Posted on 04/16/2021 11:42:37 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
One of the very first men canonized by the high priests of the church of BLM was Michael Brown. Described in media reports as a “gentle giant,” and hailed as a promising young man and valuable member of his community, Brown died while assaulting a police officer and trying to take his gun. George Floyd, whose death at the hands of police is being adjudicated as we speak, died while resisting arrest and high on a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl. His rap sheet included the home invasion armed robbery of a woman. Another canonized (though still living) saint, Jacob Blake — a man who received ceremonial visits from Joe Biden and other Democratic dignitaries while in the hospital — allegedly broke into a woman’s house and raped her in her bedroom before stealing her debit card and vehicle. On the day of the shooting, Blake had returned to the home of his alleged victim and was attempting to take her car keys. When the police arrived, he fought them, pulled a knife, and eventually was shot.
That brings us to Daunte Wright, the latest posthumously appointed martyr for BLM. The immediate circumstances of his death are well known: He was pulled over for a traffic violation, police discovered that he had an open warrant, they tried to make the arrest, he resisted, climbed back into his vehicle, and was shot by a female officer who says that she meant to use her taser. She has been charged with manslaughter in his death.
Now, after a Daily Mail report on Tuesday, more pieces of the puzzle have been revealed. The Mail reports:
Daunte Wright choked a woman and threatened to shoot her if she did not hand over $820 she had stuffed in her bra, court papers obtained by DailyMail.com allege. That is the case that led to a warrant for his arrest at the time he was shot and killed by police officer Kimberly Potter in Minnesota on Sunday, leading to days of unrest… Wright was allegedly pulled over for having expired license plate tags, although he called his mother and told her it was for having an air freshener hanging on his rear-view mirror. While checking his details, Potter and other officers learned of the warrant.
The full details of the alleged crime are quite chilling. In December of 2019, Wright and another man, Emajay Driver, stayed the night in a house shared by two female roommates. The Daily Mail explains what allegedly happened the next morning:
In the morning, one of the women went to the bank to get her $820 rent money which she gave to the other woman and then left for work. As Wright, Driver and the second woman were leaving, Wright allegedly tried to hold up the woman.
‘The three of them were walking to the door to exit the apartment and defendant Wright turned around and blocked the door preventing victim from leaving,’ says the report, written by Osseo Police Officer Shane Mikkelson. Defendant Wright then pulled a black handgun with silver trim out from either his right waistband or his right coat pocket and pointed it at victim and demanded the rent money,’ continued Mikkelson.
‘Victim said “Are you serious?” Defendant Wright replied: “Give me the f**king money, I know you have it.”
When the woman again asked him if he was serious, Wright is said to have replied: ‘I’m not playing around.’
Mikkelson’s report said: ‘The $820 cash was tucked in the victim’s bra and defendant Wright placed his hand around victim’s neck and choked her while trying to pull the cash from under her bra.
‘Victim was able to get loose from defendant Wright and started to kneel down and scream.’
After more yelling, Wright allegedly told the woman that he was going to shoot her unless he got the money.
‘Give me the money and we will leave,’ he allegedly said. ‘Give me the money and we will go.’
Mikkelson added: ‘Defendant Wright then tried to choke victim a second time and tried to take her money. Defendant Driver was telling her to give defendant Wright the money.’
The victim reported the crime to police, easily identified Wright as the culprit, and he was arrested. Wright was initially released on bail, but the bail was revoked when he was found in possession of a firearm. That is when a judge issued the warrant for his arrest.
Wright was not arrested simply because he had a handgun without a permit. It certainly wasn’t because of an air freshener, which was the insane lie promulgated on Twitter in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. It was because he allegedly choked and robbed a woman at gun point.
For those keeping track, this means that of the three most recent and most prominent BLM martyrs — the three men that BLM insists we collectively wail and mourn and honor and celebrate, and whose faces we must paint in murals, and whose names we must remember and repeat — all three allegedly committed acts of brutality against women. These are not men accused of Me Too style “harassment,” but of cruel and vicious abuse.
Now, the inevitable question: Does it matter? For Daunte Wright, specifically, should we even bother bringing up this heinous crime? Yes, it does, and we should, for two significant reasons.
First, a lot of people die every day in this country, often unjustly. Usually they die at the hands of other civilians, but sometimes at the hands of agents of the state. Out of all of that death, all of that misery, all of that suffering, all of that loss, these men in particular are chosen by the cultural powers that be. We are told that we should honor and mourn them more than we honor and mourn the average murder victim. They are the ones who get the politicians weeping beside their golden caskets. They are the ones with the murals and the streets named in their honor.
Our collective reaction to their deaths goes way beyond a simple call for accountability. These men are honored in a way that other victims of injustice are not. Sometimes they receive treatment that is very close to worship. It becomes all the more necessary, for this reason, to speak the truth about who these people were, what they did, the harm they caused, and to ask whether they — of all people — should be the ones with halos placed around their heads.
Second, this alleged crime by Daunte Wright is what led directly to his arrest, which is what led to his death. It is an inextricable part of the story. If Daunte Wright had not robbed a woman at gunpoint, he would be alive today. That much is indisputable, and it brings us to the most important point of all. Daunte Wright, like so many of the other men that BLM calls on us to mourn and honor, appears to have been a violent man who met the fate that so often befalls men of that sort. Does that mean he, or they, “deserved to die”? No. It means simply that when you live that kind of lifestyle, you probably will die, sooner than later, if not at the hands of the police then at the hands of another criminal on the street.
If we don’t want people to die like Daunte Wright, then we should tell them not to live like Daunte Wright. In the words of the Gospel: live by the sword, die by the sword. That message has stood the test of time, and we need to heed it in our culture more than ever.
perhaps you could be more specific
This article is more than a bit odd. Daunte Wright was evidently a bad guy. Okay. But he’s dead because some stupid cop pulled her service pistol instead of her taser. That’s the bottom line.
As a rough analogy, suppose some juvenile delinquent steals a woman’s purse. As he’s running down the sidewalk, a drunk driver jumps the curb and strikes and kills the kid. I’d say that death is entirely on the drunk driver, even though the kid set things in motion.
Don’t forget that fine young man, Trevon Martin. . .he was heading to college, perhaps med school before he was assaulted by the evil White Hispanic!!
Would get cancelled if I did.
Funny how that works.
more black on black crime then? Why would a black female falsely accuse a brother and have him catch a case? Doesn’t sound like standing in solidarity to me.
Anyway, this is what a court decides right? If an accusation is credible or not?
he didn’t bring logic, he brought up an irrelevant point and a deflection.
“The 800 lbs elephant in the room is that racism is a learned behavior. Blacks need to ask why they are discriminated against more than other minorities. If the are honest with themselves, it’s because of the violence everyone sees associated with blacks. We read stories about a black woman who jumped out of a car in a Burger King line and start waving a gun at the employees because she didn’t think they were fixing her food fast enough. We see a young black riding a bicycle on the sidewalk and for no reason, sucker punches an 80 year old lady. Sorry, but you have a problem and it’s a black problem that needs to be solved by blacks, not every stupidly-woke company or person in the US. Until they fix their problem, why should anyone feel differently about blacks?”
My life has been directly threatened four times. Gun in your face kind of threatening. In all four cases the perps were black. In all four cases I was doing absolutely nothing to cause the event, climbing into my car to go to work, coming out of the library, walking across a parking lot, parking my car. Does that impact the way I look at people? You bet it does.
perhaps you can explain the relevancy of whether the female who claims he and his friend robbed her is lying??
He did not comply with bail while awaiting trail which is what is used to determine evidence and whether the accuser is making it up, and he put himself in a situation of being wanted.
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Mingha! Where do you live man? Eight Mile?
Imperfect analogy. If he hadn’t been violently trying to escape arrest, she would not have pulled her gun, and he would be alive.
The situation would be more like an escaping thief running across a highway and being hit by an inattentive driver.
Bottom line is the world is a better place without him.
> The situation would be more like an escaping thief running across a highway and being hit by an inattentive driver. <
I mostly agree with that! But the female cop in the Daunte Wright case was more than just inattentive. She was unbelievably negligent. So how about this:
The situation would be more like an escaping thief running across a highway and being hit by a driver who was reprogramming her car radio at the time.
I suspect Covid shutdowns is partially responsible for that kind of delay.
Um, no. He did bring logic as the warrant is completely irrelevant to this case.
The police can not be allowed to kill people who are not an immediate threat to an officer or other innocent people. No immediate threat, no justification for lethal force. If you don't understand this you are actually contributing to the problem. The warrant was completely irrelevant and no new details are going to emerge that will somehow justify lethal force. It was not justified, period, case closed.
This man was unarmed and attempting the flee. That's it. If the criteria for lethal force was as some on this thread advocate the police would shoot and kill fifty people every single day in this country.
This title should be here's why it DOESN'T MATTER.
Don’t forget the Army Lieutenant in VA Beach who the Sergeant Major of the Army says makes us proud after he refused repeated commands to step out of his car.
“They don’t want to fix the real problem.”
They created the problems as well.
So then deadly force should be the first resort and not the last? Good to know.
It seems to be a Florida problem too. They don’t seem to get shot as much though.
In 1960 MLK said:
We represent 10% of the population (blacks) and 58% of the crime. We need to work on our morals and values. [paraphrased, I don’t remember the exact quote, but that’s close].
Today, blacks represent about 13% of the population, and when Michael Brown was killed I saw Sheriff David Clarke and several others I trust stating that blacks account for 70% of the arrests every year. While cops shoot overctwice as many white suspects.
2014 when Brown was killed, about 128 blacks killed by cops, 322 whites. Thank you Sheriff Clarke, he was the 1st one I saw quote those numbers. I think that was from the year before. The CDC cause of death file for 2017 has similar numbers, 148 black, 292 white. Doesn’t look to me like cops are out hunting black guys...looks quite the opposite.
Nothing has changed in 60 years. If anything, it’s actually worse today, and very few are trying to tell the black community to look in the mirror, like Sheriff Clarke did.
All of the thugs listed in this article died for one reason.
Resisting arrest.
Two more who can be added to that list:
Freddie Gray
Eric Garner
And every one of them engaged in criminal activity, all except Michael Brown had long criminal records, I suspect he had a juvenile record, but city officials refused to release it.
Eric Garner had been arrested 9 times for the same thing in the same general area. Selling loose cigarettes. New York taxes make cigarettes about $10 a pack, (thank you democrats) $2 each for singles, and Garner could get a couple of cartons out of state, resell at price gouging rates and come out way ahead. Cops were called by local businesses, as before, because he was disrupting their business.
Freddie Gray had been arrested and convicted of selling heroin in the same location where he ran from cops.
Michael Brown was caught on video stealing cigars from a convenience store 10 minutes before being stopped for jaywalking, and shoved the store manager into a potato chip rack. The “friend” who started the “hands up don’t shoot” lie helped him steal the cigars.
My train of thought derailed...
OK all better now...
All of them appear to be career criminals. You’d think their parents might have listened to MLK. Apparently not. He’s just a name they throw around when they call you a racist because you want their innocent little boy arrested.
Every city has a street named after MLK. How many of the blacks who demanded those streets be renamed can tell you about that quote? We represent 10% of the population and 58% of the crime...
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