BLACK VIOLENCE IN AMERICA - IS IT PERPETRATED BY THE BLM HOAX? - Report: Alleged Philadelphia Gunman a Cross-Dresser, BLM Supporter

 

Report: Alleged Philadelphia Gunman a Cross-Dresser, BLM Supporter

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AWR HAWKINS

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A report from the Daily Mail says the alleged gunman who killed five in Philadelphia on the eve of Independence Day was a cross-dresser who supported Black Lives Matter (BLM).

Breitbart News pointed to initial reports that four people were killed in the attack and four more injured. A total of six of the wounded and injured had been shot, the other injuries occurred while trying to escape the scene.

The Daily Mail noted that the death toll rose to five, with four men killed and a 15-year-old boy.  They observed that alleged shooter, Kimbrady Carriker, was armed with a rifle and a handgun.

The Daily Mail explained that “Facebook posts from March 2022 show Carriker dressed as a woman, wearing a bra, hooped earrings and gold bracelets.”

He had also posted articles to Facebook that focused on an “evil spirit” and how to tell if such a spirit was following you.

When on social media, Carricker “regularly posted about supporting Black Lives Matter.”

He is under arrest and “facing multiple murder charges.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

Cori Bush on Independence Day: ‘Today Is a Great Day to Demand Reparations’

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HANNAH BLEAU

5 Jul 202325

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Far-left Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) used Independence Day not to celebrate the ideals, risks, and sacrifices that led to the success of the great American experiment but to demand “reparations now.”

July 4, the celebration of American independence and reminder of the revival of the very “Spirit of 1776,” appeared to be a dismal day for the leftist congresswoman, who seemingly dismissed the risks taken by the Founding Fathers and, rather, used the opportunity to demand reparations.

“The Declaration of Independence was written by enslavers and didn’t recognize Black people as human. Today is a great day to demand Reparations Now,” Bush remarked.

There was no mention of the content of the Declaration of the Independence itself in Bush’s initial message, such as the foundational and “self-event” truth that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Several social media users roasted Bush for her calloused view of Independence Day, noting the irony of her demand given that fact that she is a successful black woman representing her district in Congress.

Bush’s take should come to no surprise, as she has long claimed that Independence Day — considered to be one of the “most important holidays” to a majority of Americans — is only for white people. In 2021, Bush made that claim and added that black people still are not free.

In May, Bush introduced legislation that would essentially create a federal reparations program, distributing $14 trillion to black Americans. The legislation asserts that the U.S. “has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people.”

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MASS SHOOTING IN SOUTH BALTIMORE | 30 people shot, 2 killed during block party

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30 Shot at Block Party Sunday in Gun-Controlled Baltimore

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AWR HAWKINS

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Thirty people were shot, two of them fatally, at a block party in gun-controlled Baltimore, Maryland, Sunday just after 12:30 a.m.

The Associated Press repors an 18-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man were killed in the incident.

The Daily Mail noted three of the wounded were in critical condition.

A tow truck operator removes a vehicle with multiple bullet holes near the area of a mass shooting incident in the Southern District of Baltimore, Sunday, July 2, 2023. Police say a number of people were killed and dozens were wounded in a mass shooting that took place during a block party just after midnight. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

There were hundreds of people at the party when shots rang out and Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott seemed to indicate more than one person was behind the shooting. He said:

But what we do know is that this was a recklessly cowardly act that happened here and that has permanently altered many lives and cost two people their lives. And I want those responsible to hear me and hear me very clearly. We will not stop until we find you and we will find you.

Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety ranks Maryland the No. 8 state in the Union for gun control.

Gabby Giffords’ gun control group pointed out that Maryland has a red flag law, universal background checks, a “high capacity” magazine ban, strict regulations on “ghost guns,” an “assault weapons” ban, and licensing requirements for handgun purchasers, among other controls.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

For nominally Christian, such leftists may be even more so acolytes of the church of Jean Jacques Rousseau and his proto and neo-Marxist college of saints. Accordingly, in the wake of the George Floyd riots they hoisted a 30 foot long “Black Lives Matter” banner across the church entrance and kept it there for well over a year; long after the revolutionary communist aims and virulently anti-Catholic, anti-American and anti-family proclivities of this group- to say nothing of their scandalous self-enrichment schemes - were well known.

Yes, he fervently assured us, more than once, that God had truly blessed America. In hearing this I couldn’t help but think about the left’s favorite president – Barack Obama - and what his Pastor Reverend Wright thought God’s judgment on America was. The contrast was jarring. The cognitive dissonance was building.

 

A Black Pastor Speaks Truth to Power in Berkeley

By Leonard Bakker

Question: What’s the closest thing to Hell freezing over? Answer: a black pastor praising western civilization for “bringing Africa out of the darkness” in front of a Catholic congregation in Berkeley, California. Even more amazing, this was no ordinary congregation. It was the Newman Center; the church that is the official designated home of the U.C. Berkeley Catholic community, and one where a former Chancellor of the entire 10 campus U.C. system was in the audience along with a substantial contingent of faculty, administrators and alumni. In short, a representative sampling of the people who made and make ‘Berkeley’ synonymous with the far left, and ones who are very much used to living – whether at church or on campus -- in a very comfortable echo chamber.

So, when Father Joseph Ekpo, visiting from Nigeria, uttered those sentiments as an introduction to his after-gospel homily, the collective eyebrows raised among that vanguard elite were likely strong enough to levitate the roof several feet.

Fr. Ekpo preaching at the Newman Center (YouTube screengrab)

For according to the catechism of the new left, it’s a red flag to use such a triggering word like ‘darkness’ to describe Africa, and a downright mortal sin for a BIPOC - black indigenous person of color - to say anything positive about western civ and the dreaded white patriarchal male; especially the missionaries, who they charge with the destruction of indigenous cultures and with them, the ‘noble savage’ they idolize. For nominally Christian, such leftists may be even more so acolytes of the church of Jean Jacques Rousseau and his proto and neo-Marxist college of saints. Accordingly, in the wake of the George Floyd riots they hoisted a 30 foot long “Black Lives Matter” banner across the church entrance and kept it there for well over a year; long after the revolutionary communist aims and virulently anti-Catholic, anti-American and anti-family proclivities of this group- to say nothing of their scandalous self-enrichment schemes - were well known.

However, on this day the banner was gone, the welcome mat was out and so Father Joe proceeded to make the unabashed case that the introduction of Christianity by the western missionaries was a singular force for enlightenment and good on his continent. It brought about, not only a religious awakening to the one true faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior, but a societal revolution that unleashed the power and potential of all people who were seen to be made in the image and likeness of God. Education and rights for women and all classes was extended and an ethos of service, rather than entitlement among the country’s elite was initiated and is progressing with noticeably positive results in a country that is plagued with economic and social problems we in the West can scarcely imagine.

So, strike one was made against a prevailing nostrum of the left. Father Joe torpedoed the foundation of Critical Race Theory by clearly spelling out that Christianity was a liberating, rather than enslaving force in Africa, as it was for the founding of America. And mind you, this testimony had the added authenticity of coming ‘from the hood’; that is, from an actual third world black man, rather than some pampered academic first world princess or princeling play acting a part of the imaginary oppressed.

Continuing, he proceeded to level strike two by giving a resounding cheer for capitalism and the goodness of America. With disarming earnestness, he urged us to get down on our knees every day and thank God for the great blessing of being born in this decent, bountiful country; a country made affluent by its foundational Christian heritage. “When you enter a Walgreens or a CVS and see that sea of medicines, I want you to thank the Lord that you are able to get these blessings, where those in my country routinely die and are disabled for want of such things.” The Christian virtue of gratitude was an overriding message. Yes, he fervently assured us, more than once, that God had truly blessed America. In hearing this I couldn’t help but think about the left’s favorite president – Barack Obama - and what his Pastor Reverend Wright thought God’s judgment on America was. The contrast was jarring. The cognitive dissonance was building.

Then, it was on to strike three, which was surely the most painful and incriminating part of his homily, especially for a left that has steadfastly looked to bury the revelation of such monstrous undertakings. He told us about Boko Haram. He began with the innocuous observation that for most of our congregation, our biggest concern was getting out of mass quickly so we could go home to eat brunch, go jogging or watch the game. He quickly added however, that for Catholics in his country, their biggest concern when they went to mass is whether they will ever see their homes again at all.

From here he told us, in riveting, eye watering detail the murderous atrocities that the above-mentioned Islamic terror group regularly visits on Nigeria’s Christians. He was careful to say that not all Muslins in his land were terrorists, but he spared no details in chronicling the horrific savagery of those who are; specifically, how they focus on blowing up churches. I recall his words as I remember them. You can go to this link for video of the actual text:

 

“Most recently, they have elevated their cruelty in this regard. They have started to single out the hungry children in the villages and ask them: ‘Would you like some food?’ Of course, the children say yes, and they give them a little bit. Then they fasten the suicide belts around them, place a new garment over them and tell them to go into the church. ‘We will give you some more food when you come out’ they promise. Once inside and with the congregation at its peak, they detonate the bombs, blowing everyone up as the church collapses.”

Tears streaming down his face, he bore on with the weight of the world on his shoulders, but the righteousness of the murdered dead in his heart and on his lips. Railing to heaven he screamed: “What kind of God implores you to murder innocent children? What kind of God rewards such vicious inhumanity?”

Finally, he directed his fury right over the home target and brought up that most inconvenient of truths. He forcefully indicted the cowardice and corruption of a politically correct western media that, to preserve its ‘fantasy of a faultless other’, has refused to properly inform the world and condemn the Islamic genocide being carried out against African Christians. “Why is no one in the western media speaking out about this? Why the double standard?” he bellowed. Clearly, this was a thinly veiled indictment against all of those sitting in the pews who have made Berkeley the epicenter for PC: that skewed, self-hating ideology.

The congregation was dumbstruck, stunned. And yet, there was more than a smattering of applause as the good Father concluded his searing message. Was a nerve struck? Were hearts truly changed among those who are not committed leftists, for surely there were more than a few of such present? Who knows. Searching for clues, I looked over at the Chancellor from time to time and detected a certain discomfort as he scratched himself, rolled his head, averted his eyes and looked up to the ceiling. Was he truly pierced thru the heart by this noble priest’s blistering words and on his way to atonement? Or was he, more ominously, invoking a darker power and asking: “Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?”

We do not know the inner workings of his soul. But then again, there’s no need to count on a Pauline conversion among such commissars of the regime to save us. For we who have eyes and noses can see and smell the momentum of the battle starting to turn ever more clearly, from the ground up. With foot soldiers and fighting generals -- people such as Bishop Robert Barron, Jordan Peterson, Tucker Carlson and local eminences such as Father Ekpo -- we see a new wave of heroes emerging world-wide who have the mind, heart, skills and spirit to move mountains, take the fight to the enemy and save what is best and brightest in our patrimony. May we have the courage of our convictions to join them.

 

The implosion of the Rule of Law

By John Dale Dunn

The erudite and insightful Roger Kimball, who is well known to the readers at American Thinker, discusses in his essay the disappearance of the American respect for and application of the rule of law:

Instead of proper rule of law we are living with that Orwellian alternative, Our Rule of Law — an arbitrary enforcement of the laws and use of the coercive power of the state. 

Mr. Kimball opens with a recall of the Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises, which describes what is playing out now: the exchange "'How did you go bankrupt?' Bill asked.  'Two ways,' Mike said.  'Gradually, then suddenly.'"  Mr. Kimball alludes to the loss of the American Rule of Law, and you get the point: we are lost, gradually, now suddenly.  Have we lost the Rule of Law forever?

Mr. Kimball points out that the Hunter laptop scandal was revealed by the laptop from hell.  Miranda Devine broke the story, but it languished because of media cover-up and cancelation. 

Kimball reveals the important breakthroughs, the bribes, and the explosive revelations of Hunter and other Biden family receipt of payments from foreign actors.  That has led to House discovery of many different payments.  That's the fodder for treason prosecutions.  It dribbled out, then suddenly the reality arrived for anyone who cared, and the House started a serious exposé that showed payments to Biden's family and the sitting president of the United States.

Explosive information from IRS informers made no dent.  Records of clear-cut Hunter efforts, with Joe sitting beside him, to demand bribe and payoff money from the Chicoms are ignored and diminished by government officials and media if they are acknowledged at all.

The tax fraud deal by Hunter was a scandal, but who's worried or fretting?  After all, Hunter is untouchable in spite of his failure to report millions in income, and he got a misdemeanor slap on the wrist for tax charges.  Same for a fraudulent application for a sidearm.  There are credible and evidence-supported allegations of Hunter's and Joe's legal violations, all the way to consorting with enemies.  We also have good evidence of Deep State efforts to protect Hunter and Joe.  Where's that going?

Preferential treatment?  Not according to A.G. Merrick Garland, who declared any critic of the Justice Department as betraying "democracy." 

The two-tier deployment of justice in this country is patent for all to see, but what are you going to believe, your lying eyes or the pronunciamentos of this gray-on-gray bureaucrat from hell? 

The end, as Hemingway's character observed, came gradually at first. We've moved on now to the "suddenly" part.

Is it so hard to see, the decline in the respect for law and even-handed application and enforcement of the law?  No, not at all.  Any halfway informed person knows we are entering a new legal environment — the world of tyranny and despots who use the law as a means for control and elimination of political opposition.  We may be lost...forever?

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D. is a retired emergency physician and inactive attorney in Brownwood Texas.

Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

At least 14 killed in mass shootings in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Texas and Missouri over Independence Day holiday period

Jacob Crosse

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On Independence Day eve, just before 8:30 p.m. on July 3 in the working class neighborhood of Kingsessing in southwest Philadelphia, a man wearing a black ski mask and Kevlar body armor, armed with an AR-15-style rifle, began “randomly” massacring people, according to Philadelphia police. At least five people between the ages of 15 and 59 were killed, while two children, ages two and 13, suffered serious gunshot wounds.

Spent shell casings are shown on a street in Philadelphia early Tuesday, July 4. Police say a gunman in a bulletproof vest opened fire, wounding two boys and killing five people before surrendering to responding officers. [AP Photo/Tassanee Vejpongsa]

The horror lasted for over 10 minutes before police were able to corner the shooter, identified by police as 40-year-old Kimbrady Carriker, and take him into custody without a shot being fired by the police.

The deceased victims have been identified as Daujan Brown, 15; Lashyd Merritt, 22; Ralph Moralis, 59; Dymir Stanton, 29; and Joseph Wamah, 31. All the victims were shot multiple times, including the surviving two- and 13-year-old boys, both of whom suffered gunshot wounds to the legs. According to police, a 33-year-old woman and another two-year-old boy were injured by broken glass after Carriker shot into their moving vehicle.

At a press conference Monday, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw confirmed that Carriker had multiple loaded magazines and a police scanner on his person. Outlaw said police had recovered over 50 shell casings spread over several blocks, with bullet holes still being discovered in cars and buildings. As of this writing, police have yet to advance a motive or release any evidence indicating that the shooter knew the victims.

At the same press conference, Staff Inspector Ernest Ransom said it appeared that Carriker was “shooting aimlessly” at people and vehicles. Once police arrived on the scene, Ransom said, Carriker ran into an alleyway, where he was taken into custody.

In an interview with local Philadelphia television station ABC6, Marie Merritt, mother of Lashyd, said her son was just stopping at the local store on Greenway Avenue to grab a snack when he was shot several times. Reflecting on losing the youngest of her five children, Marie said that Lashyd “was my number one prize and he knows that. I miss him so much.”

In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, Tina Rosette, 49, said she and her daughter, Ciannia, 24, lived with Carriker in 2021, and that while she had never seen Carriker with a gun, he did have “an aggressive approach to some things in life.” She said it appeared to her that he was in “a dark place.”

Unlike her mother, Ciannia did recall seeing Carriker with a handgun, which he showed her several times. Ciannia said she stopped talking to Carriker after she rejected his romantic advances. Both mother and daughter moved out of the residence about a year ago.

Monday’s massacre was just one of several horrific mass shootings in the United States during the days leading up to the annual Independence Day holiday on July 4. Just before midnight on Monday, 11 people were shot and three were killed in a parking lot in the Como neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas. The shooting occurred after an annual neighborhood gathering dubbed “Comofest” had ended.

Two of the deceased have been identified as Paul Willis, 18, and Cynthia Santos, 22. Speaking to FOX4, Kadesha Weatherly, Willis’ mother, said both of her sons were in the area of the shooting and that Paul was shot in the head.

Kadesha said her son was an aspiring electrician who had graduated from high school in Arlington and worked at a nearby McDonald’s. “They didn’t even let my baby make it to college,” Weatherly said. “I just want people to remember his name and not just an 18-year-old victim.”

Police have yet to announce any suspects or arrests in the Fort Worth shooting.

At 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 2, gunmen opened fire on a block party in the Brooklyn neighborhood of South Baltimore, Maryland. Two people were killed and 28 injured, with three in critical condition. The police say the two people killed were an 18-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man. Victims reportedly ranged from 21 to 34 years old. The shooting took place during an annual local celebration called “Brooklyn Day.” Police say the assault was the largest shooting incident in the city’s history.

While public mass shootings have, tragically, become almost commonplace in capitalist America, the phenomenon of a private mass “family annihilator,” that is, a close family member who commits a multiple murder-suicide, targeting spouses, children and close relatives, is also on the rise.

In St. Ann, Missouri, Monday night, a drunk 34-year-old Coleman McIlvain murdered his girlfriend and shot her three children, killing her 14-year-old son and her five-year-old son before turning the gun on himself, according to local police. The deceased woman’s nine-year-old daughter, who was shot in the hand, managed to escape and get help from neighbors.

St. Ann Police Chief Aaron Jimenez said the shooting happened at around 8 p.m. According to Jimenez, the couple began arguing after McIlvain’s girlfriend refused to allow him to drive her car drunk.

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“The daughter then observed the boyfriend shoot her mom in the face and then had a fight or flight response,” Jimenez said, adding that “he fired approximately seven shots to try to kill her.”

A neighbor told KMOV News 4 that the couple frequently fought, but that yesterday was a “normal day” and McIlvain had been out in the yard earlier helping the children set up decorations for the Fourth of July.

Gwen Connelly recalled seeing the nine-year-old girl run up to her. “She had blood all over her,” Connelly said, “and I said, ‘are you hit anywhere else?’ She said, ‘I don’t think so,’ but she was drenched in blood, so she said, ‘Why did this happen to me?’”

According to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), since July 3, that is, in the last 48 hours, at least 57 people have been shot to death, while over 110 have been injured in the US. Just over halfway through 2023, the GVA has recorded 348 mass shootings. The GVA defines a “mass shooting” as an incident in which four or more people, not including the shooter, are injured or killed by gunshot.

If the current pace of carnage continues, 2023 will end with approximately 687 mass shootings, nearly two a day, just below the record 690 mass shootings recorded by the GVA in 2021, the most it has recorded since it began tracking in 2014.

In a perfunctory statement on the shootings issued Tuesday, President Joe Biden, after offering prayers, once again called on his fascistic “Republican colleagues” to “come to the table on meaningful, common sense” gun reform. Even were measures such as a ban on assault weapons to pass, they would do nothing to address the root causes of gun violence, which lie in the capitalist system and the conditions it produces.

In the land of inequality, workers are forced to labor in dangerous conditions for inadequate pay, while the media, entertainment industry and capitalist politicians venerate murderous police and military assassins. Any attempts by workers to better their social standing is either stifled by the trade union bureaucracies, or if that fails, outlawed by the government.

The US government’s subordination of the safety and well-being of workers and their families to corporate profit-making, most brutally expressed in the “herd immunity” pandemic policy that has led to over 1.2 million COVID-19 deaths in the US, illustrates the official indifference of the ruling elite to mass death.