Tucker Carlson looked last night at the central lie behind the whole Black Lives Matter war on police:
“Since 2015, The Washington Post has maintained a comprehensive database of fatal police shootings in this country,” said Carlson. “Last year, the Post logged 1,004 killings. Of the 802 shootings in which race of the police officer and the suspect was noted, 371 of the those killed were white; 236 were black. The vast majority of those killed were not in fact, ‘unarmed.’ The vast majority were armed, and Africans American suspects were significantly more likely to have a deadly weapon than white suspects. Yet more white suspects were killed.”
Carlson counted “precisely ten cases” listed by the Post “in which unarmed African Americans were fatally shot by police. There were nine men and one woman.”
“The first was a man called Channara Pheap. He was killed by a Knoxville police called officer Dylan Williams. According to Williams, Pheap attacked him, choked him and then used a Taser on him … before the officer shot him. Five eyewitnesses corroborated the officer’s claim, and the officer was not charged.”
“The second case concerns a man called Marcus McVae. He was by any description a career criminal from San Angelo, Texas. He’d been ‘convicted of aggravated assault, assault on a public servant, and organized criminal activity.’ At the time he was killed he was wanted on drug dealing charges. A Texas state trooper pulled him over. McVae fled in his car, then he fled on foot into the woods. There, he fought with a trooper, and was shot and killed. The officer was not charged in that case.”
“Marzues Scott assaulted a shop employee. When a female police officer arrived and ordered the suspect toward her car, he instead charged her and knocked her to the ground. At that point, she shot and killed him. The entire incident was caught on body camera. The officer was not charged.”
“Ryan Twyman was being approached by two LA County deputies when he backed into one of them with his vehicle. The deputy was caught in the car door. He and his partner opened fire. The deputies were not charged in that case.”
“Melvin Watkins of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana was shot by a deputy, after he allegedly drove his car to toward the deputy at high speed. The deputy was not charged.”
“Isaiah Lewis, meanwhile, wasn’t just unarmed, he was completely naked. Williams broke into a house, and then attacked a police officer. The police tased Williams, but he kept coming at them and attacking. The officers shot him. They were not charged.”
“Atatiana Jefferson [sic] was shot by a Fort Worth deputy called Aaron Dean. A neighbor had called a non-emergency number after seeing Jefferson’s door open thinking something might be wrong. When police arrived, Jefferson saw them approach from a window and was holding a gun at the time. According to body camera footage, the office shot Jefferson within seconds. That officer has been charged with homicide.”
“Christopher Whitfield was shot and killed in Ethel, Louisiana. He had robbed a gas station. Deputy Glen Sims, said his gun discharged accidentally while grappling with Whitfield. Sims, who is black himself, was not charged in that killing.”
“Kevin Mason was shot by police during a multi-hour standoff. While Mason turned out not to have a gun, Mason claimed to have a gun, claimed to be armed and vowed to kill police with it. They believed him. Mason had been in a shootout with police years before.”
“And, finally, the tenth case concerns Gregory Griffin, who was shot during a car chase. An officer called Jovanny Crespo claimed he saw someone pointing a gun at him. Later, a gun was in fact found inside the vehicle and yet Officer Crespo was charged anyway with aggravated manslaughter.”
Go here to read the rest. For this we have had a nation-wide orgy of looting and murder? For this we have a growing call in the Democrat party to abolish the police? Madness, sheer lunacy.
No one who supports the riots has bothered to explain why the death of George Floyd was an act of racism beyond pointing out that he is black. They have talked past the sale, i.e. “Obviously this man was murdered just for being black, so what are we going to do about it?”
Seen elsewhere. Since 2012, police shootings of black criminals has declined 50%.
Plus, collective guilt: All white people are guilty of a crime committed by one rouge cop (who Dem Pres candidate Amy Klobitchar refused to prosecute) in Minneapolis. Something Hitler could embrace.
You are going to need a bigger blog to cover all the lies behind the current pomp and circumstances.
The Post’s numbers need auditing. They don’t match the data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
No one who supports the riots has bothered to explain why the death of George Floyd was an act of racism beyond pointing out that he is black.
The complaint is that a lower status person was imposing community standards on a higher status person. Black chauvinists fancy blacks are an aristocratic stratum properly free of being subject to the riff-raf. The professional-managerial twits in the media and academe (and now everywhere) fancy they assign strata and they’ve placed blacks above pale-faced deplorables who are getting above themselves by arresting the clients of professional-managerial people. It’s status games all the way down.
It seems to me the bigger problem, Rudolph, is that everybody just assumes Chauvin murdered Floyd. We don’t know that. And the video, bad as it appears, doesn’t prove it.
It’s status games all the way down.
Seems like.
Maybe you can argue third degree murder, which is what they originally charged him with. Now they’ve upped it to second degree murder, and the riot cheerleaders are incensed that it isn’t first degree. For all four officers. And with hate crime charges on top of that.
If people keep upping the ante eventually we’ll see the cops accused of genocide.
If they get an honest judge and an honest jury, I doubt there will be much left of the original grandstanding indictments. Not sure why Ellison’s office has the case. Ellison himself hasn’t practiced law in nearly 20 years and I don’t think he’s taken a criminal case since 1993, so he ain’t one of Minnesota’s great legal minds. (Why the state attorney-general is an elected official nearly everywhere is something I cannot figure out. It seems like a Jacksonian relic that no one’s thought to get rid of).
I must confess I have been the recipient of white privilege. My experience of white privilege consisted of getting the snot beat out of me and terrorized in inner city Detroit public schools by black kids with heads filled with the same race poison these looters and leftist politicians are filled with.
What we are seeing proves whites are more of a target of racism today than blacks are.