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In The Mailbox: 06.10.20

Posted on | June 10, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1013
357 Magnum: Dismantle The Tax Base
EBL: Apocalypse Now Seattle – Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Twitchy: Chris Cuomo Gets Rekt For Bringing Talking Points To A Fact-Based Fight On Georgia’s Elections
Louder With Crowder: Task Force Says Expect A Spike In COVID Thanks To Protesters & Rioters
Vox Popoli: A Police-Free Minneapolis, also, It Always Begins With A Lie

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Radical Chic – Still Cringey After All These Years
American Greatness: FBI Bends The Knee To The Mob, also, Democrat “Leaders” In Seattle Surrender To Antifa
American Thinker: An Honest Conversation On Race?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Brittany Brees Offers Groveling Apology For Being White (Apparently)
BattleSwarm: Project Veritas Goes Inside Antifa
Cafe Hayek: Lighthizer Is Benighted
CDR Salamander: Biden’s National Security Record Is Fair Game
Da Tech Guy: Postmodernism And Her Babies, also, The Return Of Riding Shotgun For Real
Don Surber: No Columbus, No Freedom, also, The Democrat Devolution In New York
First Street Journal: Real Racial Justice Requires Stricter Law Enforcement
The Geller Report: George Floyd’s Family Asks U.N. To Disarm U.S. Police, also, Iranian Parliamentarians Chant “Death To America”
Hogewash: Elections Have Consequences, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood Hates McCarthyism But Practices It Anyway, also, Are These Seven Movies On The Woke Mob’s Chopping Block?
Legal Insurrection: Seattle Surrenders A Police Station & Four City Blocks To Antifa, also, HBO Max Temporarily Removes Gone With The Wind
Michelle Malkin: The Monumental Campaign To #CancelAmerica
Power Line: Barr Speaks, also, Black Lives Sometimes Matter
Shot In The Dark: Items For The “Cancel” Agenda
The Political Hat: The Wokeness Of Spreading Coronavirus Via Riots
This Ain’t Hell: Much Ado About Nothing, also, RIP Ranger Patrick Tadena, 77
Victory Girls: Not All Black Lives Matter, Especially If They’re Blue
Volokh Conspiracy: UCLA Business School Lecturer Placed On Leave For Not Giving Exam “Leniency” To Black Students
Weasel Zippers: Homeless People Reportedly Stole All The Food In The CHAZ, Situation Dire, also, Occasional Cortex Stumped When Shown Studies Showing Defunding Police Leads To More Crime
Megan McArdle: If We Want Better Policing, We’re Going To Have To Spend More
Mark Steyn: Everything Must Go! also, Leaving Home To Save Lives

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St. George of the Blessed Fentanyl: The Blasphemous Beatification of a Criminal

Posted on | June 10, 2020 | 1 Comment

“God took an ordinary brother from the Third Ward, from the housing projects, that nobody thought much about but those that knew him and loved him. He took the rejected stone, the stone that the builder rejected. They rejected him for jobs. They rejected him for positions. They rejected him to play for certain teams. God took the rejected stone and made him the cornerstone of a movement that’s going to change the whole wide world.”
— Al Sharpton, June 9, 2020

When George Floyd tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill in a Minneapolis grocery store, did he imagine that his crime would set in motion a chain of events leading to his own death, riots that caused the destruction of millions of dollars of property, and a three-hour funeral service with a sermon by Al Sharpton broadcast live on national TV?

The grocery store has become “Mecca” for the Cult of Social Justice that worship at the Shrine of the Blessed Martyr. This reminds me of how some extremists were drawn to the Branch Davidian compound near Waco as the symbol of an “anti-government” movement that led to the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.

We don’t yet know what further evils will be spawned in the wake of two weeks of riots but it is now beyond dispute that “social justice” has become a blasphemous cult, the “doctrines of devils.” It was shocking to hear Sharpton describe George Floyd using the text of I Peter 2 (and Psalm 118 and Isaiah 28). How do these verses, which describe Jesus as the “cornerstone” of salvation, apply to George Floyd, who in 2007 was part of a gang that held a pregnant woman (Aracely Henriquez) at gunpoint during a home-invasion robbery in Houston? According to the coroner’s report, Floyd had been using fentanyl and methamphetamine before his death. Does drug abuse now qualify people for sainthood? And what about this simple question: Why was George Floyd, a native of North Carolina who grew up in Houstion, living in Minneapolis?

We have been told that after leaving prison, Floyd moved to Minneapolis seeking work, to begin a new life away from the criminal environment in Houston, which would certainly be a praiseworthy decision. However, in leaving Houston, Floyd also abandoned a year-old infant daughter, Gianna, and the baby’s mother, Roxie Washington. There are varying accounts of just how many children George Floyd sired — some say as many as five, by various women he never married — but two of these children are adults who hadn’t seen their father in many years:

Quincy Mason Floyd and Connie Mason, George Floyd’s son and daughter, attended a protest in Bryan, Texas on Sunday.
“I’m really excited about all this. Everyone is coming out and showing him love,” Quincy Mason Floyd told KBTX-TV. “I love this. My heart is really touched by all this.”
Quincy Mason Floyd had long been estranged from his father. He said he last saw George Floyd when he was 4 or 5 years old.
“I didn’t recognize who it was until mom called and told me. She said, ‘Do you know who that guy was?’ I said no,” he said. “She said, ‘That’s your father.'”
Both of his children who attended the Texas protest praised the peaceful demonstrations and denounced violence that has unfolded in some cities.
“The violence is not the right way to do it,” Connie Mason said. “Now this is beautiful. But the violence, it won’t solve nothing.”

True, violence “won’t solve nothing,” but what about the “movement” of which Al Sharpton has declared George Floyd the “cornerstone”?

 

Aren’t these riots the kind of lawless savagery Al Sharpton has always advocated? You could investigate Sharpton’s role in inciting the deadly arson attack on Freddie’s Fashion Mart, and ask yourself, “Where is the evidence of Sharpton’s repentance? Why is this hate-filled monster being treated as a respectable person? Why isn’t he serving time in prison?”

“I want to make it clear to the radio audience and to you here that we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business on 125th Street. . . . It is clear that their intentions are trying to retake anything they can and to eradicate and eliminate any semblance of black power or black stronghold in the city. And if we sit by and allow it to happen, we can blame no one but us.”
— Al Sharpton, Sept. 9, 1995

 

If you don’t know the story, let me summarize it briefly: Freddie’s Fashion Mart was a small shop in Harlem, whose Syrian-Jewish proprietor, Fred Harari, leased premises in a building owned by a black church, the United Pentacostal House of Prayer. Harari sublet part of his space to a record store, owned by Sikhulu Shange. The church was planning a multimillion-dollar renovation of the building, and had raised rents and begun evicting a number of tenants. Because his rent had gone up, Harari raised the rent he was charging Shange. This led to a dispute in which Shange sought assistance from Sharpton’s National Alliance Network, which organized the protests where Sharpton denounced Harari as a “white interloper,” and Sharpton’s lieutenant, Morris Powell, engaged in explicitly anti-white and anti-Semitic rhetoric:

In court papers filed the day before the fire, Fred A. Harari, the owner of Freddy’s, and two employees described weeks of protests outside the clothing store in which demonstrators threatened employees, hurled obscenities at “bloodsucking Jews” and talked of burning down the store. . . .
“We are going to see that this cracker suffers,” Mr. Powell is heard telling a crowd on one tape . . . “Reverend Sharpton is on it. We have made contact with these crackers. We don’t expect a lot out of them. They haven’t seen how we feel about anything yet. We are going to show them.”

After three months of such hateful protests, one of Sharpton’s followers decided that he would indeed “show them.” Roland Smith, a 51-year-old black nationalist who called himself “Abubunde Mulocko” showed up at Freddie’s Fashion Mart with a pistol and a can of paint thinner:

When he entered the store, Abubunde . . . shouted, “It’s on now!” Armed with a .38, he shot three whites and a Pakistani in cold blood — he had mistaken the light-skinned Pakistani for a Jew — and then set a fire that killed five Hispanics, a Guyanese, and a black, the security guard whom the protesters had taunted as a “cracker lover.”

That is the kind of “movement” Al Sharpton has been leading for more than 25 years, and in which he sees George Floyd as a “cornerstone.”

You know, I have tried for two weeks to avoid saying anything negative about George Floyd, because I understood that his death was merely a pretext for these riots, which really had nothing to do with him. But if cable TV news producers are going to devote endless hours to celebrating Floyd as a secular saint, with Al Freaking Sharpton preaching a blasphemous eulogy, this brings attention to the matter of the dead man’s character. Do most Americans believe that a convicted felon who abandoned his offspring (and their mothers) is someone who deserves such praise? Is George Floyd a heroic figure? A role model? Can anyone imagine white people staging nationwide protests over the death of any of the dozens of white criminals who have died in police custody?

Oh, you didn’t know that cops kill more white suspects than black suspects? Because nobody on CNN is going to tell you that, nor will you ever hear the names of any white victims of police brutality, like Tony Timpa, a schizophrenic man in Texas who died in circumstances very similar to what happened to George Floyd. Some cops got fired, there was a lawsuit — the story made headlines locally, but you never saw it on CNN, because they only go into 24/7 coverage mode to incite nationwide riots when black people get killed. CNN does this because they believe that race riots help “energize” black people to vote Democrat, and that’s all that CNN cares about. It’s not a news network, it’s a partisan propaganda operation, and if these Democrat media operatives are going to insist that everybody must talk about George Floyd day after day, all day long, I’m going say some things they don’t want to talk about.


 

 

Category: Crime, Racism

In The Mailbox: 06.09.20

Posted on | June 9, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.09.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Vacation Day Six
357 Magnum: Rebuilding After A Disaster
EBL: Nestride Yumga Calls Out #BlackLivesMatter
Twitchy:  Carol Roth Reminds Occasional Cortex What “Defund” Means – “It’s A Financial Term, Which We Know Often Confuses You”
Louder With Crowder: African Woman Destroys Pelosi’s Pathetic Pandering
Monster Hunter Nation: Give Me Libertycon Available Now!
Vox Popoli: Patreon Plays Dirty, also, Not The National Guard

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #145 – The 19 Months Episode, also, England Is The People, Not The Land
American Conservative: The Left’s New War On Police
American Greatness: Night Of The Generals, also, How Mayor Lightfoot’s Conference Call With Chicago Aldermen During The Riots Went Off The Rails
American Power: The Defund The Police Lies, With Laura Ingraham
American Thinker: Democrat Cities – Fourth-World Scourges, also, We’ve Entered A Looking Glass World
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Small Business News
Babalu Blog: Mexico Paying Castro Regime $10,700 For Each Slave Doctor
Baldilocks: Leaders & Soldiers Of The Escalating War
BattleSwarm: Ben Shapiro Debunks The Myth Of Systemic Police Racism, also, Hotep Jesus Interviews Scott Adams
Cafe Hayek: Insurance – Health Vs. Real
CDR Salamander: The Danes Hear The Distant Cyber Drums
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – Six Feet, also, The Creation Of Media Bias
Don Surber: BLM Turns On White Liberal Mayors, also, No Indictments & No Excitement
First Street Journal: Hold Them Accountable!
The Geller Report: Muslim Convert Convicted Of Conspiracy To Behead Pamela Geller Asks For “Compassionate Release”, also, Violent Crime In NYC Skyrockets – Murders Up 100% Over Last Year, Shootings Up 75%
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Civic Responsibility – A Suggestion
Hollywood In Toto: Pink Vs. Pink – Hypocrisy On Steroids, also, How Strange Days Predicted Our Turbulent Times
Legal Insurrection: Hispanic Gangs Protect Their Chicago Neighborhoods From Looters, also, Trump’s Plan To Pull Troops Out Of Germany Irks Merkel Government & The Media
The PanAm Post: Maduro Sends Gasoline To Cuba While Venezuelans Face Shortages, also, Maduro & Guaido’s Coexistence Pact
Power Line: Does America Want Submissive Leaders? also, The Last Stand Of Law & Order Republicans?
Shark Tank: Rep. Val Demings Calls Disbanding Police Departments “Very Thoughtful”
Shot In The Dark: The Road To Serfdom
The Political Hat: Going Bald For #BlackLivesMatter?
This Ain’t Hell: Fair Winds & Following Seas To The P-3C, also, Iran’s Fake Aircraft Carrier
Victory Girls: KY Governor Andy Beshear Panders To Black Voters
Volokh Conspiracy: Public Health Experts Are Embarrassing Themselves
Weasel Zippers: Now Leaving The USA, also, S&P Erases 2020 Losses As Stocks Soar
Mark Steyn: Pass The Lozenge

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Bonfire of the Wokeness: Feminist Editor ‘Steps Down’ Amid Racism Accusations

Posted on | June 9, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

Ed Driscoll actually has a stack of headlines about this:

Bon Appetit Editor Resigns
After ‘Brownface’ Photos Surface
— Daily Wire

Refinery29 Editor Resigns After Former
Employees Describe ‘Toxic Culture’
— New York Times

Cancel culture was propped up by the media.
Now, they’re suffering the consequences
— Washington Examiner

The situation at Refinery29 has many layers of rich, sweet irony. The site was started in 2005, and hoovered up more than $100 million in investment capital before being sold to Vice Media last year for a reported $400 million. Refinery29 was originally a fashion/lifestyle sort of site, but in 2015 decided to dive into politics and news — of course from an ultra-“woke” left-wing intersectional feminist angle.

The person presiding over this was editor-in-chief Christene Barberich, who decided that hiring a lot of “women of color” (WOCs) would convey sufficient wokeness, but amid the #BlackLivesMatter furor, a former black staffer at Refinery29 decided to “spill the tea,” as the kids say, about her experiences working at the publication. Using the hashtag #BlackAtR29, several other ex-staffers joined in, and within a couple of days, Barberich announced she would “step down” as editor. In other words, she got fired from a company that she started — yes, Barberich was a cofounder of Refinery29, and had put 15 years of her life into the site, from start-up to corporate acquisition, but none of that matters, because racism! Oh, how beautiful! Barberich was all about the “sisterhood,” supporting the Women’s March and every trendy progressive cause that came along, but it wasn’t enough, because it’s never enough. Hire as many WOCs as you want, and you’re still just another cracker honky when push comes to shove.


 

 

Category: Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 06.08.20

Posted on | June 8, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Hacking Isn’t Like It’s Portrayed In The Movies
EBL: The First Wave At Omaha Beach – 6 June 1944
Twitchy: Sean Spicier’s Tweets Mocking ANTIFA, Congessional Democrats, & The Riots Drive Leftists Insane
Louder With Crowder: Maximum Democratic Pandering, also, WHO Now Says Asymptomatic COVID-19 Infected May Not Spread The Virus As Much As They Thought
Vox Popoli: The Promethean Playbook, also, This Cult Is Not New
TruePundit:  Gov. Cuomo Tells Protesters “Assume You Are Infected” (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Middle Class Imploding Edition, also, A Sunday Feast
American Conservative: What Is “Systemic Racism”, Really? also, Is Beijing Preparing For Backdoor Military Action Against Taiwan?
American Greatness: General Mattis Has Betrayed The Marines & America, also, Boycott The NFL
American Power: Defund The Police Movement Based On Lies, also, Dana Loesch, Grace Cancelled
American Thinker: Just Like That, Gun Control & Corona-Chan Died This Week, also, Desperate #FakeNews Media In Overdrive
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Black Lives Matter Honors Fidel Castro, also, Promoting Leftist Ideas Is What Matters To BLM
BattleSwarm: The Sick Religion Of Social Justice, also, BidenWatch For June 8
Cafe Hayek: “Calif-Ornery”, also, Incentives & Motives
CDR Salamander: “Dunkirk & The Little Ships” With Dr. Paul Weir On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: The Jobs Report & The Coming “Well, Screw That” Moment For The Black Community, also, After The Riots, My Walk Down Chicago’s Magnificent Mile
Don Surber: Biden Happens When You Trust The Media, also, The Case Against Bailing Out The States
First Street Journal: Democrisy – More Idiotic Pandering To #BlackLivesMatter
Fred On Everything: Her Name Is Breonna Taylor
The Geller Report: BLM/Antifa Rioters Attack Houston Childrens’ Hospital, Terrorize Children, also, Mayor DiBlasio Defunds The NYPD
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, NGC 6441
Hollywood In Toto: Quiet Crossing Offers Timeless Tale Of Political Oppression, also, Meet The Godfather Of Faith-Based Films
JustOneMinute: Faster Pander More, also, WHO Has News; Who Cares?
Legal Insurrection: Minneapolis City Council President – “The Ability To Call Police Over Robbery Comes From A Place Of Privilege”, also, Alternative Suggestions Roll In For Celebrities & Politicians Who Want To Defund The Police
The PanAm Post: A Golden Ticket For Taiwan, also, Maduro’s Infiltrators Join Violent Protests In The U.S.
Power Line: Blacks Like Trump, also, Third Precinct Arsonist Charged
Shark Tank: Wassermann-Schultz Sounds Alarm About Nursing Home Safety Shortages
Shot In The Dark: These Are Our “Elites”
STUMP: Defund Police Pensions – Would That Really Save A Lot Of Money?
The Political Hat: News Of The Week
This Ain’t Hell: Marine Corps Bans Confederate Imagery, also, A Letter From Larry Correia
Victory Girls: Minneapolis City Council Goes For Woke
Volokh Conspiracy: Is The Future Of Free Speech In Jeopardy?
Weasel Zippers: White #BLM Protesters Attack Black Policeman In Austin, also, Black Georgia State Trooper Refuses To Kneel At Protest
Mark Steyn: Pontypool, also, One Giant College Campus

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Police: Colorado Lawyer Shot Disabled Veteran Who Drove Through Protest

Posted on | June 8, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

I’m not a lawyer, so I might be mistaken, but I don’t the Colorado bar association approves of attempted murder:

A lawyer who was reportedly participating in a small George Floyd-related street protest allegedly shot a driver in the head on Thursday evening in downtown Alamosa, Colo. The driver is reportedly on life support.
The victim is identified by several news outlets as Danny Pruitt, 49, reportedly a disabled military veteran and single father.
Cops arrested defense attorney James Marshall, 27, on a slew of charges about three hours later in connection with the shooting.
Although an investigation is ongoing into this extremely disturbing incident, Alamosa cops say there is no evidence thus far that Pruitt tried to drive his vehicle into or through the group, despite what some of the demonstrators apparently claimed.
In the incident in the southern Colorado municipality about 230 miles from Denver, the driver arrived at an intersection when sign-holding protesters were conducting their demonstration, KRDO, NewsChannel 13, explained about the surveillance footage it obtained.
“The video shows about a dozen protesters were lining Main Street with signs in hand. A black truck pulls up and as the driver goes through the crosswalk. That’s when a protester reaches in their pocket and pulls out what police say is a gun. The surveillance video shows the protester aim the object at the passenger side window of the truck. Within 11 seconds of nearing the crosswalk, the trucks comes to a halt in the middle of the intersection. Protesters immediately scatter…” . . .

 

Pruitt is reportedly in critical condition with a bullet in his brain. His niece has set up a GoFundMe page for the benefit of her uncle and his young daughter.
According to the page, “Danny was on his way to get dinner, when his vehicle was swarmed by protesters. One protester decided to make a calculated decision, shooting through Danny’s driver side window, the bullet hitting Danny in the back of the head.”

On his website, Marshall describes himself as a native of the suburbs of Cincinnati who graduated magna cum laude from Ohio State in 2015, then attended the University of Colorado Law School. After getting his law degree in 2018, Marshall worked for the Colorado public defender’s office in Durango before opening a private practice in Alamosa. What could have motivated him to shoot Pruitt is a mystery, but there’s a lot of craziness going around lately, and Crazy People Are Dangerous.


 

 

Category: Colorado, Crime

‘Protester’ Who Made Terroristic Threats on Live TV Is a Brooklyn Lawyer

Posted on | June 8, 2020 | 3 Comments

 

New York’s legal profession attracts top-quality people:

A George Floyd protester was arrested after he made a threat on live television to burn down Manhattan’s ritzy Diamond District, cops said Sunday.
Israel Burns, 34, of Bath Beach, Brooklyn, was arrested about 8 p.m. on Saturday after he was interviewed on Fox News earlier in the day and threatened to burn down the Diamond District if the mayor and governor didn’t come to speak to a crowd gathered at Barclays Center, video shows.
“Today, I’m giving a demonstration from Barclays Center at 6 p.m. to City Hall, and that’s the first stop and we’re hoping de Blasio and Cuomo come out and talk to us and give the youth some direction,” he told the reporter.
“But if they don’t, then [the] next stop is the Diamond District,” he said. “And gasoline, thanks to Trump, is awfully cheap. So we’re giving them a chance right now to do the right thing.”
Cops arrested the man, who identified himself on the video as “Ace Burns,” after identifying him by his distinctive face mask, authorities said.
Burns was charged with making terroristic threats and aggravated harassment.

In case you don’t know, New York’s “Diamond District” — the neighborhood of 47th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue — is largely Jewish, so that this threat was implicitly anti-Semitic.

 

Gateway Pundit broke the news today that Israel Adam “Ace” Burns is a Brooklyn attorney, who graduated from Rutgers Law School and appears to have many influential friends:

 

After graduating from Rutgers Law School with honors, he was hired as an Associate at the prestigious New York office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP, an international law firm with well over 800 attorneys around the world. He practiced in the Litigation and Employment Law departments and personally handled some of the largest clients in the world including Prudential, Deloitte, and T-Mobile.

Recall last week that two Brooklyn lawyers, one of them a Princeton alumnus, were charged with attempting to firebomb a police car.


 

 

Category: Crime, New York, Racism

Seven Killed in ‘Cold-Blooded’ Murder

Posted on | June 8, 2020 | Comments Off on Seven Killed in ‘Cold-Blooded’ Murder

 

Valhermoso Springs is an Alabama town in Morgan County about 20 miles south of Hunstsville. Last week, this quiet rural community was the scene of a horrific murder in which seven people were shot to death:

Seven people were killed in a mass shooting at a residence in Morgan County late Thursday.
The shooting took place at a home on the 500 block of Talucah Road in Valhermoso Springs close to Somerville at a little before 11:30 p.m., according to the Morgan County Sheriff’s office. . . .
The Morgan County Sheriff’s Office identified six of the victims: Tammy England Muzzey, 45, and 21-year-old Emily Brooke Payne, both of Valhermoso Springs; Roger Lee Jones Jr., 19, of Decatur; a 17-year-old juvenile girl; 31-year-old Jeramy Wade Roberts of Athens; and 18-year-old William Zane Hodgin of Somerville. A black male victim has yet to be identified.
Deputies said there are two white men, two black men and three white women. . . .
Upon arrival at the residence Thursday night, at 11:23, deputies saw part of the home was on fire and later discovered seven bodies inside after the fire was extinguished.
“It is a horrific scene and to be able to process it will take some time,” MCSO’s public information officer Mike Swafford told a local TV news station. . . .
Swafford told AL.com that investigators believe the suspect went to the residence with the intention of shooting everyone there.
Some victims had multiple gunshot wounds, Swafford said. Authorities are still working to identify all of the victims, but Swafford said some lived at the house where the shootings occurred.
“Incredibly heinous, talking cold-blooded,” Swafford said in describing the homicides.

The seventh victim was later identified as James Wayne Benford, 22, and the Daily Mail reported that the 17-year-old female was Dakota Green. It appears that this mass murder was drug-related:

Authorities and neighbors say the shooting deaths in a Valhermoso Springs house could be drug-related, but authorities have been tight-lipped about specific details because of the ongoing investigation. . . .
Payne’s mother, Vanessa Hipp of Madison, fought back tears at the crime scene Friday morning.
“I can’t put how I feel in words,” she said. “We suffered a great loss today.”
Wanda Thompson of Somerville, the mother of Muzzey, said she was in shock.
“I’m lost. I can’t even cry,” she said. . . .
Swafford said sheriff’s deputies are familiar with the residence. He said deputies have responded to six calls at the location during 2020, including three drug overdoses.
He said in past years, calls to the residence have involved drugs, robbery, trespassing and disturbances.
“It’s incredibly heinous (as a crime scene),” he said. “Our theory right now is whoever did this, came in here for a reason, did it and left.”
He said investigators are not ruling out that more than one shooter committed the crime. . . .
Some neighbors said they hear gunshots along the street on a regular basis.
“A barn behind that house burned down a few years ago because somebody was cooking meth there,” said Lawrence Lang, who has lived a few houses to the south of the crime scene for the past 21 years. “I don’t associate with those people.”
Thompson said she was having “problems with the people” at her daughter’s house, which was where the shooting occurred.
“People we didn’t even know were hanging around,” Thompson said. “I ran people off several weeks in a row. … Somebody was angry when they killed them.”
Another neighbor, Dennis Romback, said he observed traffic to and from the house at all hours. “(The shootings) are most likely drug-related. Overall, this is a quiet neighborhood. If authorities come around here, it’s usually to that house.”

Seven people dead and nothing on national news. You’re not going to see coverage on CNN. It’s as if the only time they consider murder to be newsworthy is when they can exploit it for politics.


 

 

Category: Alabama, Crime
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