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Mom Blames Atlanta Police for Her Son Getting Beaten in Massive Brawl

Posted on | December 17, 2020 | Comments Off on Mom Blames Atlanta Police for Her Son Getting Beaten in Massive Brawl

An interesting development on the “social justice” front:

A woman whose 13-year-old son was badly beaten after a massive brawl at Atlantic Station last month has filed a complaint against a group of Atlanta police officers who she says did nothing to stop the attack.
Iresha Ridley said she has formally asked APD’s office of professional standards to investigate why none of its officers intervened while a crowd beat her son.
Prior to that attack, another teenager was beaten and punched until he lost consciousness in a different location, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported. A 15-year-old was charged with aggravated assault in that case.
Javon Ridley was attacked Nov. 28 as officers were working to disperse the crowd after the brawl that involved as many as 300 teenagers. In a news conference Wednesday, the Ridleys and their attorney said they believe as many as 10 officers were present at the time.
“The officers have to be held accountable for not intervening when it was their duty to protect (Javon),” attorney Mawuli Mel Davis said.
Atlanta police confirmed that Iresha Ridley had been in touch with an investigator regarding the complaint and that “an investigation into the matter is open and active.”
“We are deeply concerned over this event and we understand and share the frustrations of Mr. Ridley and his family,” an Atlanta police spokesman said in an emailed statement to the AJC. “This incident should never have occurred and I believe it provides a glimpse into some of the challenges faced by the Atlanta Police Department and our officers. Maintaining order over hundreds of juveniles in a situation like this is nearly impossible.”
Hundreds of teens were gathered near the dining and shopping destination’s bowling alley about 5:30 p.m., and many were engaged in fights, according to an incident report obtained by the AJC.
When officers tried to disperse the clusters of teens, several “became defiant and more disorderly, engaging in more fistfights,” the incident report said. One teen was severely beaten and repeatedly punched, police confirmed. When he fell to the ground, another teen repeatedly stomped on his head, the report said. . . .
According to Davis, Javon Ridley was dropped off at Atlantic Station by his mother more than two hours later. The teen, who was unaware of the brawl, had planned to meet his uncle about 8 p.m., Davis said.
“His uncle was there and waiting for him at the bowling alley,” Davis said. “When he attempted to get out of the car to go to the bowling alley, unfortunately, Atlanta police turned him away.”
Due to the violence that had erupted just hours earlier, Atlanta police told Javon and other teens to stand on the 17th Street bridge, which is just outside of Atlantic Station and about a five-minute walk from the bowling alley.
That’s where a large group of people descended on the 5-foot-3, 104-pound teen, Davis said.
Passersby captured the attack with cellphone cameras and posted the videos to social media. In one video, shared with the AJC by Davis, a crowd is seen throwing blows on one person. Davis said as many as 20 people took turns punching and kicking Javon. It is not clear why he was attacked.
“While he was being attacked, obviously, you can see videos where there are Atlanta patrol cars that are occupied by Atlanta police officers who did nothing to render aid,” Davis said, “and that, for us, is a miscarriage of justice.”
Iresha Ridley said she was “devastated” by her son’s attack. “Unfortunately, I was not there to protect him,” she said.
But Atlanta police officers were, and they did nothing to intervene, Ridley said.
“This is my only child,” she said. “He could have been killed.”

While I don’t know if the Atlanta police did everything right in this situation, it seems absurd to scapegoat them for not intervening while, at the same time, police get accused of “systemic racism” every time they do intervene. People with the “social justice” mentality always want to blame police no matter what happens. Watch this video:

 

What was happening in Atlanta that night was chaos — anarchy, the collapse of public order — and whose fault was that? Why blame the police because Atlanta is descending into savagery? As Hobbes said, this was bellum omnium contra omnes, “the war of all against all” which subjects its victims to “continual fear, and danger of violent death,” rendering life “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

But just take down some more Confederate statues and maybe rename a few high schools, and I’m sure everything will work out just fine.




 

Category: Crime, Georgia

In The Mailbox: 12.16.20

Posted on | December 16, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.16.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Song of the day.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Armed Gunman Shot By Police – His Mother Blames The Cops
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1203
EBL: Frankie & Dino – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Twitchy: Mollie Hemingway Nukes NYT WH Reporter & The Rest of The MSM With Truth Bomb
Louder With Crowder: Mike Rowe Harshly Opposes Student Loan Forgiveness
Vox Popoli: Massive Wikileaks Drop, also, If Google Wants To Dance

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Local Sheriffs Pushing Back On Lockdowns, also, Spain’s New Cold Warrior
American Greatness: Sen. Johnson (R-WI) Blasts Sen. Peters (D-MI) During Election Integrity Hearing – “You Lied Repeatedly!”
American Power: Joe Biden’s Unsolvable Identity Politics Problem
American Thinker: Trump’s Endgame, also, The Fraudulent 2020 Election Is History Unfolding Before Our Eyes
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuban State Security Arrests Luis Manuel Alcantara & Other Artists From The San Isidro Movement
BattleSwarm: Remember Boko Haram? also, Jimmy Flannigan Goes Down In Flames
Cafe Hayek: An Open Letter To Tyler Cowen
CDR Salamander: What Taiwan Can Learn, also, DG-26 Guam Killer
Da Tech Guy: #Unexpectedly – MI AG & SecState Act Like Conspiracists, also, Report From Louisiana – Church
Don Surber: Keep Texas Red
First Street Journal: Rights Delayed Are Rights Denied, also, Using Freedom Of Speech & The Press To Condemn Other Peoples’ Free Speech
The Geller Report: Sen. Rand Paul May Join Rep. Mo Brooks To File Objection To Electoral Votes During January 6 Joint Session, also, PA Republicans Ask SCOTUS To Review Election Lawsuit
Hogewash: I’m Not Making this Up, You Know, also, While Drinking My Third Cup Of Coffee
Hollywood In Toto: Good Place Star Suggests Rowling Is Evil, Claims Author Did “Irrevocable Harm”, also, The Very Best TV Shows of 2020
JustOneMinute: Something Must Be Happening
The Lid: “Squad” Member Cori Bush Wants To Make Americans Vulnerable Again
Legal Insurrection: San Fransisco Renaming Abraham Lincoln HS Because Black & Native Lives Didn’t Matter To Him, also, Oracle Flees California For Texas, Founder Larry Ellison Heads To Hawaii
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Harlot’s Way  – 4 Bethany
Power Line: And Now, The Dan Rather Medals, also, Rebellion Brewing
Shark Tank: President Trump – “Fox Is Dead”
Shot In The Dark: Adding Insult To Injury
The Political Hat: Mandatory Anti-Racism In College – Anti-Racist Training, Anti-Racist Goals, & Anti-Racist Litmus Tests, also, Vulva Owners & The De-Gendering Of Biology
This Ain’t Hell: Army CID Burned Out & Mismanaged By MP Leadership, Special Agents Say, also, Russia Ups Their ASAT Game
Victory Girls: Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) Says Looking Into Election Is Dangerous
Volokh Conspiracy: First Amendment Generally Protects Secret Recording Of Police In Public Places
Weasel Zippers: AMA Quietly Reversed Their Opposition To Hydroxychloroquine In October, also, 42,000 People Voted Twice In Nevada – 20,000 Voted Who Don’t Even Live There
The Federalist: Biden’s Deputy Chief Of Staff Preaches Unity While Calling GOP Lawmakers “F**kers”, also, New Documents Show Hunter Biden Asking Red Chinese For $10 Million On behalf Of “Entire Biden Family”
Mark Steyn: Do You Hear what I Hear? also, Time’s Basement Dweller of The Year

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Mathematical Analysis Documents ‘Strange Voting Patterns’ in Election

Posted on | December 16, 2020 | Comments Off on Mathematical Analysis Documents ‘Strange Voting Patterns’ in Election

If you’re smart enough to understand all the statistical stuff in this lengthy report, perhaps you can explain it in the comments. Quickly skimming it, I understood that what they are saying is that, compared to expected results — based on previous elections, voter demographics, etc. — the reported results are significantly anomalous in five states that Joe Biden allegedly won. “[T]he model’s predictions match the reported results in all other states, i.e. states where no fraud has been alleged, but predicts Trump won majorities in five disputed states (AZ, GA, NV, PA and WI) and 49.68% of the vote in the sixth (MI).”

What does this mean? Well, it means that if you believe Democrats stole the election, your belief is not irrational. There is actual evidence, which may not be accepted as legal proof, but it’s still evidence.

The real question is what, if anything, can be done about this? If we are victims of a massive fraud, to whom do we turn for justice? I don’t have answers to those question. Heck, I don’t even understand the math.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)




 

Category: Election

In The Mailbox: 12.15.20

Posted on | December 16, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Advisory for the remainder of 2020

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: LGBT Activist Demands Puberty Blockers For All Children
357 Magnum: How’s That Affordable Bail Program Working Out?
EBL: Ann Reinking, RIP
Twitchy: FBI (Again) Cancels Congressional Briefing On Rep. Swalwell & His Red Chinese Spy Friend
Louder With Crowder: J.P. Sears Reminds Us How Brave It Is To Blindly Follow The Media
Vox Popoli: And Which God Is That? also, No, He’s Really Not
Stoic Observations: Four Kinds Of Problems

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Red China Is Not The Big Bad Guy In This Story
American Greatness: The Perilous State Of The American Republic, also, Never Again!
American Power: California’s Central Valley – Desperation & Defiance Amid Lockdown
American Thinker: The Social Tyranny That Threatens Thoughtful Americans
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Election Fraud News
Babalu Blog: “Reverend” Warnock Praises Cuba’s Dictatorship, Condemns U.S.A.
BattleSwarm: Is Red China’s Military A Paper Tiger? also, .50 BMG Vs. Heavy Metal
Cafe Hayek: Brilliant Essay On COVID Derangement Syndrome
CDR Salamander: Naval Primacy Is America’s Best Strategy, also, The 2020s Cruiser Crisis
Da Tech Guy: Rubble’s A-Bouncing, also, Social Media Exodus – NextDoor Review
Don Surber: Trump Did What The Media Said Was Impossible, also, Hey Power Line, Stand With Trump
First Street Journal: Murder In Philadelphia – Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care?
The Geller Report: Subpoenas Issued In Maricopa County To Seize Dominion Machines For Full Forensic Audit, also, Analyst Identifies “Phantom Voters” Used To Dilute Legal Votes In Several States
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, On Honorifics
Hollywood In Toto: Sound Of Metal Gets One Critical Element Exactly Right, also, Borat Gets Crash Course In Cancel Culture
The Lid: Harris Faulkner Rips Into Marie Harf After She Whines That Fox Doesn’t Focus Enough On COVID Deaths
Legal Insurrection: Kamala Harris & Husband Wrongly Portray Hanukkah As Social Justice Holiday, also, Border Official Warns Of “Full-Blown Crisis” As Illegal Crossings Into U.S. Rise Sharply
Nebraska Energy Observer: At The Lake, also, The Meat of The Matter
Power Line: They Stole It Fair & Square, also, Biden Rubs It In
Shark Tank: Ag Commissioner Fried’s Political Future Appears Compromised
Shot In The Dark: Governor Klink, You Had One Job
The Political Hat: The British NHS Is A Cult, also, Happy Bill Of Rights Day!
This Ain’t Hell: Duane Hoffman, Phony Beirut Navy Cross Recipient, also, Victimhood Is Addictive, Y’Know
Victory Girls: No, The Electoral College Didn’t “Cement” A Biden Win
Volokh Conspiracy: 9th Circuit Rules For Calvary Chapel
Weasel Zippers: San Francisco To Rename Abraham Lincoln High School, also, Biden To Name Trans Woman Education Secretary
The Federalist: Restaurant Workers Rally In Times Square To Save Indoor Dining, also, “Nonpartisan” Facebook Fact-Checker Trashed Republicans On Russian Propaganda Outlet
Mark Steyn: Safe Harbors & Pious Ears, also, Passing Pleasures

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‘Anna Reportedly Got Angry’

Posted on | December 15, 2020 | 2 Comments

Contender for the Understatement of the Year Award:

A young medical student and Instagram star wannabe allegedly ripped out her mother’s heart, lungs and intestines — then calmly washed the blood off in the shower and met up with her boyfriend, according to a report.
Anna Leikovic, 21, of Comrat, Moldova, initially used a kitchen knife to stab her mother, Praskovya Leikovic, 40, who remained alive after the barbaric attack at her home, East2West News reported.
The crazed daughter then carved up her dying mom’s innards, according to the outlet.
Leikovic is “suspected of a terrible crime,” the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported, citing police. “She stabbed her mother with a knife and then cut out the heart of a living woman.”
It added: “It is hard to believe but she cut out the heart in the most literal sense of the word.”
The medical student, who has 9,400 followers, appeared in court, where she was asked by a reporter whether she had mutilated her mother in a savage attack.
“Goodbye,” Leikovic replied, laughing.
According to local reports cited by East2West, the mother had returned from a work stint in Germany and believed her daughter was taking drugs, so she arranged treatment for her.
Anna reportedly got angry.

Add this to the growing list of things to warn your children about: Psycho killers hiding in plain sight as Instagram “influencers.”




 

Category: Crime

N.Y. Cathedral Shooter Was Immigrant Criminal With Violent Record

Posted on | December 15, 2020 | 1 Comment

A Christmas choir concert Sunday afternoon at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on the Upper West Side of Manhattan ended with a lunatic brandishing pistols and screaming “shoot me” at police. Attempts by police to “de-escalate” were futile, and the gunman was shot dead. It turn out that the gunman, 52-year-old Luis Vasquez, was an immigrant from the Dominican Republic whose visa had expired:

The gunman shot dead by cops after opening fire on the steps of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Sunday had a long rap sheet that included an attempted murder bust, according to records and sources.
And it wasn’t the first time he shot at cops, sources said.
Luis Vasquez, 52, was arrested on the Upper West Side for attempted murder in 1990, and on an assault charge there a year earlier, sources said Monday.
In the first case, Vasquez was accused of firing a gun at police and an unidentified woman on Aug. 21, 1990, according to sources.
State prison records show he was sentenced to three-to-nine years after pleading guilty to a lesser felony weapons possession charge.
He was released but rearrested on a drug charge in 2007 and turned over to immigration authorities in November of that year.
Vasquez is a native of the Dominican Republic. His travel visa from the country expired on Sunday, sources said.

A violent criminal who was “turned over to immigration authorities” during the Obama administration was still on the streets of New York — where he was, no doubt, registered to vote as a Democrat.

This kind of stuff is no longer surprising. It is now routine.




 

Category: Crime, Immigration, New York

In The Mailbox: 12.14.20

Posted on | December 15, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Fire up the arson locomotives! Uncle Billy’s going back to Georgia! 😉

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: If You Make Something Cheaper…
EBL: Andrew Cuomo, Sexual Harasser
Twitchy: Washington Post Thinks Joe Biden Can Redefine Catholicism
Louder With Crowder: Bill Gates Says Some Small Businesses Should Shut Down, Gets Savaged By Ted Cruz
Vox Popoli: The End Of Democracy, also, Joe McCarthy Was Right
According To Hoyt: The Supreme Court & The Electoral “Safe Harbor”
Monster Hunter Nation: Destroyer Of Worlds Available On Audible Tomorrow
Stoic Observations: Diabetes, Bitch!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Why We Question The Election Results, also, Why Rand Paul Is Right To Oppose The Defense Bill
American Greatness: “Collusion” Vs. Collusion, also, Republican Electors In Seven Contested States Cast Conditional Votes For President Trump – Michigan Electors Blocked
American Power: Jill Biden Needs To Knock Off The “Dr. Jill Biden” Nonsense, also, Red China Floods U.S. With Spies
American Thinker: Frauds – The Election, Media, Congressional Democrats, & The FBI, also, Our Crisis Is Already At DEFCON-3
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily 2020 News, also, Goodbye Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Rep. Diaz-Balart Calls Attention To Cuba’s Violent Repression, also, “All Of Cuba Is Waking Up”
BattleSwarm: Did Smallwang Bang Fang Fang? also, Colin Furze Builds A Trebuchet
Cafe Hayek: Star Parker On Walter Williams, also, Comparing COVID Cases To COVID Deaths
Camp of the Saints: Happy 105th, Francis Albert
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, The Surprising Navalists Leave A Marker
Da Tech Guy: I’m Old Enough To Remember When Internet Giants Bragged About Free Speech, also, Dear AOC, Please Call For A Boycott Of My Blog & DaTipJar
Don Surber: All You Need To Know About The Media In Two Headlines, also, Hunter Biden Coverup Was The Lie Of The Year
First Street Journal: Kathy Shaidle – “You’re Not Smart Enough To Tell Me How To Live”, also, A Challenger For Larry Krasner
Fred On Everything: An Expert Military Analysis Of War With Red China
The Geller Report: DNI Ratcliffe’s Pending Report Will “Blow The Mind Of Every Citizen”, also, Read The Antrim County Dominion Machine Audit Results
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, On Being Certifiable
Hollywood In Toto: McConaughey & Brand Nail The Clueless Elite, also, Even More Proof Cancel Culture Is A Fraud
JustOneMinute: On Past Wisconsin
The Lid: New Email – Hunter Biden Says His Dad & Chinese Partners Were “Office Mates”, also, Former Aide To Gov. Cuomo Accuses Him Of Sexual Harassment
Legal Insurrection: Debra Messing Hopes Donald Trump Is Raped In Prison, also, Attorney General Barr Resigns
Nebraska Energy Observer: Rowan’s Way – 4 Dessert, also, Random Observations
Power Line: Major League Baseball Sticks It To The Minor Leagues, also, Call Me “Doktor” Chill , Not “Doctor” Jill
Shark Tank: Jeb! Joins NeverTrumpers, Democrats In Dismissing Trump’s Legal Challenges
Shot In The Dark: Permissible, also, Weaponized “Charity”
The Political Hat: Anti-Colonialism In Space! also, The (Genderless) Birds & The (Woke) Bees
This Ain’t Hell: Charlie Pride, RIP, also, “Blind” Veteran Got Nearly $1 Million In Disability
Victory Girls: This Fight Is Not About Donald Trump, also, The Dehumanization of The Non-Compliant
Volokh Conspiracy: Who Should Be Called “Doctor”? Probably Not Jill Biden, also, Nidal Hasan’s Death Sentence Affirmed
Weasel Zippers: MI State Police Block GOP Electors From Voting, also, FBI & Texas Rangers Raid HQ Of Company At Center Of Massive Government Hack
The Federalist: Tulsi Gabbard Introduces Bill To Protect Womens’ Sports, also, Will Anyone Face Any Consequences For Gaslighting Americans On The Hunter Biden Story?
Mark Steyn: Quantum Of Swalwell, also, The “Leader” Of The “Free” World

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Attorney General William Barr Resigns

Posted on | December 14, 2020 | Comments Off on Attorney General William Barr Resigns

Not particularly surprising:

President Trump on Monday announced that Attorney General William Barr has submitted his resignation. Amid controversy over the attorney general’s handling of the investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings, Barr has decided to step down from his position.
“Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House, Trump tweeted. “Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job! As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family…”
The president continued, declaring that he was appointing Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen to replace Barr. “Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen, an outstanding person, will become Acting Attorney General. Highly respected Richard Donoghue will be taking over the duties of Deputy Attorney General. Thank you to all!” he wrote.
Trump’s tweet including a copy of Barr’s resignation letter in which the attorney general expressed his gratitude for being given the opportunity to serve under the president. “I am greatly honored that you called on me to serve your Administration and the American people once again as Attorney General,” he wrote.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)




 

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