Posted on 11/26/2021 3:41:04 AM PST by Kaslin
As we learn more about the senseless SUV attack on the crowd attending a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, some liberal media outlets are energetically attempting to spin away from the suspect Darrell Brooks and his left-wing politics on social media.
That's funny. With Kyle Rittenhouse, they quickly dug into his social media activity. The Washington Post warned last summer "the 17-year-old shadowed local law enforcement, filling his social media feeds with posts declaring that 'Blue Lives Matter' and photos of himself posing with guns." For Brooks, the Post lamely mentioned Brooks wrote under the name MathBoi Fly and that "after multiple legal battles," he "started turning the life he lived in the streets into music."
In their Thanksgiving edition, USA Today's front page explored the politics of "vehicle ramming." But they shifted the scrutiny back to people who resent "Black Lives Matter" protests, especially the protesters that block roads and threaten drivers and passengers with violence.
Reporter Dennis Wagner wrote: "Weaponizing of vehicles is a practice sometimes used by terrorists abroad. But the wanton attacks have also surged in the United States. The increase began after the police murder of George Floyd prompted Black Lives Matter demonstrations, which in turn prompted angry or fearful motorists to run over protesters."
This framing makes it sound like protesters are "peaceful" and not "angry" and pose no threat. Wagner added, "A Boston Globe survey identified at least 139 incidents in which vehicles ran into crowds of demonstrators since Floyd's death in May 2020. Fewer than half resulted in criminal charges."
Really? The original Globe story appeared on Halloween by reporter Jess Bidgood, who sounds more like an opinion writer. She began with the usual sympathetic figure: a man who was paralyzed after falling off an interstate overpass while blocking drivers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bidgood was outraged no one was arrested, despite admitting that the red pickup involved felt threatened as "protesters banged on its hood and threw things at the vehicle as it moved in."
Bidgood wrote, "A Globe review of the recent incidents found there have been scores of people hit, dozens of injuries, at least three deaths, but precious little justice, much less sympathy, for the demonstrators injured, killed, or just plain terrified. Yet Oklahoma and 15 other states have considered bills protecting drivers, not protesters, as these ramming incidents have proliferated."
In the minds of the Globe, driving into a road-blocking protest makes you guilty until proven innocent. "Given the choice between defending the safety of pedestrians protesting a police murder and the drivers of the vehicles running them down, prosecutors and lawmakers here have reserved their concern for the drivers." You're "running them down" if you attempt to escape.
In fact, Bidgood compared the drivers to Bull Connor and the violent racists who beat John Lewis and other civil rights protesters. "To those on the short end of this cold calculus, it feels like siding, during the 1960s civil rights protests, with Bull Connor's firehoses over the Black children of Birmingham. Or with the cops with clubs over the brave, battered souls who traversed Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge."
This article is littered with reckless smears like this. But this article is linked in Bidgood's pinned tweet. She's very proud of this.
The Globe's ramming-incident numbers were accumulated in part with the help of "The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project," which sounds objective. But this ACLED group has also delighted the liberal media with the data that "the vast majority of Black Lives Matter protests -- more than 93% -- have been peaceful."
Consumer beware: These studies are ideologically loaded.
First, register all cars.
Second, license the drivers.
....hummmm that’s already happens.
Expecting drivers to register or insure cars, or even possess a drivers license, is “raciss” now...in feral areas cops are told to ignore those transgressions (to limit interaction with the wild ones, who often have open warrants as well - so there would be violence).
these idiots fool no one
Remember the care insurance is needed.
I am sorry but using 'senseless SUV attack' here enrages me! First off, every indication is that it was a deliberate attack and to characterize it as senseless is an oxymoron. Better to drop that word entirely than to effectively minimize the attack.
In other words, it was a revenge act by a commie puke.
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This country is not ready to be honest about the ongoing low-profile race war, and certainly not ready to have most people avoid “no-go” zones accessible to the Simbas.
Many people see through it, and evacuate to safer areas on their own.
A Clymer journalist conflates a deliberate attack on a Christmas parade with people who get illegally roadblocked by riotous protestors, refuse to stop because they know bad things happen at roadblocks (Reginald Denny), and rioter or rioters get hurt. This is just evil by the journalist, and she needs to be doxed and protested.
Based on the perp’s social media, he was a militant black nationalist who hated white people and was into BLM.
My opinion is the attack was retaliation for the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict.
See and heed my tag line. democrats hate us and want us dead by any means it can happen. They do not care if we are murdered by a militant, racist black man in an SUV or a militant, racist black man with a capitol police badge.
Recognize war is here, folks and prepare. It will be at your doorstep soon enough.
Interesting that this person didn’t say anything about the woman “protester” blocking the highway who got run over and killed in Seattle was white and the driver was black. If you remember that incident you’ll also remember that once it was discovered to have been a black driver, the whole story went down the Memory Hole.
The press and the left (I know this is the same group) support violence, as long as the right group of people are the victims.
Kenosha was terrorism. Waukesha was a brave freedom fighter liberating oppressed people from the terror of white privilege expressed by gyrating octogenarian non trans women.
If you don’t understand these ideas Chuck Todd will talk down to you on Sunday morning as he lectures us on right and wrong.
The blocking of traffic by protesters is an aspect of all this that makes me see red.
Another thing that makes me see red is Leftist scum making the equivalence of this racist dirtbag going out of his way to kill people in a parade to celebrate Christmas to people who are angry at having roads unlawfully blocked as they try to go about their business.
And leftist idiot say: “Well cars are registered so why not guns?”
I agree with you completely, SES1066!
In this context, "senseless" is not a mere oxymoron, but a prevarication.
Regards,
It is senseless for those who try to use conventional psychology to determine motives, and thus treatments or cures.
Because it makes no sense to their minds, limited to what they see and experience in this world.
Expand things to include the spiritual realm, and this senseless attack becomes a demon-powered attack against humans, celebrating CHRISTmas, with the goal of death, fear, and destruction, all suggested/commanded by satan.
Motive? Who needs Motive?
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