Woman Dies of Patriarchal Oppression and Police Gunfire, But Mainly …

Posted on | November 7, 2020 | Comments Off on Woman Dies of Patriarchal Oppression and Police Gunfire, But Mainly …

. . . yeah, it was the gunfire that killed her. Makell Meyerin, 31, was armed with a Beretta .45-caliber carbine when she was shot dead by police in Gurnee, Illinois, about 40 miles north of Chicago, in May 2018. The officers were acting within their authority:

Two Gurnee police officers “acted reasonably and appropriately” in a May 23 confrontation on Route 41 that ended with the officers shooting a woman armed with a military-style rifle, according to a statement released late Friday by Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim.
Gurnee Police Department Sgt. Jon Ward and Officer Benjamin Bozer “believed that their lives, the lives of their fellow officers, and the lives of the citizens present in the area were in danger of imminent death or great bodily harm” during a standoff with 31-year-old Makell Meyerin of Antioch, Nerheim said in the statement.
According to Nerheim, the results of an investigation by the Lake County Major Crime Task Force and reviewed by his office found that Meyerin “ignored repeated requests from the police to remain calm and to drop her gun” and “multiple officers heard her ‘rack’ her gun in order to prepare it for firing” before she leveled the rifle toward the officers.
“It was only then that they fired their guns to eliminate this threat. It should also be noted that once the threat ceased, they immediately stopped firing their weapons and took steps to aid Ms. Meyerin,” Nerheim wrote. “Her gun, a Beretta Cx5 Storm tactical carbine rifle, had one live shell in the chamber. The magazine contained (five) live rounds. The selector switch was in the ‘fire’ position.”
The report added that Meyerin was transported to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, where she was pronounced dead at 2:33 p.m., about an hour after Gurnee officers responded to a call about a suspicious car near Chittenden Park in a residential area on the village’s east side.

You can watch the police bodycam video of the incident:

What the video doesn’t explain is what happened before police were called to the “suspicious” vehicle, where Meyerin and her boyfriend were both passed out at a stop sign. They had been on a drug binge for weeks, and earlier that day were involved in another incident:

The first crime scene started in Antioch. Early Wednesday morning, investigators say they got reports of suspicious vehicle with a male driver and female passenger.
Covelli said, “The information they had is somebody was going door-to-door soliciting asking for money.”
When Antioch officers tried to conduct a traffic stop, the male driver refused and instead rammed the police squad car and sped away. But that’s not all.
“A witness reported that there were shots fired from the offending vehicle,” Covelli said.
[T]he car was later found at a residence in unincorporated Antioch where an eight-hour standoff took place before a man and woman were taken in for questioning.
Covelli said the man was not involved, but owned the car used in the incident.
The woman was the third passenger in the car.
As for the other two?
“They were able to flee the unincorporated Antioch residence prior to police officers arriving,” Covelli said. “The two of them subsequently entered a Toyota Prius. The Prius is owned by a relative of the male.” . . .
That white Prius was later spotted Wednesday afternoon in Gurnee where officers were called to respond to two unconscious people inside the car. Those two people have been identified as Meyerin and Jordan J. Huff, who rammed the police car earlier in the day.
Covelli said the Prius was stopped at a stop sign near the intersection of Harper and Gould for an extended period of time, forcing drivers to go around.
When paramedics arrived, they attempted to engage with the female driver, but she drove away with the unconscious man inside. She crashed into a Gurnee fire truck and crashed again at Chittenden Park near Route 41.
Meyerin then ran away leaving the male unconscious inside the car.
“He had symptoms very similar to overdose type symptoms,” said Covelli.
Authorities later found Meyerin standing in the southbound lanes of Route 41 waving a long barrel firearm . . .

More information from the report by the State’s Attorney:

Mr Huff stated that on May 23, 2018, he was with Makell Meyerin and another female in Antioch. He stated that Ms. Meyerin “hustled” a male for money. The three of them drove away in a Volkswagen. Moments later, the police attempted to stop their car. Mr. Huff, the driver, would not stop and was able to successfully elude the police. Upon arriving at Mr. Huff’s Antioch residence, the three individuals fled on foot.
According to Mr. Huff, he later met with Ms. Meyerin and went to Mr. Huff’s mother’s home. Huff and Meyerin took Huff’s uncle’s Prius.
Mr. Huff and Ms Meyerin drove to a Waukegan Motel. Mr. Huff and Ms. Meyerin began to ingest a number of different drugs. After taking those drugs, Mr. Huff stated he had no recollection of what occurred after that point.
Mr. Huff did say that he and Ms. Meyerin had been doing drugs for the last few days. He added that Ms. Meyerin had recently been suicidal.
Mr. Huff said that he only saw the long gun after he and Ms. Meyerin had gotten into the Prius.
Linda Meyerin is the mother of Makell Meyerin. Linda stated that she spoke to her daughter Makell by phone on the morning of May 23, 2018. Makell called Linda and stated that “somebody set up Jordan. I’ve gotta help him. I’m gone. I mean I’m dead.” Makell added that Linda would “see her on the news.”
According to Linda, Makell also asked whether the police had shown up looking for her. Makell did not tell Linda any other information. Makell then hung up the phone.
Linda then gave a little more background about Makell. Makell had been a heroin addict since she was 14 years old. A boyfriend had gotten her addicted to the drug. Makell was in and out of jail on a variety of offenses. When she would be arrested she would get clean. More recently, when she would be released from jail, she would re-unite with Jordan Huff and relapse into drug usage.
Makell’s brother Cory also indicated that Makell and Mr. Huff had been on a drug binge for the last several weeks in the Antioch area.

So she was “hustling” for drugs with her boyfriend, eluding police, ramming other vehicles, brandishing firearms — a menace to society.

If she had been black, I’m sure you probably would have seen her on CNN, with her relatives crying on camera about what a wonderful person she was while the civil-rights lawyer demanded justice. Then there would have been a “mostly peaceful protest” with arson and looting.

But she was white, and nobody cares. Just another dead junkie.

Category: Crime, Illinois

Rapper Killed by ‘Systemic Racism’ and Semiautomatic Pistol Fire, But Mainly …

Posted on | November 6, 2020 | 2 Comments

. . . yeah, it was the pistols that killed him:

A well-known rapper was one of the people killed in a shooting outside an Atlanta hookah lounge early Friday morning.
The shooting happened around 4 a.m. outside of the Monaco Hookah Lounge on Trinity Avenue near Forsyth Street.
According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Dayvon Bennett, aka King Von and two others were shot and later died as a result of their injuries.
Investigators said Bennett and a group of men went to the downtown Atlanta location after leaving the Opium Nightclub where two men approached them in the parking lot and an argument began.
Police told FOX 5’s Emilie Ikeda the dispute became physical between two large groups of people. Guns were drawn, and the groups started shooting at each other, despite an APD patrol car parked in their line of sight, according to police.
“One of them was actually in his patrol car with his blue lights on, so visibility was there, but again the incident happened, so we’re hopeful that with the GBI assistance we can get to the bottom of everything,” said Deputy Chief Timothy Peek with Atlanta Police.
Two off-duty uniformed officers were working at the Monaco Hookah Lounge.
One of the off-duty officers along with an on-duty officer who was patrolling the area attempted to intervene, but Peek said the situation “continued to escalate with them being there.”
He confirmed both officers fired at the groups. It has not been determined if the officers struck any of the five people, but Peek said it is highly likely.
According to APD, Bennett was shot during the initial shootout between the two groups prior to police responding and attempting to stop the shooting. Bennett was not located at the scene, but arrived at a hospital shortly after the shooting, via private vehicle.

Here’s a question: Why was Chicago native Dayvon Bennett, a/k/a “King Von” in Atlanta? Because in addition to being a “well-known rapper,” he was a gangster, and between the police and rival gangsters gunning for him, his hometown was too dangerous for him. But of course, this young victim of “systemic racism” was not to blame for the criminal violence that surrounded him his entire life, up until he got shot to death.

Did I say “gangster”? Bennett’s grandfather was the co-founder of Chicago’s Black Gangster Disciples. Bennett was in and out of jail from the time he was a teenager. At 19, he was charged with first-degree murder, but “witnesses failed to testify” and he walked free in 2017. Two years later, Bennett was charged with attempted murder in Atlanta:

The attempted murder case against well-known rapper Lil Durk will be moving forward. That was the ruling of a Fulton County judge Friday.
The rapper, whose given name is Durk Derrick Bank, faces several felony charges in connection to a shooting at The Varsity including attempted murder.
Banks and his co-defendant, King Von, whose given name is Devon Bennett, huddled together in a Fulton County courtroom Friday for a probable cause hearing. Prosecutors said the two men robbed and shot a man outside popular Atlanta drive-in on February 5.
Prosecutors told the judge Alexander Witherspoon was shot outside the restaurant and his Jeep Cherokee and $30,000 in cash were stolen in a robbery. But attorneys for the rappers implied Witherspoon had a gun and their clients were defending themselves. . . .
Atlanta Police Detective Jeffrey Churchill said his department talked with two witnesses on the scene and secured surveillance tape from several Midtown businesses which showed the shooting. . . .
A Chicago police captain flew in for the hearing he told the court both were documented members of the notorious Black Disciples. Both are charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and street gang activities among other charges.

Somehow, despite police having surveillance video of the robbery, Bennett and his gangster accomplice were out on the street where, coincidentally, they ended up in a gunfight outside a club at 4 a.m.

But I’m sure “systemic racism” must be to blame . . .

Category: Crime, Georgia

Georgia on My Mind

Posted on | November 6, 2020 | Comments Off on Georgia on My Mind

Last night Wombat and I were texting and I told him I was trying to ignore this development in my native state:

Biden has taken a narrow lead over Trump in Georgia, a state Trump must carry to maintain a pathway to an electoral college win and that no Democrat has carried since 1992, on the strength of absentee ballots.
As of 6 a.m., Biden was leading by 1,096 votes out of nearly 4.9 million cast.
The state’s most populous and Democratic-leaning counties of Fulton, DeKalb and Chatham finished counting absentee ballots on Thursday, helping Biden overcome Trump’s lead.
But the vote-counting is not yet complete. There are 8,899 requested overseas and military ballots that may arrive by the Friday deadline, plus provisional ballots left to count.
As of late Thursday, 14,097 were still outstanding statewide, according to the secretary of state’s office.
The narrow margin makes a recount of the presidential vote increasingly likely in Georgia, according to Gabriel Sterling, the state’s voter information system manager. In Georgia, candidates can request a recount if the margin is 0.5 percent or below, and they must do so within two business days of the statewide certification of results, which is set to take place by Nov. 20.

“Finished counting” = manufactured fraudulent.

The extending of deadlines and the obviously suspicious delays in “counting” are a formula for fraud. The evidence that Atlanta has become to Georgia what Chicago is to Illinois cannot be ignored by Republicans. On Wednesday morning, it appeared that Trump had won the state with a solid margin, yet it was still within the margin of theft, with Democrats in Atlanta (and Savannah) alerted to how many “extra” votes they needed to fabricate in order to steal the state for Biden.

Oh, also, they managed to manufacture enough votes for the Democratic Senate candidate Ossoff to push that into runoff territory. So I’m trying not to watch cable news today. Or this week, really. Just pretend the election is over. Maintain my sanity. “Self care is not selfish.”

Category: Election, Georgia

In The Mailbox: 11.05.20

Posted on | November 6, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Pagan Vigil: The False Choice
357 Magnum: How’s That “Affordable Bail” Program Working Out?
Red Pilled Jew: Quick Wednesday Whittle, also, How Is This Possible?
EBL: Michigan Seems Like A Dream To Me Now (Or Maybe A Nightmare)
Twitchy: Brit Hume Sets Thomas Friedman Straight About Al Gore “Taking A Bullet For The Country” In 2000
Louder With Crowder: MSNBC – Trump On Track To Win Arizona
Vox Popoli: Why Trump Will Win Pennsylvania, also, Over The Target

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Fix Is In
American Greatness: Game On For The Coup? also, Sleepy Campaign Strategy Mystery Solved
American Thinker: Count And Recount Every “Vote” Until You Win
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Early Warfare News
Babalu Blog: Florida 2020 – The Cuban American Vote And How Democrats Continue To Blow It
BattleSwarm: What Can You Do About A Stolen Election?
Cafe Hayek: Talking Economics & Trade With Nate Wadworth
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: “A Republic If You Can Keep It” Thoughts Under My Fedora, also, My Review Of The New Reality TV Series How To Steal An Election
Don Surber: Democrat Civil War Begins
The Geller Report: Registered Democrat Observer At Philly Ballot Center – “This Is A Coup Against The President”, also, Detroit Poll Watcher – “It’s Disgusting What’s Happening”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Tactics v. Logistics
Hollywood In Toto: Antifa: Rise Of The Black Flags Shows The Chaos & anarchy Hatched By An “Idea”, also, Post-Election Hollywood – America Is Racist
JustOneMinute: Miscount Every Vote
The Lid: Political Elite, Counting States, Twitter & The MSM Are Silencing Vote Disputes, also, Nevada USPS Worker Promises To Help Provide Bogus Ballots For Biden
Legal Insurrection: Stay The Course On Election Contests & Litigation, also, “If We Run This Race Again We’ll Get F*cking Torn Apart In 2022”
Power Line: Melissa Mackenzie – Be Of Good Cheer! also, Why Shouldn’t Conservatives Be Enraged By Biden’s Win?
Shark Tank: Nikki Fried – “Florida Democrats Suffered Some Hard Losses”
Shot In The Dark: Motivations
The Political Hat: An Old But Salient Message For Everyone Post-Election, also, An Election Musical Interlude
This Ain’t Hell: Riots In Portland
Victory Girls: The Republican Party Has Reclaimed Its Relevance
Volokh Conspiracy: Our Curious Electoral System
Weasel Zippers: A Man Dead Since 1984 Voted In The 2020 Election In Michigan, also, Trump Poll Watchers Denied Access To Watch Ballot Counting Despite Court Order
The Federalist: We’re Supposed To Believe The GOP Had A Great Election Night Except For The President? also, Reports Of Election Fraud Keep Piling Up In Michigan
Mark Steyn: Election Day Plus Two

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Category: Linkagery

Post-Election Hangover Syndrome

Posted on | November 5, 2020 | Comments Off on Post-Election Hangover Syndrome

Why is it that rural counties with comparatively few resources can manage to count all their votes on Election Night, while America’s major cities still haven’t finalized their totals by Thursday?

Democrats should be asked that question, because it says an awful lot about what’s wrong with the Democratic Party, which governs all the places where they haven’t finished counting votes yet — Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, etc. If there were no other issue to divide the American people, the gross incompetence of Democrat-controlled governments would be sufficient to justify GOP opposition.

Expect this problem to get worse, not better. Oregon voters approved a referendum Tuesday to decriminalize heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, so that the lunatic carnival in Portland will likely become even crazier than it has already been. Joe Biden won Oregon by a 17-point margin because of course a brain-addled Democrat is popular in The Dopehead State. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, Kweisi Mfume was reelected to Congress with 71% of the vote, because Democrats in Baltimore are committed to challenging Detroit for the title of Worst City in America. Never imagine that Democrats have hit rock-bottom; the abyss is truly bottomless. Turning once-prosperous cities into hellholes isn’t enough; they want to ruin the whole country.

Speaking of Nate Silver, the dishonest monster who has been falsely spinning poll numbers for more than a decade is finally getting his comeuppance from Democrats who realize he utterly bamboozled them. Silver’s FiveThirdEight forecasts were so wrong that the error could not be explained by incompetence; Nate is a malicious liar, and no honest person would ever wish to be associated with him again.

After spending six hours podcasting on Election Night with John Hoge (and the lovely Dianna, joining us from Valdosta), I managed to get a few hours of sleep before cranking out a quick column:

Late Tuesday night, it appeared that Donald Trump had won reelection rather decisively. Not only had he scored a historic win in Florida (about which more later), but the results being reported at 11 p.m. Eastern showed the president with commanding leads in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. By the time I woke up Wednesday morning, however, those states had all been flipped into Joe Biden’s column, and cable TV news was claiming — contrary to evidence — that Georgia was still “too close to call.”
The Democrat I mocked as “Landslide Joe” failed to meet expectations, and Democrats also lost important down-ticket races where they squandered tens of millions of dollars trying to take Senate and House seats that the GOP won. Mitch McConnell cruised to reelection in Kentucky, and Lindsey Graham fought off a well-funded challenger in South Carolina.
Details of presidential results in the states that will decide the winner of this election are something that pundits will be chewing over all day, if not for weeks to come. What we can conclude now — without knowing the final official outcome — is that Trump wildly outperformed the results predicted by public opinion polls. . . .

Read the rest at The American Spectator. I’m still in psychological recovery mode, and am trying to avoid news for therapeutic reasons.

Category: Election

Sheriff Bob Wins Re-Election

Posted on | November 5, 2020 | Comments Off on Sheriff Bob Wins Re-Election

If you’re a fan of law enforcement, you know Sheriff Bob Gualtieri of Pinellas County, Florida. He is a veteran lawman who went to college and got a law degree, worked as a lawyer and then returned to the sheriff’s department as legal counsel and became chief deputy before being appointed sheriff by Gov. Rick Scott in 2011.

Pinellas County — St. Petersburg, Largo, Clearwater, across the bay from Tampa — had a serious problem with teenage car thieves. That problem got reduced slightly in 2017 when three of the juveniles died in a fiery crash in a stolen Ford Explorer:

The SUV ran through a red light — it was going 117 mph just 2½-seconds before impact, according to crash recovery data — and then collided with a 1999 Toyota Camry in the middle lane of U.S. 19 N, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
The Camry driver, Ricky Melendez Jr., was on his way to work.
The Explorer was sent airborne, crashed into five parked cars at a dealership and then struck a billboard pole 10 feet above the ground before tumbling to stop on Tampa Road.

Here is Sheriff Bob’s press conference about that incident:

This guy knows how to do a press conference. Anyway, some left-wing pest of a “social justice” Democrat ran against Sheriff Bob this year, and amid all the hype about high turnout, I worried that the sheriff might be in trouble, but he cruised to victory with a 25-point margin, 62%-37%.

Y’know, I’m always looking for a dark-horse long-shot candidate, somebody with a populist “outsider” image like my late friend Herman Cain, and the current occupant of the White House. It’s kind of early to be talking about 2024, but if Sheriff Bob starts gaining a bit more of a national media profile over the next couple of years . . .

Well, never say never. Impossible things happen all the time.