The phrase de rigeur is now “defund the police.”
It’s not only a rallying cry for Leftists, Antifa, anarchists, Socialists, Communists and Demorats, it’s also the New Leftist Purity Test. Just when we thought purity tests stopped with the Nazi regime, well, no, it’s back.
Just as Antifa consists of nothing but fascists, nothing pleases Leftists more than the embracing ol’ Adolf and his purity tests.
And whereas people in BLM were chanting about killing cops, “pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon.”
“What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now.”
Sooner or later, you have to take people at their word. So cops are being targeted and killed. But that’s not fast enough or sufficiently far-ranging. Why not just cut off their funding? Why not abolish them wholesale?
That’s the foundation behind “defund the police.”
The interesting part is, while everything else in terms of government budgets has skyrocketed, police funding throughout the nation has remained even at about 8%.
But enough of that. Let’s start at the start with an assumption that will place me in jeopardy with most every member of the LDAMM (Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots), as well as most every anarchist extant. And that is this.
I don’t believe there is systemic racism in America. I believe what we have, instead, is a congealed glop of Americans cowering before a “movement” that they know — as has been proven most recently — can break them individually and collectively, because most people are good natured but, moreover, cowardly. There is racism, but it’s a two-way street. All paint jobs can be racist. Blacks too. Listen to the rhetoric. Said it before, I’ll say it again: “No one is equal until everyone is equal.”
Leftists are more into 1984 and Animal Farm these days: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
Leftists control nearly every major institution in America:
- – Mainstream media
- – Academia
- – Administrative government
- – Courts
- – Hollywood
- – Big Tech
- – Demorat Party, etc.
So if “systemic racism” really did exist, then truly, whose fault would that be?
And what about systemic racism by the police?
Data has been compiled by the Washington Post since 2015 on every police shooting in America, and killings by police of unarmed Black Americans has gone down every year since they started charting, with 2019 only showing 10 unarmed Black Americans killed by the Police. Of the 10, in 5 of these, the police officer was attacked before shooting the person. In 4 cases the officer was charged with a crime. Doesn’t exactly sound like genocide of Black Americans as some far left politicians and media personalities have told us. Sure doesn’t sound like systemic racism, either. Another important statistic, 48 police officers were murdered in 2019, according to FBI data.
Larry Elder dares to use facts. America has what I term Historical Alzheimers. It forgets that the highest rate of crime occurred in the late 80s, early 90s. Shootings, gun crimes, overall, have been going down markedly since.https://t.co/gTNt5jsoNR
— Bloviating Zeppelin (@BZep) June 4, 2020
From Daniel Horowitz:
Horowitz: There is no systemic racism in policing
Putting the violent rioting aside for a moment, politicians in both parties are insinuating that the killing of George Floyd was racially motivated and reflects a broader injustice against black citizens more than anyone else, which legitimizes the rage undergirding the riots, if not the riots themselves. This assertion is simply not borne out by reality.
According to the Washington Post’s searchable database on police shootings, nine unarmed black people were shot dead by cops in 2019, while 19 unarmed white people shared the same fate. So even before we examine whether these shootings were justified, there were more than twice as many fatal police shootings of white people than of black people.
Now obviously this database only analyzes shootings, not choking incidents, but if the case of Floyd is part of a broad trend rather than an aberration, we are certainly not seeing that reflected in the shootings. One poster on Twitter has done research into the nine cases of unarmed black people being shot by police, and in each one, it appears that the suspect was in the process of using potentially deadly force against the cop or another civilian.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, approximately 53 million people come into contact with the police each year, often with multiple encounters.
As researchers from the University of Michigan and University of Maryland reported last year, “We did not find evidence for anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparity in police use of force across all shootings, and, if anything, found anti-White disparities when controlling for race-specific crime.”
Last year, 49 police officers were killed, and 30 percent of the suspects were black. So far this year, the number of cops killed is more than last year, despite the lockdown for two months. Has anyone made that a racial issue? Of course not, because individual criminals alone are the ones responsible for their actions.
Then, of course, there are the black-on-black crimes that are the biggest threat to black lives, yet they don’t seem to matter to the media and politicians. Just over the past weekend, 82 individuals were shot, 22 of them fatally. Black people are killed by homicide at eight times the rate of white people. That is the true disparity in the justice system we should be talking about. Having tougher policing and sentencing helps reduce that disparity and save exponentially more black lives, as we did from 1993 to 2015 before the advent of criminal justice deform reversed the positive trend of reduced violent crime.
In New York City, cops are beleaguered by political accusations of the Black Lives Matter movement. They are experiencing some of the most violent attacks in recent months, not just during the current riots. But is this really about protecting black lives, and are the police really the problem?
According to NYPD crime data, of the 209 homicide suspects in 2018 whose race is known, 149 (71 percent) were black or “black Hispanic,” 40 (19 percent) were “white Hispanic,” and just 14 (6.6 percent) were white. In other words, 93.4 percent were committed by “minorities.”
At the same time, however, of the 289 homicide victims in 2018 whose race is documented, just 26 (9 percent) were white, 196 (68 percent) were black or “black Hispanic,” and 54 (19 percent) were “white Hispanic.”
Thanks to more aggressive policies over the years, thousands of black lives have been saved in New York City since the days of 2,000 annual murders. We see the same principle in reverse in Baltimore, when unjustified rioting in 2015 led to a hands-off approach that kicked off several years of record murders, mainly harming African Americans.
Damn those statistics. You can never talk about the statistics. You can only speak of emotions.
But people are scared of the mob. Corporations lack courage, individuals lack courage, government lacks courage, and most of the politicians in DC lack courage. They can’t or won’t stand against the mob. And the mob demands obeisance, kneeling, genuflecting, prostration and, most recently, foot-washing. Not kidding.
Random Caucasoids were stopped on the street by alleged BLM members, demanded to kneel, and they did.
If cops take a knee, why not the national guard?
Soldiers kneeling to BLM and Antifa. What a wonderful propaganda coup for them. https://t.co/0FC4IXkGde
— Bloviating Zeppelin (@BZep) June 4, 2020
I’ll say it here first: NEVER KNEEL FOR THE MOB. NEVER ATTEMPT TO APPEASE OR CAPITULATE TO THE MOB.
Some very brief statistics. In depth stats later, on another post.
How many unarmed blacks were killed by cops last year? 9. How many unarmed whites were killed by cops last year? 19. Many more officers are killed every year than are unarmed blacks. When do the #BlueLivesMatter protests begin? Never.
Instead, now, I want to focus on the “defund the police” issue, what it looks like, how it materialized, how it’s gathering momentum and what it really means for those Leftist cities who implement it.
Because, as I say, it’s now a Leftist Purity Test. Will you, as a city or state or government administrator, work to defund the police? If yes, we won’t destroy you. If no, we’ll do our best to destroy you, all you have, all you’ve worked for, and remove you from any semblance of power whatsoever.
DTP has already threatened Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who failed abjectly to acquiesce to their demands to defund. They have said “you are gone in the next election. Get out. You mean nothing to us now.
DTP has also threatened the Mayor of Seattle, Jenny Durkan, who did not immediately kiss the DTP ring and has placed her own political future on the line. She has since, clearly, “seen the light” after City Hall was breached by protesters, the doors opened to the mob by a Leftist city council member, so the entire building could be occupied. Mayor Durkan was then threatened with removal. Astonishingly, she managed to somehow become illuminated. From King5.com:
Seattle council starts inquest of police budget amid demands to ‘defund police’
by Chris Daniels, 6-10-20
SEATTLE — The Seattle City Council began what it is calling an “inquest” into the police department budget, in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the violent demonstrations that followed in Seattle, as well as across the nation.
That’s at least the early discussion as presented by the council on Wednesday, the first of many expected meetings and negotiations between Mayor Jenny Durkan and the city council.
Several council members have already expressed openness to discuss decreasing the police budget, in the wake of the protests against racism and police brutality.
In 2019, multiple current council members approved $15,000 signing bonuses for new Seattle recruits, citing staffing shortfalls. That measure was approved 7-1, and was cheered by Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best.
Yet now, based on recent events, the pendulum has swung the other direction and cuts will likely have to be negotiated.
Councilmember Kshama Sawant has called for cutting the $400 million dollar police budget, and budget chair Teresa Mosqueda has thrown out a 50% estimate.
Durkan is expected to make a pitch to the council to cut $300 million dollars from the overall budget, as a result of the coronavirus crisis, but delayed making that move in advance of a council-led meeting on Wednesday.
Things are getting truly primordial in Seattle but, why not? It’s the home of Antifa, Leftists and those who simply don’t mind trashing an entire city.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, originally in favor of abandoning Seattle’s East Precinct (“we’re not really abandoning it,” she said, after equipment, files and other items were removed — and then all personnel left the building), has now thrown the Seattle administration under the bus.
But we’ll get into the whole Seattle “autonomous zone” in a moment.
Burning. Vandalizing. Killing. Looting. Is it just BLM? Of course not; it’s Antifa and whites as well, GOWPs as well as WCM — Woke Child Mob — members.
This black Woman is screaming and begging for the #AntifaTerrorists to stop looting and burning down stuff
Far Left extremist group Antifa has hijacked the George Floyd Protests!
They are acting like Terrorist and they should be arrested
Raise your hand if you agree ? pic.twitter.com/ga9i203dVm
— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) May 30, 2020
Looting by rioters, black Americans, BLM and, of course, Caucasoids on the order of Antifa — which mostly consists of young, military-age white males.
The concept of DTP first took public hold in Los Angeles. From NBCLosAngeles.com:
LA Council Members Seek to Eliminate at Least $100 Million in Police Budget
by City News Service, 6-3-20
Three City Council members filed a motion Wednesday to cut the Los Angeles Police Department’s budget by $100 million to $150 million for the 2020-2021 fiscal year.
The motion was filed by Council President Nury Martinez as well as councilmen Herb Wesson and Curren Price.
“We need to rethink what it is that makes people safer and makes communities stronger. We cannot just look at the police in isolation,” the motion stated. “There is no doubt that communities of color suffer disproportionately from negative interactions with the police.”
“Our only path forward is to dismantle the systems that are designed to harm people of color,” Wesson said on Twitter. “A preliminary cut to the LAPD budget will not solve everything, but it’s a step toward to being the city we aspire to be.”
Translated: LAPD exists to harm people of color. No other interpretation possible.
$150 million dollars cut from the LAPD budget. Let the floodgates open and the insanity commence. A little pushback from LAPD, who are reminding LA City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez that they too cast ballots.
Do I detect just a hint of pushback?https://t.co/ODTEr3iTZG
— Bloviating Zeppelin (@BZep) June 6, 2020
Meanwhile, as we’re defunding the police, let’s create our own police to combat the police. From FoxNews.com:
Black Lives Matter plans armed ‘peace officers’ in war on police, NY leader says
by Peter Aitken, 6-3-20
The Black Lives Matter movement will develop an armed branch of “peace officers” to combat police brutality in black communities during the so-called war on police, according to one of its leaders.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, BLM New York chapter Chairman Hawk Newsome described how the group plans to follow in the footsteps of the Black Panthers Party by matching fire with fire – when necessary.
“We’re talking about self-defense. We’re talking about defending our communities,” Newsome said. “You know what it’s like to see a taser pointed at a 7-year-old, you know what it’s like to see a 67-year-old black woman … pepper sprayed and pushed to the ground?”
“We are preparing and training our people to defend our communities.”
Newsome attended a national conference in Los Angeles of party leadership to discuss how the movement can create a “pathway forward” for people. The plan, called “Black Opts” for Black Opportunities, details how the movement can help to liberate black people.
“We have black Special Forces officers advising us, and we will teach and train people in our communities, the Black Opts department of Black Opportunities,” Newsome said.
As we know, it all worked so well in the 1960s and 1970s. Here is the Black Panther’s 10-Point Program:
The Platform
- We Want Freedom. We Want Power To Determine The Destiny Of Our Black Community.
We believe that Black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny.
- We Want Full Employment For Our People.
We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the White American businessmen will not give full employment, then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living.
- We Want An End To The Robbery By The Capitalists Of Our Black Community.
We believe that this racist government has robbed us, and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules were promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of Black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Germans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million Black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make.
- We Want Decent Housing Fit For The Shelter Of Human Beings.
We believe that if the White Landlords will not give decent housing to our Black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people.
- We Want Education For Our People That Exposes The True Nature Of This Decadent American Society. We Want Education That Teaches Us Our True History And Our Role In The Present-Day Society.
We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else.
- We Want All Black Men To Be Exempt From Military Service.
We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like Black people, are being victimized by the White racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary.
- We Want An Immediate End To Police Brutality And Murder Of Black People.
We believe we can end police brutality in our Black community by organizing Black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our Black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all Black people should arm themselves for self- defense.
- We Want Freedom For All Black Men Held In Federal, State, County And City Prisons And Jails.
We believe that all Black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial.
- We Want All Black People When Brought To Trial To Be Tried In Court By A Jury Of Their Peer Group Or People From Their Black Communities, As Defined By The Constitution Of The United States.
We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that Black people will receive fair trials. The Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, environmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the Black community from which the Black defendant came. We have been, and are being, tried by all-White juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man” of the Black community.
- We Want Land, Bread, Housing, Education, Clothing, Justice And Peace.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect of the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Sounds remarkably similar to 2020 Seattle, doesn’t it?
Economist Thomas Sowell wrote a great article in 2016, doubly applicable today.
The War On Cops
by Dr Thomas Sowell, 7-12-16
There was never a more appropriately named book than “The War on Cops” by Heather Mac Donald, published a few weeks ago, on the eve of the greatest escalation of that war by the ambush murders of five policemen in Dallas.
Nor is this war against the police confined to Dallas. It is occurring across the country. Who is to blame?
There is a ton of blame, more than enough to go around to the wide range of people and institutions that have contributed to these disasters. In addition to the murderers who have killed people they don’t even know, there are those who created the atmosphere of blind hatred in which such killers flourish.
Chief among those who generate this poisonous atmosphere are career race hustlers like Al Sharpton and racist institutions like the “Black Lives Matter” movement. All such demagogues need is a situation where there has been a confrontation where someone was white and someone else was black. The facts don’t matter to them.
The same is true of the more upscale, genteel and sophisticated race panderers, including the President of the United States. During his first year in the White House, Barack Obama chastised a white policeman over his handling of an incident with a black professor at Harvard — after admitting that he didn’t know the specific facts.
Nor did he know the specifics when he publicly announced that, if he had a son, that son would look like Trayvon Martin. Are we to decide who is right and who is wrong on the basis of skin color? There was a long history of that in the days of the old Jim Crow South. Are we fighting against racism today or do we just want to put it under new management?
No one should imagine that any of this is helping the black community. The surge in murder rates across the country, in the wake of the anarchy unleashed after the Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore riots, has taken a wholly disproportionate number of black lives.
But, to the race hustlers, black lives don’t really matter nearly as much as their chance to get publicity, power, money, votes or whatever else serves their own interests.
The mainstream media play a large, and largely irresponsible, role in the creation and maintenance of a poisonous racial atmosphere that has claimed the lives of policemen around the country.
I believe that Barack Hussein Obama will go down in history as one of the largest dividers of Americans in United States history.
A very important axiom comes to mind at this point: “A society that makes war on its police had better learn to make peace with its criminals.”
Minneapolis itself wants to defund the police.
Minneapolis council members seek to disband police department
by Law Officer, 6-4-20
Councilmember Steve Fletcher called cops ‘ungovernable’
MINNEAPOLIS — A member of the Minneapolis City Council revealed this week that he and several other council members are working on finding out what it would take to disband the Minneapolis Police Department.
The announcement from Councilmember Steve Fletcher comes a week after George Floyd died while in police custody in Minneapolis. During an appearance on CNN on Wednesday, he called the city’s police department “ungovernable.”
“The department is ungovernable,” Fletcher said. “Chief (Medaria) Arradondo is a leader that we’ve all had very high hopes in and that I imagined could play a role in envisioning the next version of public safety. But he has clearly not been able to make the culture change happen that we were hoping for and investing in.”
So let’s defund the NYPD as well.
BRUTAL MATH: The NYPD’s $6B Budget Must Be Cut, Advocates and Lawmakers Say
by Gersh Kuntzman, 6-4-20
It’s the $1-billion solution.
Activists — and perhaps soon, some politicians — are focusing on cutting the $6-billion NYPD budget by $1 billion, and redistributed in a way that better benefits long-suffering communities and reduces police brutality.
As the city budget process begins, Streetsblog has been asking Council members to put an actual figure on their vague demands for cuts as part of the #defundTheNYPD movement, but none has provided a target number, citing ongoing budget negotiations. But the billion-dollar ask has long been championed by Communities United for Police Reform, and it was a prominent part of an open letter sent to the mayor yesterday by 236 current and former staffers who expressed shock at how badly he is handling the current situation pitting the NYPD against residents protesting police brutality. (Council Member Carlos Menchaca of Brooklyn is the only lawmaker to publicly commit to cutting $1 billion per year, according to the #defundTheNYPD tracker.)
The mayor should “reallocate that money to essential social services, including housing support and rental relief, food assistance, and health care, in alignment with the demands of the NYC Budget Justice campaign,” the letter said.
So Comrade de Blasio stepped in.
De Blasio: NYC to cut NYPD funding, shift it to social services
by Peter Aitken, 6-8-20
New York CityMayor Bill de Blasio announced Sunday he would accede to protesters’ demands by moving to shift funds away from the NYPD toward social services.
During his daily briefing, the mayor addressed the demonstrations that have gripped the city and nation for almost two weeks following the death of George Floyd while in police custody. De Blasio announced a number of reforms as proposed by a task force on racial inclusion, one of which was to shift funding from the police force to youth initiatives.
“The details will be worked out in the budget process in the weeks ahead. But, I want people to understand that we are committed to shifting resources to ensure that the focus is on our young people,” de Blasio said.
Translated: you older people and the elderly, those who don’t vote for me, can go to hell.
But it’s not just about DTP. It’s about removing tools from the police as well.
Massachusetts lawmaker wants to outlaw the use of tear gas by police
Boston Magazineis reporting that a Massachusetts state representative from the Boston neighbor is preparing a bill which would ban the use of tear gas by police.
“Tonight, in Brockton, police fired several tear gas canisters into a crowd of #BlackLivesMatter protestors. Tear gas is considered a chemical weapon and is not allowed on military battlefields. My office is now working on legislation to ban its use against protestors, too.”
And also from from the DenverPost.com:
Federal judge orders Denver police to limit firing tear gas, projectiles at peaceful protesters
A federal judge in Denver issued an order late Friday night that limits the Denver Police Department’s use of chemical weapons and non-lethal projectiles on protesters, saying that protecting First Amendment rights were more important than protecting buildings.
“The threat to physical safety and free speech outweighs the threat to property,” U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson wrote.
Read that again.
“The threat to physical safety and free speech outweighs the threat to property,” U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson wrote.
So the oath that law enforcement made to protect lives and property — those oaths about property are suddenly null and void? If so, why would any businesses locate in an area controlled by Leftists who condone or tacitly ignore rioting?
It’s about removing police power, police tools, and eventually the police entirely. At this point, due to the DPT movement, the beginning is with budgets and now with tools. If you defund police, that reduces the number of officers available in riot situations and, absent the proper crowd tools, the only way to defeat riots is with numerical superiority. That will likely, with this trend, never occur in the foreseeable future.
But wait. I have a thought. I honestly think the time has come. Pick a city. Hell, start with Minneapolis. Let’s not stand in the way of their wish to eliminate the police. Really. Cops, resign now, pick another locality. City council, make good on your “threat.” Do it. Everyone else, stand back and watch.
You want a Big Experiment? Do it. Start with a city.
Because it all worked so well in 1965 Los Angeles. Those businesses didn’t come back. It took decades for something else to come. 1968 Baltimore. There are still places in Baltimore, decimated from the 1968 King riots, that look like downtown Stalingrad from World War II. How about 1992 Los Angeles? Many of those businesses never came back.
And considering businesses already crushed and throttled by Wuhan-19, the rule of law gone in so many American cities, small businesses burned and looted, big businesses too, do you think they’re coming back? Big businesses can move somewhere else. Small businesses just die. So do their owners.
Amidst this confusion and chaos, Joe Biden thinks that 10% to 15% of Americans are bad people. Only 50 million Americans. Really, Joe?
And I say again, I emphasize again, NEVER KNEEL FOR THE MOB, never try to appease the mob, never capitulate to the mob — because they can never be appeased. It is never, WILL NEVER be enough.
Black Lives Matter DC Chapter Condemns Mayor Bowser’s BLM Mural As A ‘Distraction’
by Jordan Davidson, 6-5-20
The official BlackLivesMatter DC chapter recently tweeted their disappointment in response to a mural stating “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street in front of the White House calling it “counter organizing” to their demands.
“This is performative and a distraction from [Mayor Muriel Bowser’s] active counter organizing to our demands to decrease the police budget and invest in the community. Black Lives Matter means Defund the police,” they replied to a tweet by Rachel Chason, a Washington Post reporter.
Mayor Bowser, one of the most Leftist mayors in the US, is insufficiently Left for Leftists and Antifa. Good to know. Ask Neville Chamberlain.
Let’s remember, all Caucasoids are racists. And our children need to be punished.
And is this coming when you dial 9-1-1?
If we defund the police, don’t we need a primer? In steps Rolling Stone magazine.
A Practical Guide to Defunding the Police
by Tessa Stuart, 6-3-20
Now activists in Minneapolis are calling for more than just reform: They want the Minneapolis Police Department defunded — and those calls are catching on elsewhere as demonstrations against police brutality sweep across the country and peaceful protesters are met with more barbarism for speaking out against it.
Defunding the police does not mean stripping a department entirely of its budget, or abolishing it altogether. It’s just about scaling police budgets back and reallocating those resources to other agencies, says Lynda Garcia, policing campaign director at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. “A lot of what we advocate for is investment in community services — education, medical access… You can call it ‘defunding,’ but it’s just about directing or balancing the budget in a different way.”
The concept is simple: When cities start investing in community services, they reduce the need to call police in instances when police officers’ specific skill set isn’t required. “If someone is dealing with a mental health crisis, or someone has a substance abuse disorder, we are calling other entities that are better equipped to help these folks,” Garcia says.
So maybe it’s time for this:
Here’s the oddly-unreported thing, though, from DailyCaller.com:
Poll: 56% Of Americans Believe Police Are Behaving Appropriately Or Not Being Aggressive Enough
by Jordan Lancaster, 6-5-20
A new NPR-Marist poll found that 56% of Americans believe that the police are behaving appropriately or not being aggressive enough during the nationwide demonstrations after George Floyd’s death.
The survey, which was conducted Tuesday through Wednesday, asked 1,062 American adults about police behavior in relation to the protests about George Floyd’s death with a margin of error of +/- 4 percentage points.
Because people aren’t much enamored with this.
We are heading towards a binary eruption; either those who love our country win, or those who despise our country win.https://t.co/FQvTYuVy1a
— Bloviating Zeppelin (@BZep) June 6, 2020
Or this:
You want truth? Here’s some truth. https://t.co/BKaMW1QL3I
— Bloviating Zeppelin (@BZep) June 6, 2020
In the meantime comes a press conference that, at first blush, makes you wonder if it isn’t something from the Babylon Bee or George Carlin’s mind.
And since we’re on the topic of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, here is her treatment of an alderman with serious concerns in his ward.
‘What Are We Going To Have Left In Our Community?’ Aldermen React with Panic, Sorrow to Unrest
by Heather Cherone, Paris Schultz, 6-5-20
As unrest swept the city Sunday, aldermen pleaded with Mayor Lori Lightfoot to help them protect their communities from roving bands of criminals clashing with police and looting businesses.
WTTW News obtained a recording of an online conference call held by the mayor’s office to brief all 50 aldermen on the city’s response to the unrest touched off by the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police.
Listen to the conference here. Begin at 34 minutes.
Let’s not leave out the DC police. People want to defund them as well.
The Movement To Defund D.C. Police
In the wake of protests over police brutality, some are left asking whether the D.C. police force’s budget is too big and oversight of the department is too meager.
Protesters want law enforcement to be held accountable, as it would appear that police oversight is too meager even though department budgets balloon year after year. And while the protests are not a referendum on any one agency, the D.C. chapter of Black Lives Matter, along with other groups, is calling for local leaders to defund MPD. “[Washington Teachers’ Union demands] greater investment in communities, not policing,” says its president, Elizabeth Davis. Organizers are also circulating an online petition to defund the police.
“A budget is a moral statement,” says Sean Blackmon, an organizer with Stop Police Terror Project D.C. “It comes down to a question of who gets this money and resources and why do they deserve it?”
The Leftist Purity Test began with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who said he wasn’t all-in with defunding and disbanding the police.
Guaranteed. Last white mayor of Minneapolis. Buh-bye. NEVER KNEEL or PROSTRATE YOURSELF before the mob, kid. Did you learn any lesson here, Mr GOWP? https://t.co/ED6p8qKI8E
— Bloviating Zeppelin (@BZep) June 7, 2020
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we see clear evidence that black lives really don’t matter. From the Chicago Sun Times:
18 murders in 24 hours: Inside the most violent day in 60 years in Chicago
by Tom Schuba, 6-8-20
A hardworking father killed just before 1 a.m.
A West Side high school student murdered two hours later.
A man killed amid South Side looting at a cellphone store at 12:30 p.m.
A college freshman who hoped to become a correctional officer, gunned down at 4:25 p.m. after getting into an argument in Englewood.
While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, 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.
From 7 p.m. Friday, May 29, through 11 p.m. Sunday, May 31, 25 people were killed in the city, with another 85 wounded by gunfire, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
In a city with an international reputation for crime — where 900 murders per year were common in the early 1990s — it was the most violent weekend in Chicago’s modern history, stretching police resources that were already thin because of protests and looting.
“We’ve never seen anything like it, at all,” said Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the crime lab. “ … I don’t even know how to put it into context. It’s beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before.”
If they keep on this path, pretty soon Chicago is going to run out of black people to shoot and kill.
Plus, in Los Angeles:
LAPD: Homicides Up 250% In First Week Of June
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — With more people venturing out into reopening businesses and restaurants, Los Angeles crime has skyrocketed in the first week of June.
A tweet from the LAPD says between May 31 and June 6, homicides were up 250% compared to the previous week. The number of victims who had been shot jumped 56% in the same week.
Simultaneously, from the NYPost.com:
More than 700 officers injured in George Floyd protests across US
by Ebony Bowden, 6-8-20
WASHINGTON — More than 700 law enforcement officers have been injured on the job during nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd — with nearly 300 of those among New York’s Finest, according to the Department of Justice and the NYPD.
Since mass unrest over Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody first broke out on May 27, approximately 700 federal, state and local law enforcement officers have sustained injuries in clashes with demonstrators, according to Justice Department data.
Then things truly went insane in Seattle, Washington, the hub of Antifa, Leftists and anarchists. From FoxNews.com:
Seattle protesters declare ‘cop free zone’ after police leave precinct
by Michael Ruiz, 6-10-20
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.
On Monday, the Seattle Police Department sent a memo to officers noting that brass had decided to unblock the streets and allow demonstrators to march past the building on their way to Capitol Hill.
But with the building boarded up and police gone from the area, at least some demonstrators apparently decided to stay in place.
It is now called the CHAZ, or Capital Hill Autonomous Zone.
And what happened almost immediately? No chanting, no harpsichord, no patchouli oil? No. Instead, ID checks at its 6-block borders. Cash for entry. They have instituted their own version of “stop and frisk.” Their own “police force.” A shakedown of businesses for cash, for “protection,” like the Mafia. Apparently Leftists and anarchists DO like borders, they DO like walls, and they DO enjoy graft and corruption. Immediately.
And Antifa has 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.
The antifa terrorists are advocating for “folks with firearms” to take shifts defending the barricades.
The Antifa group set up barricades at the border and certain areas for dining and public speech.
Given the historical moment, we’ll begin with our demands pertaining to the Justice System.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- We demand reparations for victims of police brutality, in a form to be determined.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- We demand the abolition of imprisonment, generally speaking, but especially the abolition of both youth prisons and privately-owned, for-profit prisons.
- We demand in replacement of the current criminal justice system the creation of restorative/transformative accountability programs as a replacement for imprisonment.
- We demand autonomy be given to the people to create localized anti-crime systems.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- We demand the de-gentrification of Seattle, starting with rent control.
- We demand the restoration of city funding for arts and culture to re-establish the once-rich local cultural identity of Seattle.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- We demand the hospitals and care facilities of Seattle employ black doctors and nurses specifically to help care for black patients.
- We demand the people of Seattle seek out and proudly support Black-owned businesses. Your money is our power and sustainability.
- 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.
- We demand that the history of Black and Native Americans be given a significantly greater focus in the Washington State education curriculum.
- 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.
- 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.
Just a few demands.
These are terrorists folks, and the powder-keg is not far from blowing. But people are now saying the federal government should step in.
Send in no one. This is a local government creation and local and state government can repair it. But they must first have the will to do so. Their lack of will — when they have all the equipment and personnel to do it themselves — does not an emergency make. The city of Seattle groomed and coddled and petted and nurtured that little lizard until it became a dragon.
If you, Seattle, lack the will to repair this yourselves, these are your options:
1. Coordinate with local LE to take your city back, like King County, surrounding cities and counties.
2. Ask for state assistance. I watched Governor Inslee profess ignorance of the situation yesterday. That’s a lie. He knows precisely what’s going on in Seattle.
3. It is the governor’s job to request National Guard assistance and HERE’S the rub.
Washington and Gov Inslee very well might not because that would acknowledge three things:
– Washington can’t handle their own people.
– Asking DC for help is acknowledging their fundamental errors in appeasement and capitulation.
– It would give a “win” to President Trump politically, and Demorats/Leftists can never, will never, cannot afford to yield a “win.”
It would prove their foundational tenets and beliefs are insidiously corrupt and unworkable.
You are going to see Seattle sacrificed, an entire city, on the Altar of Political Correctness by the Woke Child Mob.
NOT BLACKS. NOT BLM. By GOWPs — Guilty Overeducated White People — and the WCM.
Let Seattle stew in its own festering broth. They wanted it — no, DEMANDED it — they VOTED for it, they disciplined normal people to get it, so I say:
Give them what they want. A Balkanized city. A Balkanized state.
Seattle has the capability to stop this, but not the will. Governor Inslee lacks, at this point, the will to even acknowledge a problem.
Stay out, federal government, unless CALLED by Governor Inslee. They started the mess, they can fix their mess.
Calling DC for help is a clear admission of guilt and, moreover, failure.
THEIR job to fix, not ours. Unless called by their Governor.
Do you think he’ll do it?
MASSIVE loss of political face to ask for FEDERAL help. Meaning Trump.
Note: the “autonomous zone” is about to get larger. You watch.
Maybe Seattle Chief Carmen Best is having second thoughts? Throwing her mayor under the bus?
Oregon Governor Jay Inslee thinks this isn’t really very serious, you see.
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.
“That’s news to me. So, I’ll have to reserve any comment about it. I have not — I have not heard anything about that… from any credible source,” Inslee said, with a chuckle. “Not that you’re not credible, it’s just before I espouse and opinion I should know of which I speak.” He laughed again after giving this response.
If the governor of Washington has not heard about the open revolt taking place in the state’s largest city — in the Capitol Hill district, no less! — then he is utterly incompetent. But his next response proved equally insane.
The reporter responded with a follow-up question, asking whether or not Inslee would bring in the National Guard to open up the city when “protesters” had erected barricades to block streets.
“You know, that’s a hypothetical. Look, we’ve got to have safety. I’m sure that people will find a way to have public safety everywhere in the state, I’m confident of that,” Inslee said. “The National Guard is demobilizing, over two-thirds of them are demobilized as of yesterday.”
This is the perfect time for Leftist Insurrection. Antifa members are terrorists. Terrorists have taken over an American city. The mayor lacks the will to act and the governor lacks the will to act. They are equally complicit. Seattle Mayor Durkan knows precisely what’s going on. So does Washington Governor Jay Inslee. This is a political statement and they’re making it.
Again, Leftists couldn’t care less whether you live or die, your working conditions, your living conditions, and if some citizens have to be sacrificed on the political altar, oh well. Better yet if cops get removed wholesale or get killed along the way.
In the meantime, those persons living within those six blocks of Seattle had no choice in the matter. They are trapped by terrorists. Young and old. Black and white. And trust me. They get no voice in the matter whatsoever.
This means any group of “protesters” can now choose, in any major American Urban Rat Cage, to close off some blocks of a city and call it their own. Because they can get away with it, and encounter no resistance.
That means it can occur in any city, in Sacramento, on a block where YOU and your family lives, and THEY could be in charge of whether you go in or out, to work, to a grocery store, and the fee of re-entry could be as simple as “are you with us or against us.” If you lie and say yes, you enter. If you say no they pull you out, beat and rob you, turn over your car and set it on fire.
That’s where this is going.
Oh and yeah: without cops they WILL do this.
In the words of a good Seattle cop himself:
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.
We have to ask ourselves: what are some of the true ultimate goals? There are two that immediately come to mind. Here is the first. A “police-free” future.
Minneapolis City Council president: ‘The goal’ is a ‘police-free future’
by Madison Dibble, 6-9-20
The Minneapolis City Council president said the city is aiming to have a “police-free future” as it shifts to dismantle its police department following the death of George Floyd.
Council President Lisa Bender noted on Monday that the change will take time but said that the city is aspiring to change the department completely with the goal of eventually eliminating police altogether.
“I think the idea of having a police-free future is very aspirational, and I am willing to stand with community members who are asking us to think of that as the goal because so many folks in our community have seen us work on reform,” she told CNN’s Chris Cuomo.
Or this:
George Floyd’s Family Asks United Nations to Disarm Police in U.S.
The family of George Floyd, the black man killed while in police custody in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, has sent a letter to the globalist United Nations to ask for its help in disarming police officers in the United States of America.
Make no mistake, these are anarchist goals.
But wait. A recent poll says this:
YouGov Poll Finds Only 16% Americans Want to ‘Defund the Police’; 65% Oppose
A YouGov poll found “despite calls by activists and protesters to defund police departments, most Americans do not support reducing law enforcement budgets. Close to two-thirds (65%) oppose cutting police force funding. Just 16 percent of Democrats and 15 percent of Republicans support that idea.”
Demorats and Republicans at about the same percent.
So make no mistake. We are in the heart of a war. A civil war. A war for the United States of America.
This is absolutely a binary election this November 3rd.
Either people who love this country win — or people who despise this country win.
This is a conclusion pushed not by normal Americans, but by anarchists, Antifa, Leftists, Demorat-Socialists, Socialists, Communists and Demorats.
We are on the cusp of Balkanizing the United States of America, dividing it, doing the exact things our Founding Fathers fought to avoid.
E pluribus unum.
Today?
Every Leftist bastard for himself, and everything for free.
BZ
“A million deaths is a statistic.”
I have said and written since January of 2017 — three long years — that 
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