“They’ve elected some — put some black woman in
charge of the police force, and we are getting the same
kind of chaos and disunity and violence that we see in
a lot of these cities that are run by single
mothers,” Whitlock continued. “If we want to discuss
the breakdown of family that leads to disrespect for
authority that causes you to resist the police and run
from the police and not comply with the police
because you resist authority at all time because there
was no male authority in your home, let’s have that
discussion.”
Whitlock on Memphis PD Video of Tyre Nichols Beating: ‘It Looked Like What Young Black Men Do When They’re Supervised by a Single Black Woman’
During an appearance on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Jason Whitlock, host of the “Fearless” podcast, said the actions of the five Memphis Police Officers charged with the murder of Tyre Nichols were a reflection of the breakdown of the family.
According to Whitlock, the beating was a clear-cut case of illegality by the accused law enforcement officers. However, it also appeared to represent the culture of single mothers who have risen to leadership posts in many American cities.
“They don’t want us focused on reality. Hey, if they want to devote an hour of coverage to this and weekend coverage of this, and they want to take us to a good place, I would examine the racial element of this because there is a racial element. And this is a story about young black men and their inability to treat each other in a humane way. Everybody involved in this on the street level was either 24 to 32 years old, everybody. It was a group of young black men, five-on-one. It looked like gang violence to me. It looked like what young black men do when they’re supervised by a single black woman, and that’s what they’ve got going on in the Memphis Police Department.”
“They’ve elected some — put some black woman in charge of the police force, and we are getting the same kind of chaos and disunity and violence that we see in a lot of these cities that are run by single mothers,” Whitlock continued. “If we want to discuss the breakdown of family that leads to disrespect for authority that causes you to resist the police and run from the police and not comply with the police because you resist authority at all time because there was no male authority in your home, let’s have that discussion.”
“But that’s not where they want to take us,” he added. “They want to take us down the path of saying, you know what, this is Tucker Carlson’s fault. This is some random white — this is Donald Trump’s fault. It’s not. It is the breakdown of family and the buying into all these left-wing things that have nothing to do with promoting family.”
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FNC’s Bongino: Cops in Tyre Nichols Case Failed to Defend His ‘God-Given Rights’ — ‘These Guys Are Just Bad Guys’
On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” FNC host and former police officer Dan Bongino stated that the death of Tyre Nichols wasn’t a training issue, it’s “a personnel issue. These guys are just bad guys.” And the officers failed to follow their duty to defend everyone’s rights and argued that “The process worked” because the officers were immediately terminated and will be charged.
Bongino said, “I waited to comment because I’m trying to find any legitimate, rational reason that the situation was handled the way it was. There’s been a lot of commentary on this about training and other things and I don’t get where that comes from. Do you think anyone was trained to do this? This isn’t a training issue, guys. … Nobody is trained to do this. This is not a training issue. This is a personnel issue. These guys are just bad guys. Who does this? Listen, guys, there is no attempt in this situation — and again, I’ve been there, I’ve done this, I’ve watched this video now probably ten times — there is no attempt at all, at any point in this scenario to de-escalate, none, zero.”
He added, “Listen, as conservatives and libertarians and as any sane, rational lover of this country, it is our duty no matter who we’re looking at in this video, a cop, a civilian, or anyone else to defend everyone’s God-given rights are God-given rights…I’m not really sure that these cops understood that with this guy.” And “A couple of other things here, and this is important, all the other police officers out there that I know are good and decent people, you know this and don’t ever forget this, we are not vigilantes. This isn’t freaking ‘Judge Dredd,’ okay. We are paid to do a job. We are that thin crust on a volcano, as that old adage goes, and we keep civilization — along with our military internationally — intact, okay? When those handcuffs are on or that subject stops resisting, that fight, damn it, it’s over, man. That fight is over. That is not your fight anymore. That’s not your fight anymore. It is for the judge and the judicial system and a jury or if he decides to plea and get a lawyer at that point, that is the purpose of a legal system. We are not animals. We are not savages. We don’t beat the living out of people to make a point. This isn’t a bar fight. We’re not bouncers. We’re professionals.”
Bongino further stated, “One more point here: The process worked. The process worked, guys. You had these officers immediately terminated. And the judicial system — which they disrespected by beating the crap out of this guy until he died — the judicial system they disrespected will now, ironically, handle them, these five men you see on the screen. Like anyone else, they’re entitled, however, to the presumption of innocence. They will have their say in court as well. However now they will be subjected to a jury of their peers, again, the same exact system they disrespected by enacting a death penalty themselves in this case.”
Later, Bongino argued that the unit that the officers were a part of should not be disbanded and that doing so would likely result in more crime.
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Protests Erupt Nationwide After Release of Tyre Nichols’ Footage
Protests have begun across the country after Memphis officials released the video footage of the traffic stop that resulted in the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols.
Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, died on January 10, three days after Memphis police officers stopped him for “reckless driving.”
In an initial statement, the Memphis Police Department said Nichols “complained of having shortness of breath” after “another confrontation occurred” between Nichols and law enforcement.
On Friday, Memphis officials released video footage from the traffic stop that showed officers shouting expletives and repeatedly punching Nichols as they attempted to detain him.
In Memphis, protesters demonstrated on the highway and blocked the flow of traffic.
“Holding up traffic ain’t gon’ do nothing,” one trucker stuck on the highway said.
In Dallas, several dozen people gathered for “an impassioned but peaceful demonstration,” outside the Dallas Police Department headquarters.
As Dallas News reported:
Some attendees held signs, with sayings including “Stop the war on Black America” and “Justice for Tyre Nichols.” Crowding together against the cold, they shouted “No justice, no peace” and “No good cops in a racist system.”
Protests reached the nation’s capital, with citizens gathering outside the White House.
“The only way we will get justice for Tyre Nichols … to overturn this capitalist system is if we understand our power,” one protester said through a megaphone, Fox News reported.
“Racist police terror, health care, climate change, workers’ rights — all of these things are intertwined,” the man continued.
Some White House demonstrators held signs that read, “jail killer cops,” with “Party for Socialism & Liberation” underneath.
Protests in New York City seem to be more aggressive.
A large group of protesters marched through the streets of New York City, video shows.
At Times Square, brawls and arrests reportedly broke out.
Some people could be seen throwing punches at law enforcement, with a crowd huddled around the officers. Another protester bashed the windshield of a police car, one video showed.
Despite the protests, Memphis officials are taking action against those involved in Nichols’ death.
A grand jury indicted former Memphis Police Officers Demetrius Haley, Tadarrius Bean, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills, and Justin Smith, all of whom are black, on several charges, including second-degree murder.
Additionally, all officers were fired from the Memphis Police Department last week.
Jordan Dixon-Hamilton is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jdixonhamilton@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter.
Memphis cops’ violence and the problem of culture
Two of the smartest and most insightful commentators today, both of whom happen to be black, have spoken words of great wisdom about the outrageous behavior of the Memphis cops that beat to death Tyre Nichols. Both men cite culture, though one, former Detroit police chief James Craig, points to the culture of the Memphis PD and the local culture of the “Scorpion” unit – one that deals with the worst street crime, and the other, Jason Whitlock, points to the broader black culture.
Speaking to Tucker Carlson, Chief Craig (who kept the peace in Detroit while Minneapolis and other cities were burning after the death in custody of George Floyd) spoke of Antifa and other subjects, while criticizing the behavior of the cops – not just the ones that beat on Tyre Nichols, but the ones who stood by and did nothing to stop them and nothing to aid Nichols after his injuries. Wait for the last minute of the video below to see his remarks on the culture of the Memphis Police Department and of the Scorpion unit.
Organizational culture is a powerful force shaping and regulating behavior. It fills in the details of the rules and regulations that formally exist and creates a sense of what members of the organization “ought” to do. What their internal mental guide tells them is appropriate. It is usually shaped by the behavior of others that they observe, and then see rewarded or punished. It emerges over time and becomes uncomscious.
Also speaking to Tucker on the same broadcast, Jason Whitlock, whom I deeply admire for his genuine wisdom, had the courage to raise the issues relating to black culture. Via Mediaite:
There is a racial element. And this is a story about young Black men and their inability to treat each other in a humane way. Everybody involved in this on the street level was either 24 to 32 years old. Everybody. It was a group of young Black men, five-on-one. Looked like gang violence to me.
It looked like what young Black men do when they’re supervised by a single Black woman. And that’s what they got going on in the Memphis Police Department. They’ve elected some, or put some Black woman in charge of the police force, and we are getting the same kind of chaos and disunity and violence that we see in a lot of these cities run by single mothers.
If we want to discuss the breakdown of family that leads to disrespect for authority that causes you to resist the police and run from the police and not comply with the police, because you resist authority at all times, because there was no male authority in your home, let’s have that discussion.
He's wrong, apparently, about the marital status of the Memphis chief of police (for whom James Craig had words of admiration), but to me, his critique of the culture of fatherless young black males sounded spot on. I am certain that observation would get me branded a racist in some quarters, but accusations of racism are now so common and misapplied that I don’t care.
Photo credit: Grabien video screengrab (cropped)
Every year in America, some 500 whites are murdered by black assailants, more than twice as many as blacks killed by whites. The media need to report all of these cases fairly and without bias so as to counter the false reporting and misplaced emphasis in the national press. All victims, of whatever race, deserve justice because all human life is precious. The reporting of violence should not be based on race — it should be proportionate to the crime, without regard to the race of the perpetrator or the victim. Jeffrey Folks
Charging Black Officers in Black Man’s Death is Racist
No matter what happens, it's racist.
The first rule of America is that everything is racist. If you’re confused about this rule, you’re racist. If the sun rises in the morning, it’s racist. If it doesn’t rise in the morning, it’s also racist. If the earth turns out to be flat, it’s racist.
If a black man dies in police custody and nothing happens to the officers, it’s racist. If a black man dies in a confrontation with black police officers and they’re put on trial, it’s racist.
In response to the Memphis arrests and murder charges (which seem to be disproportionate) in the death of Tyre Nichols, Philadelphia’s finest racist onionskin offers these deep thoughts from a columnist.
Five Memphis, Tenn., police officers were fired 10 days after civil rights activists say they brutalized a young Black motorist named Tyre Nichols earlier this month when he tried to run away from a car stop…
The swift firings were met with rumblings from academics who said that the pendulum was finally swinging toward justice — that the decisive discipline in this case would soon become the model for handling such things. For a moment, I was hopeful that the academics were right, but then I saw pictures of the officers in question. All five of them are black, and when it comes to the calculus of punishment, blackness matters.
The blackness of these officers helped me make sense of the conspicuous silence of the police unions who so readily defend the indefensible in other brutality cases. Their blackness also allowed me to better understand why politicians in Memphis condemned the officers for a beating that Nichols’ family attorneys Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci described as “violent” and “savage” after reviewing video evidence.
If the five officers hadn’t been arrested and put on trial, it would be racist. Now that they are, it’s also racist.
One significant factor in the Tyre Nichols case is that he doesn’t seem to have had a prior criminal record. He also seems to have been on the underweight side and there were quite a few officers. That’s pretty different than the Michael Brown case. That said, charging the officers with murder seems like the kind of racial overreaction fed by BLM riots and runaway white guilt. Since quite a few of the officers on police forces are actually members of minority groups, the leftist anti-police hysteria was bound to affect them.
Memphis’ police chief is a black woman. The current president of the Memphis Police Association, Lt. Essica Cage, is also a black woman. She issued the official union statement, “The citizens of Memphis, and more importantly, the family of Mr. Nichols deserve to know the complete account of the events leading up to his death and what may have contributed to it.”
Is she a racist?
The obsessive need to see racism everywhere is conspiratorial thinking. And, like all conspiratorial thinking, the Philly Inquirer columnist explains a discrepancy in his racialized worldview, the seemingly impossible prosecution of police officers under the shadow of systemic racism, by once again resorting to racism.
Except that it was politicians caving to BLM that led to police prosecutions. Some, like the Baltimore failed Freddie Gray lynching targeted minority law enforcement personnel, most however came after white officers. The Derek Chauvin trial was little more than a kangaroo court in which anyone testifying on his behalf, including expert witnesses, faced immediate consequences in something straight out of the USSR.
This was never about race, it was about crime. But making it about race is a convenient distraction and a way for the Left to mobilize for the next wave of political and cultural violence against America.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Nolte: Democrat-run Chicago Year-to-Date Crime Rate Up 97% Compared to 2021
Compared to the first 22 days of 2021, the major crime rate in Democrat-run Chicago is already up 97 percent this year, reports Wirepoints. Compared to those same 22 days last year, crime is up 61 percent.
Another great American city utterly destroyed by unchallenged Democrat rule under Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Chicago is what happens to a society when Democrats get everything they want– when the left gets their Utopia.
More from Wirepoints:
Major reported crimes in Chicago in 2022 were 41% higher than in 2021 and 33 percent more than 2019. Versus the pre-George Floyd baseline of 2019 murder, robbery, theft, motor vehicle theft and shooting incidents for Chicago in 2022 were all up notably. But it’s worse than that. New major-crimes data for Chicago is out, covering the first three weeks of 2023. And what a three weeks it’s been.
The numbers show that overall reported major crimes through January 22 in the new year are 61% higher than the same span in 2022, and 97% greater than in 2021.
In just 22 days, there have been 2,189 cars stolen. That’s nearly 100 car thefts per day.
Compared to the first 22 days of 2022, that’s a 165 percent jump. Compared to the first 22 days of 2019, that is a — not a typo — 349 percent increase.
Already this year, in just those 22 days, 32 people have been murdered in the once-great Windy City. Nevertheless, murder is the only crime that has decreased in Chicago. By this time last year, 35 had been murdered.
Watch below as surveillance camera catches an attempted Chicago kidnapping in broad daylight:
Chicago Police Department / YouTubeYear to date, robbery is already up 26 percent, sexual assault increased by 12 percent, and burglary and theft climbed 11 and 24 percent, respectively.
Chicago’s utterly inept mayor, Lori Lightfoot, assumed office in 2019 and is up for re-election this year.
Last week, when this lunatic mayor was asked during a debate what could be done to decrease the crime plaguing Chicago street vendors, she said they should go cashless.
“We have been in Little Village working with those street vendors, understanding what the nature of the crime is, making sure that we’re doing things in concert with them to help them, to make sure that their money is secure,” she told all of Chicago. “Not use money, if at all possible, using other forms of transactions to carry themselves.”
Good grief.
Hey, maybe there would be fewer car thefts if people stopped driving cars?
Hey, maybe there would be fewer sexual assaults if people never left home?
Hey, maybe there would be few property crimes if people stopped owning property.
As I have said many times before, putting a stop to this is a matter of will. You have a very small percentage of the criminal population committing all these crimes. But you must put those people in jail for a long time.
Democrats don’t want criminals in jail.
Why?
Because nothing would make Democrats happier than 1) America going cashless so they can track our every movie and 2) Americans giving up our cars.
If allowing violent marauders to roam the streets accomplishes those goals, Democrats see those means as justifying their fascist and authoritarian ends.
You get what you vote for, morons.
Lightfoot might very well lose re-election, but it will only be to another far-left Democrat determined to make Chicago worse.
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Charging Black Officers in Black Man’s Death is Racist
No matter what happens, it's racist.
The first rule of America is that everything is racist. If you’re confused about this rule, you’re racist. If the sun rises in the morning, it’s racist. If it doesn’t rise in the morning, it’s also racist. If the earth turns out to be flat, it’s racist.
If a black man dies in police custody and nothing happens to the officers, it’s racist. If a black man dies in a confrontation with black police officers and they’re put on trial, it’s racist.
In response to the Memphis arrests and murder charges (which seem to be disproportionate) in the death of Tyre Nichols, Philadelphia’s finest racist onionskin offers these deep thoughts from a columnist.
Five Memphis, Tenn., police officers were fired 10 days after civil rights activists say they brutalized a young Black motorist named Tyre Nichols earlier this month when he tried to run away from a car stop…
The swift firings were met with rumblings from academics who said that the pendulum was finally swinging toward justice — that the decisive discipline in this case would soon become the model for handling such things. For a moment, I was hopeful that the academics were right, but then I saw pictures of the officers in question. All five of them are black, and when it comes to the calculus of punishment, blackness matters.
The blackness of these officers helped me make sense of the conspicuous silence of the police unions who so readily defend the indefensible in other brutality cases. Their blackness also allowed me to better understand why politicians in Memphis condemned the officers for a beating that Nichols’ family attorneys Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci described as “violent” and “savage” after reviewing video evidence.
If the five officers hadn’t been arrested and put on trial, it would be racist. Now that they are, it’s also racist.
One significant factor in the Tyre Nichols case is that he doesn’t seem to have had a prior criminal record. He also seems to have been on the underweight side and there were quite a few officers. That’s pretty different than the Michael Brown case. That said, charging the officers with murder seems like the kind of racial overreaction fed by BLM riots and runaway white guilt. Since quite a few of the officers on police forces are actually members of minority groups, the leftist anti-police hysteria was bound to affect them.
Memphis’ police chief is a black woman. The current president of the Memphis Police Association, Lt. Essica Cage, is also a black woman. She issued the official union statement, “The citizens of Memphis, and more importantly, the family of Mr. Nichols deserve to know the complete account of the events leading up to his death and what may have contributed to it.”
Is she a racist?
The obsessive need to see racism everywhere is conspiratorial thinking. And, like all conspiratorial thinking, the Philly Inquirer columnist explains a discrepancy in his racialized worldview, the seemingly impossible prosecution of police officers under the shadow of systemic racism, by once again resorting to racism.
Except that it was politicians caving to BLM that led to police prosecutions. Some, like the Baltimore failed Freddie Gray lynching targeted minority law enforcement personnel, most however came after white officers. The Derek Chauvin trial was little more than a kangaroo court in which anyone testifying on his behalf, including expert witnesses, faced immediate consequences in something straight out of the USSR.
This was never about race, it was about crime. But making it about race is a convenient distraction and a way for the Left to mobilize for the next wave of political and cultural violence against America.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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