MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Found via Hate Crimes Task Force account; they retweeted with this intro Meet our Chief of Detectives, James Essig, and please follow him @NYPDDetectives
PREVIOUS CRIME NEWS and discussion thread HERE, April 1 thru 14.
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by artappraiser on Thu, 04/15/2021 - 6:57pm
old fashioned Badlands style juvie couple murder in Vegas
note dismembered victim is ex-husband of former Nevada State Sen. Elizabeth Helgelien. They are reportedly both the parents of the 16-year-old defendant.
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 12:09am
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 12:44am
breaking MASS SHOOTING INDIANAPOLIS FED EX FACILITY -
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 1:03am
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 1:05am
OMG, the FedEx shooting was really really bad
edit to add, I just looked it up, Indy airport is one of their "super hubs", the main national hub for the U.S., so lots of people working around the clock
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 2:33am
After a year of Covid affecting warehouses.
People are too stupid for guns.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 3:24am
I've had CNN TV on in the background for at least the last hour. There has been very little time given to the FedEx Indianapolis massacre. They bounced from the Toledo video/Lightfoot to two long segments on vaccinations, to Biden/Putin/Russia and Biden meeting with Japanese prime minister. On the one hand, the balance is in coverage is a good sign, on the other hand, it's scary how it indicates a quick acceptance of mass shootings as a regular thing of little interest, the new normal.
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 12:34pm
they have just showed: White House lowered their flag to half-staff, and earlier showed Kamala Harris making a statement about it and mentioning the president's attempt to agitate for more controls on guns. Clearly, from a quick update from a reporter, they are hampered by little info. coming out of Indianapolis. Reporter said he just learned that a relative of the shooter had warned authorities that some time ago the perp (deceased) had been threatening violence and may be dangerous, and FBI did investigate for quite some time but dropped it because nothing happened.
So it's a good sign that they are not doing the pretend coverage thing with opining by experts when they don't know anything. Just now the anchor is leading reporters about what has been announced and that is: very little. And that some families still do not know if their loved ones are alive.
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 12:55pm
from the reporter for the local NBC TV station WTHR.com, this is probably why they are not saying much yet, most families don't know a thing because workers are not allowed phones on duty, they are telling families to go to a Holiday Inn to get briefed
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 2:47am
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 4:01am
ran across comments by Andrew Yang, Cori Bush, BUT best seen so far is by just a guy, Brandon Davis
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 1:04pm
edit to add: available only to subscribers, and I'm not, all I got is the tweet
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 1:08pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 3:55pm
It's hard to hold mentally ill people against their will unless they are constantly violent. The only answer is gun licensing!
(Cavaet: licensing will also miss many people who shouldn't have guns. So the less guns out there the better. Instead we have more out there than ever before, due to a year of protest and violence and pull back by many police forces due to protests supporting their defunding or abolishment. Plus promotion of gun ownership in rap culture now as well as the NRA culture that has long existed.)
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 5:24pm
harassment of innocent young black males?
then there's these guys--what's the big deal about playing with their new toys?
trying, nof giving up:
more than broken windows. vehicles against the law being used
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 7:31pm
Need more social workers on the NYC Times Square area to deal with these mentally disturbed visitors from flyover. It's not right to have the NYPD arrest and interrogate him; he was doing nothing wrong.
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 8:50pm
Just because there's been 45 mass shootings in this country in the last month doesn't mean NYPD should start frisking people they suspect have weapons, that would be an outrageous abrogation of civil rights
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 8:57pm
Prolly a CBT therapist there to deprogram an ammo sexual, needed the guns as props. Remember when it was the *girls* if Times Square doing all this bang-bang shoot-shoot cosplay? Could get a counseling booth most any time of day and night.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/17/2021 - 2:03am
Anarchists trashing downtown Portland again:
Oops their little fire outside the Apple store grew kinda big
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/17/2021 - 2:07pm
Apparently Oakland protestors have a firebug problem too:
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/17/2021 - 4:00pm
NEW RULE: AT LEAST ONE MASS SHOOTING A DAY? It's Omaha's turn:
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/17/2021 - 3:04pm
Today's mass shooting in the U.S.:
Cavaet: the day is not over. (This could also be classified as a Sat. night shooting if that is your perspective on classifying a day.)
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 2:07pm
spoke too soon, here's the second mass shooting of the day:
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 2:14pm
the Austin shooter is still at large
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 3:31pm
the Kenosha shooter is also still at large
but the social workers will find him after we abolish the police
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 4:13pm
Austin shooting suspect is ID'd as black male and a former Travis County sheriff/detective, still at large, armed and dangerous:
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 5:29pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/19/2021 - 3:51am
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 2:45pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 3:34pm
His NYPD re-tweet disappeared because:
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/19/2021 - 1:40am
New gone-viral Waffle House video. Showing general acceptance of violence in low-income communities?
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 3:50pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 4:34pm
Dude in red picks up girl and smashes her head into the window at 10 secs. That's quite a bit more than just fists.
Now I've seen riots at 7/11 and Waffle House and a Wendy's burned down in protest. We had punk shows, bonfires and house parties for this type of thing. Sumtin to do with branding?
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/19/2021 - 5:49am
One week later, the Waffle House Fight Club has moved to outside Urban Decay at Miami Airport, gate D 14:
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/25/2021 - 7:49pm
there's lots of comments about the airport fight here
many along these lines - why does everyone want to film instead of help break it up?:
and then there's lots along the lines of where's the cops/TSA/Feds?
but I thought this guy's was best along those lines, because I think it describes where a lot of our society is at:
because I can easily imagine woke types explaining that that's part of Afro-American culture working out social interaction official BLM style, and whites have no business interfering, much less a white police authority
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/25/2021 - 9:17pm
oh this horrirfic driveby in Columbus on Saturday night will get little attention, it was too long ago:
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 3:56pm
Columbus-area strip mall incident was the 148th mass shooting in the US this year
The Columbus Dispatch, Updated April 18, 8:48 am ET
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 4:10pm
but surely that kind of thing will stop once the police stop harassing that particular community
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 4:17pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 4:20pm
Absolute chaos, aftermath looks like a scene from Godfather II, a miracle only one was injured
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 4:30pm
a few minutes of ongoing chaos from Chicago Police scanner on Saturday:
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 4:40pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 4:44pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 4:50pm
Burnsville MN police shooting radio dispatch.Incredibly dangerous and confusing. Perp first runs several red lights in stolen vehicle, reporting officer does not pursue, perp later fires from car at police, tries to hijack another car. Mixed up with another case....etc. I don't know how they do it. Note at the end there is one officer reporting someone standing at a median videotaping...
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 4:59pm
Ii was told if a perp runs just let him go, no life is worth it. You mean he can hijack a car and take off and do more harm?
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/26/2021 - 1:22am
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 5:18pm
3rd (at the least) mass shooting of the day in Shreveport, happened before midnight:
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/19/2021 - 1:47am
(New in Chicago, nothing to do with any above. Note use of hashtag with her name.)
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/19/2021 - 1:52am
edit to add, cops did care, did APB:
edit to add again, from a "Chicago Police scanner" account:
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/19/2021 - 2:10am
Chicago police shoot suspect in 7-yr.-old Jaslyn Adams murder during I-290 expressway chase
Pretty dramatic story! Spoilers: started the chase after being surveilled; he tried hijacking car from a family while being chased; shot in the arm, taken to hospital
By Evelyn Holmes, Rob Elgas and ABC7 Chicago Digital Team, April 22, 2021 11:28PM
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/23/2021 - 12:46am
here's the arrest photo & charges for 7-yr. old Jaslyn's accused killer, he's 18 yr. old with gang tattoos allover face; Marion Lewis faces 18 felony charges, including first-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder, vehicular hijacking and aggravated discharge of a firearm, police said in a news release Saturday.
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/26/2021 - 4:59am
(not enough for mass shooting reportage)
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/19/2021 - 1:56am
few will remember their name:
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/19/2021 - 2:31am
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/19/2021 - 2:49am
retweeted by RPLC Safety Information for Rochester
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/19/2021 - 3:03am
4-YR. OLD GIRL KILLED
26-YR. OLD SHOT IN HEAD
6 shootings in Dallas
more, continued at Gun Violence Archive updates bot
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/19/2021 - 3:18am
27 shot, 5 fatally, in Chicago over weekend
A 7-year-old girl was killed and her father was seriously wounded in a shooting Sunday in a McDonald’s drive-thru in Homan Square.
By Sun-Times Wire Updated Apr 18, 2021, 5:09pm CDT
‘They just shot my baby,’ says father, moments after 7-year-old daughter killed at McDonald’s in Homan Square
Jontae Adams, 28, and his daughter, Jaslyn, were in their car at a McDonald’s drive-thru Sunday near Kedzie and Roosevelt when they were shot. The father called his mother moments after and broke the news to her.
By Madeline Kenney, Jermaine Nolen, and Cindy Hernandez Apr 18, 2021, 6:21pm CDT
Two brothers — including felon on house arrest — shot man 11 times in West Pullman slaying, prosecutors say
Prosecutors on Sunday said Semaj Dixon and his brother stood over the 21-year-old victim and fired repeatedly as he laid in a “fetal position.” Dixon was denied bail.
By Tom Schuba Apr 18, 2021, 4:00pm CDT
Shots fired at Rogers Park police station from passing vehicle
Ald. Andre Vasquez (40th) called the Sunday morning drive-by an “unfortunate attack” on the 24th District station, 6464 N. Clark St.
By David Struett@dstru312 Apr 19, 2021, 1:47pm CDT
Passenger fires shots at CTA bus driver in South Chicago, no one injured
The gunman was taken into custody after the attack in the 8700 block of South Commercial Avenue.
By Sun-Times Wire Apr 19, 2021, 2:28am CDT
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/19/2021 - 3:28pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/19/2021 - 11:34pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/20/2021 - 11:56pm
not just deaths, here's the other astronomical number:
we're weeks ahead of last year:
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/19/2021 - 3:52pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/19/2021 - 8:02pm
on NY bail law changes:
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/19/2021 - 11:40pm
like it or not, I suspect this will be really popular with a majority of Floridians, almost a point of pride that they tolerate less unrest than other states (yes, even despite welcoming spring break type "celebrations")
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/20/2021 - 12:01am
there were TWO mass shootings in Louisiana on the weekend; one was Shreveport 6 injured in Shreveport shooting after multiple men reportedly fired into crowd BUT it was the other that was especially horrific, at a 12-yr. old girl's birthday party of 60 people! All 9 injured were teens! And they apparently can't get anyone to talk about it!
UPDATE: Birthday party shooting leaves 9 injured, 2 hospitalized
Despite more than 60 people being in attendance, investigators say nobody has come forward with information about who was involved.
Author: Chris McCrory (WWL) Updated: 5:19 PM CDT April 19
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/20/2021 - 1:46am
from the same tv station, her 21-yr. old son went to a party and his dead body was found later dead in Lake Pontcharain. Try telling this mom that "Black Lives Matter" and cops don't. It's heart wrenching.
'I feel like I failed' | Mother of murdered SU student describes pain of losing her son
For Erica Jones, she's relived February 26th every day.
Author: Jade Cunningham / WWL Eyewitness News Updated: 5:30 PM CDT April 19, 2021
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/20/2021 - 2:13am
supermarket shooting of the day causing local schools and businesses to lock down
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/20/2021 - 3:22pm
Shooting at Long Island Grocery Store Leaves 1 Dead, 2 Wounded
The police said the gunman, who was arrested on Tuesday after opening fire at a Stop & Shop in West Hempstead, was an employee who collected shopping carts in the parking lot.
By Mihir Zaveri, Daniel E. Slotnik and Johnny Diaz @ NYTimes.com, April 20
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/21/2021 - 1:14am
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/20/2021 - 4:11pm
12-Year-Old Charged with Murdering 13-Year-Old in Shopping Center Parking Lot Shooting
AARON KELLER @ LawandCrime.com, Apr 20th, 2021, 11:26 am
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/20/2021 - 4:55pm
^ so, apparently the police aren't into regularly harassing this group of 100 preteens and teenagers when they hang out at this parking lot like they used to do to us stoners hanging out in the Big Boy parking lot, they are just allowed to hang out and get into fights and shoot each other and stuff....
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/20/2021 - 5:02pm
How many stoners? 20?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/20/2021 - 5:41pm
well like 20 on a school nite, 100 on weekends. high school was 2,500, we were the smallest minority
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/20/2021 - 6:59pm
Prince George's County remembers 13-year-old shooting victim killed by 12-year-old
Prince George's County Police charged a 12-year-old DC boy in connection to Douglas' death Monday.
by John Henry @ wusa9.com, Updated April 19
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/26/2021 - 2:29am
and now for something completely different:
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/21/2021 - 9:45pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/21/2021 - 10:00pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/22/2021 - 12:38am
Milwaukee, three new homicides: ages 14, 17 and 18:
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/22/2021 - 9:16pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/23/2021 - 12:03am
THREE CHEERS for these reality-based grownup citizens of mixed color of Jackson, Miss.!!! Not into playing childish victim games:
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/23/2021 - 12:13am
A reminder also that we have so many stereotypes about places like Mississippi, little consideration to what changes have and haven't happened the last 60-80 years - what Ole Miss is like these days, what changes the internet has brought, the change in income, what factories and technology they're working with... The median home costs $140k, low, but meaning likely many more people have their own home in MS than in New York or California.
(that was just a guess - but Mississippi ranks 2nd in the US for home ownership at 74%. How does that fit our image and definition of poverty and backwardsness?
https://www.latticepublishing.com/blog/states-with-the-highest-homeowner...
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/23/2021 - 12:21am
Suspect seen in chilling video executing ex-girlfriend on NYC street ID’d
By Larry Celona, Joe Marino and Tamar Lapin @ NYPost.com, Updated April 22, 2021 | 8:39am VIDEO and more pictures @ link
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/23/2021 - 1:46am
from Jan. 28: Crime In America: Study Reveals The 10 Most Unsafe Neighborhoods
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/23/2021 - 8:05pm
police chase, stolen car, illegal gun
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/23/2021 - 10:43pm
Gun Violence Archive's count of victims to date this year, including an astounding number of additions for last 24 hrs.:
Maps:
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/23/2021 - 10:51pm
from the war zone this afternoon in "inner city" of Milwaukee, within 1 hr., these 3 shooting incidents:
3:42 pm double shooting: 39 yr. old man dead; 42 yr. old man in hospital; 2 arrested
https://atlasone.app/a/alerts/f0b5440d-8fbb-48f2-b4d7-bc697ad36b2b
4:07 pm homicide: 36 yr. old man shot dead in his vehicle; seeking suspects
https://atlasone.app/a/alerts/a9bb7700-a9ea-4369-8ba8-5ed8c3687525
4:45 pm double shooting: 20 yr. old man shot dead, 21 yr. old woman in hospital; seeking suspects
https://atlasone.app/a/alerts/65e91324-f886-4516-8b0b-890b48ee877a
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/23/2021 - 11:12pm
real time NYC shootings reported and confirmed since 5 pm ET
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/23/2021 - 11:22pm
Hate crime arrest for anti-asian slurs & face slap confirmed on surveillance video:
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/23/2021 - 11:29pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/24/2021 - 1:31am
Asian man in critical condition after brutal attack in NYC
By Alex Taylor, Larry Celona and Jesse O’Neill @ NYPost.com, Updated April 24, 2021 | 12:43am with video & photos
NYPD Hate Crimes has tweeted blurry surveillance video of perp attacking him:
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/24/2021 - 11:51am
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/24/2021 - 11:36pm
5 injured in shooting on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, police say
By Sharif Paget, CNN Updated 8:31 AM ET, Sat April 24, 2021, with map
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/24/2021 - 11:59am
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/25/2021 - 1:58pm
I've lived in several countries where monthly takehome was $80 or less, and oddly crime - especially violent crime - wasn't high at all.
Anyone actually correlated poverty with crime, including types of crime?
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 04/25/2021 - 2:49pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/25/2021 - 2:00pm
32-yr. old Marcus Butler, shot dead Sunday in Edwards, Miss. Did his life matter? The police did say his name, they actually sent it out in a press release:
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/26/2021 - 4:03am
Another 32-yr. old man just lost to a gun in Raleigh, NC area :Ricardo Jermel Fogg, 32, of Wake Forest, was taken for treatment but did not survive.
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/26/2021 - 4:09am
3 yr. old Afro-American boy dead from being shot at a birthday party Sat. night in Florida; suspect at large, also shot woman:
His name was Elijah LaFrance.
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/26/2021 - 4:17am
NYC Gun Buyback Program held an event Sat. - an IPad + $200 gift card for an operable handgun or assault rifle:
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/26/2021 - 4:42am
is in same county as Minneapolis
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/26/2021 - 12:53pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/26/2021 - 10:40pm
NPR affiliate reporter killed by stray bullet in Kansas City
BY OLAFIMIHAN OSHIN @TheHill.com. 04/26/21 08:42 PM EDT
edit to add from the KCUR link: ... Homicides in Kansas City have increased in the last few years, mostly due to gun violence. Five gunshot victims were taken to Truman Medical Centers the night Aviva was admitted, according to Chaplain Debra Sapp-Yarwood....
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 12:24am
NOLA, 5 min. ago:
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 12:29am
Pittsburgh:
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 12:33am
Chicago
@ chicago.suntimes.com
Teen boys, 13 and 14, critically hurt in South Chicago shooting
Someone in a red Jeep Cherokee fired shots at the boys about 9:30 p.m. as they walked in the 8200 block of South Coles Avenue.
By Sun-Times Wire Apr 26, 2021, 11:30pm CDT
2 critically hurt in Lawndale convenience store shooting
Four men entered a convenience store in the 3600 block of West 16th Street and opened fire, Chicago police said.
By Sun-Times Wire Apr 26, 2021, 11:06pm CDT
Chicago sues Indiana gun shop tied to more than 850 guns recovered from crime scenes
Westforth Sports in Gary "feeds the market for illegal firearms by knowingly selling its products to an ever-changing roster of gun traffickers and straw (sham) purchasers," according to the lawsuit, filed Monday.
By Grace Asiegbu and Fran Spielman April 26
@ chicagotribune.com
Person in custody after SWAT response during investigation of Jaslyn Adams killing
2hTeen killed in Bronzeville shooting Monday afternoon
2h
Rifle attack leaves teen dead in Little Village neighborhood, officials say
4:26 PMColumn: Every mayor for the last 30 years has failed to keep his or her promise to bring the violence under control. Our patience is wearing thin.
By DAHLEEN GLANTON
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 12:54am
Southern CA-
white guy, skin-head type, local Fox station is the one who has coverage, go figure!
victim a father of 8!
rammed cop car, didn't put down his gun, was wearing body armor, shot dead by cops
others....
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 1:15am
Georgia Lawmakers Warn Stricter Gun Regulation Could Cause Mass Shooters To Move To Other States
3/24/21 1:00PM
ATLANTA—Stressing the importance of providing a welcoming environment unimpeded by bureaucratic red tape, Georgia lawmakers warned Wednesday that stricter gun regulations would only cause mass shooters to move to other states. “Georgia cannot and must not make itself a state that can’t compete with the rest of the country, and, indeed, the globe, in offering a world-class market for shooting fatalities,” said Georgia state senator Butch Miller, describing how proposals such as a five-day waiting period and closing gun show loopholes would simply drive unhinged shooters to relocate their mass-killing operations to more deregulated states like Texas and Arizona. “Let’s be clear: A lack of regulation helped make this state attractive to deranged murderers with something to prove in the first place. Imposing these liberal-backed policies will only compel these killers to search for greener pastures elsewhere—and frankly, I wouldn’t blame them.” Miller went on to argue that if the Democrat-led effort had its way, the shooters might even be forced to bring these mass casualties abroad to Mexico or China.
[cross-file under new census results]
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 1:23am
BLM protesters annoy MN neighborhood Sunday morning(?) with 2 hour traditional black church service, get the annoyed n-word soundbite they were after so they can post about racist whites across the internet.
N-word: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_6086f424e4b05af50db9abf4
Church service: https://m.facebook.com/nekima.levypounds/posts/1666034576900491
(purpose of protest was to get DA to charge Daunted shooter with murder. Think this'll help?)
(btw, they got a neighbor cop's drunken wife fired - now they're out for the cop's badge. All because he doesn't want a loud street party in his neighborhood on Sunday morn? Imagine a bunch of loud whites go to a black neighborhood to do that.)
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 6:25am
Interesting on many levels. First, gosh lookit that, police officers de-escalating a situation, will wonders never cease: At least two police officers can be seen corralling Gorder and Beer away from the group, prompting most of the protesters to walk away. But I thought they brutally abused all BLM protestors! That does not fit with The Narrative! Why are you filming and publicizing it? I am confused! White police are on your side now?!
Then this line just slays me, it's like out of a SNL skit: “It is a duty to fight for our freedom!” one protester can be heard shouting back at the couple. In a quiet middle class MN residential neighborhood? They are keeping slaves or prisoners there? One of those houses has a dungeon?
Then I thought more seriously about the free speech issues, including hate speech. Seems like these days if a guy and his wife decide to get drunk at home on Sunday and then go outside and yell hey you kids, get off my lawn, they should be advised that it could be filmed by the kids who will post it on social media and then appear in national publications. In which case your employer will see it and, if they are in a business that relies on reputation of dealing with children, they might fire you or put you on "investigative leave".
Conclusion: Big Brother everywhere now. While there's a big movement to protest against police when actually it may be that our worst authoritarian enemy now is the fellow citizen with a cell phone. People with cell phones police public speech and behavior the minute you step outside your house. Nobody hires them; they are us. There is no doing away with "cancel culture", it is here forever now, what is suitable public speech and behavior will be enforced by those who know how to get back atcha.
We all live in that nightmare small town now where everybody watches everybody else's business. There's definitely good sides and bad sides to that. As someone who prizes their privacy, I like the idea of hiring cops to do this. But there's always been those type with "neighborhood watch" signs in their window.
You know what? Just popped into my head! Clarence Thomas defined the phenomenon long time ago!
HIGH TECH LYNCHING.
In this case for using a bad word. But it will apply to everything now.
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 12:53pm
Mobile woke Karens
they is us
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 1:11pm
Yes! It is exactly the same thing! And the "ratings" for what the particular Karen choses to complain about are the decider about who gets punished. Not rule of law, not an independent arbiter like police, judge or jury. Ratings. Populist rule. Can be good, can also be horrific.
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 1:30pm
There is a Sikh FedEx Victims Memorial Fund organized by Sikhs For Indianapolis
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 4:59pm