Posted on 01/29/2023 5:00:07 AM PST by MtnClimber
Police misconduct once again acts as an excuse for organized violence by leftists across the country.
Riots broke out in Memphis and are rapidly spreading through the usual urban areas. The purported rationale is the horrific beating to death in Memphis of Tyre Nichols captured on video and released by the police. As Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) observes, Nichols’ beating was administered by “Black officers in a majority Black city with a Black police chief.”
The officers involved have been criminally charged, but the media to which every Black killed by a cop is just proof that we are still in the Selma, Alabama world of decades ago -- another case of some innocent Black person victimized by racist oppressors.
The odious Joy Reid at MSNBC highlighted a guest who blames Nichols’ death on “white supremacy” and CNN’s Van Jones opined “The police who killed Tyre Nichols were Black. But they still may have been driven by racism.”
To the contrary, I blame the death on those who actually administered the beating and the lack of rapid medical treatment, but people like Reid and Jones who refuse to acknowledge the murderous consequences of a savage urban Black culture which time and again ends on tragedy and who stir up absurdly conjured racism are also at fault.
As the deans of colleges and heads of k-12 schools pen their usual pap about this, and the overpaid professional consultants start scheduling conferences and workshops on ending “systemic racism,” it is a good time to review some facts which they steadfastly ignore.
Over at the Manhattan Institute, always a good source of unbiased information, Heather MacDonald sets out the too often ignored facts on police killings, facts which do not support reducing or defunding law enforcement.
Among the highlights of her work are these:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
the evidence does not support the charge that biased police are systematically killing Black Americans in fatal shootings.
Much of modern policing is driven by crime data and community demands for help. The African American community tends to be policed more heavily, because that is where people are disproportionately hurt by violent street crime. In New York City in 2018, 73% of shooting victims were Black, though Black residents comprise only 24% of the city’s population.
Nationally, African Americans between the ages of 10 and 34 die from homicide at 13 times the rate of white Americans, according to researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Justice Department.
Community requests also determine police deployment, and the most urgent requests often come from law-abiding residents of high-crime neighborhoods.
Clarice ping
Have palettes of bricks shown up on street corners yet?
Gettin fee stuff...
Was Tire fighting with the Police
We won’t be seeing the type of rioting we did for say George Floyd because the cops were all black.
Isn’t that in some weird way in and of itself, well.....racist?
No matter what happens, it’s because of racism!
Where is there an Anti-Antifa posse HQ in my area that I can call?However, I don’t have any sort of resume’ for them to review.
Since Clarice quotes Heather Mac Donald extensively, here’s some more of her work on the topic:
Why ‘policing is racist’ is such a poisonous lie (Heather Mac Donald)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3770841/posts
An excellent article series by Heather Mac Donald.
Police Shootings and Race
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/police-shootings-and-race-9080.html
Academic Research on Police Shootings and Race
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/academic-research-police-shootings-and-race-9085.html
The Ferguson Effect
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/ferguson-effect-9089.html
More on the ‘Ferguson Effect,’ and Responses to Critics
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/more-ferguson-effect-and-responses-critics-9092.html
An Urgent Desire for More Policing
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/urgent-desire-more-policing-9098.html
This woman gets it.
One has to wonder why the body cam footage was released on Friday yet no dash cam footage to ascertain initial probable cause for the stop/assault. Thugs are gonna thug no matter.
Regardless, Pfizer was knocked off the front pages. Things that makes one go Hmmmmmmmm.
Thanks for all of the Heather MacDonald links.
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So was Biden's documents story, as well as coverage of Trump's big speeches in New Hampshire and South Carolina.....
Hmmmm....
“ We won’t be seeing the type of rioting we did for say George Floyd because the cops were all black.
Isn’t that in some weird way in and of itself, well.....racist?”
The whole thing is racist, but not like they want you to think.
Same goes for “global warming”/“climate change”, and “COVID”. All red herrings to bring about socialism/communism.
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Some more extreme voices in the black community have actually said it is racist because the black cops were fired and arrested so quickly.......if they were white they would still be walking around free...........can you believe it?
Some people will always have a grievance no matter what....especially if they’re making a handsome living off of it.
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