Here’s What Happens When Democrats Abandon a City to Crime (Baton Rouge and the Allison Rice Murder)

The American Spectator ^ | 09/21/2022 | Scott McKay

[Drew68]

“Kill or be killed.”

That’s what a spray-painted graffiti message reads on a metal wall a stone’s throw from the 1500 block of Government Street near downtown Baton Rouge. It’s a double testament — both to the scandalously dangerous character of that particular speck of earth along one of the city’s main thoroughfares and to the scandalously dangerous deficiency of the public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish.

The graffiti, which has been on that metal wall for close to 15 years without anyone bothering to paint over it, turned somewhat prophetic in the early-morning hours of Sept. 16. Because a stone’s throw away was the scene of one of the most stomach-turning, senseless murders in the history of a city hosting far, far too many of them.

Baton Rouge is a shooting gallery with one of the most hardened criminal classes of any in America — and a political class which has made its peace with that fact and only sluggishly bothers to fight off the contagion. Pandering to criminals gets more votes than stopping them in much of the city. You already know what results that brings.

Early in the morning of Friday, Sept. 16, following the 2 a.m. closing time of the bars in the Mid-City neighborhood along Government Street, 21-year-old Allison Rice, a senior at Louisiana State University majoring in marketing, was in her SUV making her way to the 1500 block. An eyewitness who attempted, and failed for two days, to contact the Baton Rouge Police Department describes what happened next:

“I was bringing my friend home who lives on Government St. When we got on Government, we came up to the train tracks and the train was at a complete stop. Not even 10 minutes later, these two guys walked past my car...

[sport]

We haven’t. And if the Democrats have anything to say about it. We will never have another election. From a Democrat’s point of view, the only fair election is when they win. But the sheep like to make believe every two and four years.

[robowombat]

A new dark age is descending led by the political and cultural elites. The normal people will have to be willing to kill and kill in large numbers to save our civilization.

[Fester Chugabrew]

If we leave a void of honorable citizens in the cities, then what else will fill it besides the dishonorable? I’m both surprised and disappointed all the conservative talk show whiners never bring this up.

[frank ballenger]

The author used it to make a point about the dismal state of the Baton Rouge school system. "Kill are be killed." As in "used to wish I was a graduate and now I are one."

[frank ballenger]

I was there during and after the 1967 riots. A survivor-—me, not the city.