like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH7cnmGHNxw
Watch : BLACK Teen Girl Assaults Pregnant Mom Pushing Children in Stroller During Alleged Attempted Robbery
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-black-lives-matter-hoax-and-black.html
Cleotha Abston's lengthy criminal record started at 11 years old https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bIrQA5zeK0
Police: Body of Missing Heiress, Teacher Eliza Fletcher Found — Suspect Charged with Murder
BLACK Man accused in Memphis jogger's kidnapping now faces murder charge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8tCh8bWH8A
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THE CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN OBAMAVILLE, CHICAGO
When You're Running Out Of Excuses... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8i5wUDkKJY
Why Shoplifting is Getting out of Control in California | Vern Pierson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuPXKYifSbs
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THE BLACK LIVES MATTER HOAX - IS IT ONE OF THE BIGGEST SCAMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY?
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/09/huckster-al-sharpton-and-black-lives.html
BLM is a perfect instance of how modern liberalism functions as an extremely lucrative business model. BLM merely expanded on the extortion business model of veteran race hustler Al Sharpton, which is ‘give us your money else we’ll brand you racist,’ but did it on a much larger scale. Al Sharpton must feel like a worn-out pair of shoes in the bottom drawer of a shoe case.
Twenty-six BLM chapters sue its leaders for defrauding them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcsRwuVeVLQ
Young Black Men 23X As Likely To Die By Gun Homicides Than Young White Men | VDARE Video Bulletin
Twenty-six BLM chapters sue its leaders for defrauding them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcsRwuVeVLQ
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Isimemen Etute, the former Virginia Tech linebacker recently acquitted of second-degree murder, will be playing football at Iowa Community college this fall.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/07/black-apes-and-black-crime-tidal-wave.html
Etute, who is 6-foot-3 and 205 pounds, beat the 153-pound Smith to death. Etute struck Smith in the head five times, knocking him to the floor. Etute admitted in court that he stomped on Smith's face as he left the apartment, leaving a bloody shoe print on Smith's cheek. Nearly all the bones in Smith's face were broken, an autopsy revealed. Smith also suffered bleeding of the brain and had his teeth knocked out.
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28 BLACK-ON-WHITE HOMICIDES (Counting White Hispanics, Middle Easterner, Unspecified Juveniles etc.): June 2022—Another Month In The Death Of White America
https://vdare.com/articles/28-black-on-white-homicides-counting-white-hispanics-middle-easterner-unspecified-juveniles-etc-june-2022-another-month-in-the-death-of-white-america?utm_campaign=7.25.2022+bulletin&utm_content=28+BLACK-ON-WHITE+HOMICIDES+%28Counting+White+Hispanics%2C+Middle+Easterner%2C+Unspecified+Juveniles+etc.%29%3A+June+2022%E2%80%94Another+Month+In+The+Death+Of+White+America&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendx
Apart from the usual toll of white women in relationships with black men, this month’s total includes three white police officers and four home invasions—this last a trend we are watching with interest.
HOW MUCH DO BLACKS CONTRIBUTE TO THE STAGGERING VOLENT CRIME TIDAL WAVE ACROSS AMERICA? - On Juneteenth, Bullets Fly From Obama Boulevard to John Lewis Way Juneteenth marked by mass shootings across America
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THE DEPRAVED GHETTO BLACK CULTURE IN AMERICA - Is it the world’s most violent subculture?
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/10/ghetto-black-violence-in-america-dr.html
Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites
So, we have local black gang associates posting terror threats on social media -- threats of murder, by burning, directed at the women and children family members of white police employees -- immediately before the murder, by burning, of the white teenage daughter of a local police department employee. Plus, the killing took place only minutes after the victim was seen on video at the same location as the husband or boyfriend of the person who posted the threats, as he was filling a handheld can with gasoline.
BLACK MEN ARE 15xs TO 30xs TIMES MORE LIKELY TO PERPETRATE VIOLENCE !
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WATTERS ON FRANK R JAMES' STAGGERING RACISM
Watters: How was this guy not on the FBI's radar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6FnVhTxYlk
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BLACK LIVES MURDER
Police Chief: Illinois ‘Monster’ Beheads 8-Months Pregnant Ex-Girlfriend
1,120 people have been shot this year in Chicago and 282 people have been murdered.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/americas-black-crime-tidal-wave-how-you.html
During the summer of 2020, BLM and Antifa wrought violence and did billions of dollars in damage across America. The Democrat left supported those riots and raised money to bail out the perpetrators no matter what they had done. Our media, of course, supported the rioters too; they love nothing better than exacerbating an already-explosive situation. The media do not investigate the obvious possibility that the rioters were recruited and paid to do what they do . Ask one of them why they are rioting and you will get a blank look. They may be doing it for a paycheck, not principles or ideology.
/// How You Get the Left to Talk Honestly About Black Crime A disturbing look at the FBI’s data on race and animal-cruelty offenses.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/americas-black-crime-tidal-wave-how-you.html
But due to a ton of negative black disparities showing up in the data, the mainstream media pursues a policy of silence on the issue, turning it as a result into a taboo topic.
‘ These figures are even more glaring when one considers pet-ownership rates. If blacks owned pets at rates double their own population, their cruelty offense-rates would be less of a concern. But this is not the case. White ownership rates have been shown to be double , even triple , that of blacks, meaning the latter’s propensity for animal cruelty is actually far higher than what’s showing in the FBI’s figures.
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BLACK LIVES MURDER
THE BLACK SUBCULTURE OF VIOLENCE
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/05/black-lives-murder-most-violent.html
Four BLACK teens will be tried as adults on
second-degree murder charges in New Orleans
after prosecutors said they carjacked 73-year-
d grandmother Linda Frickley and dragged her
down the street while she was still attached to
her vehicle until her arm was severed. She died
on the scene moments later, WWL reported .
WINDOW INTO THE DEPRAVED BLACK SUBCULTURE
https://www.city-journal.org/html/window-depraved-culture-14929.html
Heather Mac Donald
Public safety
The Social Order
As for interracial violence generally, blacks disproportionately commit it. Between 2012 and 2015, there were 631,830 violent interracial victimizations, excluding homicide, between blacks
and whites, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Blacks, who make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, committed 85.5 percent of those victimizations, or 540,360 felonious assaults on
whites, while whites, 61 percent of the population, committed 14.4 percent, or 91,470 felonious assaults on blacks. Regarding threats to blacks from the police, a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.
https://www.city-journal.org/jazmine-barnes-murder?utm_source=City+Journal+Update&utm_campaign=acbb7c6b94-
Anti-cop activist Shaun King says that his involvement in the campaign around the Jazmine Barnes murder was not driven by reports that a white man had killed the seven-year-old girl, who was gunned down in Houston on December 30. According to Barnes’s mother and 15-year-old sister, the white driver of a pickup truck had pulled up next to the family’s car before opening fire. The accusation set off a frenzy of hate-crime allegations and blanket coverage by the New York Times. King offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who located the suspect.
As it turned out, Jazmine Barnes was killed by two black men, who opened fire on her mother’s car because they thought that they were targeting enemies of their gang. King passed along a tip about the real killers to the Houston police, and now says that he merely “internalized the pain of the family and tried to search as if it were my own child who was killed.” Race, in other words, had nothing to do with his activism.
It’s worth remembering, though, the many other black children who have been victims of drive-by shootings without leading King to launch a national crusade.
A sampling: in March 2015, a six-year-old boy was killed in a drive-by shooting on West Florissant Avenue in St. Louis, as Black Lives Matter protesters were converging on the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department to demand the resignation of the entire department. In August 2015, a nine-year-old girl was killed by a bullet from a drive-by shooting in Ferguson while doing her homework in her bedroom, blocks from the Black Lives Matter rioting thoroughfare. Five children were shot in Cleveland over the 2015 Fourth of July weekend. A seven-year-old boy was killed in Chicago that same weekend by a bullet intended for his father. In Cincinnati, in July 2015, a four-year-old girl was shot in the head and a six-year-old girl was left paralyzed and partially blind from two separate drive-by shootings. In Cleveland, three children five and younger were killed in September 2015, leading the black police chief to break down in tears and ask why the community only protests shootings of blacks when the perpetrator is a cop. In November 2015, a nine-year-old in Chicago was lured into an alley and killed by his father’s gang enemies; the father refused to cooperate with the police. All told, ten children under the age of ten were killed in Baltimore in 2015; twelve victims were between the age of ten and seventeen.
In 2016, a three-year-old girl in Baltimore was partially paralyzed by a drive-by shooting. In Chicago in 2016, two dozen children under the age of 12 were shot in drive-bys, including a three-year-old boy mowed down on Father’s Day 2016 who is now paralyzed for life and a ten-year-old boy shot in August; his pancreas, intestines, kidney, and spleen were torn apart. A Jacksonville 22-month-old was shot to death by a passing car last June. In September, three men killed three-year-old Azalya Anderson in a drive-by in Sacramento, and a week before Christmas in Bridgeport, a 12-year-old boy was shot and killed on his way home from the candy store in a drive-by shooting.
Why did King let these shootings of black children go by without responding as he did to Jazmine Barnes’s murder? Could it be because the perpetrators were black? You could end all white shootings of black children tomorrow and it would have zero effect on the death rate of black children by homicide, because such white-on-black shootings are extremely rare. Moral abominations, like the 2015 Charleston church massacre by white supremacist Dylann Roof, are aberrations that belong to the outermost lunatic fringe of American society. The country’s revulsion at the Charleston carnage was immediate and universal, resulting in a movement to banish the Confederate flag, embraced by Roof as a white supremacist symbol, from official sites.
If Shaun King and other Black Lives Matter activists really want to save black children from the trauma of urban violence, they should put their efforts into rebuilding inner-city culture—above all, by revalorizing a married father as the best gift a mother can give her child. Fantasies about white violence against “black bodies” are a distraction from what is actually happening on American streets.
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe and The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture.
Walter Williams tackles the elephant in the room on crime
By John Dale Dunn
Dr. Williams is a well known conservative economist and longtime John Olin Chair faculty at George Mason University in eastern Virginia, author of 12 books and syndicated columnist. In the past, he has been substitute host on the Rush Limbaugh radio program. He is almost like family to me, and I have benefited from his essays and books over the years. This past week, I saw and read his essay on disparities in crime rates among races that was picked up by Military in its October 2019 issue. What got Dr. Williams going was the article by Matthew DeLisi of Iowa State U and John Paul Wright of the U of Cincinnati titled "What Criminologists Don't Say and Why."
Dr. Williams confirms that the writers are right about the liberal tilt of criminologists — "If criminologists have the guts to even talk about a race-crime connection, it's behind closed doors and in guarded language. Any discussion about race and crime ... can mean the end of one's professional career."
Dr. Williams points out teen black-on-white predatory behavior — chronicled in detail by many, particularly Colin Flaherty , whose investigative reports appear frequently (more than 100) at American Thinker — cannot be reported, mentioned, or considered by the media, politicians, criminologists, commentators, politicians, even law enforcement people without risking being called racist, the easy epithet used to enforce a ban on talking about the realities of racial disparities in crime and the increasingly violent nature of black violence against whites — the knockout game, polar bear hunting, flash mob violence against people and property.
Referencing the Wright and DeLisi report, Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites, for example, and he points out the silliness of criminologists' claims that mass incarceration rather than criminality has decimated the black community. He favorably quotes Wright and DeLisi when they say, "What they [criminals] did, in reality was to prey on their neighbors."
Dr. Williams returns to a theme he has explored many times before in this essay and commentary when he points out that the black family of the past was two parents and stable, even back to days of slavery, and that the black community was moral and law-abiding. "The strong character of black people is responsible for the great progress made from emancipation to today. ... [T]oday's conduct among black youth wouldn't have been tolerated yesteryear."
My regret is there aren't enough Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell types to engage the nutty attitudes of liberal chatterbox experts.
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D. is an emergency physician, sheriff's medical officer and inactive attorney, policy and science adviser to the American Council on Science and Health of NYC and the Heartland Institute of Chicago.
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