Sure, Chicago still has police, but Chicago was better and safer when it was actually policed. You know, telling kids (and adults) to stop that sh*t, and then legally arresting them (and chasing them when needed) when they didn't stop that criminal behavior. https://t.co/adjkSOx7MZ
People over-think "broken windows." Disorder needs to be policed not only because in Chicago it does lead to shootings, but also because disorder needs to be policed. If, week and week, you don't police "minor" issues, you get more disorder. And then you need even more policing.
Officers are begging for more units. Now a 10-1 for officer being overrun at 900 W Clark (Belmont) w/kids hopping on the bus and throwing bottles. No more units available in 019 and searching for more units outside the district. Units from 024 are on their way. #ChicagoScannerhttps://t.co/U5g9J21ETh
VIDEO: Climbing on city buses, twerking and jumping rope in the streets. Crowds of teens converged in Chicago on Belmont Ave. near the Red Line station last night.
the victim's dad described the offender's car as being a red Chrysler 300 traveling n/b on South Shore, a female was shooting out the passenger side window, a male was driving. the POD camera at 77th and South Shore Drive captured part of the shooting. #Chicago#ChicagoScanner
my heart broke hours ago…just looking at her little hands here….our future
— Pastor Donovan Price (@sltionsnresrces) June 25, 2022
but this guy was still angry about Adam Toledo, the 13 yr. old with a gun shot by a cop in March 2021!!!
A 19-year-old man opened fire on a Chicago police station in Rogers Park last year because he was angered by the video of police shooting Adam Toledo, prosecutors say.https://t.co/KOqDvH0vDU
Worker in Subway Restaurant shot and killed over too much mayonnaise. Last week the United States Supreme Court made it a certainty that shootings like this will be more commonplace. If you are disturbed, VOTE IN NOVEMBER FOR DEMOCRATS ONLY!!!https://t.co/OjSpaQtkmU
“I don’t even know if Batman could help us. I mean that’s how bad it is” Reaction to 18 people being shot Friday-Sunday in Baltimore. More from residents and the mayor and commissioner at 5,6,7 on @wjzpic.twitter.com/vtTJyV0WAh
"social organization does not have much direct influence on crime and we should avoid policies that depend on invoking residents’ informal social control"
A thought-provoking challenge to neighborhood community organization as effective crime control https://t.co/BznNuF3Xmo
— MassShootingTracker (@massshootingtrk) June 26, 2022
Update: 1 of the 5 people wounded is a 13-year-old who was shot in the face. Sheriff says security personnel were giving firearms back to people who had been drinking, and that the gunman was "shooting haphazardly into the crowd." #GunSenseNowhttps://t.co/aGKraHdH6u
— MassShootingTracker (@massshootingtrk) June 27, 2022
Yet another mass shooting..but sure let’s keep those guns
A shooting in Tacoma with 4 gunshot wound victims and the fifth person dead on E 52nd. It happened around 10:30 pm Sunday night. There were kids at the house as well who were ok. pic.twitter.com/X5Xa9lVTRS
Prosecutors say a woman shot her brother to death during an argument Sunday, but they refuse to charge her with anything more than a low-level gun violation.https://t.co/BNCdZGOrsX
A 17-year-old donned a ski mask and fired more than 20 rounds to kill a man as he drove in Albany Park last month, prosecutors said Tuesday.https://t.co/I3gmekxUfn
Last month, Chicago's police superintendent blamed Sergio Barron, a felon on bail for a pending gun case, for causing a mass shooting in Back of the Yards.
Sunday, cops arrested Barron again for allegedly having a gun with a drum magazine attachment.https://t.co/peSNHmx5lK
A serial bank robber struck again yesterday in River North. It's his NINTH bank job since May 1, and his first outside of the Loop.https://t.co/nnHB8QakVs
Still an active scene from last night's shootout on Dixie Highway, where a man accused of shooting at a TN police officer was killed. KSP is handling the investigation pic.twitter.com/n3qWhzQ61Zhttps://t.co/zE46W9bSVk
The Delaware County District Attorney's Office confirms that a man was shot and killed in an apparent road rage shooting on Wednesday morning. https://t.co/2dzucTPa0f
A man was killed and two others were injured, including rap star Ludacris' manager, in a parking lot shooting in an upscale neighborhood north of downtown Atlanta on Sunday night. https://t.co/iOg1D5Unpj
NEW: The L.A. County probation department had not seen Justin Flores, the man who killed two El Monte cops last week, for nearly six months. They were also aware he had a gun and had relapsed in the weeks before the shooting. Latest from me & @LAcrimeshttps://t.co/Bi4agEJDH6
#UPDATE The victims of last night's shooting near Route 198 and Delaware Avenue were riding dirt bikes at the time. One was killed. https://t.co/uiz6RBixSk
During the weekend in DC, shootings wounded nearly 24 people and killed 4, including 2 teenagers. Another shooting incident took place on Tuesday morning. The homicide count in D.C. has reached 104, a 21% increase from the same time last year.https://t.co/DKPfC4P01n
the shooting below is also mentioned in above comment
News Desk: Music Executive who is also the longtime manager of popular rapper Ludacris, Chaka Zulu, has been shot alongside two others in Atlanta pic.twitter.com/fowEdzAxMW
By Michael Saponara @HipHopDx.com, Published on: Jun 29, 2022, 1:16 PM
Caption: E. JASON WAMBSGANS/AFP via Getty Images
BROOKLYN, NY – R. Kelly learned his fate in a Brooklyn courtroom on Wednesday (June 29). Per the Associated Press, the disgraced R&B singer was sentenced to 30 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly and the 55-year-old could theoretically spend the rest of his life behind bars.
[....] Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York reportedly asked the judge to sentence the embattled singer to 25 years in prison before Donnelly sentenced Kelly to 30 years behind bars. R. Kelly’s lawyers argued he should only face 10 years because of the trauma and abuse he endured throughout his turbulent childhood.[....]
“These victims were disposable to you,” Judge Anna Donnelly told R. Kelly before imposing the sentence. “You left in your wake a trail of broken lives … you taught them that love is enslavement and violence and humiliation.” https://t.co/tqIC63eykg
The % of murders that police solve has declined *every decade* for 60 years.
It declined when crime up in the 20th c. It declined when crime went down since the 1990s. And now murders are rising again and the clearance rate hit an all-time low. What the hell? https://t.co/cYEkwhzodQ
UCR clearance rates are based on the # of incidents reported in a given year and # of arrests for that type of incident in a given year. If a 2020 murder is solved and an arrest is made in 2021, that doesn’t impact “UCR clearance” for 2020. It is counted as a 2021 arrest.
From an operational standpoint, it makes more sense to calculate % of incidents solved from a given year. NYC has made arrests in 66.5% of 2020 murders. That number will increase as more are solved.
#BREAKING A mother was shot in the head and killed as she was pushing a stroller with her infant inside on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, according to senior police officialshttps://t.co/5Nww10iwq0
Aside from the personal tragedy, politically this is very very bad for donations to "justice" Dems and sympathy for them. It's why they are making a big deal of it in the news. It's actually just outside of one of the richest neighborhoods in the world, but is a border area with "Spanish Harlem", where a lot of older and divorced and high earner professional singles have apartments, just the kind of upper middle class people who are politically active liberals. Rather than it being a question of whether they are establishment Republicans or Democrats.as it is on the true upper east side.
Horrific news: a woman pushing a stroller on E.95th & Lexington was shot in the head at about 8:25pm, and has now died. Child is thankfully unharmed. More details soon. https://t.co/aHzX0Gu8G9
UPDATE: 5 people have now been shot in less than 90 minutes across Indianapolis. 1 person is dead. 3 victims were wounded at one shooting scene with all in serious or worse condition. MORE: https://t.co/Y4u4fHDAhn
Sad my small town makes the ABC news. With the 10 weekend mass shooting. We are #6 on the list.1 dead 6 injured several in serious condition. Something has to give. pic.twitter.com/LPaM2NNIDU
A suspect is dead and two officers are injured following a police shooting in Pueblo Wednesday. This is the second Pueblo police shooting in 24 hours. https://t.co/RKfdkg0h6Y
Philadelphia shooting: 2 dead, 2 injured after shooting on South Bucknell Street in Point Breeze - 6abc Philadelphia @DomShow1210 How many senseless murders and mayhem is too much for Krasner and his supporters? https://t.co/3pcUpoiygT
A new algorithm can can predict crime in US cities with 90% accuracy -- and with less bias than current models, according to University of Chicago researchers. https://t.co/GV4aViggPs via @business
BREAKING : Police have confirmed that at least nine people have been shot outside a residence in Newark, New Jersey.
— 0 Days Since Last Mass Shooting (@0DSLMS) June 30, 2022
DEVELOPING :
Incident took place outside a supermarket in the Weequahic neighborhood of Newark
Three suspects fled in a White 2021 Honda Pilot
— 0 Days Since Last Mass Shooting (@0DSLMS) July 1, 2022
Update on #Newark:
Drive-by shooting sends 8 adults and a teenager to hospitals in Newark, #NewJersey with no known motive at this time - NBC Newspic.twitter.com/JgodZrrVz7
— The Modern Times of Long Beach (@ModernTimesLB) July 1, 2022
Nine people, including a teenager, were wounded Thursday evening in gunfire outside a neighborhood grocery shop in Newark, police said.https://t.co/VNvsMWATSC
— The Philadelphia Inquirer (@PhillyInquirer) July 1, 2022
BREAKING NEWS: I’m on the scene of a shooting in the Hollywood community in North Memphis. Police say 3 kids and 1 adult were shot. Tune in to FOX13 News at 6 to find out more! pic.twitter.com/XbIL5tv9HF
also in Memphis, were virtually all restaurant food is fried:
A 22-year-old man pulled out two handguns during a wedding anniversary party in Memphis and started shooting guests because they were eating too many pieces of chicken.
Govenor will you be paying call on the shooting victims?
When four people were shot when gunfire erupted near the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis Saturday night, one of the victims was a Nashville man who was walking his sister-in-law to her car following a wedding.
Thank you to everyone who kept an eagle eye out. We received information today that led to the recovery of the stolen Minneapolis Fire Department Ford Explorer. We've made no arrests in the case at this moment, but truly appreciate all you did to get us to this point. pic.twitter.com/p4CehO6dL7
A man and woman who beat and robbed two men at the Belmont Red Line station yesterday morning told cops they were "too intoxicated" to remember what happened, prosecutors say.https://t.co/QVmMBqn6fY
A man with a history of police impersonation radioed a fake "10-1" police emergency as teens converged near the Belmont CTA station in Lakeview, prosecutors say.
(Come for the allegations. Stay for the run-down of his résumé by the defense attorney.)https://t.co/p4iO0lEWpO
There is another serious shooting in Chicago. Bobby Johnsen is dead on the scene. The shooter has not been found after the shooting we are looking for him. have you seen him or seen him walk away from the Scene Please Report This Chicago Police Department on 59th street.. #Robloxpic.twitter.com/8o8eCjN3R0
The Champaign Police Department has made an arrest in connection to a shooting that left a teenager dead and three others hurt on June 19 #WCIAhttps://t.co/1LmaHpbzdT
Better video of the retired NYPD cop who pulled a gun on a man who was threatening him at the 77th Street / Lexington Ave station, just before 1 p.m. on Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/RI6Obe4k5m
Surveillance footage captures suspect in death of 15-year-old at DC 'Moechella' event Have you seen them? DC Police released the photos Thursday in hopes of finding the person responsible for shooting dead the teen; Chase Poole of Northwest, D.C. https://t.co/GZEtGXU544
Jahquay Brown acquitted of second-degree murder, but found guilty of manslaughter, for acting as the driver in the Sept. 2020 drive-by shooting that left 11-year-old Ayshawn Davis dead. https://t.co/d1tN8MNzqA
“A man lost his life today over driving his car too slow in rush-hour traffic.”
Law enforcement sources told NBC10 on Thursday night that a suspect has been arrested for a road rage shooting that left a driver dead in Delaware County, Pennsylvania https://t.co/s9yfm7FGp1
NEWS: A man was found dead after a shooting Thursday morning on the west side of Indianapolis. IMPD says they are investigating.https://t.co/SLee1wexkQ
The Omaha Police Department (OPD) is continuing to investigate a shooting that left one dead and three injured, according to a press release from OPD.https://t.co/4J1oZfVpgL
I don’t understand how people can watch this and say shit like “this is why the US needs guns.” This video depicts a mass knifing in which no one gets stabbed. If this was a mass shooting these people would be dead. https://t.co/EGujO0plu1
BLM and affiliated still says abolishing police is the answer! You just let the "community" work out their differences, put Black wimmin charge, and there will be no school shootings, everything will be kumbaya. Oh look
All roads lead back to Black women. Black women are everything, and we owe them the world.
— Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) July 1, 2022
Abusive partners often control a victim’s reproductive choices by restricting the use of contraception or engaging in sexual assault. Once they’re pregnant, a victim is at much higher risk of violence. Gun homicide out nation’s top cause of maternal death https://t.co/as0meJ57bF
That man stalked his child’s mother even while she was in a domestic violence shelter. Set up a visit with him and he shot her in the back of the head while she pushed his child in a stroller.
lots more comments on the thread. What I am aghast by is how many of these young women talk like this is rare and they never heard of it happening before. As far as I am concerned, it's a major part of "baby daddy" culture! A lot of these men impregnate woman just for the power trip of fathering lots of babies, not because they are in love with the baby mama or want to be a family man. It's about power, and if the mama doesn't obey and jump at his every command. well...
Video footage shows the large fight that broke out just before a shooting on Wednesday that escalated when someone began shooting, injuring one teen. https://t.co/w9M44JB4ZB
AT APPX 11:15 GRAND RAPIDS POLICE RESPONDED TO A SHOOTING NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF BURTON AND FRANCIS SE NO OTHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME
Homicide detectives with Philadelphia police are investigating a shooting in Frankford that left one man dead after he was shot in the head early Friday morning, police say. https://t.co/e5KAF8KYZY
Sweden is around the same population as North Carolina. Sweden has around 100 homicides a year...one city in North Carolina (Charlotte) has more than 100 homicides a year.
and speaking of Charlotte, you wanna talk race? okay, let's
In 2021, 80% of the homicide victims in Charlotte were black while 6.3% of the homicide victims were white. Charlotte is 46% white, 35% black, and highly segregated. For white people Charlotte is like Stockholm and for black people it is like Juarez. https://t.co/cbqiJ5Xyq0
There is a very large racial outlier. The parts of the US with high homicide rates are nearly always majority-black neighborhoods. Heavily-armed rural whites have a low homicide rate in comparison.
And some people think police should stop profiling young black urban males. As if they could all be hypnotized to turn off their subconscious. As if pigs could fly.
everyone knows if you exclude the inner city zipcodes america has a murder rate less than an avg european country but dems would rather go after rifles which are low single digit problem compared to cheap handguns in cities which are over 1/2 the problem.
Handguns are the problem. They have always been the main problem. The mass shootings with automatic rifles are an outlier distraction and like other forms of terrorism - and they mostly are terrorism - the population lets themselves be terrorized by them. While handguns do the day in, day out massive damage in homicide, suicide and a unknown massive number of injuries that ruin healthy people's entire lives.
On the Jayland Walker case in Akron. Ask yourself if you were one of the cops, what would you do?
Videos released Sunday show officers converging on Walker's silver Buick at the end of a chase. Walker apparently exits the car in a ski mask, and Police Chief Stephen Mylett said it appeared that Walker reached toward his waist during a foot chase and briefly turned toward officers. They opened fire.
Akron police release 'heartbreaking' footage of Jayland Walker being shot up to 60 times: Live updates https://t.co/5EYieLm2tX
— Journal Sentinel (@journalsentinel) July 3, 2022
#Akron#Ohio PD shot at 25 y/o Jayland Walker 90 times riddling his body with 60 bullets & then handcuffed his dead body.
He was fleeing on foot after a traffic stop. There was a gun in his car but he didn't have it with him.
— Kristi L. Talmadge (I-CT) (@KristiTalmadge) July 3, 2022
Looks and sounds to me like they overdid it because they were scared shitless by Walker's behavior. If I were them, I would certainly be scared shitless that he was looking to do serious harm.
boy, in the first video posted by ComradeOhio, those Akron PD "pigs" setting up protest barricades at the Akron Justice Center look like bloodthirsty civilian-killers, don't they? Reminds me of the Capitol Police "pigs" on Jan. 6
retweeted by Peter Moskos (I find the last tweet especially spot on, but then you realize that most activists protesting police action don't want a police force at all. a good example is right above, 'ComradeOhio" calls them "pigs" and is ready to rumble with all of them, it's like he gets blood lust everytime there's a shooting by police)
I don't know.
I feel like if you get into a car chase, then shoot at the police during that car chase, then bail and run from the car, there has to be some understanding that you may be shot as a consequence of those choices.
At any time during that sequence you can stop and put both hands up in the air and start complying with verbal commands and you get taken into custody, but continued non-compliance means regular humans (not psychics) have to make choices based on what they've got.
If you want police to aggressively seek out armed violent criminals and interfere with their criminal activities, you have to accept that some of the criminals will be shot and killed just as the cops accept some of us will be shot and killed.
I don't know how people expect to have a functioning police force in a society where the only acceptable deaths are when the cops get killed. Who exactly do they think is going to do the job?
Would these activists be so cavalier if they had skin in the game?
related to his last tweet above one thing I have seen lately that really drives me nuts (espec. after Uvalde) from "Justice Dems" who are longtime supporters of "Defund and Abolish" is jumping on the "gun control" wagon. Who the fuck do they expect to control who gets to own a gun? And who do they expect to take away guns from illegal owners? Social workers?!!! Gun regulation would require police for chrissake! At least the radical anarchists helping to run outfits like BLM are honest about not wanting to let the state regulate guns!
When i was a kid a friend decided it was a great idea to borrow a car from a dealer lot and take it on a multi state cruise. Caught up with him in PA, where he wrecked the car in a chase, the cops pulled him out of the window w/o opening the door and bashed his head on the ground a few times for their troubles (he also injured his leg, a couple inches shorter for life, but that was the crash). I don't think any of us much faulted the police for the extra "brutality" - he endangered their lives and other bystanders, a lesson of sorts, even tho i didn't much like cops and their constant profiling of longhairs et al. It wasn't the long drawn out of a Rodney King confrontation (tho King was a big guy, this guy was a squirt). Yes, 60 bullets in
Mr. Ski Mask is a lot, but these are also much crazier times - no cop back 50 years ago would just assume an idiot on a long chase would come out shooting - nowadays it's halfway obligatory. And we can quaintly go back and compare it to the Sandra Bland pullover while thinking of the recent street party attacking cop cars. So much to chew over.
Wonder if it's a variant of "the talk" his parents gave him; if I recall correctly, he has said he grew up in a mostly white community but sounded like lots of ethnic working class street-smart types.
National CBS hyping their work on the unsolved homicide "trend". (See more upthread) Straightout implying that cops don't try hard to work on cases involving Blacks:
A CBS News and Stations investigation just unearthed a startling trend: arrests in murder cases across the U.S. are at a 50-year low. And when a murder victim is Black, their case is even more likely to remain unsolved. https://t.co/MWWltkFOIrpic.twitter.com/dhl5ZaqFq1
umpteenth example supporting "Lock them up, quit letting them out!"
To Cathy Lee, 40, her father’s killing outside his South L.A. laundromat was so random and vicious that it at first seemed like some bizarre nightmare too outrageous to be real.
She later learned that the suspect in her dad’s killing had allegedly committed a similar attack on another Asian victim just days before on the USC campus.
The composition of the homeless pop has drastically changed since '85. The largest growth in homelessness is single adult men - most are recently released from prison. Moving felons into the most densely populated residential neighborhood in Manhattan will have ramifications.
Pennsylvania lawmakers have passed a bill that includes possible fines and jail time to help crack down on illegal dirt bikes and ATVs in Philadelphia.https://t.co/amC75GA2to
Staten Island: The 14-year-old is a great kid, it's just that he was arrested for shooting at two cops, charged with attempted murder and ordered held on $300,000 bail.
“He was squeaky clean until last night.”https://t.co/SnDXW6vqUh
MULLINS, S.C. (WPDE) — Four people were shot early Sunday morning in Mullins, according to Tammy Erwin with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.
Erwin said one person hurt in the shooting “appears to be life-threatening.“
According to a release, Marion County Central Dispatch received a call of shots fired around 2 a.m. in the area of Jordan Court. At 2:07 a.m., a call came into dispatch of a gunshot victim laying in a yard near the 100 block of Curry Road.
Deputies added that while emergency crews responded to the gunshot victim on Curry Road, the MUSC Marion Emergency Dept. told deputies that three men with gunshot wounds arrived for treatment.
Victims and witnesses at the hospital were uncooperative with law enforcement and eventually, a scene was located near LeRoy Bethea Road and Jennings Road, officials said.
Over 70 spent shell casings were found revealing several different caliber weapons involved, the release said.
Homes and vehicles in the area sustained damage but no witnesses came forward or called 911.
Marion County Sheriff Brian Wallace posted on Facebook Sunday to address the shooting and said he will not live in fear and neither should the community.
For the last few weeks the word "freedom" has been used and celebrated quite a bit. After the events of last night near Mullins, I have been pondering the word. Today I have enjoyed the freedom to awaken in my home, to join fellow believers in worship, to teach of my faith. I enjoyed the freedom to choose a meal, freedom to drive around, and the freedom to speak with whom I chose. While I thought of the freedoms I enjoyed, I also made a list of things we should be free "from". As citizens of this beautiful county, great state, and best country in the world, you deserve to be free from bullets invading your home and or vehicle. You should be free to sleep in peace. You should be free to sit on your porch without fear. You should be free from fear of being in a public place or crowd. So you see, while many of us celebrate "freedom" this weekend, there are freedoms we must still fight for. This is YOUR community. This is MY community. I will not live in fear and neither should you. WE MUST TAKE OUR COMMUNITY BACK. My devoted employees already work around the clock to do all that they can but we must have your help. What kind of society sits idly by while freedoms are ripped from us? Take a stand! Be a voice. May God bless Marion County and all those who wish to bring her peace.
Deputies said only one victim remains in the hospital and three others have been treated and released.
Several people told ABC15 the shooting happened at a pool party on Highway 76 in Mullins.
If you have any information regarding this incident, contact Crime Stoppers of the Pee Dee at 1-888-274-6372. You may remain anonymous.
Chilling picture shows gunman, 22, prowling through Copenhagen shopping mall with a rifle slung over his shoulder before letting loose on innocent bystanders, killing 3 https://t.co/JRPWZobyB1
[....] a 22-year-old man - an ethnic Dane - was arrested. Investigators say the man worked alone, and terrorism cannot be ruled out as a motive.
Police have refused to comment on the gunman's identity beyond confirming his nationality, ethnicity and age in accordance with Danish privacy laws, but there are suspicions the perpetrator recently posted multiple videos on YouTube entitled 'I don't care' in which he held firearms to his head [....]
In Haltom City, Texas, heavily armed police officers were unable to stop a man with a “military-style rifle” from killing two civilians and wounding three officers. The gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot.
America's gun psychopathy continues: 351 mass shootings in 2022 (with 4 or more shot, including perpetrator when applicable).
The latest: A man with an assault rifle killed 2 people at home & wounded 3 officers before killing himself (Haltom City, Texas): https://t.co/feg0mqpmNN
— MassShootingTracker (@massshootingtrk) July 3, 2022
another evening of holiday celebrating in Chicago!
Officers responding to disturbances on the northwest and southwest sides were confronted by large crowds that injured three cops and damaged patrol cars early Sunday. (VIDEOS)https://t.co/OVFGxovuxK
Maybe BLM will achieve its dream of abolishing police in Chicago!
Meanwhile sometimes it seems like Chi-town has already abolished prisons and jails, as felons are always out and about practicing more felonies, and as are juvies who are already practiced at the same:
Prosecutors: A 17-year-old was awaiting trial for a felony gun case when he drove up next to a 60-year-old man on the Stevenson Expressway so his passenger could kill him.https://t.co/owOAKEuCX9
...The man who allegedly shot from the teen's stolen car was on bail for TWO felony gun charges. We told you about him last month. https://t.co/2kob78csfD
— Atlanta Metro Gazette (@atlmetrogazette) July 2, 2022
More on rap world mayhem
In the shooting that took place in Atlanta on June 26, Chaka Zulu, rapper Ludacris’ long-time manager and co-CEO of Disturbing Tha Peace Records, was reported to have fought back in self-defense. The surveillance footage captured what happened on thathttps://t.co/UIhMxKsQdSpic.twitter.com/4Q2bAGhjGr
Caption: The murder of Julissia Batties last summer
was one of a string of deaths that prompted the city
to make changes in the child-welfare system.
Credit...Desiree Rios for The New York Times
For nearly a year, law enforcement officials labored over the investigation into the murder of a 7-year-old girl named Julissia Batties, who was found fatally beaten at her mother’s apartment in the Bronx.
Julissia’s father and grandmother said that investigators urged them to be patient; the case, they said, was complicated.
On Wednesday, the waiting ended. Julissia’s mother, Navasia Jones and Julissia’s 18-year-old half brother, Paul Fine Jr., were arrested on murder charges, the police said. Mr. Fine was also charged with sexual abuse.
Julissia’s murder was one of a string of deaths last year that spurred new city policies to keep closer watch over families where abuse was suspected and to improve coordination between the police and the child welfare agency, the Administration for Children’s Services. [....]
special note for lefty "defund" types (like "The Squad") that in NYC, the police's specialists are needed to help the fucking social workers, not the other way around
In October, after the beating deaths of Julissia and three other children, the city appointed a captain to oversee child abuse cases in the police Special Victims Division, began requiring home visits by the police in suspected abuse cases when someone in the family has a domestic violence history, and restarted a cross-training program between the police and A.C.S.
but then they don't actually read about or study local government, nuance would ruin their narrative...
edit to add a fuck you from grandma about social workers
Ms. Davis choked up on Wednesday as she thought of her granddaughter.
“I’m just hurting so bad that I couldn’t save her,” she said. “And I tried everything. I tried everything to save her, I did everything I could, and nobody was listening.”
Fourth of July celebrations have been canceled in Highland Park, Illinois, and several nearby communities in response to the shooting at Highland Park’s parade, as the police hunted for the perpetrator.
Every mass murder is terrible, but it seems to hit me a little harder when it takes place where a variety of people were gathering for something fun.
Waukesha Christmas parade, Las Vegas music festival, Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, and unfortunately more. Just awful. https://t.co/rZfsWht3LI
....Illinois police are looking for a White male suspect with black hair and a slim build after a gunman attacked an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, a wealthy suburb of Chicago, according to authorities. Investigators believe he is around 19 years old.
Police have recovered a rifle but said the unidentified gunman is still considered armed and dangerous.
He killed at least six people and wounded about two dozen more from a rooftop perch....
from
Highland Park shooting suspect description released after July 4 parade attack kills multiple peoplehttps://t.co/WXtALlAQsI
Do the infamous anti-lockdown people realize that the lockdown mindset, that's permanent for kids growing up right now? And it's not just about the covid monster!
edit to add another:
A man whose adult daughter was at the parade told The Daily Beast that she was grazed by a bullet to the shoulder while protecting her toddler from shots hitting people around her.
“The shooter was right across the street, they were in the line of fire.”https://t.co/Q5xa3PHY5t
Happy fucking fourth! Freedom, my ass! Thanks to the Republicans, the NRA and the Supreme Court for making it so dangerous to even leave our homes. https://t.co/XuymIrg1pM
Shawn Cotreau, visiting from Boston with his wife and children to see his in-laws in Highland Park, had set up chairs in downtown Highland Park on Monday morning for his family to watch the parade.
His children, ages 11, 9 and 2, were thrilled for the day: After two years of pandemic restrictions, they were finally able to travel and celebrate a summer holiday in a charming town. The parade started with a band passing by, and then they heard sharp pops from only a few yards away — what sounded like firecrackers, he said.
“And my wife looks up and screams, ‘Get up, run. Get up, run.’ I turned around and I could see the shooter,” Mr. Cotreau, 47, said in an interview. He estimated the family was sitting in chairs about 20 feet away from the gunman, who was on the roof of a cosmetics store firing down.
“I can’t even get the image of the guy out of my head,” he said, describing a man with a large weapon, wearing fatigues and a hat pulled down. “He was just opening up fire. And I saw the bullets hitting the tree that was like literally in front of us.”
Mr. Cotreau said that the main parade had not reached the square by the time shooting began, so the gunman was firing at the people sitting around the intersection waiting for it. “I was right in front of him and then he increased his range because you can see him just starting to spray. And it never stopped. I felt like the firing was going on for at least three straight minutes before he reloaded.”
He picked up his 2-year-old, and his family started to sprint away — but his wife’s parents struggled to keep up.
The family reached a building and hugged a wall to try to escape the gunman’s line of sight. “Once we crossed the street, we turned the corner and we kind of just hid for a while because we didn’t know if he was still alive, where he was. We could still hear the gunshots.”
Mr. Cotreau added that the sequence was still playing over and over in his mind: “I just see this guy, I see the bullets, I hear my wife screaming ‘get up’ and I reacted slow — like it took me like six seconds to get out of my chair and move because I turned back to look.”
The whole family survived, including his wife’s parents. But he said his family was in shock, and that one of his children “never wants to leave the house again.”
“If it can happen here, it really can happen in any town in any community in any school,” he said.
“I’ve never imagined this, like actually looking up and seeing a guy shooting bullets at me in America and in a Fourth of July parade,” he said, adding, “It’s unspeakable.”
anyone who has ever had a permanently or even a temporarily handicapped family member knows how heartbreaking and tear-inducing this story is; just horrible:
A friend took his kids to July 4th Parade in Highland Park today. His son has special needs.
When shots rang out, they ran for their lives, the dad pushing his grown son's wheelchair--which at one point tumbled over.
On America's day, what has become a sickeningly American story.
A Lake County police officer walks through chairs and bikes left behind on the Central Avenue parade route sidewalk near the scene of the Highland Park mass shooting.
BREAKING: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on mass shooting at Fourth of July parade in Highland Park that left at least six people dead: "We must - and we will - end this plague of gun violence."
Video captures spectators fleeing as gunfire rings out at Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, IL.
At least six people were killed and two dozen seriously hurt; police are searching for the suspect, described as a man between the ages of 18 and 20. https://t.co/C5dCdVAJuspic.twitter.com/pphJbvdPee
I ran from a mass shooting today with my two little girls in my arms. We got separated from my wife. We hid behind a car and then sheltered in the apartment of some good Samaritans for 5 hours watching swat teams from the windows. We are all ok but we’re angry, very very angry.
— Hunter Stuart at RSAC this week (@Hoont) July 4, 2022
It’s funny when you’re personally affected by the shooting, seeing people who aren’t here try to comment on it is just so fucking ridiculous.
— Hunter Stuart at RSAC this week (@Hoont) July 4, 2022
I don’t want to hear anyone blame this on mental illness, for example. There are hundreds of millions of people with mental illness who don’t go shooting innocent people at a parade.
— Hunter Stuart at RSAC this week (@Hoont) July 4, 2022
If you have trouble looking at this photograph (posted below) of a man murdered today in Highland Park, then you should do something about gun violence in America.
They've got him, captured alive. I note that there's tons (and I mean tons) of liberal racialists on twitter commenting that because he was take alive because he's white (many also say he's a white supremacist, they don't know that for a fact, nothing showing that yet, they're just presuming!) and Jayland Walker was shot 100 times in Akron because he was black.
Unfortunately for all of the "police are racist pigs" liberals, these guys saw the whole arrest from their car and taped it. Crimo not only didn't take the cops on a chase, but once his car was stopped did everything the cops told him to do. And Walker did just the opposite.
#HighlandPark parade shooting suspect Robert "Bobby" E Crimo, has been taken into custody.
North Chicago police spotted his silver Honda Fit and tried to conduct a traffic stop, but Crimo fled the scene. Was stopped about six miles away and arrested. pic.twitter.com/nuV9zYhaU9
The person of interest in the Highland Park shooting left a long trail of tributes to mass shootings and public killings on social media platforms, according to numerous profiles that appear to belong to him. https://t.co/NcxwutCJAG
An image showing the suspect charged with killing seven people at a July 4 parade in a jail cell has been manipulated. In the edited image, shared by a U.S. congresswoman, the suspect’s face was digitally inserted into a free stock photo of a prison cell. https://t.co/hwOjgKcPGO
An image of the Highland Park shooting suspect shared by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is noticeably edited. There’s no evidence it actually shows him "in jail or rehab or a psychiatric center," as she claimed. https://t.co/xL1Lx6Dzpn
Gov. Pritzger (subtle comparison to Uvalde and Akron; and more cynically I would say thanking the forces who do good is one way to keep them)
I want to recognize and thank law enforcement for their heroic efforts today. The Highland Park Police courageously served and protected their community in the aftermath of the shooting and their bravery helped saved lives. (1/2)
— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) July 5, 2022
I also want to thank our Illinois State Police, neighboring police forces, the County Task force, FBI and ATF for their support in making our communities safer tonight. (2/2)
— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) July 5, 2022
Really, where are we if we have no police and this mess of mass shootings every day?! The cop haters are simply made further absurd. That's leaving out the argument, which I have made, that they caused so many more guns to be purchased in 2020 during a pandemic by making police in general the enemy! Thank them, thank them for not quitting in the face of nearly impossible odds now after the Supreme Court ruling! Do you want civilization or not?
and still, look at the negativity towards cops in many of the replies, including an activist account for "Abolish the Police"; it's like they want no cops in the face of this - anarchists hoping for Armageddon, letting Crimo types run free after they do an afternoon's mass shooting, or what?
What's heroic and courageous about 36 people shot? Who did the police protect anyway ? The shooter got away.
The man suspected of killing at least six people and injuring more than 30 others Monday morning during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park planned the attack for several weeks, authorities said in a press conference Tuesday. https://t.co/Oc9Ar9rO07
BREAKING: The Illinois teen accused of fatally gunning down six people and wounding dozens more at a Fourth of July parade dressed as a woman to disguise himself during the rampagehttps://t.co/XedpLhdP5e
Big strike against proponents of gun control is that he purchased the high-powered rife LEGALLY IN ILLINOIS, not out of state. This is a reporter quoting from today's news conference:
Highland Park Police say Robert Crimo preplanned the attack. Rifle was purchased legally in Illinois by Crimo. Crimo was dressed in women’s clothing during the attack. He fired more than 70 rounds. Walked to his mothers home after the attack. Then took his mothers vehicle.
So the Illinois system did not work in this case! Any screening that they do was useless. At the same time, obviously the ATF has good records on those guns sold in Illinois. The gun laws in Illinois are not preventative, legal punishment after the fact has to serve as the preventative for future possible perps, that's all you've got here. Unless you want to start giving the government the results of psychiatric tests in order to purchase.
A reminder that we don't do that with cars. We let people have licenses at a relatively young age after training and skill testing. Punishment for criminal use is after the fact. We don't try to prevent use based on psychiatric testing or what they posted on social media.
Irina and Kevin McCarthy were among the dead victims identified Tuesday. The couple had brought their toddler son, Aiden, to the parade, according to a neighbor, Adrienne Rosenblatt. The boy was found alone after the shooting.https://t.co/s9Z3jFtlO2
this country is in deep deep denial!!! still stressing and reporting and talking about outlier bad cops (I'd be willing to bet the very low number of incidents per year has gone down) while this is going on!!! meanwhile police are leaving and no one wants to be one!!!
Indiana police can no longer ask whether someone is legally carrying a gun or disarm them unless they can prove criminal intent: “Someone with an AR-15 can stand on a sidewalk looking at a school. We can't even ask what they're doing because of this law."
BLM should be happy, no harassment of yuds in "the community"
Meanwhile in Akron, a state of emergency declared (by a mayor originally very sympathetic to the cause, I would like to add)
Protesters in Akron, Ohio, faced tear gas from police as they were demonstrating Sunday night after authorities released body-camera footage of the fatal shooting of Jayland Walker. https://t.co/DkcIY7abWe
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 4, 2022
Two police officers were reportedly shot in Philadelphia as thousands of people celebrated a 4th of July concert and fireworks show. The gunfire broke out around 9:47 p.m. near the Philadelphia Museum of Art. #paleghttps://t.co/gYHV2DBs17
^ again - people are just going to stop going to public events, especially well-advertised ones happening at a city center (even small ciites, like /Waukesha, for example)
Breaking: 3 Calumet City men are charged with launching fireworks at Chicago police units during a drag racing "sideshow" in the Loop early today.https://t.co/kkbkiZFAEK
The man accused of spraying a crowd with mace inside a Loop bar over the weekend thinks he was "roofied," defense attorney says.https://t.co/JTqLrdwcNk
New video shows a Loop 7-Eleven employee pepper-spraying a shoplifting mob as the store got raided for the third time in a week last night.https://t.co/tGBKznQWOa
Since this morning I posted reports of eight shooting victims in NYC in eight different incidents - plus a video of Eric Adams jet skiing.
Brooklyn
Qyueens (2)
Bronx (3)
Manhattan (2)https://t.co/UaWtCbfIVS
....The message to the congregations came following a night when at least eight people were shot or stabbed in Indianapolis and two were murdered during the first weekend after Indiana scrapped its gun permit law....
"Sunday’s message from the pulpit at sixteen different member churches of the Indianapolis Urban Pastors Coalition was simple: 'Don’t Lose Your Cool.'" https://t.co/KUL051GcVU
In yet another horrifying display of Fourth of July gun violence, 8 people have been hospitalized after a shooting in a Minneapolis parkhttps://t.co/fEZxavblY4
A mass shooting in Minneapolis yesterday you probably didn't hear about because it was overshadowed by the other two mass shootings in the news that same day. https://t.co/opTpMtvclu
July 1st, 2022, at 4:04pm Baltimore City Police responded to a non-fatal shooting of a 14-year-old male in the alley between the 3600 block of Ravenwood Avenue and Bonview Avenue. Submit an anonymous tip at 1-866-7-LOCKUP you may be eligible for a $4k #Reward@BaltimorePolicepic.twitter.com/7lQ4lUnkH7
Several crime incidents took place over the holiday weekend - starting with a fatal shooting of a DoorDash driver on July 2nd on Bagley just before 9 p.m. https://t.co/ouzOCgkni0
#NEW: Prosecutors are currently reviewing whether or not a 20-year-old man who shot and killed rapper Lul Tys in May was defending himself during a gunfight. The shooter, Tony Jose Diaz, has been charged with possessing a handgun with a full auto switch. https://t.co/Qd2nubCcET
UPDATE : Lil Tjay is making some significant progress in his recovery after the rapper was shot multiple times
Doctors recently removed Lil Tjay's breathing tube and when he speaks, his voice sounds exactly like it did before the chilling incident. #LilTjaypic.twitter.com/Zrt2GZ9PjA
Wow. A rare glimpse behind the curtain of being Mayor of Philadelphia. The city is on pace for the highest number of shootings in its history, and he is clearly overwhelmed. https://t.co/XsTyMZWF7b
NEW - Georgia Guidestones, the monument with the inscription "maintain humanity under 500,000,000", has been partially destroyed.pic.twitter.com/pIjcovqvKq
Authorities are investigating after an apparent explosion at the Georgia Guidestones, which sit on a site 7 miles north of Elberton on Georgia Highway 77 and are often referred to as an American Stonehenge. https://t.co/0IoelA1gQFpic.twitter.com/t0fA1QmG1c
unfucking believable! the sense of entitlement to riot! (I hope they never bitched about any "Karen") LOCK THEM UP. This is not minor: it's like they have zero scruples, a dangerous sense of entitlement, and a belief in anarchy.
Honestly, Pritzker should just declare a public health emergency and outlaw the sale and possession of bullets in Illinois. What will the feds do, force shipments of ammo into the state? Even if it only lasts a few days, a week without shooting will be worth it.
Jerry Harris, former star of the Netflix docuseries "Cheer," was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for soliciting sex from minors and pressuring young boys to send him nude photos and videos. https://t.co/gxSy1cMIt8pic.twitter.com/ZKttHBHFa3
BREAKING: Three dead, and seven others are wounded in a mass shooting at a block party in Gary, Indiana just after midnight. pic.twitter.com/tlvOBMxyyw
Family member of Gary Mayor Jerome Prince among shooting victims at holiday block party Not so much publicity about Tuesday shooting in mostly Black Gary Indiana—3 killed and 7 wounded compared to upperclass mostly white Highland Park. Wonder why? https://t.co/rm4xfP67y1
nobody cares about you, Gary, can you tell? After all you've long fed guns to Chicago, have open carry and have long had a high homicide rate:
Chicago is also less than 45 minutes from Gary, Indiana..... Which happens to be an open carry state with very laxed gun laws.
VP #Pence is from Indiana, remember?
Gary's murder rate per capita is much higher than Chicago's. pic.twitter.com/aHdhUc7DG0
OH YOOHOO, BLM, lauders of black womanhood that you are lately, didja see this? Black woman have reached equity on this metric and I doubt that cops or whites have a lot to do with it;. I can't but think that your movement helped in some way
"A 33% rise in rate of homicides of Black women and girls in the US in 2020 rivals that of Black men, analysis shows." https://t.co/fgUB28dlK6
— Community Justice Action Fund (@CJACTIONFUND) July 5, 2022
edit to add, here's one of the latest (and no one will remember her name)
A 14-year-old girl was shot and killed in a car in Tacoma, Washington. This is the daily toll of gun violence in America. Easy access to guns is the problem. @MomsDemand #EndGunViolence | Tacoma News Tribune https://t.co/auSRU85eDM
Hero Richmond, VA citizen believed that 'snitching' to the cops might prevent a mass shooting, and whadda ya know, it probably did!
Richmond, Virginia, police seized assault rifles, a handgun and 223 rounds of ammunition from a local home after a "hero citizen" told them two men were planning a mass shooting at the Fourth of July celebration at the Dogwood Dell. https://t.co/ccmv8jRQXb
Shannon Watts retweeted all these "yuck fou" replies to NYT columnist Charles M. Blow tweeting his essay on shootings (She basically thinks he's depraved. I've concluded he's really an arrogant idiot, I can't tell you how many times I have found his opinions totally clueless on cultural topics.)
America is obsessed with seeing ppl’s scars before believing ppl’s stories
and when all our wounds are opened, what then?
I’ll tell you. Nothing.
Then America continues to do nothing.
Stop asking traumatized people to bare more of themselves and bear more of the burden. https://t.co/RBLF1n6AhO
The idea that graphic photos will move the needle on the gun violence crisis is equal parts naive and cruel. This article is the moral and ethical North Star about this topic.https://t.co/mxAnZR1N55
“Let’s say my husband and I decide to release an autopsy photo. There’s a good chance someone is going to mail it to me... Are you going to be the person who holds my hand while I deal with that? I don’t think America understands the depravity of the ask.” https://t.co/C1faZKzpcg
another holiday celebration! 4 shot, 1 dead following large outdoor party in Rochester (on July 4)
Rochester police say the city's ongoing spike in violence escalated again over the long Fourth of July weekend.
According to officials, one person is dead and three others are recovering from gunshot wounds following an incident early Tuesday morning. https://t.co/mVnm2ltTPu
— Spectrum News 1 ROC (@SPECNews1ROC) July 5, 2022
just a lovely story! It's like BLM says, the "community" working things out on their own, no need for ambulances and cops not wanted
....Officers say they were called to the Baden Street Recreation Center's outdoor basketball court area around 2:45 a.m. for a report of a man shot. When they arrived, police say they encountered a crowd of about 200-300 people who had gathered in the park. According to officials, many people in the crowd were actively fighting when they got there, making it difficult to locate the victim.
Eventually, they say they found Willie Wofford, 24, of Rochester, near the edge of the basketball court suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body. However, police say the hostility of the crowd prevented the ambulance crew from reaching the victim. A patrol car had to be used to rescue the shooting victim and bring him to URMC, authorities say. Despite life-saving measures performed en route, police say Wofford was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital.
As investigators were working to secure the scene, they say a man in his 30s came into Rochester General Hospital with a gunshot wound to his upper body. Shortly after, a woman in her 20s arrived at URMC suffering from a gunshot wound. Finally, around 4:30 a.m., a fourth shooting victim arrived at URMC. Police say all of them came via private vehicles and all three shooting survivors have non-life-threatening injuries.
The four total victims are all residents of the city of Rochester, officials say.
Police believe an altercation near the basketball court escalated and resulted in multiple gunshots being fired into the crowd....
They all probably judged Willie deserved to die? They certainly weren't of much help in the effort to keep him alive.
TOO MANY MASS SHOOTINGS CELEBRATING THE FOURTH! NO WAY AM I GONNA LOOK UP ALL THESE STORIES:
At least 17 mass shootings this July 4th weekend:
Mullins SC
Manassas VA
Tacoma WA
Surprise AZ
Richmond VA
Chicago IL
Sacramento CA
Kansas City MO
Boston MA
Highland Park IL
Minneapolis MN
Denver CO
Queens NY
Oakland, CA
Kenosha WI
Youngstown OH
Gary INhttps://t.co/5A1IJnG2BB
— MassShootingTracker (@massshootingtrk) July 5, 2022
all I'd like to say on that: if you make your judgments about violent shootings in this country from what happened at the Highland parade, you're making a big mistake, interpreting the situation with blinders on!
We pay a huge amount of taxes for professional police, the F.B.I. and the Bureau of A.T.F. HOW ABOUT LISTENING TO WHAT THEY SAY WE SHOULD DO ABOUT THIS PROBLEM? Just a fucking thought. I saw Bloomberg do that, it worked! Just sayin. They've got a mess after everyone bought guns in 2020 while tons of people and politicians endorsed defunding police at the same time riots, looting and a pandemic. And now they've got more ghost guns to deal with too, which won't be traceable. But they are the best experts we got. That's what any other logical country would do.
Five Black women and girls were killed every day in the United States in 2020, as a national increase in gun violence during the pandemic took a heavy toll on some of the country’s most vulnerable people.
I can only imagine 2022. Black Female Lives Matter too. It used to be more the male gangbangers died - now it's indiscriminate crowd killings, what little honor there was is gone.
(do note that with the woke "can't say female" MSM is stuck with "women and girls", pretty bad if you're writing a longer piece and have to keep repeating - maybe "WAGs" for short?)
actually I think they are not supposed to be using "women and girls" either, they are supposed to use "people who menstruate" for adults and teens (and a child is simply a child, no gender, gender open to decide tater.) seriously. certain some non-profit institutions are already using this language.
p.s. this was the whole brouhaha over Bette Midler yesterday - she wants to continue identifying a set of people as "women" of which she is one and that is considered an evil boomer feminist distinction meant to keep all those who are not cisgender down
Hey gay guys:
Bette The Divine Miss M won't give up the word woman.
Madonna unapologetically stands by Dave Chappelle.
Alison Moyet saw through gender-ID BS from the start.
Macy Gray says surgery can't make you a woman.
Maybe there's something to this gender critical thing, hmm?
Black people continue to be killed by police with alarming regularity and with a persistent lack of accountability. We must dismantle this system that has stolen the lives and joy from Black people since the founding of this country.#JaylandWalker
— Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) July 2, 2022
Manhattan bodega worker charged with murder. Woman who didn't have enough money for her item, went to the car to get her boyfriend, who then came behind the counter to attack the clerk.. Jose Alba, 51, cut the man up, and is being charged with murder. Held on $250,000 bail. #NYCpic.twitter.com/kZ3Ju5yVDq
— YouDontHaveToWatch (@StarsAndBars123) July 6, 2022
Hold up, she's using an EBT card and the guy is wearing a 400 dollar shirt and can't afford the chips? What am I missing here? I think Jose Alba should be released.
Charging a man with murder after he was the one getting assaulted is crazy. Not being able to pay for doritos while wearing an Amiri shirt is also crazy. https://t.co/V3j5ft3Uzi
Conflicted about this. Y’all screaming about chips but it stopped being about chips the minute he came behind the counter, and put his hands on the old man. Peep how long he sat there. He could’ve spazzed, took the chip and some other items then left. Touching = violence
Great news: A judge lowered Jose Alba's bail and his relatives and boss raised the money to get him released on bail bond. @NYCMayor Adams stood up for Mr. Alba, saying, “My heart goes out for this hard-working, honest New Yorker that was doing his job."https://t.co/IS2nr3Sx9O
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 245 months in federal prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights when he killed Floyd in 2020. Chauvin pleaded guilty in December to federal charges of depriving Floyd of his civil rights.Chauvin was separately sentenced to 22.5 years on state charges of murder and manslaughter
END OF WATCH: The Detroit Police Officer who was shot and killed by a suspect on Wednesday evening has been identified as Loren Courts, a five-year veteran of the force and a father of two. https://t.co/HZ0AKUjMu7
Here is the reason cops profile young men with black skin as more likely to be criminal:
and they are doing that to help any "Black community" not hurt it or keep it down:
White men are six times as likely to die by suicide as other Americans. Black men are 17 times as likely to be killed with a gun fired by someone else.
The number dwarfs the death and shooting of blacks by cops! All such shootings have remained stable for years and amount to like 1,000 a year for all colors of skin! To the point of absurdity. That the focus should be on the outlier examples of police brutality by cops against people with black skin. Really just absurd! Delusionary!
“Many other countries have disadvantaged folks who are angry and alienated,” said Richard Berk, a professor emeritus of criminology and statistics at the University of Pennsylvania. “But guns aren’t there.”
If you want that profiling to be minimized, all you have to do is stop collecting and maintaining statistics that differentiate by color of skin and you've lessened the chance of this profiling and reasoning by cops by a major amount.
But if you don't want that to happen, because other resulting statistics from the collection of data by color of skin might benefit in other ways, well then you're stuck because the reality is that young black men glamorize ownership of guns and police are going to use that.
New article shows pattern of de-prosecution for both felony and misdemeanor cases in Philadelphia 2015-19 linked to *75 more homicides each year*https://t.co/AMkBDmksq5
https://t.co/M3ptmZMjcU
2 dead, including 4-year-old girl, after shots fired into crowd in Akron, Ohio. Akron Police looking for the suspect(s) who were responsible for the shooting that took the lives of two persons, including a young child of four years old, on Friday night
CLE ~ Shooting - W105/Lorain - RTA PD rpts M got on a bus claiming shot to head and he returned fire, might be someone dead at W118/Lorain where he got shot. Only a severe graze. At Westgate Trans Ctr. -BW
Fourth murder this week in Raleigh...but man racial equality and pride parades are booming!
"1 dead in shooting in northeast Raleigh" https://t.co/eN3DvYtZL6
UPDATE: @PortlandPolice say they've arrested multiple people after this massive search in SE Portland related to a shooting homicide investigation. A man is dead and another is injured but expected to survive.
The shelter in place alert has been canceled.
The latest #liveonK2 @ 7 https://t.co/eROKMoW9vG
oh my goodness, must be the wrong guy, Black people don't do anti-semitism:
**WANTED- Aggravated Harassment**
The pictured perpetrator made threatening, anti-Jewish statements to several individuals at the intersection of Utica Avenue - Lincoln Place. Upon recording the incident, the perpetrator pushed the victim and later fled in the vehicle below. pic.twitter.com/TwoC3iCsd8
Next will be Oops already here Black-on-Black wilding
Two young brothers [10 and 14] turned themselves into Philadelphia police Monday over the vicious beating death of 73-year-old James Lambert that was caught on camera, police said.https://t.co/XVwjNu1T9o
The man accused of climbing into a Blue Line operator's cabin and trying to take control of the train is charged with ... a misdemeanor. https://t.co/C0yURRZ1uf
A concealed carry holder was shot during an exchange of gunfire with an armed robbery crew inside his Loop apartment building's parking garage overnight.
Something I'm not sure is well understood is that one reason we police some lower level crimes is because they can escalate into higher level ones in seconds, especially when most murders in America are the result of an argument or a robbery.
One police tactic was breaking up dice games where people were gambling. Okay, gambling is a very low level crime. But people were getting hurt and killed at these events regularly. https://t.co/TuP2KFEyoJ
I remember NYT ran an article a couple years ago claiming only a small percentage of police time is spent on violent crimes... Well the context is that not every crime is the work of a professional assassin. Enforcing traffic laws, for instance prevents violence.
Prosecutors say he sexually assaulted 2 women on the same day in Rogers Park.
The first attack unfolded just 9 hours after he received a recognizance bond for following a business owner and making lewd calls to her store.https://t.co/S1pGSggtpN
A Team USA Olympic medal winner says a man attacked her outside a Los Angeles restaurant, hurling a metal object at her and fracturing her eye socket. https://t.co/26ZbF96gUL
....Glass said she was saying goodbye to a friend after lunch in downtown LA when she said a “homeless man” ran up.
“He had something in his hand on the other side of the car in the street and he just kind of looked at me with some pretty hateful eyes and as I turned to go tell my friend, ‘I think something’s wrong with him, I think he’s gonna hit the car,’ before I knew it, a big metal bolt, like a pipe, hit me in my eye. Hit me here, here. It happened so fast – he literally flung it from the street so he was not even close to me at all,” she recounted....
So he gets to be free from the psychiatric institution at the cost of the freedom of people he sees as demons or some such?
FWIW, this pretty much exactly mirrors the conversations I've had with my Palestinian bodega owner. Which always was but now is no longer open 24/7 (same as my bank ATM). https://t.co/6GtUTQxIx7
A Black male just peacefully going about his business; his business apparently being he likes to stab homeless males in the stomach while they are sleeping on Manhattan streets:
WANTED for HOMICIDE: On 7/5/22 at approx. 3:09 AM, opposite 374 West 11 St in Manhattan, the suspect stabbed a 34-year-old male causing his death. The suspect also stabbed two additional people on 7/8/22 and 7/11/22, both survived. Any info? DM @NYPDTips, or call 800-577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/lY2nYO3IYD
All three victims in these cases were people experiencing homelessness. These are photos of the suspect taken in the confines of the @NYPD6PCT. Any info? DM @NYPDTips, or call 800-577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/TZqcyWQrxz
On 7/8/22 at 10:00 PM, at Madison Avenue and East 49 Street in @NYPDMTN, a 59-year-old male was lying on a bench when an unknown male stabbed him in the abdomen. Any info? DM @NYPDTips, or call 800-577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/Waos2b7ZOF
On 7/11/22 at 03:30 AM, inside of 95-95 FDR Drive (Stanley Isaac Playground) in @NYPD23Pct, a 28-year-old male was stabbed in the abdomen by an unknown individual. If you have any information about any of these 3 cases please DM @NYPDTips, or call 800-577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/NSzVTZZrzL
Seventy percent of prisoners released in 2012 were arrested again within five years, according to data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The recidivism rate is over 80% for prisoners with juvenile records.
BJS defines recidivism as a re-offense by those previously in the criminal justice system. The bureau breaks down offenses into three categories: arrest, guilty conviction, and return to prison. BJS started collecting data on recidivism in 2005, tracking prisoner records over a five-year time period. The most recent data available is from 2017. The data includes prisoner records released by 34 states, representing 80% of the state prison population nationwide. The data excludes federal prisons. It also excludes state or county jails, where people are awaiting trial or sentencing, or serving less than one year of incarceration....
Continued here, published June 23
How common is it for released prisoners to re-offend? See the answer in data. https://t.co/7SkpLv4SVh
Casey White, the inmate whose escape from an Alabama jail in April set off a nationwide manhunt, has been indicted on a felony murder charge in the death of the former corrections officer who helped him flee, the authorities said Tuesday. https://t.co/Av1XnEBwRh
Breaking News: Alex Murdaugh, an heir to a South Carolina legal dynasty, will likely be charged with murdering his wife and son, his lawyer said. https://t.co/q2f0sHWQA4
Tony Plohetski @ Austin American-Statesman, updated 6 pm CT July 12, 2022
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Personally I see lots of chaos. Those are not properly trained police. Totally unprofessional. Many look like goofballs who don't have a clue. (just one example I see a couple gungho guys just seemingly decide arbitrarily to go down the hall first after a wait, then the guys with the ballistic shields follow -instead of going first?) Totally disorganized. Also seems like no actual command. And they had more than an hour to plan?!
Once the Brooklyn gang got control of the company, they moved on to other emergency-mitigation services companies and public adjusters "to exert control over the entire fire mitigation industry," the criminal complaint reads.https://t.co/eZDsC1UHg6
Jabari Edwards was arrested in Iowa today to face charges for allegedly shooting a Chicago cop during a traffic stop last month — just 4 months after prosecutors dropped a felony gun case he had been facing.https://t.co/unRwbo25zl
Unauthorized people on the @CTA Red Line at Howard
3 males on the tracks
2 are unconscious and the third is kicking the other two trying to wake them up, now trying to pull them off the tracks
Power down north of Farwell both directions
— WindyCity Weather and News (@WindyCityWxMan) July 14, 2022
Nearly a year after an alderman begged Chicago police leaders to "get this sh*t under control," violence in Chicago's downtown neighborhoods is even worse. But CPD's top cop refuses to talk about it because doing so would be "divisive."https://t.co/rsEvbyXfDa
#UPDATE: Mobile command unit leaving scene of a double homicide in Muncie in area of S. Liberty/29th Street. Police were called here to a shooting just before 5 a.m. where they found a man and woman dead with apparent gunshot wounds. Homicide investigation underway pic.twitter.com/qYdfOXd7hb
— Courtney Spinelli (@CourtSpinelliTV) July 13, 2022
SDPD is sharing descriptions of four teenagers who may have been involved in a shooting that left a 14-year-old boy dead in the City Heights neighborhood earlier this week.https://t.co/QQ51IcaMVx
East Chicago detectives are continuing to investigate a shooting early Tuesday morning that left a 7-year-old boy dead as he slept in his parents’ van.https://t.co/OYoioEnG8C
New Bern police say a suspect has been charged with murder after a double-shooting in front of the Craven County Courthouse Tuesday morning left one dead and another critically injured. https://t.co/h4Hf0wuQtS
Man dead, 2-year-old injured after neighbor dispute leads to shooting in east Las Vegas A dispute between neighbors left a man dead and a 2-year-old injured overnight, according to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police. https://t.co/bxGaIjA482pic.twitter.com/CcG1e7BEs4
On July 13, at ~2:32am, Central District patrol officers responded to the 500 block of W Mulberry St for a report of a shooting. Adult male transported to area hospital, pronounced dead shortly after.
A man who was being sought in connection with the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend in Pomona was later found dead in his vehicle in Rialto https://t.co/VoM5J2ojVS
The Hays County Sheriff's Office says a shooting Tuesday night in Kyle left two people dead. A suspect is in custody. He's charged with capital murder https://t.co/FXG8AhvqAA
#Breaking News Update: A 32-year-old Lancaster man is dead after a shooting in Fairfield County early Wednesday morning. 27-year-old Cody Blaine of Fairfield County was arrested in connection to the shooting. https://t.co/OpHItAjvZF
Criminal complaints were filed Tuesday morning in South County Justice Court against the three men arrested in connection to a shooting in May that left a man dead. https://t.co/u0tI48HGQfpic.twitter.com/WHVIhlvEIS
#BREAKING | A second suspect has been arrested in the May 29th Memorial Day Weekend Shooting Incident at the Larry Mitchell Ball Park that left two people dead.https://t.co/KjuMDDQqUH
An Elmira man was indicted following a shooting back in June that left one man dead inside a home on West Clinton Street in Elmira. https://t.co/87sm6xH1Vc
White Male Turned Himself In After Manhunt Was Issued..Dakota Wright Killed Jordan McDaniels, 23, Jaheem McDaniels, 21 is in Critical Condition
Courthouse shooting leaves one brother dead, another critically injured https://t.co/gAsaxsDZGZpic.twitter.com/ncglhgeZDG
A weekend shooting in Westport left one man dead and five people injured. Today, city officials are discussing whether to spend $232K to bring Jackson County sheriff’s deputies into Kansas City's entertainment districts.
Jul 13, 2022
Man Wrestles Gun From Robber and Shoots His Accomplice
Jul 13, 2022 A #robbery victim fought back, possibly #shooting one of his offenders. Now police in #Philadelphia are looking for two suspects. pic.twitter.com/ydJ04MdrXF
My eldest son has moved on from being terrified of school shootings to "I was at the Fourth of July concert, in Philadelphia, where the shooting happened. Show was alright, kinda meh TBH".
— Abs0lute_Zer0 (Neptune's Child) (@A8s0lute_Zer0) July 13, 2022
Police say three men were injured in a North Philadelphia triple shooting on Tuesday night. https://t.co/BZKDmuJioK
According to police, 63 shots were fired in North Philadelphia, resulting in the death of a 16-year-old on Monday night. Authorities say five males in dark clothing were seen leaving the area after the shooting. https://t.co/6z2frWUVHu
Anne Arundel County Police said they charged a Baltimore County man with murder for the fatal shooting of Britrain Marcelus Gray, a 23-year-old Odenton resident who was killed while working at a McDonald’s restaurant in Crofton.https://t.co/ycbLxf4T5R
BREAKING: A Baltimore Police officer, Steven Angelini, was arrested by the FBI this morning. I'm told the case involves allegedly selling "ghost" guns. More to come...
INBOX: A long list of local businesses, bars, and restaurants along 414 Light Street — where last weeks fatal shooting took place — have written a letter urging voters to cast their ballots for Baltimore City State’s Attorney candidate Thiru Vignarajah. pic.twitter.com/BqrAtj6iG6
A Baltimore man who police say shot five people in May was arrested last week. The 19-year-old man was on probation at the time of the shooting and also facing a separate trial on other charges.https://t.co/ytE609XSS4
Why doesn't anyone care about this??? Didnt this child deserve to grow up, in peace?? Where is the love??? 17-year-old boy killed in Northeast Baltimore shooting https://t.co/3hKxYglkdS
Baltimore Police Officer Facing Federal Charges for Drug Conspiracy and Distribution Charges and for Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime (Ghost Gun) https://t.co/bknT0Dd3lr
A series of 911 calls made after rapper Lil Tjay was shot in Edgewater in the early morning hours of June 22 shed light on a chaotic scene with multiple victims and vehicles spread out over several blocks. https://t.co/b4mwu4eLfY
Michael Cox, a former Boston police officer who was beaten by colleagues who mistook him for a suspect in a fatal shooting will be Boston’s next police commissioner
Big shakeup underway at SFDA's office. @BrookeJenkinsSF has named four top staffers and fired at least two people so far. More terminations expected to come. https://t.co/ullZMDYb3O
Knotts went from one of the best theme parks to the worst theme park in California, always those ghetto people and those Edgar's just walking around messing with people https://t.co/v2X6OGDUFM
— dodgersontop (59-30) (@dodgersontop) July 17, 2022
I’ve had this happen to me multiple times. Metal detectors went off for me, they still let me through. The few times they didn’t, they didn’t even check my bag completely, only the big pocket. I truly don’t feel safe at that park anymore. @knotts Do better!!! https://t.co/RpGn8jDfZZ
Dawg I was at Knotts berry farm with my wife and kids and there was mad fights tonight. Fucking stampede by the exit almost knocked my wagon over with my kids in it. Thankful to get out safe and make it home! Fuck all you little punks that ruined my day with my kids lame fucks.
Jesus Christ, Knotts Berry Farm shut down due to teens being unruly and starting fights, police were called because guest reported hearing gunshots, which thank goodness there wasn’t any. These little fuckers ruin everything. And yes I can hear the police helicopters, https://t.co/lWzg0XkvA1
I'm tired of trash people ruining places like Knotts Berry Farm for everyone else. If the police and government officials won't do anything. We're going to have to do it ourselves
^ how much you wanna bet that those people will vote "law & order" candidates?
coming your way: strictly enforced curfew for teens, targeting young Blacks, stop n' frisk, the whole shebang
any sympathy gained by the Geo. Floyd case is history, long forgotten. people want to use public places without juvies overrunning them, much less juvies with weapons, you wanna act #ghetto, keep it in the #ghetto, kill each other there for all they care
Another white criminal getting off with a slap on the wrist:
For people who don't know, this happened in Denver in 2014. The first car he stole that wasn't on the video had a 4 year old in it. He was found guilty of 11 felonies and ended up getting 160 years. He won't be eligible for parole til 2085 when he's 100 years old. pic.twitter.com/8wnCUMEZkZ
I think No one has set up a fundraiser for Arabella Yarbrough & her kids. says it all.
1. A friend just sent me this video where people had gathered to protest the police shooting of 20yo Tekle Sundberg by Minneapolis SWAT snipers after a standoff in which he was shooting at people in his apt building. This woman said he tried to kill her. https://t.co/q9UIjoeHp4https://t.co/JfzOiPJNxF
3. She said he'd been stalking & threatening her but didn't call police because "then I would have put a black innocent man in jail with mental illness and ain't no telling what would have happened so I left it alone!"
4. There's no mention of any of this on the GoFundMe campaign set up for his funeral expenses and money for his family. It's currently at $16,368 of a $20,000 goal. https://t.co/xQXQjMeeiC
5. To clarify - Arabella was talking about not calling the police in the past. She KARE11 reports that "A mother with two young children called 911 and told dispatchers someone was firing shots through their apartment" at 9:30pm on Wednesday.https://t.co/rronVWaHkM
This GoFundMe didn't turn up in my earlier search because I had a slightly different last name for Arabella. Her older sister reports that Arabella also lost her job. This one is at $5,053 of $10K goal. https://t.co/TdnDAumvwFpic.twitter.com/npKhN6C7iD
8. Another interview with Arabella Yarbrough, whose apartment was shot up by Tekle Sundberg with her and 2 boys in it. Tekle was killed by Minneapolis SWAT after a 6 hour standoff. https://t.co/Kf71E3tS7ghttps://t.co/x2DPwD0IG2
9. Seeing the usual claims that Tekle was shot because he was black, while white shooters are apprehended alive.
The idea that violent white men aren’t shot & killed by police is fiction. The ones who are apprehended alive put down their weapons and surrender without resisting,
11. @JohnHMcWhorter has written how "Police Kill Too Many People—White and Black" after he made remarks on The Glenn Show about being unaware of a list of white men killed by police under similar circumstances after the fatal police shootings of 2 black men.
13. On 7/5/16, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 37yo Alton Sterling was killed by 2 white officers attempting to arrest him for selling CDs & alleged threatening a man with a gun outside a Triple S Food Mart. The owner of Triple S later said Sterling was "not the one causing trouble".
A black man was rightfully killed by Minnesota police because of his criminal actions, and white liberals are coming to the defense of him and not the single mother and children he terrorized. Sick.
— Barrington Martin II (@_BarringtonII) July 17, 2022
Because the ACAB movement is actually more important to them than Black lives, they just don't wanna say because Black racialists are currently useful dopes?
turns out they are sworn to protect the normie citizens from the huge packs of roving, twerking, wilding and sometimes rioting #ghetto yuds who have taken to dominating Millennium Park this summer (despite a curfew). I imagine it's almost as much fun as the evening Geo. Floyd "protests" during the height of the pandemic.
A Chicago police officer has died in an apparent suicide, the second in as many days, according to police.https://t.co/XOFVyUNbxF
Keep letting violent criminals out on the street, families who lost loved ones are gonna start suing, because: dammit law-abiding Black lives also matter:
Vietnam vet Keith Cooper died during a carjacking last summer. Now, his family is suing Cook County because the alleged killers were both on electronic monitoring.
The law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2023, makes it a felony to sleep on state-owned land, such as under highway overpasses and bridges. https://t.co/OXTTcGo3Mx
I think about how many homes in my neighborhood now have "property under surveillance"-type signs, and you know it's this, not even the old-school security companies. I already dislike running the Alexa gauntlet, and now walking my own neighborhood feels increasingly unfriendly. https://t.co/l9rWTbMvmI
#UPDATE: Greenwood Chief Jim Ison says 4 are dead in this shooting at the Greenwood Park Mall, including the shooter. Two others at Eskenazi. Ison says a good samaritan witnessed the shooting and shot the shooter.
Chief said the shooter walked in to the food court with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition and started shooting. Mall still being cleared at the moment. FBI, ATF, Department of Homeland Security are assisting local agencies with this investigation
No license required as of July 1 to carry a concealed handgun in Indiana, so it's probable that this "good samaritan" is the new NRA poster boy. Should be a poster boy for Defund/Abolish, don't need police, that's solved, everyone just carries a gun. Lot more death and mayhem but who needs the sheriff?
i used to work at the greenwood park mall. people open carry all the time. once after one of my shifts someone took out a gun during a fight that had escalated. no shots, but it was enough for evacuation and hiding
though i was hopeful, i couldn’t help but question reality whenever i saw a handgun in bath & body works. it’s the feeling you have when you know something doesn’t fit. it doesn’t have to be this way
Good point that this is a new definition for "good samaritan" - it is now synonymous with "vigilante". Odd for a police chief to make himself obsolete with new linguistics, but there it is:
Regarding the Greenwood Park Mall mass shooting:
“Good Samaritan” is not the right label for the person who shot the shooter. “Vigilante”, is more appropriate.
MEANWHILE IF YOU SCOOT UPTHREAD SOME, there are REMINDERS that there was far worse murder and mayhem at a holiday block party in Gary by Black against Black
Family member of Gary Mayor Jerome Prince among shooting victims at holiday block party Not so much publicity about Tuesday shooting in mostly Black Gary Indiana—3 killed and 7 wounded compared to upperclass mostly white Highland Park. Wonder why? https://t.co/rm4xfP67y1
Indiana police can no longer ask whether someone is legally carrying a gun or disarm them unless they can prove criminal intent: “Someone with an AR-15 can stand on a sidewalk looking at a school. We can't even ask what they're doing because of this law."
BLM should be happy, no harassment of yuds in "the community"
so cool it on the fear of white supremacy extremist crap, I ain't buying, as Blacks are doing far more damage to Blacks than a few 4 chan idiot yuds (most no doubt looking to imitate the male rapper role model they fell in love with as pre-teens by trying on Nazi personas and the like)
Surely the new laws in Indiana make it easier for both kinds of murder and mayhem. Carry around your gun until you/re ready, just be aware others may be doing the same.
Hohum not worth trending on Twitter, happened Sunday morning after the bars closed. But I betcha they are hearing about it in Denver and more citizens will think twice about a night of drinking in LoDo.
but wait that's not all for the wonderful summer weekend, I've got more:
#active#shooter Ellenton outlet mall shooting leaves man injured; no active shooter https://t.co/vH4EfJRK5B Manatee law enforcement is seeking 3 men involved in a shooting at the Ellenton Premium Outlets. There was no active shooter, sheriff's office ...
Homicide detectives investigating after shooting victim found deceased in Chinatown-International District park on Sunday afternoon: https://t.co/59kNzugupr
Detectives with the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department are investigating a double shooting late Sunday night which has left one person dead and another in critical condition. pic.twitter.com/qAAgMbE3j7
— Kansas City, Kansas Police Department (@KCKPDChief) July 18, 2022
Weekend violence toll includes fatal shooting of 17yr old and 18yr old in NE Baltimore Friday night.
And non-fatal shooting of two men during a fight early this morning in Canton's restaurant/bar area--the second non-fatal shooting in a fight there this week at bar closing time
Five people were wounded in Yonkers overnight in two separate incidents.
The police commissioner says the initial shooting took place during a memorial service with a gang presence ("a target of opportunity"), and that the two shootings may be linked.https://t.co/lI5BPbn0KX
An NYPD sergeant spotted two men exchanging gunfire in Soundview, Bronx, just past midnight. One drove off and the other ran away. The sergeant ran after that man, who then pointed a gun at him. The sergeant fired his weapon but no one was hit. https://t.co/JavyKeXARK
A 34-year-old man was shot in the leg close to Brookdale University Hospital in Brooklyn around 1:15 a.m.
The victim walked into Brookdale Hospital a short time later but was “highly uncooperative”, according to a police spokesman.https://t.co/xiOZCI6TjF
I see just now that "Beech Grove", the OTHER big shooting in Indiana today, is finally trending on Twitter. Maybe it will sink in with people a little more how pervasive the gun violence is in this country, that it's not just the few stories with some kind of "hook" covered by CNN and it's not just nut cases shooting at strangers (the latter are actually few and far between)
Today I had the privilege of speaking with the family of officer Patsy Swank. She took her own life on July 2. Her mother shared this clip with me, from the night before she passed. Cradling a baby boy who had just lost his mother. Patsy loved serving & being a police officer. pic.twitter.com/Mhz06y8WUn
"Alexa James...was initially tapped in September 2020 as the department’s senior adviser on wellness — shortly after Deputy Chief Dion Boyd, 57, fatally shot himself in his office. She said she stepped down roughly a year later, fearing she was adding 'very little value.'" https://t.co/JwmZ35mlMo
Most "experts" will spend more time repeating "correlation does not equal causation" instead of trying to figure out the logical (and lethal) impact of drastically less policing. (Also, this is a shockingly thorough bit of reportage from the Sun-Times.) https://t.co/ELKAlYGRVEpic.twitter.com/yOBcvsNQUR
It takes a bold woman to chase these guys away. Nobody should have to deal with this at home. It's why we have police. Right now most reformers, particularly the ones that don't live there, are concerned solely about what is best for the gun-toting drug dealers. It's not right. https://t.co/lDieavbcIS
At least 18 people shot in Philadelphia violent weekend; residents fed up with violence
Since the start of the year, police say there have been close to 300 homicides recorded.
By Sharifa Jackson,Monday, July 18, 2022 6:18AM
After 27 years in the same home, one Juniata neighbor says she's finally had enough. “I'm thinking of moving, carrying on. It was a beautiful neighborhood. After a couple of years, getting a little rough for me," said the woman. https://t.co/5PeNJdJHyi
^ All part of what those who favored intense coverage of police abuse over coverage of crime called a 'little uptick' starting in late 2020. Bias verification kills, sometimes literally.
The is an shocking increase in murders (not homicides, FWIW) in Portland, OR.
But... It's pretty shabby for California Partnership for Safe Communities to be paid to produce a report that cribbed (not completely accurate) data from https://t.co/lcVjEAfKT9. How does one know? https://t.co/LG3IztmVrPpic.twitter.com/h1veh0wZs5
How do I know? Because from 2006 to 2017 it's identical to this: https://t.co/ByY1Lxk4R2
And 2015 is simply missing!
City-data is an odd site. It's mostly accurate. But it's an opaque site ( that doesn't to care about accuracy as much as profit and web-site optimization. pic.twitter.com/K4SILYxpBP
Anyway, it's not easy to get murder data from Portland. They have not been good reporting to the UCR. And they count homicides rather than murders (not a huge different, but still, it's a few a year.)
And really, does nobody else notice when a year is missing from the x-axis? I mean, I guess why would you suspect that? But does nobody but me notice? (And it just happens to be year with more than 30.) Anyway, regardless, more people are being murdered in Portland than ever.
Here's what I have, going back as far as my data goes. Is it 100% accurate. Probably not. But it's close. And at least it has 2015! pic.twitter.com/Gqwon6nSFg
I'm posting this photo here because the irony really hit me. Ukrainian police and civilians support one another against a common foe but here way too often other Americans are made into sworn enemies for really stupid stuff that doesn't matter big picture:
A policewoman in Kharkiv is holding the hand of a man kneeling over the body of his 13-year-old son, killed in Russia's shelling of the city.
I have a 13-year-old son.
War fatigue, America?
Evil is on the march. It must be stopped and annihilated.
why cops are quitting, reason # 2,785 - murder suspects have way more rights than normie citizens do:
Less than ten minutes after Chicago cops saw three men get out of a car and kill a man Saturday, other officers spotted the getaway vehicle and tried to pull it over.
NEW: The man who drove his vehicle into a family walking on a Montana road before opening fire on the group with a shotgun, killing a toddler and a 39-year-old man, was a former intimate partner of the wife and mother, Christy Siau: https://t.co/wAzZ3CxGqEhttps://t.co/XAIpSja1vH
There's not much news on this story for some reason (other than Andy Ngo) and the group is fundraising off the shooting by claiming that SWAT targeted them and killed one of their teenage members.
important note if not clear, Black Hammer made an alliance with the Proud Boys and promotes a lot of other Trumpist memes; excerpt from the April AJC piece
...The group mixes Black nationalist rhetoric and a revolutionary message with hot-button issues like anti-vaccine myths and election conspiracies. Led by its flamboyant, erratic commander, who is ever-present on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, Black Hammer has melded its Marxist message with viral online strategies of modern far-right populists.
Along the way, Kodzo has given inflammatory interviews to conservative news sites, trashed American foreign policy for Russian journalists,and announced an alliance with the Proud Boys over shared conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.
Last year, Kodzo led protests at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention near Decatur and outside CNN headquarters downtown shouting outlandish slogans borrowed from QAnon and the pro-Trump Stop the Steal movement, sometimes for the benefit of local television crews....
After mass shootings, “we find a decrease in employment of about 2%, a decrease in earnings of 2.5%, a decrease in housing prices, and also a decrease in the wages, potentially due to a decrease in productivity,” said one economist. https://t.co/x1W6FneH6b
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by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 3:31am
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 11:29am
5 month-old girl shot dead in the head -
but this guy was still angry about Adam Toledo, the 13 yr. old with a gun shot by a cop in March 2021!!!
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 3:49am
from the racist LAPD who only care about rich white healthy people:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 3:52am
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 4:07am
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 4:09am
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 4:12am
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by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 11:27am
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 11:42am
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 10:40pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 11:26am
around the country -
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 12:10pm
the shooting below is also mentioned in above comment
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 12:18pm
Man, cold blooded
https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.70942/title.l-a-drill-rapper-moneygangvonta...
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 3:53pm
R. KELLY SENTENCED TO 30 YEARS IN PRISON FOR SEX TRAFFICKING CHARGES
By Michael Saponara @HipHopDx.com, Published on: Jun 29, 2022, 1:16 PM
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 5:50pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 5:52pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 6:57pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 9:46pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 7:14pm
Aside from the personal tragedy, politically this is very very bad for donations to "justice" Dems and sympathy for them. It's why they are making a big deal of it in the news. It's actually just outside of one of the richest neighborhoods in the world, but is a border area with "Spanish Harlem", where a lot of older and divorced and high earner professional singles have apartments, just the kind of upper middle class people who are politically active liberals. Rather than it being a question of whether they are establishment Republicans or Democrats.as it is on the true upper east side.
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 1:31am
Mayor Adams. who understands what this means demographically:
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 1:38am
Manhattan Borough President:
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 2:01am
Photo of the baby daddy who shot mommy in back of the head while she was walking baby in the stroller:
he must have been on SSRI's?
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 1:26am
around the country:
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 3:10am
"a week before it happens"
article is paywalled as usual and I don't have access, but get enough from the tweet to watch for more elsewhere...
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 7:49pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 10:22pm
also in Memphis, were virtually all restaurant food is fried:
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 10:28pm
oh wait, here's another in Memphis, just a double at a lovely Economy Inn:
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 10:48pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 10:31pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 12:11am
New Orleans
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 12:52am
Minneapolis and Detroit -
on same:
different:
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 1:08am
Illinois:
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 1:18am
NYC -
^ NYCHA is wunnerful public housing ("projects")
^ now that stop is truly the "Upper East Side"
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 1:28am
elsewhere from around the country -
not from the U.S. but makes a great point
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 1:46am
Does this kind of messaging still work?
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 12:21pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 5:53pm
BLM and affiliated still says abolishing police is the answer! You just let the "community" work out their differences, put Black wimmin charge, and there will be no school shootings, everything will be kumbaya. Oh look
they retweeted this as well -
begs the question: what do they plan to do with the Black female cops? send them to Angela Davis' re-education camp?
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 6:01pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 6:13pm
lots more comments on the thread. What I am aghast by is how many of these young women talk like this is rare and they never heard of it happening before. As far as I am concerned, it's a major part of "baby daddy" culture! A lot of these men impregnate woman just for the power trip of fathering lots of babies, not because they are in love with the baby mama or want to be a family man. It's about power, and if the mama doesn't obey and jump at his every command. well...
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 6:44pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 11:11pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 11:45pm
the holiday weekend began early -
another on same
elsewhere -
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 1:16am
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 1:33am
and speaking of Charlotte, you wanna talk race? okay, let's
And some people think police should stop profiling young black urban males. As if they could all be hypnotized to turn off their subconscious. As if pigs could fly.
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 1:44am
Yup:
Handguns are the problem. They have always been the main problem. The mass shootings with automatic rifles are an outlier distraction and like other forms of terrorism - and they mostly are terrorism - the population lets themselves be terrorized by them. While handguns do the day in, day out massive damage in homicide, suicide and a unknown massive number of injuries that ruin healthy people's entire lives.
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 1:55am
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 6:36pm
On the Jayland Walker case in Akron. Ask yourself if you were one of the cops, what would you do?
Looks and sounds to me like they overdid it because they were scared shitless by Walker's behavior. If I were them, I would certainly be scared shitless that he was looking to do serious harm.
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/03/2022 - 5:00pm
good question on a long thread about related protests with lots of videos of the protests
boy, in the first video posted by ComradeOhio, those Akron PD "pigs" setting up protest barricades at the Akron Justice Center look like bloodthirsty civilian-killers, don't they? Reminds me of the Capitol Police "pigs" on Jan. 6
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/03/2022 - 5:15pm
Simple mistake - apparently Walker didn't have time to put on his clown shoes leaving the car.
I'd have thought "leading cops on a long car chase is cool" wasn't one of the takeaways from Rodney King, but 30 years later we're grasping
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/03/2022 - 10:19pm
retweeted by Peter Moskos (I find the last tweet especially spot on, but then you realize that most activists protesting police action don't want a police force at all. a good example is right above, 'ComradeOhio" calls them "pigs" and is ready to rumble with all of them, it's like he gets blood lust everytime there's a shooting by police)
a quibble: he left out that you also have a ski mask on
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 4:53pm
related to his last tweet above one thing I have seen lately that really drives me nuts (espec. after Uvalde) from "Justice Dems" who are longtime supporters of "Defund and Abolish" is jumping on the "gun control" wagon. Who the fuck do they expect to control who gets to own a gun? And who do they expect to take away guns from illegal owners? Social workers?!!! Gun regulation would require police for chrissake! At least the radical anarchists helping to run outfits like BLM are honest about not wanting to let the state regulate guns!
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 5:03pm
When i was a kid a friend decided it was a great idea to borrow a car from a dealer lot and take it on a multi state cruise. Caught up with him in PA, where he wrecked the car in a chase, the cops pulled him out of the window w/o opening the door and bashed his head on the ground a few times for their troubles (he also injured his leg, a couple inches shorter for life, but that was the crash). I don't think any of us much faulted the police for the extra "brutality" - he endangered their lives and other bystanders, a lesson of sorts, even tho i didn't much like cops and their constant profiling of longhairs et al. It wasn't the long drawn out of a Rodney King confrontation (tho King was a big guy, this guy was a squirt). Yes, 60 bullets in
Mr. Ski Mask is a lot, but these are also much crazier times - no cop back 50 years ago would just assume an idiot on a long chase would come out shooting - nowadays it's halfway obligatory. And we can quaintly go back and compare it to the Sandra Bland pullover while thinking of the recent street party attacking cop cars. So much to chew over.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 1:34am
SUPERB instructional video by Chris Rock.
(Posted on YouTube in 2007, don't know how much older than that it is):
Wonder if it's a variant of "the talk" his parents gave him; if I recall correctly, he has said he grew up in a mostly white community but sounded like lots of ethnic working class street-smart types.
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 3:00pm
Janet Jackson pushes alternative to twerking?
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/16/2022 - 8:41am
just goes to show you that you don't have to dance on top of other people's cars to get attention either
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/16/2022 - 2:12pm
More on the cop killing ambush in small-town Kentucky, from the NYTimes
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/03/2022 - 5:05pm
National CBS hyping their work on the unsolved homicide "trend". (See more upthread) Straightout implying that cops don't try hard to work on cases involving Blacks:
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/03/2022 - 5:21pm
umpteenth example supporting "Lock them up, quit letting them out!"
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/03/2022 - 5:24pm
P.S. on topic:
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/03/2022 - 6:21pm
And:
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/03/2022 - 6:29pm
Guess they solved the rehabilitation/reform question in advance.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/03/2022 - 10:16pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/03/2022 - 6:12pm
Celebrating the 4th in NYC, not too bad so far -
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/03/2022 - 6:36pm
Happy4th, Clinton, NC, gang warfare to commemorate the American revolution?by artappraiser on Sun, 07/03/2022 - 6:43pm
Trying to compete in Mullins, SC; close but no cigar. Oh and they've got a very eloquent sheriff who has obviously pondering these things -
Over 70 shell casings found after 4 shot in Mullins, critically injuring 1
by Tonya Brown, Sunday, July 3rd 2022
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/03/2022 - 7:04pm
it appears our disease might be spreading! Copenhagen mall attack by young male with gun -
from the above -
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 2:39am
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by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 3:18am
this video shows how cops brought the best money can buy to the Haltom City shooting scene
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 3:29am
another evening of holiday celebrating in Chicago!
Should be great for police recruitment! NOT.
Maybe BLM will achieve its dream of abolishing police in Chicago!
Meanwhile sometimes it seems like Chi-town has already abolished prisons and jails, as felons are always out and about practicing more felonies, and as are juvies who are already practiced at the same:
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 4:09am
now for the real stuff
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 4:14am
^ That's re: Subway worker killed over dispute over mayo. Funny, he doesn't look like a "Karen" to me.
More deadly juvies:
More on rap world mayhem
Maybe just a guy, and unlike Rayshard Brooks, no one will remember his name
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 4:35am
Now Julissia forever represents the heckuva job NYC social workers were doing -
Mother and Son Are Charged With Murder in Death of 7-Year-Old Bronx Girl
Julissia Batties, who was beaten to death, had a case file with the city’s child welfare agency from the day she was born
By Andy Newman and Chelsia Rose Marcius @ NYTimes.com, June 29, 2022
was one of a string of deaths that prompted the city
to make changes in the child-welfare system.
Credit...Desiree Rios for The New York Times
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 5:21am
special note for lefty "defund" types (like "The Squad") that in NYC, the police's specialists are needed to help the fucking social workers, not the other way around
but then they don't actually read about or study local government, nuance would ruin their narrative...
edit to add a fuck you from grandma about social workers
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 5:32am
At least six dead and 24 injured in shooting at Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, police say
Twitter events now.
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 2:42pm
from
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 2:49pm
Do the infamous anti-lockdown people realize that the lockdown mindset, that's permanent for kids growing up right now? And it's not just about the covid monster!
edit to add another:
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 3:16pm
Yup, we're going to see volunteer lockdown, attendance at public events is going to go way down:
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 4:08pm
another one gonna stay home now:
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 4:36pm
A witness recalls his family’s sprint as bullets rained down: ‘I could see the shooter.’
by Claire Fahey @ NYTimes.com, July 4
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 4:03am
anyone who has ever had a permanently or even a temporarily handicapped family member knows how heartbreaking and tear-inducing this story is; just horrible:
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 4:13am
turns out the bastard was directly shooting at people in wheelchairs
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 12:20pm
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by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 6:37pm
The person of interest in the Highland Park parade shooting is not just a fan of rap, he's definitely a rapper himself
Stage name Awake, stylized as Awake The Rapper, Musical artist (Bobby Crimo)
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 6:43pm
They've got him, captured alive. I note that there's tons (and I mean tons) of liberal racialists on twitter commenting that because he was take alive because he's white (many also say he's a white supremacist, they don't know that for a fact, nothing showing that yet, they're just presuming!) and Jayland Walker was shot 100 times in Akron because he was black.
Unfortunately for all of the "police are racist pigs" liberals, these guys saw the whole arrest from their car and taped it. Crimo not only didn't take the cops on a chase, but once his car was stopped did everything the cops told him to do. And Walker did just the opposite.
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 9:14pm
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by artappraiser on Wed, 07/06/2022 - 11:51pm
Gov. Pritzger (subtle comparison to Uvalde and Akron; and more cynically I would say thanking the forces who do good is one way to keep them)
Really, where are we if we have no police and this mess of mass shootings every day?! The cop haters are simply made further absurd. That's leaving out the argument, which I have made, that they caused so many more guns to be purchased in 2020 during a pandemic by making police in general the enemy! Thank them, thank them for not quitting in the face of nearly impossible odds now after the Supreme Court ruling! Do you want civilization or not?
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 12:36pm
and still, look at the negativity towards cops in many of the replies, including an activist account for "Abolish the Police"; it's like they want no cops in the face of this - anarchists hoping for Armageddon, letting Crimo types run free after they do an afternoon's mass shooting, or what?
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 12:54pm
FBI plan to learn:
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 1:00pm
creepy:
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 1:02pm
more creepy:
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 1:05pm
Big strike against proponents of gun control is that he purchased the high-powered rife LEGALLY IN ILLINOIS, not out of state. This is a reporter quoting from today's news conference:
So the Illinois system did not work in this case! Any screening that they do was useless. At the same time, obviously the ATF has good records on those guns sold in Illinois. The gun laws in Illinois are not preventative, legal punishment after the fact has to serve as the preventative for future possible perps, that's all you've got here. Unless you want to start giving the government the results of psychiatric tests in order to purchase.
A reminder that we don't do that with cars. We let people have licenses at a relatively young age after training and skill testing. Punishment for criminal use is after the fact. We don't try to prevent use based on psychiatric testing or what they posted on social media.
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 1:25pm
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this country is in deep deep denial!!! still stressing and reporting and talking about outlier bad cops (I'd be willing to bet the very low number of incidents per year has gone down) while this is going on!!! meanwhile police are leaving and no one wants to be one!!!
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 2:57pm
It's a no brainer to predict that a Highland Park type thing coming to Indiana soon:
BLM should be happy, no harassment of yuds in "the community"
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 4:00pm
Meanwhile in Akron, a state of emergency declared (by a mayor originally very sympathetic to the cause, I would like to add)
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 3:47pm
p.s. more on Akron upthread.
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 3:55pm
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by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 6:26pm
oh look it's a WHITE guy being handcuffed in MIAMI for playing music in public, way to that hurt the narrative!
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 10:53pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 10:39pm
^ again - people are just going to stop going to public events, especially well-advertised ones happening at a city center (even small ciites, like /Waukesha, for example)
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 10:44pm
another shot of the stampede away from gunshots in Phillie
and of the moment when the stampede begins:
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 11:29pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 10:48pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 11:13pm
....The message to the congregations came following a night when at least eight people were shot or stabbed in Indianapolis and two were murdered during the first weekend after Indiana scrapped its gun permit law....
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 2:38pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 11:13pm
^ don't know when or where, who or what, all I know is the guy posted it July 4 because he thought it was hot
oh boy, great p.r. not -
more p.r., this one got street cred now
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 11:37pm
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by artappraiser on Wed, 07/06/2022 - 3:06pm
unfucking believable! the sense of entitlement to riot! (I hope they never bitched about any "Karen") LOCK THEM UP. This is not minor: it's like they have zero scruples, a dangerous sense of entitlement, and a belief in anarchy.
it's like a riot scene from some old b movie about a women's prison, but real
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/06/2022 - 7:40pm
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by artappraiser on Wed, 07/06/2022 - 8:03pm
also to celebrate the 4th
nobody cares about you, Gary, can you tell? After all you've long fed guns to Chicago, have open carry and have long had a high homicide rate:
you seem to like killing each other with guns. so keep on keeping on, wild west, or #ghetto as they say on Black Twitter
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 12:15am
OH YOOHOO, BLM, lauders of black womanhood that you are lately, didja see this? Black woman have reached equity on this metric and I doubt that cops or whites have a lot to do with it;. I can't but think that your movement helped in some way
edit to add, here's one of the latest (and no one will remember her name)
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 12:28am
Hero Richmond, VA citizen believed that 'snitching' to the cops might prevent a mass shooting, and whadda ya know, it probably did!
Policing system works as designed, go figure!
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 12:47am
Shannon Watts retweeted all these "yuck fou" replies to NYT columnist Charles M. Blow tweeting his essay on shootings (She basically thinks he's depraved. I've concluded he's really an arrogant idiot, I can't tell you how many times I have found his opinions totally clueless on cultural topics.)
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 1:09am
Five wounded by gunfire during Oakland Coliseum fireworks show (updated headline)
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 1:30am
another holiday celebration! 4 shot, 1 dead following large outdoor party in Rochester (on July 4)
just a lovely story! It's like BLM says, the "community" working things out on their own, no need for ambulances and cops not wanted
They all probably judged Willie deserved to die? They certainly weren't of much help in the effort to keep him alive.
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 1:41am
TOO MANY MASS SHOOTINGS CELEBRATING THE FOURTH! NO WAY AM I GONNA LOOK UP ALL THESE STORIES:
all I'd like to say on that: if you make your judgments about violent shootings in this country from what happened at the Highland parade, you're making a big mistake, interpreting the situation with blinders on!
We pay a huge amount of taxes for professional police, the F.B.I. and the Bureau of A.T.F. HOW ABOUT LISTENING TO WHAT THEY SAY WE SHOULD DO ABOUT THIS PROBLEM? Just a fucking thought. I saw Bloomberg do that, it worked! Just sayin. They've got a mess after everyone bought guns in 2020 while tons of people and politicians endorsed defunding police at the same time riots, looting and a pandemic. And now they've got more ghost guns to deal with too, which won't be traceable. But they are the best experts we got. That's what any other logical country would do.
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 1:54am
Richmond pro-cop or Rochester anti-cop, which result do you prefer?
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 2:04am
I can only imagine 2022. Black Female Lives Matter too. It used to be more the male gangbangers died - now it's indiscriminate crowd killings, what little honor there was is gone.
(do note that with the woke "can't say female" MSM is stuck with "women and girls", pretty bad if you're writing a longer piece and have to keep repeating - maybe "WAGs" for short?)
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 2:45am
actually I think they are not supposed to be using "women and girls" either, they are supposed to use "people who menstruate" for adults and teens (and a child is simply a child, no gender, gender open to decide tater.) seriously. certain some non-profit institutions are already using this language.
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 2:28pm
p.s. this was the whole brouhaha over Bette Midler yesterday - she wants to continue identifying a set of people as "women" of which she is one and that is considered an evil boomer feminist distinction meant to keep all those who are not cisgender down
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 2:39pm
p.p.s.: it's summarized right here:
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 2:48pm
Can JK Rowling get her wand back?
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 4:23pm
btw I did post the same Guardian report and comment on it upthread (Thu, 07/07/2022 - 12:28am) OH YOOHOO, BLM, lauders of black womanhood....
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 9:05pm
Black Lives Matter don't care:
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/08/2022 - 8:31am
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 2:33pm
THE THING,they pegged it, this is the bully thing causing a lot of our woes >>>>>
this is why we have rule of law and not rule of the jungle with survival of the fittest, we're trying to have a civilization here
lesson for dudes - the deceased undoubtedly did it to impress the babe with his machismo, who may have requested he go in - he paid with his life
A related decision, looks wack, tho I admit I haven't checked out the particulars
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 4:13pm
Weird, cashier's not allowed to defend himself?
Glad it's a unique event.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 4:39pm
read: Alvin Bragg's office a big loser
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 6:49pm
Derek Chauvin sentenced to 21 years for violating George Floyd's civil rights (Federal case & he pled guilty)
US national news 3 hours ago
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 245 months in federal prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights when he killed Floyd in 2020. Chauvin pleaded guilty in December to federal charges of depriving Floyd of his civil rights. Chauvin was separately sentenced to 22.5 years on state charges of murder and manslaughter
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 8:54pm
The Black cop killed in Detroit:
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/08/2022 - 8:26am
Here is the reason cops profile young men with black skin as more likely to be criminal:
and they are doing that to help any "Black community" not hurt it or keep it down:
The number dwarfs the death and shooting of blacks by cops! All such shootings have remained stable for years and amount to like 1,000 a year for all colors of skin! To the point of absurdity. That the focus should be on the outlier examples of police brutality by cops against people with black skin. Really just absurd! Delusionary!
If you want that profiling to be minimized, all you have to do is stop collecting and maintaining statistics that differentiate by color of skin and you've lessened the chance of this profiling and reasoning by cops by a major amount.
But if you don't want that to happen, because other resulting statistics from the collection of data by color of skin might benefit in other ways, well then you're stuck because the reality is that young black men glamorize ownership of guns and police are going to use that.
from The staggering scope of U.S. gun deaths goes far beyond mass shootings
By Mark Berma, Lenny Bernstein, Dan Keating, Andrew Ba Tran and Artur Galocha
@ The Washington Post, July 8, 2022
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/09/2022 - 2:28am
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For want of a better place, or it just doesn't matter, the children everywhere suffer, and yet partisan brainiacs spit out the stupidest stuff...
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/10/2022 - 4:23pm
oh my goodness, must be the wrong guy, Black people don't do anti-semitism:
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/11/2022 - 2:17pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/11/2022 - 9:54pm
taking #ghetto subculture to the open seas:
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/11/2022 - 10:04pm
Next will beOops already here Black-on-Black wildingthey are from a "crew" of 7 "youngsters" in the video. Yes, we are channeling Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" in Philly...
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 3:27am
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I wonder what BLM wonderful "no police, no jails, no prisons, black women are queens" community would do with a guy like this. Send social workers?
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 12:38am
So he gets to be free from the psychiatric institution at the cost of the freedom of people he sees as demons or some such?
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 3:04am
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by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 5:52am
A Black male just peacefully going about his business; his business apparently being he likes to stab homeless males in the stomach while they are sleeping on Manhattan streets:
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 3:25pm
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by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 4:51pm
Continued here, published June 23
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 7:48pm
Two swell white guys-
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 8:15pm
Exclusive: Watch Uvalde school shooting video obtained by Statesman showing police response
Tony Plohetski @ Austin American-Statesman, updated 6 pm CT July 12, 2022
Editor's note: The video footage, audio, and events described in this story about the Uvalde school shooting are disturbing. Discretion is advised. This exclusive story and video are being made available free of charge as a public service. If you value strong journalism from the American-Statesman, support us by subscribing. You can read more about our decision to publish this video here.
Personally I see lots of chaos. Those are not properly trained police. Totally unprofessional. Many look like goofballs who don't have a clue. (just one example I see a couple gungho guys just seemingly decide arbitrarily to go down the hall first after a wait, then the guys with the ballistic shields follow -instead of going first?) Totally disorganized. Also seems like no actual command. And they had more than an hour to plan?!
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 10:26pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 2:40pm
False alarm about active shooter in Sears Tower, Chicago, causing much chaos; see whole thread reporting police radio:
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 4:31pm
on the below see whole thread, surely you'd want social workers to handle this
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 9:10pm
a big bunch more shootings around the country
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 10:22pm
that's without Philadelphia:
don't know when this one was but worth posting
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 10:35pm
and Baltimore:
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 10:50pm
more about the Baltimore cop arrested by the FBI:
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 11:25pm
NJ Herald reports on the glamour of rap:
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 11:00pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/14/2022 - 3:50am
‘They Were Not Patriots’: Judge Sentences Upstate New York Men to Three Years in Prison for Using Chemical Spray on Cops on Jan. 6
MARISA SARNOFF @ LawandCrime.com, Jul 15th, 2022, 5:13 pm
Can we stop now with the "they don't punish violent right-wing protesters" arguments?
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/15/2022 - 8:16pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/15/2022 - 10:57pm
NYC you wanted a Hate Crimes unit, well now you got one
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/16/2022 - 4:43pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 1:18am
^ how much you wanna bet that those people will vote "law & order" candidates?
coming your way: strictly enforced curfew for teens, targeting young Blacks, stop n' frisk, the whole shebang
any sympathy gained by the Geo. Floyd case is history, long forgotten. people want to use public places without juvies overrunning them, much less juvies with weapons, you wanna act #ghetto, keep it in the #ghetto, kill each other there for all they care
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 1:25am
Mass panic in Vegas too from a shooting rumor:
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 2:18am
Another white criminal getting off with a slap on the wrist:
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 1:41am
I think No one has set up a fundraiser for Arabella Yarbrough & her kids. says it all.
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 1:53am
Keiko posted more:
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 1:20pm
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 2:08pm
Because the ACAB movement is actually more important to them than Black lives, they just don't wanna say because Black racialists are currently useful dopes?
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 5:00pm
turns out they are sworn to protect the normie citizens from the huge packs of roving, twerking, wilding and sometimes rioting #ghetto yuds who have taken to dominating Millennium Park this summer (despite a curfew). I imagine it's almost as much fun as the evening Geo. Floyd "protests" during the height of the pandemic.
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 2:05am
Keep letting violent criminals out on the street, families who lost loved ones are gonna start suing, because: dammit law-abiding Black lives also matter:
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 2:10am
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 3:40am
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 6:14pm
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department confirm there are ‘multiple casualties’ related to a reported shooting in Greenwood Park Mall but there is no ‘known ongoing threat
@ Twitter trending events now. Current first result -
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 7:59pm
Update Greenwood Park Mall shooting, Indiana: Greenwood Police Department Chief Jim Ison confirms that four, including the shooter, have died, while two others are injured following a shooting at Greenwood Park Mall in Indiana
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 9:40pm
No license required as of July 1 to carry a concealed handgun in Indiana, so it's probable that this "good samaritan" is the new NRA poster boy. Should be a poster boy for Defund/Abolish, don't need police, that's solved, everyone just carries a gun. Lot more death and mayhem but who needs the sheriff?
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 9:52pm
Good point that this is a new definition for "good samaritan" - it is now synonymous with "vigilante". Odd for a police chief to make himself obsolete with new linguistics, but there it is:
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 10:02pm
Black lives don't matter if they are a corrections officer and the only daughter of a pastor and a army veteran
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 10:18pm
not enough EMS to handle two big shootings at the same time in Indiana:
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/20/2022 - 9:53pm
The Indiana mall shooter was another loony wacked out 4 Chan 'yud' -
MEANWHILE IF YOU SCOOT UPTHREAD SOME, there are REMINDERS that there was far worse murder and mayhem at a holiday block party in Gary by Black against Black
and I predicted and expected worse than what happened at the mall based on the new gun laws there and this quote by police
so cool it on the fear of white supremacy extremist crap, I ain't buying, as Blacks are doing far more damage to Blacks than a few 4 chan idiot yuds (most no doubt looking to imitate the male rapper role model they fell in love with as pre-teens by trying on Nazi personas and the like)
Surely the new laws in Indiana make it easier for both kinds of murder and mayhem. Carry around your gun until you/re ready, just be aware others may be doing the same.
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 4:23am
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 10:19pm
Hohum not worth trending on Twitter, happened Sunday morning after the bars closed. But I betcha they are hearing about it in Denver and more citizens will think twice about a night of drinking in LoDo.
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 10:32pm
Another lovely story today out of Denver. Gunman whose bullet critically injured 3-year-old girl sent to prison
he parked erratically in a handicapped spot, was dressed like this, and fired into the car of someone who was being a "Karen" about it
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 11:13pm
a midsummer weekend's nightmares -
^ is this the kind of healthy community,activity BLM's site is always blathering about? Mo Ray wants no part of it.
^ why is the Indiana mall shooting getting more attention than this one?
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/18/2022 - 12:08am
but wait that's not all for the wonderful summer weekend, I've got more:
"large party", natch
^ very upscale area
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/18/2022 - 4:17am
I see just now that "Beech Grove", the OTHER big shooting in Indiana today, is finally trending on Twitter. Maybe it will sink in with people a little more how pervasive the gun violence is in this country, that it's not just the few stories with some kind of "hook" covered by CNN and it's not just nut cases shooting at strangers (the latter are actually few and far between)
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/18/2022 - 4:35am
social worker gives up:
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/18/2022 - 4:20am
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/18/2022 - 4:27am
And the right's happy to have more guns on the street and concealed/don't ask me "rights" - a perfect storm.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/19/2022 - 2:26am
At least 18 people shot in Philadelphia violent weekend; residents fed up with violence
Since the start of the year, police say there have been close to 300 homicides recorded.
By Sharifa Jackson,Monday, July 18, 2022 6:18AM
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/19/2022 - 2:10am
^ All part of what those who favored intense coverage of police abuse over coverage of crime called a 'little uptick' starting in late 2020. Bias verification kills, sometimes literally.
Sharifa knows better; she's Regional Edward R. Murrow winning Reporter
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/19/2022 - 2:23am
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by artappraiser on Tue, 07/19/2022 - 10:15pm
I'm posting this photo here because the irony really hit me. Ukrainian police and civilians support one another against a common foe but here way too often other Americans are made into sworn enemies for really stupid stuff that doesn't matter big picture:
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/20/2022 - 6:19pm
why cops are quitting, reason # 2,785 - murder suspects have way more rights than normie citizens do:
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/20/2022 - 10:14pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 12:32am
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 12:35am
more on the Black Hammer case, and very interesting AJC piece NOT BEHIND A PAYWALL FOR ME:
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 1:26am
important note if not clear, Black Hammer made an alliance with the Proud Boys and promotes a lot of other Trumpist memes; excerpt from the April AJC piece
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 1:30am
oh you don't say
and also a decrease in taxes paid, meaning defund everything and continue to spiral down....
Security, it's fundamental.
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 4:51am