Posted on 04/19/2021 6:53:34 AM PDT by SJackson
The national lynch mob has claimed another victim. Kim Potter a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center police force with a stellar record of protecting the city’s residents has been arrested, assigned a $100,000 bail bond and charged with second-degree manslaughter. All in the absence of an investigation of the facts—in other words, without a scintilla of due process. But that is the essence of a lynching. First the verdict, then the trial. Or else. No justice, no peace.
Because the lynch mob includes the corrupt media, even the circumstances of the shooting of Daunte Wright at a traffic stop have been suppressed. Daunte Wright was a violent criminal who resisted arrest because he had jumped a $100,000 bail for armed robbery and was facing significant jail time if he surrendered to police. His crime was particularly heinous, revealing a mentality that made him a menace to anyone in his path. He and a friend had attended a house party that went late. His female host invited them both to spend the night at her house. In the morning, Daunte Wright repaid her kindness by grabbing her by the throat, waving a gun in her face and demanding her cash, some $850. This is the man being portrayed as a victim of “white supremacy” by the lynch mob set on destroying the career and life of officer Kim Potter, and ultimately disarming the police.
The Wright family has stepped up to provide the lynch mob with pictures of Wright looking innocent and benign with a small child on his lap, feeding the malicious narrative that innocent blacks are being slaughtered for the color of their skin. Who can blame them, since their reward for this service will be a multi-million dollar “settlement” arranged by the black racist mayor of Brooklyn Center who fired his black city manager for saying that Kim Potter deserved “due process,” perhaps the most basic right of Americans against the tyrannies of the state. The settlement will probably not be as large as that of the family of lifetime criminal George Floyd, who received $27 million, or the family of criminal accomplice Breonna Taylor, who received $12 million after her boyfriend shot a police officer and got her killed.
Traffic stops are among the most dangerous encounters police may have with potentially violent criminals like Daunte Wright. Because a car can also be an arsenal of concealed weapons, an officer takes her life in her hands when attempting to make such an arrest. That’s why they order the occupants to show their hands at all times and step out of the vehicle, where they can be safely cuffed. The week before the Wright incident, a criminal arrested at a traffic stop had stepped out of his vehicle as though he were cooperating only to lunge back into it, retrieve a rifle and kill the officer. The video was shown all over the news.
Kim Potter was aware of this incident and also of the warrant for Daunte Wright’s arrest for armed robbery and skipping bail. Having initially stepped out of the vehicle, Wright lunged back into it, triggering Officer Potter’s response. Shouting “taser, taser, taser,” Potter shot Wright with her firearm, which she had mistakenly grasped instead of her taser. Was she panicked and reacting rather than thinking? Probably. But if ever there were a justifiable homicide this was it. Or at least that’s what a fair investigation rather than a police state intervention—arrogating the roles of judge, jury and executioner to the mob—would determine.
The lynch mob’s view of these events was expressed in a statement by its corporate wing—Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream—whose woke leftists explained that “The murder of Daunte Wright is rooted in white supremacy and results from the intentional criminalization of Black and Brown communities.” So white supremacists are responsible for making Daunte Wright a violent criminal. This is the kind of racist garbage spread by such celebrated figures as Ta-Nehesi Coates, a National Book Award winner and MacArthur Foundation “genius” whose highly praised book actually argues that whites are responsible for all black crimes.
The Ben & Jerry’s activists also made clear the practical goal of the lynch mob’s attacks on police officers like Kim Potter. “The system can’t be reformed. It has to be dismantled.” In other words, police forces as we have known them have to be destroyed. This is the voice of insurrection, encouraged by a seditious White House and Department of Justice whose Civil Rights Division head, Kristen Clarke, has herself supported the defunding of police and who ordered the indictment of Officer Potter.
As it happens, on the same day that Kim Potter was arraigned, Kristen Clarke and the DOJ announced that there would be no charges filed against the Capitol Police officer who murdered 14-year Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt on January 6, and that his identity would be concealed. Ashli Babbitt was unarmed when she was shot and killed. Her murder was filmed by an Hispanic journalist. On the same day as this coverup was announced, the journalist was arrested for being present to film it.
The January 6 mob did not set fire to the Capitol or kill anyone, or do anything worse than rabid anti-Semite and diehard Democrat Linda Sarsour did in organizing a mob to invade the Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Justice Brett Kavanaugh, with the purpose of obstructing them. This resulted in hundreds of arrests throughout the hearings but no real jail time for the insurrectionist. By contrast, Nancy Pelosi, who controls the Capitol Police and authorized the protection of Ashli Babbitt’s murderer, has seen to it that demonstrators at the January 6 protest, who murdered no one, are still being held in jail without bail.
This is the face of an American fascism. The suspension of due process, the suppression of dissident voices, the support for vigilante mobs bent on dismantling the democratic system itself. And the leaders of this fascism are in the White House and running the Department of Justice itself.
The article is wrong about the leftists wanting to disarm the police The just want them to target peaceful law abiding gun owners who voted for Trump, and leave violent dangerous criminals alone. Without police how will they enforce a police state. Note the discrepancy between the cop who rightfully shot this piece of scum and the cop who shot Alishi Babbit. One was unarmed and trespassing (at worst) and the other was doing his job and confronting a violent criminal. This is a lesson aimed for the police. Kill all of the Trump supporters you can, but leave our beloved black criminal scum alone.
“Because the lynch mob includes the corrupt media,”
The corrupt media is public enemy #1.
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The growing national tolerance for mob rule, the increasing suppression of political opponents, the willful perversion of justice, and the political weaponization of once trusted agencies are taking this country down a very dangerous path.
And there's no political leadership with vision, integrity and resolve stepping up to stop it.
Aside from the focal topic of this article female cops should not be placed in these frontline battle positions. This pc equality crap is part of the problem.
St Daunte was mostly responsible for his demise but she messed up that arrest with her incompetence however charging and arresting her for murder is outrageous.
https://www.forcescience.org/2021/04/unintended-a-theory-of-taser-weapon-confusion/
Found this posted a few days ago on FR, went a long way in explaining how this happens to a police officer...
Offered not as an excuse, but as an explanation...
More like the following:
People are afraid of being called a racist, since these days it could result in up to and including job loss. Career end by innuendo.
Party nomenklatura throwing gasoline on the fire. Talking about you, Marxine Waters.
Party organs egging on the mobs and gaslighting the people. Talking about you, CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, etc.
See my tag line.
“The corrupt media is public enemy #1.”
This.
And have been for a long time. See new tagline.
Thanks for posting the following which contains many relevant insights in both the article and comments:
https://www.forcescience.org/2021/04/unintended-a-theory-of-taser-weapon-confusion/
I believe most media get marching orders from CIA, which makes them public enemy #1 in my book.
Not to mention Soros, globalists, and the rest of our letter agencies.
check my tagline
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