The chief is black, OK? He’s got 20 years on the police force, and for a bunch of outside agitators to come in accusing him of “systemic racism”? Nah, the chief don’t have to listen to that noise:
The chief and entire command staff of the police department in Rochester, New York, resigned Tuesday — among other department changes — as outrage continued over the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man with mental health issues who died after having been put in a “spit hood” and restrained by officers in March.
Chief La’Ron Singletary announced that he would be retiring after 20 years on the force, according to a media release from the department. Singletary said the events of the past week “are an attempt to destroy my character and integrity.”
“The members of the Rochester Police Department and the Greater Rochester Community know my reputation and know what I stand for,” Singletary, 40, said in his resignation letter. “The mischaracterization and the politicization of the actions that I took after being informed of Mr. Prude’s death is not based on facts, and is not what I stand for.”
Deputy Chief Joseph Morabito and Commander Fabian Rivera also announced their retirements Tuesday. Two other high ranking officials, Deputy Chief Mark Simmons and Commander Henry Favor, returned to a lower ranking of lieutenant.
Mayor Lovely Warren said during a City Council briefing Tuesday that the “entire Rochester police command staff” has retired and that “there may be a number of others that will decide to leave, as well.”
Try to imagine how Chief Singletary feels. Daniel Prude died after a PCP freakout — he was quite literally running naked in the street — and this had nothing whatsoever to do with racism. Then #BlackLivesMatter comes to town, with all their anti-cop rhetoric, trying to incite a riot, and the black police chief is the racist villain in this narrative?
Nope. Got in enough time to retire. Gonna go fishing. Have a nice day.
No, I’m not talking about this — not yet, maybe later today — but rather about an interesting fact you probably haven’t noticed: Nobody cares how many white suspects get shot by cops. And I mean absolutely nobody cares. Certainly no black person has ever bothered to investigate how often the police shoot white suspects, but white people don’t care, either. Like, if I got pulled over by cops tomorrow and became belligerent when they tried to arrest me, nobody would care if this resulted in me being shot to death. My own family wouldn’t really care. My friends would be like, “He probably had it coming. He was always an idiot.”
There would be no protest marches. Benjamin Crump wouldn’t be all over CNN complaining about the “excessive force” if I got shot by cops. And this is not just true for me, but of any other white person.
Why is this? It’s because the Left has convinced a sizable percentage of Americans — especially the kind of fools who vote for Democrats — that the law is fundamentally unjust. To the Left, law is always an expression of political power and, because “people of color” are alleged to be oppressed, therefore the law is an expression of injustice. So when the cop attempts to enforce the law, according to this leftist worldview, the correct thing to do is to resist this oppressive power.
You were driving 20 miles over the speed limit with an expired tag and no insurance? You’re a victim of injustice! That cop is an oppressor!
This idea that police, merely by enforcement of well-known laws, are acting as agents of “systemic racism,” explains why there must be riots every time a black person gets shot by cops, whereas CNN can’t even be bothered to notice when the cops kill white people:
Freddrick Hadden was shot to death by a sheriff’s deputy in Burke County, Georgia. A habitual felon who had only recently been released from prison, Hadden had kidnapped his ex-wife at gunpoint. When Deputy Eric Madison pursued Hadden to a home near Hephzibah, the woman escaped Hadden’s vehicle. She was shot twice by Hadden before Deputy Madison returned fire, killing the kidnapper and saving the woman’s life.
That incident in August 2019 attracted no national media interest. CNN didn’t cover it, there were no protests, and Joe Biden has never mentioned it. Perhaps that’s because Freddrick Hadden was white and Deputy Madison is black.
For months, Biden and his media allies have abetted #BlackLivesMatter activists in inciting racial fear and hatred, claiming that “systemic racism” by police accounts for the deaths of black suspects at the hands of police. Even though research clearly disproves such claims, the facts haven’t stopped Democrats from trying to exploit this slanderous narrative in their effort to defeat President Trump. . . .
A firebomb thrown by rioters at police in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday night set a “protester” on fire, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
Video taken at the scene and retweeted by the police showed fire erupting in the middle of a street, as a man caught in the flames attempted to run out of the way. He emerged with his legs ablaze, as rioters attempted to help him. . . .
Reporter Andy Ngô of the Post Millenial tweeted that Antifa and Black Lives Matter staged the riot to mark more than 100 days of violent protest in Portland since the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota. . . .
Earlier Saturday, the Oregonianremarked on the 100-day anniversary of violent demonstrations: “In Portland, the whitest major city in the U.S., demonstrations against systemic racism and police brutality have stretched for 100 straight days, sparking unprecedented cuts to the city police bureau, night after night of violence by law enforcement officers and protesters, presidential condemnation and national attention.”
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has refused support from President Donald Trump, blaming him for the violence.
Everybody on Twitter had fun by creating videos of the flaming Antifa set to music, e.g., “Cotton Eye Joe”:
New data from Princeton University show that riots associated with the Black Lives Matter movement took place in 48 out of the 50 largest cities in the United States. The study found:
In more than 93% of all demonstrations connected to the movement, demonstrators have not engaged in violence or destructive activity. Peaceful protests are reported in over 2,400 distinct locations around the country. Violent demonstrations, meanwhile, have been limited to fewer than 220 locations ?— under 10% of the areas that experienced peaceful protests. . . .
The Princeton data set shows that nearly every major city in the United States experienced riots from late May to the end of August — even under the narrow definition that the study used to classify riots (as separate from events described as police violence against protesters).
The only exceptions within the top 50 cities by population were Fresno, California, and Mesa, Arizona.
Four confidential sources tell me they blame Joe Biden.
This is a simple sentence. You don’t need a Ph.D. in linguistics to understand the meaning of “step out of the car.” When this sentence is spoken by a man with a badge and a pistol, the driver of a motor vehicle has a legal obligation to comply with the officer’s command.
Notice the word “command.” The cop is not requesting that you exit your vehicle, he is commanding you to do so — it is an order, and the policeman has legal authority to compel your compliance. Your failure to comply with the officer’s lawful order thereby results in the officer gaining authority to use physical force against you.
Nowadays, police are trained in what are called “de-escalation tactics.” If you ever get pulled over for a traffic infraction, you can expect the police officer to be very polite, even cordial, as he asks for your license and informs you of your excessive speed or whatever. Cops are trained to talk nice like this, because it helps encourage cooperation. And if you watch a lot of videos on the Police Activity YouTube channel, like I do, you notice a pattern in the behavior of criminals — the kind of people who mistake courtesy for weakness. The law-abiding citizen feels embarrassed when he gets pulled over for a traffic infraction, and responds to the policeman in an apologetic manner: “I’m sorry, officer, I was in a bit of a hurry, I didn’t realize it was a 45 mph zone,” etc. Citizens respect the law, and therefore feel shame when they are caught breaking the law, even in the most ordinary and harmless ways. Criminals? Not so much.
One of the hallmarks of a criminal personality is the shamelessness with which they break the law. Criminals do not respect the law — they lack any proper sense of justice — and so, no matter what the law is, or how serious their breach of the law, criminals tend to be defiant in their behavior toward anyone attempting to enforce the law.
Consider the case of Deon Kay, who had a pistol in his hand when he was shot dead by police in Washington, D.C. Our nation’s capital has very strict gun-control laws; liberals support these laws, with which I strongly disagree. Yet liberals are now protesting the shooting of Deon Kay, despite his open defiance of the city’s gun-control laws.
Deon Kay, the latest martyr of the Black Lives Matter movement. DC is rioting in his name. pic.twitter.com/l9cqhi1qTR
Question: Exactly how are gun-control laws supposed to be enforced? What do liberals think should happen when gangsters flagranlty advertise their violation of gun-control laws, as did Deon Kay and his buddies, by posting online images of themselves with their weapons? This type of defiant behavior is, as I say, the hallmark of a criminal personality, and no one’s life is safe when such behavior is tolerated. Every simple traffic stop has the potential to become a life-or-death situation.
You see this demonstrated over and over in Police Activity videos. The criminal has been pulled over by the police, and the officer has some reason to suspect there might be drugs or weapons in the vehicle, or else there is an outstanding warrant for the driver’s arrest. The driver often seems to be compliant up until the moment the cop asks him to step out of the car, and that’s when the situation spins out of control. Either the suspect pulls a gun, initiating a shootout, or else he takes off in his car, seeking to escape arrest. Say hello to Braily Andres Batista-Concepcion.
Batista-Concepcion, 22, believes he is a victim of “excessive force” by police in Raleigh, N.C. Here is a description of his arrest:
On January 14, 2020 at approximately 9:30 a.m., Raleigh Police Department officers responded to a report of a hit and run in the 3500 block of Wake Forest Road. Before officers arrived on the scene the suspect vehicle fled the area and was involved in a second hit and run in a parking lot at St. Albans Drive and Wake Forest Road. While fleeing the scene of the second collision the vehicle struck a pole at 4320 Wingate Drive. A short time later, an officer spotted a vehicle matching the description from the three earlier hit and run incidents driving erratically on Navaho Drive. The officer initiated a traffic stop and observed that the driver appeared to be impaired while transporting three passengers. When Mr. Batista-Concepcion ignored repeated commands to place his hands on the wheel, the officer ordered him to get out of the vehicle. Mr. Batista-Concepcion failed to follow the officer’s commands and officers used force to remove him from the vehicle. Braily Andres Batista-Concepcion was subsequently charged with DWI, three counts of Hit and Run, two counts of Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor, Simple Possession of Marijuana, and Resist, Delay and Obstruct.
OK, so this guy was completely wasted at 9:30 in the morning, smoking weed and driving around with three other people in the car — including at least one minor — and endangering public safety:
“We just got ran into,” one man tells a 911 dispatcher. “And the guy took off, twice. He ran into us twice and took off.”
In another call to 911, a woman tells dispatch, “They hit me. And then I stopped at the red light and they looked in the mirror and they were trying to back up and hit me again.”
Batista-Concepcion is a menace to society, a dangerous criminal, and why do you think the cops got irritated when he “ignored repeated commands to place his hands on the wheel”? Isn’t it just common sense that someone who deliberately rams his car into other vehicles might possess weapons? If the cop says “keep your hands where I can see them,” and you refuse to comply with that command — it is not a request, but a command — the cop has good reason to fear for his own safety. And keep in mind the cop didn’t just pull over Batista-Concepcion for a minor traffic offense, but three separate hit-and-run incidents.
OK, now it’s time to watch the video of Batista-Concepion’s arrest:
The Wake County District Attorney refused to ask the State Bureau of Investigation to investigate after a video of a violent arrest, which showed a Raleigh officer punching and kneeing a man, surfaced on social media.
After reviewing the video with the SBI, Raleigh Police Department officials said they met with Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman to review the body and dash camera video of the incident. Freeman decided not to request SBI involvement but left the door open for SBI assistance should it be deemed appropriate as the investigation unfolds.
“Traditionally the State Bureau of Investigation is asked to review use of force cases involving the use of lethal force. This case does not involve the use of lethal force,” Freeman said. “Additionally after reviewing the video of the incident, I believe interviews conducted by the Raleigh Police Department, which I have requested to be recorded, will provide full information for a decision to be made as to whether the officers’ conduct was criminal. If follow up investigation is needed, the State Bureau of Investigation may be asked at that time to conduct it.”
Here is the Raleigh Police Chief’s press conference:
“One of the passengers speaks about he wishes he had his 40, which is often the language referencing a gun. It is the goal, and it will always be the goal, of the Raleigh Police Department and all of its members to protect and serve the public in a safe and courteous and professional manner. . . . Policing requires the help and cooperation of all of us. . . . No officer wants to use force or become involved in a deadly force encounter.”
In a situation such as was caused by Batista-Concepcion’s non-compliant behavior, what do we expect police officers to do? What is the alternative when a driminal refuses to comply with lawful orders?
Without regard to what, if anything, becomes of the “excessive force” complaint in this case, I predict that Batista-Concepcion will soon be in prison, or else in the graveyard, as a result of his criminal personality. He is a bad person — a defiant and shameless law-breaker — and such people have a tendency to meet a violent death.
ADDENDUM: Permit me to add this quote from Edmund Burke:
“Is it because liberty in the abstract may be classed amongst the blessings of mankind, that I am seriously to felicitate a madman, who has escaped from the protecting restraint and wholesome darkness of his cell, on his restoration to the enjoyment of light and liberty? Am I to congratulate a highwayman and murderer who has broke prison upon the recovery of his natural rights?”
This is the dilemma posed by such cases as Batista-Concepcion and Deon Kay. An obsessive devotion to “liberty in the abstract,” which characterizes the attitude of some of my libertarian friends, will always encounter problems in practical application, where madness and/or criminality renders a certain number of people incapable of responsible enjoyment of liberty. It is one thing, really, for a handful of decadent bohemian intellectuals to engage in drug abuse and sexual hedonism (e.g., the “Beat Generation” of the 1950s) and quite a different thing when such behavior becomes normative among the less privileged lower classes. The vicious habits of Allen Ginsberg as a Columbia University student could only cause so much trouble. However, when Ginsberg became celebrated as a prophetic voice, and emulation of his vices was hailed as “liberation,” the repercussions for society as a whole were much more serious. It is difficult to trace a direct line of causation from Ginsberg and the Beatniks to the death of Deon Kay, but this difficulty doesn’t mean that the causation is wholly imaginary.
If you want the phrase “died in a hail of police gunfire” to be included in your obituary, just follow the example of Megan Rivera, 22. She and her boyfriend, De’Angelo Brown, 30, were already wanted for criminal charges in South Carolina when they carjacked a Toyota from a 72-year-old woman less than two weeks before Christmas in 2018. Now, I don’t know about you, but anytime a criminal carjacks an old lady, I always hope their life of crime ends in a hail of police gunfire. In this case, the happy ending happened in West Memphis, Arkansas, on the night of Jan. 16, 2019, about a month after the carjacking. A police officer spotted the stolen Toyota and turned on his blue lights, then the car took off, beginning a high-speed chase that lasted more than 10 minutes.
By the time the Toyota was brought to a halt, about a dozen police cars had become involved in the chase. The cops piled out of their vehicles with guns drawn: “Hands up! Let me see your hands!” Megan Rivera was at the wheel, and in the passenger seat, De’Angelo Brown said: “Go! Go!” She hit the accelerator and the car lurched forward, running over one of the cops, which is why the criminal duo died in a hail of gunfire:
That’s top-quality entertainment, even though I spoiled it by giving away the ending. In the aftermath of this incident, the local news did an interview with Megan Rivera’s family:
Two families are coming to terms with the deaths of their loved ones hundreds of miles from home.
WMC5 investigators are learning more about the man and woman killed in a police shooting last week.
A disturbing picture is emerging of the couple shot and killed by West Memphis police.
Their families described the troubles and the torture they have gone through since the shooting.
“It didn’t hit me but when it did hit me it hit me hard,” said sister Gloria Campos.
Campos said the family only recently found out her sister Megan Rivera was the woman killed in West Memphis when police shot at the car she was driving with her boyfriend in the passenger seat, 30-year-old DeAngelo Brown.
Campos says her 22-year-old sister didn’t have her ID, so it took a few days to notify the family. She said her sister had problems for much of her life. “When she was six years old her dad died of a drug overdose,” Campos said. “He almost took out the whole family. He went into a rage and we were almost all gone that night.”
Campos said Megan had been dating Brown for about three years. They met in their hometown of Lancaster, South Carolina.
She also said her sister had big problems with drugs. . . .
The family believes the couple got lost and that’s why they were in West Memphis, but they didn’t know exactly where they had been. “She was out to venture,” said brother Kevin Rivera. “She was out to see the world.”
Let me just advise young people that if you are “out to see the world,” don’t do it in a stolen Toyota or you’re liable to get no further than West Memphis, Arkansas. As you can imagine, the family of Megan’s boyfriend was likewise distraught by their loss:
The family of the South Carolina man killed in an officer-involved shooting in West Memphis, Arkansas, is demanding justice and say they want answers. . . .
In a FaceTime interview Sunday, Brown’s sister, Tierra Clyburn, described what went through her mind when she got the news.
“Just hurt, anger, disbelief,” she said. “I just — I would never imagine something like this would happen.”
Brown’s brother, Lemarutius Clyburn, believes officers should have done something to de-escalate the situation.
“They could have took different steps then just opening up fire taking people’s lives when their officers didn’t lose their lives,” he said. . . .
“I just don’t understand how a traffic stop end with two people losing their life,” Lemarutius said.
And they want to know why police shot their brother even though they say he wasn’t even behind the wheel.
“Another way could have been used. They could have flattened the tires or something,” Tierra said. “Why just go killing them like that? My brother was just a passenger in the vehicle – he wasn’t even the driver. We want justice.”
They say the couple loved to take trips together and were in the Mid-South visiting.
“They was traveling, taking trips, just enjoying life,” Lemarutius said.
Just “traveling, taking trips” in a Toyota they stole from an old lady, and “enjoying life” until they died in a hail of police gunfire.
As for the family “demanding justice,” after a review of the case, it was announced that no charges would be filed against the police. The officer who got run over is recovering from his injuries.
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The suspected gunman who fatally shot a right-wing protester in Portland last weekend was reportedly shot and killed by law enforcement authorities Thursday night as they attempted to arrest him.
Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, died in Lacey, Washington, where federal agents were attempting to take him into custody for the shooting — the same night his interview on the shooting aired on Vice News, the New York Times reported.
Reinoehl in the interview insisted he acted in self-defense and “had no choice” when he shot Aaron “Jay” Danielson, 39, after an evening of clashing protests in Portland on Aug. 29.
“Had I not acted. I’m confident that my friend — and I’m sure I — would have been killed,” Reinoehl told Vice News. “I wasn’t going to stand there and let something happen.”
Details of Reinoehl’s death were not immediately clear. Police sources had told The Oregonian that he was the subject of investigations into the shooting.
BTW, Reinoehl was lying about the self-defense claim. The “right-wing protester” didn’t do anything wrong. In fact, there was no protest happening at the time. Earlier that evening, a caravan of Trump supporters had driven through Portland in a sort of parade, and Danielson was just walking around downtown when he was targeted by Antifa, pointed out and assassinated in cold blood by Reinoehl.
As for the unlamented death of Reinoehl, as Professor Reynolds says, it was a “mostly peaceful arrest.” Perhaps it would have been nice if he had lived to be interrogated, so he could have rolled over on his accomplices (which is what a punk like that would do), but a trial would have cost taxpayers a lot of money, and then there would have been the cost of keeping him incarcerated the rest of his worthless life. So, yeah, it’s not the worst possible outcome for him to die in a hail of gunfire.
Washington, D.C., has very strict gun-control laws, which Democrats support, at least until cops try to enforce the law:
A video has surfaced of the “innocent teen boy” who was killed in an officer involved shooting in DC on Wednesday.
The video is from 18-year-old Deon Kay’s Instagram page, which is now inactive.
It features two young men, Kay and a masked friend, pointing guns at the camera.
Immediately after the shooting, with almost no details available, Black Lives Matter was protesting and throwing tantrums in the street about the “teenage boy” who had lost his life.
It turns out, at approximately 3:51 p.m., uniformed police officers responded to a call to investigate a man in a vehicle with a gun. When they arrived, they found four people in the vehicle. Two of them fled, including Kay.
During the chase, Kay brandished a firearm.
At this point, an officer fired one single shot, hitting Kay. The suspect was transported to the hospital for treatment, but it was unsuccessful.
“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
Obviously, the only way to avenge this social injustice is to (a) burn stuff, (b) tear down statues, and (c) elect Joe Biden.
OK, folks, I hereby officially pronounce the “Police Activity” YouTube channel to be The Best Thing on the Internet. While I’m trying to maintain my sanity during the current campaign season — the polls are tightening, and Democrats are planning to steal the election by mail fraud — what I need is a distraction, and nothing is more soothing to my nerves than watching bodycam videos of bad guys getting shot by cops.
So there was a reported carjacking in Daytona Beach, Florida, a few months ago, and when cops showed up, the bad guy made a bad decision:
Two Daytona Beach police officers shot a man who they say tried to carjack a woman at a Popeyes before pointing a rifle on them at a nearby Wawa, according to Police Chief Craig Capri.
The shooting was reported around 8:10 a.m. [May 25] near International Speedway Boulevard and U.S. 1.
Capri said the woman was at Popeyes waiting for the restaurant to open when the man tried to carjack her. She was able to get away and call for help, police said.
The man then walked down Ridgewood Avenue carrying the rifle, and officers confronted him near a Walgreens and Wawa, Carpi said.
The officers asked the man to drop the rifle, but he pointed it at them, according to Capri, who added that his officers opened fire, striking the man.
The Daytona Beach Police Department released several videos of body-worn camera footage of the shooting Monday afternoon.
The video shows the first officer get out of his patrol car and tell the man, “hey, don’t raise it.”
The officer then proceeded to take cover behind the rear passenger side of his patrol car, according to the video, and continued to tell the man to “put it down, put the rifle down.” . . . “When you point a gun at officers, expect to get shot,” Capri said.
This is common sense, isn’t it? But common sense seems to be rare among criminals — or, as I prefer to call them, armed Democrats.
Say hello to Michael Anthony Harris, who won’t be able to vote for Joe Biden in November, because he made a very bad decision:
The Daytona Beach police officer shot in the chest [Aug. 29] while trying to arrest an attempted murder suspect has risked his own life, and saved those of others several times before.
Daytona Beach Police Chief Craig Capri had no hesitation Tuesday when he described Officer Dominic Besse. Capri calls him “A true hero.”
Besse responded to a Holly Hill apartment on Saturday, and when he found the suspect in a shooting in Daytona Beach two weeks before, Besse became the victim taking a bullet to his chest. Besse’s own body-worn camera recorded the shooter’s muzzle flash and the sounds of agony the officer felt when the projectile struck him.
Besse, a tactical expert, survived likely because his protective vest kept the bullet from piercing his body.
The exchange of gunfire, estimated at 50 rounds, ended with the death of the wanted gunman, 44-year-old Michael Anthony Harris.
Daytona Beach and Holly Hill police had gone to the apartment complex to arrest Harris after getting an anonymous tip he was in Unit 104, Capri said.
“We don’t believe it’s his home but we got an anonymous tip that he was there,” Capri said during a press conference Saturday night. “People are scared of him.”
Harris was sought in the shooting of a woman Aug. 18 at Travelers Inn at 850 S. Ridgewood Ave. in Daytona Beach. That woman, who was not identified by police, is recovering at Halifax Health Medical Center, Capri said.
The woman [shot in the Aug. 18 incident] called 9-1-1 around 3:38 a.m. and said she’d been shot. Police found the woman by the stairway near a room and she cried out, “help me I’ve been shot,” investigators said.
Capri said she was shot twice in the back and became unconscious before police could get a statement from her.
So he shot a woman twice in the back. More “violence against women” that feminists will never mention, for some reason . . .
