Posted on 12/28/2014 1:23:32 PM PST by marktwain
Not a video Elijah Woody circled |
While no one would publicly say so, it was the Panther's violent image that provided their real attraction to the New Left. Blacks would seek liberation, Malcolm said, though the "ballot or the bullet," but no radical believed that the System could be changed by peaceful means."Because leftist "revolutionaries" embrace deception as part of their tactics, the fact that some Panthers claimed to support the second amendment is inconclusive. The gun culture is intimately familiar with politicians who say "we support the second amendment" during elections. It is clear that the left supported restrictive gun legislation. It was only a year later that the United States Congress, at the urging of Lyndon Johnson, passed the most restrictive federal gun legislation up to that time, the federal gun control act of 1968.
What is disturbing is that the officers who arrested Elijah told him to "stop educating dumb niggers" about their rights to open carry in the squad car after the arrest. They also told him that they get a $100 bonus each time the arrest a man with a gun in their precinct.Elijah is a black man, and the police officers involved are said to be black men as well.
One victim, a black male named Jernoie Stanford, describes a story that is disturbingly similar to Elijah Woody's. According to Stanford's testimony, the police saw that he was open carrying, and arrested him for a curfew ticket. His gun was seized by the police, which has still not been returned to him. The Detroit Police told him under the phone that they are still holding his legally-possessed and legally-purchased handgun, "pending further investigation." They want to check the gun to make sure that it does not have a violent past, even though it was purchased new and Stanford kept it on him. He has yet to be charged with a gun-related crime. He does not have any upcoming court dates, either.The link shows two more cases:
Another black male, Anthony Murray, describes a nearly identical arrest with his open-carried gun being taken, being charged with carrying a concealed weapon, and getting the run-around when trying to get the gun back, even though he had all the paperwork for the gun on him when he was arrested.Detroit police have been accused of harassing gun owners at a gun turn in event in 2010, so the possibility exists that being black and carrying a gun is a doubly attractive combination for police there.
Another victim, Anthony Collins, told a story similar to Murray's that occurred two years ago.
Here's a restatement/slight rewording by me of what one MOC fb member wrote. There was no gun charge filed. The police arrested him and he spent four days in jail before his court appearance. By this time the lawyers and the judge realized that he had not yet broken any laws. So the judge gave him a small fine and time served for resisting arrest, or actually hindering or obstructing an officer as BC calls it. Its a catch-all charge they use. They couldnt readily admit that he was arrested and jailed without just cause. Heres what all the parties have said about this on the record.
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I didnt really do it on purpose, said Jason Smith. I was just nervous and kept moving around and he thought I was trying to resist arrest.
When we made contact with him he was resisting, pulling away, was nervous, said Sgt. Jeff Case, Battle Creek Police Gang Unit on Thursday. Basically didnt want us to make contact with him originally.
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Yeah, I bet. A young black guy traveling with a rifle being approached by the BC Gang Unit? Why were you trying to arrest him anyway, Sgt. Case? No one is asking the Battle Creek police that!
Elijah Woody tells MLive Detroit he was talking with friends along Hague between Brush and Beubian in Detroit's North End neighborhood.A police spokesman paints a different picture. He says the police "smelled marijuana" then searched the group and found Elijah's $550 Glock pistol:
"I was there about five to 10 minutes and the police came ... I got out my phone and started recording," he says. "Police came up to me, took the gun off my hips, handcuffed me and took me to the back of the car."
He claims one of the officers -- there were three in an unmarked car, what Elijah Woody says are called "jump-out boys" on the streets -- took his phone and threw it, which caused it to stop recording.
"Although the jacket was tucked in behind the weapon, it was an over-sized jacket that flopped over the top of the weapon as well," Sgt. Woody said. The gun "has to be visibly noticeable to anybody who you come in contact with during the normal course of the day.Sgt. Woody is not related to Elijah Woody. Let it be noted that Elijah Woody does not have any criminal convictions. The allegation that the police stopped Elijah from recording the incident is troubling. The case is ongoing and has not been resolved.
"If I come up to you and look at your waistband, I should be able to know that you're carrying a weapon."
If a black man in Detroit makes 25 and has no criminal record, he is doing something right.
Wow, I'll bet that's a minority. Add "in Detroit" and you might compare the odds of winning the lottery for 9 figures with those of meeting one.
I totally agree. There’s likely to be additional benefit from removing the urban cultural lionization of firearms. Carrying a, “9,” can’t be that gangsta if all the law-abiding squares on your block do it as well.
Can’t have black men taking the initiative without government assistance can we? /s/
Since most of the crimes against blacks are perpetrated by blacks, It would seem that more legally armed blacks would be something of a deterrent against being victimized.
It appears that the police are more successful at disarming those blacks carrying legally than they are the black criminals. Some irony in that.
HUGE BUMP..!!!
This story confuses me.
I thought it was the chief of police of Detroit who was urging everyone to buy a gun and protect themselves because the police are undermanned.
The municipal police force in Detroit is definitely undermanned and underfunded. A fairly large corps of legally armed and determined men in these neighborhoods would be a good first step in taking back the night from the vultures and raiders.
“Gran Torino” was a documentary of just how this could be done.
“I thought it was the chief of police of Detroit who was urging everyone to buy a gun and protect themselves because the police are undermanned.”
It takes years for a police chief to make major changes in a large, urban, police force culture.
“Legally armed black men”.
Wow, I’ll bet that’s a minority. Add “in Detroit” and you might compare the odds of winning the lottery for 9 figures with those of meeting one.
It is not quite as bad as you think. As I recall, the number of black men with a record, in the urban center of Milwaukee, was near 50%. A majority of residents, even in those hot spots, are not criminals.
The real nasty criminals belong to a crime “micro-culture”. We can break this, but you have to change the culture. The best and biggest change you can make is to get the population to trust the police, instead of being in a “no snitch” mode. If the police start respecting law abiding black men, it is a good start.
Open carry is open carry regardless of the carrier`s color. As long as no thugs are illegally in possession of firearms then it`s their right as well. Nice leftist ‘divide and conquer’ ploy, though.
I’m all for Blacks enjoying the fruits of the 2nd Amendment. While folks are being conditioned to be leery of Blacks, I’d wager that there are many more stories about Whites suffering the same type issues as the article points out.
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