Monday, November 29, 2021

THE LAWLESS LAWYER CLASS - THE CASE AGAINST GAMER LYING GROPPER LAWYER ANDREW CUOMO

 FUCKING PIG LAWYER WHO WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT RIGHT AFTER THE BRIBES SUCKING LAWYER IN THE WHITE HOUSE NOW!


CNN suspends Chris Cuomo indefinitely




WHAT ELSE DID GROPPER LAWYER CUOMO GET AWAY WITH?

New York attorney general releases new info on the Cuomo scandal




'There Was A Coverup In Terms Of Nursing Homes': De Blasio Rips Cuomo Over COVID-19 Report

Sex, Lies, and Sweet Book Deals

A damning - and revolting - report comes out about Andrew Cuomo.

 



The New York State Assembly on Monday released a report on former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-Groper)’s sexual harassment and coverup of COVID-19 deaths, and it’s abundantly clear now why Cuomo opted to resign rather than face impeachment proceedings that would almost certainly have led to his being ignominiously removed from office and driven from public life. The report details how Cuomo sexually harassed twelve women, seven of whom were on his staff, and covered up the real number of people who died from COVID in the nursing homes into which he had forced them, and it’s even more damning, and revolting, than Cuomo’s harshest critics might have expected.

The report demonstrates that the report on COVID in the nursing homes that the Cuomo administration released last summer was “substantially revised by the Executive Chamber,” in order to make the governor’s actions appear to be much more innocuous than they really were. The fallen Leftist idol also downplayed and trivialized the sexual harassment allegations he faced; however, the scope of the scandal just keeps widening: the State Assembly’s report found another Cuomo accuser who was not included in New York State Attorney General Letitia James’ report last August. Cuomo, the State Assembly report says, “engaged in multiple instances of sexual harassment, including by creating a hostile work environment and engaging in sexual misconduct.”

Cuomo comes off as ham-handed, insensitive, nauseatingly creepy, and repulsively aggressive; by comparison, even Bill Clinton looks smooth. Sherry Vill, one of the women who has accused Cuomo of sexual harassment, says that Cuomo “manhandled” her, kissed her without her consent, and behaved in a “highly sexual manner” while visiting her home in Greece, New York, which had been damaged in a flood. “The whole thing was so strange and inappropriate,” she recounted in March, before Cuomo resigned, “and still makes me nervous and afraid because of his power and position. I am still afraid of him, but I am no longer willing to remain silent.”

Even worse, soon afterward Vill “received a voicemail from someone in the Executive Chamber inviting her to attend an event at which the then-Governor would be present.” According to the New York Post, Vill “told investigators that none of her family members, nor any neighbor who had met Cuomo during the same visit, received an invitation to the event.” Clearly, Randy Andy had more on his mind than creating goodwill among voters in Greece, New York: the report states that she “also later received signed photos from the then-Governor’s visit; neither her family members nor her neighbors received photographs either.” 

Cuomo and his aides, the report says, “were not fully transparent with the public regarding the number of COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents.” That has been widely reported, but the State Assembly report also found that Cuomo covered up nursing home deaths in part because he had signed a lucrative book deal with Penguin Random House, and didn’t need any bad news coming out to lessen enthusiasm for the book. Former New York State Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Queens) declared: “It’s crystal clear now that Andrew Cuomo has had a financial motive to suppress nursing home death toll numbers. The report clarifies how the former governor abused his power to lie and cover-up life and death data to preserve his lucrative book deal. These are beyond impeachable offenses, and we must hold him accountable.”

To make matters even worse, the report states that Cuomo made state employees work on his book while they were at work and getting paid by the taxpayers, and then falsely claimed that they helped him with his book on their own time. “The former governor utilized state resources and property, including work by Executive Chamber staff, to write, publish and promote his book — a project for which he was guaranteed at least $5.2 million in personal profit.”

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) concluded: “This has been a profoundly sad chapter in New York’s history.” Yes, indeed it has, and it isn’t even over yet. Cuomo is gone, but the corrupt system that allowed him to remain governor for ten years even while behaving like a sex-obsessed teenager and that allowed him to evade responsibility for the nursing home deaths he caused and then lied about is still very much in place. The only thing that Americans can be grateful for is that this “profoundly sad chapter in New York’s history” didn’t become a “profoundly sad chapter in America’s history,” as Randy Andy’s presidential aspirations now appear to have been torpedoed for good. We dodged a bullet in that. Not that there aren’t others being fired.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 23 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest book is The Critical Qur’an. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.


New York Ethics Board Revokes Andrew Cuomo Book Deal Approval

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo prepares to board a helicopter after announcing his resignation, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, in New York. Cuomo says he will resign over a barrage of sexual harassment allegations. The three-term Democratic governor's decision, which will take effect in two weeks, was announced Tuesday as momentum …
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Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), who stepped down from his position during a sexual assault investigation, lost approval on Tuesday to publish his 2020 memoir, Politico reported.

A New York Joint Commission on Public Ethics revoked its approval of Cuomo’s book, American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, and will require him to “reapply for authorization.” Besides being charged with sex crimes, the former governor is accused of covering up thousands of coronavirus deaths during the pandemic — the same time frame featured in his memoir.

“If his application is denied, the board — known by the acronym JCOPE — could attempt to force the former governor to surrender the $5.1 million he was paid for authoring,” according to the report. The commission voted to revoke approval 12-1 with “relatively minimal discussion,” and William Fisher, the only person to vote against it, was appointed by Cuomo.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo puts on a mask an event aimed at the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, March 26, 2021. (CARLO ALLEGRI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo puts on a mask an event aimed at the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, March 26, 2021. (CARLO ALLEGRI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Cuomo, who is considering running for the New York attorney general post, reportedly said the decision displays “the height of hypocrisy.”

“These JCOPE members are acting outside the scope of their authority and are carrying the water of the politicians who appointed them,” Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi said after the vote. “It is the height of hypocrisy for [Gov. Kathy] Hochul and the legislature’s appointees to take this position, given that these elected officials routinely use their own staff for political and personal assistance on their own time.”

According to the report, several state workers allegedly “aided the governor as he authored the memoir.”

“On at least two occasions, junior staff were asked to print pages from the draft at the Capitol then deliver them to the Executive Mansion,” the report states.

The ethics commission has reportedly been trying to revoke its approval since summertime and said the disgraced governor “misrepresented how the book would be written.” Cuomo’s office claims everyone who assisted did so on a volunteer or de minimis basis.

“Our counsel’s request to JCOPE was clear, saying ‘no government resources’ would be used — consistent with that representation, people who volunteered on this project did so on their own time,” Azzopardi said in a statement. The vote “amounts to nothing more than Albany political corruption at its worst,” he said.

Andrew Cuomo Charged With Sex Crime

Probe found that former NY gov sexually harassed 11 women

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By Jonathan Stempel

NEW YORK (Reuters) — A criminal complaint charging former New York governor Andrew Cuomo (D.) with a misdemeanor sex offense has been filed in a court in Albany, the state's capital, a spokesman for the New York state courts said on Thursday.

"As this is a sex crime, a redacted complaint will be available shortly," the spokesman, Lucian Chalfen, said in an emailed statement.

Representatives for Cuomo were not immediately available for comment.

A copy of the complaint posted online by NBC's affiliate station in New York said Cuomo engaged in the misdemeanor offense of "forcible touching" on Dec. 7, 2020, at the governor's executive mansion by placing "his hand under the blouse shirt of the victim … and onto her intimate body part."

The complaint goes on to say that Cuomo groped the woman's breast "for purposes of degrading and gratifying his sexual desires," but the name of the alleged victim has been redacted.

The New York Post said Cuomo was expected to be arrested next week and charged with a misdemeanor in the alleged groping of a former aide.

It said the anticipated charge resulted from a probe by Albany County district attorney David Soares (D.), citing a source briefed on the matter.

Soares's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Cuomo resigned as governor in August after 10-1/2 years in office, following a probe that found he had sexually harassed 11 women.

New York attorney general Letitia James (D.) said a five-month independent investigation concluded that Cuomo had engaged in conduct that violated federal and state laws.

The former Democratic governor has long denied wrongdoing, though he has said he accepted "full responsibility" for what he called ill-conceived attempts to be affectionate or humorous.

Cuomo's resignation capped a months-long downfall, derailing the political career of a man once considered a possible U.S. presidential contender, and whose daily briefings early in the COVID-19 pandemic raised his national profile.

Cuomo's resignation spared him from possible removal from office through impeachment proceedings in the state legislature, which appeared likely even though that body is dominated by fellow Democrats.

The independent investigation found that Cuomo groped, kissed or made improperly suggestive comments to women, including current and former government workers, and retaliated against at least one woman who accused him of sexual misconduct.

Like his father Mario Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo was elected to three four-year terms as governor.

He was hailed as a national leader last year at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic after delivering daily news conferences as his state became the U.S. epicenter of the public health crisis.

The week prior to his resignation, one of Cuomo's accusers, Brittany Commisso, filed a criminal report with the Albany County Sheriff's Office accusing the then-governor of groping her breast at the Executive Mansion in Albany last November.

(Reporting by Jonathen Stempel. Additional reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles. Editing by Tim Ahmann and Marguerita Choy.)

Andrew Cuomo Shares Thanksgiving Family Photo amid Scandals: ‘Thankful for My Girls’

Today and everyday, I’m thankful for my girls Cara, Mariah & Michaela and for our family’s rock, my mom, Matilda Raffa Cuomo. From our family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving 🍁
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Disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) posted a Thanksgiving message with a picture showing his mother and three daughters on Thursday.

The 63-year-old stepped down from office after investigators with New York Attorney General Letitia James wrote a report concluding he sexually harassed 11 women, according to the Daily Mail.

“Today and everyday, I’m thankful for my girls Cara, Mariah & Michaela and for our family’s rock, my mom, Matilda Raffa Cuomo,” he wrote in the social media message:

The post by Cuomo came as he has continued working to “overcome his ousting” amid the numerous sexual misconduct allegations brought against the former governor, the Mail article read.

This week, the New York Assembly released an independent impeachment report with “profoundly disturbing” findings regarding Cuomo.

The document said Cuomo allegedly sexually harassed 12 women, including seven staff members, hid the right number of coronavirus nursing home deaths, and pressured state employees to help write his $5.1 million pandemic memoir.

According to the New York Post:

The findings reveal the Cuomo administration’s nursing home report released last July was fashioned in order to “combat criticisms” of his policies and was “substantially revised by the Executive Chamber,” and that the ex-governor has misled the public about the women’s sexual harassment accusations.

The release of the report took place after publication of state Attorney General Letitia James’ sexual harassment probe in August.

That month, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) who replaced Cuomo, noted the state had about 12,000 more coronavirus-related fatalities than Cuomo’s administration admitted.

“When Cuomo left office on Monday, the state reported 43,400 coronavirus-related fatalities in the state. On Wednesday, that number jumped to 55,395 — nearly 12,000 more,” Breitbart News previously reported.

Meanwhile, Cuomo was reportedly considering running for the state attorney general position he held prior to serving as governor.

CNN’s Chris Cuomo Used Media Sources to Dig into Andrew Cuomo’s Accusers 

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 26: Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo and Chris Cuomo attend a screening of "RX: Early Detection A Cancer Journey With Sandra Lee" during the 2018 Tribeca Film Festiva at SVA
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Chris Cuomo, host of CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time, used his media sources to dig up info on his brother, former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s, sexual harassment accusers, according to texts and interview transcripts recently revealed.

Text messages released by New York Attorney General Letitia James show Chris Cuomo had frequent contact with Melissa DeRosa, Andrew Cuomo’s top aide at the time.

In early March, the New York Times reported that the former governor tried kissing a woman, Anna Ruch, without her consent. Three days after this report, Chris Cuomo texted DeRosa, “I have a lead on the wedding girl.”

Other messages indicated Chris Cuomo’s willingness to help with his brother’s response and preparation on the sexual harassment allegations. “Please let me help with the prep,” Cuomo told DeRosa in one text.

In another text, Chris Cuomo sent DeRosa a fully written statement for the governor to use publicly:

I will not resign, I cannot resign. I understand the political pressure I understand the stakes of political warfare, and that’s what this is… And I understand the conformity that can be forced by cancel culture.

DeRosa texted Cuomo, “Rumor going around from politico 1-2 more ppl coming out tomorrow. Can u check your sources?” Cuomo replied with, “On it,” then followed up with, “No one has heard that yet.”

Cuomo and DeRosa also discussed an investigative story from New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow four days before it was published on March 18. “If If ronan has nothing better than boylan thats a great sign,” Chris Cuomo texted DeRosa on March 14.

Lindsey Boylan was a former aide to the governor who alleged that Andrew Cuomo said to her, “Let’s play strip poker” while on a private plane.

Amid these text messages, CNN parent company Warner Media denied the former governor used his brother’s prepared remarks. “The claim that Chris dictated his brother’s statements is false,” a Warner Media spokesperson told Business Insider.

However, CNN said they would be doing a “thorough review and consideration” of the recently revealed documents.

CNN spokesperson Matt Dornic said:

The thousands of pages of additional transcripts and exhibits that were released today by the NY Attorney General deserve a thorough review and consideration. We will be having conversations and seeking additional clarity about their significance as they relate to CNN over the next several days.

Former Gov. Cuomo resigned from office in August after Attorney General James issued a report on his alleged misconduct. Andrew Cuomo’s team criticized James, who is now running for New York governor.

Rich Azzopardi, Andrew Cuomo’s spokesperson said:

James violated the law in appointing biased reviewers and then she admitted personally interfering in the investigation.Today’s manipulated release of hand-picked witness testimony with selective redactions is typical.

“It is also no coincidence that she decided to release select transcripts minutes before one of her rivals declared for governor,” Azzopardi continued. “New Yorkers are no one’s fool and James and her colleagues’ obvious misuse of government resources to damage political opponents is as obvious and repugnant as it is unethical and illegal.”


Chris Cuomo's Lies Embarrass CNN

 By Tim Graham | December 1, 2021 | 10:49am EST

 
 

Chris Cuomo attends the 2017 Turner Upfront at Madison Square Garden on May 17, 2017 in New York City. (Photo credit: Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage)
Chris Cuomo attends the 2017 Turner Upfront at Madison Square Garden on May 17, 2017 in New York City. (Photo credit: Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage)

CNN's dramatic and insurmountable conflict of interest of using Chris Cuomo as a "news anchor" just keeps getting more ridiculous. On Monday, thousands of pages of evidence emerged from the investigation of New York Attorney General Letitia James into ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Once again, it underlined that Chris Cuomo didn't have a line of media ethics that he wouldn't cross.

Finally, CNN took some action...after it let him host his show one more night. He's now suspended indefinitely while CNN evaluates the pile of new evidence.

When his brother resigned in August, the CNN host claimed, "I'm not an adviser. I'm a brother. I wasn't in control of anything. I was there to listen and offer my take, and my advice to my brother was simple and consistent."

But the documents show Cuomo was an aggressive adviser, using what the New York Times called "his vast network of sources in and outside of media" to keep his brother's political career intact. He was correct to say it was "family first, job second." He used the second to help the first, and CNN has seemed more interested in milking the scandal for ratings than issuing any punishments.

Cuomo said he was in a "panic" about how the governor's team was handling the accusations and pleaded to "let me help with the prep" before drafting his own proposed statements for the governor to read, including one referencing "cancel culture."

The documents show Cuomo used a royal "we." "You need to trust me," he pleaded with Melissa DeRosa, the governor's secretary, at one point in March. "We are making mistakes we can't afford." He also texted he was happy when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie "used our language."

Back in July, DeRosa told investigators, "Chris sends me a lot of things a lot of the time. Half of it I don't engage in. He gives unsolicited advice."

Even the CNN report on this matter noted Cuomo also said on the air in August, "I never made calls to the press about my brother's situation." But he lied in his testimony to the attorney general's probe. Cuomo said, "I would, when asked, I would reach out to sources, other journalists, to see if they had heard of anybody else coming out."

Cuomo wasn't "Facts First." He was "Lies First."

With this latest punishing pile of paper, CNN stayed mostly silent for a day. Its "CNNPR" Twitter account said nothing. CNN put out a noncommittal statement about how the documents "deserve a thorough review and consideration" and "we will be having conversations and seeking additional clarity about their significance as they relate to CNN over the next several days."

They put Cuomo back on the air, and he had the overweening chutzpah to lecture Team Biden about offering full disclosure about the coming omicron variant of the coronavirus. "Don't continue this pattern of us having to catch there were things you knew that you could have told us and didn't," Cuomo preached. "Please, let's do better." His level of shamelessness is world-class.

In his newsletter, CNN media reporter Brian Stelter repeated his Cuomo spin from August as persistent wisdom: "This has been a conundrum for CNN that has no perfect answer, no perfect solution." That's wrong.

The perfect solution after all this lying is to fire Cuomo. An indefinite suspension at least acknowledges Cuomo's lying deeply embarrassed CNN. Now it remains to be seen if he will re-emerge like nothing happened, just as CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin did after eight months.

Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.

BLACK VIOLENCE IN AMERICA - BLACK FATHER SHOOTS TO DEATH HIS FOUR CHILDREN AND THEIR GRANDMOTHER

 

BLACK Father arrested in fatal shooting of his 4 young children, their grandmother in Lancaster |





Prosecutors Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Reinstate Bill Cosby Sex Crimes Conviction

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 06: Bill Cosby performs at The New York Comedy Festival And The Bob Woodruff Foundation Present The 7th Annual Stand Up For Heroes Event at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on November 6, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for …
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Prosecutors urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction, complaining in a petition released Monday the verdict was thrown out over a questionable agreement that the comic claimed gave him lifetime immunity.

They said the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision in June to overturn Cosby’s conviction created a dangerous precedent by giving a press release the legal weight of an immunity agreement.

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele called the court’s decision “an indefensible rule,” predicting an onslaught of criminal appeals if it remains law.

“This decision as it stands will have far-reaching negative consequences beyond Montgomery County and Pennsylvania. The U.S. Supreme Court can right what we believe is a grievous wrong,” Steele wrote in the filing, which seeks review under the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Cosby’s lawyers have long argued that he relied on a promise that he would never be charged when he gave damaging testimony in an accuser’s civil suit in 2006. The admissions were later used against him in two criminal trials.

The only written evidence of such a promise is a 2005 press release from then-prosecutor Bruce Castor, who said he did not have enough evidence to arrest Cosby.

The release included an ambiguous “caution” that Castor “will reconsider this decision should the need arise.” The parties have since spent years debating what that meant.

Steele’s bid to revive the case is a long shot. The U.S. Supreme Court accepts fewer than 1% of the petitions it receives. At least four justices on the nine-member court would have to agree to hear the case. A decision on the petition, filed Wednesday but only made public Monday, is not expected for several months.

Castor’s successors, who gathered new evidence and arrested Cosby in 2015, doubt Castor ever made such a deal. Instead, they say Cosby had strategic reasons to give the deposition rather than invoke his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, even if it backfired when “he slipped up” in his rambling testimony.

Cosby’s spokesperson called Steele “obsessed” with the actor and said he only hoped to please “the #MeToo mob.” Defense lawyers have long said the case should never have gone to trial because of what they call a “non-prosecution agreement.”

“This is a pathetic last-ditch effort that will not prevail. The Montgomery’s County’s DA’s fixation with Mr. Cosby is troubling to say the least,” spokesperson Andrew Wyatt said in a statement.

Cosby, 84, became the first celebrity convicted of sexual assault in the #MeToo era when the jury at his 2018 retrial found him guilty of drugging and molesting college sports administrator Andrea Constand in 2004.

He spent nearly three years in prison before Pennsylvania’s high court ordered his release.

Legal scholars and victim advocates will be watching closely to see if the Supreme Court takes an interest in the #MeToo case.

Two justices on the court, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, were accused of sexual misconduct during their bitterly fought confirmation hearings.

Appellate judges have voiced sharply different views of the Cosby case. An intermediate state court upheld the conviction. Then the seven justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court wrote three separate opinions on it.

The majority found that Cosby relied on the decision not to prosecute him when he admitted giving a string of young women drugs and alcohol before sexual encounters. The court stopped short of finding that there was such an agreement, but said Cosby thought there was — and that reliance, they said, marred his conviction.

But prosecutors call that conclusion flawed. They note that Cosby’s lawyers objected strenuously to the deposition questions rather than let him speak freely.

Cosby himself has never testified about any agreement or promise. The only alleged participant to come forward is Castor, a political rival of Steele’s who went on to represent President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. Castor said he made the promise to a now-dead defense lawyer for Cosby, and got nothing in return.

He never mentioned it to his top assistant, who reopened the case in 2015 after a federal judge unsealed Cosby’s deposition.

At a remarkable pretrial hearing in February 2016, Castor spent hours testifying for the defense. The judge found him not credible and sent the case to trial.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in its ruling, called Cosby’s arrest “an affront to fundamental fairness.”

Weeks later, the ruling prompted the state attorney general to dismiss charges against a jail guard accused of sexually abusing female inmates, because of an earlier agreement with county prosecutors that let him resign rather than face charges.

Cosby, a groundbreaking Black actor and comedian, created the top-ranked “Cosby Show” in the 1980s. A barrage of sexual assault allegations later destroyed his image as “America’s Dad” and led to multimillion-dollar court settlements with at least eight women. But Constand’s case was the only one to lead to criminal charges.

Five of Cosby’s accuser’s testified for the prosecution to support Constand’s claims, testimony that Cosby’s lawyers also challenged on appeal. However, the state’s high court declined to address the thorny issue of how many other accusers should be allowed to take the stand in a criminal case before the testimony becomes overkill.

In a recent memoir, Constand called the verdict less important than the growing support for sexual assault survivors inspired by the #MeToo movement.

“The outcome of the trial seemed strangely unimportant. It was as if the world had again shifted in some much more significant way,” Constand wrote in the book, “The Moment.”

The Associated Press generally does not name alleged victims of sexual assault unless they speak publicly, as Constand has done.

Cheryl Carmel, who served as jury foreperson at Cosby’s retrial, said she was glad to see Steele ask for the review.

“I firmly believe that what we decided was correct, or else I wouldn’t have made that decision … with the group. Having it overturned because of something that was outside of the facts of what we were given is disappointing,” Carmel told The AP on Monday.

AT THIS TIME, THERE MAY BE NO GREATER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN BLACK VIOENCE AND LOOTING!


WILL BLACK LIVES LOOT FINISH OFF RETAIL STORES?

A Holiday Crisis is Imminent as Retailers Face Bankruptcy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RLH4Jd_7a0


2 BLACK men wanted in connection with CTA Red Line robbery


BLACK CAR THEFT

'Shocks the conscience': Chicago police arrested 11-year-old BLACK BOY for carjacking, Brown says

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqEnkK9yCfc 

HOW MUCH DOES BLACK MOB LOOTING COST AMERICA? HOW PAYS? NOT BLACK AMERICA!

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/11/mob-looting-new-black-sport-what-is.html

 

Over a dozen vehicles pulled up to the Broadway Plaza shopping mall. Some eighty vandals, some wielding crowbars, ran inside Nordstrom and stole merchandise.  Five Nordstrom employees were physically assaulted.

The action was said to be over in less than a minute. With their bounty in hand, estimated at $200,000, the thieves drove off in different directions. Only three were apprehended. Of those, one was illegally carrying a firearm.

Mobs of Thieves Loot Multiple Best Buy Stores in Twin Cities on Black Friday

Black Friday shoppers leave a Best Buy store in Washington, DC, on November 26, 20221. - Known as Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
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Groups of looters hit two Best Buy stores in Minnesota’s Twin Cities just after 8:00 p.m. on Black Friday, according to reports.

One of the looting frenzies occurred at the Burnsville Best Buy, where 20-30 suspects rushed the store in a flash mob-style robbery, KSTP reported.

Burnsville Police Capt. Don Stenger said that no weapons were used in the Burnsville shoplifting incident, according to the Star Tribune. “We don’t know exactly what was taken or the dollar value,” Stenger added.

The second looting incident took place at the Maplewood Best Buy, where police say a group of ten to twelve looters, comprised of adults and juveniles, stole “high value items,” according to KSTP.

Police were told that the suspects walked into the store at the same time and worked in tandem to steal hoverboards, televisions, and tablets, among other items, the Star Tribune reports. No one was injured in either incident and as of Saturday, no suspects were arrested.

Police are investigating if the incidents are related, CBS Minnesota reported.

Best Buy released the following statement via a spokesperson regarding the looting incidents:

Retailers across the country are seeing spikes in crime. These incidents have been, by and large, non-violent though often traumatic for those who witnessed them. As an industry, we are working with local law enforcement and taking additional security precautions where it makes sense.

We are also working at the federal level to pass a law that would make the online re-selling of these stolen goods much more difficult, materially reducing the incentive to commit the crimes in the first place.

“We can’t tolerate that kind of behavior. Just as a society, we just can’t,” said Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher during a live stream, according to CBS Minnesota.

Dave Vang, a retail specialist from St. Thomas University, weighed in on potential causes for the rise in looting.

“The pandemic and some political issues. A lot of police force has been spread very thinly over some parts of the country,” he told KSTP.

He added that the thieves sell the merchandise online at discounted rates compared to the retailers they steal from and that consumers should triple-check the legitimacy of an online seller. 

“If you want to buy electronics from Best Buy, buy it from the Best Buy website. Don’t buy the same thing that someone claims it’s brand new, but is 30 percent or 40 percent cheaper,” Vang told KSTP. 

In a separate incident, police say a man was fatally stabbed outside of a Houston Best Buy on Black Friday. The incident occurred at 6:05 p.m., and “Witnesses stated the victim and another male were seen walking together to the business and having an argument that escalated into a physical altercation in the parking lot,” according to the Houston Police Department (HPD).

“I see the guy, he hit the guy on the floor, then like he didn’t care and he hit him in his face, and then he hit him with the knife, then he walked away,” witness Beni Jaafar told Click 2 Houston.

“The suspect is described only as a black male with dreadlocks wearing a yellow, reflective traffic vest,” according to the HPD.

Comedian Dave Chappelle’s The Closer: A racist tirade disguised as stand-up comedy

 

 

 

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/10/dave-chappelle-one-more-racist-black.html

 

 

Thieves crash UHaul into auto parts store


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Woman who livestreamed her looting spree in Chicago released from prison the same day she arrived to serve her 17-month sentence

 

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/11/blacks-and-looting-case-against-taeshia.html

 

By Thomas Lifson

I’d like to be able to say “only in Chicago,” which seems to have become the world capital of street crime, but alas, “criminal justice reform” runs rampant – as do criminals, even those convicted of felonies.

 

 

Surveillance video shows man stealing coveted puppy from pet store

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsqXrzqFD5o

 

 

 

EXCLUSIVE: Two San Francisco Prosecutors Quit, Join Effort to Recall City's DA'

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqTfK2pRXs0

 

 

 

BIG SPIKE IN SHOPLIFTING, THIEVES GET MORE BRAZEN, POVERTY DANGER AHEAD WARNING

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4BMXf2G6h8

 

 

 

Walgreens Closes Five Bay Area Stores amid Shoplifting Surge

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/10/13/walgreens-closes-five-bay-area-stores-amid-shoplifting-surge/

 

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WATCH: Ulta Beauty Ransacked During Store Hours in Chicago


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11 Suspects Sought In $100K Handbag Heist At Palo Alto Louis Vuitton Store

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzIkiCOuQNE

 

 

Video shows suspected thieves sprinting out of California Neiman

Marcus with designer handbags

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ctqHXAcXM

 

Brazen shoplifting video in San Francisco becomes issue in California recall

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAIcsHh8vso

 

 

Brazen, Serial Shoplifter Appears In Court As DA Vows To Crack Down On Retail Thefts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvvnsvVJrdE

 

 

 

Busting an Organized Shoplifting Ring


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYFvtPM2su4

 

Vicky Nguyen Gets Inside Look At Retail Theft Rings | TODAY

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97x6bLB5RhM

 

 

 

San Francisco locals react to rampant shoplifting, break-ins | Fox News Digital Original

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU6o2MIuMQc

 

 

 

Target Cuts Store Hours in San Francisco Due to Shoplifting Surge

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NNjdF0cCuQ

 

 

 

Group steals $30K from store in seconds | FOX6 News Milwaukee

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S2pX-VRZXc

 

 

Major Arrest In $1 Million Apple Store Thefts

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0SCIkKgu7A

 

 

 

Apple Store Robbery Suspects Arrested

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT9Jc7lB_Zo

 

 

 

 

Pricey Heist Lasts 34 Seconds, Ends With $200K Jewelry Stolen

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09aI0HAqtBM

 

 

 

Jewelry heist captured on video at Avenues Mall store


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6goU5Fj_b8

 

 

Credit Card Thieves Caught on Tape Using Skimmers | Nightline | ABC

News

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAP7sVh4smc

 

Man Trapped Inside of Store After Serial Thieving Spree | I Survived a Crime | A&E


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmLUEQUd6pQ

 

 

 

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Walgreens Closes Five Bay Area Stores amid Shoplifting Surge

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PAUL BOIS

The ongoing shoplifting surge has forced Walgreens to close five more San Francisco stores as local law enforcement continues to do next to nothing to curtail the problem.

In a statement to SF Gate, Walgreens spokesman Phil Caruso confirmed “organized retail crime” has strangled San Francisco stores.

“Organized retail crime continues to be a challenge facing retailers across San Francisco, and we are not immune to that,” Caruso said. “Retail theft across our San Francisco stores has continued to increase in the past few months to five times our chain average.”

“During this time to help combat this issue, we increased our investments in security measures in stores across the city to 46 times our chain average in an effort to provide a safe environment,” he added.

Asha Safai, San Francisco Board of Supervisor for District 11 admitted to feeling “devastated” over the closure a Walgreens store that has “been a staple for seniors, families and children for decades.”

“I am completely devastated by this news – this Walgreens is less than a mile from seven schools and has been a staple for seniors, families and children for decades. This closure will significantly impact this community,” he tweeted.

Safai told SFGate that the shoplifting had crippled the store’s bottom-line and endangered the staff and customers to an unhealthy degree.

“This is a sad day for San Francisco,” Safai said. “We can’t continue to let these anchor institutions close that so many people rely on.”

Shoplifting has skyrocketed in San Francisco recently, likely a result of Proposition 47, which dictates stealing would not be a felony in California if the item stolen did not exceed $950.

The damage has been felt across a range of business outlets.

In May of this year, The San Francisco News described the situation as being “out of control,” noting that 17 Walgreens have had to close in the past five years due to rampant shoplifting in the city.

17 Walgreen locations in San Francisco have closed their doors within the last five years according to a report from the SF Chronicle. Ten of these closures transpired from 2019 to this year with the last Walgreens store to close its door as of this writing, back on March 17. The cause of the closures is due to rampant shoplifting and looting that has transpired at Walgreen locations in the city believed to be perpetuated by an organized crime ring.

On Thursday, May 13 a hearing was held by the Board of Supervisors with retailers, the SFPD, the district attorney’s office, and probation departments. Brendan Dugan, director of organized retail crime and corporate investigations, believes that San Francisco is at the center of organized retail crime. He brought up a state bust in the Bay Area from last year in which $8 million in stolen merchandise was confiscated from five suspects. The merchandise came from CVS, Target and Walgreens stores from all across San Francisco.

The lack of enforcement made shoplifters so nonchalant and casual they would often steal in broad daylight while awestruck customers documented the crime on their iPhones, allowing for some viral internet moments.

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San Francisco Safeway Cuts Hours Due to Rampant Shoplifting

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JOEL B. POLLAK

A prominent Safeway supermarket in the Castro district of San Francisco is limiting its hours due to rampant shoplifting, the latest example of a retail store closing or limiting its operations in the left-liberal city due to out-of-control petty crime.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday:

Shoppers at the Safeway in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood will see a noticeable change to the store: It now closes at 9 p.m. due to what one supervisor described as “out of control” shoplifting.

Once open 24 hours a day, the Safeway store on Market and Church streets now has the earliest closing hours of all the Pleasanton-based supermarket chain’s San Francisco storefronts, most of which stay open until midnight.

[San Francisco Supervisor Rafael] Mandelman said theft at the Safeway at 2020 Market Street has been “out of control” and recently met with Safeway representatives “to better understand the issues at this store.” He said he also planned to meet with the San Francisco Police Department and the office of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin “to see what is currently being done to deter theft at Safeway, and to figure out a plan to do better.”

Earlier this year, Walgreens closed 17 stores in the city due to shoplifting, which skyrocketed after California voters passed Proposition 47, a ballot initiative aimed at criminal justice reform, which reclassified thefts up to $950 as misdemeanors. As a result, such thefts are rarely prosecuted.

The crime spike began under former district attorney George Gascón, who is now district attorney for Los Angeles County, and has continued under Chesa Boudin, who now faces a likely recall election.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

NYC Man Arrested Three Times in 36 Hours Brags of Release Due to Cash Bail Reform

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A homeless man in Brooklyn arrested three times in 36 hours boasted to police he would avoid being held on bail because he “didn’t have a record,” the New York Post reported Sunday.

The man was eventually proved to be correct, the outlet said.

“Agustin Garcia, 63, was charged with robbing two Manhattan straphangers — wielding a knife against one of them — and stealing a beer from a Bronx bodega in rapid succession,” prosecutors and law enforcement sources explained to the Post.

Prosecutors asked two times that Garcia be held on bail during the alleged crime spree, but were denied by judges.

It was not until the suspect was caught a third time that he was taken to Bellevue Hospital to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, but still with no bail to detain him.

“We can arrest people, we can cut them loose, incarcerate them, but it’s not addressing the underlying problems,” a law-enforcement source noted, adding the number one problem seen in cases was mental health.

Garcia’s brother, Jose, acknowledged the source was correct regarding the case.

“My brother is a sick person,” Jose Garcia said during an interview with the Post, adding Agustin has schizophrenia. “He’s been sick for the past 35 years.”

The suspect’s alleged crime spree began November 21 when officers said he took a dozen cans of beer from a bodega in the Bronx. He was later charged with petty larceny, the Post report continued:

Cops released him on a desk-appearance ticket pending a court hearing. Then just a few hours later, Garcia was back in handcuffs. Police said he was busted again around 3 a.m. Nov. 22 at the Canal Street subway station in Manhattan after allegedly stealing a straphanger’s backpack and pulling a knife on her while warning her to “stay back” when she followed him.

“I know I’m getting out,” the suspect told officers following his arrest, the sources said. “I have no record.”

Garcia, who reportedly had no earlier convictions, was charged with felony robbery, and prosecutors requested he be held on $15,000 cash bail or a bond of $45,000.

However, the man was let go on supervised release with no bail thanks to Manhattan Criminal Court Judge James Clynes.

“Back on the street again, the suspect stole an iPhone from another straphanger at the West 145th Street/Lenox Avenue subway station around 7:15 a.m. Nov. 23 and fled with it into the subway tunnel,” authorities told the Post.

Officers nabbed him when he attempted to climb a subway platform back inside the station, according to sources. Garcia was eventually charged with grand larceny and also criminal trespassing.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office tried to put Garcia in jail and recommended he be kept there on $20,000 cash bail or a bond of $60,000.

“But Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Valentina Morales denied the request and instead ordered a 72-hour psych evaluation for Garcia at Bellevue,” the Post article read.

The hospital told the outlet the suspect remained there on Sunday.

Several laws took effect at the start of 2020 in New York, including one that would release potentially dangerous suspects from jail, CBS New York reported in December 2019:

New York’s bail reform law eliminates pretrial detention and cash bail for the vast majority of misdemeanor and non-violent felony cases. Hundreds of offenses such as stalking, grand larceny, assault as a hate crime, and second degree manslaughter will no longer be eligible for bail or pretrial detention.

According to the Post, a spokesman with the state court system explained judges who did not set bail for Garcia used their own discretion because they are authorized to do so under the law.

MAXINE WATERS REPRESENTS A LOS ANGELES CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WHERE SHE SUCKS OFF BIG


 CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS SHE SIPHONS OFF TO HER DAUGHTER. WE'RE TALKING MEGA BUCKS!


Gang Lands # 10 Gangs of Downtown Los Angeles




I went riding through SKID ROW in Los Angeles & it honestly SHOCKED me..

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LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA SKID ROW AT NIGHT




Into The Night Drugs Rats and Death at Homeless Encampments Skid Row Downtown Los Angeles




Maxine Waters Republicans Are Worse Than ‘Evil’ — They Display ‘Racism’ All the Time

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Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said on this week’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” that Republicans were worse than “evil.”

Capehart said, “Let’s put up on the screen some recent sampling of the Republican’s violent rhetoric that we have seen. You see Boebert, her Islamic-phobic remarks against Congresswoman Omar. You have Congressman Gosar and the anime video. Marjorie Taylor Greene, that’s just two of many things she has done, including getting up in the face of Congresswoman Cori Bush so much so Congresswoman Bush moved her office because she felt threatened. Then you see Congressman Yoho for misogynistic remarks against about Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among other things. Congresswoman Waters, since you’re the only member of the House on this panel and on the show right now, are the democrats going to hold onto the majority?”

Water said, “We’re working very hard and we know that they are taking every action they can possibly take to demonize us and speak to their constituency out there. That apology you alluded to, they simply know what they’re doing when they reach out to their constancy. They fire them all up. So the apology means nothing. As a matter of fact, she’s gone viral on that accusation. So, we are working very hard and we know that we’ve got to not only tell the people what we have done but how we have done it.”

She added, “The American people are going to be able to distinguish between us and them. In the final analysis, we’re going to win. We’re going to beat them. We don’t take anything for granted. We know that they’re evil. We know that they lie. We know that they don’t give a darn about facts and so we’ve got to overcome that with the truth.”

Capehart said, “They’re evil? I mean, that’s a strong word, congresswoman.”

Water said, “Worse than that. Worse than that. Evil. When you see the kind of attacks that you have talked about already, that’s constantly being made by them, that’s evil. I want you to know, I’m under attack also. They tried to censure me and we beat them back with the majority that we have. Even Marjorie Taylor Greene, I believe, has something up to expel me from the Congress of the United States. Can you imagine people with this kind of attitude and these kinds of actions and this kind of racism that they display all the time talking about expelling me or anybody else from Congress when, in fact, they shouldn’t even be there?”

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Chicago Thanksgiving Weekend: Nearly 40 Shot into Sunday Morning

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - OCTOBER 20: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at a Chicago Police Department promotion and graduation ceremony on October 20, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. The mayor has been sparring with the union that represents Chicago police after the city ordered police to state their COVID-19 vaccination status. With …
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Nearly 40 people were shot by Sunday in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago  during the 2021 Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

At least two of the shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.

ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reports 25-year-old Artilia Cunningham was shot and killed while sitting in her home “in the 7600 block of South May Street” Friday morning. She was in the front room of her home when someone shot through a window, killing her at approximately 1:45 a.m.

A second shooting fatality was discovered around 7:30 p.m. Saturday night, when a male with a bullet wound to the head was “found under a viaduct…in the 8100 block of South Anthony Avenue.”

Breitbart News notes 31 people were shot in Lightfoot’s Chicago last weekend, five of them fatally.

HeyJackass.com observes 3,474 people have been shot and wounded in Chicago thus far in 2021, and another 737 have been shot and killed.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkinsa 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. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

 

BLACK RACISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-ASIAN, HOMOPHOBIC, VIOLENCE AND IGNORANCE AS DISPLAYED BY THIS CLOWN CHAPPELLE

Comedian Dave Chappelle’s The Closer: A racist


tirade disguised as stand-up comedy

 https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/10/dave-chappelle-one-more-racist-black.html


The Case against Dave Chappelle as Trailblazing Free Speech Hero

Dave Chappelle used to be funny.  He's not anymore.  I write this not to insult the guy, but such is the occasional trajectory among not just comedians, but all entertainers.   Think Oasis or Velvet Underground in the music industry, or Cameron Diaz or Shia LaBeouf in Hollywood.  Like blue stars, they briefly burn hotter and brighter than all the others, and then they promptly collapse into themselves.  But Chappelle's descent is noteworthy in that it was self-inflicted.

I recently watched Chappelle's latest Netflix specials, Sticks and Stones (2019) and The Closer (2021), because I heard they were "controversial" (i.e., they offended leftists), and I wanted to see what the kerfuffle was all about.  The only thing I found controversial was how boring these two supposed "comedy" specials were.  Chappelle doesn't tell jokes that are unfunny; he just doesn't tell very many jokes at all.  His routines consist of hour-long sermons in which the underlying theme consists of three points:

  1. I'm black and oppressed.
  2. White people are my oppressors.
  3. Any other group claiming oppression is unjustly diverting attention from point #1.

The perpetually oppressed Chapelle (worth $50 million) mistakenly assumed that, as a black person, his place at the top of the left's intersectional hierarchy was set in stone.  He didn't realize he'd been bumped off this perch years ago by the transgendered (who will in turn be bumped off by some other group once their political utility has been sapped).  He's upset about this, and his aforementioned Netflix specials are poorly camouflaged attempts to reclaim this lost status. 

He ends The Closer with a groveling apology to the transgender community for the jokes he made about them in Sticks and Stones, and he pledges not to make any further jokes at their expense.  The apology is laughably disingenuous, and its underlying message translates clearly:  Whoa, hey, wait a minute, take it easy transgendered community, I'll concede we're both victims in this irredeemably evil nation, so let's put our minor differences aside and re-focus our hate on America, where it belongs.

But Chappelle quickly learned that unconditional surrenders tend to embolden the enemy rather than placate them.  Like clockwork, leftists demanded that Netflix cancel Chappelle's special, with some Netflix employees staging a walk-out.  Mainstream media ran stories defending cancel culture and blaming Chappelle for violence against transgenders.  Chappelle belatedly attempted to dig in, stating, "I am not bending to anybody's demands."  Too late.  You already bent like wet paper when you made promises to ideological fanatics bent on destroying your career.  Did you think they were going to meet you halfway?

Comedians fancy themselves the vanguards not only of free speech, but of pushing envelopes, of breaking taboos, of walking up to the line and stepping over it, and of shoving in our faces all those uncomfortable topics we'd prefer just not to discuss in polite society.  To the extent that they're willing to stick it to racial, political, cultural, and religious groups deemed fair game by the paymasters and their social media thought police, they're correct.  Tear into those toothless white male, gun-carryin', snake-handlin', pickup truck–drivin', trailer park Alabamans all you want.  Because nothing broadcasts exhilarating courage more than rich comedians mocking, without fear of consequence, the same group of powerless lower classes attacked relentlessly by the mainstream media, Hollywood, late-night talk show hosts, and most every other comedian for the last half-century.

But these same daring, edgy comedians are now flabbergasted to learn that what they assumed were careers spent dishing their truth-to-power shtick to repressed audiences starving for it were actually careers spent parroting state-sanctioned propaganda to conditioned lemmings who dutifully applaud rather than laugh.  All went well until a few of these comedians meandered out past the borders of acceptable Party ideology.  Now, like Nikolai Antipov, Sergey Kirov, and Nikolai Shvernik before them, they're starting to disappear from official photographs.  The hosting invites are being rescinded; the film showings are being nixed. 

Admirable rearguard actions to defend free speech are attempted by comedians like John CleeseRicky Gervais, and even Bill Maher.  But it's too little, too late.  Too many of their comrades are, like Kevin Hart and Hank Azaria, meekly apologizing or, like Seth Rogen and Katt Williams, outright supporting cancel culture.  To paraphrase Martin Niemoller:

First they came for the conservative campus speakers, and you did not speak out — because you don't actually believe in free speech from which you don't directly profit.

Then they came for Christian bakers, and you did not speak out — because Christianity is the only religion you'll deride on stage.

Then they came for ordinary citizens in MAGA hats, and you did not speak out — because you're an overtly racist bigot whose "comedy" acts are dreary exercises in psychological projection. 

Then they came for you — and there was no one left to speak for you.  Nor will there be, because we have long memories.

Wit and wisdom are two different things, and they should not be mistaken for each other.  Comedians who thought they had their finger on the pulse of society should have seen this locomotive barreling down the tracks long before it plowed through them.  They must feel like those kapos who, after herding everyone else into the gas chambers, were apoplectic upon learning that they, too, were scheduled to be "disinfected."  How ironic that we tried to warn them...until we were shut down by the very mobs they helped incite, which have now turned on their enablers.   

Well, laugh it up, because now it's your turn.  Frankenstein's monster always comes home.

Image: John Bauld via FlickrCC BY 2.0 (cropped).


Black Lives Matter Ripped for Thanksgiving ‘You Are On Stolen Land’ Post

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Black Lives Matter (BLM) experienced much backlash on Thanksgiving when it described America as “stolen land.”

“You are eating dry turkey and overcooked stuffing on stolen land,” the organization wrote in a social media post on Thursday which also included a graphic.

“Colonization never ended, it just became normalized,” the graphic read:

The group then urged followers to “Find out which ancestral homeland you’re currently occupying” by visiting a website.

However, social media users fired back at the organization, one person writing, “But blm founders own houses shouldn’t you give those up first?”

“Then give up your houses card money jobs and everything else you own because that’s all on stolen land too,” another commented.

“Every square inch of land occupied on this planet was stolen/conquered. You’re normalizing generational victimization and it’s gross,” yet another user replied.

In June, photos showed BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors apparently built a wall surrounding her $1.4 million house after stepping down amid criticism of her lifestyle, according to Breitbart News.

The Daily Mail initially reported Cullors “has been busy upgrading her ‘Marxist’ mansion in the rustic but ritzy Topanga Canyon area of Los Angeles County amid the fallout over her $3 million property portfolio.”

According to Breitbart News, Cullors, a “trained Marxist,” was believed to have purchased four homes over the past several years, as her activist profile gained attention and protests raged around the nation:

Cullors resigned from her position May 27 after the controversy about her personal wealth — “though she, and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF), denied that had anything to do with it.”

Cullors’ stake in the property and the intent to protect it is worth noting due to her Marxist bent, which contends that private property is a result of the upper class oppressing the lower class, according to the Marxist ideology.

On Thursday, social media users also described their Thanksgiving meals, one person writing, “I didn’t have turkey though, I had chicken. Which mansion did you send this from?”

On October 5, veteran US comedian David Chappelle premiered his latest stand-up comedy special The Closer on Netflix.

Chapelle’s 72-minute special, however, is not comedy so much as it is a racist rant. No other major American entertainment figure in recent memory has openly advocated anti-Semitism and gloated over racist violence directed against Asians, whom he foully chooses to identify with the COVID-19 pandemic, in this manner.

 

Dave Chapelle in "The Closer"

He recalls being ill with COVID-19 and watching videos of black people assaulting Asian Americans, asserting, “I couldn’t help but feel like, when I saw these brothers beating these Asians up, that’s probably what’s happening inside of my body.”

Amid a ferocious campaign by the fascist right to demonize China, anti-Asian hate crimes have surged in the United States. In many instances, those engaging in violence against Asian Americans invoked the libel that China was responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Immediately following his anti-Asian comments, Chappelle likened Jewish people to an invasive alien species: “So they come back to Earth, and they decide they want to claim the Earth for their very own. Pretty good plot line, huh? I call it ‘Space Jews.’”

Chapelle roots these remarks in his advocacy of racial identity politics. As he says, “Gay people are minorities, until they need to be White again.” Chapelle holds a view of the world in which racial and sexual identities are locked in a zero-sum game, so that an advance in gay rights or women’s rights is a defeat for black rights.

The New York Times’s columnist Roxane Gay, a race and gender zealot, condemns Chapelle’s special as a “joyless tirade of incoherent and seething rage, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia.” However, she goes on to claim that Chappelle “delivers five or six lucid moments of brilliance.” She praises his “interesting and accurate observation about the white gay community conveniently being able to claim whiteness at will. There’s a compelling observation about the relatively significant progress the L.G.B.T.Q. community has made, while progress toward racial equity has been much slower.” That is, Gay agrees with Chapelle’s premises but perhaps not all his conclusions. It is worth noting that she says nothing about Chapelle’s anti-Asian and anti-Semitic observations.

In 2017, Gay gave proof of her anti-democratic outlook when, in the face of criticisms about the destruction of careers and lives in the #MeToo witch-hunt on the basis of unnamed, unsubstantiated accusations, she complained about “a lot of hand-wringing about libel and the ethics of anonymous disclosure.”

It is not an accident that Chappelle finds himself squarely in the anti-Semitic camp. Practitioners of black nationalist ideology have frequently made common cause with white supremacists and other political filth, as have proponents of Zionism and Jewish nationalism, for that matter. The Nation of Islam, which notoriously conducted meetings with the Ku Klux Klan in the Jim Crow South and praised American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell in the late 1950s and early 1960s, is also known for its violent anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial and anti-gay rhetoric.

In an earlier day, Chappelle established himself as a commentator with an acerbic wit who could choose deserving targets and developed a youth following in particular as a result. He is best known for his hit three-season run of Chappelle’sShow (2003-2006) on Comedy Central. Chappelle famously abandoned the series and a lucrative contract with the television station due to his criticism of the show. While many of the show’s segments were vulgar and backward, his skits lampooning former-President George W. Bush’s efforts to sell the war in Iraq did capture an element of the criminality and gangsterism of the administration.

Chappelle’s personal and political background is worth a comment. Born on August 24, 1973 in Washington D.C. to parents William David Chappelle III and Yvonne Seon, David Khari Webber Chappelle has lived firmly ensconced within an upper middle class African and African American milieu. His father, William, attended Ivy League colleges and taught music while serving as dean of students at Antioch College in the town of Yellow Springs, Ohio, where Chappelle himself owns large amounts of property.

The elder Chappelle was involved in civil rights and protest groups, including Help Us Make a Nation (H.U.M.A.N.), which sought to “address institutional racism and discrimination,” according to the 365 Project. Chappelle’s mother, Yvonne, worked for a time in the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s bourgeois nationalist government of Patrice Lumumba. Notably, she later worked in the United States Department of State. She then founded a Black Studies Center at Wright State University.

Chappelle (net worth $50 million) introduces The Closer by declaring, “I’m rich and famous,” followed by the explanation that the “last 17 months were hell and I cannot imagine what everyone went through.” While this elementary acknowledgement of the socially disparate impact of coronavirus may be honest, the pandemic has had an accelerating impact on society, sharpening class conflict.

Whereas the working population has responded to the pandemic with a still-growing strike wave against the profits-before-lives policy of the capitalist leaders, the ruling class and its well-to-do hangers-on have responded by whipping up fascistic and racist demagogy to divide and confuse the working class. This has gone hand and hand with the homicidal drive to force teachers, students, workers and parents into unsafe workplaces and schools to resume production amid record COVID-19 infections and deaths.

The movement of the working class, which has revolutionary implications, is attracting the most thoughtful and progressive layers of the middle classes to its side and repelling the more selfish and degenerate affluent elements. It is the responsibility of the former to reject the racist garbage that bourgeois society is secreting from its pores and to fight for the international unity of the working class of all nations and backgrounds.

One does not know which is more disgusting, Chapelle’s gloating about violence against Asian Americans or the declaration by the New York Times, which claims to be America’s “newspaper of record” that such a tirade contains moments of “brilliance.”

 

Looters Ransack Numerous Retailers Across Country Throughout Thanksgiving Week

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Groups of looters ransacked shopping centers and retailers around the country throughout Thanksgiving week following last weekend’s full-fledged stealing bonanza in California’s Bay Area.

A Sunglass Hut at the Del Monte shopping center in Monterey, California, was hit by a group of four on Friday, who stole an estimated $30,000 in sunglasses, police confirmed to KSBW.

Store Manager Shauna Weirich said the bandits were in and out within two minutes.

“They just knew what to do,” she said per KSBW. “No rhyme or reason for it they just knew what to do, when to do it and how to get the most out of what they were doing.”

The same day, a group of eight between the ages of 15 and 20, stole crowbars, hammers, and other tools from a Lakewood, California, Home Depot, according to Fox 11, citing the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. They made off with an estimated $400 in tools.

“We tried to stop them,” Home Depot employee Luis Romo told FOX 11. “We closed the front entrance and they put their sledgehammers up and whoever got in the way, they were going to hurt them.”

Fox 11 reports: 

The suspects all fled the store in getaway vehicles parked outside. According to the sheriff’s department, one of the getaway vehicles was a red Mercedes Benz with severe damage to the front. The department says possibly 10 vehicles were involved.

Around 9 p.m. Friday, officers with the Beverly Hills Police Department spotted several vehicles with no license plates near Beverly Dr. and Dayton Way. Thy [sic] conducted a traffic stop on one of the vehicles; the four occupants were taken into custody.

They were booked at the Lakewood Sheriff’s Station and items among the alleged stolen property were recovered, Lakewood city officials said Saturday.

Crimes were not isolated to the Golden State. Two mobs of looters ransacked multiple Best Buys in metro Minnesota on Friday night, according to the Star Tribune

Both of the ransackings took place shortly after 8:00 p.m. Police say a mob of 20 to 30 people rampaged through the Burnsville Best Buy, while a group of ten to 12 that included both juveniles and adults hit the Maplewood store, according to the Star Tribune

No injuries were reported, and no one was arrested as of Saturday. 

More looting was documented in the midwest on Black Friday. Three men reportedly waltzed into a Chicago Foot Locker, filled trash bags with merchandise, and fled the area, according to NBC Chicago, citing a WBBM-TV report.

Though Black Friday brought numerous group thefts throughout the country, looting had been prevalent throughout the days leading up to Black Friday.

On Wednesday, a group of thieves reportedly stole designer handbags from a Nordstrom in the Westfield Topanga mall in Canoga Park in Los Angeles, according to Fox 11. The looters made off with an estimated $25,000 in merchandise.

Breitbart News NaN on an incident that left a security guard dead while he was protecting a KRON news crew:

The victim’s name is Kevin Nishita, and he left behind his wife, two children, and three grandchildren. Nishita was an armed security guard for Star Protection Agency and was a former policeman.

The outlet said, “The KRON4 crew was covering a story on Wednesday about a recent robbery where 12 thieves wearing masks and hoods raided a clothing store on the 300 block of 14th Street,” adding that at 12:20 p.m. Wednesday, an assailant attempted to steal KRON4’s camera equipment, according to police.”

Nishita was shot in his lower abdomen and later succumbed to his injuries.

The mayhem of Thanksgiving week follows a three-night-long free-for-all in California’s Bay Area last weekend, previously reported by Breitbart News.

Looters hit high-end stores like Louis Vuitton and Yves Saint Laurent in San Francisco’s Union Square on November 19. The next night a group of 50-80 rushed a Walnut Creek Nordstrom near San Francisco.

Police estimate between $100,000 to $200,000 was lifted from the department store, according to Fox News.

On November 21, a Lululemon in San Jose was ransacked. At least 40,000 in merch was stolen from the store, according to Fox News.

Crimes Spread South to Los Angeles as at Least 20 Suspects Attack Nordstrom

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Los Angeles police say at least 20 people attempted to break into a Nordstrom store at the Grove shopping center on Monday night. A high-speed chase ensued with police following at least four vehicles.

Police said a storefront window was smashed in with a sledgehammer that was left at the scene.

KNBC reported the chase ended at 98th Street and Hoover Street in South Los Angeles. Three suspects were taken into custody, police said on Tuesday morning.

WBRZ reported that the event follows looting in the San Francisco area and in Illinois in recent days:

About 80 suspects were involved in what police are calling a “smash-and-grab” incident Saturday night at a Nordstrom location in Walnut Creek, near San Francisco. Looters fled the store in at least 10 different vehicles, Lt. Ryan Hibbs at the Walnut Creek Police Department told CNN and three suspects were arrested.

Targeted retailers during Friday’s burglaries included a Louis Vuitton store, a Burberry store, a jewelry store, a Bloomingdale’s, a Walgreens, multiple cannabis dispensaries, and an eyeglass shop, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said at a news conference Saturday.

Yet another smash and grab burglary occurred in Illinois last week. On Wednesday, at least 14 people forced their way into a Louis Vuitton store in Illinois’ Oak Brook, area and stole at least $100,000 in merchandise, according to the Oak Brook Police Department.

“Surveillance video from the store showed the chaotic scene as the masked shoplifters made their way into the store and grabbed as much merchandise as they could while shoppers hurried to get out of their way,” the WBRZ report says.

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San Jose Lululemon Ransacked as Bay-Area Looting Continues for 3rd Straight Night

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Looters struck California’s Bay Area again and hit a Lululemon store in San Jose, marking the third consecutive night a store in the region was ransacked.

The suspects arrived at the store around 6:30 p.m., pilfered merchandise, and fled the area, KPIX reports. The suspects were no longer at the scene when authorities arrived. Law enforcement could not provide further details on the matter.

Just a day earlier, on Saturday, a large group of suspects looted a San Francisco-area Nordstrom in the city of Walnut Creek, as reported by Breitbart News. The incident happened around 9:00 p.m.

“We probably saw 50 to 80 people in ski masks, crowbars, a bunch of weapons,” a nearby PF Chang’s manager told ABC 7 of the incident. “They were looting the Nordstrom’s right here. And I thought they were going to start beating cars. I had to start locking doors. Locked the front door, locked the back door.”

“There was a mob of people. The police were flying in. It was like a scene out of a movie. It was insane.” the restaurant manager added, per CBS SF. 

Drivers reportedly shut down nearby streets before the looters wreaked havoc in the department store. NBC Bay Area reporter Jodi Hernandez tweeted that roughly 25 cars blocked the road.

Three of the suspects were arrested, according to KTVU.

The suspects then brought merchandise to the vehicles before speeding off.

A police spokesperson informed NBC that some 80 suspects ransacked the Broadway Plaza Nordstrom store and one employee was pepper-sprayed, while two more were punched or kicked.

Breitbart News reported on Friday’s looting spree of high-end Union Square stores in San Francisco. Union Square is a major tourist destination in the city’s downtown area.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported looters hit upscale retailers, including Louis Vuitton and Yves Saint Laurent.

One video of the incident tweeted by @StanleyRoberts shows a looter running with a pile of clothes, wearing masks on both the upper and lower portions of their face. The video also shows another suspect who attempted to get into their car, presumably to flee the area, before officers crowded the vehicle.

On Saturday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed addressed Friday night’s mayhem, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

“What you saw last night was horrible,” Breed stated. “We can’t allow that to happen. If you come to our city to commit these types of crimes, you will be held accountable.

John Chachas’s family owns Gump’s in Union Square and said Breed should resign. 

“The mayor and her entire team should resign,” Chachas said, per the San Francisco Chronicle. “You can’t really run a retail enterprise if you have to board up the windows five weeks before the critical Christmas selling season.”

San Francisco Residents Hire Private Security to Stave Off Crime: ‘We Don’t Feel Safe in Our Neighborhood’

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At least 150 residents in San Francisco’s Marina District have hired private security as crimes in the area have caused significant concerns among community members.

“We don’t feel safe in our neighborhood,” Marina resident Katie Lyons told CBS SF. “And we have an alarm, we have cameras on our property, but we want the extra security of having someone have eyes on our place.”

She informed the outlet that frequent car break-ins and home burglaries prompted her to hire private security, CBS SF reported. Lyons and other residents have hired Patrol Special Officer Alan Byard to keep tabs on the neighborhood. Patrol special officers such as Byard are overseen by the police commission, according to the outlet. 

“It’s a nice area down here, people are afraid of what’s been going on,” Byard told CBS SF. “They want a safe place to raise their kids. In the last year, I’ve had 10 of my clients move out of the city.”

Since the advent of the pandemic, Byard says his clientele in the Marina area rose from 70 to 150, according to CBS SF. The patrol special officer says that car break-ins are one of the significant issues along with homeless individuals sleeping on residents’ doorsteps, according to CBS SF.

Burglaries have jumped significantly throughout San Francisco since the pre-pandemic days of 2019. According to the San Francisco Police Department’s Crime Dashboard records, from January 1, 2019 – October 17, 2019, San Francisco saw 3,955 burglaries. Over the same time period in 2021, the city saw 5,800 burglaries. The police department reports 5,864 burglaries over the same period in 2020.

Lyons says that she has to take special precautions when traveling in her community. “Especially at night, I don’t walk with a purse, I’ll drive, or I’ll take an Uber, and it’s beginning to become a daytime problem too,” she told CBS SF.

Australian singer Clinton Kane says he was held at gunpoint on October 15 in the Marina area of San Francisco after witnessing his car was being broken into, according to CBS SF.

“We kind of heard glass shatter, and we looked over and we kind of knew it was our car already,” Kane told the outlet. “We basically, three of us, two of my mates went over to the car, and as soon as we tried stopping them, they pulled out guns on us, all three of them, and then we ended up on the floor with our hands raised.”

The singer says that thieves took off with $30,000 worth of camera equipment, according to the outlet.

On October 19, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a $100,000 reward on information regarding rampant auto burglaries. While she was speaking a car was broken into just blocks away which belonged to a couple visiting from Seattle, Washington, according to Fox News.