Columbus' Proposed Police Witch Hunt Will Send Chills Down Your Spine

PJ Media ^ | By Tyler O'Neil Jul 15, 2020 9:10 PM EST

[Red Badger]

The city council of Columbus, Ohio, is considering legislation to screen police officers for any connection to “hate groups” (including secretly harboring the beliefs of “hate groups”), citing the ever-so-reliable Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Former SPLC employees have confessed to taking part in a hate-for-pay scheme, exaggerating the number of “hate groups” in order to bilk donors, and the SPLC faces numerous defamation lawsuits regarding that “hate group” accusation. Even so, a city council member told PJ Media that the council will define “hate group” in such a manner as to include organizations accused by the SPLC, and to go further.

“We want to make it clear that our challenge with developing this legislation will be in defining what is considered a hate group,” Columbus City Councilmember Shayla Favor, chair of the Criminal Justice Committee, told PJ Media in a statement.

The city council met for a 3.5-hour meeting on Monday to discuss the hate-group screening, which is one aspect of a slate of police reform measures following the horrific police killing of George Floyd, The Columbus Dispatch reported. In addition to the hate-group screening, the Columbus City Council is considering measures like demilitarizing the police force, examining “no-knock” warrants, and providing for independent investigations into police use of force, replacing internal department investigations.

The legislation aims to weed out cops who have ties to “hate groups” or who may “silently harbor the beliefs of those groups.” Judson L. Jeffries, professor of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University, referenced the SPLC and its list of 1,100 “hate groups,” about 50 of which allegedly operate in Ohio.

Jeffries argued that the SPLC list likely undercounts the number of hate groups in the state. “History has shown that some groups operate in a clandestine manner,” he insisted.

[SunkenCiv]

...is considering legislation to screen police officers for any connection to “hate groups”...a city council member told PJ Media that the council will define “hate group” in such a manner as to include organizations accused by the SPLC, and to go further... Judson L. Jeffries, professor of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University, referenced the SPLC and its list of 1,100 “hate groups,” about 50 of which allegedly operate in Ohio. Jeffries argued that the SPLC list likely undercounts the number of hate groups in the state.

The Columbus City Council is a hate group. The Ohio State faculty is a hate group. The SPLC is a hate group. BLM is a hate group. Antifa is a hate group.

[EinNYC]

As I immediately suspected upon reading this:

Shayla Favor

The professor of hate, Judson L. Jeffries:

So these two dolts want to use the SPLC, itself a highly racist body, as a reference to decide who is a hate group. This demonstrates a level of logic worthy of Joe Biden! And, they want to use their respective super powers to be able to read the police force applicants' minds to see if they harbor bigotry in their heart.

This is itself illogical, absolutely unfair, and laughably pathetic. Two highly partisan people looking over police prospects through a lens of their own brand of racism!

This new Columbus sure ain't the buccolic provincial town I grew up in! We never knew about race, schmace when I was a kid. The blacks mostly lived in central Columbus and whites lived in the outer suburbs. I never heard hate speech or anything. Everyone got along, until apparently recent times. This is what agitators do when they attain positions of power, like being in the City Council or teaching at the major university in the town.

[A_perfect_lady]

no White person who has the required education and a clean back ground will be hired.

Basically, they are going to end up with nothing but ineffectual whites and gangster blacks.

[PIF]

Republicans. conservatives, constitutionalists, members of the US military ...

[kaehurowing]

Re my church’s hate group designation (my #17):

https://www.courthousenews.com/florida-church-sues-amazon-law-center-hate-group-listing/

If you came on a Sunday morning you would be hard-pressed to find anything that was “hateful” about us. But we were a hate group because one of our pastors had previously been a pastor at the church in the story.

[Rock N Jones]

Do you now or ever support a Communist front organization,the biggest hate groups of all ?

[Levy78]

Marxists don’t abide by the rules of the ballot box. Must be removed by other means.

[dljordan]

“Marxists need to be voted out.”

Kind of hard to do when we import 1.2 million socialists a year from the third world.

[ronnie raygun]

You have to admit I love when they eat thier own

[Sam Gamgee]

Great a bunch of SPLC hippies get to chime in on police recruiting.

[NonValueAdded]

Goodbye Columbus

[Lowell1775]

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Columbus’ Proposed Police Witch Hunt Will Send Chills Down Your Spine
7/16/2020, 1:33:09 PM · by Red Badger · 30 replies
PJ Media ^ | By Tyler O’Neil Jul 15, 2020 9:10 PM EST