In the wake of the killings of George Floyd; Daunte Wright; and Andrew Brown, Jr., which have received huge national attention in the media, it's time to establish the truth in our thinking about race and crime. How common are killings of blacks by police officers, most of them white, or, for that matter, by whites in general? And how common are killings of white police officers, and other whites, by blacks? And why is it that only the killings of blacks seem to receive extensive media attention?
The fundamental truth is that all human beings are divinely created creatures whose lives are sacred. The taking of life, except in war or self-defense, is recognized everywhere as among the worst of offenses. The murder of another person steals from him the most precious of all possessions — the chance to live out one's life on this beautiful earth. Although some persons are more intelligent, more educated, more talented, or more productive than others, all are equal in their right to life. The passing of any one of us deserves to be reported with appropriate respect and dignity.
That is not what is happening in the national media, where one's race now seems to determine the amount and angle of coverage. It's as if the press believes that respectable whites and Asians are expendable while a black criminal who dies while resisting or fleeing arrest should be treated like a saint. At the very least, the press should be honest in reporting the facts.
The fact is that far more whites are killed each year in America by blacks than blacks are by whites.
Here are some recent cases, all of them involving black violence against whites or Asians. How many of these names are well known to the public?
—Demetrius Walker, 27, with an extensive criminal history and locally known as "Pharoah," charged with the death of an 85-year-old woman after breaking into her apartment and attacking her.
I am not interested in racial labels. In fact, I believe that crimes should be reported in a fair and balanced way without regard to race. But at present, race appears to be nearly the only factor determining the media's reporting of violence. I believe we must establish a racially blind society, but it appears that the national media are fixated on race when it comes to crime reporting. And this fixation takes the form of depicting blacks as victims and whites as perpetrators.
The New Testament’s book of Revelations has long puzzled and inspired Biblical scholars as to the meaning of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Most agree that they represent four catastrophes that will befall humanity during the “end times.”
The White Horse’s rider carries a bow and wears a crown. He is generally thought to symbolize conquest. Fast-forward to today and consider the work of George Soros . For decades he has spent millions of his billions on his quest to destroy the United States and other nations. He recruits and funds Antifa and BLM , supplies their riot gear and weapons, pays for their transportation and accommodations where necessary. He funds the political campaigns of pro-criminal anti-victim district attorneys like Chesa Boudin in San Francisco and Kim Gardner in St. Louis .
Crime is skyrocketing in each city a Soros-funded DA holds office. These anti-American radicals engender violence and chaos and renounce law and order. They have defunded the police. Along with the rest of the left and the founders of BLM, Soros is committed to undermining all traditional American values and to promoting anything in opposition to those values. Like the rider of the white horse, he has succeeded wildly over the past twenty years.
The Red Horse is, appropriately, the General Secretary of China, Xi Jinping, leader of the Chinese Communist Party. Aside from his horrific crimes against humanity, Xi began co-opting the Biden family when Joe was VP. The Biden family is inextricably linked with the CCP; China has the goods on the Bidens that could expose their greed and grift for all to see. The red horse is said to represent war, bloodshed, murder, and revolution. How many millions has Xi pumped into our universities, media, entertainment, sports, and mainstream press to see his preferred narratives spread throughout the land? Incalculable.
Bill Gates and his acolytes like Anthony Fauci could very well be riders of the Black Horse. The rider of the third horse holds a pair of scales. In the Bible, black is often connected with food shortages and famine. Gates now owns more American farmland than any other corporation or entity, 242,000 acres worth $690m. Would he like to employ Marxist agricultural policies like those Stalin implemented, policies that create famine; between 4 – 7 million people were starved to death in the Holodomor ? But Gates is also the man who wants us to eat fake meat and bugs.
Gates has long encouraged a reduction of population and is a vaccine enthusiast. His oral polio vaccine spread polio across Africa . He is the self-appointed vaccine czar, a “Vaccine Monster,” a defender of “monopoly medicine” according to The New Republic . Sixty-seven percent of Americans are said to have been vaccinated by now, jabbed with an experimental form of gene therapy. There have been thousands of vaccine deaths and injuries and no one knows what the long-term effects may be over time. Here is an excellent short video that explains the risks. Between Gates’s known drive for depopulation and his enormous influence over the covid vaccines, he may well symbolize famine and death. The money he stands to make is of course incidental.
The rider of the last horse, the Pale Horse, is death and “Hades followed with him.” Certainly, everyone not wearing ideological blinders knows by now that Joe Biden is non compos mentis. He is not of sound mind. He can barely read his teleprompter and needs notecards to answer the simplest of questions. He often suffers brain freeze and appears to be lost, even frightened.
So, Biden represents death in two ways; his own mental and physical deterioration and the death of America. In the five months he has held office, his administration, whoever is calling the shots, has instigated the wholesale invasion, ala Camp of the Saints , that is occurring over our southern border. The proposed and already approved irresponsible spending has kick-started inflation that will inevitably continue to rise. Gas prices are sky-high, thanks to the shuttering of the Keystone pipeline, while Biden handed Russia the Nordstream pipeline Trump had sanctioned. Biden and his minders have prioritized the demands of the LGBT, Antifa, and BLM activists and embraced the toxic, racist-to-its-core Critical Race Theory to further pit people against one another. He/they set out to undo every policy President Trump put in place that had so benefitted the American people.
The Trump-fearing left, aided by establishment RINOs, engineered a fraudulent election and used COVID to force an entire population into isolation. The lockdowns destroyed hundreds of thousands of small businesses while allowing their corporate pals to remain open. Now they want to mandate vaccines even for people who choose not to submit to them for very rational reasons.
The odious Fauci is angry at those people. “Get over it. Get over this political statement. Save yourselves and your family.” He seems to believe that those who resist an experimental jab are doing so for political reasons when in fact, right or wrong, they have made their decision precisely to save themselves and their families. Those people he is so angry at are not going to be swayed by a mandate or door-to-door thugs from an American Stasi. Fauci is as clueless as he is egomaniacal. He and the Biden administration are again resorting to fearmongering, more panic porn; “the variants, the variants.”
The Soros/Xi/Gates/Biden cavaliers are despicable people, tyrants, united in their cause, determined to sabotage what the Founders created, including the Constitution.
Is there a cultural realignment , a patriots’ rebellion, a second American Revolution afoot? There is evidence that this is true all around us. Parents are fighting back against the racist absurdities of CRT and the demands of the LGBT crowd. Steve Bannon’s Warroom has over sixty million listeners. The truth of BLM is leaking out as well. Its leaders, avowed Marxists, are as acquisitive as any other faux civil rights organization .
Better they heed Thomas Sowell’s maxim:
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
People are waking up to the damage done to this country by the wrecking crew that is the Biden administration. What this cabal is doing is by design despite Kamala Harris’ obvious incompetence and Biden’s dementia. Will and Ariel Durant wrote:
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
We are seeing savagery now on the streets of some of our cities. It has to stop. Our four horsemen must be relegated to the visions of the Apostle John and defeated by an energized America.
Another disloyal military leader undermines our national security.
[Editor's note: The article below is a new edition of our Disloyal Military series. To learn about our 3-Part Series on the Disloyal Military, Progressive Fascists and Racist Mayors, CLICK HERE .]
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
“Unconscious bias,” an Air Force video warns, “can’t be seen or felt.” As the camera focuses on white personnel, an unseen minority voice claims that , “it hides itself in our unseen behaviors”.
“As Airmen in the U.S. Air Force, it’s our duty to acknowledge our biases whether we realize they exist or not,” the official video pushing critical race theory struggle sessions demands.
This is Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown Jr’s new Air Force.
Brown, the first black Chief of Staff of the Air Force, ought to be a living symbol of opportunity. Instead, like other disloyal military leaders, including his predecessor, Chief of Staff David Goldfein, he’s smearing America, and conducting a witch hunt for imaginary racism.
The racial attack on the U.S. Force from within began with the Black Lives Matter riots.
"I am a Black man who happens to be the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force," Chief Master Sergeant Kaleth Wright tweeted using his official Air Force account. "I am George Floyd…I am Philando Castile, I am Michael Brown."
Even Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison admitted there was no racial element in the Floyd case and had not even tried to add to the wrongful prosecution with hate crime charges.
But Wright, the top advisor to former Air Force Chief of Staff Goldfein at the time of the Black Lives Matter race riots, suggested that he could be killed by white police officers at any moment.
"My heart starts racing like most other Black men in America when I see those blue lights behind me," he claimed. "You don’t know the anxiety, the despair, the heartache, the fear, the rage and the disappointment that comes with living in this country... every single day."
It made you wonder why Wright hadn’t left America for somewhere safer like Cuba.
The Air Force’s top enlisted leader smeared America, identified with criminals, and urged everyone to be angry. He ranted that he had been inspired by socialist rapper Killer Mike to pursue “plotting, planning, strategizing, organizing and mobilizing”. And together with his boss, Goldfein, they would be working on a "full and thorough independent review of our military justice system". The review, predictably, accused the military justice system of being racist.
Shortly after Wright’s hateful Twitter rant, Air Force Chief of Staff Goldfein issued a statement calling George Floyd's drug overdose death while resisting arrest a "national tragedy", and demanded that all Americans be "outraged" at the police.
Goldfein went on to accuse America and the U.S. Air Force of racism, claiming that everyone was potentially guilty of "racial prejudice, systemic discrimination, and unconscious bias." He alleged that airmen lack "liberty and justice for all" and promoted his adviser's racial rants.
Sources told Air Force Times that Goldfein and Wright had coordinated their campaign.
Afterward Goldfein and Wright held a Facebook meeting urging commanders to engage in conversations about racism.
“Prepare for anger, some sadness, some rage,” Wright warned. He also suggested that, "For some, this won’t be enough to change their opinion.” Why the Air Force was in the business of changing the opinions of its personnel about partisan political issues was never explained.
Later that year, President Trump rejected Goldfein, who had been recommended by former Secretary of Defense Mattis as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Goldfein decided to retire and was replaced by General Charles Brown whom he had picked as his successor.
His nomination hadn't even been confirmed when incoming Air Force Chief of Staff Brown decided to release his own video complaining that he had been a victim of racism because of a parking spot and because someone in Korea once questioned whether he was really a pilot.
Stripes magazine described a speech in which Brown “seemed to barely contain his rage” and argued “that the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution ‘that I’ve sworn my adult life to support and defend’ have not always delivered ‘liberty and equality’ to all.”
That nonsense was coming from the first black Air Force chief who is considered a leading candidate to replace General Milley as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Brown’s insistence that he was held back because of his race was undercut by his prominent position as part of the U.S. Air Force’s ongoing push to promote minorities on the basis of race.
Would he hold the position that he does if his nomination couldn’t be sold as “historic”?
Instead of working to protect the country, the Air Force’s top leaders were acting like teenage TikTok influencers making videos accusing the country and the military that had given them so much of racism. But the performative displays of rage were just the precursor to much worse.
The report on “racial disparities” in the Air Force and the Space Force found statistical differences between white and black personnel, but cautioned that while “the data show racial disparity, it does not indicate causality“. Correlation is not causation and there was no actual racism. But the report was already distorted by using the infamous Merriam-Websterdefinition of racism as power rather than hate, implicitly suggesting only white people could be racist. And it relied on surveys of enlisted personnel rather than any actual evidence that racism existed.
That didn't stop the Air Force brass from expanding their divisive campaign to include a witch hunt for racism against Latinos, Eskimos, Hawaiians and Asian-Americans.
“Although the data is helpful, the most important information will come directly from our Airmen and Guardians," Acting Secretary of the Air Force John P. Roth suggested .
The data would matter much less than the surveys of perceived bias. Goldfein and Wright had encouraged members of the Air Force to believe that they had been discriminated against through the initial “conversations about racism”. Now that the perception that racism was widespread in the Air Force had been manufactured, the surveys would confirm it.
The conversations about racism had encouraged enlisted personnel to review every part of their lives and step of their careers through the worldview of systemic racism. Having been primed to see racism everywhere, their perceptions of racism would be collected as evidence of racism.
The same old trick of priming an audience long used by hack magicians and psychics was a favorite of diversity trainers who would run the scam at corporate events, presenting a few staged testimonials of racism, use them to convince the audience that racism was all around them, and then have the audience fill out a survey that would show the need for a lot more diversity training. Now the same scam was being run in the military.
Air Force Chief of Staff Brown claimed that the report contained “things I’ve actually felt”.
Feelings were now more important than facts not just on college campuses, but in the Air Force.
“Shame on us if we miss this opportunity to make a change that’s required across our Air Force to make it better, whether it’s the Air Force or the Space Force,” Brown berated.
What about actually defending America?
Air Force Magazine said that Brown and Chief of Space Operations John Raymond suggested that there “should be a balance between mission readiness and ensuring people’s voices are heard”. Mission readiness was only at best equivalent in value to conversations about racism.
And before long, mission readiness will be less important than accusing America of racism.
Like so many other institutions, the overdose death of George Floyd, a career criminal, was used to manufacture a racism crisis as a pretext for hijacking and transforming the Air Force.
The only racism crisis in the Air Force was the one created by its politically correct leaders.
Racial disparities in the Air Force are not evidence of systemic racism. If anything the Air Force has labored long before all this to promote minorities to leadership positions. Brown and Wright are both examples of men who were pushed upward through the ranks in order to create diversity. Instead of being grateful to their country, they simmer with rage over perceived slights.
What drove Brown's rage and what horrifying acts of racism did he experience in the Air Force?
"When you get to senior levels, you have reserved parking spots around the base,” he told People Magazine. “I was in civilian clothes, I parked in a spot and someone came out and said, 'That slot is reserved for the Pacific Air Force's Commander.' And I go, 'Yeah, I know, because I am the Pacific Air Force's Commander.’”
Someone didn’t recognize Brown when he was out of uniform and he assumed it was racism.
This is the incredible pettiness of the disloyal grievances behind Brown’s rage. This is the lived experience he’s using to justify upending the Air Force over an imaginary problem.
“We must accelerate change,” Brown declared.
The U.S. Air Force does need change. It needs to be ready to adapt to a whole new battlefield. Instead national security and military readiness are being undermined to divide airmen by race because someone didn’t realize that Brown was actually in the right parking spot.
How many careers will be ruined, how many promising pilots will be sidelined, and how badly will our military readiness be undermined to avenge General Brown’s parking spot?
7 Things to Know About the ‘Rise of the Moors’ Militia Group Twitter Video Screenshot 6:36
Members of the “Rise of the Moors” armed militia appeared in a Massachusetts court Tuesday after being charged with multiple crimes over the Independence Day weekend. The defendants denied the court’s jurisdiction and claimed to have committed no crimes.
Massachusetts State Police arrested 11 people on Saturday who allegedly claimed to be members of a group known as the “Rise of the Moors,” Breitbart Texas reported . The arrests followed an hours-long standoff with the armed members on Interstate 95 near Wakefield after suspects reportedly said they do not “recognize our laws.”
What do we know about the “Rise of the Moors?” 1: Who are the identified members of the group?
Boston.com identified the following members of the group who police arrested on Saturday:
Jamhal Tavon Sanders Latimer (also known as Jamhal Talib Abdullah Bey), 29, of Providence, RI Robert Rodriguez, 21, of the Bronx, NY Wilfredo Hernandez (also known as Will Musa), 23, of the Bronx, NY Alban El Curraugh, 27, of the Bronx, NY Aaron Lamont Johnson (also known as Tarrif Sharif Bey), 29, of Detroit, MI Quinn Cumberlander, 40, of Pawtucket, RI Lamar Dow, 34, of the Bronx, NY Conrad Pierre, 29, of Baldwin, NY Two men, who refused to identify themselves, were listed by police as John Doe I and John Doe II. 2: What charges do the arrested members face following the nine-hour standoff? According to the Boston Herald, the men are charged with the following in a Massachusetts court:
Eight counts of unlawful possession of a firearm; Unlawful possession of ammunition; Possession of a high-capacity magazine; Use of body armor in commission of a crime; Improper storage of firearms in a vehicle; and, Conspiracy to commit a crime. Three of the men, and a 17-year-old male, also face charges of supplying a false name to police. 3: The members of the group claim the government has no jurisdiction over their affairs.
During a Zoom hearing, multiple members of the group claimed the court has no jurisdiction over them, the Boston Herald report continued. Several members provided fake names. Two refused to provide any names at all.
During the nine-hour standoff, the members of the group told police they were not carrying gun licenses and they did not recognize state laws, The Washington Post reported .
4: Possible connection to ‘Moorish Sovereign’ groups.
The “Rise of the Moors” is based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, according to its website . The Washington Post reports a claim from Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, that the men who were arrested are “adherents of the ‘Moorish Sovereign Citizens.'” They are part of a group that reportedly believes they are part of a sovereign nation and are thus not subject to U.S. law.
Moors are not ‘Sovereign Citizens’, as sovereignty does not stand alone, sovereignty and nationality can be considered synonymous. The record show that the Moors are the organic or original sovereigns of this land – America. When we declare our nationality as Moorish Americans we are taking back the position as the aboriginal people of the land, to which the sovereign power is vested in.
5: Claims by the group about police, government, and violence during the armed standoff with state police.
A spokesman for the Rise of the Moors posted claims on social media that “We’re not anti-government, we’re not anti-police, we’re not sovereign citizens, we’re not Black-identity extremists.” During the video, he repeatedly told the officers they would do nothing to escalate the situation or threaten the officers.
“You can imagine 11 armed individuals standing with long guns slung on an interstate highway at two in the morning certainly raises concerns and is not consistent with the firearms laws we have in Massachusetts,” Massachusetts State Police Colonel Christopher Mason said during a press conference over the weekend. “I understand that they have a different perspective on that. I appreciate that perspective. I disagree with that perspective.”
State police officials warned, “No threats were made, but these men should be considered armed and dangerous.”
6: Claim of Morocco/U.S. treaty as a basis for sovereignty. reported .
“No such treaty existed, but they claim there was a treaty that allowed them to operate in the country without being citizens of the country,” Gray explained.
On their website, the Rise of the Moors cite a letter from President George Washington to the Sultan of Morocco in 1789 that reads (in part, emphasis original):
The encouragement which Your Majesty has been pleased, generously, to give to our commerce with your dominions , the punctuality with which you have caused the Treaty with us to be observed, and the just and generous measures taken in the case of Captain Proctor, make a deep impression on the United States and confirm their respect for and attachment to Your Imperial Majesty .
7: Why were the members of the “Rise of the Moors” in Massachusetts and armed?
The spokesman for the group told police they were headed from Rhode Island to Maine for “training,” WMTW ABC8 reported . The Maine Information Analysis Center, the intelligence arm of the state police, said they did not know the final destination for the alleged “training” encampment.
The members of the group who appeared before the Massachusetts judge pleaded not guilty. The judge ordered the adult men held without bail pending a “dangerousness hearing” scheduled for Friday, July 9. The juvenile is reportedly being held pending a future arraignment date, the Boston Herald notes.
Nolte: Left-wing New York Repudiates Black Lives Matter with Eric Adams’ Victory David Dee Delgado/Getty Images 4:54
Eric Adams’ victory in New York City’s Democrat mayoral primary could very well be remembered as the moment that marked the end of Black Lives Matter, an odious and evil left-wing terrorist organization.
New York City is one of the most left-wing cities in the world , much less the country, and its Democrats still chose Adams, a former Republican, and police officer, who ran specifically on the issue of restoring law and order to the increasingly embattled Big Apple.
On Tuesday night, after eight disastrous years of urban decline under socialist, social justice warrior Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), we learned that New York voters have desperately reached out for everything the terrorists in Black Lives Matter stand against.
Granted, Adams’s win was a squeaker (one that almost certainly means he’ll become the next mayor), but the choice New Yorkers had was a stark one. Nothing stopped them from choosing another de Blasio, which meant more police “reform,” which meant more violent crime, more shootings and murders, and declining quality of life.
New Yorkers also had the option to move to the left of de Blasio.
Instead, though, they took a sharp turn to the right with a candidate who openly opposes defunding the police and who says things like , “If black lives really matter, it can’t only be against police abuse. It has to be against the violence that’s ripping apart our communities.”
Today, the Democrat Party is waking up to a changing world, one in which a left-leaning city flatly rejected Black Lives Matter, the very terrorist group of Brownshirts the left saw as its way to a fascist future.
This comes as no surprise, although it did happen sooner than expected. Regardless, early last year, when all this terrorism first launched, I wrote the following :
Don’t worry: it won’t last forever. These things never do. It’s a phase, and if you fly over it at 30,000 feet, what you will see is that all this social justice-systemic racism-defund the police nonsense comes down to one thing… The Democrat Party is returning to its soft-on-crime roots, and in the end, this will not end well for Democrats.
Unfortunately, it’s going to take a while for voters to come to their senses. Things are going to get worse before they get better — thankfully, this worsening will be contained in Democrat-run cities.
I’m no sage. You don’t have to be a genius to look back a few decades and learn from a recent past where the Democrat party’s soft-on-crime anarchy got wiped out by a generation of voters. Even Democrats will only put up with the instability of criminal violence for so long, especially in a country where they can vote against it.
Whatever your ideology, people want to be safe, feel safe, and want their children safe.
The other good news is that the left’s gaslighting campaign failed.
The Democrat party and their allies in the establishment media, Big Tech, academia, and Hollywood can try to gaslight the public all day long, even with fake polls and fact checks, into believing it’s “progressive” to empty prisons, end bail, and tie the hands of police officers. But at the end of the day, only chaos, despair, and blood can come from such things, and voters have recourse.
The ballot box is where the truth comes out, and the truth this morning is that even the most left-wing voters in the country reject the cancer that is Black Lives Matter.
“If we are for SAFETY — we NEED the NYPD!” reads Adams’ campaign website.
The question now is whether or not Adams follows through, if he is what he says he is, if he truly does have the moral courage to do what Rudy Giuliani did to save a city by way of enforcement of the law.
But that’s another issue, and frankly, not my problem. That’s New York’s problem. I could not care less. I don’t live in a Democrat-run shithole. I live in Rural MAGA Country where we all own guns, and there’s no shooting crisis, where people of all races and backgrounds live together in harmony, where there are fewer hate crimes and zero race riots, where the streets, air, and water are clean, where life is as good as it gets .
What I do know is that a man who stands against everything Black Lives Matter stands for just won a Democrat primary in left-wing New York. What I do know is that all those soft-on-crime Democrats who confused MSNBC and CNNLOL with the real world are shaking in their boots.
The writing is on the wall, and no amount of propaganda can change the fact that everything Black Lives Matter stands for is evil and destructive and that the people know it.
Things are about to get interesting with things moving this fast and the 2022 midterms right around the corner.
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BLACKS LOOTING IS NOTHING NEW! - IT'S BEEN GOING ON LONG BEFORE THE BLM HOAX WAS PERPETRATED
I WONDER IF THESE WERE THE SAME BLACKS WHO LOOTED THE LOUIS VUITTON STORE A STANFORD MAIL RECENTLY AND THEIVED $100K IN PROPERTY???
WATCH: Alleged Looters Flee San Francisco Neiman Marcus
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Police in San Francisco are investigating an apparent handbag robbery that occurred at a Neiman Marcus store Monday.
“Authorities said the robbery happened around 5:49 p.m. at the high-end department store located in Union Square,” KTVU reported .
However, when officers arrived at the scene, the suspects were gone.
Witnesses told authorities the incident happened right before the store’s closing and claimed the suspects smashed display cases and grabbed items off the racks before leaving.
The outlet shared video footage captured from outside the store of ten people, some apparently carrying items, dashing out the establishment’s doors:
The suspects appeared to get into waiting vehicles and flee the area as bystanders watched from the sidewalk.
Police have not made any arrests in connection with the occurrence, but are “analyzing videos and speaking with witnesses” to identify those involved, a spokesperson told the Washington Examiner .
Breitbart News reported Friday the crime wave in San Fransisco has continued as police presence dwindles and thieves loot stores, the issue “causing Target properties in the Bay Area to announce they are cutting hours to reduce losses.”
Meanwhile, a recent poll from the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce found residents are thinking about moving out of the city because of the rise in crime and homelessness.
“According to the poll, more than 40 percent of the respondents said they plan to move out of the city in the next few years,” the Breitbart News article read.
During a recent interview on CNN Newsroom , San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Ahsha Safai touched on the retail theft issues and said , “when we do have police in those areas, the crime drops dramatically,” and that was why “We’re putting more resources back into our police department to ensure that they have the appropriate staffing levels.”
Following the recent incident, Neiman Marcus said in a statement, “The safety and welfare of our associates and customers is our top priority, and we’re relieved to report that no one was harmed in the incident. We’re cooperating with the SFPD in their investigation.”
VIDEO: Homeless Man Allegedly Attacked at Venice Beach amid Encampment Cleanup
A video posted Friday reportedly showed a homeless man being attacked as he sat on the ground at the Venice Beach boardwalk, according to Fox News.
In the clip, a person wearing a dark-colored vest appeared to punch the man in his head and shoulder while another individual wearing a black hoodie stood nearby.
“Bitch! Go on! Touch me in my goddamn titties!” the person in the vest apparently told the man before kicking him. The man eventually got up and walked away.
Concerns from residents, business owners, and law enforcement have increased in the months after the tent encampments on the beach grew and issues continued to plague the area, the Fox report said:
Since the expansion of the Venice beach encampment, authorities have fielded reports of shootings, arson, assault and harassment. Some residents previously told Fox News they have refrained from going to the beach after certain times or altogether.
In response, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has dispatched deputies with his department’s Homeless Outreach Services Team to address the homeless issue in Venice. Last month, he asked county leaders to declare a state of emergency in response.
Two weeks prior to his request, a Venice business owner said a security guard at his store was attacked and stabbed with a bottle by a homeless person once he was told he could not consume alcohol on the premises, according to Fox.
“Today in Venice we are completely on our own,” Bob Carlson commented during a June 21 press conference. “You don’t realize how much you need the police until they’re not there. Until they’re prevented from doing their job. Thank God the sheriff is willing to intervene.”
Outreach workers Friday finished the initial phase of the Venice Beach cleanup and persuaded dozens of homeless to move into shelters, the Los Angeles Times reported :
As the cleanup plan got underway, an anticipated crackdown by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies never materialized. Sheriff Alex Villanueva on Wednesday walked back earlier comments that were widely interpreted as a threat to arrest anyone still on the boardwalk by July 4. Villanueva said in a press conference that he was expressing a hope, not a deadline.
Breitbart News reported June 8 Villanueva declared his department would clear out the growing homeless encampments from Venice Beach by July 4.
Nearly 100 Shot Friday Night Through Monday Night in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Photo 2:13
Nearly 100 people were shot, 17 fatally, Friday night through Monday night in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 reported 98 people were shot in the time-frame of “Friday at 6 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. on Monday,” and 17 of those shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.
The Chicago Sun-Times listed the number of fatalities at 19.
ABC 7 pointed out that 87 people were shot during that same period over the Independence holiday in 2020.
The violence over the long weekend follows a Thursday on which 32 people were shot . Thursday’s wounded included a one-month-old girl who was shot in the head.
The violence and death has surged to such levels that Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown plans to speak at a press conference and take questions Tuesday afternoon.
On July 5, 2021, Brown tweeted : “Our officers continue to work tirelessly to keep our city safe. As of today, Chicago Police Department has recovered over 6,100 guns: a 26% increase from the same period last year. I commend our officers for their continued hard work during these challenging times for law enforcement.”
The Sun-Times observed there were over 1,892 shootings in Chicago January 1, 2021, through June 28, 2021, a 12 percent increase over the same time frame last year.
Over 330 people were killed in Chicago during the first six months of 2021.
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Illinois Governor Under Pressure to Declare ‘State of Emergency’ over Chicago Gun Crime AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast 1:54
Chicago community leaders are pressuring Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) to declare a “State of Emergency” regarding the city’s gun crime.
Breitbart News reported nearly 100 people were shot Friday night, July 2, through Monday, July 5, in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. That weekend violence followed a Thursday in which 32 people were shot, including a one-month-old girl.
On July 7, 2021, the Chicago Tribune noted that 2,021 people had been shot in Chicago so far this year. That figure represents 164 more people than were shot during the same time frame in 2020.
ABC 7 points out that community leaders are urging Gov. Pritzker to declare a “State of Emergency,” which will allow the city to “receive more funding” as the violence rages.
Father Michael Pfleger is also pushing for Chicago to work with surrounding communities via one overarching plan against gun crime.
Pfleger said, “We need emergency funds; we need emergency action. And the action is this comprehensive approach because what we’re doing is obviously not working.”
Pritzker’s office indicated the Governor is treating gun violence “as a public health crisis,” and he plans to continue doing so.
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