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Crazy People Are Dangerous

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Say hello to Frank Abrokwa, 37, who has been arrested in New York City more than 20 times since 1999 and those of my readers who are good at math will immediately realize that this means this perpetrator has been perpetrating at least one crime a year since he was 14. Other of my readers may be wondering, “What kind of name is Abrokwa?”

The answer is Ghanaian. There is apparently a shortage of career criminals in New York, so they’re importing them, and turning them loose to terrorize the citizenry. But I don’t feel sorry for the citizens of New York, because they voted for these policies.

Joe Biden got 78% of the vote in Manhattan, and 61% statewide. The state legislature, controlled by Democrats, enacted a “bail reform” law that mandated the release of nearly all criminal suspects (because “social justice”) without paying a cent of bail. That this has resulted in an unprecedented crime wave should surprise no one; it was predicted at the time the “bail reform” law was being debated, but the Democrats who run New York simply didn’t care. Considering then that this disaster is a self-inflicted wound, a consequence of the embrace of the Democratic Party by the people of New York, it is difficult to find sympathy for the individual victims of the current crime wave. We recall H.L. Mencken’s famous observation, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

How about being smeared with feces “good and hard”?

A Bronx man who allegedly smeared human feces on a woman’s face on a subway platform last week has been arrested, NYPD said.
Frank Abrokwa, 37, approached a 43-year-old woman who was sitting on a bench on the southbound platform of the Wakefield-241st Street subway station in the Bronx around 5:15 p.m. Monday, Feb. 21, cops said.
Suddenly, without saying a word, he hit the unsuspecting woman in the face and the back of her head with human feces before fleeing, footage released by police showed. . . .
Abrokwa was arrested Monday and charged with forcible touching, menacing, disorderly conduct and harassment.

All of which are misdemeanors, by the way, and Abrokwa was promptly released without bail. This attack occurred in the Bronx, which is represented in Congress by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Did the victim of Abrokwa’s subway fecal attack vote for AOC? If so, I find it difficult to say she does not deserve to be smeared with feces. Were it within my power to make it possible, everyone who voted for AOC — who got 152,661 votes in 2020 — would be treated the same way.

Frank Abrokwa is the symbolic face of the Democratic Party:

The sicko who allegedly smashed his own feces in a Bronx straphanger’s face joked with cops that “s–t happens” before sneering to a Bronx judge, “F–k you, bitch.”
Frank Abrokwa, 37, was busted Monday at his homeless shelter in connection to the revolting Feb. 21 attack, according to cops and police sources.
Upon arrest, he made light of the attack, quipping to cops, “S–t happens. Haha. This is a s–tty situation. Haha,” Bronx Assistant District Attorney Grace Phillips said during Abrokwa’s arraignment late Tuesday.
Abrokwa — apparently impatient because Brooklyn detectives showed up to arrest him for an unrelated hate crime from September — also made a scene in Bronx Criminal Court.
Prior to his appearance before Judge Wanda Licitra, he could be heard in the holding area grumbling, “Why am I still here? I’m f–king tired of it. I’m hungry.” . . .
Phillips requested an order of protection for the 43-year-old feces victim — prompting an outburst from Abrokwa, who told the judge, “I don’t know that b—h,” referring to the victim.
“Can I go with the Brooklyn detectives?” he pleaded.
He then lashed out at the judge, lamenting, “Why am I being mistreated by the system?”
“I’m being respectful. I’m talking to my attorney,” he snapped at the jurist. “You’re talking to her. Not to me. F–k you, bitch.”
At that point, Licitra called the case and had Abrokwa removed from the courtroom — but brought him back in later to continue the arraignment, which lasted about 40 minutes.
Ultimately, Abrokwa was freed without bail — because the charges against him were not bail-eligible under the state’s bail reform laws, despite prosecutors’ request for him to be held on $15,000 bond, or $5,000 cash.
Horrifying video of the attack shows Abrokwa allegedly slapping a bag filled with his own crap in the victim’s face — and then rubbing it on the back of her head — as she sat on a bench at the Wakefield-241st Street subway station.
Just before the attack, Abrokwa approached the victim and said, “Hey mami, how come you don’t want to talk to me?,” Phillips said.
“The complainant did not engage with the defendant,” the ADA said. “Instead of taking the lack of engagement in stride, the defendant responded with violence. He walked into a nearby idling subway car and defecated in a bag.”
“He then walked back to the complainant and repeatedly smashed the bag and left his feces in her face, head, neck, shoulders and back area. She had feces in her eyes, and hair. As he attacked, the defendant stated in sum and substance: ‘Like this, bitch?’”
The victim used her bag to shield herself but suffered a small bleeding cut inside her lip, and a swollen and red forehead, Phillips said.
But just after being freed in the Bronx, Abrokwa was nabbed in connection to the Brooklyn hate crime.
In that case, Abrokwa approached a 46-year-old man on Utica Avenue near Park Place in Crown Heights around 5:30 p.m. Sept. 9 and snarled, “F–king Jew, I’m going to kill you,” cops said.

Turning loose Jew-hating lunatics to terrorize the public — this is the Democratic Party’s 2022 midterm campaign platform. Anyone tempted to vote Democrat should seek psychiatric treatment immediately.

Crazy People Are Dangerous.




 

Crazy People Are Dangerous

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Y’know, I did a lot of drugs back in the day, but I never did the “Decapitate Your Lover During Sex” drug:

A 24-year-old Wisconsin woman allegedly killed and dismembered her lover during a drug-fueled sex session — dumping his head and penis in a bucket and his legs in a crockpot.
The brunette seductress, Taylor Schabusiness, then allegedly told police they were “going to have fun trying to find all of the organs,” WBAY reported.
The mutilated victim in the ghastly crime Thursday was a 25-year-old Green Bay man whom investigators have not identified.

(Why won’t they identify him? To spare his family the embarrassment of having people know they raised a son so stupid that he “swiped right” on the Tinder profile of a psychopath?)

On Tuesday, Schabusiness made her first appearance in Brown County Court via video conference on charges of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault.
Prosecutors said the sexual assault charge is for acts that took place after the man was dead, WBAY reported.
Police were called to a home on Stony Brook Lane about 3:30 a.m. Feb. 23 by a resident who reported finding her son’s head in a bucket, according to the news outlet. . . .

(Somewhere in Hollywood, producers just ordered the script for a Netflix series tentatively titled “The House on Stony Brook Lane,” and the scene where mom finds her son’s head in a bucket just writes itself.)

During a search of her van, police found a crockpot with human remains, including legs, according to a criminal complaint cited by the outlet.
At the mother’s house of horrors, they later found the head and “male organ” in the bucket, an upper torso in a storage tote, “body fluid” and knives.
When asked about what happened, the suspect reportedly said, “That’s a good question.”
She told police she and the man had been smoking meth before going to his mother’s house, where they had sex using chains, according to WBAY.

(If your idea of a fun date is smoking meth and having sex using chains, you should be required to disclose this on your Tinder profile.)

Schabusiness said she had blacked out at one point, then went “crazy” and began choking her partner — insisting she did not mean to kill him but enjoyed choking him.

(Another mandatory Tinder profile disclosure.)

She said “police were going to have fun trying to find all of the organs as she dismembered the body. Schabusiness stated all of the body parts should be in the basement,” according to the complaint.
“Schabusiness stated she used knives that she obtained from the kitchen of the residence and that a bread knife worked the best because of the serrated blade,” the complaint continues.

(Hide the serrated knives before your Tinder date shows up.)

The woman said she “did get paranoid and lazy and that she thought it was the ‘dope’ that was making her paranoid,” the document adds.
She also said she planned on taking all the body parts with her but “got lazy and only ended up putting the leg/foot in the van and she forgot the head,” according to the complaint.

(Kids, stay away from meth, because meth makes it difficult to think clearly when you’re trying to get away with murder.)

Schabusiness appeared calm and said very little during her court appearance Tuesday, only acknowledging she has the right to legal counsel, the outlet reported.
The woman had recently been put on probation and was supposed to be wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet but apparently managed to remove it, WBAY reported. The reason for her probation was unclear.

The reason was “unclear,” although my guess is that maybe it had something to do with her being a meth-addicted psychopath.

Still, admit it — you’d probably swipe right on her Tinder profile. This is the worst crime in Green Bay since the Packers lost to the 49ers.




 

Re: ‘Hannah’ Tubbs

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When this case started making headlines — and it’s 24/7, rotating with Ukraine, as the top story on Fox News — I didn’t want to write about it because what is more absurd than a child molester claiming to be transgender so he can get leniency from a liberal California DA? The whole thing struck me as so inherently silly that there wasn’t much opportunity to make jokes about it. Like, it’s already a joke, what can I possibly say about it? But then I learned that this case was more serious than what I’d thought at first. This creep, James “Hannah” Tubbs, is a career criminal who committed a heinous assault:

On January 1, 2014, just two weeks shy of his 18th birthday, a panhandler named James Tubbs entered a women’s restroom at a Denny’s restaurant in Palmdale, California and lay in wait, court records show. When a 10-year-old girl entered, he grabbed her by the throat. After locking the girl in a stall with him, Mr Tubbs proceeded to shove his hands down her pants and sexually assault her.
“The assault went on until someone walked into the restroom and scared him off,” Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney John McKinney would later say.
Surveillance footage captured the suspect, known as ‘Shrink’ to locals who often saw him panhandling at a Chevron gas station near the Denny’s, as he entered the restaurant.
Mr Tubbs vanished from the area shortly after the crime.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors issued a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Mr Tubbs . . .
The suspect had a conviction in the state for Assault With A Deadly Weapon in Kern County, California, and was previously alleged to have sexually assaulted a minor in a case that has never been brought to prosecution.
In 2019, Mr Tubbs came to the attention of Los Angeles County after he was arrested on suspicion of Battery in Idaho and his DNA was entered into a crime database.
During his time on the run, Mr Tubbs amassed a lengthy criminal record, which includes Assault With a Deadly Weapon convictions and Drug Possession and probation violations in Idaho and Washington, where he also has a pending misdemeanor case.

OMG, he assaulted a 10-year-old girl in a public restroom?

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Anyone who would even consider letting James “Hannah” Tubbs back on the street has no business holding public office, and the campaign to recall George Gascon could raise money by raffling off tickets for the chance to feed that son of a bitch into a wood chipper. Meanwhile . . .

Fox News Correspondent Caves
to Woke Gender Theology and Uses Preferred Pronouns of Convicted Child Molester

Are you kidding me with this? You’re essentially inviting the public to participate in this lunatic’s dangerous delusions. Speaking of which:

The DA also expressed concern that Tubbs would be victimized if incarcerated in an adult facility as a trans woman and cited a probation report that actually recommended home confinement.
The newspaper also reviewed an email that said Tubbs has been diagnosed with mental illnesses and might also qualify as “developmentally disabled.”

Oh, the child molester might be “victimized” in grown-up prison? To quote Inspector Harry Callahan, “Well, I’m all broken up about that man’s rights.” And as for mental illness, Crazy People Are Dangerous.

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)




 

Way to Go, ‘White Supremacists’!

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You probably didn’t realize “white supremacists” had taken over San Francisco, but that’s just how clever and sneaky they are:

The progressive San Francisco school-board president recalled by voters earlier this week claimed her ouster was a “consequence” of fighting for racial justice, and represents a victory for “white supremacists.”
“So if you fight for racial justice, this is the consequence,” board president Gabriela López wrote in a tweet on Thursday. “Don’t be mistaken, white supremacists are enjoying this. And the support of the recall is aligned with this.”
More than 70 percent of voters elected to recall López and two other progressive board members, Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga. The trio were the only board members on the seven-member board who were eligible to be recalled.
López shared a screenshot of a Washington Post article about the recall titled, “San Francisco recalls school board members seen as too focused on racial justice.”
The article’s subheading adds, “In a warning for the left, critics saw misplaced priorities, as the board focused on equity issues while schools remained closed.”
As Washington Post politics reporter David Weigel noted in a tweet responding to López, the recall vote was “racially diverse, including hundreds of non-citizen immigrants who were eligible to participate.”

Yeah, when you’ve lost Dave Weigel — and 70% of the vote in San Francisco — maybe you should rethink your agenda. But of course they won’t. Being “woke” means never having to admit that reality exists.

In point of fact, a key factor in the recall was that the school board essentially destroyed the prestigious Lowell High School by eliminating its meritocratic admissions policy, which really pissed off the city’s large Asian-American community. But if you’re into meritocracy — if you believe hard work should be encouraged and exceptional ability should be recognized — then you’re a “white supremacist” no matter what your race, according to the dogmatic beliefs of 21st-century “progressives.”




 

Nick Saban Dropped THE BOMB!

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While everybody else is expecting war in Ukraine, Alabama football fans are reeling from the nuclear holocaust unleashed in a speech last week by Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban:

“We lost the national championship game, basically because we had 3 corners out, both starters and the best backup. So we’re playing with some guys that didn’t have a lot of experience. It eventually got us in the fourth quarter. We had the kind of team where we had a really good quarterback and we wanted to have skill guys that they couldn’t guard. So we had 2 who were really, really good — (John Metchie III and Jameson Williams). They both got hurt.
”Now, we were playing with guys that typically didn’t have to play at those positions. The lesson to be learned is there were 3 guys, and I’m not calling out any names, that basically didn’t do the things they needed to do throughout the season because they were frustrated with their circumstance. … They’re frustrated with their circumstance because they’re not playing as much as they want to. They’re outcome oriented, they want to worry about how many balls they catch or how much playing time they get or whatever it is. So they don’t focus every day on being a complete player at their position, and they don’t work in practice and prepare for the games because they say to themselves, ‘Why should I do this? I’m not gonna play anyway.’
”So, we had 3 guys, they all had a significant role in the national championship game, and not one of them, not one, could take advantage of the opportunity that they had, because they never ground through it. They never made themselves the best player they could be. When they got the opportunity, they couldn’t do it. That’s a lesson for everybody. What comes first? Playing time? Or making sure that you’re ready to play and create value for yourself when you get the opportunity?”

Whoa! That’s a bombardment of heavy truth, and a message to the rest of the team. A lot of these five-star recruits expect to be starters their freshman year, and think it’s the job of coaches to give them what they consider as their “fair share” of playing time. So if they don’t start right away, they get their feelings hurt and start sulking, but then when something happens to give them a shot — and having Metchie and Williams both get hurt was clearly not something anyone anticipated — they’re not ready for it. You can contrast that to Mac Jones, who rode the bench for three years before he got his chance to be Alabama’s starting quarterback, but by God, he was ready when he got that chance.




 

‘He Had a 48-Page Rap Sheet’

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Say hello to Alexander Kade Lanier, 26, and while you’re at it, you can also say good-bye to him, because his lengthy criminal career recently came to a permanent end, thanks to Alabama law enforcement.

Lanier was from South Carolina, where last year, he escaped custody:

A man escaped police custody Wednesday afternoon [Oct. 27] while being treated at a Greenwood hospital, according to police.
Alexander Kade Lanier was being treated Wednesday at Self Regional Medical Center after he was arrested by Greenwood police in connection with a burglary and domestic violence investigation from Tuesday night, Greenwood Police Department Public Information Officer Jonathan Link said.
At about 4:40 p.m. Tuesday, Lanier eluded police, who minutes later discovered he was no longer in his hospital room, Link said. He did not have enough details to say how Lanier escaped police custody or surveillance, but officers have been searching near Self since then to find him.
“I can’t think of the last time we had somebody escape our custody like this, but it’s very unfortunate,” Police Chief T.J. Chaudoin said. “There’s a lot of questions to be asked like why he wasn’t in handcuffs, why he wasn’t in leg irons. There’s several questions that have to be asked to figure out why he wasn’t restrained.”
Chaudoin said Lanier was being treated at the hospital after telling officers he had consumed an illegal substance. Hospital staff members were monitoring him after treatment, and Chaudoin said one sworn officer was assigned to watch Lanier when he escaped. He said an investigation is underway into how Lanier escaped and whether department policy was followed.
Lanier was last seen wearing a red hoodie and gray shorts. Chaudoin said after Lanier’s escape, he stole a vehicle from someone he knew who lived on Woodrow Avenue.

More details of the arrest in that case:

Lanier was arrested Tuesday night in connection with a burglary case. Police went at about 8:45 p.m. Tuesday to a Stanley Avenue apartment, where a woman said a man had forced his way into the apartment.
The woman told officers she used to be in a relationship with the man, but he recently tried to contact her after she blocked him on social media and on her phone, a report said. He came to the apartment she was staying at and began to beat on the door. When she told him to leave, he broke the door down and started to argue with her.
The woman tried to calm him down so he would not flee before police arrived, and when officers came he had locked himself in the bathroom, the report said. He came out when police commanded him to, and told police he had consumed a bag with a dozen pills in it.

Was Lanier able to escape because he was a criminal mastermind, or did this have more to do with a particularly dumb cop? Readers can decide for themselves, but a few days later, he was caught in Alabama:

The Pell City Police Department arrested a man Thursday who was wanted as a fugitive from justice out of South Carolina.
Pell City Police Chief Paul Irwin said Alexander Lanier, 26, of Greenwood, S.C., after a chase that spanned several miles of Interstate 20 and ended in Leeds.
The chief said Lanier had previously escaped from a correctional facility in South Carolina after he had been convicted of burglary while armed.
He said at 4:54 p.m. Thursday, St. Clair County advised the Pell City Police Department of a 2006 Honda Pilot driven by Lanier headed westbound on I-20 that was suspected of leaving the scene of an accident in Coldwater.
Irwin said officer Manuel Diaz spotted the vehicle near I-20 exit 158 and began pursuit. Diaz was later joined by other officers and deputies from St. Clair County. The chief said the pursuit continued until the Leeds exit where the Leeds Police Department was deploying a spike strip. He said Lanier avoided the strip but lost control of the vehicle which came to rest in a nearby ditch.
Irwin said Lanier was arrested after the chase without incident, but was transported to the hospital because of injuries sustained in the crash.
Jail records show Lanier was booked into the St. Cir County Jail in Asheville Sunday afternoon. He is being held without bond on charges of two counts of buying or receiving stolen property, reckless endangerment, fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement and a charge as a fugitive from justice.

Now, you might think that would be the end of it. He had already escaped custody in South Carolina, become an interstate fugitive and led police on a pursuit in a stolen car. Lock him up and throw away the key, particularly given the fact that he had originally been arrested for terrorizing an ex-girlfriend. I was under the impression that violence against women was a crime category taken seriously by our criminal justice system, but perhaps I was mistaken. Also, I was generally under the impression that progressive soft-on-crime leniency hadn’t spread as far as St. Clair County, Alabama — which, last time I checked, was a redneck stronghold where Donald Trump got 81% of the vote — and yet, in this too I was mistaken, because a judge there sent Lanier to a drug-rehab facility. And of course, the career criminal just waltzed right out of there, and went on a crime spree that ended shortly after he decided to carjack somebody at Waffle House, in Oxford, Alabama.

Let me tell you folks, I went to college at Jacksonville State University, just up the road from Oxford, a place I spent a fair amount of time (although on the advice of Bert the Samoan Lawyer, I’ll invoke my right to remain silent as to what I was doing there, and as to exact dates, well, I’m sure I’ve got an alibi). But the thing is, Oxford is nearly as redneck as St. Clair County, if not indeed more so. It was the site of a rather notorious incident during the civil rights era — the locals didn’t take kindly to the “Freedom Riders” passing through — and Oxford is just not the kind of place where a fugitive on a crime spree can expect lenient treatment. Hell, you try to carjack somebody there, and they’re likely to pull out their own gun and shoot you dead. And dear God, a Waffle House? You’re playing Russian roulette trying to carjack somebody at a Waffle House in a redneck town like Oxford. I think we can discard the idea that Alexander Kade Lanier was a criminal mastermind:

Oxford Police Chief Bill Partridge released the name of the man killed in an officer-involved shooting in Oxford early Monday morning.
During a news conference Monday afternoon, Partridge said Alexander Kade Lanier, 26, of Louisiana, had a 48-page rap sheet. Chief Partridge said he had prior arrests for felony assault, escapes and other charges. Partridge said, “This individual shouldn’t be walking our streets.”
The chief said at 12:11 a.m. an Oxford Police Officer was doing a report before his lunch when the suspect, Lanier, carjacked someone at gunpoint at Waffle House.
Investigators said Lanier shot at officers and then led them on a chase from I-20 to Airport Road. Partridge said Lanier shot at officers while driving on I-20.
The officer-involved shooting happened at Airport Road and Alabama 21. Lanier was killed in the shooting.
Partridge said Lanier was using a weapon that was stolen from Moody Sunday.

So, out of all the Waffle Houses in Alabama to try a carjacking, this young genius just happens to pick the one where there’s a cop sitting in a patrol car across the street. More from Chief Partridge:

An angry Oxford Police Chief Bill Partridge identified the slain man as 26-year-old Alexander Kade Lanier and lashed out at a judicial system that he said puts police officers in danger of career criminals every day.
The past offenses include assault, first second and third degree, assault and battery of detention officers, hit and run in a stolen vehicle and possession of a gun during a burglary, Partridge said. Many of the offenses happened outside Alabama.
“You name it, he’s done it,” Partridge said of Lanier. “This individual shouldn’t be walking our streets. He should be in jail, and we shouldn’t be standing here today.”
“We’ve got problems with individuals walking our streets like this every single day and being let out of jail or walking away from rehab facilities who have major felonies and then we have to stand here, and we have to justify what we had to do.” . . .
“If this individual will shoot at police officers and carjack a vehicle right across the street from a uniformed marked unit, just imagine what he’d do to our citizens,’’ Partridge said. . . .
This is a very unfortunate incident,’’ Partridge said. “We shouldn’t be standing here because this man should be in jail.”
Partridge, a fierce advocate for law enforcement who is often outspoken about violence against police officers, tweeted this just hours before the shootout: “We continue to see officers shot and killed because individuals think it’s their right to pull gun on officers and resist. It’s never okay to resist or shoot at (law enforcement). Comply. Follow directions, complain later.”
Nationwide, he said, police officers are being shot at record pace by career criminals. On Friday alone, 13 police officers were wounded in shootings over a 24-hour period across four states.
“I’ll tell you what needs to be done. We need to stop passing laws that water down our criminal justice system and allow these individuals to walk our streets,’’ Partridge said.
“We shouldn’t be dealing with this,’’ the chief said. “These men and women shouldn’t be out here every day on our streets putting their life on the line because judges and courts allow these individuals to walk out of a door without bond or putting them in a rehab facility that is not as secure so they can just walk off and obtain a weapon and do this type of thing.”

Certainly, I agree with Chief Partridge, being “a fierce advocate for law enforcement” myself, although this is a stance I came to rather belatedly, long after I’d been in the vicinity of Oxford, Alabama, on dates which I cannot recall, your honor, although I’m sure I could come up with an alibi, if I needed one. But you’d have to talk to my Samoan attorney about all this. The main point is, I’m completely innocent, as far as you know.

See, there’s a reason I don’t have a 48-page rap sheet and didn’t die in a hail of police gunfire, the way Alexander Kade Lanier did. Unlike the deceased Mr. Lanier, I was not dumber than a box of rocks. The ancient proverb “crime doesn’t pay” is perhaps not literally true (some criminals do get rich), but the longer you stay in that game, the more likely you’ll end up behind bars or, as in this case, die in a hail of police gunfire.

Notice that Alexander Kade Lanier is of the Caucasian persuasion. That’s why CNN isn’t running the story 24/7 and nobody looted Walmart or toppled any Confederate monuments after the cops shot him dead.

“Social justice”? White guys don’t get none of that, so we can’t expect any televised news conferences by Ben Crump about this case.




 

Jewish Candidate for Louisville Mayor Survives BLM Assassination Attempt

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Less than a week ago, writing about a fringe black “liberation” group, I warned that “there is no guarantee that the next radical gesture will end so harmlessly,” and an intended target literally dodged a bullet this week:

Police have arrested a suspect they say was responsible for the attempted murder of Louisville Democratic mayoral candidate Craig Greenburg.
Quintez Brown, 21, was taken into custody Monday. He has been charged with attempted murder and four counts of wanton endangerment. . . .
His arraignment happened Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. where he pleaded not guilty. . . .
Brown is a well-known activist and organized youth protests during the social justice movements of the summer of 2020. He often wrote opinion columns about race relations in the Courier-Journal.
He was also the subject of a missing person investigation last June. Brown had gone missing in late June 2021, leading to a citywide search. He was eventually found, and his family had asked for privacy while they focused on his mental, physical and spiritual health.
Brown recently announced that he was planning to run for Metro Council’s District 5 seat. . . .
Greenberg said he and his staff were at a campaign office for a meeting when he said a man walked into the office. Upon greeting the man, later identified as Brown, that’s when Greenberg said he allegedly pulled out a gun, pointed it at him and fired.
A staff member, he said, was able to close the door on Brown and the team was able to barricade themselves inside until police arrived.
Police said Brown was stopped about a half-mile from the Story Avenue campaign office where they allege he was carrying a drawstring bag, containing a 9mm gun and additional magazines. . . .
Louisville Metro Police Chief Erika Shields didn’t have immediate answers but said the department would investigate any possible motive.
“Mr. Greenberg is Jewish, so there’s that, we don’t know if it’s tied to the candidates or is political or if we are dealing with someone with mental issues or is venomous,” she said. “We are looking at this from all angles.”

“Mr. Greenberg is Jewish, so there’s that” — yeah, if the suspect in the shooting of a Jewish politician had been a white Trump supporter, it would be 24/7 on CNN, but instead it’s just local news in Kentucky, because it was a Black Lives Matter activist.

The Daily Beast actually has a good article about Brown’s descent into murderous madness. As of 8 p.m. ET, Brown’s Twitter account was still online, and you could see him quoting various black radicals, including Kwame Nkrumah, founder of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. In other words, Brown traveled down a radical path similar to Augustus Romain Jr. (Gazi Kodzo”) of the Black Hammer Organization. There is a profound irony that, four years ago, Brown took part in a gun-control march in Washington, D.C., and was interviewed on MSNBC:

Speaking with Joy Reid’s AM Joy show during the march, Brown, issuing his remarks towards then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, he said “we are here we want, we want common sense gun reform. And if you’re not going to give us that, then we’re going to get everyone out here to vote and we’re going to vote you out of office. So if you want to keep your job, then you know give us what we — not what we want but what we need, what humans need.”
“We need a common sense government reform, get rid of assault rifles,” said Brown at the time.

Trying to murder Jews — is that “common sense gun reform”?

Oh, I almost forgot this bonus: During Tuesday’s court hearing, Brown’s attorney told the judge he believes there are some “serious mental issues at play here.” Repeat after me: Crazy People Are Dangerous.




 

Aspiring Rapper Update: NYC Mayor Mourns Jayquan ‘Chii Wvttz’ McKenley

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Readers should remember 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.”

There was something truly weird about what happened this week:

New York’s Mayor, Eric Adams, paid an emotional tribute to the latest victim of the city’s gun violence, an 18-year-old aspiring rapper, Jayquan McKenley.
McKenley who went by the name Chii Wvttz, was shot dead outside a recording studio in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood on Sunday.
Adams struggled to hold back tears as he blamed the shooting on a ‘broken system that ‘continually fails black and brown New Yorkers.’
The mayor detailed [Jayquan’s] life explaining how the city ‘betrayed’ him including being unable to secure stable housing from officials failing to intervene after he missed 250 days of high school.
‘I didn’t know Jayquan, but his death hit me hard because the more I found out about Jayquan’s story, the more I saw how many times he had been failed by a system that is supposed to help boys like him,’ Adams said.
McKenley grew up in the South Bronx, a neighborhood with high rates of poverty and unemployment.
Adams explained that by the time he was five, Jayquan’s family was living in a homeless shelter.
Adams told how McKenley was placed in a program for children with severe cognitive disabilities. After then moving into a mainstream program just a couple of years later, he was behind.
He was already at risk and though his mom begged for help, McKenley never got any, Adams said.
McKenley went to five different high schools and as a teenager missed hundreds of days of school.
‘Now, right there, our city should have done more,’ Adams said. ‘Over the next four years, Jayquan’s family lived in seven different shelters without stability or security.
‘To Jayquan’s mother and father, I want to say I’m sorry,’ Adams said with tears in his eyes. He had previously spoken with Jayquans’ grieving parents earlier in the week.
‘The story of Jayquan breaks my heart,’ Adams said. ‘His story tests my spirit, and we must do better for young people like him.
‘I’m sorry we betrayed him and so many others like him, but you have my word as your mayor that I will be looking out for the thousands of other Jayquans in our city because I was once a Jayquan, too.
‘I knew what it was like to worry about losing your apartment, your stability, what it’s like to live with a learning disorder, what it’s like to get on the wrong side of the law,’ he said. ‘I’ve been on that path of pain, and I know there’s a way out,’ Adams said.
‘He was a Drill rapper, part of a scene which involves using music as a challenge for social media posts — posts that bled out into violent real-world confrontations,’ he said. ‘It was right there, for all to see. Our city should have done more.’
Drill is a subgenre of rap which is dominated by themes of death and violence.
He had been arrested several times since 2017 including once for attempted murder, last year.
‘We had all the signs you can ever have that a young man’s life was in crisis, and with social media acting as an accelerant, that crisis was escalated,’ Adam’s said noting that red flags were ignored.
‘He was not just a victim now, but a perpetrator. But he was young, there was still time for him to turn the path of violence and move away from that,’ Adams said. ‘Our system and justice system should have done more, more to help him, rehabilitate him.’

He was a hoodlum, a gang-banger. Live by the gun, die by the gun.

All this woe-is-me stuff about how the “system failed him” — who failed? Isn’t this rhetoric just a way to exonerate Jayquan for his own deadly choices, by saying “society” in general was somehow at fault? Jayquan “had been arrested several times,” so why wasn’t he in jail or prison? Isn’t this because of the turn-’em-loose liberal bail policies in New York?

Leave enough gang-bangers out on the streets, don’t be surprised when they shoot each other. Hoodlums have a tendency to become dead hoodlums that way, and if the “system should have done more,” well, more what? More time behind bars for young hoodlums?

The death of “Chii Wvttz” is perhaps symbolic of what’s wrong with New York City, but probably not in the way the mayor imagines.

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