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I said for years as a cop: “You get the kind of law enforcement you deserve.”

America: you’re about to get the kind of law enforcement you deserve. And demand. You’re demanding it now.

None.

Note to Leftists, Demorats and American Media Maggots — as well as BLM, Antifa, CHAZ-CHOP, NYPD, Atlanta PD, Leftist mayors, governors and the like: the time is approaching when your gene pool of police candidates, besides being shockingly small, will consist of those who customarily wouldn’t get hired by local street drug dealers.

And that will become a problem.

Because when you decide you’re going to prosecute a police officer in Atlanta, charging with murder, who is facing the death penalty for doing his job, the shark has jumped and every officer in America is asking: “What the hell am I doing here?” And rightly so.

What do I mean? The Fulton County District Attorney in Atlanta, Paul Howard, says he’s prosecuting Atlanta PD officer Garrett Rolfe. From DailyWire.com:

DA Says Brooks Wasn’t ‘Threat’ Toward Cop He Shot Taser At, Said Two Weeks Ago Taser Is ‘Considered’ A ‘Deadly Weapon’

by Ryan Saavedra, 6-17-20

Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced on Wednesday that the police officer who killed Rayshard Brooks last week was being charged with felony murder and that Brooks did not pose a threat to the officer even though Brooks fired a taser at the officer.

The remarks from Howard come after he charged a police officer earlier this month “for pointing a taser” at someone because a taser is considered to be a “deadly weapon” under Georgia law.

In explaining the charges against former Atlanta Police Officer Garrett Rolfe, Howard said, “We’ve concluded at the time Mr. Brooks was shot that he did not pose an immediate threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or officers.”

One very interesting points, amongst a host of many, is this from DailyWire.com:

DA Says Brooks Wasn’t ‘Threat’ Toward Cop He Shot Taser At, Said Two Weeks Ago Taser Is ‘Considered’ A ‘Deadly Weapon’

by Ryan Saavedra, 6-17-20

Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced on Wednesday that the police officer who killed Rayshard Brooks last week was being charged with felony murder and that Brooks did not pose a threat to the officer even though Brooks fired a taser at the officer.

The remarks from Howard come after he charged a police officer earlier this month “for pointing a taser” at someone because a taser is considered to be a “deadly weapon” under Georgia law.

DA Brooks is correct; a Taser is considered deadly force under Georgia law. But DA Brooks, who himself is 1) up for re-election, and 2) currently under investigation for fraud, cannot have it both ways.

The other odd aspect of the June 17th press conference was that the GBI, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, wasn’t aware of the conference nor had they finished their investigation.

GBI was unaware of today’s Atlanta press conference regarding Rayshard Brooks shooting

by Angela Saxon, 6-17-20

ATLANTA, GA (WFXG) – The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) just released a statement saying they were unaware of today’s press conference regarding the charges brought on Garret Rolfe.  

The GBI said in a statement, “Although we have made significant progress in the case, we have not completed our work.” They say they were not consulted on the charges filed by the District Attorney. Adding they will complete their investigation of the incident and then submit it to the District Attorney’s Office. 

So what we have is a black district attorney, challenged for his office in election, and being investigated for corruption, who made the obviously political decision to prosecute both officers, one subject to the death penalty, absent the conclusion of an investigation, which makes is clear that Atlanta PD officers will be charged with murder for attempting to defend their lives — specifically 11 charges to include felony murder.

DA Brooks has himself not managed to locate, yet, the clean end of the turd, it would appear.

GBI Launches Criminal Investigation Into Allegations Against Fulton County DA

by Ellen Eldridge, 5-5-20

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard and his use of a nonprofit to funnel at least $140,000 in city of Atlanta funds to supplement his salary.

“At the request of the Attorney General’s Office, the GBI is conducting a criminal investigation into allegations against DA Paul Howard,” GBI spokeswoman Nelly Miles told GPB News.

The allegations stem from reporting by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News about discrepancies between financial disclosures Howard filed with the state and tax filings submitted to the IRS by the nonprofit he heads as CEO.

Howard, who has been the DA since 1997, is also facing allegations of sexual abuse and a state ethics complaint, the newspaper reported.

So let’s see: black DA, sexual harassment, giving himself $140,000, and a nice, distracting, explosive case drops in his lap. Decision? Light the fuse on the explosive case. Eyes off me. I win. How coolio.

We’ll get back to Atlanta in a moment, moving now to Seattle. And let’s not forget who created the violent, death-riddled “summer of love” in beautiful downtown Mogadishu. Er, sorry. I meant Seattle.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan made the call to remove barriers around East Precinct in Capitol Hill

by King5 Staff, 6-11-20

SEATTLE — The office of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan released a statement Thursday evening saying it was her decision to remove the barriers around the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct in Capitol Hill.

The statement comes after KING 5 reporters questioned Mayor Durkan and Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best during a Thursday afternoon press conference about who made the decision to take down the barriers.

The East Precinct was vacated and the barriers stayed up too long. I wrote about that entire situation here, where I indicated that the existence and possible forcible eliminatin of CHAZ-CHOP could mean the instigation of a second civil war.

And after quantifying CHAZ-CHOP as the “summer of love,” (start at 3:15), Mayor Durkan has proven herself not only incompetent, but wildly unhinged and dangerous.

This is from one anonymous Seattle PD officer about a week ago:

Subject: from the inside of Seattle

Hey guys, I have a little down time so here is an update on things here. Absolute madness here. Can’t even express it all.

Day 12 for us and our Mayor and chief abandoned a major precinct and gave it to the anarchists. Unthinkable.

9 blocks of our city under the complete control of these terrorists. No joke. This is unreal. No police, no fire dept, no sanity allowed in.

They have an armed force patrolling, manning checkpoints and stopping cars and citizens at gun point.

They are creating a currency, an ID system, a supply system that includes food, water, ammo and chemical weapons.

They have access to the precinct and have made it their hq.

Our “leaders” are completely silent and the city council is completely complicit.

Yes, they have been on the front lines WITH the anarchists and yes, last night one council member let about 200 into city hall.

The warlord in charge of the new “capitol hill autonomous zone” (CHAZ) drives a Tesla and has been arrested for drugs, guns, pimping and crimes against children and is on a federal child porn watch list.

He carries an AK-47 and has already started abusing people inside. WTF? You can’t make this up.

We have been castrated. There is no recovering from this. We can’t go near the zone and have been warned by our dept to stay away.

We are only working for each other now.

We have been in battles where these psychopaths have hit us with rocks, cinderblocks, homemade napalm, and even IEDs.

Multiple injuries and THEN we gave up the precinct.

Now the guns are out.

This city can burn.

I’m working on my exit plan now.

The city and state hates us and gives us no support, in fact the leaders are actively supporting this very real insurgency.

Yet, all you hear in the media is that they are merely peaceful protesters.

This is real. There is a part of our country that is no longer under our control.

People need to know.

This is not about race. It’s about control.

Share it, but DON’T say my name.

Even he says — let it burn.

And I concur. Let the cities and Leftist areas burn. Keep the national guard out of any and all of these enclaves — if you allow them to fall in the first place.

If you fail to fight for them on your own.

56% of Americans think the police are behaving appropriately or not aggressive enough. But that means nothing if people aren’t willing to step up and support law enforcement. Inactivity, cowardice, means the Leftists, Demorats, BLM, Antifa, anarchists, Socialists and Communists win.

And that starts with local governments and local law enforcement. But if they aren’t willing to stand up, then perhaps those areas truly need to fall.

Because, as far as Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best was concerned, she and the Seattle PD were completely helpless.

Judges have already removed necessary tools from law enforcement. Seattle PD can no longer use gas munitions, pepper spray, pepper balls, 40mm rubber rounds — nothing but, essentially, the baton and the firearm on an officer’s belt. The same for the Denver Police Department and others around the nation.

Hey kids! Step right up! Let’s have a contest! Who can defund which city police department first? Winner gets to stack the bodies by hand! Step right up!

The Baltimore Police Department stopped “noticing crimes” following Freddie Gray in the Spring of 2015, and crime rose markedly. That fashionable contention is spreading.

Chicago had its most violent day in 60 years, 24 hours from May 29th to June 1st, in which 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab’s data doesn’t go back further than 1961.

Not a peep from the Race Pimps Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. Not a peep from BLM. Not a peep from the NAACP. As per normal. Black lives don’t matter — unless the Race Pimps can make coin from them.

Los Angeles can’t be left out.

LAPD: Homicides Up 250% In First Week Of June

The week of 5/31 to 6/6, homicides went up 250% and victims shot went up 56% compared to the previous week.

And New York can’t be left out either.

Murders continue to surge in NYC with 38 killings in the last four weeks

A bloody four-week stretch has helped drive murders up by more than 25% across New York compared to a year ago, according to NYPD statistics.

The city saw 38 killings over the past four weeks compared to 19 over the same time frame last year. So far, there have been 32 more murders this year than in the same period in 2019, with 159 through Sunday.

Shootings have also increased this year, with 394 as of Sunday compared to 317 in the same period last year.

A YouGov poll discovered that only 16% of Americans want to defund the police. 65% oppose it. But they are otherwise silent.

What about some more facts?

And no one heard of this:

Truck Drivers Say They Won’t Deliver To Cities with Defunded Police Departments

by Summer Smith, 6-12-20

As cities across the country are discussing defunding or disbanding their police departments, truck drivers are voicing concerns of safety. Seventy-seven percent of truck drivers say they will refuse to deliver freight to cities with defunded police departments.

We asked drivers on the app, “Would you pick up/deliver to cities with defunded or disbanded police departments? Why or why not?”

As of June 13, 2020, we’ve had over 1,283 respondents and 79% say they will refuse loads to cities with disbanded or defunded police departments.

Here are some of their responses:

“…if something was to happen and you have to take matters into your own hands, and then you risk being prosecuted for protecting yourself.”

“This is not an area you need to act fearless and think you you’d look like a fool for saying no…Imagine what kind of fool you look like for driving into a hot spot and putting your life in danger.”

“I will not deliver to an area with a disbanded police department. My life matter and I do this for my family. We are already at the mercy of these towns and cities with laws and hate against us for parking, getting a meal or even using a restroom.”

“Simple. We may not like it all the time, but laws and order is necessary.”

“Most places we go already can be dicy an about only time you see a cop is when lights is on behind you.”

“For my own safety and security of my customers’ loads, I have already informed my dispatcher that I will refuse all loads to cities that have defunded their police departments.”

And SFPD took a significant recent step:

San Francisco police will no longer respond to non-criminal calls

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco police will stop responding to neighbor disputes, reports on homeless people, school discipline interventions, and other non-criminal activities as part of a police reform plan the mayor announced Thursday.

Mayor London Breed released her plan Thursday morning.

Under the proposal, sworn officers will no longer respond to non-criminal activities and will be replaced with trained and non-armed professionals.

These professionals will respond in situations such as neighbor disputes, school discipline and mental health calls.

The mayor’s office said this would help lessen the response of armed officers to San Francisco schools.

As part of the reform plan, military-style weapons would also be banned in an effort to demilitarize the San Francisco Police Department. This would include weapons like tear gas, bayonets and tanks.

Now that’s some funny shite right there. I can just imagine SFPD fixing their bayonets as they climb into a nice M-1 Abrams tank.

And so far, altogether too many Republicans are silent. A few seem to have found their vocal cords. Damned few, like Senator Tom Cotton

But Cotton isn’t the only one schooling Demorats these days.

Not to be outdone by San Francisco, Albuquerque, New Mexico made a similar decision.

Albuquerque to send unarmed social workers, not police officers, to some 911 calls

by Danielle Wallace, 6-16-20

Hours before Albuquerquepolice detained alleged members of an armed civilian group when a protest erupted in gunfire Monday, the mayor of New Mexico’s largest city announced that unarmed social workers – not officers – would now respond to certain 911 calls.

Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller announced that the city would create a “first-of-its-kind” cabinet-level department that would respond to calls on inebriation, homelessness, addiction and mental health.

But take heart, America. The Big Stupid Response to this is already occurring:

Azusa Police Department

June 16 at 5:01 PM

Today at approximately 12:37pm, Azusa Police Officers responded to a call for service at an apartment complex in Azusa. A mental health therapist was conducting a home visit with a patient (Male/Black/Adult), when the patient grabbed a knife and asked her to watch him kill himself. The therapist ran out of the apartment complex and called Azusa PD. ⁣⁣⁣⁣
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On arrival, officers made contact with a suicidal male who was attempting to jump off a two story balcony. Officers began speaking with the male in attempt to calm him down. The male threatened officers with “suicide by cop” and asked officers to shoot and “execute” him several times. ⁣⁣⁣
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The officers on-scene were able to talk the suicidal male off the balcony ledge and have him exit his home without incident. After having a conversation with the male, officers drove him to a hospital so he could get more specialized mental health treatment. ⁣⁣⁣

And let’s not forget about the “feelings” of rioters. Words are violence too, you know.

‘Riots,’ ‘violence,’ ‘looting’: Words matter when talking about race and unrest, experts say

by Alia Dastagir, 5-31-20

On social media, users called the arson and looting “disgusting” and “reprehensible.” In response to a trail of vandalism across downtown Louisville, Kentucky, where EMT Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police in March, Mayor Greg Fischer said the “violence and destruction is absolutely unacceptable.” President Donald Trump called the protesters in Minneapolis “thugs.”

Historians and sociologists said reflexively condemning the actions as reckless or self-defeating minimizes the extent of people’s rage.

“The term ‘riot’ tends to connote a senseless venting of frustration, of destroying your own community and all these other things that are counterproductive, as if there couldn’t be political value in urban unrest and forcing the system to examine itself,” said Darnell Hunt, dean of social sciences and a professor of sociology and African American studies at UCLA.

“Riot.” Soon to be in the Official Leftist Lexicon Of The Forbidden. Trust me on that one.

On the other hand, maybe we should admit that CHAZ-CHOP does possess certain striking and attractive amenities. Not manatees; “amenities.”

Because, at its core, BLM and Antifa are about Marxist-Leninist goals and, here, BLM co-founder Patrice Cullors says precisely so.

All of this has a direct affect on cops. On their mental health, and on their physical health. The results are appearing now.

The Atlanta police union said that on Thursday morning, 6-18, one Atlanta PD officer showed up for patrol in a zone typically patrolled by several dozen. And I don’t blame them one bit.

The DC Metro PD is also affected.

D.C. Police Union Survey Shows 71 Percent Are Considering Leaving

A D.C. Police Union survey of its members released Thursday showed that of nearly 600 who responded, 71 percent are considering leaving the Metropolitan Police Department. “71% of members polled are considering leaving MPD,” a press release said. The survey was conducted on Tuesday.

The Kalifornia PERS, or Public Employees Retirement System is flooded with officers wanting to check and run the numbers to see about early retirements — not just CHP and other state agencies — but quite a number of other Kalifornia law enforcement agencies who tied their retirement programs to CalPERS. The lines are blocked, their website backed up, and responses are stacked up like cordwood.

And another Seattle cop weighs in:

I have heard from many people, both pro-cop and anti-cop friends that I’m “one of the good ones” and they “wish all officers were like me.” That I’m fair, kind, understanding, loving, and a great guy. I am still that guy. But my heart is no longer in it. I work with an amazing group of people, people who got into this job as a calling. A calling to help people. Officers who when they hear people are being shot, stabbed, raped, robbed feel the call to try their best to protect life and property. And place themselves between the violent and the victim. And even take those wounds.. A department of people who recognize the past failures and have committed to try to correct the mistakes of the past and work towards a better future. Recognize their own biases and mistakes and learn about others to be more fair, caring, and understanding. Who were as disgusted and upset at the callous murder of George Floyd as the general public and wanted justice to be served. Officers who called out the actions of those officers and wanted them out and charged.

And for a moment, I had hope. Hope that something beautiful and good could come from it. In the last week, that hope has been extinguished. I am all about reform. I am all for accountability. And I am all about ensuring justice for all. And my department is a national leader in all of that. In the last years I’ve attended community meetings, made a point to get to know the people in the area I work (a largely minority community), and worked with people from other social agencies to improve our effectiveness and bring about better results when people need help beyond what I am trained to do.

But the actions of the last two weeks have shown me that does not matter. Progress counts for nothing. Discussion is off the table. Unity to address problems is dismissed.

I have been working 12-16 hour days for almost two weeks, trying my best to protect lives and property and ensure that those who want to march and have their voices heard are able to do so. But even when officers were simply blocking intersections to protect people marching or stationed around marchers as we’ve done thousands of times in the past, it was nothing but insults, death threats, and assaults by rocks, frozen water bottles, beer bottles, fireworks, flammable substances, and explosives. I’ve heard my black coworkers called traitors, Uncle Toms, and the N word, by white people. I’ve heard other minority officers slandered and singled out. Officers that I know and am friends with. People I know who joined hoping to make a difference and bring about change. Be that person that someone can directly relate to, because of a shared background. It made me sick and broke my heart for them.

I can take insults and threats. I understand people are angry about what happened, I am too. But this time has shown me that this area in general does not want me around. Despite numerous steps and advancements, personally and as a department, it mattered for nothing. There was no chance for connection and conversation. People were not interested in what anyone on my side of the line had to say. I heard what protesters where saying, heard their hurt, and spent a lot of time thinking about it, trying to at least partially understand and take it to heart.

But I legitimately don’t feel this community wants me or any other officers around. The community seems to feel this city and area would be better with no officers on duty, nobody willing to answer the calls for help.

I have stood next to officers while they were shot, attacked, injured. I have held people as they died in my arms, doing everything I could to try to fend off death. Heard the screams of people finding out their loved one was never coming home. Held people as they cried asking me “why?” Why did this happen to them or their family members and felt helpless because I had no answers.

Pulled mangled bodies from accident scenes. Chased armed people, murders, and robbers through the dark. Been shot at, had people pull weapons on me or try to take my gun while threatening to kill me. Attended funerals for officers who were killed trying to save victims of domestic violence and robbery. I have gone home and cried myself to sleep at the lives I couldn’t save. And then got up the next day and gone back to try to do better and do this job to the highest standard. And I serve with officers who have done all that and more. Because we care, deep in our core.

But despite all of that it seems like we are not wanted. We are looked at as worse than the criminals we try to stop from harming people. And more than that, I feel as if this city would not just be indifferent if I or a fellow officer were killed, they want it.

This week has shown me the city’s true colors and I don’t know how to reckon with the fact that I could lose my life trying to protect a city that will protest my funeral and cheer when I’m laid in the ground. And it has made me consider leaving it all behind.

Abandon my calling to serve, help, and protect. So no matter what side of anything you are on, please consider the ramifications of some of the things you are demanding. Because at some point even the strongest “good ones” may walk away. I am not there yet, but I am close. I am praying for the strength to continue. To be the change I want to see.

But I don’t know how much more I have left. Or how much my brothers and sisters have left.

Meanwhile, back in Seattle as of Tuesday, June 23rd, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has ASKED protesters to leave CHAZ-CHOP by 8 PM.

But she will not require it.

And police are NOT permitted inside to protect people or property.

Three shootings, one murder. THAT is your Leftist Utopia “summer of love” — and blood and rape and death.

Then there’s this, from NYPD:

NYPD officers mulling ‘blue flu’ sickout on July 4, giving NYC ‘independence’

by Dominick Mastrangelo, 6-18-20

A pair of fliers are reportedly being circulated among New York City Police Department officers, encouraging members to call out sick on July 4 in response to recent tensions between police and members of the public.

“NYPD cops will strike on July 4th to let the city have their independence without cops,” reads the message, which is being passed among cops via text, according to the New York Post. “Cops that say we can’t strike because of the Taylor Law. The people and this city doesn’t [sic] honor us why honor them [sic].”

The Taylor Law allows police officers to be punished for participating in organized work stoppages or strikes.

A second message says police officers must “stand as one” after being “vilified” by some activists.

This very well could occur. And frankly, I hope it does. Go ahead and fire all 40,000 NYPD officers. Good damned luck with that.

But here’s the big kicker. The huge elephant in the room. Removal of qualified immunity for law enforcement officers. This could easily break the back of officers throughout the nation and the plan could rapidly spread throughout the states.

Colorado Reforms Allow Departments To Offer Big Settlements, Force Cops To Pay Part Of Them

by Sandy Malone, 6-17-20

Denver, CO – Colorado state lawmakers passed legislation on Saturday that fundamentally changes policing in the state, and the governor is expected to sign it quickly.

Senate Bill 217 – the Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity Bill – calls for multiple dramatic changes to the manner in which policing is conducted across the state.

Under the new law, every officer in the state will wear a bodycam by July of 2023, and bodycams are required to be activated whenever officers respond to a call, the Denver Post reported.

Failure to activate the camera could result in criminal liability or other penalties.

The law also creates timelines for the release of bodycam footage to the public.

SB 217 also requires officers to intervene if they see another officer using excessive force or face a class 1 misdemeanor or greater charge, according to the Denver Post.

Here is the crux of the biscuit.

The new law also removed qualified immunity protections for police officers, meaning that individual cops can be sued for actions taken in the course of doing their jobs that may violate an individual’s civil rights.

If a police department determines that an officer acted in bad faith, they may hold the officer accountable for up to 5% or $25,000, whichever is less, of the settlement or judgement collected by a plaintiff, the Denver Post reported.

A $25,000 bill can easily bankrupt a cop. And that’s precisely the point.

This leaves officers with no due process to avoid fines outside of their police department’s review. A police department may offer a large settlement to a plaintiff and then force the officer to pay 5% of it.

SB 217 bans chokeholds and carotid control holds, and would ban the use of deadly force against someone for a minor or nonviolent offense.

It also changes the standards of deadly force to say it can only be used as a last resort when absolutely necessary and it cannot be used against a fleeing suspect unless he poses an immediate risk to the officers, according to the Denver Post.

The legislation calls for officers to lose their Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) board certification permanently after having pleaded guilty to an inappropriate use of force, failure to intervene to stop excessive force, or after having been found civilly liable for excessive force or failure to intervene.

All the Leftists and Demorats in Colorado — and across the nation — are pissing their pants rights now, thinking “we need this now in our state!”

SB 217 also gives the Colorado Attorney General the authority to go after persistently bad police departments and officers.

SB 217 takes much of the decision-making out of the hands of local police chiefs and puts it in the hands of the state, the Denver Post reported.

And as I said:

Justin Nix, an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, told the Denver Post that he thinks that is a good thing and that other states will follow Colorado’s model.

“The level of government that’s best suited to reform police right now is the state government,” Nix said. “I expect that we will see states move pretty quickly to some of the reforms similar to what Colorado is doing.”

The natural path of this will be the demand that officers carry their own insurance policies, much like doctors, to protect against lawsuits.

Awards from lawsuits in law enforcement, however, are frequently the equal to if not greater than those in medicine. Surgeons, for example, pay anywhere between $30,000 and $50,000 per year in premiums. Contrast that with some agencies that pay officers anywhere between $20,000 to $30,000 to $40,000 per year, and you have an individual entering a profession who will, right off the bat, lose money.

Or people will simply avoid the profession altogether. Again, the goal of Leftists, Demorats, BLM, Antifa, anarchists, Socialists and Communists. Make absolutely no mistake.

In the meantime, officers in Atlanta PD are still calling in sick.

As Larry Schweickart recently wrote:

  • 1) We are very close to the Cincinnati Solution in Atlanta.
  • 2) Several years ago there was a police shooting of a black man. All the predictable people came out, demanding an end to police brutality.
  • 3) The Cincinnati Police Union issued a statement:
  • 4) In the future, the Cincinnati Police Department will no longer patrol black neighborhoods.
  • 5) The Cincinnati Police Department will answer 911 calls in those areas only to pick up a body.
  • 6) Crime skyrocketed. Killings skyrocketed.
  • 7) In short order the black community was begging the police to return.
  • 8) After they did, there were no more complaints about the police.

End of story. Imagine that.

The streets of Atlanta are already beginning to turn 1800s Western.

Mayhem reigns as Blue Flu spreads in Atlanta; wild gun battle breaks out in streets

by Tom Tillison, 6-22-20

Police officers in Atlanta began calling out in mass last week after District Attorney Howard announced charges had been filed against two fellow officers involved in the Rayshard Brooks shooting.

This coming as Democrats across the country call for not only defunding police, but for disbanding departments altogether — the Minneapolis city council already voted to do just that.

Wednesday was the first night cops began not showing up for work, and while that got sufficient media coverage, there was little reporting that this would continue for a number of days.

“I’ve never seen the morale so bad that it pushes the majority of an agency to do this,” said Vince Champion, the regional director of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers.

“They want to do their job,” the union leader added. “They just don’t want to do it in the City of Atlanta where they’re not respected and where they’ll be betrayed.”

Studies have proven there is no systemic police racism–despite the propaganda by the American Media Maggots and politicians on both sides of the aisle — there is no proof of widespread racial bias.

In 2019, there were more than 10 MILLION arrests in the United States.

Of those 10,000,000+ arrests, 1,004 ended in the suspect being fatally shot (most were armed).

Of the 1,004 who were fatally shot, 41 were unarmed.

Of the 41 unarmed suspects who were shot, 9 were black, 19 were white and the other 13 were Hispanic, Asian, etc.

Meanwhile, in 2019, 89 police officers were shot and killed in the line of duty.

The whole narrative of systemic racism?

The data doesn’t support the claim, and several thorough studies don’t support that claim.

I haven’t seen one shred of evidence yet that the white police officer who had his knee on George Floyd’s neck or that the other 3 non-white officers who helped to hold Floyd down acted out of racism.

George Floyd was killed by these officers, but it appears to be an excessive use of force, abuse of power, and a callous disregard for Floyd’s health. And even that investigation hasn’t concluded.

No one really needs to defund the police. Demorats and Leftists are actively working to make it the most untenable job in America, whereby no intelligent person would ever want to do it. That is their goal. The reverse may soon be true: police will defund themselves by choosing not to appear for work, to retire early, or resign.

I say this to cops today:

None of us took this job for kudos, praises, pats on the back or hugs. We predominantly didn’t get it. Nor did we expect it.

What we did expect is to be treated like adults, allowed to do our jobs, supported when we were correct and smacked when we weren’t. We expected to support the social construct, safeguard lives and property, use discretion, document crimes, arrest criminals, and protect our communities.

That social construct has since dissolved. Law enforcement officers are now one bad call away from having their lives ruined, their families ruined, or prosecuted for doing what 99% of all other officers would have done in a similar situation.

Cops are human beings and, as such, certainly make mistakes.

But when the cards are stacked so distinctly against you, to the point where the department, the community, the media, mayors and governors don’t want you to do your jobs, why are you in law enforcement anyway?

NYPD disbanded their plainclothes unit. They proactively policed. Local and national cops have been told for so long that they “over-police,” they have mostly decided to push the button to acknowledge each call as dispatched, and that’s it.

No self-initiated activity, no proactive policing.

We know where that’s gotten this nation. Look at Chicago. Look at Baltimore. Look at Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, New York. Murders are up, property crimes have skyrocketed, overall crime is rising.

There comes a time in a given profession where, when people don’t want you to do that job and, further, you’re targeted for violence, poisoning, assassination and prosecution for defending yourself — well, maybe it’s time to find a new profession.

It’s not your duty to have your life destroyed and that of your family in order to make a paycheck. There are so many others to choose.

The job is tough enough and eats more than a sufficient number of souls under ideal conditions. Add these additional current stressors and you have a recipe for disaster. People aren’t built to work 20 or 40 years under conditions like these.

Get out while you still can.

It’s pretty simple. If you’ve decided not to support the police — they can easily decide not to support you.

I must wrap up with these things, and I believe them to be true.

Democrats are the ENEMY of the United States.They are the ENEMY, every bit as much as China — and they are more insidious, because they are dissolving America from within due to their hatred of everything American.

Democrats hate the founding fathers. They hate the US Constitution. It doesn’t provide them enough power. It exists to hinder government, not grow it. Your rights come from God, not government. They despise that foundational concept. They want you to revere government, to bow and scrape before government.

To kneel before government.

They hate the First Amendment. They don’t embrace free speech. They want normal people muzzled, you and me, for speaking our minds. Their social media giants do it for them. If they had the power, they’d imprison you for speech. That’s coming.

If they could get away with it, they would burn physical books. At this point they don’t have to. Yet. Because if they wish to eradicate history one day, they could do it with the flip of a switch — and everything you “own” in the cloud is gone. Fiction they don’t like. History they don’t like. Movies they don’t like. It’s happening already with Netflix.

If you think you “own” content, you own nothing. If It’s digital, it’s air. It’s nothing. Books are a guarantee that immure history and thoughts in the physical world. And they’re working on that.

De Blasio doesn’t believe you should own property. Communists don’t believe in the concept of private property. All property belongs to the State. YOU belong to the state.

Democrats hate the Second Amendment. It is the right that stops them from immediately removing your free speech wholesale, which is their goal. Only one speech. Theirs. Only some thoughts. Theirs. Firearms protect your speech and your family and your property.

Democrats hate your free speech. Democrats hate your family. They hate mothers and fathers together in a family. They hate children. They don’t want them born. Many despise the human race. And they certainly hate your private property and its very concept.

They hate your firearms and if they had the power, they would break into your home and forcibly take them. Altogether too many Americans would surrender them, and altogether too many law enforcement officers would obey the order to do so. Even one officer doing so is too many.

They hate your firearms. But they still fear your firearms. Good. Government should fear the people. People should not fear their government.
Democrats exist to remove your freedoms and liberties — occasionally deigning to sell them back to you at a terrible price.

Think: when was the last time a Democrat expanded your freedom or liberty? Reduced government? Respected your rights instead of trampling on them?

There is a lesson to be learned from President Trump. If government, in concert with the media — another issue altogether — could array itself against a presidential nominee, a president-elect, and a sitting president, essentially a soft coup, then that government could crush you in an instant and wouldn’t give two thoughts about it.

NEVER kneel before the mob, never kneel before Democrats, never appease them, never capitulate, never prostrate yourself. Because they will take and take, and can truly never be appeased.

I repeat: Democrats are the ENEMY. There is no shielding this truth any more. No trying to sugarcoat it or downplay it. Democrats are, in no uncertain terms, the enemy.

They despise you, me, normal people, actual Americans. I couldn’t care less about anyone’s “paint job.” This isn’t about color. It’s about holding our country, “a Republic if we can keep it.”

It’s about our liberties, our rights, our freedoms, the very things that so many others are willing to put their lives on the line to enjoy. If this country is so inherently evil, so racist, so misogynistic, why would people care or want to live here?

We must realize that the very things people around the planet are fleeing, Democrats are working for now. Socialism. Communism.Massive, impersonal governments who exist to remove the rights of people and simultaneously acquire more power, more control, more personal wealth for themselves.

NEVER kneel for the mob. NEVER kneel before Democrats. Never attempt to appease them, capitulate to them, acquiesce to them.

We’re seeing the results in Seattle today. Anarchy, chaos, the repression of people, crimes against people. the subjugation of taxpayers. destruction of property.

You and I have been thinking this for some time, but I’m writing and saying it now.

Democrats are the ENEMY.

There can be no bipartisanship or compromise with those persons who wish to completely destroy this country.

Don’t listen to me American Media Maggots as November nears. They want you disillusioned. They want you depressed. They want you to stay away from the polls and from casting your ballots.

They will tell you that President Trump is so far ahead that your vote is not necessary.

Or they will tell you that he is so far behind that your vote is immaterial.

Don’t believe the American Media Maggots. You know who they are.

We are heading towards a binary eruption in November — perhaps even before. Who can tell at this point?

But only one of two things will occur:

  • Either those who love this country and civilization will win,or
  • Those who despise this country and desire absolute destruction will will.

There is no middle ground here.

And we will surely LOSE this country if we don’t vote red in November and forever.God bless America.

We are on the cusp of losing her.

Don’t let it be US who allowed that to happen.

God bless you, your family, take care and be safe.

BZ

 

 

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What CHAZ/CHOP could really mean: the beginning of the Second Civil War

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Never in my seven decades on the planet did I think I would be writing about events that seem to have stemmed from fiction. Certainly, I’ve read George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and, yes, the words, phrases and actions coming from members of the American Left are strikingly similar to whole sections of both books.

In another world and another time I would have said something similar to “interesting analysis” or “my, isn’t that quaint,” but people are dying in America right now because of “philosophical differences.”

We have now jumped the shark, jumped time, jumped fiction, pissed all over the air brakes, climbed into the Dr Peabody’s Wayback Machine in order to realize that, yeah, that Orwell dude was spot on.

And another author too, one you may not have read — but I’ve had him on my internet radio show five times. That would be veteran, attorney, commentator and author Kurt Schlichter.

What Kurt Schlichter did is this: he said “I want to write a book about the most fanciful, the most egregious, the most stupid potential scenario in the history of the United States, have some fun with it, push it to extremes — and then push it further.”

His first book, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC, is about a dystopian near-future where politics have gotten to the point where the United States became Balkanized, grew apart, and segmented itself into blue and red areas. Then they had a civil war. Then things got worse. Kurt is now up to a total of four books in the series, to also include INDIAN COUNTRY, WILDFIRE and his most recent, COLLAPSE.

And guess what? Just when everyone was calling Kurt Schlichter a loon and every other foul word imaginable because he happens to be a Militant Normal like myself — hey, turns out things in America are following Schlichter’s books.

Fiction becomes reality. Fit re ficta. Just as I used to say for years when I was amazed at various happenstances, “you can’t write this stuff” — well, yeah, turns out you can write this stuff.

Let us begin. Our story follows the Minneapolis riots and the national rioting that occurred. Once the riots died down a bit, the whole paradigm shifted into “Defund The Police.” Much in-depth information about that, here in my post.

President Trump has clearly condemned the death of George Floyd — despite every attempt by the LDAMM to insist that he has not. Here is the evidence.

Following that and concurrently, we thusly end up, of course, in Seattle, Washington — the very hub of Antifa and anarchy.

Like a Marvel Origins story — but instead, this is evil incarnate — the precipitous collapse of America will find its origins in the decision to pull all of the Seattle police officers out of its East Precinct. It was abandoned. We know it was abandoned because officers pulled out all the files, equipment, evidence, and every officer left with all their vehicles. Call me wacky — that seems like abandonment to me. Hold the thought.

Within that decision there are two major Seattle government players involved, both women.

That would be Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (good ol’ Mayor Jenny), a massive Leftist with no rudder position available save that of hard aport. And the head of the Seattle Police Department, Chief Carmen Best. Although apparently not really.

A slight aside: on May 31st, President Trump announced that Antifa was designated a terrorist organization.

Trump announces US to designate Antifa as terrorist organization following violent protests

by Ronn Blitzer

President Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. government will designate the far-left group Antifa as a terrorist organization.

This comes as Trump has blamed Antifa for riots taking place across the country in response to the death of George Floyd, the unarmed black man who died May 25 while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minn., after an officer kneeled on his neck for more than 8 minutes in an incident caught on video.

This is also very important to note, from the WashingtonTimes.com:

EXCLUSIVE: Antifa planned anti-government insurgency for months, law enforcement official says

by Bill Gertz, 6-3-20

Activists of the far-left Antifa movement began planning to foment a nationwide anti-government insurgency as early as November as the U.S. presidential campaign season kicked off in earnest, according to a law enforcement official with access to intelligence behind the shadowy group.

The radical movement has emerged as a key focus for investigators in the wake of violent protests and looting across the country after the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, according to U.S. law enforcement officials and private security experts.

The law enforcement official would not speak on the record about Antifa’s plans as the election season heats up, but longtime analysts of the group say such a move would be entirely in character.

“Antifa’s actions represent a hard break with the long tradition of a peaceful political process in the United States,” said former National Security Council staff member Rich Higgins. “Their Marxist ideology seeks not only to influence elections in the short term but to destroy the use of elections as the determining factor in political legitimacy.”

Added Joe Myers, a former Defense Intelligence Agency official and counterinsurgency expert, “President Trump’s election and revitalization of America are a threat to Antifa’s nihilist goals. They are fomenting this violence to create havoc, despair and to target the Trump campaign for defeat in 2020.”

All you need to know about Antifa. And Seattle is Antifa’s very own back yard.

One thing we did know — and will discover again shortly — is that a society making war on its police had best become great friends with its criminals. Seattle took that to heart.

It started with this, from FoxNews.com, on June 8th.

Seattle protesters declare ‘cop free zone’ after police leave precinct

by Michael Ruiz

Protesters declared a “Cop Free Zone” near where Seattle police boarded up and seemingly abandoned their East Precinct building Monday night, according to local reports — following days of demonstrations in response to the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

But with the building boarded up and police gone from the area, at least some demonstrators apparently decided to stay in place.

The first night without a police presence was “rainy and peaceful and full of speeches from activists, agitators, poets and socialist city council members,” according to Capitol Hill Seattle, a self-described community-based news blog.

And then it began.

The city’s police chief, Carmen Best, said Tuesday that police would further alter their approach to handling protests in the area, MyNorthwest reported.

The new approach is evident in images that Town Hall reporter Julio Rosas shared to Twitter.

They show hand-written signs taped to barricades in the area with messages including “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” and “You are now leaving the USA.”

CHAZ was born; the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.

Another image shows “Welcome to Free Cap Hill” and “No Cops Allowed” scrawled in black marker across a plastic road barrier.

Seattle police noted on Twitter than the department is still responding to 911 calls.

Not for long.

Once CHAZ was created and Antifa and anarchist elements walled off a six-block section of one of the nicest portions of downtown Seattle, it was time to flex some muscles and produce a set of “demands.”

Antifa Releases List of Demands After Taking Over 6 Square Block Section in Seattle and Setting Up Armed Security Watch — List Includes Reparations and Ending Police Dept.

by Jim Hoft, 6-10-20

The antifa mob believes the district now belongs to them.

Here are their “demands.”

Given the historical moment, we’ll begin with our demands pertaining to the Justice System.

  1. The Seattle Police Department and attached court system are beyond reform. We do not request reform, we demand abolition. We demand that the Seattle Council and the Mayor defund and abolish the Seattle Police Department and the attached Criminal Justice Apparatus. This means 100% of funding, including existing pensions for Seattle Police. At an equal level of priority we also demand that the city disallow the operations of ICE in the city of Seattle.
  2. In the transitionary period between now and the dismantlement of the Seattle Police Department, we demand that the use of armed force be banned entirely. No guns, no batons, no riot shields, no chemical weapons, especially against those exercising their First Amendment right as Americans to protest.
  3. We demand an end to the school-to-prison pipeline and the abolition of youth jails. Get kids out of prison, get cops out of schools. We also demand that the new youth prison being built in Seattle currently be repurposed.
  4. We demand that not the City government, nor the State government, but that the Federal government launch a full-scale investigation into past and current cases of police brutality in Seattle and Washington, as well as the re-opening of all closed cases reported to the Office of Police Accountability. In particular, we demand that cases particular to Seattle and Washington be reopened where no justice has been served, namely the cases of Iosia Faletogo, Damarius Butts, Isaiah Obet, Tommy Le, Shaun Fuhr, and Charleena Lyles.
  5. We demand reparations for victims of police brutality, in a form to be determined.
  6. We demand that the City of Seattle make the names of officers involved in police brutality a matter of public record. Anonymity should not even be a privilege in public service.
  7. We demand a retrial of all People in Color currently serving a prison sentence for violent crime, by a jury of their peers in their community.
  8. We demand decriminalization of the acts of protest, and amnesty for protestors generally, but specifically those involved in what has been termed “The George Floyd Rebellion” against the terrorist cell that previously occupied this area known as the Seattle Police Department. This includes the immediate release of all protestors currently being held in prison after the arrests made at 11th and Pine on Sunday night and early Saturday morning June 7th and 8th, and any other protesters arrested in the past two weeks of the uprising, the name Evan Hreha in particular comes to mind who filmed Seattle police macing a young girl and is now in jail.
  9. We demand that the City of Seattle and the State Government release any prisoner currently serving time for a marijuana-related offense and expunge the related conviction.
  10. We demand the City of Seattle and State Government release any prisoner currently serving time just for resisting arrest if there are no other related charges, and that those convictions should also be expunged.
  11. We demand that prisoners currently serving time be given the full and unrestricted right to vote, and for Washington State to pass legislation specifically breaking from Federal law that prevents felons from being able to vote.
  12. We demand an end to prosecutorial immunity for police officers in the time between now and the dissolution of the SPD and extant justice system.
  13. We demand the abolition of imprisonment, generally speaking, but especially the abolition of both youth prisons and privately-owned, for-profit prisons.
  14. We demand in replacement of the current criminal justice system the creation of restorative/transformative accountability programs as a replacement for imprisonment.
  15. We demand autonomy be given to the people to create localized anti-crime systems.
  16. We demand that the Seattle Police Department, between now and the time of its abolition in the near future, empty its “lost and found” and return property owned by denizens of the city.
  17. We demand justice for those who have been sexually harassed or abused by the Seattle Police Department or prison guards in the state of Washington.
  18. We demand that between now and the abolition of the SPD that each and every SPD officer turn on their body cameras, and that the body camera video of all Seattle police should be a matter of easily accessible public record.
  19. We demand that the funding previously used for Seattle Police be redirected into: A) Socialized Health and Medicine for the City of Seattle. B) Free public housing, because housing is a right, not a privilege. C) Public education, to decrease the average class size in city schools and increase teacher salary. D) Naturalization services for immigrants to the United States living here undocumented. (We demand they be called “undocumented” because no person is illegal.) E) General community development. Parks, etc.

We also have economic demands that must be addressed.

  1. We demand the de-gentrification of Seattle, starting with rent control.
  2. We demand the restoration of city funding for arts and culture to re-establish the once-rich local cultural identity of Seattle.
  3. We demand free college for the people of the state of Washington, due to the overwhelming effect that education has on economic success, and the correlated overwhelming impact of poverty on people of color, as a form of reparations for the treatment of Black people in this state and country.
  4. We demand that between now and the abolition of the SPD that Seattle Police be prohibited from performing “homeless sweeps” that displace and disturb our homeless neighbors, and on equal footing we demand an end to all evictions.
  5. We demand a decentralized election process to give the citizens of Seattle a greater ability to select candidates for public office such that we are not forced to choose at the poll between equally undesirable options. There are multiple systems and policies in place which make it impractical at best for working-class people to run for public office, all of which must go, starting with any fees associated with applying to run for public office.

Related to economic demands, we also have demands pertaining to what we would formally call “Health and Human Services.”

  1. We demand the hospitals and care facilities of Seattle employ black doctors and nurses specifically to help care for black patients.
  2. We demand the people of Seattle seek out and proudly support Black-owned businesses. Your money is our power and sustainability.
  3. We demand that the city create an entirely separate system staffed by mental health experts to respond to 911 calls pertaining to mental health crises, and insist that all involved in such a program be put through thorough, rigorous training in conflict de-escalation.

Finally, let us now address our demands regarding the education system in the City of Seattle and State of Washington.

  1. We demand that the history of Black and Native Americans be given a significantly greater focus in the Washington State education curriculum.
  2. We demand that thorough anti-bias training become a legal requirement for all jobs in the education system, as well as in the medical profession and in mass media.
  3. We demand the City of Seattle and State of Washington remove any and all monuments dedicated to historical figures of the Confederacy, whose treasonous attempts to build an America with slavery as a permanent fixture were an affront to the human race.

A slight list. Nothing too extensive or costly.

Meantime, back at the ranch, Washington Governor Jay Inslee thought the whole affair was just good clean fun, worth chuckling about.

Jay Inslee Laughs About Antifa’s Rebellion in Seattle as He Demobilizes National Guard

by Tyler O’Neill, 6-10-20

As antifa militants have taken over six blocks of Seattle’s Capitol Hill district, calling it the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” or the “People’s Republic of Capitol Hill,” Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) laughed about this open rebellion, saying he hadn’t heard about it. Inslee added that the National Guard is demobilizing, and his chief of staff suggested that even if an open rebellion had broken out on the streets of Seattle, it would be up to “local authorities” to fight it.

“Passing the buck” doesn’t even begin to cover the insanity of this “response.”

A reporter asked Inslee about the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone during the governor’s press conference on Wednesday, noting that the antifa militants had shut down part of the city and were “not allowing people to come and go freely.” He did not mention the fact that antifa had commandeered the Seattle Police East Precinct.

Jay Inslee is proving extremely derelict in his duty by not responding to this rebellion — and his decision to laugh at it is particularly damning. Rebellion is no laughing matter, especially for the 500 Americans whose homes are in the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.”

It’s just a love-fest, isn’t it? Isn’t that what Seattle Mayor Jenny said? Listen to her talk about the “summer of love” with CNN’s Chris Cuomo. Start at 3:15.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan defends ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ as ‘patriotic’

by Tamar Lapin, 6-11-20

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on Thursday defended the protesters who have declared an “autonomous zone” on the city’s streets as “patriotic.”

In her remarks, Durkan said officials were in communication with residents, business owners and protesters in the zone, adding “it is not an armed Antifa militia, it is not a no-go zone.”

“We will make sure we find some way for people to continue to protest peacefully,” she said.

Neither Durkan nor Police Chief Carmen Best, who was also at the press conference, detailed specific plans for how to deal with the zone or a timeline for when cops would return to the precinct.

And didn’t CNN say, hell, these are just kids having a good time. Guns? What guns?

Right-wing media says Antifa militants have seized part of Seattle. Local authorities say otherwise

by Oliver Darcy, 6-11-20

Armed militant activists with the group Antifa have seized a sizable section of Seattle and are plotting to expand their territory — all as the local police surrender to them and evacuate a local precinct.

Or so the story goes if you’ve relied on right-wing media for your news this week.
“You have now talk about armed volunteers of Antifa to guard their cop-free zone and taken over precincts,” Fox News host Sean Hannity told viewers Wednesday night on his television show, the highest-rated program on cable news.
It is true that demonstrators have occupied a small, six-square block section of Seattle and designated it an “autonomous zone.” And it is true that, after clashes with police, a precinct was boarded up and evacuated in an attempt to deescalate the situation.
But claims that bands of militant Antifa members are roving the Seattle streets appear to be grossly exaggerated in right-wing media. In fact, according to the Seattle mayor’s office, city officials haven’t seen any evidence to indicate armed members of Antifa are even on the ground.

Of course not. Why would they?

As CHAZ changed the name of a portion of Seattle, I thought the name Seattle itself was too pedestrian, grounded in historical repression of indigenous people. I suggest New Marx City, Leninville, Stasi Central, Commie City, Che Land, Engels Town or Woke Child Mob City. I like the last one best.

But wait. Not only did CNN celebrate the munificence that is CHAZ, so did the New York Times.

New York Times celebrates Seattle protesters’ ‘Autonomous Zone’: ‘A homeland for racial justice’

by Brian Flood, 6-11-20

The New York Times celebrated Seattle’s six-block area abandoned by law enforcement dubbed “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” as “a homeland for racial justice” on Thursday.

President Trump tweeted late Wednesday that “domestic terrorists” have taken over an area in Seattle amid George Floyd protests. Liberal organizations such as MSNBC and CNN have downplayed or ignored the story, with critics pointing out that the lawlessness doesn’t fit their agenda.

The Times went a different route, embracing the area with a glowing feature, “Free Food, Free Speech and Free of Police: Inside Seattle’s ‘Autonomous Zone.’”

“The entire area was now a homeland for racial justice — and, depending on the protester one talked to, perhaps something more,” Baker wrote. “What has emerged is an experiment in life without the police — part street festival, part commune. Hundreds have gathered to hear speeches, poetry and music.”

It’s truly 1968 all over again, the “summer of love” as Mayor Durkan said.

It’s fun for all. What a romp. Except not quite so much fun for residents not daring to venture out, stick their noses out the door, and a bit of reality crashed in. There was crime. You know, like, eh, real crime. Not in our Utopia!

And the Chief and the Mayor began to part ways.

Seattle Police Chief: ‘We’re Not Able to Get to’ 911 Calls for ‘Rape, Robbery’ in Autonomous Zone

by Tobias Hoonhout, 6-12-20

The head of the Seattle’s Police Department told officers in a video address on Thursday that the decision to abandon the city’s Third Precinct to activists was “not my decision,” and has prevented the department from responding to emergency calls in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.

On Wednesday, the Seattle Police Department said it would try to reopen the East Precinct, and Best was able to visit the location on Thursday. “Our calls for service have more than tripled,” she told reporters. “These are responses to emergency calls — rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts that have been occurring in the area that we’re not able to get to.”

Yes. That was Seattle PD Chief Carmen Best throwing Mayor Jenny under the bus. I wonder how much Seattle is in Best’s future?

Then Chief Best admits her inability to protect the public — in public.

This article emerged, from King5.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan made the call to remove barriers around East Precinct in Capitol Hill

by King5 Staff

“Mayor Durkan concluded the situation could only be deescalated between officers and demonstrators by removing the barriers,” read a statement Thursday evening.

SEATTLE — The office of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan released a statement Thursday evening saying it was her decision to remove the barriers around the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct in Capitol Hill. 

So let’s ask ourselves: what are we discovering about beautiful downtown CHAZ? First thing that CHAZ did is:

  • Erect borders,
  • Install armed guards,
  • ID checks,
  • Control who enters & exits,
  • Enable stop & frisk,
  • Institute cash shakedowns for “protection” of businesses,
  • And the same thing for citizens in their homes.

Hey, what happened to Utopia? Why are these people getting hungry? Why are they requesting — sometimes demanding — some very specific stuff? Did they have that luxury? Apparently so.

Please avoid clothing donations from major labels. Drab/brown clothing preferred. Please remove logos from anything waterproof #CapitalHillAutonomousZone #chaz #chazseattle #chazcomms #seattlechaz

They even had a — dare I say it! — “whiteboard” with a list of necessary supplies. Let’s see.  .  .

Not to stop at the wholesale giveaway of an entire police precinct, equanimity apparently came into play when Mayor Durkan additionally decided it would be a great idea to give the mob a fire station as well. Who gets to clang the bell and toot the horn?

Bet you didn’t hear this one on chirped out by the American Media Maggots, did you?

Seattle cedes fire station to protesters to turn into community center

by Madison Dibble, 6-12-20

The city of Seattle announced that it would turn a fire station into a community center for black residents after weeks of protests.

The city announced on Thursday that it would be turning over ownership of the fire station to the community in line with a list of demands given to the city from Africatown and other black activist groups.

“We at the City of Seattle understand the urgency behind making bold investments in the Black community and increasing community ownership of land in the Central District,” the city wrote. “The City believes in the vision behind the William Grose Center for Cultural Innovation and we remain committed to making the transfer of Fire Station 6 to the community a reality.”

After all, fuck it, if you don’t need cops then who needs fire protection? Actually, both of those aspects are over-rated.

One thing Seattle forgot: infrastructure is costly. Very costly. And if you want to reactivate a station due to a spate of building expansion, high-rises or a population increase, well, you’re looking at millions of dollars.

In the meantime, CHAZ worried about some very heady stuff. Like: what did CHAZ really mean, and wasn’t it time to change the name?

Seattle’s ‘CHAZ’ Changes Its Name To ‘CHOP,’ Drops ‘Autonomous’ After Complaints

by Emily Zanotti, 6-15-20

Amid concerns that federal officials could storm an “autonomous zone” that had declared itself a separate nation from the United States, residents of Seattle, Washington’s “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” or “CHAZ” have changed their installation’s name to “CHOP” — the “Capitol Hill Organized Protest.”

“CHAZ” was also facing concerns that it was not fully “autonomous” as its name suggested after reporters documented the “independent” “demonstration” receiving pizza and food deliveries, calling the Seattle Fire Department to report a nearby dumpster on fire, calling Seattle Emergency Services for assistance in several medical emergencies, and having dirt, compost and plants trucked in for their “community garden.”

The devil is in fact in the details.

But here’s the reality right now for Seattle residents locked into CHAZ-CHOP. This is what passes for law enforcement there. Lies, no health, no protection, no safety.

Police Chief Carmen Best: ‘There is no cop-free zone in the city of Seattle’

by KIRO News Staff, 6-15-20

SEATTLE — Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best spoke candidly Monday about the occupied protest zone in zone in Capitol Hill, saying there is no area of the city that police cannot respond too.

“SPD will respond to things that threaten life and safety,” Best said.

Best held the press conference after some reports that emergency responders were not able to respond to calls from inside the protest zone, dubbed CHOP or CHAZ, KIRO-7 reported.

But listen to what she said.

Best said that officers did respond to calls last night and observed from a distance but did not see anything that was a threat to life and safety.

Officers “observed from a distance.” That’s certainly sufficient to make folks feel comfortable. “Yep,” they’ll say, “I sure feel better the cops are observing our problems from a distance.” Now that’s American policing.

“We are trying to avoid anything that will escalate. We are working hard to get a peaceful resolution,” she said.

The police chief said that officers will try and coordinate with the victim or caller to meet outside CHOP boundaries whenever possible to avoid conflicts with protesters, KIRO-7 reported.

Okay, read that again. Police will go to the perimeter, the periphery of CHAZ-CHOP, but you’ll have to come to them. Better yet, you come past the border. They can’t or won’t.

Best did say that response times in the East Precinct have been affected broadly and it is taking three times longer for emergency responders to arrive, the TV station reported.

As she was leaving, Best emphasized one last time that officers are responding, and this is “a small fragment of the city that has caused a lot of attention.”

So what part of that made any sense whatsoever in a large American city, circa 2020? We’re the cops, we’re not coming to you? You come to us? We’re too afraid to take back the streets? We might offend someone? We might hurt someone? Pay no attention to those rapes and crimes beyond the borders. They don’t really count.

Listen, if you have the stomach:

Maybe, Chief Best is thinking, if we pretend they don’t exist, they really won’t exist. Then we won’t have to tally them on the backs of our crime reports for FBI statistics. Brilliant!

Time to remind everyone that Leftists, just like Republicans, eat their young. Many times Leftists discover that they are insufficiently left for the Left. CHAZ-CHOP’s self-appointed, armed warlord being one of them.

Irony Overload: Autonomous Zone ‘Warlord’ May Soon Be Canceled after Old Homophobic Tweets Surface

As we’ve previously reported, the Democrat/media-driven rush to “cancel” anyone who decides to think for themselves instead of participating in left-wing groupthink in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd is at a fever pitch, with professors, media figures, and pro-sports icons among those being tossed into the fire left and right.

But in an ironic twist of fate, a cancel notice may soon be coming for Raz Simone, the “warlord” of the radical Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle, Washington as old homophobic tweets from his Twitter account have surfaced that appear to be legit based on various web archive websites.

Sad. Dethroned at such an early age for writing “faggot.” The WCM — Woke Child Mob — Purity Test. Even some black dude can’t pass it.

Then came President Trump. “Take back your city,” he said, “or I’ll do it.”

As Thomas Sowell wrote in 2009: “If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”

But the big question is: what would that look like? Taking back Seattle?

From my perspective, give the people what they want. This is Seattle. Consider the source. The Seattle Mayor wants CHAZ-CHOP undisturbed. We know that Chief Best doesn’t have the guts to apply her officers. And now, having waited so long, we know one thing: the mob is armed with long guns. Look at the photographs above.

Windows of opportunity are frequently open for small periods of time. Seattle had a chance to take back its streets — much less having acquiesced to giving them away in the first place, for no reason whatsoever.

But this is what Seattle wants. The mayor wants it. The governor wants it. The chief is weak and wants to keep her job. And the most important part of all?

This is what people in Washington and specifically, Seattle, voted for. Give it to them. Let them wallow in its splendid cesspool. Let them smell the waste, taste the depths of depravity, know what it feels like to have no one in any government position of authority really care about them, to spout platitudes, to make speeches and, ultimately, to let the residents of CHAZ-CHOP be abandoned. They well and truly are on their own.

I say: let there be actual consequences for stupidity this time. Let this festering dump be just that. Let them wade in their own squalor and filth, courtesy of the Greatness of Leftism.

Because what’s the alternative? That’s right; at this point, a shooting war.

I honestly think Seattle is gone. At least for a time. Perhaps the occupiers of CHAZ-CHOP will lay down their placards and just mumble and shuffle away. But perhaps they won’t.

One thing we do know: the will doesn’t exist, at this point, to bring it back. Not by local or state government. And again I emphasize: give them what they want.

I don’t think that, short of all-out CQB — Close Quarters Battle — you could “take back” Seattle. These people are armed. Let just one “protester” get shot, armed or not — and woe be to the person who happens to shoot an armed or unarmed black “protester,” you’d see this country light up for weeks on end again.

The only way to take Seattle back is with military force, long gun pitched CQB in the midst of civilian Americans.

Guaranteed, that will kill Trump’s chance, Biden will win, and even if Seattle is subdued, it will be given back to Antifa.

Because if you send rivers of blood down the storm drains of a major American city, guaranteed, there will be a civil war. And not just a war of words. I mean an all-out, fighting war with hundreds or perhaps thousands of Americans killed.

It’s not worth the time or effort for anything Leftist. And certainly not 6 blocks or 3 blocks in Seattle.

They want squalor and chaos? Let them eat it.

BZ

 

 

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“A million deaths is a statistic.”
— Josef Stalin

Put it another way.

A single death in a nursing facility is a tragedy.
Three to eight thousand deaths in nursing facilities, of Wuhan-19, is a statistic.

Let me cut to the chase up front.

In my opinion, New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo has blood on his hands.

Why would that be?

For taking the most virulent global pandemic disease of 2020 and placing people infected with same — not just “suggesting” but mandating it with the force of the entire state of New York behind said mandate — and no, not “placing” but forcibly injecting people, into nursing facilities within the state of New York.

Facilities that couldn’t say no.

The elderly, the infirm — those very same persons, who in their early years, had worked hard in order to allow New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo to attain his exalted position and stand upon their work (as in: Governor Cuomo, you didn’t build that, they did.), their grief, their tears, their labor and sweat in order to obtain his current position.

Those people. Who paid their taxes, paid their dues, obeyed the laws, built ships, flew planes, poured concrete, laid bricks, fixed cars, took care of children, started small businesses, repaired toilets, constructed skyscrapers, drove locomotives, dug ditches, stitched wounds, designed clothes, conducted brain surgery, repaired broken windshields, replaced HVAC systems, knitted socks, changed diapers, and fought wars for America, serving their nation, serving their communities.

And those people who, now, in their later years, those infirm, those who require the greatest amount of care, those who did in fact pay every bill, honor every debt required of them, the most vulnerable, the weakest amongst us, the most susceptible to disease, the least able to fight back physically, genetically and psychologically — found themselves placed directly into harm’s way by an individual who knew better.

And I’ll prove it. Work with me here.

First, we know that Wuhan-19 deaths are being padded. For money. That is to say, three times the federal cash paid for a Wuhan-19 death as opposed to any other.

Clear thinking people should already have all the bells and klaxons going off in their heads about information surrounding Wuhan-19.

First, we knew that New York was over its head. It couldn’t begin to cope with what was before its very eyes

New York was told to prepare. But it decided to ignore its own study. From the NYPost.com:

We didn’t have to have ventilator shortage — leaders chose not to prep for pandemic

by Betsy McCaughey, 3-19-20

Several years ago, after learning that the Empire State’s stockpile of medical equipment had 16,000 fewer ventilators than the 18,000 New Yorkers would need in a severe pandemic, state public-health leaders came to a fork in the road.

They could have chosen to buy more ventilators to back up the supplies hospitals maintain. ­Instead, the health commissioner, Howard Zucker, assembled a task force for rationing the ventilators they already had.

In 2015, that task force came up with rules that will be imposed when ventilators run short. ­Patients assigned a red code will have highest access, and other ­patients will be assigned green, yellow or blue (the worst), ­depending on a “triage officer’s” decision.

Who was governor of the State of New York in 2015? Correct. Andrew Cuomo.

In 2015, the state could have purchased the additional 16,000 needed ventilators for $36,000 apiece, or a total of $576 million. It’s a lot of money, but in hindsight, spending half a percent of the budget to prepare for pandemic was the right thing to do.

This wasn’t Trump’s purvey. He wasn’t even president. Only one person: Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo then blamed the president for not providing a sufficient amount of ventilators to help NY state residents.

But in New York, rationing ventilators should be unnecessary. The state knew of the shortage, had the money and should have bought the lifesaving equipment, instead of making a plan for who should live or die. A lesson for the future.

New York was overwhelmed. But they had warning. They chose to ignore the warning. They were unprepared. They could have decided to be prepared. They chose not to. That was an active, affirmative decision; not a passive one. There were consequences. President Trump had absolutely nothing to do with those decisions.

Here’s one example, from the NYPost.com:

Dozens of bodies found in U-Haul trucks outside NYC funeral home

by Larry Celona, 4-29-20

Police found dozens of bodies being stored in unrefrigerated trucks outside a Brooklyn funeral home and lying on the facility’s floor Wednesday, law enforcement sources told The Post.

Between 40 and 60 bodies were discovered either stacked up in U-Haul box trucks outside Andrew Cleckley Funeral Services in Flatlands or on the building’s floor, after neighbors reported a foul odor around the property, sources said.

The corpses were stacked on top of each other in the trucks. Fluid leaking from inside created a terrible smell and caused neighboring store owners to call the police, according to sources.

We heard, then, the resulting plaintive cry from this women when she discovered her own reality. Again from NYPost.com:

Woman slams de Blasio after relative’s body left at home for hours

by Sara Dorn, 4-18-20

A grieving Harlem food truck owner was forced to ice her husband’s corpse Saturday as she searched for someone to retrieve his body, several hours after he died from suspected coronavirus.

Tami Treadwell, 57, slammed the city after Gregory Anthony Treadwell’s remains were left in the home by emergency responders, with the city medical examiner’s office telling her it could take “three hours to three days” to pick them up.

“This is our city, and we’re being treated like s–t!” wailed Treadwell, owner of Harlem Seafood Soul.

“It’s grossly inhumane. I say shame on you Mayor de Blasio … you got to designate somebody to come get these bodies out of here, people who died at home. How dare you make us have to deal with that and to live with the body for days? How dare you, Mayor de Blasio? And you can’t blame that s–t on Trump. You can’t blame that s–t on Cuomo!” Treadwell cried.

Now let’s get specific. On April 14th, Governor Cuomo said nursing homes are the “optimal feeding ground for the virus.”

Governor Cuomo knew this. It is archived on the internet via, for example, this NYDailyNews.com story:

Cuomo calls nursing homes a ‘feeding frenzy’ for coronavirus as 540 die in New York

by Dave Goldiner, 4-18-20

Gov. Cuomo called nursing homes the biggest concern for New York authorities battling the coronavirus pandemic on Saturday even as a lower overall total of 540 people died in the past day.

The relatively lower death toll represents a dip of more than 25% from just a few days ago. But the governor said the still-raging epidemic claimed 36 elderly victims in nursing homes — and still poses a dire threat.

“Nursing homes are the single biggest fear in all of this,” he said. “Vulnerable people in one place, it is the feeding frenzy for this virus.”

“Nursing homes are the No. 1 long term consequence of this disease,” he added.

Knowing this, saying this, what did New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo decide to do? Correct. Force nursing facilities to accept Wuhan-19 patients in their March 25th policy.

Newsday.com reported:

Nursing homes can’t reject patients just over coronavirus, state says

by Joan Gralfa, 3-29-20

New York State’s nursing homes cannot reject newly released hospital patients solely because they tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a new state directive says.

The order raised concern in an industry whose elderly and frail residents have the lowest survival rate for the disease.

The state health department issued the new directive, which the nursing home industry says is a first, late Wednesday. “No resident shall be denied readmission or admission to the [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19,” the directive reads.

Hospitals are under pressure to discharge patients, including ones stricken with the coronavirus but who don’t need ventilators, to open up beds for what Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo says will be a surge of thousands more cases in the next two to four weeks. However, nursing homes, whose workforce is struggling with problems like those in hospitals — arranging child care and managing a shortage of supplies like protective garb — fear their facilities will be overwhelmed.

Governor Cuomo himself told facilities they had to accept Wuhan-19 patients. From NYPost.com:

Nursing homes have ‘no right’ to reject coronavirus patients, Cuomo says

by Bernadette Hogan and Bruce Golding, 4-23-20

New York’s nursing homes weren’t allowed to challenge a controversial order to admit patients with the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday — even though it’s been blamed for spreading the deadly disease among residents.

“They don’t have a right to object. That is the rule and that is the regulation and they have to comply with that,” Cuomo said during his daily briefing in Albany.

“And the regulation is common sense: if you can’t provide adequate care, you can’t have the patient in your facility and that’s your basic fiduciary obligation — I would say, ethical obligation — and it’s also your legal obligation.”

That wasn’t enough. Governor Andrew Cuomo decided to demand more compliance, as this New York Post article indicates:

Cuomo doubles down on ordering nursing homes to admit coronavirus patients

by Kate Sheehy, 4-26-20

Gov. Cuomo doubled down Sunday on the state’s controversial directive ordering nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients.

The governor — who himself has described nursing homes as a “feeding frenzy’’ for the deadly coronavirus — said that the facilities can’t challenge a state regulation forcing them to admit patients with the contagion.

Well wait. Cuomo said, Wuhan-19 will sweep through nursing facilities like a whirlwind. He believed it. He said it. He knew it. Yet he made the statement, demanding it continue to occur. So yes, Governor Cuomo knew precisely what he was doing, and was aware of every movement regarding New York State nursing facilities.

The CEO of a hard-hit Brooklyn nursing home, where 55 patients have died from the coronavirus, told The Post last week that he’d been warning state Health Department officials for weeks he had staffing and equipment issues — yet received little help.

“There is no way for us to prevent the spread under these conditions,’’ the head of the Cobble Hill Health Center, Donny Tuchman, wrote in an e-mail to the department on April 8.

But here’s the crux of the biscuit.

He said he asked to move some patients to the makeshift wards at Manhattan’s Javits Center and aboard the city-docked USNS Comfort amid the pandemic, only to be told those two spots were receiving only patients from hospitals.

“I made specific requests to transfer patients, and it didn’t happen,’’ Tuchman told The Post. “There weren’t options.”

Hospital facilities built quickly on the order of President Trump. An entire military ship, one of only two in existence, devoted solely to New York City. Ignored. Unused. Torn down. Sailed away for “lack of need.”

Yet the “need” somehow continued to be to “place fiery, virulent Wuhan-19 virus patients into the closed buildings of those persons with the least capacity to fight said virus.”

In direct contravention of federal laws. From the TimesUnion.com:

Medicare chief: Cuomo’s nursing home order did not follow federal guidelines

by Emilie Munson, 5-29-20

WASHINGTON — The federal government’s top official overseeing nursing homes said Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s executive order in late March that directed the admittance of coronavirus patients from hospitals to nursing facilities did not follow her agency’s guidance.

Cuomo has insisted that his original order regarding nursing homes was aligned with the Trump administration’s policy, but Seema Verma, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said Wednesday that’s not the case.

We see what’s building here, don’t we? A case?

“Under no circumstances should a hospital discharge a patient to a nursing home that is not prepared to take care of those patients’ needs,” Verma said on Fox News Radio. “The federal guidelines are absolutely clear about this.”

New York nursing homes have reported about 6,000 confirmed or presumed COVID-19 deaths, as of May 27, the most recent data available.

We see already, what Governor Cuomo is going to say soon, don’t we?

Cuomo’s March 25 nursing home order did not specifically say that nursing homes should only accept recovering coronavirus patients if they were safely able to do so, a talking point he has been making repeatedly in recent weeks. The order said “all NHs must comply with the expedited receipt of residents returning from hospitals to NHs. Residents are deemed appropriate for return to a NH upon a determination by the hospital physician or designee that the resident is medically stable for return.”

It emphasized: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.”

Already Governor Cuomo was saying “hey, it wasn’t me. I wasn’t responsible.”

Cuomo defended his actions on May 23, saying, “What New York did was follow what the Republican administration said to do. … Don’t criticize the state for following the president’s policy.”

Except he was responsible. And he knew what he did. Only after things went very badly did he begin his political backpedal.

The policy prompted severe backlash against the Cuomo administration as COVID-19 cases spread rampantly among seniors in nursing homes, causing many deaths. Then, on May 10, Cuomo revised this policy, ordering nursing homes to only accept hospital patients who have tested negative for coronavirus into their facilities.

Nursing facilities in New York weren’t ready. They weren’t prepared with appropriately-trained staff. They didn’t have the requisite equipment. But that didn’t matter to Governor Cuomo. Equipment? He wasn’t going to assist them. From the NYPost.com:

Gov. Cuomo says ‘it’s not our job’ to provide PPE to nursing homes

by Bernadette Hogan, Bruce Golding and Carl Campanite, 4-22-20

Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted that “it’s not our job” to provide coronavirus-ravaged nursing homes with personal protective equipment — even as more than 3,000 patients have lost their lives in facilities ordered by his administration to take in COVID-19 patients.

“We have been helping them with more PPE but, again, it’s not our job,” Cuomo said Wednesday during his daily briefing in Albany.

Pressed on why coronavirus patients were not kept out of the facilities, which treat the elderly and other vulnerable populations, Cuomo insisted that the state regulated, but did not “run,” New York’s privately owned nursing homes.

“You’ll be out of business if you’re not providing your staff with the right equipment. You’re out of business. That we can do,” he said of state regulations.

I see a trend. Governor Andrew Cuomo makes the active decision to place Wuhan-19 patients in New York nursing facilities, where the weakest live in small, enclosed spaces. He doubles down on that demand. They chides these facilities for not ponying up their own PPE or Personal Protective Equipment — or, as he states, he’ll gladly assist with closing their businesses.

The situation in New York was a warning — one that was clearly heard by an administrator in Pennsylvania, who took “her” own mother out of a nursing facility. After making the same order as New York Governor Cuomo. “Do as I say, not as I do. Only the little people need obey me.”

From the DailyCaller.com:

PA Health Secretary Moved Mother Out Of Personal Care Home After Ordering Nursing Homes To Accept COVID Patients

by Peter Hasson, 5-13-20

Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine’s mother moved out of a personal care home with the health secretary’s help, after Levine ordered all nursing homes and long-term facilities in the state to accept coronavirus patients from hospitals.

Levine admitted Tuesday to moving the 95-year-old Pennsylvania resident out of her personal care home, which is similar to an assisted living facility although technically distinct.

“Good for thee, not for me.”

“My mother requested, and my sister and I as her children complied to move her to another location during the COVID-19 outbreak,” Levine said. The health secretary’s admission came after local station ABC27 found out about the move.

Translated: unless discovered, Levin was never going to tell anyone what “she” had done. Lying by omission. Purposely. Consciousness of guilt. Remember that phrase.

Levine is facing calls to resign over the department’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

“Our secretary of health, Dr. Levine, decided that it would be good to allow COVID-positive patients to be returned to elder-care facilities. And as a result of that, it broke out like fire,” Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano said Monday at a rally calling for Levine’s resignation.

Imagine that. Should Governor Cuomo be any exception?

So what happened? FoxNews.com reported:

Over 4,300 virus patients sent to NY nursing homes, AP counts

by Bernard Condon, Jennifer Peltz and Jim Mustian, 5-22-20

More than 4,300 recovering coronavirus patients were sent to New York’s already vulnerable nursing homes under a controversial state directive that was ultimately scrapped amid criticisms it was accelerating the nation’s deadliest outbreaks, according to a count by The Associated Press.

AP compiled its own tally to find out how many COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals to nursing homes under the March 25 directive after New York’s Health Department declined to release its internal survey conducted two weeks ago. It says it is still verifying data that was incomplete.

Whatever the full number, nursing home administrators, residents’ advocates and relatives say it has added up to a big and indefensible problem for facilities that even Gov. Andrew Cuomo — the main proponent of the policy — called “the optimum feeding ground for this virus.”

As I mentioned earlier, weren’t there alternative locations available for Wuhan-19 patients besides nursing facilities? Of course there were. Some were never even used. From the NYPost.com:

$21M Brooklyn field hospital never saw a patient amid coronavirus pandemic

by Carl Campanile and Natalie Musumeci, 5-22-20

A roughly $21 million Brooklyn field hospital authorized by the de Blasio administration at the height of the coronavirus pandemic opened and closed without ever seeing one patient, according to city officials.

The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook was one of several sites across the five boroughs converted into a medical facility as a way to relieve the city’s overburdened hospital system as the COVID-19 crisis mounted.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans on Mar. 31 — a day after the USNS Comfort hospital ship arrived in New York Harbor to aid in the coronavirus fight — for the $20.8 million Red Hook field hospital with an estimated capacity for 750 beds.

The field hospital was built by Texas-based construction company SLSCO.

The USS Comfort was also available, but unused. But now the pressure begins to build. FoxNews.com reported:

Coronavirus: Amid New York’s unused hospital beds and ventilators, critics point to mass waste and mismanagement

by Holly McKay, 5-1-20

While New York has weathered the brunt of coronavirus infections and deaths, the state’s apparent hoarding of medical supplies, and the millions spent on equipment that never arrived, as well as unused hospitals and beds, have some questioning what went wrong.

Early to mid-March projections of the spread of COVID-19 had the state scrambling to bolster its hospital bed capacity to more than double its 53,000 maximum status-quo. Subsequently, hospitals statewide were ordered to discharge patients to free up beds, and forced to add new ones as non-emergency procedures were canceled.

Knowing all that, Governor Cuomo had a decision to make. But he knew what the outcome would be, inserting a hot virus into populations of the weakest New York citizens. Wouldn’t a normal individual with common sense realize that?

But read this now, from the same story.

Meanwhile, nursing home managers have been left bewildered as to why the empty facilities were not made available for ill and suspect coronavirus patients, who were not able to be aptly isolated from others deemed vulnerable to severe infection or death.

In April, coronavirus patients at a Brooklyn nursing home were denied admission to both of the medical facilities established in New York to handle victims of the pandemic even though beds were mostly empty. The snub, as highlighted by the New York Post, came weeks after New York health officials were warned by the nursing home operator – where 55 people have died – that there was a grave concern, and requesting patients be transferred to the temporary facilities.

New York nursing homes have accounted for 13 percent of the state’s coronavirus death toll, according to the state’s health department figures.

Oh, but it’s much worse than that. We’ll see. The death counts continued to build. From the NYPost.com:

Over 1,700 more coronavirus deaths reported in New York nursing homes

by Carl Campanile, Bernadette Hogan and Aaron Feis, 5-5-20

The coronavirus’ suspected death toll among New York’s nursing home residents exploded by an additional 1,700 fatalities — as Gov. Andrew Cuomo caught bipartisan backlash Tuesday for his administration’s edict that the facilities take in COVID-19 patients.

The grim tally surged to at least 4,813 late Monday as the state Department of Health disclosed for the first time not just confirmed coronavirus deaths, but fatalities in which the deceased was never tested despite showing telltale symptoms, which also sparked outrage.

A spokesman for the Health Department pinned the delay in factoring in the suspected deaths on shoddy work by overwhelmed nursing homes.

“The numbers we are presenting as part of our review capture confirmed and presumed coronavirus deaths that many facilities were not previously reporting,” said Gary Holmes.

The numbers. Yes, the numbers.

Sources told The Post, however, that even the revised figure fails to capture the true scope of the horror, because stricken nursing home residents who die in hospitals are not counted towards the healthcare facilities’ tallies released Tuesday.

Cuomo attempted to undercut his own Health Department by casting skepticism on the figures during a Tuesday press briefing in Manhattan.

“Just to be clear, I would take all of these numbers with a grain of salt,” the governor told reporters in his Midtown office.

“What does a ‘presumed death’ mean, right? How do you presume it to be the coronavirus?”

Cuomo scoffed at the stats as they sparked a renewed barrage of criticism over his handling of nursing homes amid the pandemic.

Cuomo scoffed. The bodies piled up. Your mother, your father, your parents, your grandparents.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote on May 2nd:

I don’t think there are easy or pat answers to how civil liberties should be balanced with the outbreak of this new, lethal, highly contagious virus. But what’s worrisome is that there is no balancing going on: it’s full, unlimited, absolute authority in the hands of governors.

But the heat was on and Governor Andrew Cuomo was the focus. So Cuomo made a public statement. From CBSNews.com:

Cuomo says no one should be prosecuted for coronavirus deaths in New York, including those in nursing homes

by Caroline Linton, 5-18-20

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday addressed the state’s early response to the coronavirus outbreak and said “nobody” should be prosecuted for the those who died, noting that “older people” were most vulnerable. The governor has been criticized for a decision in March, which has since been reversed, to send patients back to nursing homes after they tested positive for COVID-19.

Isn’t that convenient, since the focus was now on him? And could Governor Andrew Cuomo have been any more dismissive? Consciousness of guilt. His guilt.

But wait; there’s more. It gets better. From FoxNews.com:

Cuomo granted immunity to nursing home executives, after big-money campaign donation: report

by Adam Shaw, 5-27-20

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who signed legislation granting hospital and nursing home executives immunity from lawsuits related to the novel coronavirus last month, previously received a big-money boost from a powerful health care industry group, according to a new report.

An article published on the socialist website Jacobin, and re-published by The Guardian, reports that the New York State Democratic Committee, then backing Cuomo’s primary run in 2018, received more than $1 million from the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) — a lobbying group for hospital systems, some of which own nursing homes.

Correct. More people died in New York nursing facilities than died on September 11th.

Because if Governor Cuomo couldn’t hold himself accountable, how could he hold the nursing facilities accountable? Big money folks, big money. Big donations. $2.3 million dollars.

REVEALED: Governor Cuomo quietly gave legal immunity to nursing home executives from coronavirus lawsuits after raking in $2.3 million in campaign cash from the industry

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took in $2.3 million in campaign cash from the hospital and nursing home industry before signing legislation to provide legal immunity to healthcare executives in the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report.

Cuomo quietly signed legislation last month shielding hospital and nursing home executives from the threat of lawsuits stemming from the pandemic, in a provision inserted into the annual budget, the Guardian reported. 

We already knew this as of April 23rd.

Coronavirus deaths at US nursing homes, long-term facilities reach over 10,000

by Joshua Miller, 4-23-20

Coronavirus-linked fatalities at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities in the US have surpassed 10,000 — with the highest tally in New York, according to a troubling new report.

A survey by the Wall Street Journal published Wednesday found at least 10,700 fatalities among 35 states that either submit data online or responded to information requests.

The highest total — 3,505 — was reported in New York, according to the outlet.

The MinotDailyNews asked:

Who sent COVID-19 positive patients into nursing homes?

by Michael Barone, 5-20-20

One-third of reported coronavirus deaths in the United States, according to New York Times reporting, are of nursing home residents or workers. Nursing homes accounted for a majority of deaths in heavily hit states like New Jersey (52%), Massachusetts (59%), Pennsylvania (66%) and Connecticut (55%), and for 80% of the deaths in otherwise lightly hit Minnesota.

When asked about his (nursing home) policy in late April, Governor Andrew Cuomo professed ignorance. Two weeks later, on May 9, after 46 days in effect, he reversed it.

New York wasn’t the only state that insisted on placing infected patients in nursing homes. New Jersey’s policy was similar, explicitly barring homes from requiring testing before admitting patients. California had the same policy but dropped it after 10 days.

Michael Goodwin wrote in the NYPost.com:

Blame governors for the coronavirus deaths in nursing homes: Goodwin

An article in Nowhere Magazine several years ago explored the ways ancient cultures dispatched the elderly, a practice known as senicide. Author Justin Nobel recounted several gruesome rites that made the Inuit habit of putting Granny on an Arctic ice floe seem humane.

At one point, Nobel mentioned that his own grandparents had moved “to a fancy nursing home in the suburbs of New York City.”

That made me shudder.

If they are honest, historians judging the American experience during the coronavirus pandemic will excoriate our barbaric failure to protect the elderly. We think of ourselves as civilized, but mindless policies and bureaucratic indifference turned many nursing homes and rehabilitation centers into killing fields.

At least 28,000 residents and workers in long-term care facilities already have died from the ­virus, according to a New York Times analysis done more than a week ago. That represented one out of every three COVID-19 deaths recorded in the United States at the time and was likely an undercount because of reporting lags and varying state methods.

Read this:

The states with the most nursing-home deaths, New York and New Jersey, didn’t make the list because of so many other deaths, yet more than 10,000 people died in their facilities. The 5,500 nursing-home deaths in New York are more than the total deaths in all other states except New Jersey.

Despite the surging death count, Cuomo defended his directive for more than six weeks. He reversed himself only last Sunday, ruling that patients must test negative before hospitals can send them to nursing homes. Yet he insisted that the initial policy “worked.”

If more than 5,000 dead was success, what would failure look like?

Cuomo’s reversal included forcing nursing homes to test staff and administrators twice a week, at the homes’ own expense. There was no explanation why testing was not required all along, or how it would work when labs say they cannot process the needed 410,000 weekly tests.

Blame governors, not Trump. You know, the same people who are blaming President Trump.

If that wasn’t clear enough, Goodwin also wrote:

This nursing home disaster is on you, Gov. Cuomo: Goodwin

Two weeks ago, Gov. ­Andrew Cuomo was first asked about his policy that forced nursing homes to admit ­patients infected with the coronavirus.

“That’s a good question, I don’t know,” the governor answered, turning to an aide.

On Tuesday, Cuomo was asked about a report from the Associated Press that his team had added more than 1,700 deaths to the count of those who died in nursing homes, bringing the total to at least 4,813.

“I don’t know the details, frankly,” the governor answered, turning to an aide.

Whose responsibility is it? Trump’s?

So with known nursing home deaths representing 25 percent of all deaths in the state, it beggars belief that the governor didn’t know anything about his office’s fatal policy two weeks ago or the new death totals now.

The only way either could be true is through an extreme case of plausible deniability. Thus, if there’s no proof he knew, he can’t be held responsible, right? Which was the whole point of the Sgt. Schultz defense.

That was a sitcom. This is life and death.

Then this.

Two other things Cuomo said Tuesday also bear remembering. First, he allowed that “we did some very harsh things” to nursing homes that “frankly, I wasn’t comfortable with.” He then cited the order barring visitors for the last two months.

It was indeed harsh, especially for the families who never saw their loved ones again before the virus killed them. By the same token, those families want to know why in the world the state would bar them from nursing homes but simultaneously impose infected patients on the same facilities.

It wasn’t President Trump, who was responsible for the New York nursing facility catastrophe. It was Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Now the stats are coming in. From Forbes.com:

The Most Important Coronavirus Statistic: 42% Of U.S. Deaths Are From 0.6% Of The Population

by Avik Roy, 5-26-20

Americans are vigorously debating the merits of continuing to lock down the U.S. economy to prevent the spread of COVID-19. A single statistic may hold the key to resolving this debate: the astounding share of deaths occurring in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities: The #1 COVID problem

2.1 million Americans, representing 0.62% of the U.S. population, reside in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. (Nursing homes are residences for seniors needing help with activities of daily living, such as taking a shower or getting dressed, who also require 24/7 medical supervision; assisted living facilities are designed for seniors who need help with activities of daily living, but don’t require full-time on-site medical supervision.)

According to an analysis that Gregg Girvan and I conducted for the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, as of May 22, in the 43 states that currently report such figures, an astounding 42% of all COVID-19 deaths have taken place in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

Let’s look at that again.

As of May 22, in the 43 states that currently report such figures, an astounding 42% of all COVID-19 deaths have taken place in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

And you couldn’t see that a captive audience, like nursing facilities in your state, were the very last place you should have purposely inserted a terrible virus?

Over TEN THOUSAND people killed, who could have been here today. The bulk of them killed in New York and New Jersey nursing facilities.

We also got this:

Report: Man who beat elderly veteran was diagnosed with coronavirus, quarantined into nursing home

Jaydon Hayden, 20 years old, filmed himself punching multiple elderly people repeatedly until they bled at the Westwood Nursing Center.

The man in the video that went viral was a 75-year-old United States Veteran.

We have discovered that Hayden was only brought to the nursing home last week, and he was staying there because he was diagnosed with COVID-19.

If that doesn’t make sense to you, you’re not alone.

Hayden’s father spoke to the local news station Fox2. He said that Hayden has mental health issues, including autism, and severe behavioral issues, and while he does box, he’s normally not vicious. 

His father (who wished to not be identified) said that Hayden called him from the group home he’s living at to say that he wasn’t sleeping well, was hearing voices, and was feeling anxious.

Last week, he went to a mental health facility in Ann Arbor. While there, he was diagnosed with the virus and workers told his father they were taking him to another facility to quarantine.

His father said that Hayden should not have been taken to the nursing home and he would not have consented if he knew that’s where they were taking him.

So a man with a history of mental problems, because he also had Wuhan-19, was placed in a Detroit nursing facility.

Who does that? Why do people no longer think things through? And then who says, in retrospect, “well, you know, old people die. Get over it.”

Then this from NY1.com:

Why the Extent of Coronavirus Carnage in New York’s Nursing Homes May Never be Known

by Michael Herzenberg, 5-28-20

BRONX, N.Y. – The coronavirus death toll in nursing homes and adult care facilities in New York State has now exceeded 6,000.

Residents have been especially vulnerable to COVID-19 and advocates say we still don’t have a true picture of just how many residents of these facilities have died in New York.

Six thousand. Twice the 9-11 death toll. And it could have been avoided by not making an affirmative decision by Governor Andrew Cuomo to place people with Wuhan-19 into nursing facilities, places having the least-trained staff, the least amount of appropriate equipment, and the most vulnerable persons in the entire state to a red-hot virus.

“Every time you turned around somebody was dying,” said Sharon Anderson, a resident of Bronxwood Assisted Living, an adult care facility in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx. 

Anderson said she was kept in the dark as the coronavirus swept through the building and took the lives of fellow residents.

“They don’t even want you to ask questions about these people and if you ask, they don’t tell you,” said Anderson.

She is one of the first residents of a local adult care facility to speak publicly about what it was like as the coronavirus toll around her mounted.

But it’s not just residents left without information.

Advocates and lawyers say the state’s accounting at Nursing Homes and Adult Care Facility deaths, which now stands at 6,035, remains an incomplete picture of what has happened to residents of the facilities.

Finally:

Initially, the state only counted residents who tested positive for COVID-19 and died at the facility.  Then it added to the tally residents who only had a suspected case and died.

But the state is not including in these figures adult care facility residents who were transferred to a hospital and died of the coronavirus there. The Health Department says that’s “to maintain consistency and reliability in the data as presented, and to avoid any potential for double-counting.”

However, nursing home and elder abuse attorney John Dalli explains the state’s tally of 6,035 nursing home deaths is not accurate.

“I would suspect that number is probably somewhere around ten to fifteen percent higher than that and it could be more. It’s just too difficult to tell,” Dalli said.

The human toll is real. Meterologist Janice Dean lost both of her in-laws to the Wuhan-19 virus invading their nursing facility.

From FoxNews.com:

Janice Dean slams Cuomo nursing home policy after losing in-laws to COVID-19: ‘Not just numbers on a curve’

by Yael Halon, 5-21-20

Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Thursday that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s failed nursing home policy should be “one of the biggest” stories of the year after both of her parents-in-law lost their lives to the coronavirus.

“I have not seen the coverage of this … ,” an emotional Dean said. “Twenty percent of our lost loved ones are from nursing homes … because Governor Cuomo and several other governors forced COVID-recovering patients into nursing homes.”

There is no sign on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s desk saying THE BUCK STOPS HERE. The buck simply passes through.

Cuomo essentially sent death into nursing homes containing the MOST VULNERABLE and LEAST ABLE to fight the virus, a population EVERYONE AGREES should be the MOST PROTECTED, staffed by the LEAST EQUIPPED to battle Wuhan-19.

We couldn’t protect the most vulnerable. Simultaneously, the least vulnerable in our society were themselves locked down. What do you do in a pandemic? You quarantine and keep safe the most infirm, those most susceptible.

You don’t quarantine the healthy.

Yes, a single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. Or at least 6,000 + deaths in the state of New York.

BZ

 

 

 

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