In The Mailbox: 07.11.25 (Evening)

Posted on | July 12, 2025 | No Comments

Finally caught up.
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Deport enough illegals, and who knows?

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The World’s Most Expensive Salmon, North by Northwest, Songs of the U.S. Marine Corps, Bullitt, and Mini Skirts
Twitchy: Libs of TikTok Completely Broke Gavin Newsom Last Night, AOC Goes ABC – Trump’s Been Called This Before & He Made Them Pay, and Gesticulating Gov. Hairgel Says ICE agents Are Being Humiliated & Used As Trump’s Pawns
Louder With Crowder: John Fetterman’s comments defending ICE will trigger the left worse than his comments defending Israel, California caught lying about ICE raiding a “field” and “intimidating children”, Leftist toolbag tries playing the Jesus card to defend illegal immigration, no one is more amused than Scott Jennings, and Woke Influencer Targets 113-Year-Old Restaurant Over A MAGA Hat, But The Owners Are Fighting Back
Vox Popoli: Correction, No Defamation, and It’s Not a Concentration Camp
According To Hoyt: As Should Be Obvious To Anyone, Unevenly Distributed, In Search Of Missing Time, and Smelling A Rat
Monster Hunter Nation: Academy of Outcasts 2 is done, also, ARK Series Reveal
Stoic Observations: Meta Substack, also, The U.S. & Israel Sitting In A Tree
Jim McCoy: A Beautiful Friendship
Weird Catholic: Elisha’s Bones

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American Conservative: A Big, Beautiful Financial Weapon Against Illegal Immigration
American Greatness: Feds Launch Immigration Raid in CA, Clash with Protestors, The Culture War Goes to Court, Alan Dershowitz Says ‘I know For a Fact’ Epstein Files ‘Are Being Suppressed to Protect Individuals’–‘I Know the Names!’, Despite SCOTUS Ruling on Nationwide Injunctions, Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order, and The Roots of Leftist Rage
American Thinker: Marco Rubio Drops the Hammer, Elon Musk Can’t Buy the Swamp, The Bullets Follow the Bullhorns – Democrats Own the Assaults on ICE, By Halting The Federal Judiciary’s Left Turn, Trump Has Saved America, and Enemy Within the Gates
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animals’ Daily ICE ICE LA News, Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Secret Service Screwups Friday
BattleSwarm: Special Session Agenda – Flood, THC, Redistricting, Democrats Demand Blood For The Blood God, Understanding The Speed Of The Texas Flood, Russo-Ukrainian War Roundup For July 7, Uncovering Soros/Singham NGO Soldiers, and LinkSwarm For July 11
Behind The Black: Weird drainages on Mars, Varda raises another $187 million in private investment capital, Another scientist blacklisted by the Biden CDC ends up in charge, SpaceX gets approval to build oxygen plant at Boca Chica, and Senate committee moves to cancel most of Trump’s proposed NASA budget cuts
Cafe Hayek: Trade Deficits Are Not As Objective As You Might Suppose, If You Like Superstitions, You’ll Love Protectionism, Donald Trump Is The Typical Businessman – As Imagined by Socialists, Victor Davis Hanson Continues to Write Foolishly About Economics, and Question For Protectionists – Which Outputs Does the U.S. Currently Produce Too Much Of?
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Not Your Grandfather’s Socialism, The Rain It Raineth on the Just*, The Battle of Monocacy, Heinlein and Independence Day, and A Beautiful Day Spoiled
Da Tech Guy: Dynasty 1973 League Wild Card Preview Indians vs Twins, Cubs vs Braves
Don Surber: At long last DOJ firings
First Street Journal: Why do the left always root for the bad guys? Why should #Hamas surrender? Sometimes you just have to be an a**hole to do things right, and Another Philly illegal immigration sob story (Part 2)
Gates Of Vienna: The Muslim Brotherhood in France, Part 13, Afghans Stabbing Afghans in Lommel, Out of the Pool! A Culture-Enriching Barbecue in Helchteren, and Ah, to be in Milan for Ashura!
The Geller Report: Hamas Gang-Rape Horror Revealed in Shocking New Report, Mamdani Surges To 10-Point Lead In NYC Mayoral Race, Adams Craters To Fourth Place, Biden Doctor Pleads the 5th, Rioters Open Fire, Attack ICE Agents in California, and Terror Agitator Mahmoud Khalil Files $20 Million Dollar Lawsuit Against US Government
Hollywood In Toto: ‘The View’ Finally Went Too Far, Larry David/Obamas Pairing Shows Why Liberals Win, Superman’s Gunn Says Screw Fans Who Don’t Like Film’s Politics, Yes, We Need a ‘King of the Hill’ Reboot, and Terry Gilliam Says Trump Saved Us from Humorless Woke Scolds
The Lid: Hate Filled Democrats React in Glee Over Texas Flooding Deaths, Conviction Overturned for Man Jailed for Posting a Mean Tweet about Hillary Clinton, U.S. Supreme Court OKs Trump Order to Fire Thousands of Government Workers, About Time: Ten Antifa Members Charged with Attempted Murder of ICE Agents, and Schumer Flips on Antisemitism
Legal Insurrection: Democrats Gaslight About LA’s Drug-Infested MacArthur Park After Immigration Sweeps, CNN Analyst Shocked Americans Aren’t Afraid of Media-Created ‘Climate Crisis’, U.S. to Open First Rare Earths Mine in 70 Years, Dems Outraged Over Lawful ICE Raid, Silent on Child Labor at Illegal Weed Farm, and DNC Chair Brushes Off Mamdani’s Refusal to Condemn ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Chant
Matt Taibbi: One More Wafer-Thin Mint?
Outkick: Caitlin Clark Struggles Shooting Again, Still Leads Indiana Fever To Win Over Brittney Griner, Atlanta Dream, Soccer Players Can’t Stop Complaining Ahead Of US World Cup, Deion Sanders Wants To Make These Two High-Caliber Additions To His Colorado Coaching Staff, OutKick Mourns The Loss Of Lee Elia, and AT&T Lily Undresses In A Bed Of Flowers, FSU’s Iconic Cowgirl Is Pumped For Football & What A National Anthem!
Power Line: Jacksonian gleanings, Uncovering Yazzie, Still funny after all these years, and Hang Them From the Yardarm!
Shark Tank: Steube Says Democrats’ “Defund The Police” Is Now “Attack The Police”
Shot In The Dark: That “State Government Absurdist Bingo Card” Is Getting Full, There Must Be A Surge Of Socialists Running For Office, Unmarketable Marketing, The Distilled Genius Of Peggy Flanagan, and A Modest Counterproposal
STUMP: RIP Michael Madsen – On Heart Disease, Alcoholism, & Men
The Political Hat: Horseshoe Revolt, Wokeness And Cultural Hegemony, and No Posting For A While
This Ain’t Hell: KSM Plea Bargain Denied, Valor Friday, When the going gets…, Tim Kennedy admits to lying about receiving valor award, and Illegal aliens to lose $40 billion worth of public assistance
Transterrestrial Musings: The New Interim Administrator, Science Fiction, Rebuilding Pacific Palisades, and A Dyspeptic Futurist
Victory Girls: Salon Writer Laments Trump’s Cold, Hard America, Houston Doctor Who Criticized MAGA In Flood Is Sorry, The Left Loses It Over Women Having Choices, Army Cavalry Units To Be Deactivated, Horses Adopted Out, and Democrat Base Demands More Violence As Border Patrol Is Ambushed
Watts Up With That: For National Security We Need Uranium Mined in America, No, Using Less Oil Won’t Boost America’s Energy Security, Just When You Think It Cannot Get Worse, and The “Big Beautiful Bill” and the Gulf of America
The Federalist: Media Fearmongering About Big Beautiful Tax Cuts Is The Same Nonsense They Peddled In 2017, Sen. Banks Imposes Hold On Air Force Nominee Who Backed DEI-Based Promotions, The Sandersons Fail Manhattan Is A Hilarious Case Study In How Wokeness Can Ruin Your Life, ICE Rescued Kids From Likely ‘Exploitation’ At Marijuana Farm And Democrats Are Furious, and Furor Over Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park Illustrates Democrats’ Total Departure From Reality
Mark Steyn: The Devil’s Greatest Trick – Peter O’Toole in The Stunt Man, Drowning in Lies, Live Around the Planet – Listless on Epstein, Warm Welcomes, and Thank You for Your Attention to This Matter!

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In The Mailbox: 07.11.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 11, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I got sufficiently bogged down in other stuff that I almost forgot to do this post.
Super Plumber Sisters Kickstarter is live!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

The general reaction to the rumor that there would be an amnesty for illegal farm workers, hotel workers, etc.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Only the Rich Should Have Rights, Or Something
EBL: Thank You Susie Wiles, also, Don’t Forget Lady Jane Grey!
Twitchy: Lie-kota Man Has Questions About Mayflower Pilgrims – Locks Replies When He Doesn’t Like The Answers, Miami Bishop Says Politicians Enforcing Immigration Laws Are “Corrosive To The Common Good”, and ABC7 Continues Leftard Attacks On ICE With Misleading Post About Injured Illegal
Louder With Crowder: Court overturns wrongful conviction of MAGA meme maker accused of election interference, Donald Trump shuts down Democrat senators’ attempt to dox “patriots” who are working for ICE and Border Patrol, Shocking CNN poll shows just how little Americans are concerned with “climate change”, New book exposes why Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz for her running mate, and Left wing violence denier Jasmie Crockett blames it all on MAGA
Vox Popoli: It Isn’t Theirs, Sandman 2 Sucks, and Shots Fired! Shots Fired!
Upstream Reviews: WonderFilled Meltdown, also, F1 Review
Based Books: Last Chance To Sign Up For BasedConV Plus A Review of BasedCon IV
Jim McCoy: Memoirs of a Lyrical Man
Cedar Sanderson: 1453 & Hunter Generations

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CDR Salamander: Old & Busted – Phat Mk. 48 — New Hotness – Mk. 58?
Dana Loesch: A&E – Some Gems In The Rough
Don Surber: No excitement without an indictment
Matt Taibbi: Brennan & MSNBC Can’t Stop Lying About Trump & Russia

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In The Mailbox: 07.10.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 11, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Democratic “Socialists”

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Spanish Battery Recycling Plant Fire, also Self-Defense Might Be Legal in New Jersey
EBL: Everything we know so far about the deadly Texas floods, Saipan and Lee Marvin, Make Prosecutions Great Again – Brennan and Comey, and Make China Great Again
Twitchy: Woman Finds A Way To Combine Hate For MAGA With Working In ER, Woman Afraid Of Snakes Feels Called To Drive 9 Hours To Alligator Alcatraz To Resist, and Jessica Tarlov Insists Trump Supporters Didn’t Vote For What ICE Is Doing Now
Louder With Crowder: Jasmine Crockett exploits deadly Texas floods to attack Trump and make everything about herself, also, L.A. Mayor chooses illegal immigrants over Americans, sues Trump for deportation policies America voted for
Vox Popoli: Why You Can’t Trust the Science, China Warns EU, Satan’s Little Slave, A Basic Syllogism, and Cruel Dominions
Upstream Reviews: Taking The Night
Cedar Sanderson: Underneath The Sea
Gab: The AI War
Toni Airaksinen: Long Island Therapist Tells Jew “Germans Should Have Ended Your Kind”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Wait – We Don’t Have To Give Up On The Railgun?
Don Surber: Democrats blew it
Matt Taibbi: At Last – Brennan & Comey Under Criminal Investigation For Russiagate, also, A Note On The Brennan – Comey Investigations
Shark Tank: Key West Commissioners Vote To Keep ICE Agreement After Uthmeier Warning

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In The Mailbox: 07.10.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 10, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Epic Indie Summer Book Sale is on!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Alcohol Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
EBL: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan, Graf Zeppelin Airship, and How could there be no Epstein client list?
Twitchy: Brit Hume Nuke Hillary With Brennan-Comey Investigation, Jasmine Crockett’s Claim About Biden & Trump Is Batshit Even For Her, and @Maze Destroys Katy Tur With Two Videos
Louder With Crowder: LA Mayor lashes out at ICE agents but is promptly put in her place, Christian church attendance is SKYROCKETING among Gen Z, reversing a declining trend, Tom Homan goes BEAST MODE on Democrat rhetoric causing ICE agents to be shot at, Left-wing podcaster shares story about his Kamala Harris interview that was so bad, he agreed to never air it, and Woke governor’s attempt to create content attacking Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will make you cringe
Vox Popoli: Why UATV is Necessary, Library #35, How the US Navy Lost the High Seas, Baen Books is Dead, and Epstein? What Epstein?
Defending The Wood Perilous: Fairy Tales Are Based, Actually
Jim McCoy: The Fire Within
Toni Airaksinen: Macalester Prof Calls For “Dismantling” America & Israel In Favor Of “Decolonization”
Stoic Observations: Turn & Face The Strange

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Don Surber: Disbar Judge Talwani
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – OBBB Reactions Roundup

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In The Mailbox: 07.08.25 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | July 8, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Obligatory seriousness about the America Party
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

The world wonders

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Reimagining Security Clearances
357 Magnum: Wyoming Opens Most Government Buildings to Concealed Carry, also Ozzy’s Last Performance
EBL: Sherlock & Daughter, The Battle of Hubbardton, Heads of State, Barbara Alyn Woods, and Flash floods—how do the hills and valleys turn rain into a wall of water?
Twitchy: ABC Trounced For Going Straight Up Pro-Hamas, Insane TikToker Who Claims It’s Racist To Help Texas Flood Victims Posts Disturbing Sequel, and Ten Antifa Members Arrested, Charged With Attempted Murder In Ambush Of ICE Agents
Louder With Crowder: Transgender influencer finally stops preying on women’s bathrooms, after Florida’s AG launches an investigation, Activists stage funeral for Harry Potter in a bookstore to protest JK Rowling, Mexico City Rioters demand Americans stop immigrating to THEIR country and stealing THEIR homes (and DHS got jokes), Animal rights activist glues hand to Trader Joe’s fridge, discovers what the word “felony” means, and Trump Treasury Secretary cuts through CNN’s BS about Medicaid cuts: “Democrats think poor people are stupid”
Vox Popoli: Don’t Trust the Disinformation, Lippman Gap = Imperial Overstretch, Movie Posters and dAI, Throw ‘Em in Dat Briar Patch, and You Just Thought of That NOW?
Cedar Sanderson Make It Sizzle
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Texas Hill Country,
Upstream Reviews: Age of Legends, The Icarus Needle,
Draw & Talk Comics: Super Plumber Sisters #4 Live on Wednesday!
Stoic Observations: The Helicopter Government
Toni Airaksinen: “I am Hamas! We are all Hamas!” Prof Yasmeen Hanoosh Will Be Back In The Classroom This Fall

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: How To Blunt A PRC Invasion of Taiwan? Operation Swooper
Dana Loesch: Independence Day Recap
Don Surber: Grok-aganda
Elizabeth Nickson: Civilian Hero Mode Activated
Matt Taibbi: Activism Uncensored – Alligator Alcatraz

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Terrorism in Texas: Michigan Maniac Opens Fire on Border Facility in McAllen

Posted on | July 7, 2025 | No Comments

As of 6 p.m. ET Monday, we know nothing about the shooter’s background or motive, but we all probably have our hunches:

Law enforcement officials in McAllen, Texas, shot and killed a man after he opened fire with a rifle on a Border Patrol facility, the latest in increasing violent attacks on federal immigration and border agents.
McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez said local police responded to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s McAllen Station after reports of a shooting shortly before 6 a.m.
The shooter was identified as 27-year-old Ryan Louis Mosqueda, who was reported missing roughly two hours before the shooting.
Chief Rodriguez told reporters that Mr. Mosqueda fired “dozens of rounds” at the building, and border patrol agents in the building returned fire, killing the suspect.
“This morning, an individual opened fire at the entrance of the United States Border Patrol sector annex in McAllen, Texas,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. “Both Border Patrol agents and local police helped neutralize the shooter.”
DHS said two officers and a border patrol employee were injured and were transported to the hospital.
Chief Rodriguez said the motive was unclear.
Mr. Mosqueda had more ammunition and weaponry in his vehicle, which had Michigan license plates and was parked near the facility. His last known address was in Michigan.
“We have no reason to believe at this point in time that there are any more particular threats in this area,” he said.
The FBI is leading the investigation.
The border patrol facility is located across the street from McAllen International Airport, which was temporarily shut down after the shooting.
The shooting comes as the Trump administration makes an aggressive push to stem the flow of illegal immigrants and illegal drugs from crossing into the country along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The number of border crossings has plummeted, including in McAllen.
“ICE is acting like a terrorist force,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Washington Democrat, said recently on social media. “People across the country of all legal statuses — including U.S. citizens — are being kidnapped and disappeared off the street by masked men.”
“No oversight, no accountability. Completely lawless,” she said.
Asked whether the administration wants Democrats to tone down the rhetoric, White House press secretary Karoline told reporters Monday that “we certainly call on Democrats to tone down their rhetoric against ICE and border patrol agents.”

To repeat, all we know for certain about Mosqueda is that he was from Michigan. However, my research indicates he was likely from Saginaw and, if that’s correct, he traveled nearly 1,700 miles to commit this terrorist attack. This wasn’t random, in other words, and it would appear to have been planned well in advance. Mosqueda was reported missing from Weslaco, which is a little more than 15 miles east of McAllen on I-2. My hunch is that Mosqueda was staying at a motel in Weslaco, using it as a base of operations to reconnoiter the Border Patrol facility in McAllen.

So when you take into consideration the expense of traveling 1,700 miles cross country, plus renting a hotel room for several nights, add in the cost of a rifle and ammunition, etc., this terrorist attack required a lot of resources. Where did Mosqueda get all that money? Did he have accomplices? Was he affiliated with any groups? Had he previously been involved in protests? Or was he just a “lone wolf” lunatic, radicalized in online forums? The mainstream media don’t seem to be very curious about any of this, for some reason. It’s just so mysterious . . .

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Rule 5 Sunday: Surf’s Up

Posted on | July 7, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This week’s appetizer courtesy of kbdabear on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Happy Independence Day, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Happy 4th of July, John Adams – Declaration of Independence, MAGA Big Beautiful Bill, Declaration of Independence Vote, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Happy Canada Day, Wait What, Salt, Tehran, and Smoke

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Irina Voronina, Fish Pic Friday – July 4, 2025, BBB Passes House Test Vote, Thursday Tanlines, Senate Passes the BBB, The Wednesday Wetness, The BBB Trundles Along, Hungry, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Palm Sunday and Oregon, My Oregon

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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A Notorious Menace to Public Safety

Posted on | July 6, 2025 | No Comments

Say hello to Da’shontay “Day Day” King and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because Day Day got shot to death by a cop in Racine, Wisconsin, in May 2022. The reason I’m writing this up now is kind of a long story, and let me preface this by repeating what I’ve often said before: Crime is a people problem. If you want to prevent crime, you must first understand that the vast majority of violent crime is committed by a relatively small percentage of the population, i.e., habitual criminals. These are repeat offenders, who generally begin their criminal careers while still juveniles, and are more or less constantly involved in criminal activity their entire adult lives. The public is never safe as long as these habitual criminals are on the street, and so the goal of law enforcement should be to identify these hard-core types and, when they are apprehended for one of their many crimes, make sure they go to prison for the maximum sentence. I’ve called this “The Al Capone Rule” — it was difficult to get criminal convictions against the Chicago gang boss, so the feds indicted him for income tax evasion and put him away. It didn’t matter what charge Capone was finally convicted for — he’d obviously gotten away with all kinds of crimes, including murder. What really mattered was getting Capone off the streets. If modern-day law enforcement would use the same approach with habitual criminals, we’d have a lot less crime. And so . . . felon in possession of a firearm:

Chilling dashcam footage shows a Florida man chasing and shooting at sanitation workers.

Quinson De’Shawn Croson has been arrested after opening fire on a garbage truck, chasing it through Zephyrhills and shooting at it following an argument at a Wawa. The incident left two… pic.twitter.com/OPvvX215Ty

— I Meme Therefore I Am ?? (@ImMeme0) July 4, 2025

Quinson De’Shawn Croson, 46, got into an argument with an acquaintance inside a Wawa convenience store in Pasco County, Florida, about 30 miles northwest of Tampa:

Croson reportedly followed the other man and his coworker to their Waste Connections garbage truck, where the argument “quickly escalated.”
Other witnesses told Zephyrhills P.D. that Croson grabbed a handgun from his vehicle and began firing multiple rounds at the garbage truck while chasing it down the street.
Authorities say Croson eventually crashed his vehicle into the garbage truck near Dairy Road, causing the passenger side door to open and eject the passenger. . . .
Croson was later located in Hillsborough County and arrested. He is charged with two counts of attempted homicide and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Dianna Deeley called that story to my attention, and I immediately focused on that charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. We hear so much rhetoric about “gun violence,” but there seems to be little public understanding of how much of this violence is committed by habitual criminals with prior felony convictions who, if prosecutors and judges were doing their jobs right, would have already been locked up. Dianna sent me that story with a Crazy People Are Dangerous suggestion — Florida man chasing a garbage truck — but instead it made me wonder, “Why was this guy out on the streets to begin with?”

Also, how does an argument turn into attempted murder? My guess is that, in kindergarten, Quinson De’Shawn Croson did not “play well with others.” That is to say, this convicted felon has a personality problem, which explains why he was a convicted felon in the first place. No rehabilitation program can fix a problem like that. And now, speaking of Crazy People Are Dangerous . . .

That 11-minute video shows a scene recorded on police body cameras in August 2023. Police officers were called to some kind of halfway house, where one of the female residents had assaulted a staff member. When the staff member got in her car to leave, the woman jumped on top of the staffer’s car. As becomes apparent from comments made by some of the officers, the suspect named Kayla was known to them from previous incidents. At one point, Kayla climbs down from the roof of the car, and gets into the backseat of the car to again assault the staffer. As police are trying to drag Kayla out of the car, she kicks a female officer in the face, giving the officer a bloody nose. Did I mention that, as soon as the cops arrived on the scene, Kayla began insulting them as “crackers”?

The most shocking part of the video, however, comes at the end, when we learn that after being charged with a litany of crimes — including bail jumping for prior offenses — Kayla managed to get a plea deal in which she pleaded no contest to a felony charge of battery on a law enforcement officer and was sentenced to three years of probation.

She kicked a cop in the face! She was only in jail for three days!

Despite diligent research efforts, I was not able to figure out Kayla’s surname or find any news articles about her case. However, someone left a comment on the video that indicated it happened in Racine, Wisconsin, where the District Attorney is Tricia Hanson. You know when I go down a research rabbit hole like this, I’m not stopping until I’m down at the bottom, neck-deep in rabbit poop, which is how this inquiry led me to the case of Da’shontay “Day Day” King:

A Racine police officer has been cleared in a deadly shooting.
Racine County District Attorney Patricia Hanson announced Tuesday that she will not file charges against Officer Zachary Brenner, who fatally shot Da’Shontay King on May 20 during a police pursuit.
The state Department of Justice led the investigation into the shooting and turned its findings over to the district attorney.
Hanson released the body camera footage and her 27-page decision before family had a chance to view it Tuesday.
Brenner said he tried pulling King over for a traffic violation when King stopped the car and took off running.
Video footage shows Brenner chasing King, telling him multiple times not to reach for a weapon or he would shoot him. Still images of the video, included in Hanson’s report show what she says is a gun falling out of King’s pocket, WISN-TV reported.
Hanson said it shows him turning to pick up the gun and then holding the gun. Moments later, Brenner said he feared for his life and shot King several times.
“My review of the facts and circumstances of this case led me to the conclusion that Officer Brenner is immune from criminal liability in this case as the death of Mr. King was a direct result of Mr. King’s conduct that posed a reasonable and imminent threat to Officer Brenner, under the circumstances as they existed at the time,” Hanson wrote.

That article has some important omissions, which I’ll explain momentarily, but you can watch the video here:

If you’ve watched that video, you know that the most relevant fact omitted from the news article was that Day Day King wasn’t pulled over for any “traffic violation.” He was a suspect in prior shootings:

On May 17, 2022, Officer Zachary Brenner was working as a Community Oriented Policing (COP) Officer for the Racine Police Department. An Investigator from the Racine County Gang Crime Task Force advised Officer Brenner of an active search warrant that had been signed by a Judge, and provided Officer Brenner with a copy of the search warrant. A judge found that there was probable cause to believe that Dashontay L. King, dob 8/84, and/or EAS [a criminal associate of King’s], dob 5/80, would be in possession of firearms, despite both being prohibited from possessing a firearm due to prior felony convictions. Probable cause was also found by the judge that a rental vehicle being used by Mr. King and EAS might contain firearms, a gray 2021 Volkswagen Atlas with a Wisconsin registration of AKT8763.
Officer Brenner stated that he reviewed the search warrant and that he recognized the names from other recent shooting investigations where the names had been mentioned as being involved, but that he had never had contact with the two people mentioned in the warrant. Officer Brenner was given photos of Mr. King and EAS, and that he kept the photos of the subjects and a copy of the search warrant with him at all times on the visor of his vehicle. Officer Brenner stated that he also looked up the vehicle type, a Volkswagen Atlas, on Google to make sure he knew what type of vehicle he was looking for.

That’s from the 27-page official report from the DA and, as you see, the local Gang Crime Task Force was very familiar with Day Day King, who was sufficiently notorious in Racine that Officer Brenner recognized the name “from other recent shooting investigations.” Furthermore, I’ve read the affidavits in the case, and can tell you that (a) the car was rented two weeks earlier by a female associate of Day Day, and (b) police noted that there was a bullet hole in the car. We may presume that at some point in the previous two weeks, Day Day (or his accomplice “EAS”) had been in a shootout with rival gangsters while driving the rented Volkswagen.

That’s a screenshot from the police chief’s briefing which includes more relevant facts that didn’t make it into that news article. Day Day King got his first felony conviction while still a teenager and had since twice been convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, raising the question: “How many second chances does a criminal deserve?”

If Republicans ever recapture control of the legislature and governor’s office in Wisconsin, they need to take a long, hard look at this problem. Every time I hear liberals bemoaning “gun violence,” this issue of felons in possession of firearms comes to mind. Surely the first conviction on such a charge ought to merit at least five years in the state penitentiary, and a second conviction ought to be worth at least 10 years behind bars.

You just can’t keep turning loose repeat offenders like that, and the fact that Day Day King was still on the streets of Racine is an indictment of the criminal justice system in Wisconsin, which is clearly failing in its duty to protect public safety. The Al Capone Rule should apply.

Oh, but there are more relevant facts that didn’t make it into that news article. The pistol that Day Day King was carrying was sent to the Wisconsin State Crime Lab:

Recovered in the field on Carroll St. was an olive green and black Springfield XD 9/40, .9mm handgun. The magazine had 15 rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber. Analysis at the Wisconsin State Crime Lab revealed that the Springfield handgun had also been used at a shooting that resulted in property damage in the area of Edgewood and St. Patrick Street on April 21, 2022.

How many crimes had Day Day King gotten away with before he finally got shot to death by Officer Brennan? You might as well ask, how many stars are in the sky? There is simply no way of knowing, but permit me now to call your attention to an interesting coda to Day Day’s death:

A manhunt is on for the gunmen who opened fire at a Racine funeral.
The gunfire broke out as family and friends laid Da’Shontay King to rest Thursday afternoon [June 2, 2022] at Graceland Cemetery.
Two women were injured, and King’s family is grieving and outraged.
King’s family told WISN 12 News they had just begun a prayer at his burial when bullets started flying at Graceland Cemetery.
Their final goodbyes were violently interrupted by gunfire.
His casket was grazed by a bullet. . . .
King’s family doesn’t understand why a man being laid to rest would be targeted.
“You have all of these innocent people who were there who could have been seriously hurt or worse. Enough is enough, something has to give. This is not acceptable and, obviously, we want someone to be caught for this because this is absolutely absurd,” [King’s sister Natasha] Mullen said.

Yes, ma’am, I think we do understand why your brother’s funeral was targeted. Didn’t I mention that the Gang Crime Task Force was familiar with Day Day King? Arrests were made for the funeral shooting:

Left to right: Lamarion Blair, Cornelius Evans, Cameron Elam

All three suspects were 19 years old, including Elam, “who was found to be in possession of a stolen Glock pistol with an automatic switch at the time of his arrest,” and there was this very relevant information:

Following Blair’s arrest, the Racine Police Department said the shooting at Graceland Cemetery was the result of gang rivalries; Blair is a known member of the Racine-based NFL (North Side For Life) gang, “a younger, more violent offshoot of the Vice Lords street gang,” according to the RPD, while King was a member of the 12th Street Gangster Disciples.

Oh, the Vice Lords and the Gangster Disciples! Wikipedia tells us that the Vice Lords are “the second-largest and one of the oldest street and prison gangs in Chicago,” while the Gangster Disciples are “an African American street and prison gang” that “began in Englewood (in Chicago, Illinois’s South Side).” Racine is about 75 miles north of Chicago, and we may surmise that many gang-bangers in Racine are the offspring of folks who relocated from Chicago, bringing with them their gang affiliations.

This shows why it’s wrong to think of crime as a problem confined to inner-city ghettos. What starts in the ghetto is unlikely to stay in the ghetto, and I guarantee you there are residents of Racine who are old enough to remember when they didn’t have a problem with Vice Lords and Gangster Disciples shooting up their streets every night.

Once this culture of violent thuggery takes root in a community, it is very difficult for law enforcement to eradicate it. Anti-gang efforts in Racine have been making headlines for many years:

Forty-one men were charged Thursday [October 22, 2009] in federal court with being part of violent, drug-dealing gangs in Racine — the third wave of indictments against criminal outfits in the city, officials said.
The arrests in Racine were part of a larger law enforcement effort this year in federal court in the Milwaukee area, where more than 200 people have been charged with drug crimes. In October alone, 70 defendants from three drug organizations have been charged.
The latest indictment, unsealed Thursday, targeted two gangs: the North Side Gangsters and the North Side Vice Lords.
Nineteen defendants were in custody before Thursday, and 200 officers raided 20 Racine homes, arresting 15 people during the bust, officials said.
Besides drug dealing, the 41 defendants are suspected in more than 200 acts of violence, including shootings and homicides, all to protect drug-dealing turf in Racine, officials said. . . .
The investigation — known as Operation Cracked Cane — began a year ago, teaming up FBI and other federal agents with state and local law enforcement, officials said.
Their first move came in June 2008 when 16 members of Racine’s Midtown 12th Street Gangster Disciples were indicted. Then in February, 14 Racine-based drug dealers were charged.

That was in 2009. Then in 2011:

Early morning raids here Wednesday [January 26, 2011] resulted in the arrests of 18 alleged members of the Gangster Disciples gang, who are now facing either federal or state charges related to drug trafficking and firearm offenses.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said that 10 indictments were unsealed between December of 2010 and this month, charging 10 of the men. Another eight were arrested on state charges and will be prosecuted by the Racine County District Attorney’s Office.
Most of the defendants, if convicted, face between 10 years and life imprisonment, a fine of up to $4,000,000 and five years to life on supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The raids and arrests were reportedly part of a lengthy and ongoing investigation by local, state and federal authorities, with the purpose of eradicating the sale of crack cocaine and other controlled substances by violent gang members in Racine.

Racine is not a big city. The population is less than 80,000, of which about 18,000 are black. If the feds were rounding up Gangster Disciples by the dozens, year after year, and if the Gangster Disciples in Racine are constantly at war with the local Vice Lords, what percentage of the total population of young black males in Racine are involved in gang activity?

Someone with better math skills than me would have to make that calculation, but if the local residents of Racine were to assume that every young black male they encounter is a gang-banger, you couldn’t say this was ignorant prejudice, but just erring on the side of caution.

(Scott Adams could not be reached for comment.)

When thug life becomes normalized, this leads some people to believe they have a right to thug life. It is therefore not surprising that the family of Day Day King — the convicted felon Gangster Disciple who had been thugging since adolescence — recently filed a federal lawsuit:

A Racine family is pursuing justice in federal court following the death of Da’Shontay King, who was shot and killed by a police officer three years ago.
“There was no reason for him to be shot multiple times while he was running away from a police officer,” said King’s sister Natasha Mullen. . . .
“Da’Shontay doesn’t do anything to turn toward the officer, point a firearm at the officer, or anything like that,” said civil rights attorney William Sulton.
Their lawsuit filed by Sulton argues Officer Brenner used “excessive and unreasonable force.”

This lawsuit will almost certainly be thrown out of court — one hopes the federal judge will use some subtle sarcasm in explaining his decision — and we return, once again, to the “Al Capone Rule.” Identify the habitual criminals, and get them off the street. It doesn’t matter how. You can put them in prison, or you can put them in the graveyard.

You live the thug life, you die the thug death.

Officer Zachary Brenner deserves a marksmanship medal.

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