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We Found Another Joe Biden Voter

Posted on | June 16, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

Say hello to Rashid Brimmage, 31, a resident of New York City where, in 2016, Hillary Clinton got 87% of the vote. Manhattan is represented in Congress by three Democrats: Jerry Nadler, Carolyn Maloney, and Adriano Espaillat. Rashid Brimmage is typical of the kind of New Yorkers who elected Chuck Schumer to the Senate, which is to say, he is a criminal pervert:

The frequent offender has now been arrested 103 times since 2005 for petty crimes and sex offenses, sources said.
The creep was convicted of sexual misconduct in 2012, then arrested for two sex offenses in 2014, police sources said.
In May of that year, he was busted for exposing and fondling himself on an East Harlem street, the sources said.
Just months later, in July, he was arrested for grabbing a woman’s behind at a Third Avenue deli.
In 2017, he failed to notify authorities that he changed his address and had to register as a sex offender, state records show. . . .
He was arrested Feb. 17 for a misdemeanor assault and harassment charge for an incident that happened in The Bronx a week earlier, according to records. He was released without bail in the case.
He was busted in the borough again March 5 and slapped with trespassing summons, according to court records.
And most recently, he was arrested March 9 in Manhattan and hit with criminal possession of a controlled substance, assault and attempted assault charges.

You might expect that such a vicious criminal would be permanently locked up in prison, but remember this is New York, where they don’t lock up criminals, because criminals elect Democrats. Last week, Rashid Brimmage punched a 92-year-old woman in the head:

The 92-year-old woman who was shoved into a fire hydrant in a random attack on a Manhattan street last week told The Post Tuesday that the ambush has taken a psychological toll on her — and she now fears walking alone in her neighborhood.
“Mostly I’m shaken. My head still hurts where it was bleeding, where I hit the hydrant — or where he hit me, I don’t know,” elderly victim Geraldine said in an exclusive phone interview, asking that her last name be withheld for safety reasons.
“Mainly it’s psychological — just the fear of going out on the street,” she added.
Geraldine, a Bronx native who has lived in Manhattan for more than 50 years, said she was on her way to Duane Reade when 31-year-old Rashid Brimmage allegedly shoved her to the ground near Third Avenue and East 16th Street Gramercy Park last Friday afternoon.
Geraldine hit her head on a fire hydrant and started bleeding, she said. A passerby saw the assault, called 911 and an ambulance rushed her to nearby Beth Israel Hospital, she said.
The former teacher said her physical wounds were relatively minor and have since healed — but the mental toll has been much more severe.
“This damned guy put me in a state where I’m fearful to walk the streets alone. So my super’s trying to find somebody who will walk me to a park nearby or to the supermarket, that kind of thing. So that’s the problem,” she said.
Cops busted Brimmage for the caper Tuesday after investigators released footage of the attack.
Brimmage was busted by cops Tuesday and charged with assault after investigators recognized him from video footage of the attack, authorities said.

 

This is what you’re voting for when you elect Democrats. The recent riots were really just Joe Biden campaign rallies, Democratic voters getting together to do what Democrats do — vandalism, looting, arson, assault, etc. That’s why Rashid Brimmage was out on the streets, instead of behind bars, where he belongs, because Democrats support pro-criminal policies. Don’t worry about Rashid. He won’t be in jail long. They need him out in time to vote for Joe Biden in November.




 

Category: New York, Violence Against Women

How Much Did Her Life Matter?

Posted on | June 16, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Tessa Majors made the mistake of attending Barnard College.

If your child ever expresses an interest in attending Barnard College, you probably should have them committed to a psychiatric institution, because you’d have to be crazy to go to Barnard, one of the worst colleges in America. The cost of attendance is $75,524 a year, including room and board, and also including the opportunity to be murdered.

That’s what happened to Tessa Majors. The 18-year-old, whose father is an English professor at James Madison University, was near the end of her first semester at Barnard in December 2019 when she made the mistake of going for a walk in a park near the college campus:

The teens charged with killing Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors targeted her as she walked alone down a set of stairs in a crime-ridden Harlem park, one of them told detectives in a video recording played in court [Dec. 20].
Zyairr Davis, 13, admitted that he was walking behind pals Rashaun Weaver and Luchiano Lewis, both 14, when they approached her on Dec. 11, the recording made the next day showed.
Davis said he “couldn’t hear too good what they said to her,” but thought that Weaver “was trying to get her phone.”
“She was probably refusing to give it to them, so they got mad at her,” he said.
Davis’ vivid blow-by-blow of the fatal violence included how, “I think Luchi grabbed her, like this” as he crossed his own arms.
“She’s trying to run away. She’s screaming,” he recalled to cops in the 26th Precinct stationhouse.
“The only thing I remember is her yelling for help.”
Davis added, “That’s when Rashaun stabbed her.”
“It ain’t look like poking. It was like — slash.”
Davis also described the suddenness and ferocity of the attack on Majors, 18, a musician and aspiring journalist from Charlottesville, Virginia.
“I didn’t see him take the knife out, but I see all the feathers coming out of her coat,” he said.

Don’t send your kids to Barnard, because it’s in New York City, where you can’t take a walk in the park without being knifed to death.

Guess how much time Zyairr Davis will serve?

A teenager involved in the fatal stabbing of Barnard student Tessa Majors in New York last December was sentenced to 18 months in the custody of the Administration for Children’s Services on Monday.
The now-14-year-old boy, whom CNN is not naming because he was not charged as an adult, has been in custody since December and pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery earlier this month.
He will serve a minimum of six months in a limited secure facility, according to the New York Law Department, which is handling the case. After that, ACS has the discretion to release him and monitor his progress in the community, and his placement may be extended until he turns 18, the department said. . . .
At his plea hearing, the teen told the court he went into Morningside Park with two friends, Rashaun Weaver and Lucci Lewis, intending to rob someone.
“After that, we saw Tessa Majors walking on the stairs inside the park. Rashaun went up to her and said something to her and Tessa yelled for help. Rashaun used the knife that I had handed to him to stab Tessa and I saw feathers coming out of her coat,” he said. . . .
In their impact statement, Majors’ parents said the teen “has shown a complete lack of remorse or contrition” for his role in their daughter’s death. The family also noted that the statement from Legal Aid avoided using the word “murder” and instead referred to Tessa’s death as “tragic.”
“Reading this description of events, some might wonder if perhaps Tess Majors was involved in an accident,” the statement read. “Tess Majors did not die in an accident. Tess Majors was murdered, plain and simple, and no amount of semantic gymnastics changes that fact.”

But it’s New York City. Your daughter’s life doesn’t matter there. Just more violence against women feminists won’t notice, for some reason.




 

Category: Crime, New York, Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: 06.15.20

Posted on | June 15, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Candace Candace Candace
EBL: ABC News Exec Put On Leave For Racial Insensitivity
Twitchy: Hot Take – Conservatives Can’t Be Allowed To Be Coaches, Teachers, Cops, Doctors, Lawyers, Or Bosses Until Rehabilitated
Louder With Crowder: Watch Chris Cuomo Get Rekt By a Single TikTok Video
Vox Popoli: The Inevitable Divide, also, The People Of Color Revolution

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Black Lives Don’t Matter Edition
American Conservative: Virtue-Signaling Maryland Officials Ignore Brutal Killing By Their Own Cops
American Greatness: Rapper/Warlord Raz Seen Handing Out AR-15s To Youths In “Autonomous Zone”, also, Class, Not Race, Divides America
American Power: Interactive Cover
American Thinker: The Coronavirus Mask Charade Continues, also, The Floyd Riots Mark A Century Of Communist Agitation
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: The 100 Million Victims Of Communism Must Never Be Forgotten, also, The Big Red Communist Machine Is Coming For You
BattleSwarm: Coronavirus In Walker County, also, BidenWatch For June 15
Cafe Hayek: Bad Use Of “Public Good”
CDR Salamander: China, India, & Ladakh – The Long Memory Of Frozen Conflicts
Da Tech Guy: The War On Statues May Never End, also, Report From Louisiana – Into The Mighty Mississippi
Don Surber: Experts Keep Getting COVID-19 Wrong, also, Poll Shows Trump Isn’t Down 14 Points – He’s Ahead
First Street Journal: The Abuse Of Power By The Public Education System
The Geller Report: German Muslims Declare Sharia Zone, Threaten To Kill Infidels & Cops, also, Leftist Arsonists Target Homes Flying American Flags
Hogewash: How It’s Done, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood Heroes Do About-Face, Cheer On Riots & Chaos, also, Fawlty Towers DVD Sales Soar After Woke Cancellation
JustOneMinute: Cornell Burning, Metaphorically
Legal Insurrection: NYPD To Eliminate Plainclothes Anti-Crime Units, also, Historic Alamo Being Protected By Volunteers From Violent Protesters
The PanAm Post: Chavismo Ready To Commit More Electoral Fraud In Venezuela
Power Line: Coronavirus Hysteria Is Over, also, Joe Biden – The American People Are Stupid
Shark Tank: Democrats Continue To Insist Pulse Shootings Weren’t Terror-Related
Shot In The Dark: Institutional Racism
STUMP: Public Pensions, Leverage, & Private Equity – CALPERS Goes Bold
The Political Hat: When “anti-Fascism” Means Opposing Abolitionists
This Ain’t Hell: Another Six Return, also, Robert E. Lee Statue Gets Makeover
Victory Girls: CHAZ Declares White People Must Pay Reparations
Volokh Conspiracy: SCOTUS Holds Title VII Prohibits Discrimination Based On Sexual Orientation Or Transgender Status
Weasel Zippers: ATF Offers $10,000 Reward For Couple Wanted In Connection With St. Paul Fires, also, NYC Welds Playground Gates Shut To Keep Jewish Kids From Having Fun Outside
Mark Steyn: Just Another Cop-Out Clip Show, also, Misty

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Silence Is Violence

Posted on | June 15, 2020 | 2 Comments

by Smitty

with apologies to Simon and Garfunkle

Hello silence, my old friend.
I cannot talk with you. Again.
Because the fascist, snotty, creeping
Leftists jerks, while I was sleeping,
Sowed division, and my Twitter account restrained.
(Crap for brains.)
The silence is violence.

In random tweets I joked alone,
Censors like a kidney stone.
‘Neath those haters’ propaganda grab,
I turned my browser to the feed of Gab,
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a righteous meme:
A Karen scene,
Screeching: SILENCE IS VIOLENCE.

And in the wokest light I saw,
Ten thousand Karens maybe more.
NPCs talking without speaking;
Shrews rioting without listening;
Bots writing songs that voices never share.
Too woke to dare,
Disturb the silence of violence.

“Antifa,” said I, “You clearly show
“Violence, like a cancer, grows.
“Hear my words: stop sniffing Commie glue,
“Chewing Tide pods is so bad for you,”
But common sense and liberty,
Just makes them flee.
Into the silence of violence.

And the Lefties bowed and prayed,
To the god that Marcuse made.
That godless little Commie wipe
Polluted our land with divisive tripe,
So that now, a pack of useless Lefties has,
Some place called “CHAZ”,
And howl that “silence is violence”.

Category: Uncategorized

After They Kill All the Cops, What Then?

Posted on | June 15, 2020 | 4 Comments

“Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
— The Dark Knight, 2008

One of the weirdest things about dealing with sociopaths is what it teaches you about human nature. If you are a decent person, you admire traits like honesty and kindness, and strive to uphold such values in your own life. Your interaction with the sociopath is shocking — emotionally disorienting — because the sociopath’s value system is the exact opposite. The sociopath takes perverse pride in his ability to deceive others, and gets a perverse thrill from sadistic cruelty. In the sociopath’s upside-down worldview, law-abiding decent people are chumps underserving of respect, who exist only to be swindled or otherwise exploited, and there is no one the sociopath hates more than those who, by the exercise of lawful authority, have the power to hold him accountable for his wrongdoing.

One of the most frightening aspects of “The Return of the Riot Ideology,” as I’ve called it, is the widespread demonization of police. Beyond the deliberate incitement of anti-white racial animosity — a very dangerous game, with a huge potential for an ugly backlash — you see a lot of young white radicals whose attitude is like the Joker, a purely destructive nihilism. How do young people develop such an antisocial worldview? What inspires this disrespect for authority, the desire to march around shouting angry slogans, defacing buildings with graffiti, smashing windows, destroying monuments? What sort of culture are these people immersed in as children, that they grow up thinking it’s cool to celebrate chaos and ugliness? What kind of future do they imagine in a godless world without courtesy, without law, without social order? Because that is where their anti-police rhetoric must inevitably lead.

“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.”
— Romans 13:1-2 (KJV)

If Paul could say this to the early Christians, living under the yoke of Roman tyranny, how much more does it apply to us, living as we are under a democratic form of government? Rulers “beareth not the sword in vain,” as Paul said, and any self-professed Christian who has not properly understood this doctrine needs to shut their mouth until they have learned it. As I have pointed out before, my son enlisted in the Army in 2013, when Barack Obama was Commander-in-Chief, and he re-enlisten in October 2016, when every pundit and pollster was certain that Hillary Clinton would be the next president. My son swore an oath to uphold “the powers that be,” and his opinion as to the policy and politics of these powers was not solicited. Police are in the same sort of position, and those who encourage disrespect for law enforcement are encouraging lawlessness, whether they admit this or not. That the “mostly peaceful” protests lead to rioting, looting and arson is not surprising to anyone wise enough to understand this. Bad causes attract bad people, and there are few causes worse than the anti-police mentality that demonizes all cops by the tactics of atrocity propaganda. The Wendy’s in Atlanta was apparently set on fire by a white woman, and what did she intend to achieve by this “mostly peaceful” act of arson?

 

Destroying a business is an act from which no one benefits. At least the mob looting Walmart gain something of value by their crimes, but what does someone gain by burning down Wendy’s? Nothing.

Arson and vandalism are purely destructive. Smashing a window, defacing a public building with graffiti, tearing down a statue — these are expressions of a destructive spirit, and anyone who defends this by saying “it’s only property” is displaying their own ignorance. It took many hours of labor to construct what the vandal defaces or destroys. What is the value of our lives, except the product of our labor? The progress of civilization — our ability to live above the level of abject poverty — becomes impossible if we are unable to protect the accumulated value of our labor. Property rights are human rights, in this sense, because no one will have any rights worth mentioning if we descend into savagery.

Consider the case of the “liberated” Seattle neighborhood that has become the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ). During some kind of indoctrination session in CHAZ this weekend, one of the commissars invoked the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.

The French Revolution was wrong from the beginning, as any reader of Burke should know, and it ended in the dictatorship of Napoleon. What do we suppose will result from the revolution that the commissars of CHAZ seek to incite? Did I mention they have an armed warlord?

What are they protesting against in CHAZ? What is their grievance? Can it be that Seattle, one of the most ultra-progressive cities on the continent, is guilty of racism and police brutality? If anyone has made such a claim, I missed it. There was no logical reason why the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis should inspire an armed revolutionary junta to take over a Seattle neighborhood 1,600 miles away.

When behavior cannot be explained by logic and apparent facts, we must assume that there is some hidden motive involved. There must be a reason for the takeover in CHAZ and, it is self-evidentl that their intentions are not peaceful. What they want is dead cops, and they will continue their deliberate provocations until they get what they want.

No one’s life or property is safe within CHAZ. The mayor has likened it to a “block party,” and most conservative commentators have treated CHAZ as a joke, but there are people inside that “autonomous zone” are who are not joking about their revolutionary goals. How many serious “antifascist” revolutionaries are there in CHAZ? Perhaps fewer than a dozen, but the revolutionary core is attracting into its orbit many reckless and impulsive young people, the makings of a violent mob, and sooner or later, this mob will commit an atrocity that requires a police response. And then the situation will turn into urban guerrilla warfare.

That’s how I expect events to unfold, anyway. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe what’s going on in Seattle is just a clown show, a ridiculous carnival being staged with the permission of the city’s liberal mayor, who has calculated that she will suffer no political damage from letting these animal run wild over a few city blocks for a couple of months. But CHAZ is an expression of the demonic spirit of lawlessness unleashed upon our nation by those sociopaths who “just want to watch the world burn.”





 

Category: Crime

Rule 5 Sunday: Park Hye-su

Posted on | June 15, 2020 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I don’t watch a lot of TV (like, almost none) but thanks to YouTube I found the Korean series Age of Youth, which is a drama about five college coeds living together in an apartment. Park Hye-su stars as Yoo Eun-jae, youngest of the girls and from the countryside to boot; her performance won her the Rising Star Award at the first Asia Artist Awards in 2016. Here she is on the seashore in a fetching swimsuit.

On the beach but not washed up by a long shot.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1014, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Abolish The Police Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Shelby Lynne, La Clemenza di Tito, Nestride Yumga, Iolanta & Bluebeard’s Castle, Hansel & Gretel, The Like, Vivian Leigh & Hattie McDaniel, Blazing Saddles, The Ghosts Of Versailles, Annie Oakley, Met At Home Gala (Encore), Rodelinda, and Knives Out.

A View From The Beach: Neve Campbell, Fish Pic Friday, But I Thought the Science was Settled!, Truckin’ Into Thursday, I’m Sure They Can Fix That, Some Wednesday Wetness, “Could” and “Will” are Two Different Things, Tanlines Tuesday, Motorcycle Monday, Palm Sunday and Bay Menhaden Fishery Dodges Shutdown.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe this week is Adrienne Barbeau, Bacon Time serves up Gabriela Sabatini, and Red Pilled Jew has Pretty Faces.

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Category: Rule 5

So, Who Would You Say Is the WORST Person to Put in Charge of a Food Bank?

Posted on | June 14, 2020 | Comments Off on So, Who Would You Say Is the WORST Person to Put in Charge of a Food Bank?

 

Say hello to “Johnnie” (née Jennifer) Shaver, a progressive activist in Portland. You ask, what kind of “activism” does Johnnie do?

If you guessed “running a food bank,” you’re a winner:

Questions about financial misconduct have arisen over a viral Antifa crowdfunding campaign that raised over $100,000 on the promise of supporting Portlanders in need during the coronavirus pandemic.
A week before Oregon Governor Kate Brown issued a state-wide stay-at-home order on March 23, a group of left-wing activists in Portland started a GoFundMe campaign. The “PDX COVID-19 Mutual Aid Network Fundraiser” was an immediate success. Accompanied by a logo of a raised fist in between roses (Portland is known as the “City of Roses”), the campaign instantly surpassed its initial goal of $5,000. The page, which said it will be “withdrawing funds and delivering them to community members on a rolling basis,” was shared and retweeted far beyond the Pacific Northwest. It promised to center those who are “targeted and marginalized under capitalism.” Local food co-ops joined in by asking patrons if they wanted to donate to the fund during check-out. Artists and other activists organized their own sub-campaigns where proceeds were donated to the GoFundMe. With the outpouring of international support, the organizers raised the donation goal several times. The goal eventually was raised to $100,000—a near 2,000 percent increase. Within a few weeks, this goal was met. . . .

You can read the rest by Andy Ngo, who reports that there are questions about where the money raised by this “Mutual Aid Network” went. I don’t want to speculate publicly, but let’s just say I’ve got a hunch.

UPDATE: Thanks to Joe Guelph in the comments for pointing out that Jennifer/“Johnnie” Shaver is engaged (or married) to Jaclyn “Jackie” Spencer. This is the happy couple, with Jackie on the left:

 

Jackie works for the local public school system, because in Portland, they’re “inclusive” like that. So inclusive, in fact, that no Christian family would send their children to Portland public schools.





 

Category: Oregon

‘Suicide by Cop’: Why Did They Burn Down Wendy’s Over This Bulls**t?

Posted on | June 14, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

The Rayshard Brooks Memorial Bonfire:

An Atlanta Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks, 27, was fatally shot by police Friday night was set on fire.
The restaurant caught fire Saturday after protesters broke windows at the restaurant and threw fireworks inside.Cortez Stafford, a spokesman for Atlanta fire, said the blaze grew because it wasn’t safe to get to the area near the restaurant when the fire began. He estimated there were 1,000 protesters near the Wendy’s. . . .
In addition to the Wendy’s fire, protesters walked on to the highway [Interstate 75/85, known locally as the Downtown Connector] earlier in the evening, stopping traffic. Troopers warned them that they were violating the law. The demonstrators locked arms.“You have three minutes to disperse,” a trooper said. Organizers encouraged people to leave, but not many did. Some demonstrators were arrested on the interstate before one lane on the highway reopened shortly after 10 p.m.Protesters continued on to the Atlanta Police Department’s Zone 3 precinct on Cherokee Avenue where they chanted.

“Cherokee Avenue”? Isn’t that cultural appropriation? Has Elizabeth Warren denounced this yet? But never mind  that now . . .

When I wrote about the death of Rayshard Brooks yesterday, I was angry that this had happened in my hometown. Why was it, I asked, that the Atlanta Police Department could not have at least one black officer on the scene of this arrest in an overwhelmingly black neighborhood? And by “overwhelmingly black,” I mean like Mogadishu, it’s so black. You can ask anybody from the Atlanta area about that neighborhood. As I said, I don’t believe in hiring quotas, but it seems like to me that Atlanta, a city with a 51% black population, should have enough black officers on patrol that if two officers answer a 911 call to the vicinity of University Avenue and Pryor Road, at least one of those cops would be black. Especially in the wake of two weeks of racial “unrest” (which is what Professional Journalists call riots, looting and arson), you would think police might be sufficiently concerned about perceptions that this could have been avoided. Yet everything about this situation was stupid.

How drunk was Rayshard Brooks? So drunk he passed out behind the wheel of his car in the Wendy’s drive-through line. Stupid.

It was a little after 10:30 p.m. when police got the 911 call. The first officer responding was Devin Bronsan. About 20 minutes later, at 10:55, Officer Garrett Rolfe arrives. Rolfe is a seven-year veteran of the APD, and is a decorated member of the High Intensity Traffic Team (HITT) Unit, which “works to reduce the number of traffic related injuries and deaths in the City of Atlanta, especially involving impaired drivers.” Rolfe received an award from Mothers Against Drunk Driving for making more than 50 DUI arrests in one year. So this was not Rolfe’s first time at the rodeo; he is a specialist at drunk-driving prevention.

APD made public bodycam video from both officers. You can see from the videos that both officers were entirely courteous and professional in their interaction with Brooks, who tries to tell them an apparent lie, that someone dropped him off at the Wendy’s, where he had left his car. Brooks claims he doesn’t even remember being asleep behind the wheel. Rolfe explains “everything’s on camera,” but Brooks doesn’t acknowledge that he has been caught in a lie. Stupid.

 

While I’m not a lawyer, I believe the legal term for the condition Brooks was in would be “three sheets to the wind.” He was drunk as the proverbial skunk, high as the proverbial kite. Excrement-faced.

Brooks: “I’m not causing any problems.”
Officer Rolfe: “Well, we’ve got to make sure that you’re safe to operate a vehicle. Now, do you know where you are?”
Brooks: “Yeah, absolutely. I’m in Forest Park, Old Dixie Highway.”

The Wendy’s in Forest Park — the address is 131 Main Drive, but it’s right next to Old Dixie Highway, east of the airport — is 8 miles south of the University Avenue location in Atlanta, which is in Fulton County.

Forest Park is in Clayton County. In other words, Brooks was so drunk, he didn’t even know what county he was in.

Rolfe asks Brooks how much he’s had to drink, and he claims to have had only one margarita, which is an obvious lie, unless there’s a bar where margaritas are served in a half-gallon bucket. The cop has Brooks do a field sobriety test, then there is an extended conversation in which Brooks tries to talk his way out of it, and by “talk,” I mean, lie. Brooks keeps trying to claim that he wasn’t actually driving, etc., and finally Rolfe asks him to take a preliminary breath test. It is now 11:22 p.m., about 40 minutes after the first cop arrived on the scene, which means Brooks has had a chance to sober up a little bit. Generally speaking, each regular-size drink of alcohol (a 12-ounce beer, a 6-ounce glass of wine, 1.5 ounces of whiskey) will raise your blood-alcohol content (BAC) by 0.02%, so that you would need about four beers to reach the legal limit of .08% BAC. Your body can metabolize alcohol at a rate of about one drink an hour, however, so that if you spent three hours in a bar and had six drinks during that time, your BAC might still be below .08%.

 

One margarita, my ass.

If I’m reading that correctly, Brooks was over .10% BAC — closer to .11% — and given that it had been about an hour since he passed out in his car, I’m guessing he was closer to .14% when he pulled into the Wendy’s parking lot. Drunk as the proverbial skunk, I say, and remember that Officer Rolfe had gotten an award for his work to reduce the number of accidents “involving impaired drivers.” No way could he let Brooks go, and so after another minute of conversation — giving Brooks an opportunity to continue lying about how many drinks he had — Officer Rolfe says, “All right, I think you’ve had too much to drink to be driving. Put your hands behind your back for me.”

Officer Rolfe begins to put the handcuffs on Brooks, at which point, Brooks begins fighting. The struggle between him and the two officers continues a little more than 30 seconds, during which Brooks takes away Officer Rolfe’s taser, and is in turn tasered by Officer Bronsan. Brooks breaks free, and takes off running, pursued by Officer Bronsan with the taser. When Brooks turns to point the taser at Office Bronsan, he is shot by Officer Rolfe. This situation became violent so suddenly that less than 45 seconds elapsed between Officer Rolfe saying “I think you’ve had too much to drink” and him firing the fatal shots.

It happened without warning. Brooks was not the least bit belligerent or confrontational in his interactions with the cops, during the roughly 50 minutes that elapsed between the first officer arriving on the scene and the moment they tried to handcuff him. Brooks seemed to think that he could talk his way out of an arrest, but there was no hint that he was planning to attack the officers if they tried to arrest him.

What was Rayshard Brooks thinking? How did he expect this to end? Wasn’t this very close to a “suicide by cop” situation?

An attorney for the dead man’s relatives had a lot to say about “civil rights,” but nobody has a right to drive drunk — so drunk you don’t even know where you’re at — nor does anyone have the right to turn a DUI arrest into an assault on police. Obviously, the decision to shoot a fleeing suspect was wrong, except that Brooks had armed himself with Officer Rolfe’s stolen taser and then aimed it at Officer Brosnan.

Stupid. It was all so stupid, from start to finish. And that’s why they burned down Wendy’s — because Stupid Lives Matter.

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Category: Crime, Georgia
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