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 ...
You're probably right, but we should not underestimate the left's propensity for projection. The reaction to this is just getting started.
i am waiting for more context
the story as it is currently being told does not add up
Tha KS for the links- that academic research on police shootings is very inciteful. One quote from it:
Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, there is no government agency more dedicated to the proposition that black lives matter than the police. The data-driven, proactive policing revolution that began in the mid-1990s has saved tens of thousands of black lives that would have otherwise been lost to urban gun violence had crime remained at its early 1990s rate. Unfortunately, those crime gains are now at risk, thanks to the false narrative that police officers are infected with homicidal bias.
Ths stats prove that statement to be true. There is no “systemic racism” in the police force nationwide. Especially given the fact that 10,000,000 arrests are done each year, and only a tiny fraction result in unarmed black men being killed unjustifiably. Cops are far more conscious of avoiding racial bias tha. Are citizens, yet it is citizens that condemn cops for racial bias at the drop of a hat.
Accordi g to a blurb by tucker carlson, In 2019, only 2 unarmed black men were killed by cops unjustifiably, and those 2 cops were tried and convicted, as they should have been. 54 cops lost their lives that year nbeing shot by perps.
Four of the five had bonded out by Friday morning.
The African American community tends to be policed more heavily, because that is where people are disproportionately hurt by violent street crime.
Yet they still use the race card to cover up the black leaders
failure’s to protect them.
The last black cops on blacks they still say it’s a white racism issue and the media are fueling the fire.
Chas is a money maker for the news media / wake up or die
The Democrat campaign for 2024 is under way.
The Anti-Antifa folks needs to circulate pictures of all known Antifa members.
Before every riot they can put pictures up of the leaders who organize these riots.
Once we see who is promoting the violence, it’s up to the middle class to either sue them to death, or ... put up with it.
The American Thinker article talks about riots in Memphis. I checked the news and there’s no mention of violence. There were protests and what not but I can’t find anything about arson or assault.
I know there was property destruction but it wasn’t in Memphis.
Am I missing some big story?
I haven’t heard anything - yet.
“Four of the five had bonded out by Friday morning”
Yeah the people bitching about them being arrested so quickly don’t wanna talk about that little detail.
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