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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

Posted on 09/21/2022 5:40:13 PM PDT by 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:


(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: allisonrice; whiteprivelege
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Excellent article on the crime-ridden cesspool of Baton Rouge. I wish I could've posted all of it but excerpt rules apply to The Spectator. I hope you all take the time to read it in its entirety.

Allison Rice. She looks like my daughter.


1 posted on 09/21/2022 5:40:13 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

Democrats didn’t abandon the city. They “run” it. Republicans are the ones who run away and then watch the cities burn. White flight. Lazy whiners.


2 posted on 09/21/2022 5:43:00 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (My aim in life is to be a "headquarters-looking type.")
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To: Drew68

I’m driving through there Friday into the depths of hell (NOLA). I’ll be packing heat.


3 posted on 09/21/2022 5:43:50 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Drew68

Only one city?


4 posted on 09/21/2022 5:46:14 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Drew68

Lived there for awhile back in the 1980s.
Even back then, it was a cesspool in the downtown area.
The police scanner announced: “shots fired” every single night there. I can’t even imagine what it’s like today.


5 posted on 09/21/2022 5:46:34 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: Drew68

What white people need to do is go to war against the Democrats as if they are an enemy, because they are an enemy.

Never stop warring against the Democrats.


6 posted on 09/21/2022 5:47:05 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want to see the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

> Democrats didn’t abandon the city. They “run” it. <

Well said. But I will give the ‘white flight’ folks a break here. Sometimes you look at the odds, and decide it’s time to just get your family outta Dodge.


7 posted on 09/21/2022 5:50:12 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Drew68

We are trying to keep it together but this article clearly identifies what we are up against with the savages in our city


8 posted on 09/21/2022 5:51:20 PM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz (0 )
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To: Drew68

We are trying to keep it together but this article clearly identifies what we are up against with these savages


9 posted on 09/21/2022 5:53:59 PM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz (0 )
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To: Jonty30

Agreed. See tagline.


10 posted on 09/21/2022 5:57:03 PM PDT by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Uh, Dems ruined several cities after the 1966-1967 riots (parts of LA, all of Detroit....) followed by dozens more.

True it’s on them. But happened for some time now.


11 posted on 09/21/2022 5:58:38 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Drew68
Kill or be killed.” That’s what a spray-painted graffiti message reads

The spray painted sign actually says “Kill are be killed” but somehow my grammar editor corrected it when I went to post.

The author used it to make a point about the dismal state of the Baton Rouge school system.

12 posted on 09/21/2022 5:59:12 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Drew68

I lived in NOLA and area (Old Metairie) for 12 years, leaving in 1991 to come up to Illinois because of my job. I had a love/hate relationship with the place. I would never live there again.


13 posted on 09/21/2022 6:00:13 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: panzerkamphwageneinz
We are trying to keep it together but this article clearly identifies what we are up against with the savages in our city

And it seems to be getting much worse.

Violent crime is falling in every demographic except among black Americans, where it is skyrocketing and driving the entire country’s crime rate up.

If you read on in the article, the suspects are described as two black men, a surprise to no one, I’m certain.

The police also describe it as a totally random shooting. They murdered her for no reason at all.

14 posted on 09/21/2022 6:05:09 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Drew68

Another stolen life in Dead Baton Rouge. Girl, out too late, trapped by a train in a bad area. As soon as she saw the road was blocked, turn around!


15 posted on 09/21/2022 6:17:58 PM PDT by citizen (Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public prop. in riches and luxury)
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To: panzerkamphwageneinz
"We are trying to keep it together but this article clearly identifies what we are up against with the savages in our city"

The thing that tipped the balance in Baton Rouge was Hurricane Katrina. The scum left New Orleans and migrated to Baton Rouge and Houston. Most stayed where they landed. (I lived in BR from 1965-1993..then moved to Washington state for work reasons).

16 posted on 09/21/2022 6:18:25 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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To: Drew68

Such a senseless loss of life.


17 posted on 09/21/2022 6:19:08 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: lgjhn23

That is interesting. Never spent the night in BR being close enough to drive to. The north end and Scotlandville with the Southern U campus was the traditional dark town shit city. Did the Melanisians start drifting into mid town as the de facto segregation dwindled or what?


18 posted on 09/21/2022 6:20:44 PM PDT by robowombat (As am I, but it isnot any of my business that the people of GOrth,He looks like the sex all y one )
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To: Leaning Right

Show me a single big city that DemonCraps run, where crime didn’t warrant the middle class fleeing. It’s not just white flight it’s sanity flight.


19 posted on 09/21/2022 6:28:59 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: panzerkamphwageneinz

Best of luck to you.


20 posted on 09/21/2022 6:29:59 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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