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Chicago Democrat Arrested Again

Posted on | September 28, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Recently, I’ve stopped calling them criminals. They’re just Democrats:

Three Chicago men were arrested for Armed Robbery and other offenses following an incident in Joliet [Feb. 15].
According to the Joliet Police Department, officers arrested 43-year-old Tirnell Williams, 27-year-old Blaine Goodall and 44-year-old Tobert Walls for Armed Robbery.
Goodall and Walls were additionally charged in the incident with Aggravated Unlawful Restraint, Unlawful Use of a Weapon by a Felon, Unlawful Use of a Weapon by a Street Gang Member and Possession of a Stolen Vehicle; Goodall was also charged with Aggravated Fleeing and Eluding.
Officers responded to a business in the 2900 blk. of W. Jefferson St. at around 12:44 p.m. in reference to a hold-up alarm.
Responding officers were informed by staff that the store had just been robbed.
Two masked subjects armed with handguns allegedly entered the store and tied up everyone inside. The suspects then took numerous iPhones, iPads and an undetermined amount of cash from the register.
The suspects left the store and fled in an awaiting vehicle; no one inside the store was injured in the incident.
Officers located the vehicle near Bronk Rd. and Theodore St. and initiated a traffic stop. The vehicle refused to pull over and officers began a pursuit.
Officials say the vehicle eventually got onto I-55 and fled at a high rate of speed. Officers lost sight of the vehicle and gave out a description to area law enforcement agencies.
A Will County Sheriff’s Deputy located the vehicle in the 15000 blk. of Janas Dr. in Lockport a short time later.
Officials say Walls was outside the vehicle and allegedly took off running when the deputy confronted him. Walls was taken into custody following the foot pursuit.
The vehicle allegedly took off again and was later located stuck in a snow bank in the 14000 blk. of W. Hickory Ave. in Lemont.
Williams was taken into custody without incident inside of the vehicle . . .
Two firearms were recovered, along with the proceeds of the robbery. Officials say the vehicle used was reported stolen out of Indiana.

Steal a car to use in an armed robbery. The wheelman in this caper, Tirnell Williams, has an extensive criminal record, but because Illinois is run by Democrats, he was turned loose to commit more crime:

A nine-time felon arranged to have “a real animal” rob and sexually assault a woman in a River North hotel last month as part of a scheme that he hoped would yield a large payout from Hilton Hotels Corporation, prosecutors said.
The alleged offender, who is on bail while awaiting trial for a suburban armed robbery, appeared in court using a wheelchair that prosecutors said is a prop that the perfectly-healthy man uses in an ongoing series of personal injury lawsuit scams.
Tirnell Williams, 43, rented a hotel room for his girlfriend and her friend to enjoy last month because the friend was planning to move out of town the next day. Unbeknownst to the friend, Williams was scheming to have her raped and robbed at the Home2Suites by Hilton, 110 West Huron, to set up a lawsuit against the hotel giant, prosecutors said. . . .
The victim entered the hotel, followed by a man who trailed her onto an elevator and then pulled her into a stairwell when she reached her guestroom floor. The attacker held a knife to the 32-year-old woman’s throat, sliced her purse off of her arm, removed her leggings, and shredded her underwear, prosecutors said Sunday.
Then, the attacker tied the woman to a handrail in the stairwell and forced her to perform a sex act. When the woman vomited, he sodomized the woman and fled down the staircase with her purse. . . .
Detectives later developed a witness who told them the hotel attack was a set-up by Williams because he knew the victim had a lot of cash in her purse. According to the state, Williams told the attacker to “stick his d*ck in the victim’s mouth five or six times” and said he hand-picked the attacker because he is “a real animal and he enjoys it.” . . .
Investigators secured court permission to surveil conversations with Williams in which he allegedly admitted to arranging the attack, although he claimed to not know she had been sexually assaulted. During the recorded conversations, Williams admitted he gets money by bringing cases to personal injury attorneys and said he planned to stage a second attack on a woman at a Hilton in Oaklawn on September 26, according to prosecutors.
The second attack would help establish a pattern of security issues at Hilton properties for the lawsuit, Williams allegedly said during the surveilled conversations.

The article goes on to mention one of the highlights of Williams’s lifelong criminal career: In 2015, he tried to murder an acquaintance. Williams and an accomplice tied the man up with an extension cord, then Williams put a pistol to the man’s head and pulled the trigger, but the gun wouldn’t fire, so he stabbed the man repeatedly, and then fled the scene of the crime covered in blood. At the time of that attempted murder, Williams was “on parole in a 2011 case in which he was found guilty of receiving or possession a stolen vehicle. In the past, he has served prison time for burglary, robbery, theft, drug possession and earlier stolen vehicle cases, according to Illinois Department of Corrections and court records.”

You see that Tirnell Williams has never even tried to work for a living. Instead, he has been perpetrating crime his entire adult life.

A Chicago Democrat, in other words.




 

Category: Chicago, Crime

George Floyd Mug Shot

Posted on | September 28, 2020 | Comments Off on George Floyd Mug Shot

 

That’s a photo from the Houston Police Department, where George Floyd was arrested in September 1998 on theft charges. Matt Berman was able to get multiple mug shots of Floyd from the Houston PD, which arrested Floyd on nine separate occasions between 1997 and 2009.

Why haven’t Americans seen these mug shots before? Berman explores this question, offering the most likely explanation: “Democrats are using this George Floyd incident to raise a lot of money, so they can’t risk having the general public begin thinking poorly of him.”

Saint George of the Blessed Fentanyl.




 

Category: Crime, Minnesota, Texas

@RealDonaldTrump: Still #Winning

Posted on | September 28, 2020 | Comments Off on @RealDonaldTrump: Still #Winning

 

When your enemies keep breaking the law to attack you, we can conclude that your enemies are bad people:

The New York Times published details Sunday of what it claimed were President Donald Trump’s tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), going back more than two decades, showing “chronic losses and years of tax avoidance,” it said. . . .
The Times story, if based on authentic documents, appears to debunk several conspiracy theories held by Democrats for years. The tax returns do not [show] “any previously unreported connections to Russia,” the Times reports. Moreover, the Times story appears to confirm Trump’s claim — long treated as an excuse by Democrats — that he is under audit by the IRS. And the Times could not find “any itemized payments to Mr. Cohen,” ostensibly the subject of the New York investigation. . . .
It is illegal for the IRS to leak the personal tax returns of any individual. The Times is guarding its sources closely.

Yesterday, Trump had a few comments:

It’s fake news. It’s totally fake news. Made up. Fake.

The New York Times has been so wrong for so long.




 

Category: Donald Trump, New York Times

Rule 5 Sunday: Elizabeth Taylor

Posted on | September 27, 2020 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Remember when actresses looked hot even when they had all their clothes on? I remember.

Elizabeth Taylor, sometime in the 1950s.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1119, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Socialist Takeover Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: La Rondine, Stephanie Dawkins Davis, Ratched Review, La Fanciulla del West, Dinah Washington, Barbara Lagoa, Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, Storm Large, Tosca, Texas Reloaded, Turandot, Shu Bop, La Boheme, and Amy Coney Barrett.

A View From The Beach: Teri Hatcher – More Indian than Elizabeth Warren, Fish Pick Friday – Hannah Aldoroty, Tanlines Thursday, Fall is Fell, Enough WuFlu for You? Part 3 – Schools and Other Pure Politics, Tattoo Tuesday, Chesapeake Shad Recovery Failing, Soy Boy Explains Why Owning Dogs is Racist, Mystery Fish Sets Maryland Record, Palm Sunday and The Mid September Surprise

Proof Positive: Cathy Lee Crosby

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My Chicago Earworm Problem

Posted on | September 27, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

For the past several weeks, for some reason, I’ve become obsessed with old Chicago songs. Not their later easy-listening pop, but their early stuff from 1969-1972, when they were still avant-garde. And I couldn’t figure out why this happened until I realized that “25 or 6 to 4” had been remastered as a U.S. Army recruiting advertisement:

Fifty years after its original release, Chicago’s signature song, “25 or 6 to 4,” has been reimagined as a hip-hop anthem about finding your inner warrior with fiery new vocals by indie rapper realnamejames. An abbreviated version of the remix first appeared in November 2019 as a part of the launch of the U.S. Army’s “What’s Your Warrior?” marketing campaign, which was developed to showcase the breadth and depth of opportunities for today’s youth to achieve their goals in America’s largest military branch. The track sparked conversation and excitement online, and a full-length version of The “25 or 6 to 4 (GoArmy Remix)” is now available for download . . .

 

Wow, I feel old. I haven’t felt this old since Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll” was the soundtrack of a Cadillac ad. Back in the day, those early Chicago albums were real stoner music. Every hippie was certain that “25 or 6 to 4” was a reference to acid (LSD-25), but in fact the title and lyrics are about keyboardist Robert Lamm’s struggle to finish writing a song in the wee hours of the morning. He looked up at the clock and it was either 3:35 or 3:34 in the morning — 25 or 26 until 4 a.m.

As I say, Chicago was considered quite avant-garde in their early career. Their first three albums were all double albums, and their fourth album was a quadruple live album. They did a lot of long-form instrumental tracks, and one of my favorite Chicago songs, “Beginnings,” was nearly eight minutes long on their first album. It was not until Columbia Records president Clive Davis personally insisted on editing it down to under three minutes that “Beginnings” became a hit single. Similarly, the album version of “25 or 6 to 4” was nearly five minutes (4:50), which Davis chopped down to 2:52. Of course, the guys in the band resented the hell out of this commercial butchery of their art, but it made them rich. Selling singles (45 rpm) to teenagers required getting airplay on Top 40 radio, and back in the day, there was no way you were gonna get a five-minute song on the radio, let alone eight minutes. So these brutal chop jobs were a necessary part of the business. Chicago could indulge their artistic impulses all they wanted on their albums, but in order to sell those albums, they needed radio airplay, which meant hit singles and — chop! chop! chop! — there went half the song.

Nobody understands this stuff nowadays, in the digital age, where everything is Adobe Audition and kids just download music from Spotify, but once upon a time, a recording was an actual performance, recorded analog on tape, which had to be physically cut and spliced to make edits. And there were actual radio stations run by human beings (or soulless monsters, depending on your point view) called “program directors,” so that turning a record into a hit was a transactional sort of enterprise. Even after Congress outlawed “payola,” there was still a lot of shady stuff involved in promoting records to radio. Of course, in the long run, the music was either good or it wasn’t. Most of the mediocre crap that got played on the radio has been forgotten, but the real classics are timeless.

So I’ve been walking around with this song stuck in my head:

 

What the heck is that final chord? “25 or 6 to 4” is in the key of A-minor, but that final chord is definitely not A-minor. So I actually researched it and discovered that Lamm ended the song this way:

Dm 6/9 …. F9 … B6(add D) … G/A# … B/A

That’s just insane. In case you don’t know, B/A is an inverted B7 chord, with the 7th (A) played as the bass note. It is completely incongruous with an A-minor scale, which is why that final chord leaves the listener with such a weird feeling. Instinctively, you want the song to resolve to the tonic (I) chord, but instead you have this weird progression of complex chords culminating in something that’s just . . . wrong.

You could spend a lot of time pondering the significance of stuff like that, but that would require a supply of psychedelic drugs, consumed in a basement room with blacklight posters, which was how hippies used to listen to music (according to sources, the professional journalist said).

And so now a hiphop remix of “25 or 6 to 4” is being used for Army recruiting ads. Dude, I never expected to be so old . . .




 

Category: Music

Federal Charges for BLM Scammer

Posted on | September 27, 2020 | Comments Off on Federal Charges for BLM Scammer

 

Talk about foreshadowing. In January 2019, “local activist” Tyree Conyers-Page, “also known as Sir Maejor Page,” was arrested for disrupting a city council meeting in Toledo, Ohio. Three months later, he was arrested for trespassing at a gun violence conference in Toledo, where he was carrying an unlicensed concealed pistol. Given that Page was “local” in Toledo, does it make sense that he would be president of an organization called Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta (BLMGA)? Last time I checked, Atlanta was nearly 700 miles from Toledo, but nevertheless, Page in 2016 had incorporated BLMGA as a 501(c)3 non-profit. After the George Floyd case gained worldwide attention, Page collected nearly half-a-million dollars in contributions:

The FBI on Friday arrested Sir Maejor Page, an activist previously known as Tyree Conyers-Page, for allegedly spending for personal use some $200,000 in donations to what was held out as a Black Lives Matter charity.
The arrest came during a raid of an Old West End house that Mr. Page’s organization, Hi-Frequency Ohio, owns.
Mr. Page is federally charged with one count of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering.
Following his arraignment at 4:30 p.m. on Friday in U.S. Magistrate Judge James R. Knepp’s court, Mr. Page was released on a $10,000 unsecured bond, under the condition that he refrain from the use of Facebook and any fund-raising activity virtually or in person, and that he not open any lines of credit or banking accounts without permission from his probation officer.
If found guilty, Mr. Page could serve up to 50 years in prison and be ordered to pay a $1 million fine; at his arraignment, the state estimated that he is more likely to face 63 to 78 months in prison.
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the case stems from a complaint lodged by a cooperating witness with the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center in April, 2019 alleging that Mr. Page was fraudulently utilizing a Black Lives Matter nonprofit organization by way of misrepresentations and by posing as a Black Lives Matter leader. . . .
In March, 2016, Mr. Page registered BLMGA as a nonprofit corporation with the Georgia Secretary of State Corporations Division and, according to the FBI, assumed the role of corporate president and chief executive officer. He additionally registered the corporation as a tax-exempt charity with the Internal Revenue Service.
But the IRS in May, 2019 revoked BLMGA’s charity tax exemption because of failure to submit IRS Form 990 for three consecutive years, and three months later the state of Georgia administratively dissolved the corporation for failure to file required paperwork.
According to the FBI, however, BLMGA remained listed on Facebook as a nonprofit organization as recently as Sept. 18, and was also so listed on the GoFundMe fund-raising site.
A bank account linked from those social-media pages named “Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta, Inc.” had been opened in 2018 with Mr. Page as its only signatory.

You can read the federal criminal complaint here.

 

While you’re laughing at the idea of guilt-stricken white liberals pouring money into the pockets of a ridiculous albino from Ohio, thinking they were contributing to Black Lives Matter in Atlanta, ask yourself: How much of the overall BLM project is similarly corrupt?

Interestingly, in June, Page had “parted ways” with a young Toledo activist named Abelino Ruiz, with both of them making accusations against each other. Ruiz called Page “a master manipulator.” Now three months later, the “master manipulator” could be facing more than five years in federal prison. You know who’s happy about this?

Racists, that’s who. This whole pathetic story couldn’t have been more perfectly scripted if David Duke himself had written it.




 

Category: Crime, Racism

FMJRA 2.0: Mexican Radio

Posted on | September 26, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Late Night Double Scoop Rule Five Sunday: Babes In Choppers
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
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Proof Positive
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Keep Calm and Vote Trump
Dark Brightness
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Andrew Cuomo’s Lynching Law
Bacon Time
The Political Hat
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FMJRA 2.0: Winged Hussars
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3 Killed by Louisville Gunman Wearing ‘Justice for Breonna Taylor’ T-Shirt
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
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Jake Gardner’s Life Mattered
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The SCOTUS Circus
Bacon Time
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The Haughty Pride of the Elite
Pushing Rubber Downhill
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Criminal Justice Reform‘
357 Magnum
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Streiff’ Doxxed and Dooced
First Street Journal
EBL
A View From The Beach

Who Votes for Democrats?
357 Magnum
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In The Mailbox: 09.22.20 (Afternoon Edition)
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
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Crazy People Are Dangerous: Meet Canada’s Version of Deborah Frisch
357 Magnum
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In The Mailbox: 09.22.20 (Evening Edition)
Proof Positive
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‘The New Zeroeth Amendment’ and the Predictable Death of Dijon Kizzee
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Louisville Democrat Mob: ‘Burn It Down’ After #BreonnaTaylor Grand Jury Ruling
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 09.23.20
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
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Mostly Peaceful™ Protesters Shoot Two Police Officers in Louisville Riot
A View From The Beach
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Hazards of the Trade
357 Magnum
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Sleepy Joe’s Sundown Campaign
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In The Mailbox: 09.24.20
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
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Election Fraud Already Underway?
357 Magnum
Pushing Rubber Downhill
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Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
357 Magnum
Dark Brightness
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In The Mailbox: 09.25.20
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending September 25:

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The Truth About Breonna Taylor, Part 1: Separating BLM’s Myth From Reality

Posted on | September 26, 2020 | 3 Comments

 

Take a close look at those photos. They were taken Jan. 2, 2020, in the 2400 block of Elliott Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. These police surveillance photos show a 2016 white Chevrolet Impala, with the Kentucky tag 140 ZAT. Getting out of the car is convicted narcotics trafficker Jamarcus Glover. He is exiting the Impala in front of the so-called “trap house” where he and his associates were dealing drugs.

The owner of that car was Breonna Taylor.

The Louisville Metropolitan Police Department (LMPD) was investigating Glover’s drug ring, and had just installed a surveillance camera near the “trap house” when they got that photo of Taylor dropping off her boyfriend. Barely two months (71 days, to be exact) after that photo was taken, Taylor was shot by LMPD officers executing a search warrant on her apartment as part of their investigation of Glover.

Since her death, Breonna Taylor has been turned into a sort of secular saint by Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement activists who, with assistance from the national media and Democratic politicians, have made the police shooting of Taylor a worldwide cause célèbre. In the process of making her a martyred victim of “systemic racism,” BLM and their enablers have created a myth of heroic innocence around Breonna Taylor. Over and over, we have seen photos of her in an emergency medical technician (EMT) uniform used to illustrate news features about Taylor’s death, although she hadn’t been an EMT since 2016. Celebrities and politicians have repeated the false claim that Taylor was shot while she was “sleeping in her own bed”; in fact she was in the hallway of her apartment, next to her new boyfriend Kenneth Walker, when he shot an LMPD sergeant and Taylor was shot by the officers’ return fire.

The facts surrounding Breonna Taylor’s death are important because activists have tried to make the case a symbol of “systemic racism.” After a Louisville grand jury refused to indict two of the three officers who fired their weapons during that March 13 incident, protests erupted nationwide, and these protests quickly turned violent, with two police officers shot Wednesday night in Louisville. No less a public figure than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused LMPD of murder: “Justice was denied for Breonna Taylor and her family. Just think if it were your daughter, your sister, your cousin, your relative, your friend who was murdered by the police and the charging decision held no one accountable for her death.” Of course, Pelosi said nothing about the fact that police didn’t shoot until after Walker had already severely wounded Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly. More importantly, however, Pelosi’s account of this “murder” omitted any reference to Breonna Taylor’s relationship with the drug dealer whose criminal activity was the reason police were serving a search warrant on her apartment that night.

Jamarcus Glover (left); Breonna Taylor (right).

Two months ago, when most people outside Kentucky had still never heard of Breonna Taylor, I wrote an American Spectator column attempting to clear up many of the myths surrounding the case:

Racism did not kill Breonna Taylor. She did not die from prejudice or discrimination. Her death was not caused by Confederate monuments or statues of Christopher Columbus, nor could her death have been prevented by social-media hashtags. If you don’t know who Breonna Taylor was, the short version of the story is that the 26-year-old was shot to death March 13 by police in Louisville, Kentucky, during a drug raid. The long version of the story is rather more complicated, but Taylor’s death has been reduced to a slogan (“Justice for Breonna”) by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest movement. . . .
“Say Her Name” is one of the slogans that activists have connected to this Louisville shooting, but if we want to understand why police shot Breonna Taylor, there is another name that needs to be said — Jamarcus Glover. . . .

You can read the rest of that July 27 column, which apparently was ignored by most of the public figures — journalists, politicians and celebrities — who erupted in spasms of outrage this week over the alleged “injustice” of the Louisville grand jury’s decision. The rioting mobs and TV news anchors seem to be equally ignorant of facts about Breonna Taylor’s death which I was able to report two months ago, and it is frustrating to see such ignorance continue to prevail now, when we have still more information that contradicts the BLM myth.

A Police Leak and the ‘Probable Cause’ Factor

Last month, lengthy articles appeared in the Louisville Courier Journal, the New York Times and other publications revealing details of Breonna Taylor’s association with Jamarcus Glover, including quotes from jailhouse recordings. The source of these details was a 39-page confidential report leaked by someone inside LMPD who was involved in the investigation of Glover’s drug ring. However, while quoting extensively from this report, none of these news outlets published the LMPD report itself. The only place I’ve been able to find this report in its entirety is at The Tatum Report, the website of former Tucson Police Officer Brandon Tatum. Because of bandwidth limits, a direct link to the report might cause a temporary crash, so here is the landing page and I encourage anyone who’s interested in seeing the full report to go there.

Why is this information important? Because, contrary to what was previously reported (what her family’s lawyer told the media) Breonna Taylor’s association with Marcus Glover did not end two years ago. Nor was her relationship with this convicted felon so casual that she could have been unaware of his criminal activities. In fact, LMPD detectives were entirely justified in suspecting Taylor as an accomplice in Glover’s drug ring. Evidence pointing to her involvement went beyond the information included in the police affidavit seeking a search warrant for Taylor’s apartment. The “probable cause” for that warrant was abundant.

 

Say hello to Quenton Se’ville “Q-Tip” Hall. In 2012, Hall was convicted of several felonies, including narcotics trafficking and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and sentenced to six years in prison. He served only about half of that sentence, however, and by 2016 had returned to the streets of Louisville. It was because of Quenton that police first became aware of Breonna Taylor’s connection to Jamarcus Glover.

About 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, LMPD officers were called to the scene of a shooting on South 25th Street. Behind the wheel of a silver sedan, police found Fernandez Bowman, 27, who was pronounced dead at the scene. Bowman had been driving when he was shot multiple times:

His car struck a telephone pole and a fence before coming to rest against a house. . . .
Including Bowman’s death, there are now 112 criminal homicide investigations by Louisville Metro Police in 2016 and 118 in Jefferson County, according to a Courier-Journal count. The toll marks a level of deadly violence not seen in Jefferson County in more than five decades.

Violent crime was increasing in Louisville, and Fernandez Bowman was one of its victims, but he didn’t own the car he died in. LMPD homicide detectives “learned that the vehicle . . . had been rented by Breonna Taylor with an address of 3003 Springfield Drive #4, Louisville, KY 40214.” How did this dead man end up in a car Taylor had rented? Early the next morning, detectives went to Taylor’s apartment:

“Upon contact with Ms. Taylor, Detectivces observed a male in the apartment with her, identified as Jamarcus Glover (DOB: 04/05/1990). Ms. Taylor stated that she did not know the victim and that she found out what had possibly happened from her boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover. Ms. Taylor stated that she had been dating Jamarcus Glover for approximately 3-4 months and allowed him to drive her rental car.”

But if Jamarcus was in her apartment on the morning of Dec. 3, how was it that Bowman had been driving this car that Taylor had rented on Dec. 1? The LMPD report says: “It is important to note that the homicide victim is the brother of Demarius Bowman, which is one of Jamarcus Glover’s associates and has been arrested with Jamarcus Glover numerous times.” So, Breonna Taylor rents a car, which she “allowed” her drug dealer boyfriend to drive, and somehow this car ends up being driven by the brother of one of Glover’s criminal associates, who gets shot to death. Two months later, LMPD arrested Quenton Hall and charged him with murdering Fernandez Bowman.

The scene where Fernandez Bowman was murdered in 2016.

What is the common-sense inference here? Doesn’t it seem likely that Jamarcus Glover needed a “clean” vehicle — a car that couldn’t be traced to him — for some drug-related enterprise? Isn’t it reasonable to suspect that Fernandez Bowman was doing some kind of deal involving Quenton Hall, and that this deal was what led to Bowman’s murder?

Well, that’s just speculation, but we know the facts about Quenton Hall’s arrest two months after Bowman’s murder:

A convicted felon wanted for an early-December murder in the Algonquin neighborhood was arrested [Jan. 31, 2017] after he fled a traffic stop and struck a police car, officials said.
Quenton Hall, 34, of Louisville, who also goes by “Q” or “Tip,” is accused of killing 27-year-old Fernandez Bowman on Dec. 2 near Algonquin Park. His arrest was announced Wednesday morning in a Louisville Metro Police in a Facebook post.
At about 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, officers stopped Hall’s white 2011 Dodge in the 4700 block of Dixie Highway because he’s “known to carry firearms and wanted for a fresh homicide,” according to an arrest citation. Hall attempted to flee and struck a police car.
Once the car came to a stop, officers found marijuana and pills in his pockets, the citation said. They searched his car and found large amounts of methamphetamine and heroin in the center console, and a loaded 9 mm Smith & Wesson handgun in the driver’s seat.
Hall was arrested at about 6:45 p.m. Tuesday and charged with murder, first-degree wanton endangerment, first-degree fleeing or evading police, first-degree trafficking in methamphetamine, first-degree trafficking in heroin, first-degree possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, possession of a handgun by a convicted felon and failure to or improper signal.

We have reason to believe that Quenton Hall will spend the rest of his life in prison, and he was subsequently charged with a 2004 “cold case” murder. But the relevance of his case to Breonna Taylor is that Hall was a violent drug dealer, busted with “large amounts of methamphetamine and heroin” and a pistol two months after Fernandez Bowman was killed while driving a car that Taylor rented and “allowed” her drug-dealer boyfriend to drive. If something like this had happened to you — if your boyfriend got you mixed up in a homicide case — wouldn’t you consider that maybe you should find yourself a new boyfriend?

Yet here we see that not only did Breonna Taylor not break up with Jamarcus Glover when this December 2016 murder happened, but that she was still involved with him more than three years later, just before the March 13 police raid in which she died. People are rioting — shooting cops and throwing molotov cocktails — because of BLM anti-police rhetoric about “systemic racism” of which Breonna Taylor was allegedly a victim. Any effort to push back against this rhetoric is drowned out by angry denunciations — you are “blaming the victim” and “justifying murder” if you point to the evidence of Breonna Taylor’s complicity in Jamarcus Glover’s drug-dealing career. But how can anyone ignore this? It is the “probable cause” that resulted in the search warrant for the raid that led to her death. Police believed Taylor could be holding drugs or money for Glover, and they had clear reasons for believing this. As a matter of fact, in a jailhouse phone call after Taylor’s death, Glover said Taylor had been holding $14,000 for him.

LMPD didn’t find that money at Breonna Taylor’s apartment, but did I mention that, not long after she was seen in the 2013 Impala dropping off Glover at the “trap house,” Breonna got a new car? It was a black Dodge Charger, and it was also seen by LMPD surveillance.

 

TO BE CONTINUED . . .

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Category: Crime, Kentucky
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