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GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!

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Last July, Michael Avenatti was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for his attempt to extort money from Nike, and now the creepy porn lawyer has again been convicted of felony charges:

Attorney-turned-criminal Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of swiping nearly $300,000 in book-advance money from his then-client Stormy Daniels.
The now-twice-convicted felon — and one-time rising star — now faces a maximum of 22 years in prison for his conviction on wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges.
The jury started deliberating Wednesday. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on May 24.
After the verdict, Avenatti made a brief statement to reporters outside of the courthouse in lower Manhattan as rain poured down.
“I’m very disappointed in the jury’s verdict. I am looking forward to a full adjudication of all of the issues on appeal,” he said.
His conviction marks another black eye for the already tarnished attorney, who rose to national fame during the Trump administration as a vocal foe of the president while he was representing Daniels.
Avenatti was a darling of the left during his time as Daniels’ attorney, who relished in sparring with former President Donald Trump and his supporters on social media and cable news.
He even floated running for president against Trump in 2020, as he was reportedly dubbed “the savior of the republic.”
Throughout the trial, prosecutors painted Avenatti, 50, as a calculating thief who stole two book-advance payments from Daniels in 2018 that totaled nearly $300,000.

A thief, a swindler, a liar and a liberal media darling.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)




 

Carjacker Had ‘Ghost Gun,’ Five Outstanding Warrants, Felony Record

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Say hello to Robert Seth Carter, 32, and while you’re at it, you can also say good-bye, because last month he was shot to death by police in San Jose, California. There were no riots. Ben Crump didn’t hold a press conference “demanding justice” for Carter. CNN ignored this police shooting for the obvious reason that Carter is white and was shooting at the cops when they shot back. Had he survived, he would have been charged with a long list of felonies, but there were four cops and they lit him up pretty good, so we may now speak of him in the past tense:

“Carter is prohibited from processing any firearm due to prior felony convictions,” [San Jose Police Chief Anthony] Mata said. “Carter is a San Jose resident, currently had five felony warrants for his arrest and is on probation for battery.”

“Prior felony convictions . . . on probation” — another case of the revolving-door criminal justice system in California, where Democrats have striven to make it nearly impossible to put anybody in prison. Junkies shooting up in public and defecating on the sidewalk? Not a crime in California. Walking out of Walgreens with $900 of stolen merchandise? Not a crime in California. The reason for this leniency is “social justice,” i.e., that if you put all the criminals in prison, too many black and brown people will be locked up. But leniency also benefits white criminals like Carter, who should have been in prison but was instead on a criminal rampage in San Jose:

San Jose police on [Jan. 21] said the suspect in a carjacking who was shot and killed by police earlier this week had a “ghost gun” on him and was wanted on five felony warrants.
Police Chief Anthony Mata identified the man as 32-year-old Robert Seth Carter.
Mata said he drove through downtown East San Jose in a stolen Toyota Camry on Wednesday and then to Santa Clara where he tried to carjack a woman at gunpoint but quickly abandoned that plan.
“He was unsuccessful with that attempted carjacking. But it was very apparent at that scene that he was armed with a gun. So we knew he was armed,” Sgt. Christian Camarillo said earlier.
Police said Carter then sped south, back into San Jose, where he collided with two passengers in another vehicle at Hedding and Park avenues about 6 p.m. where it all came to a violent conclusion.
Carter got out of the stolen car – witnesses say with gun-in-hand – and allegedly opened fire at responding police officers. One officer fired back and hit Carter at least once, Mata said.
Three more officers arrived and saw Carter still holding the gun, according to police. The four police officers fired their weapons at least once, striking Carter multiple times. Carter fell to the ground and the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s K-9 Unit arrived. A police dog bit Carter’s leg to pull him away.
Some of what transpired was captured on video from a helicopter as well as from the officers body-worn cameras.
“Obviously fearing for their lives, they were engaged by gunfire from the suspect, our officers on scene returned fire,” Camarillo said.
Carter was handcuffed by officers, who gave him First Aid. He was then taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead there.
None of the four officers has been identified. All are on paid administrative leave.
Police said Carter was found with a gun still in his hand after police opened fire and they produced a picture of the weapon at a news conference.
The shooting is the first by San Jose police officers this year. Last year, officers were involved in two on-duty shootings, both of which were fatal.

The whole purpose of that Jan. 21 press conference was to prove to the public that Carter deserved to be shot by cops, and they had screenshots from the aerial surveillance video to prove Carter was armed and pointing his gun at officers. One aspect of the post-George Floyd environment is that police departments everywhere are now doing this “transparency” thing, which I wholly endorse because it creates a mountain of public evidence proving what we already knew, i.e., that police are almost always justified in the use of deadly force. The “bad shoots” are a rarity, and the available evidence — which, as I say, is now piling up in public as a result of press conferences like this one in San Diego — absolutely contradicts the “social justice” narrative of trigger-happy racist police killing unarmed black suspects. The fact that the suspect in this case was white is sort of icing on the cake, reminding the world that cops kill white criminals, too, and white people don’t have a problem with that.

Where does the “ghost gun” aspect of this story fit in the narrative? Well, criminals have all kinds of ways to get guns — stealing them, to cite one obvious example — but they can’t get guns (“ghost” or otherwise) if they’re in prison, which is where they would be if it weren’t for the lenient policies demanded by the “social justice” crowd. Put the criminals in prison, and then they won’t be carjacking you, or getting shot by the cops.




 

Crime Is a People Problem, Which Is Why You Can’t Expect Democrats to Solve It

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Joe Biden went to New York City today and gave a speech which was billed in advance as addressing the unprecedented crime wave in America’s cities but was instead an attack on the Second Amendment:

Across the country, police departments reported sharp increases in the number of ghost guns found at crime scenes. That’s why, today, the department is launching an intes- — an intensified National Ghost Gun Enforcement Initiative to determine and deter criminals from using those weapons to cover their tracks.
If you commit a crime [with a] ghost gun, not only are state and local prosecutors going to come after you, but expect federal charges and federal prosecution as well.
We’ve also created a strike force to crack down on illegal gun trafficking across state lines. As the mayor said, as he pointed out, guns that are used to kill people in New York City, they aren’t made in New York City, they aren’t sold in New York City. They are sold in other places.
Today, the Attorney General directed all U.S. attorneys in the United States to prioritize combating gun trafficking across state lines and city boundaries.
The Justice Department is sending additional prosecutorial resources to help shut down what’s referred to, as you all know, as the “Iron Pipeline” that funnels guns from shops in states like Georgia to crime scenes in Baltimore and Philadelphia and New York and so many other places. . . .
I’ll keep doing everything in my power to make sure that communities are safer. But Congress needs to do its part too: pass universal background checks, ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, close loopholes, and keep out of the hands of domestic abusers — weapons, repeal the liability shield for gun manufacturers.
Imagine had we had a liability — they’re the only industry in America that is exempted from being able to be sued by the public. The only one. Imagine had that been the way with cigarette manufacturers. Where the hell would we — where the heck would we be? We’d be in tough shape.
Why gun manufacturers? Because of the power of their lobbying ability. It’s got to end. End. They’ve got to be held responsible for the things that they do that are irresponsible.
And, folks, you know, it’s the only industry in America, as I said, that’s exempt from being sued. And I think — I find it to be outrageous.

You see that he’s portraying Democrat-run cities — New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, etc. — as victims of “shops” selling guns “in states like Georgia,” and of the “lobbying” by “gun manufacturers,” as if this were the explanation of why crime is out of control in places where Democrats are pursuing a “social justice” agenda of turning criminals loose in the streets. Everything could be solved, Biden implies, if only Congress would enact the laws he wants. The speech Biden gave was merely a distraction from the actual cause of this crime wave:

Crime is a people problem. It’s not a drug problem. It’s not a poverty problem or a gun problem. Crime is caused by bad people — criminals — who will commit crime more or less continuously unless they’re put behind bars. The only way you can reduce crime is to identify the criminals, arrest them, and send them to prison. It doesn’t really matter what they’re arrested and convicted for — burglary, assault, drug possession, car theft, whatever — what matters is that you convict them of something, and get them off the streets. Put enough thugs in prison, and the would-be thugs on the street will be discouraged from following in their footsteps. 

That’s what I wrote Monday about a “running gun battle” in Polk County, Florida and you may ask, “If this is so obvious, why doesn’t anyone in the Biden administration see it that way?” Because everyone in the Biden administration is a Democrat, and Democrats are the Party of Crime, elected to office by criminals. The people who elect Democrats are very bad people — dishonest, violent, drug-addicted perverts, the vilest scum of humanity — and they are concentrated in the communities where criminal activity is so prevalent as to be a way of life. A policy of sending thieves, burglars, pimps, rapists and drug dealers to prison will be opposed by Democratic officials, because these crimes are part of the habitual lifestyle of the voters who elect Democrats.

Try this sometime: Google “mall arrest shooting.” Who is typically involved in shootings at shopping malls? Hint: Not Republican voters.

Teens arrested in Brooklyn mall
shooting that left two injured
Three reputed gang members have been charged with allegedly shooting two teens at a Brooklyn mall — a midday melee that sent 10 rounds flying in a sneaker shop, cops and law enforcement sources said Tuesday.
Timothy Briggs, 19, allegedly pulled a gun during the dispute at 2:30 p.m. Monday inside Kings Plaza Shopping Center in Mill Basin, firing roughly 10 shots at six young men, striking two of them, ages 14 and 16, authorities said. . . .
Briggs, a reputed member of the Blood Hound Brims gang, and two other teens have been charged in the shooting — which sources say is believed to be gang related.
Briggs was charged with two counts each of attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a loaded firearm, criminal use of a firearm and four counts of reckless endangerment, authorities said.
The teen was arrested last November in Brooklyn and charged with criminal possession of a weapon after officers allegedly found two Glock pistols on him following a car chase, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.
Bail in that case, which is still pending, had been set at $25,000 but Briggs posted $2,500 bond — and was out at the time of Monday’s shooting, according to the Office of Court Administration.
“Here he is in Kings Plaza, armed with another gun, firing shots in a mall, which is open,” Chief Michael Kemper, commanding officer of Patrol Borough Brooklyn South, told reporters at a Monday press briefing.
Jaheim Covington, 19, was also hit with multiple raps in connection to the shooting, authorities said. Sources said he’s an alleged member of the Depend on Nobody gang.

Was it a “ghost gun”? Was the gun used by Timothy Briggs sold in a Georgia gun shop and smuggled to New York via the “Iron Pipeline”? Would changing laws — universal background checks, etc. — have prevented Briggs from shooting up the mall? No, nothing that Biden has proposed would have prevented this crime. What would have prevented it would be (a) not to let this teenage monster out on bail, and (b) send him to prison for a long time. By the way, who bailed Briggs out of jail when he was caught with two guns in November? Did his mama just happen to have a spare $2,500 lying around the house? Or is it more likely, as I suspect, that the bail money came from the proceeds of Briggs’s drug trafficking? What do you think these people do for cash, anyway?

They’re Democrats. It’s not like they work honest jobs. And because they vote Democrat, they’re protected by Democrats, so that they are essentially exempt from the law in Democrat-controlled New York.

Joe Biden is not going to do anything about this problem. He would not be president, were it not for the enthusiastic support of criminals.




 

‘Running Gun Battle’ in Florida Town Leaves One Dead, Four Wounded

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Polk County, Florida, is in the central part of the state, between Tampa to the west and Orlando to the northeast. It used to be a mostly rural area, with lots of orange groves and a cheap place to retire, but the population has grown to more than 700,000, adding about 250,000 new residents in just the past 20 years. Some of the new residents of Polk County are thugs, and they had some of their typical thug fun over the weekend:

A 20-year-old man was killed and four others were hospitalized in critical condition from an exchange of gunfire between two cars in unincorporated Winter Haven early Sunday morning, according to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.
The deceased man and three of the injured — a 26-year-old man, a 20-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy — had left a bowling alley in the same car around 1:13 a.m., Judd said.
As the group drove north on Buckeye Loop Road toward Martin Luther King Blvd on the outskirts of Winter Haven, a dark sedan that followed them pulled up beside the car and the two vehicles engaged in a “running gun battle,” Judd said at a news conference Sunday.
“If you look very close, you’ll see some of these bullets are entrance holes into this vehicle, some are exit holes from the vehicle, so the suspects were shooting back and forth at each other,” Judd said.
The shootout was witnessed from a distance by friends of an individual in the first car, who Judd said reported seeing the vehicle ease over to the side of the road before it came to rest.
“And what we find (in the car) is not good. What we found was a 20-year-old young man, still a kid, dead,” Judd said. “He was shot eight times. Did you hear what I said? He was shot eight times.”
Judd said that among the other occupants, the 26-year-old was shot eight times, the 17-year-old was shot twice and the other 20-year-old man was shot between seven and eight times. The man who was shot and killed was the front-seat passenger of the car with an “AR strapped around him” and “a gun in his waist,” Judd said.
Though the shooting occurred in unincorporated Winter Haven, Judd said that the Winter Haven Police Department offered a “remarkable amount” of assistance to Polk County deputies at the scene.
The dark-colored car continued to drive west on Martin Luther King Blvd before it dropped off a 21-year-old man at Winter Haven Hospital who had also been shot and is now in critical condition there, Judd said.
Judd said there were so many bullet holes and shell casings to count that deputies were initially unable to report exactly how many shots were fired between both cars.
“We’re still counting bullet holes,” Judd said.

Watch the video here:

 

You’ll see that Sheriff Judd makes the case that Polk County has a low crime rate, and that this incident was unusual. What apparently happened was that some thugs were dealing dope and got into a feud with rival thugs. And the sheriff makes the point that, while a lot of people talk about marijuana as a “low-level, non-violent crime,” there is an awful lot of violence surrounding the dope trade, because it’s run by thugs.

I’m reminded of a scene in P.J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores, where O’Rourke did a ride-along with D.C. police in an area afflicted by the 1990s crack epidemic. O’Rourke tried to offer a libertarian critique of the War on Drugs, suggesting legalization was the solution, to which the police officer replied, “Air should be illegal, if these people breathe it.”

What that cop was trying to express was an idea that I’ve often phrased a bit more politely: Crime is a people problem. It’s not a drug problem. It’s not a poverty problem or a gun problem. Crime is caused by bad people — criminals — who will commit crime more or less continuously unless they’re put behind bars. The only way you can reduce crime is to identify the criminals, arrest them, and send them to prison. It doesn’t really matter what they’re arrested and convicted for — burglary, assault, drug possession, car theft, whatever — what matters is that you convict them of something, and get them off the streets. Put enough thugs in prison, and the would-be thugs on the street will be discouraged from following in their footsteps. Otherwise, they’ll just kill each other.

“Self-cleaning oven,” they call that in Chicago.




 

A Death in New Jersey

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“Daniel J. Ackley, age 33 of Millville, passed away suddenly on January 4, 2022,” according to his obituary, a masterpiece of understatement. The muzzle velocity of a standard 9-mm pistol is about 1,250 feet per second, which is pretty doggone sudden. The late Daniel Ackley was armed with a large knife — so large that responding police officers thought it was a machete — at a trailer home in Millville when a female relative called 911:

In the first call, a woman describing the situation says Ackley has a history of getting angry and uncontrollable and he doesn’t really know why — to which the dispatcher asks if he needs the police or an ambulance to take him to a facility. The woman agrees. . . .
A second call is then made, saying that Ackley has now gone outside and is holding a knife.

The headline calls Ackley a “Troubled Iraq Veteran,” as if threatening people with knives were more common among Iraq veterans than among, for example, Philadelphia residents. We don’t know if Ackley’s military service had anything to do with his final outburst of knife-wielding craziness, although 30 seconds before he got shot, he helpfully informed the officers, “I’ve been to Iraq, bitch!” When one of the officers said, “I don’t want to shoot you,” Ackley showed a high level of political awareness by responding, “I’m not black enough to be shot?”

Turns out there are limits to “white privilege” in New Jersey.

Nobody looted Best Buy. No statues were toppled. White guys get shot by cops all the time, and CNN never seems to notice.




 

Crazy People Are Dangerous

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Say hello to 24-year-old Zachary Lucas Olivar of Snellville, Georgia, who (a) has a “history of mental illness,” and (b) shot a sheriff’s deputy in Jones County. Before we go any further with this story, permit to ask this question: Why is it that we never hear about the mental health of such people until after they shoot a cop? Or get shot by the cops, as the case may be. In Philadelphia, for example, they had a full-scale race riot in October 2020 after Walter Wallace Jr., who had “mental health problems,” and was brandishing a large butcher knife when he charged a police officer and got shot. Wallace’s “mental health problems” weren’t front-page news until after he got shot (and everybody started looting because “social justice”). You might think there’d be some kind of early-warning system in place, so that all the locals would know who the crazy people were, and then when they got shot by cops, everybody would be like, “Oh, it was that one. Had to happen sooner or later.”

Olivar’s family had been dealing with his craziness for weeks in Snellville, which is a suburb of Atlanta in Gwinnett County. What is not explained in any of the news articles I’ve read is why Olivar was in rural Jones County, about 70 miles south of Snellville, down near Macon. Perhaps he was a rhythm-and-blues fan, hoping to visit the Otis Redding “Big O” Ranch just south of Round Oak. Olivar was in that vicinity, on State Route 11 between Round Oak and Wayside, when he was spotted driving erratically by Deputy John Kile:

Olivar puts his hands out of the driver’s side window, as if surrendering. However, he refuses repeated requests to exit the car.
“This is my home, sir. This is my home,” Olivar says repeatedly.
It’s around the 4-minute mark that something appears in Olivar’s hand, prompting the deputy to ask: “What you got?”
Seconds later, a gun wrapped in a towel is thrust out the window and a flash point is seen.
Kile grunts from the impact of a bullet, but doesn’t fall. Instead, the camera shows his feet running to his patrol car, as he screams “Shots fired, shots fired” into his radio.
Video recorded from the perspective of the patrol car shows Kile was standing just a few feet from the gun, and he is seen grabbing his chest as he runs back to his vehicle.
The video concludes with Olivar captured six minutes later, after his vehicle is forced off the road. Kile was among the pursuing officers, despite his injuries, officials said.
Olivar, who lives in Snellville, is being held without bond at the Jones County Sheriff’s Office “facing aggravated assault charges,” officials said.
Jones County Sheriff R.N. “Butch” Reece says investigators have learned Olivar has a “history of mental illness,” which is why he decided to release the video.
“We have received reports that he has been having issues for the past week, with several attempts made by his family to get him help,” Reece wrote on Facebook.
“Families are struggling to get help for loved ones with mental health issues; however, it seems all too often that these individuals fall through the cracks. Unfortunately it sometimes takes an incident like this one to show how important accessibility to mental health care really is. Our jails are not designed to be mental health treatment facilities.”
Reece concluded his post by saying he hopes the incident helps bring “a much needed change in the mental health system” with the help of state legislative action.

Before I post the video, perhaps I should warn you that Deputy Kile is apparently a fan of country music classics, and was actually listening to “Wildwood Flower” on his radio when he blue-lighted Olivar:

 

Deputy Kile was wearing a bulletproof vest, which saved his life, and Sheriff Reece praised the restraint shown by his deputies in arresting Olivar because, let’s face, he was this close to being a “suicide by cop.”

As far as I’m concerned, you shoot a cop, you should die in a hail of gunfire, and I don’t want to hear about your “mental health problems.” There’s a big difference between regular crazy and shoot-a-cop crazy.




 

Good News From New York

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Important, because most of the news from there is bad nowadays:

The “distorted” career criminal accused of shooting two Manhattan cops, killing one and leaving the other clinging to life, died of his wounds Monday, officials said.
Lashawn McNeil, 47, had been in critical condition since being shot by a third officer after fatally gunning down Finest Jason Rivera, 22, and critically wounding NYPD cop Wilbert Mora, 27, during a domestic disturbance inside his brother’s Harlem apartment Friday.
“I hope he burns in hell,” a veteran cop said of McNeil.
Mayor Eric Adams confirmed McNeil’s death at a press conference on gun violence.
Meanwhile, Officer Mora is still clinging to life, police said.
Asked about Mora, the grim-faced mayor, a former city transit cop, called for “prayers.
“Prayers for the family, prayers for our city that we move in the right direction,” he said.
McNeil, who was hit in the head and arm by rookie Officer Sumit Sulan, had been declared brain dead after the incident, a source said.
McNeil’s mother has told The Post that her son, who grew up in Far Rockaway, was mentally ill.
“His mental state is very distorted, and that’s all I can say,” Shirley Sourzes said over the weekend
Sources added Monday that her son lived in Baltimore but that she brought him back to New York to care for his older brother, who has a brain tumor.
She spoke to The Post hours before her son died.
She said she regretted ever dialing 911 on Friday when she got into a beef with him and said she blamed herself for the tragedy that followed.
“If I knew, I never would have made the phone call,” she said. “I would never have called!
“I would like to say to Mr. and Mrs. [Rivera] that I am deeply sorry,” she added. “I know that there is not words that I can express.”
Police said the deranged gunman ambushed the cops by opening fire with an illegally modified Glock .45-caliber handgun during the incident.
The convicted felon was on probation for a 2003 drug conviction when he shot the cops, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said at a press conference Saturday.
McNeil also had several busts outside of the five boroughs, including a 1998 arrest for gun possession — which was later dismissed — and a 2002 Pennsylvania arrest for assaulting a police officer.
He had two other busts in Pennsylvania the following year for felony and misdemeanor drug charges, records show.
The gun used to shoot the two NYPD cops, which was stolen from Baltimore in 2017, was illegally equipped with a high-capacity magazine that holds an additional 40 rounds.

Convicted felon, on probation, with a stolen gun, killed a cop.

He’s dead now, and that’s the only good news from New York lately. Permit me to point out, in case anyone doesn’t understand, what “career criminal” means. McNeil was in his early 20s when he was busted for illegal gun possession. Four years later, he assaulted a cop, and he was convicted in 2003 for a serious enough drug charge that he was still on probation 19 years later. Despite this fact, which would have prohibited him from possessing firearms, he was armed — with a stolen gun — and why? Who needs a pistol with a 40-round magazine? A serious drug dealer, that’s who. So it would appear that McNeil has been dealing drugs his entire adult life. Is there any evidence that he ever worked an actual job, earning a living by honest means? Not that we know of.

His mother says he was mentally ill — a “very distorted” mental state — but was there any clinical diagnosis of this condition? Had he sought treatment? Or was it rather the case, as we may suspect, that he was collecting disability payments for this phantom “illness” to augment his drug-dealing revenue? Whatever the case may be, the existence of a category of “career criminals” like Lashawn McNeil is a reality that liberal politicians and media commentators refuse to acknowledge when such habitual perpetrators get killed by cops. Anyone who researches George Floyd’s criminal history realizes that he hadn’t spent any time earning an honest living; in Texas, he was engaged in more than one violent robbery, and in Minneapolis, he was attempting to pass counterfeit currency when he was arrested and died of a fentanyl overdose (which had little or nothing to do with how the cops treated him). More than a few others hailed as martyrs by the Black Lives Matter movement had similar criminal histories. It’s not “systemic racism” that’s getting these people killed; it’s their habitual involvement in criminal behavior.

Probably the mob won’t loot any stores or topple any statues to protest the death of Lashawn McNeil — shoot two cops in an ambush, and not even Ben Crump can depict you as a victim of racism — but he is in many ways typical of the category of criminals that BLM has tried to turn into civil-rights icons. Perhaps others are willing to play along with that charade, but I am too street-wise to be played for a chump.




 

Aspiring Rapper Update: Lawsuit Accuses Seattle CHOP ‘Warlord’ of Pimping Hoes

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‘Raz’ Simone (right) during Seattle’s CHOP occupation.

Just in case anyone forgot the relevant definition:

Aspiring Rapper
North American euphemism for a member of the urban criminal class. This unusual occupation is usually mentioned in conjunction with the subject either being slain or being taken into custody for a violent or property-related crime. A relative of the subject usually points out that the subject’s demise or incarceration comes at an extremely inopportune moment, occurring just as the subject was “turning they(sic) life around.”

Solomon “Raz” Simone hasn’t been arrested or shot dead yet, and he’s had more career success than most aspiring rappers, but we can categorically include him as “a member of the urban criminal class”:

Seattle rapper Solomon “Raz” Simone is reportedly being sued by five women alleging sexual abuse and assault. According to KUOW, four of them say the 32-year-old sex trafficked and abused them. One of the alleged victims, identified only as Pearl, claims Simone sex trafficked her in Las Vegas for over a year, until she finally broke free in 2017.
Pearl paints a grisly picture of what she says she went through. When Simone felt she wasn’t being obedient, he would supposedly lock her in a confined space for days and force her to have sex. Veteran police detective Bill Guyer looked into Pearl and some of the other women who came forward with similar stories involving Simone but after over four years of waiting, the five women filed a civil lawsuit. . . .
Court documents reportedly state Simone targets “young, vulnerable women” who are involved in sex work or susceptible to it. The plaintiffs allege he “wins them over with affection, and pitches the relationship as a chance to grow, find success and be a part of his family.”
Once in Simone’s grip, they say he “imposed strict rules on what they could eat and how to act” while placing a money quota on them, meaning they must bring him a certain amount of money to stay on his good side. To make their quotes, the women say he’d pressure them to strip or perform sex acts, and then he’d take their money they made, using “coercion, threats and violence to make them comply.”

Andy Ngo reminds us that Simone was the “so called ‘warlord’ of the deadly 2020 Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), also known as the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” (CHOP), where crime was rampant:

Simone was very visible … at the beginning of the occupation of 6 blocks of Seattle which began after the Seattle Police were ordered to abandon the East Precinct after multiple consecutive nights of riots in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
During the armed occupation, Simone led marches, gave speeches to the protesters and acted as spokesman with the media for the occupation.
During that time, he was videoed assaulting people in the zone and pulling out AR-15s from the trunk of a white Tesla and giving them out to anyone who would stand a post in the occupation.

It seems to be the belief of white liberals (and Seattle now rivals Boston as a focal point of white liberalism in America) that enforcing any law is a “civil rights” violation if a black man is arrested. And such is the implicit racism of their worldview that white liberals think black people are not shrewd enough to exploit the opportunities thus created. But the foundational belief of white liberalism, that black people must always be viewed as victims of “social injustice,” offers carte blanche to any clever hustler who can find ways to play the race card for strategic advantage. This is the synopsis of Al Sharpton’s entire career, really, and why shouldn’t the drug dealer/pimp “Raz” get some of that lucrative action?

Besides which, he’s an aspiring rapper. There are hoes out there and they ain’t gonna pimp themselves, if you know what I mean.

Y’all just a bunch of racists trying to oppress this man . . .