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Saturday, June 10, 2023
THE BLACK LIVES MATTER HOAX - Illinois To Grant $300k to Black Lives Matter Chapter Led by Convicted Felon
The very people who wanted to defund the police are now finding themselves defunded.
Why? Technically, the answer would be mismanagement of funds, but in part, it could be said that they weren’t living up to their name. People are starting to see beyond the name and realize that that not all black lives mattered, just the ones who were friends and family with the organization’s management.
In some regards, Black Lives Matter can be considered a grift because an organization that is supposed to reduce police violence against Black people and improve their lives has nothing substantial to show for the scores of millions of dollars donated. Life hasn’t gotten better for Black people, and not because police were shooting innocent Black people.
BLM’s ill-thought-out mission to defund, disband, and criminalize police reduced the number of officers on the street leading to an increase in crime. That crime has affected Blacks more than other racial groups because the places where crime has increased the most are the cities, which are predominantly liberal and Black. So, the very people BLM says it represents are suffering the most from its policies and positions.
Meanwhile, BLM pulled in plenty of cash because everyone wanted to be seen as a supporter. The problem is how the organization has spent that cash. It didn’t go to help Black people affected by violence or even try to find alternative ways to fight crime, which is devastating the Black community. It did go to pay founder Patrisse Cullors’ brother who was paid a total of $1.6 million for security services as the head of the security team at the $6 million Los Angeles mansion bought with charity donations to BLM.
“He is best known as a graffiti artist, with no background in security,” the Daily Mail reported. “Patrisse Cullors defended hiring him, saying registered security firms which hired former police officers could not be trusted, given the movement's opposition to police brutality.”
A sister of a board member was paid $1.1 million for “consulting.”
The organization has also purchased luxury properties in Los Angeles and Toronto totaling $12 million.
It was recently reported that “The group ran an $8.5 million deficit and saw the value of its investment accounts drop by nearly $10 million, with fundraising down 88% year-on-year.” Reports have also appeared that the organization is at risk of going bankrupt.
People can now see that BLM is more interested in themselves rather than Black people. Just a third of the money BLM has received has gone to charity. That means two-thirds has gone to things that won’t benefit the Black community.
In general, BLM has laudable goals, but words without actions are meaningless. BLM’s actions show a much different goal. They are enriching themselves while allowing the community that is supposed to matter to them suffer from rising crime and a reduced police presence.
It’s time to end the farce of BLM and send any future donations directly to neighborhood organizations that are actually working in the Black community and helping the people. That’s the best way to show Black Lives Matter.
Michael A. Letts is the CEO and Founder of In-VestUSA, a national grassroots non-profit organization helping hundreds of communities provide thousands of bulletproof vests for their police forces through educational, public relations, sponsorship, and fundraising programs.
New York City police officers reportedly endured 32 percent more injuries so far in 2023 than in 2022 as crime plagues their communities.
In an article published Saturday, the New York Postcited New York City Police Department (NYPD) data regarding the issue.
“From Jan. 1 to March 31, citywide, 1,251 on- and off-duty cops were hurt by people using physical force against them, compared to 949 in the first quarter of 2022,” the outlet said.
Of the various injuries officers suffered, 1,179 of them were recorded as minor. However, nearly 50 of them were deemed “substantial” and required the victim to go to a hospital for medical attention.
In addition, 25 were considered “serious” enough for the victim to be admitted into a hospital’s care.
The Postshared images of officers receiving treatment for their injuries:
The outlet’s followers were quick to share their thoughts about the story, one person writing, “WTG, New York! Policing was hard enough already.”
“Recruitment and morale at an all-time low, officers retiring out and leaving at record pace. But you, in your infinite wisdom, decided to push on and place political correctness above the safety of the citizenry. Well done! Now everyone can ‘feel’ good and live in absolute fear when the whole thing collapses on itself,” the user stated.
Indeed, the city’s police officers are reportedly resigning at a record-breaking pace as crime plagues the nation.
“This is a result of democrat pro criminal stance,” another commented.
In April, a suspect approached an NYPD officer from behind and allegedly hit her over the head with a bottle, according to a report.
Also, an NYPD officer was hurt when a driver fled a traffic stop several times, ABC 7 reported on April 19:
An NYPD Transit Bureau officer told the Post he, too, was hurt recently and did not express shock at the data.
According to him, leadership wants officers to make more arrests, but the suspects do not have much fear about potentially going to jail.
He said lawmakers do not offer police any support, adding, “We could be standing at the train station and they’ll jump over the turnstile right in front of us. This is the atmosphere that was created [by lawmakers].”
When retired NYPD sergeant and adjunct Professor Joseph Giacalone heard about the rising officer assault incidents, he pointed to bail reform and said the criminals involved feel emboldened in those situations.
“They know they’re not going to Rikers. They know they’re not going to face any real-time. So they just keep churning them out and the cops have to deal with it,” he said during an interview with the Post.
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Illinois To Grant $300k to Black Lives Matter Chapter Led by Convicted Felon
An Illinois Black Lives Matter chapter led by a convicted felon is set to receive $300,000 in taxpayer funds thanks to Democratic governor J.B. Pritzker.
Pritzker signed into law a $50.4 billion state budget bill on Wednesday that includes a $300,000 grant to Black Lives Matter Lake County, a charity led by black activist Clyde McLemore. A prominent figure in the Chicago metropolitan area with ties to Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, McLemore has a lengthy criminal rap sheet that includes convictions for felony aggravated battery. He currently faces a felony bail-jumping charge in Wisconsin stemming from a prior case in which he was charged with kicking down a door and threatening a police officer during the Kenosha riots in August 2020.
Republican members of the Illinois State Assembly railed against Pritzker for choosing not to block the grant with a line-item veto.
"No taxpayer dollars should ever go to Black Lives Matter. They’re clearly a Marxist organization," said Republican state Rep. Blaine Wilhour, the vice chairman of the Illinois Freedom Caucus. Pritzker "could absolutely have gone in there with a line-item veto. Apparently, he sees value in giving $300,000 to Black Lives Matter."
Illinois is set to enrich McLemore’s Black Lives Matter chapter as other groups in the movement flounder amid allegations of financial malfeasance. The national Black Lives Matter group filed tax returns in May showing it had doled out millions in lucrative contracts to friends and family of the movement’s co-founder Patrisse Cullors during its 2022 tax year. The year before, Black Lives Matter spent $12 million on luxury homes in Los Angeles and Toronto.
Wilhour lamented that Pritzker chose to fund the Black Lives Matter chapter while other state programs with a proven record of helping minorities are set to expire. For example, the Invest in Kids Tax Credit Scholarship Program, which has awarded 40,000 scholarships to help minority children in Illinois attend private schools, is scheduled to sunset at the end of 2023.
"What program is helping minorities more?" Wilhour asked. "Is it these opportunity scholarships? Or is it these criminal scumbags and Black Lives Matter?"
McLemore said during a podcast Wednesday he founded Black Lives Matter Lake County in 2015 after meeting with Cullors, who he said was mostly preoccupied with issues related to "black transvestites and gay people and gay rights and stuff." McLemore said he hasn’t talked with Cullors since 2015, and he said his autonomous chapter never received any funds from the national Black Lives Matter group.
The activist stressed during a Thursday interview with the Washington Free Beacon that the $300,000 taxpayer grant his chapter is set to receive will go towards a host of programs it already runs in his community, including a narcotics anonymous program, a youth risk intervention program and a civil empowerment program to teach people about laws.
"This money does not come to Clyde McLemore," he said. "Matter of fact, I’m still driving a 2008 Camry. If I got $300,000, don’t you think I would have bought me a brand-new car?"
But this isn’t the first time Pritzker has tried to enrich McLemore’s Black Lives Matter chapter. The Democratic governor appropriated $300,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds to the group in the state’s fiscal year 2022 budget, but records show Illinois never cut them a check.
McLemore said the grant was canceled because of a February 2022 article in the Lake County Gazette that highlighted his lengthy criminal history.
"They was going to authorize it, and what happened was two Republicans came out with a newspaper and they stopped the grant," McLemore said.
Lake County, Illinois, court records show McLemore has been charged in over 100 traffic, misdemeanor, and felony cases since the mid-1990s. His rap sheet includes convictions of felony and misdemeanor battery.
"So, yeah I had some arguments with my baby mama," McLemore told the Free Beacon. "As you know in Illinois, first one call the police, the other get arrested. I got arrested 20 years ago. She’s been dead over 20 years. She died of a drug overdose."
McLemore was charged in February 2021 with felony battery against a law enforcement officer stemming from his involvement in the riots in Kenosha the year prior. Prior to being charged, McLemore had posted photos and videos on Facebook showing him kicking a door at the Kenosha Public Safety Building during the riots. He wrote that he "was mad enough to try to break the officer’s fingers."
A jury found McLemore not guilty of the charge in December, but found him guilty on a lesser misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. Just a few days later he found himself back in court on a charge of felony bail jumping for allegedly failing to show up to court for another case.
McLemore told the Free Beacon he’s never missed a court date and claimed his attorney told him the bail jumping charge will soon be dropped.
Pritzker’s office did not return a request for comment.
A 15-year-old boy accused of shooting a woman to death over a gun he was trying to steal screamed for his mom as he was being led out of the courtroom Thursday, according to the Columbus Ledger-Inquirer.
Police say Jabori Baptiste was with a group of teens who gather on March 24 outside a Mystic Mart in Columbus.
Baptiste, who was wearing a pink mask, tried to steal a gun from Eugene Bell, according to the newspaper. Bell’s sister, Natalie Bell, tried to break up the fight, but the gun went off, killing her. She was 39.
Baptiste was arrested based on surveillance video from the gas station.
On Thursday, Baptiste was in court for a hearing. His mother was in the audience.
As officers started to lead him out after the hearing was over, he screamed “Mama!” and tried to get back into the courtroom. His mother screamed and wailed in response as officers rushed his other relatives outside.
The commotion continued as officers tried to get Baptiste into a patrol car as family members screamed at officers, WRBL reports.
Baptiste was taken back to the Aaron Cohn Regional Youth Detention Center. He’s being held without bond on charges of murder and armed robbery. He was charged as an adult.
Poll: Ratings of America’s Moral Values at New Low
Americans’ ratings of the state of moral values in the United States have fallen to the lowest point in the two decades Gallup News has been tracking the trend.
A new poll found that 54 percent of U.S. adults rate moral values in the United States as “poor,” which is a four-percentage point increase since 2022 and the first time a majority of U.S. adults have ranked moral values as “poor.”
A third (33 percent) of Americans say U.S. moral values are “only fair,” while 10 percent say “good” and only 1 percent say “excellent.”
The survey was done conducted with 1,011 adults in the U.S. between May 1-24, 2023. The margin of sampling error is ±4 percent at the 95 percent confidence level.
“Throughout the trend, Americans have been more negative than positive in their views of the nation’s moral values, but the latest readings, from a May 1-24 poll, are substantially worse than the trend averages,” according to the poll report. “Since 2002, an average of 43 percent of U.S. adults have said the state of moral values is poor, while 38 percent have rated it as only fair and 18 percent as excellent or good.”
Gallup News found that the increased negative rating of moral values was spurred on by the views of independent voters. Fifty-one percent of independents rate U.S. moral poorly this year, which is up seven points from last year and is the highest recorded percentage for that affiliation.
Republicans have the highest negative view of American morals, with 74 percent ranking U.S. morals “poor” this year, up two points from last year. Democrats’ poor moral values rating also increased two points in 2023, however, only 38 percent of Democrats rank U.S. moral values as “poor.”
Additionally, a record high percentage of Americans (83 percent) say morals are getting worse, which is up five points from 2022 and 16 points from 2021. That rating previously reached a high of 82 percent in 2007, and 44 percent of Americans at that time rate moral values as “poor.”
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Only 12 percent say moral values are improving, “which is the lowest percentage since 2008,” the poll report notes.
By political affiliation, Republicans are most likely to say values are getting worse (97 percent), followed by 80 percent of independents, and 73 percent of Democrats. Gallup News found that Republicans’ views about U.S. moral values have been crumbling since Joe Biden took office in 2021.
For Democrats and independents, both groups’ outlooks improved in 2021, only to return to levels seen during Donald Trump’s presidency.
Gallup News noted that it has asked respondents in previous years to name the most important problem with the state of moral values in the U.S. Last year, the top response was “the way people treat each other, or consideration of others,” according to the poll report.
“Partisans’ views of the top moral problem differed in 2022, with Democrats almost twice as likely as Republicans to cite a lack of consideration. Republicans were about equally as likely to name a lack of faith or religion as they were to mention a lack of consideration,” the report continued.
Other surveys show that fewer and fewer Americans rank traditional American values such as patriotism and religion as “very important,” but are giving more priority to money and value family time.
At the same time, a plurality rejects transgenderism and corporate queering, while large chunks of all demographics support the legalization of same-sex marriage.
Another recent poll from Gallup News found that Americans across all demographics and political affiliations are increasingly identifying as “socially conservative,” as the Biden administration and Democrats push transgenderism for minors, abortion on demand, and a divisive equity agenda in major institutions such as the military and in education.
However, that survey does not appear to define exactly what being socially conservative means, and there is much debate within the conservative movement about what is actually being “conserved,” as left-wing ideals erode traditional structures.
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