FMJRA 2.0: I Closed My Eyes, And I Slipped Away

Most people who say they’re “from Atlanta” are actually not. They’re from Cleveland or Pittsburgh or somewhere, and live in Marietta or Forsyth. The vast sprawl of metropolitan Atlanta has attracted millions of people, but I was actually born in Atlanta in 1959, at what was then called Georgia Baptist Hospital on Boulevard, not far from what is now the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. As an actual native of the city, and still having many friends and family in the area, quite naturally I take interest in news from Atlanta, and this story makes me very angry:

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Fulton County District’s Attorney office are investigating a man’s death in a police shooting at a Wendy’s.
The GBI said 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks of Atlanta was shot and died at a hospital after surgery. An officer was treated for an injury and discharged from the hospital.
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is holding a news conference at 5 p.m. to discuss the shooting. . . .
Atlanta Police Department first responded to the fast food location off University Avenue around 10:33 p.m. Friday night. The GBI says officers received a complaint about a man sleeping in a car in the drive-thru and cars having to drive around him.
Officers performed a field sobriety test on the man. The GBI says he failed the test and officers started to place him into custody. He resisted and a struggle happened over a Taser, according to witness reports.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Fulton County District’s Attorney office are investigating a man’s death in a police shooting at a Wendy’s.

There is video online of the incident:

Another video of the incident pic.twitter.com/lzD3i8UHiP

— BallerAlert (@balleralert) June 13, 2020

This makes me angry for a lot of different reasons, most of which I explained in a post on my Facebook account:

To all my friends in the Atlanta area: Stay safe.
Last night, a drunk guy fell asleep at the wheel of his car in the parking lot of a Wendy’s restaurant. Police were called. The guy failed a sobriety test. When the cops went to put the cuffs on him, the man resisted and it turned into a fight. The guy broke free and was running away when one of the cops opened fire — SHOOTING HIM IN THE BACK. He died, and now we can expect more riots, because the drunk guy was black, and the cops were white.
This just makes me sick. I am against drunk driving, I am against resisting arrest, and I am also against shooting people in the back.
How in the world, after two weeks of riots, could these cops in Atlanta — OF ALL PLACES — do something like this?
The struggle between the officers and Rayshard Brooks was captured on a witness’s cellphone video, but the video I saw did not show what Brooks was doing when the shots were fired, so I don’t know if there was some extenuating circumstance. But a matter of policy, training and plain old common sense is involved. There should never be a situation where a suspect being arrested is able to overpower the arresting officers. These cops should have called for backup. I suppose hindsight is 20/20, of course. Two cops should be able to handle one drunk, right? But it would have been safer to have more officers on the scene.
And why shoot a fleeing suspect WHEN YOU’VE GOT HIS CAR?
That’s the stupidest thing about this whole mess. You are busting a guy for drunk driving. You have his license and his car. If he takes off running on foot, it’s not like he’s going to get away with it, right? Just get on the radio and call in assistance to search for the fugitive. I’m looking at this video and noticing that the cops seemed young. How much experience did they have? How much training?
Also: Two WHITE cops? In ATLANTA?
I do not believe in hiring quotas, but one would think that, in 2020, Atlanta PD would have enough black officers that there would have been at least one black cop on the scene of this arrest of a black suspect in a majority-black neighborhood.
Anyway, Atlanta is my hometown, and it hurts very deeply to see something like this happen there. I expect the result will be a lot of angry rhetoric, inevitably leading to protests that turn into riots.
Stay safe. Prayers for Atlanta.

This never should have happened, especially not in Atlanta.

UPDATE: The city’s lesbian police chief resigned:

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields has resigned following the death of a black man at the hands of an Atlanta police officer last night.
Rayshard Brooks, 27, was shot and killed after a confrontation with police outside an Atlanta Wendy’s. Video released by the GBI appears to show Brooks take a Taser from an officer, run from police and then fire it at them before he was shot.
Bottoms said Saturday that she believes it was an unnecessary use of deadly force and she has called on the officer’s immediate termination. The officer’s name has not been released.
“While there may be a debate about whether this was an appropriate use of deadly force, I firmly believe there is a clear distinction between what you can do and what you should do,” Bottoms said. “I have called for the immediate termination of the officer.”
Bottoms said Shields will be reassigned within the department.

Erika Shields has been the police chief since 2016.

It is good that the mayor admits “there may be a debate” over whether it was “appropriate” for the officer to shoot. Obviously, a suspect who decides he wants to fight the cops is always in danger of being shot, because the cop always has a gun, and if the fight becomes a struggle for control of that weapon — well, it’s a life-or-death situation. Still, I hate to see this happen in my hometown, and hope the mayor can keep things calm.

Here we go again.

If you don’t want to get shot, don’t resist arrest and don’t fight with the police. #AtlantaShooting

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— Jesse Lee Peterson (@JLPtalk) June 13, 2020

Category: Crime, Georgia

Joe Biden Voter Arrested in Philadelphia

Posted on | June 13, 2020 | Comments Off on Joe Biden Voter Arrested in Philadelphia

Who loots stores? Who hates cops? Joe Biden voters do:

A Philadelphia woman fleeing the scene of looting in the wake of protests over George Floyd’s police-involved death allegedly ran over a police officer — reportedly leaving him “crushed from the waist up” with extensive injuries.
Angela Hall, 41, was driving away from a beauty supply store near 7th and Chestnut streets during rioting and looting on May 30 when she struck Officer Tony Nieves, who was on bike patrol and tried to stop her, District Attorney Larry Krasner said Tuesday.
“This individual’s criminal actions are egregious and resulted in serious, possibly permanent injuries to a police officer who was responding to a situation that was already dangerous,” Krasner said in statement. “My thoughts are with this officer and his loved ones at this time: I hope your recovery will be speedy and complete.”
Nieves’ relatives from Puerto Rico were traveling Tuesday to be by his side. The officer suffered multiple injuries in the alleged attack, including a broken arm, 12 broken ribs, a shattered sternum and five fractured vertebrae in his neck and back, WPVI reports.
“He’s in very bad shape right now at Jefferson Hospital,” Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 president John McNesby told the station. “He’s basically crushed from the waist up.” . . .
Hall, who has been charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault in the incident, also allegedly burglarized a nearby beauty supply store. Video footage shows several people carrying merchandise out of the store as Hall waited in one of three vehicles outside, Krasner said.
Hall is also accused of falsely reporting the rental car she allegedly drove into Nieves as stolen. Video shows her ditching the vehicle after the first two alleged incidents, Krasner said.

See, the way you can tell if a criminal is a Joe Biden voter is their extreme stupidity. For example, if you rent a car so that you and your friends can go loot a store, then you run over a cop, and don’t realize that surveillance video is eventually going to result in your arrest? Yeah, you’re probably stupid enough to vote for Joe Biden.

The riots were basically a Biden campaign rally.

Category: Crime, Democrats, Pennsylvania

Democratic Voters in Florida

Posted on | June 13, 2020 | 3 Comments

Basically, it was a Joe Biden rally in Tampa:

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is hoping you can help them identify hundreds of looters who broke into a Walmart store and [stole] more than $100,000 worth in merchandise.
According to HCSO, it was just after 9 p.m. on Saturday, May 30 when a crowd gathered in front of the Walmart Supercenter on East Fletcher Avenue.
The store was closed due to the police brutality protests occurring outside the University Mall, but people wielding blunt objects like hammers broke the glass entrance doors and stormed into the store.
Footage released by the sheriff’s office shows wave after wave of looters streaming through the front door — past the social-distancing reminders — and ransacking the store’s electronics section, hauling away computers, TVs, and more.
After reviewing the video, detectives believe somewhere around 200 people participated. An estimated $116,000 in merchandise and damages was reported.

The way to solve this case is by a process of elimination:. Assign deputies to go through the vote registration lists, subtract all the Republicans from the list and, somewhere among the names of the registered Democrats, you’ll find your 200 looters. Not that I would ever engage in any kind of profiling, you understand, but one look at that video, and I immediately recognized those people as Joe Biden voters. Go get ’em.

Category: Crime, Democrats, Florida

In The Mailbox: 06.12.20

Posted on | June 13, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: In The Least Surprising News Of The Week
Ammo.com: Roof Koreans – 1992 & Now
Twitchy: New Federal Charges Could Send Lawyers Who Torched NYPD Van To Prison For Life
Louder With Crowder: CHAZ Tries Farming And It Goes As Well As You’d Expect
Vox Popoli: Avoid Engagement, also, Magic, Converged
According To Hoyt: The Binary Mind Of The Left
Monster Hunter Nation: Fisking Buzzfeed, Because They Don’t Understand How Authors Get Paid

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump Deserves Credit For Bringing The Troops Home
American Greatness: Democrats, Not Republicans, Protect Dirty Cops
American Power: Prof. William Jacobson On The Laura Ingraham Show
American Thinker: Devolution To Revolution
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Abolish The Police Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban State Security Poisons Dissident Scientist’s Farm Animals
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For June 12
Cafe Hayek: The Economic Impact of The Lockdown Is Regressive
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Attention Allahpundit – Trump Is making Durkin & Inslee’s Production Of #CluelessInSeattle Go National
Don Surber: Ban The NFL From Playing The National Anthem
First Street Journal: Lysenkoism In America
The Geller Report: Seattle Mayor Compares Occupation Of Her City To “A Block Party”, also, Muslim Stabs Rabbi In London But Police Say It’s Not Terrorism
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Antifastan Requests Foreign Aid
Hollywood In Toto: Late Night Elites – “Defund The Police”, also, King Of Staten Island – A Pot-Obsessed Tribute To Missing Fathers
JustOneMinute: Trump Heads For J’Ville!
Legal Insurrection: No Calls To Abrams From Biden About VP Slot, also, Seattle Mayor Durkan Downplays CHAZ – “We Could Have The Summer of Love”
The PanAm Post: Millions Of formal Jobs Lost In Colombia Coronavirus Lockdown
Power Line: A Fantasy With A Predictable Ending, also, America Is Not Racist – Full Stop
Shark Tank: Wassermann Schultz Protests For “Communities Of Color” From A Very, Very White Neighborhood
Shot In The Dark: Rule Of Law, Rule Of Man
STUMP: STUMP Classics – The Financial State Of Connecticut Is Still Totally Screwed
The Political Hat: Now Is NOT The Time For Knee-Jerk Police Reform, also, Firing Line Friday – Why Are Our Intellectuals So Dumb?
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Punisher Wants To Restrict Brand
Victory Girls: CHAZ Is Groovetastic For Mayor Jenny
Volokh Conspiracy: The Revolution Is Eating Its Own
Weasel Zippers: Seattle’s Mayor Jenny Covers For Anarchists, also, Miami Police Are Not F***ing Around
Megan McArdle: Why We’re Not Going Back To The Office Anytime Soon
Mark Steyn: A Society Without A Past Has No Future, also, March of The Morons

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Police Chief Says ‘Elected Official’ Allowed Destruction of Portsmouth Monument

Posted on | June 12, 2020 | 4 Comments

Question: What role did a Confederate monument in Portsmouth, Virginia, play in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis?

Answer: None at all.

This certainly is not the first time Southerners have been demonized to distract from wrongdoing committed by Yankees. Any assertion that destroying Confederate monuments is a gesture necessary to end police brutality, or to achieve “racial justice” (whatever that means) is a proposition lacking evidence or logic. But I digress . . .

Wednesday evening, a member of the vandal horde was seriously injured — he is hospitalized, and I’m astonished he’s still alive — after a statue on the Portsmouth monument was toppled onto his head. His name is Chris Green, and his wife said he flatlined twice en route to the hospital, where doctors put him into a coma to save his life:

The mood in the crowd mostly was celebratory. A marching band joined in with an impromptu performance.
The celebration, however, came to an abrupt halt shortly after 9 p.m., when the statue came down on Green.
Police moved in to secure the area with crime scene tape, as medics took Green away on a stretcher. Officers asked that the remaining protesters leave.
Green’s wife, Tonieh Brisbane-Green, wasn’t with him at the demonstration. She said her husband of 13 years flatlined twice while he was on the way to the hospital. She told 13News Now that they have two children.
Tonieh said she supports people’s right to protest, “but do it in a peaceful manner. There was no need to do all of that especially while there were so many people around that statue knowing that somebody’s going to get hurt.”
Now Green’s wife said she was upset that protesters “didn’t think” when they pulled the statue down.
She said doctors told her “they were surprised he even made it because that thing [the statue] is so heavy.”

“The last casualty of the Civil War,” someone said.

Sarcasm aside, the question is why this happened. There had been a protest at the monument during Wednesday afternoon, and the city council convened an emergency session to discuss removing the monument. They scheduled a public hearing, which is required to approve any action of the council, but meanwhile the police were told to stand down as the protest turned to vandalism:

Portsmouth officials say there will be a state police investigation into the events Wednesday night that destroyed a 127-year-old Confederate monument on Court Street and left a man seriously injured. . . .
The probe will focus on why officers were possibly told to stand down — a detail the police chief denies — as well as if there was any outside influence on the decision to allow vandalism to occur. . . .
Councilman Bill Moody suggested state Sen. Louise Lucas was on scene Wednesday afternoon directing police to allow the destruction of the monument. Moody also suggested Vice Mayor Lisa Lucas-Burke and Councilman Shannon Glover were on scene and were complicit in the violence or vandalism.
Lucas-Burke said it was incorrect to suggest the senator directed the police to allow the vandalism. Both Lucas-Burke and Glover denied they were there to encourage vandalism, instead saying they were there to try to de-escalate the situation.
Wednesday night after the protest, Portsmouth Police Chief Angela Greene also said she never gave her officers an order to ignore the destruction of the monument. Instead, she said an elected official directed the officers to let protesters [vandalize] the structure. . . .
Moody said Thursday he specifically wanted state police to look into Lucas’ involvement with Portsmouth Police during the protest.

Oh, what? The state senator is the mother of the vice-mayor? And both of them were part of the vandal horde?

As for why police didn’t arrest spray-painters from the beginning, Portsmouth Police Chief Angela Greene says an elected official is to blame.
“There was misinformation given that it was down through other elected officials [not to arrest protesters] was actually the call that was made. So, I had to make some calls to find out exactly where that order was coming from. By that time, there were already engaging in the property damage.”
State Senator Louise Lucas shared a Facebook Live video of herself and Councilmember Lisa Lucas-Burke at the protest, but Greene refused to name the elected official she says was meddling.

Well, at least the injured man’s family knows who to sue.

Criminal anarchy is what you’re voting for when you elect Democrats.

Category: Crime, Racism, Virginia

In The Mailbox: 06.11.20

Posted on | June 11, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.11.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Wednesday Whittle
357 Magnum: Just Update Your Damn Systems
EBL: Scarlett O’Hara’s Best Lines
Twitchy: “If You Care About Black Lives, Stop Voting For F***ing Democrats”
Louder With Crowder: Her Brother Was A Cop Killed In The Riots, And She Wants To Know – Did His Black Life Matter?
Vox Popoli: Seriously, Don’t Apologize, also, All You Need To Do Is Fight Back

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Arseholes Just Grow Older
American Conservative: Don’t Stop With Afghanistan – Double Down & Get Out Of Iraq Too
American Greatness: Bongino Tells Congress – “Stop This Defund The Police Abomination Before Someone Gets Hurt”
American Thinker: Communism Is Reborn With A New Name In America, also, The Left Will Destroy America To Regain Power
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Chicago Shit-Show News
Babalu Blog: Pompeo Demands Explanation From PAHO For Its Role In Selling Cuban Slave Doctors To Brazil
BattleSwarm: Left Wing Madness – Defund The Police & Let slip The Dogs Of Amarchy
Cafe Hayek: Orwell Knew Of What He Wrote
CDR Salamander: What Rates A Nine-Month Deployment?
Da Tech Guy: Society Without Police – Insurance Jargon & The BLM Surcharge, also, Government Officials Are Picking & Choosing Who Gets To Exercise Which Rights
Don Surber: Biden Reminds Voters Trump Made America Great Again, also, Democrats Kneeled & They Can’t Get Up
First Street Journal: The Lexington Herald-Leader Is Way Out Of Touch With Its Readers
The Geller Report: Mayor DiBlasio’s Wife Says NYC Without Police “Would Be Like A Nirvana, A Utopia”, also, Photos From Seattle’s “Autonomous Zone”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Antifastan
Hollywood In Toto: Good Boy Finds The Humor In a Singleton’s Ruff Dating Life, also, The Surrogate Speaks Volumes About Pregnancy & Liberal Privilege
Legal Insurrection: Prof. Jacobson Targeted For Firing From Cornell For Criticising #BLM Movement, also, WA Governor Inslee Unaware That Anarchists Have Taken Over Part Of Seattle
The PanAm Post: Sandinistas Kill Protesters In Nicaragua, Now “Protest” In United States, also, Machado Proposes International Coalition Against Maduro
Power Line: Fake News & Fake Politics About Policing, also, Live From Seattle
Shark Tank: Club For Growth PAC Endorses Byron Donalds For FL-19
Shot In The Dark: If You’re Not A Cynic, You’re Not Paying Attention
STUMP: States Under Financial Pressure – New York & New York City
This Ain’t Hell: On Retired Flag Officers, also, Now That All The Other Military Issues Are Solved
Victory Girls: Lamestream Media – Riots Are COVID Safe, But Trump Rallies Are Hot Zones
Volokh Conspiracy: Students Demand Cornell Fire Clinical Law Professor Jacobson For Criticizing #BLM Movement
Weasel Zippers: #BLM Activist Shouts “Kill All White Babies”, also, LA Times Executive Editor Says Term “Looting” Is Racist
Mark Steyn: The One-Sided Culture War

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Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes

Posted on | June 10, 2020 | 2 Comments

Barbarian mobs have been smashing statues all over the place — no fewer than three statues of Christopher Columbus have been smashed — but when they went to topple a Confederate monument in Portsmouth, Virginia . . . Well, it went badly for one of the barbarians:

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— The Once and Future Goy (@Guy_Buttersnaps) June 11, 2020

That guy is reported to be “in critical condition,” by which I think they mean he’ll be a hopeless cripple if he survives. Deo vindice.

Protester Badly Hurt When Toppled Confederate Statue Lands on His Head: ‘His Skull Was Actually Showing’ https://t.co/aNHHcgqGEJ

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) June 11, 2020

Category: Crime, Virginia

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