Posted on 04/05/2022 9:09:32 AM PDT by Conservat1
BLM violence can’t be ignored
By Letters to the Editor
EDITOR:
In response to Sylvia Medley, whose letter, “Blatant Ignorance,” continues to receive response, I would say, in Sylvia’s case, blatant ignorance is in the eye of the beholder. I want to make it clear that most people, including myself, did not approve of what occurred Jan. 6, 2021. When you look at the number on the Capitol grounds that day, it was a small percentage who actually entered the Capitol. Regardless, all should have remained outside.
One can ascertain from Ms. Medley’s letter that setting fire to businesses, post offices, police stations and even a homeless person, etc., are not acts of violence. Remember the CNN reporter standing on a street in Minneapolis, with fires raging behind him, who described the whole ordeal as “mostly peaceful protests?”
Space does not allow me to list all the verified reports of what I and others define as violence nor the heartbreak I felt for so many innocent Black, Asian and white American business owners and individuals violated, injured and who experienced great losses during those protests/riots. Think of 30-year-old Oscar Steward, a regular at a Minneapolis pawn shop. The shop was burning when bystanders noticed someone inside unable to get out. Months later they found his remains. Terriel Lee was found guilty, but only charged with setting the fire, not Stewart’s death. They were both Black men.
I watched on TV a Black elderly woman standing in what was once her drug store. She cried because she didn’t know how she was going to get her prescriptions. The same night, a Black firefighter and his wife, who had saved for years, lost their dream business, which was about a month away from opening. Protesters first destroyed all the work they had done inside and then set the building on fire.
The worst damage occurred in at least a dozen cities at a cost of $2 billion nationwide. Also, 400 law enforcement officers were injured and a retired police officer and a federal protection officer were shot.
In the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area, 500 businesses had been vandalized, looted or their windows and doors smashed. At least 67 businesses were completely destroyed, according to the Star Tribune. The U.S. Post Office, Wells Fargo Bank and police station were set on fire. There was $315 million in property damage in Minneapolis. How many people relied on these businesses for their jobs and the goods/services they provided? Others were also killed — two men shot and killed by looters in Cicero, Ill., and Calvin Horton, 43, shot and killed outside a pawn shop in Minneapolis.
Do you know who is really angry at BLM? All those Black business people and individuals whose cities were destroyed; they have not received one dime from BLM for their losses. Read the headlines: “BLM’s Millions Unaccounted For After Leaders Quietly Jumped Ship,” Jan. 27, 2022. Even California is holding BLM accountable for missing financial records.
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The headline title:
‘BLM violence can’t be ignored.’
Welcome to the Brave, New World. Lock, load and enjoy the ride.
“Can’t be” but it is being ignored by the propaganda media.
To deny BLM/ANQUEEFA are violent is reminiscent of how the Columbo’s, Gambino’s Luciano’s Gotti’s etc denied the existence of the mafia
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