THESE PEOPLE LEARNED HOW TO HOAX FOR MONEY FROM CORPORATE BRIBES SUCKERS AL SHARPTON, JESSE JACKSON AND THE OBOMB WHO RECENTLY SUCKED OFF $100 MILLION FROM JEFF BEZOS, ONE OF THE DEMS FAVE BILLIONAIRES FOR OPEN BORDERS.
So how did it all begin?
BLM used the business model pioneered by veteran race hustler Al Sharpton. Sharpton’s functioned with the implicit message ‘support me or you are a racist’ which also means ‘donate (to my charity) or you are a racist.
Sharpton used his charity to enrich himself and his family. Sharpton was also a tax dodger. In 2016, Sharpton personally owed over $3 million in federal taxes.
The money trail grows murkier with Cullors’ transfer of funds to her activist wife, Janaya Khan. Ms. Khan runs her own social action charity, M4BJ, in Canada, which received BLM funds and recently purchased a $6.3 million Victorian mansion in Toronto for a multi-use social and arts center.Black Lives Matter: Tracking $60 Million in Unaccounted Donations
Social justice warriors appear to know when a house of cards is ready to collapse.
Top executives are fleeing the most famous “social cause” network, now that more than one attorney general has come knocking on their door with inquiries about “unaccounted funds” at the non-profit: Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. (BLMGNF). It’s difficult to know who is in charge, but the organization recently received a demand for an accounting of the more than $60 million collected in 2020, according to a letter from the Department of Justice in California. Other liberal states would soon follow.
Among those who were warned they would be “held personally liable” for the unaccounted donations are the founders and top three executives, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi (all no longer with the foundation). An attempt was made at damage control with the public announcement of two newly recruited candidates -- Makani Themba and Monifa Bandele -- to replace the former executives. The announcement turned out to be premature, owing to the fact that Themba and Bandele never actually stepped into the executive roles, according to the Daily Mail. They were unable to arrive at “the terms of their employment.”
Founder Patrisse Cullors became one of the first red flags to garner national headlines exposing her $3.2 million real estate portfolio. She amassed four private residences and the “self-trained” Marxist never mentioned how these material holdings match up to her communist doctrine of “…each according to his needs.”
Apparently, Cullors’ real estate holdings represent a paltry sum in comparison to BLM’s transfer of funds to “worthy causes” dating back to 2019: The group has funneled millions of dollars to “other” non-profits, in which those dollars appear to go through a revolving door. A case in point: Reform LA Jails received $1.4 million in which those funds found their way into the pockets of Cullors and her wife, Janaya Khan, for consulting fees ($205,000); and other BLM associates and friends to receive payouts include Christman Bowers, treasurer of BLLM PAC ($270,000); Asha Bandelle, who cowrote Cullors’ memoir ($211,000); and Damon Turner, founder of Trap Heals LCC and father of Cullor’s child ($86,000), according to the Daily Mail.
The money trail grows murkier with Cullors’ transfer of funds to her activist wife, Janaya Khan. Ms. Khan runs her own social action charity, M4BJ, in Canada, which received BLM funds and recently purchased a $6.3 million Victorian mansion in Toronto for a multi-use social and arts center.
Attorney General Rob Bonta in Sacramento is acutely aware of the controversy swirling around the group’s lack of financial transparency and has issued a “delinquency notice” demanding copies of the organization’s Form 990 required for filing with the IRS for 2020. The group has 60 days to respond to the notice issued on January 31.
The days of indiscriminate spending are certainly over for the top brass at the flagship organization. This would include a luxurious $26,000 stay for “meetings” at a five-star Malibu resort, Calamigos Guest Ranch and Beach Resort, and use of the adjacent owned Malibu Conference Center. Such luxurious taste led one television commentator, Megyn Kelly, to comment that BLM “must stand for Babes Lounging in Malibu,” leading some to deduce that self-proclaimed socialists know how to live -- even if it’s on the backs of their donors.
Money that had come pouring into BLMGF is now a thing of the past. The group is “prohibited” from collecting funds and must “immediately cease” collection activities, according to a letter issued from the State of Washington. Any violation of the order would result in a $2,000 fine per donation.
If that weren’t bad enough, BLMGNF was labeled an “illegal enterprise” by Indiana attorney general Todd Rokita. He didn't mince words, saying that there is a clear pattern of misconduct at the organization. “I see patterns that scams (typically) take on: failure to provide board members, failure to provide even executive directors, and failure to make your (financial) filings available.”
In the meantime, attorneys general in various states where BLMGNF remains out of compliance may find it difficult to deliver notices of action in those states (i.e. California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, and State of Washington). The group provided the wrong address on previous tax forms submitted to the IRS, where the occupant of the listed building claimed to be receiving numerous in-person inquiries.
Perhaps the mail could be forwarded to one of Cullors’ several residences or the Victorian mansion in Toronto, which was on the receiving end of BLM funds.
Image: Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc.
BLM is imploding
Last week the Washington Examiner reported that "no one appears to have been in charge at Black Lives Matter for months. The address it lists on tax forms is wrong, and the charity's two board members won't say who controls BLM’s millions."
The report also referred to “BLM's shocking lack of transparency surrounding its finances and operations raises major legal and ethical red flags, multiple charity experts”.
Back in April 2021, the New York Post had reported that BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors, then its executive director, had spent $3.2 million on various real estate properties across the U.S.
Last February, BLM had published an 'impact report' which states that it closed out 2020 with $60 million in its bank accounts. The outfit failed to file taxes for 2020, the year it raised millions after George Floyd’s death.
Indiana’s AG general slammed BLM as a “scam” whose “house of cards may be falling” amid the growing legal attention.
The states of Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina and Virginia have all revoked BLM’s charitable registration, while California and Washington are threatening to hold the nonprofit’s officers personally liable for its lack of financial transparency.
So how did it all begin?
BLM used the business model pioneered by veteran race hustler Al Sharpton. Sharpton’s functioned with the implicit message ‘support me or you are a racist’ which also means ‘donate (to my charity) or you are a racist.
Sharpton used his charity to enrich himself and his family. Sharpton was also a tax dodger. In 2016, Sharpton personally owed over $3 million in federal taxes.
BLM also used ploys frequently adapted by Obama operatives that criticism of Obama’s presidency was motivated by racism. It was effective causing Republicans and media personnel to hesitate to be critical of Obama which enabled Obama to win a second term, despite his myriad fiascos.
BLM began as a trend on social media that evolved into a slogan chanted by 'protestors.' Next, they set the narrative that those who refused to say “Black Lives Matter” were racist. Cowardly politicians and media folks submitted.
Then BLM convinced people in politics, showbiz, and business that they were the sole adjudicators in matters of race.
While BLM was founded in 2013 following Trayvon Martin's death and raised funds following the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner and Michael Brown. It was the death of George Floyd in 2020, that BLM took their movement to new depths with widespread riots and looting across the country.
Celebrities posted photos of Floyd and logos of BLM on social media. Corporate houses, including big tech firms such as Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft supported BLM.
Google committed $12 million, Facebook and Amazon donated $10 million and Apple pledged a whopping $100 million. Walmart announced a contribution of $100 million while Target announced $10 million and Home Depot announced $1 million.
Hollywood stars such as Angelina Jolie, Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Kate Beckinsale, and Ryan Reynolds donated handsomely to BLM.
Perhaps corporations and stars didn’t know or care about BLM and weren’t keen on parting with their money. But the climate created was such that donating was the sole way to prove that they were the ‘good ones.’ It was also like protection money to prevent the vandals from banging at their doors. In addition to accepting donations, BLM also sell merchandise on their website which enables them to enhance their brand.
BLM never concedes any improvements in matters of race because that could make them irrelevant and hamper fund-raising which is usually based on lies and overstatements.
Their branding strategy was clever with sinister motives that cause their astronomical rise. They had a terse and catchy slogan, virtue attached to their brand which implicitly meant that those who didn’t donate were immoral.
In a country such as the U.S. there will always be an instance of crime that can magnified through the lens of race, that presents an opportunity for fundraising. When activism becomes a profession, the cause has to be kept alive.
Despite the claims of being Marxist, they conduct their business and enrich themselves like capitalists, however unlike capitalists, theirs is not a free market. Their totalitarian ‘my way or the highway’ proclivities to establish a monopoly among donors for race issues.
Like most big multi-national corporations, BLM has offices in the U.K. and Canada where more funds can be raised.
If this was just a scam that conned myriad wealthy corporations and celebrities, BLM could have been forgiven.
But their influence has been damaging to the social fabric of the U.S.
The rioting, looting, burning, and thefts by BLM thugs have caused losses of could range between $1 million to $2 million dollars. The vandals always targeted working-class localities even hurt businesses run by black people. The wealthy have already paid their protection money are spared. Perhaps BLM knows if their thugs rioted in affluent localities, the police will be empowered to take severe action.
Much like their vandalism and rioting, their call to 'defund the police' only applies to working-class localities. The powerful in Washington are permitted to allow to have ample police protection from protests.
The media is also culpable since they frequently downplay the violence, describing them as protests.
When BLM rioters were arrested, Hollywood stars bailed them out.
Now that BLM has been caught committing fraud, expect them to play the race card again. The media and their donors who should question them will remain silent.
So, what is BLM’s legacy?
The money they raised could have been invested to improve the lives of people of color, if that had happened the founders would have been pardoned for making some money on the side.
Instead, it appears that the only people of color who benefited from BLM were the founders.
What makes it worse is venom they spread through their rhetoric and actions. In addition to causing loss of property and lives, BLM’s toxicity may have permanently damaged the social fabric of the country.
Their relentless campaign may have convinced a section of black people that their country hates them. This may cause some to stay away from education and hard work because they think systemic racism will prevent them from being successful irrespective of their qualifications or talents. Their prolonged despondency causes them to be destructive both towards themselves and others. They see their own countrymen as their persecutors merely because of their skin color. The divide is permanent.
They are brainwashed to think that every law enforcement official is an enemy. Some day they react badly, perhaps violently to the most innocuous inquiry from a policeman, and in worst cases even end up with a bullet in their body.
BLM turns up at the crime scene once again using to raise funds and the ugly cycle continues.
Perhaps many among these disillusioned youths could have been the next great inventors, writers, teachers, and leaders but now their lives are wasted.
What BLM has done is disgraceful.
Like vultures, they have enriched themselves on the corpses of black men. Hopefully they will be stopped!
VIDEO: BLACK Mother, 2 daughters seen attacking middle school student at bus stop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REYFEZMF6yg
BLACK Tow truck driver arrested, accused of performing sex act in front of customer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c3sxGP4hBU&t=37s
BLACK MURDER INVESTIGATION: Body found on college campus identified as missing woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP074Vzdch4
BLACK Cousin accused of throwing Baltimore woman down stairs to her death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYMp30L8Vpg
18-YEAR-OLD BLACK MAN WITH STAGGERING CRIME RECORD
Arrest made in killing of 12-year-old, violent Costco carjacking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHrz4w5xhK0
BLACK Sex offender, foster mother charged with prostituting young girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owx13CLo-LI
BLACK Man accused of sexually assaulting 3 men by posing as a woman
BLACK MAN WITH GUN AT SHOPPERS HEAD SHOT!
Suspect's family angry at Good Samaritan, police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jxMljF2QPQ
HOUSE AFTER HOUSE HOME INVADED BY THIS BLACK CRIME DUAL
Police Make Arrests, Recover Pricey Items In String Of Burglaries In Delaware
CMAC VIDEO FOOTAGE OF GETTING JUMPED BY 55 STREET CRIPS BLACK APES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJt6M8Zc2PY
Police Search For 4 BLACK Suspects In Northern Liberties Shooting
BLACK Carjacking Suspect Arrested, Identified As Nathan Manning
Man robbed at gunpoint by BLACK MAN in southwest Houston; help identify suspect
VIDEO: Pregnant Woman Allegedly Hit with Own Car in Alabama Carjacking
Shocking surveillance footage caught the moment a reportedly pregnant woman was run over by her own car during a carjacking in Alabama.
The incident occurred on February 6 at approximately 1:28 a.m. at a Chevron on Azalea Road in Mobile, according to WKRG. The woman had entered the Chevron to purchase a drink, and on her way out, she saw a man sitting in her car, WALA reports.
The video shows the victim opening her diver’s side door as the suspect begins driving, and he manages to close it before hitting a vehicle in an adjacent parking spot. The woman then opens the back door as the suspect speeds in reverse, getting away from the woman. The victim then stands in front of the vehicle before the suspect plows through her, sending her onto the hood and slamming her to the ground. The suspect fled and was still at large as of Tuesday, WKRG reports.
Mobile police told the outlet that the woman was okay on the scene, though she reported suffering from back pain. An employee at the gas station said the woman is a regular customer and pregnant. It is unclear what the condition of her unborn child is.
“Heart dropping that somebody would willingly run over a pregnant woman just to steal her car,” an employee at the Chevron said.
Employees say the incident did not surprise them and added that they want a more substantial police presence in the area, WKRG reports.
“Besides just that, wondering if someone is going to flash a gun because I ask for ID,” an employee said. “There’s no honest people anymore. There’s no decency to each other. There’s no common sense. It’s becoming disgusting.”
An attempted carjacking occurred at the same gas station last August. A woman was picked up and thrown to the ground by alleged suspect Brandon Young, 28, WKRG previously reported. The suspect did not get away with the vehicle, though he fled the scene. Young was charged with third-degree robbery, according to the outlet.
At Least 38 Homicides in Democrat-Run Baltimore Already This Year
Democrat-run Baltimore has already witnessed at least 38 homicides through the first week of February 2022.
WBAL TV reports the city witnessed “more than 36 homicides” during January 2022, making it the “deadliest January in nearly 50 years.”
And the city saw two more homicides during the first week of February 2022.
CBS Baltimore noted this month’s two homicides occurred on February 5, and both of them were shooting deaths.
The death and violence in Baltimore come on the heels of 2021, in which 337 homicides occurred.
Moreover, Breitbart News noted that 2021 was the seventh consecutive year where 300+ plus homicides were recorded in Baltimore.
Despite the high rate of homicides, Baltimore, like all of Maryland, have many Democrat-pushed gun control laws with the intention to keep their citizens safe. Those controls include the Firearms Safety Act of 2013’s ban on “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines and a fingerprinting/registration requirement for new handgun buyers. The state also has a red flag law, universal background checks for handgun sales, and a gun storage law, among other controls.
Everytown for Gun Safety ranks Maryland as having the seventh most stringent gun control laws of any state in the Union.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
BLACKS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT SUBCULTURE ON EARTH!
· Twelve cities with large black populations saw their murder totals spike even more dramatically – e.g., by 54% in D.C., 60% in Newark, 72% in Milwaukee, 83% in Nashville, and 90% in Cleveland.
The police-hating rhetoric of the openly and proudly Marxist "Black Lives Matter" (BLM) movement is doing exactly what it did five years ago – creating a massive increase in violent crime and homicide throughout urban America.
BLM's Violence & the Death of America's Cities
The corpses are already piling up.
Mon Jul 6, 2020
The police-hating rhetoric of the openly and proudly Marxist "Black Lives Matter" (BLM) movement is doing exactly what it did five years ago – creating a massive increase in violent crime and homicide throughout urban America. You may recall that back in 2015-16, BLM's anti-police protests and riots – particularly in the aftermath of the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri – intimidated officers nationwide into becoming much less proactive in dealing with criminal suspects. A Pew Research Center report titled “Behind the Badge” – which tabulated the results of a questionnaire that was sent to thousands of officers – confirmed that 85 to 95 percent of law-enforcement officers in large police departments became highly reluctant to engage criminals except where absolutely necessary.
The consequences of the new timidity of law-enforcement were monumental:
· In 2015, America’s 56 largest cities experienced a 17% rise in homicides.
· Twelve cities with large black populations saw their murder totals spike even more dramatically – e.g., by 54% in D.C., 60% in Newark, 72% in Milwaukee, 83% in Nashville, and 90% in Cleveland.
· Robberies surged in America's 81 largest cities during the 12 months that followed the shooting of Michael Brown.
· During the first quarter of 2016, homicides in America's 63 largest cities increased by 9%, while nonfatal shootings were up 21%.
And today, as a result of the anti-police riots and denunciations that have swept the country since the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis – eruptions led in large measure by the Marxists and anarchists of BLM – we are already seeing the same trends all over again.
Consider, for instance, the case of Chicago:
· On Sunday, May 31, eighteen homicides were committed in Chicago, breaking the city's previous one-day record of thirteen, set 29 years ago. In fact, over the course of that same weekend as a whole, Chicago police responded to at least 73 incidents in which 92 people were shot, including 27 who died as a result. “We’ve never seen anything like it at all,” said Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab. “I don’t even know how to put it into context. It’s beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before.”
· From Friday evening through Saturday afternoon, June 5-6, at least 23 people were wounded in various shootings across Chicago.
· During the weekend of June 12-14, no fewer than 34 Chicagoans were wounded in shootings citywide.
· During Father's Day weekend, June 19-21, Chicago saw more than 100 people shot in an astonishing wave of gunfire, 14 of them fatally.
· During the last weekend of June, 63 people were shot in Chicago, 16 of them fatally.
New York City has likewise been turned into a leftist hell hole by BLM hatred:
· In a 28-day period from mid-May through mid-June, the incidence of murder, burglary and grand larceny auto crimes in New York spiked dramatically when compared to the same period last year. Particularly alarming was the homicide count – 38 murders in 28 days – a total twice as high as the corresponding figure from 2019.
· From June 16-22, the number of shootings in New York City increased by some 358 percent compared with the same time frame in 2019 – from 12 shootings last year, to 55 this year. In those 55 most recent shooting incidents, a total of 74 people were wounded.
· From June 19-27, more than 110 people in New York City were wounded or killed in 83 separate shootings.
· In a 12-hour period during the weekend of June 27-28, eleven people were shot and wounded citywide. This spree of gunfire brought the number of shootings over the most recent seven-day period in New York to 59 – a figure that dwarfed the 26 shootings which had occurred during the same time frame in 2019.
The NYPD's Chief of Department, Terence Monahan, blames these horrific trends largely on the fact that “the animosity towards police has been absolutely unbelievable.” “The violence, the shootings are up,” he says. “We haven’t seen this many [during a comparable time period] since 1996.”
The animosity cited by Monahan was on full display in the wee morning hours this past Sunday, when a mob of young people spent several hours hurling bottles and epithets at NYPD officers who tried to break up their massive street party following reports of gunfire at the gathering. The attendees defiantly and repeatedly demanded that the officers “Get the f–k out of here!” Others taunted the cops by launching aerial fireworks from atop a van, and by dancing lewdly in front of an NYPD vehicle. In a subsequent interview with reporters, one young black man summed up his attitude toward the police thusly: “The black people wanted the cops to know that this is our neighborhood and you’re not going to intimidate us.” Meanwhile, a dispirited police officer described the situation as “complete lawlessness.”
And because the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio has been highly sympathetic to the protesters and rioters – as evidenced by the enactment of a $1 billion cut to the NYPD budget – New York City officers have decided that it's time to get out while they can. During the 30-day period from May 25 through June 24, no fewer than 272 uniformed cops announced that they were retiring – a 49 percent increase over the 183 officers who filed for retirement during the same period last year.
The atmosphere in Milwaukee, nearly 900 miles west of New York, has grown equally grim. According to Milwaukee Inspector Leslie Thiele: “Our homicides are way up. We haven't seen these numbers since 1991. We have 86 homicides this year, compared to 37 to this point last year – so we have a 132% increase. Thiele's fellow Milwaukee Inspector Terrence Gordon says: “Morale [among police] is terrible. But people don't have low morale because of something the chief did, it's because they're afraid that nobody in this community is going to stand up for them. In 25 years, I've never seen it like this. I never thought that I'd see the day where a Milwaukee police officer would withdraw from the community they swore to serve. But I can see it beginning to happen right now, and it's just terrible, because on the other side of all these crimes are victims.”
The hearts of police officers have likewise been torn asunder in Washington, D.C., as evidenced by the fact that in a recent press release, the city's Metropolitan Police Union said that 71% of the members it surveyed are considering leaving the department. Of those, nearly 40% are planning to leave law enforcement entirely.
In St. Louis during the weekend of June 6-7, no fewer than 21 people were shot, 6 of them fatally. During the first week of June, homicides in Los Angeles were up 250% compared to the previous week, while the total number of gunshot victims was up 56%. In Baltimore during the month of June as a whole, the incidence of homicide increased by 29% over the corresponding rates for April and May.
By embracing the hateful, destructive, anarchic message of Black Lives Matter and its openly Marxist leaders, urban America has willfully signed its own death warrant. Cities from coast to coast are now in the process of dying. Their respective tax bases are already fleeing – quite understandably and smartly – to safer environs, just like so many of their predecessors did after the riots of the Sixties. Why on earth would anyone want to invest his or her labor and capital in a business or a home that could be wiped out in a matter of minutes, whenever the next pack of raging vandals may feel a righteous impulse to lay waste to everything in its path? Any such an investment would be a very poor life decision.
Thus, such investments are now a thing of the past. For instance, the Minneapolis manufacturing company 7-Sigma Inc., which was heavily damaged during the George Floyd riots, has decided to move, as quickly as possible, out of the city where it has been headquartered for the past 33 years. Other local businesses say they fully intend to follow suit. So, goodbye Minneapolis.
And so long, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, New York, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, and Seattle.
The most enduring hallmarks of the cities that have been ravaged by the riots of recent weeks will be large tracts of ghost neighborhoods where abandoned homes and businesses stand, silently and pathetically, like the dilapidated ruins of dead civilizations. The raging Marxists of BLM have sown the wind, and now the whirlwind is theirs to reap. It is happening already.
Convicted Killer Arrested
for Rape After Being
Released from PrisonCDOC
5 Jul 202093
1:31
A convicted murderer has been arrested for rape after being released from prison to a halfway house in Hartford, Connecticut.
Anthony Smith, 42-years-old, was arrested this week after he had been released to live in a halfway house following a 25-year prison sentence for felony murder, according to the Hartford Courant.
Smith, police said, was living in the halfway house and signing out every day to go to work at a warehouse. Smith, police allege, was not going to work.
On one occasion, Smith traveled to Stafford, Connecticut, to visit a woman he had previously been in a relationship with. The woman claims Smith raped her and said he was a key player in the region’s drug trade.
Smith was arrested for the alleged rape and for violating the terms of his parole. While being strip searched to re-enter prison, police said Smith had stuffed 58 bags of crack cocaine in his bottom. Smith allegedly admitted to police that he had returned to selling drugs while living in the halfway house.
Smith has been charged with first-degree sexual assault, first-degree unlawful restraint, first-degree escape, smuggling drugs into prison, and possession of narcotics. The inmate is being held on a $750,000 bail.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Black Lives Matter is racist against blacks
By Paul Heinz
I've seen an argument on right-leaning sites pointing out that BLM is racist against white people. While BLM is certainly guilty of that, the movement is actually racist in the old-fashioned, Ku Klux Klan way, as mentored through a century of life by Old Mr. Jim Crow himself. It's racist, in other words, not so much to white people, but to the black people it claims to champion.
It takes as a first position a concept of the African-American male as without agency. He is without impulse control, without self-restraint, with tendencies toward violence, rape, murder, and inability to conceive of consequences. No old seg could have phrased it better.
That being the case, it implies that the police must be prepared to accept such behavior as the norm. Thus, when confronted by a clearly under-the-influence perpetrator like George Floyd, it is incumbent on them not to confront and restrain as part of the process, but to give him room and time to act out. He can't help himself; they can.
In their ideal world, the police officers withdraw across the street and observe as Floyd rants and raves and carries on while zephyrs of fentanyl drive him into deep tantrum at the unfairness of it all. Eventually, he will tire himself out, come down, begin to recover his self-awareness. At that point, a non-white officer should approach him, request his acquiescence on the legal issue, and escort him peacefully and uncuffed to the station.
That should make everyone happy, except those whose police calls went unanswered while the blues were handling Floyd with BLM-Rx TLC, and all the victims of all the young men who see the cops acting like both nannies and ninnies and decide, there being no downside, that crime is a good career move.
But what's truly radical isn't its implicit racism, vile as that might be. Rather, it signifies a demand to change the perdurable model of American social assistance. We've seen this model before — too often. Perhaps it worked in the late 1940s, where under our severe influence, both Japan and Germany rebuilt themselves in our image, to our specifications, and became prosperous, democratic, and timid. But both had in place systems of social discipline, mutual respect, and solid hierarchy that gave us a foundation upon which to build.
That has not been the case in 70 years, as failures in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the Middle East have shown. They — communists, radical Islamists, whatever — didn't want to become like us — educated, largely middle-class, democratic, high-trust — but to stay as they were. They wanted to stay who they were.
Such a direction seems also the goal sought by BLM. They don't want to assimilate into society; they want society to assimilate to the ghetto. They proudly demand the right to enjoy the stereotype. They don't want to be saved; they want to be celebrated as is, au naturel. They want to be untethered from judgment, enforcement, and consequence.
The new norm has to include the right and the space and the time for black males to act out. It has to include fatherless families, social incoherence, gang influence, tendencies to violence. A tolerance must be built, seems to be their secret message, to accept all such features, to define deviance away. Welcome to one possible future.
Image: Johnny Silvercloud via Flickr (cropped).
Six Weeks, Six Cities, 600 Murders
The single most important domestic issue of our time is not the rising number of new people testing positive for COVID-19. Deaths have hit all-time lows.
The single most important domestic issue of our time is not even the continued economic hardship of a nation that was artificially shut down and sent spiraling into a faux recession. Millions of jobs have been added over the past 60 days and the skyrocketing unemployment has turned around to nearly where it was percent wise in most of the Obama early years (11.1 vs 9.9.)
Nope!
The single most important issue, affecting some of the largest swaths of populations in America, is the scandal the media ignores even as it explodes in our faces.
In only six weeks, city after city operated by entrenched Democrats have seen a massive expansion in lawlessness, violence, and murder. Stunningly, many news outlets seem gobsmacked and mystified at how or why such an explosion of lawlessness has occurred.
For the sake of brevity, let’s sample six of the nation’s largest cities, including all of the top three.
New York:
The Democratic mayor has long been understood as anti-police. His wife recently imagined the city as “Nirvana” if the NYPD were eliminated altogether.
Thus far in 2020, homicides are up 21 percent. Shootings are up by 46 percent. The Democratic mayor’s agenda included emptying the prison known as Rikers Island, bail reform letting perps walk before the paperwork is completed, and the effort to #DefundPolice that took 600 anti-crime units out of commission.
Los Angeles:
June saw disturbing trends. An increase in the month’s first week by 250 percent of homicides, and a 56 percent increase in shootings. Following the death of George Floyd in May the LAPD received a $150 million cut.
Chicago:
Year-to-date shootings have eclipsed 1,508 for 2020, putting them 350 ahead of 2019. To date homicides sit at 254, placing them ahead of 2019. Important to note that the Cook County board voted in favor of defunding police. Eleven city alderman raced to the fore to demand that not a single penny of $333 million in federal dollars not go to police, and various proposals are being considered to cut current funding by more than $30 million in current spending.
Washington, D.C.
Year-to-date homicide numbers are 13 percent higher than this time a year ago. Nevertheless, the District PD is slated to be defunded by more than $15 million.
Philadelphia:
Shootings are up 67 percent. Victims of armed violence are up 29 percent. Homicides are up 25 percent. So of course it makes sense to defund the Philadelphia PD by $19 million.
Baltimore:
As consistently one of the most dangerous cities in America with a five-year streak of more than 300 murders, last year Baltimore set a new record at 348 homicides. Yet in 2020 they outpace last year’s record and will see defunding to the effect of $22 million.
As I said there are many more that I could highlight for you.
So why did all of these cities take such violent turns? Is it because their leadership capitulated to the anger of the mobs as opposed to thinking clearly and strategically about an effective response?
Or do these Democrat-run towns literally operate with denial in good and evil?
How else can you explain that in the city of Minneapolis (where a nation watched in horror and subsequently responded to the murder of an innocent man) that within 30 days they would record 1,600 shots fired? But then respond by voting to dismantle its police operations all together?
The single most important threat to our nation at this moment are Democrats who are voting in favor of eliminating law enforcement and who are by extension responsible for the greater and greater increase in the loss of life.
They are allowing Marxists and Anarchists to create complete chaos and disorder. They also seem utterly unconcerned about any lives mattering, black or white.
They appear to be holding on to an idea that they are not impacted by the scum and villainy at play under their jurisdiction.
They even perhaps believe that this is all worth it, if it will allow them to have electoral success in the fall.
If so, they need to brace themselves for three basic truths.
It’s time they learn the truth
It’s time they be held accountable.
VIDEO: Woman Mugged by Knife-Wielding Suspect in NYC Subway
A woman was mugged by a person wielding a knife as she waited for a train inside an Upper Manhattan subway station, law enforcement said Monday.
The incident took place at approximately 6:00 p.m. on Thursday at the West 163rd Street location in Washington Heights. The suspect flashed a knife and tried to snatch the woman’s phone, according to police, the New York Post reported.
Following a struggle, the alleged mugger fled the scene with her purse and it was eventually found empty, authorities noted.
“An unknown amount of money was taken, police said. The woman was uninjured,” the Post report added.
Surveillance footage of the incident showed the suspect, wearing a black coat and white shoes, run off with the maroon colored bag and push his way through a turnstile.
In January, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) and New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) announced an increase in police officer presence in the subways as crime wrecked the city.
However, during a recent interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Adams said morale among officers was low and “it’s challenging to have someone commit a crime repeatedly, and you see them out on the next day, carry a gun, then they’re out the next day. That impacts your morale.”
A large number of arrest criminal suspects freed from jail due to New York’s “bail reform” law that wiped out bail for numerous crimes, were eventually rearrested over additional criminal charges, according to state records, Breitbart News reported.
Adams has urged the state’s lawmakers and Gov. Hochul to change the law “so that criminal court judges have more discretion over setting bail for suspects that they believe will go on to commit more crimes,” the outlet said.
However, state Democrats and Hochul have turned a blind eye to Adams’ request, according to the report.
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