Armed BLM "Protester" Shot Dead in Austin, TX

[IM2]

We cant

Something else to consider. 9 vs 19.

Blacks make up 13% of our population.

we cant conduct law enforcement on the quota system

meaning stick a cop in the hood and tell him only 13% of the arrests can be black

Seems that's exactly how the system works for whites. Whites are 70 percent of those arrested. 60 percent of those arrested for violent crime. Why don't prisons reflect that?

 

[Mac-7]

There haven't been nightly riots and a lot of the problem has been caused by white supremacists.

Allegedly

if the cops arrested everyone and investigated each rioter you might find a few fake antifa or blm types

but it doesent matter

the underlying problem is civil disobedience by large mobs of leftwing blacks and whites

 

[Mac-7]

Seems that's exactly how the system works for whites. Whites are 70 percent of those arrested. 60 percent of those arrested for violent crime. Why don't prisons reflect that?

I really dont know

the violence in the streets is all about how much liberals hate cops

but now you want to shift the conversation to DAs, judges, and lawyers instead?

 

[IM2]

There haven't been nightly riots and a lot of the problem has been caused by white supremacists.

Allegedly

if the cops arrested everyone and investigated each rioter you might find a few fake antifa or blm types

but it doesent matter

the underlying problem is civil disobedience by large mobs of leftwing blacks and whites

No, it is not alleged. It has occurred. The real underlying problem is racism and the fascism that goes along with it.

Richmond Officials Say White Supremacists Caused Violence at Protests | NowThis
Jul 28, 2020



And you don't seem to mind police doing this to peaceful protesters.

Police Show Up in Riot Gear at Peaceful Protest for Elijah McClain

 

[IM2]

Seems that's exactly how the system works for whites. Whites are 70 percent of those arrested. 60 percent of those arrested for violent crime. Why don't prisons reflect that?

I really dont know

the violence in the streets is all about how much liberals hate cops

but now you want to shift the conversation to DAs, judges, and lawyers instead?

You were the one talking about police in the hood and quotas. The violence in the street is minimal but you right wingers are conflating everything. Liberals are not the only ones protesting and this is not about hating cops, it's about stopping cops from murdering people.

 

[Mac-7]

There haven't been nightly riots and a lot of the problem has been caused by white supremacists.

Allegedly

if the cops arrested everyone and investigated each rioter you might find a few fake antifa or blm types

but it doesent matter

the underlying problem is civil disobedience by large mobs of leftwing blacks and whites

No, it is not alleged. It has occurred. The real underlying problem is racism and the fascism that goes along with it.

Richmond Officials Say White Supremacists Caused Violence at Protests | NowThis
Jul 28, 2020



And you don't seem to mind police doing this to peaceful protesters.

Police Show Up in Riot Gear at Peaceful Protest for Elijah McClain

Its clear that the city officisls making unproven allegations are black

are they democrats too?

 

[fncceo]

is this really acceptable behavior now?

I'm afraid it is. And ... it's only going to get worse.

 

[Mac-7]

You were the one talking about police in the hood and quotas.

I was responding to a liberal who was obsessed with the race of criminals being arrested

and your best response to that was to change the subject to the entire justice system that cops are responsible for

 

[iceberg]

If the feds can in and rough up a bunch a bunch of protestors (both deserved and undeserved) then they can also play a role in reform. If legislators can spend so much effort busting up workers unions then can take a whack at tbe police union.

Kinda shotgunned that one.. Don't NEED to "bust up police unions".. Need to bust up the collusion and GRAFT between the Unions and the City managers... Here's a clue. City election turn-outs are about only 20 to 25% of eligible voters. In some cities, when you add up all the civil workers unions -- you got about 15% to 20% of the workforce.. Whatdoyou think is gonna happen?

True, we don’t need to bust up the union. In fact we shouldn’t be busting any unions, but try telling that to the righties. Reform the unions. Did you know that tbe police union was rooted in preserving racist policies?

So how do you propose to up the turn out?

How to FIX this? No fed role.. The MEDIA would be helpful but they are brothers in arms with the Democrat Unions.. This is WHY -- the problem is LARGELY in big Blue metro areas.. You're welcome for this insight..

I am not thanking you for any insight, as you term it. You are getting ahead of yourself. The problem is largely in urban areas.

Oh.

But is it?

Think hard in this one.

Ahmed Arbery. Ring a bell? No. He wasnt killed by a cop...but by an ex-cop.

Now...how was the investigation handled before the video surfaced?

What was subsequently discovered about that precinct?

That wasn’t Some Big Blue Urban area. And I doubt it is an anomaly.

Fact: most urban areas tend to vote Dem.
Fact: dense urban areas tend to have higher concentrations of crime. Around the world. Blame biology. Crowding in rats produces a similar behavior trend. WE are rats...

Urban areas also have the BIGGEST LOUDEST VOICES. Who cares what tbe crime rate is in a small town? But Chicago...oh the righties practically pee their pants jostling in condemnation.

The crime and cover up behind Ahmed Arbery could have happened in a thousand small American towns and if there wasn’t a video, no one would ever know.

In fact, while you are obsessed with crime in big blue urban areas...you completely overlook the violence in America’s small towns which exceeds that of some of tbe urban areas righties obsess on. Now WHY is that?

The most violent small towns in America

Click here to view this item from http://www.bismarcktribune.com.

bismarcktribune.com

WHY -- you might ask -- are these same metro leaders calling to ABOLISH the police? Because the Dem party is imploding and committing slow public suicide by turning to radical socialism and worst.. So this entire RIFT is rotting big muni govts at the core...

Nah...I’m not asking. You wonder why? Cause by and large, Dems aren’t talking ABOLISHING police...that is YOU guys taking a fringe and claiming mainstream. Most are for reform. Abolishing police is a pipe dream that ignores human behavior. But it makes a great rightwing talking point to level against tbe left doesn’t it?

The fact that you think that the Feds are roughing up "protesters" is you're willingly ignoring all the CRIMINAL acts upon Fed facilities and personnel.. Can't help you there. It's dishonest and misinformed...

oh my...really now? Where do you derive THAT dishonest talking point? Oh...I think I know.

Here is what I said:

...If the feds can in and rough up a bunch a bunch of protestors (both deserved and undeserved)...

Here is what you ignored:
If the feds can in and rough up a bunch a bunch of protestors (both deserved and undeserved)

If you can convince me that a non violent protester hoisting a boom box over his head deserved to be shot in the face with a rubber bullet...or a Navy Vet, wanting to question The constitutionality of their actions deserved to be beaten up...I might reconsider on your claim that they deserved violence.

did you just compare Chicago violence to a small town in an effort to dismiss the massive violence in Chicago????

 

[iceberg]

You mean when Trump is defending “his shit” by shooting non violent protesters in the face?

Sorry dude. I am not seeing any difference between the mayor and Trump playintoy soldiers with people’s rights. Stop excusing him.

By what? a tear gas canister? Rubber bullet? Why do you keep insisting there's no RISK in CONFRONTING police.. When the SOLE PURPOSE of the riot is to evoke a police response? You know how many FEDERAL AGENTS were SERIOUSLY INJURED and blindedi n first 12 days?? More than a dozen..

And they are NOT soldiers.. Trump did NOT invoke the Insurrection Act that has been used 10 TIMES by Presidents since about 1955 to bring in ACTUAL ARMY TROOPS to quell riots and enforce segregation and other reasons..

He's using a more measured response that protects the Federal properties and personnel in these cities where the mayors are using Mommie's Basement dwellers as a proxy army for their political insanity..

Like I said, If you dont want FBI/Soc Sec/Fed Courts/EPA in your CITY -- then how come COYOTE WANTS THE FEDS to be there "reforming policing"??? And what does ANY OF THAT BATTLE have to do with protesting Civil Rights issues?

WHYTF would you attack Federal ASSETS and PERSONNEL to rectify a "bad cop" killing a man in ANOTHER STATE???

WHATTF does this have to do with BLM or George Floyld or Defund the LOCAL police?? WHY are you PRETENDING THESE PEOPLE ARE PROTESTING ANYTHING about what happened the past 60 days or so??

Need some answers..

PROVE -- these criminal acts HAVE a known justifiable protest value....

I know what you're thinking.. It's all about Trump AINT IT???? And the election and all the bad news about how your party has WOUNDED ITSELF for 4 freakin years now by "not agreeing to abide by the results of an election"...

Before I even delve intothe body of this crapola....can you at least attempt to explain how a man holding a boom box over his head is deserving of a rubber bullet to the face, Causing serious injury?

I will wait for your justification.

you keep using extreme situations to justify not stopping people tearing up the country.

I will not wait for your justification because there isn't one.

 

[Crixus]

These cops need to be held to a higher standard, but they also need better training.

After 2 months of nightly riots and over 50 people killed I really dont care about floyd anymore

or the cop who is accused of killing him

the left has gone too far and I want them stopped

There haven't been nightly riots and a lot of the problem has been caused by white supremacists. There have been more than 50 people killed that have nothing to do with protests. In these last 2 month 100,000 people have died from COVID19. How about trump doing something about that?

Stopped at the skinhead part. In order for it to work both sides need to stop lying. Now answer honestly. What do you think would happen if a skinhead showed up in Portland and said "what's y'all's name Tobi" what would happen? I agree there would be a riot, but that guy would have been hanging from a street light. Sure, skinny whites are responsible for much of this, but they are skinny white Democrats.

 

[Mac-7]

There haven't been nightly riots and a lot of the problem has been caused by white supremacists.

Thats a lie

blm and antifa riot of their own free will

 

[Crixus]

These cops need to be held to a higher standard, but they also need better training.

After 2 months of nightly riots and over 50 people killed I really dont care about floyd anymore

or the cop who is accused of killing him

the left has gone too far and I want them stopped

That's exactly what I'm talking about. It's like this shit is "the new normal". Remember how everyone was always saying that about the virus and how we deal with it? Honestly, the term sends a chill up my spine. It's like some shit out of 1984 or something.

 

[Crixus]

There haven't been nightly riots and a lot of the problem has been caused by white supremacists.

Thats a lie

blm and antifa riot of their own free will

Not really. They are activated when needed. Most likely they will be doing security for the DNC at their convention.

 

[Coyote]

So how do you propose to up the turn out?

Simple elect a mayor that decriminalizes EVERYTHING, allows "space for Creative Destruction" by rioting know-nothings in the neighborhoods.. Lose enough business and well to do folks and VOILA -- problem solved...

Could happen in Seattle/Portland.. Even in NYCity by the time that Big Bird leaves his office he's never at...

So...DeBlasio has been in office how many years now and kept crime rates low...and now you think he's going to decriminalize everything just because he's a Dem?

 

[Coyote]

Wow. So I hear things like “police need better training” and reform not defund ... like no one ever thought of that. Until now.

Imagine that. We’ve been saying that for years!

Protests and riots don’t appear out of nowhere. Nor are they typically instigated, micromanaged, or controlled by shadowy conspiracies intent to on overturning the mythical American Way of Life. This one was brewing for a long time. Rodney King...Ferguson...now. So why is it that no one listens?

Oh wait. They did listen. After Ferguson. The DoJ implemented a series of reforms. But guess what? Rightists scrapped them. In their (by now) typical Rightist fashion, they purged the DoJ of all Obama era reforms.

Trump's scrapping of Obama-era reforms hinders police reform

Trump’s justice department has dropped the use of consent decrees to bring federal oversight of troubled police departments

www.theguardian.com

The Trump administration has dismantled key federal tools for imposing accountability on police forces engaging in systemic racial discrimination, severely hampering efforts to heal the wounds of the police killing of George Floyd and the ongoing protests convulsing the country.

Under Donald Trump, the US justice department has allowed federal mechanisms designed to impose change on racist police agencies to wither on the vine. As a result, law enforcement agencies that practice racial profiling, use excessive force and other forms of unconstitutional policing are now free from federal oversight.

The most important of those tools, known as consent decrees, were deployed extensively by the Barack Obama administration in the wake of previous high-profile police killings of unarmed black men. They included the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014; 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio, that same year; and the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland.

Under Obama, 14 consent decrees were enforced upon troubled and discriminatory police agencies. By contrast, none have been issued in the more than three years of the Trump administration.

By scrapping the use of consent decrees, Trump has effectively made it much harder for the US to recover from the turmoil roiling the nation. In the absence of federal pressure, any reform impetus will have to come from cities and states acting in isolation or from inside police agencies that are likely to be resistant to change.


This article was written June 7th. ... “The protests aren’t going to die down. We have a very long summer ahead of us,” he said.

Boy was he right.

I hate to break it to you Coyote, but it is progressive politicians who are to blame. They have consistently lowered the standards for police and have actively trained out the ability to think for themselves.

I am very pro good cop. But I am also very anti bad cop. It is a problem I have been writing about here, for years.

Bullshit. You guys blame progressives for everything but when we look at the facts, republicans are the ones who support draconian policing policies.

The left goes too far in terms of softening policing at times - case in point would be allowing "creative destruction" as some term it. Should probably have come down on it earlier. But, there can also be a reasonable rationale for some degree of that in that it provides a somewhat controlled safety valve for the anger by allowing it to dissipate rather than continue to build until it an reaches explosive point. Mob Management 101. Many otherwise repressive governments recognize this and allow limited protests and violence.

But we are clearly seeing the authoritarian impulses from the right in these discussions aren't we? Send in the Feds (which would otherwise have been damned, as in the Bundy takeover of federal property) without consulting or coordinating with local authorities (what happened to the principles of federalism...states rights). Make excuses for attacking the protestors who were not engaging in destructive behavior but exercising their rights to demonstrate.

And to top it off - send federal agents to big cities to "fight crime" despite the fact that a city like New York has not experienced a significant rise in violent crime since it was Republican controlled years ago. At least now they are backing down a little and working WITH the local authorities who welcome assistance in solving unsolved cases but don't want uncontrolled feds patrolling their streets and rounding up citizens.

It's pretty clear, when you look at - the ratcheting up of rhetoric regarding crime rates - that the right is intent on creating the fiction that Dem controlled cities are rampant with skyrocketing crime rates (they ONLY single out urban areas that vote Dem, no Republican cities or towns), so it's clearly an effort to politicize crime despite the fact that violent crime rates have fallen sharply over the past 25 years. So what does a president who wants to claim a "tough on crime" meme do? He has to invent soaring crime rates to justify federal take-overs of local law enforcement.

What does the data actually show us?

Crime rates in all categories have been falling.

What about some of the cities mentioned?

Chicago does have a rising homicide rate - almost entirely gun violence. If you subtracted that, according to this article, it would resemble that of other cities.

Yet New York - often targeted by Trump - is one of the safest large cities, with a low violent crime rate compared to other large metropolitan areas. But Trump wants to send feds to NY?

There are ways federal assistance can be valuable, and various mayors have spoken up about this. One example is in solving unsolved homicides. None of them wanted feds patrolling the streets.

 

[westwall]

Wow. So I hear things like “police need better training” and reform not defund ... like no one ever thought of that. Until now.

Imagine that. We’ve been saying that for years!

Protests and riots don’t appear out of nowhere. Nor are they typically instigated, micromanaged, or controlled by shadowy conspiracies intent to on overturning the mythical American Way of Life. This one was brewing for a long time. Rodney King...Ferguson...now. So why is it that no one listens?

Oh wait. They did listen. After Ferguson. The DoJ implemented a series of reforms. But guess what? Rightists scrapped them. In their (by now) typical Rightist fashion, they purged the DoJ of all Obama era reforms.

Trump's scrapping of Obama-era reforms hinders police reform

Trump’s justice department has dropped the use of consent decrees to bring federal oversight of troubled police departments

www.theguardian.com

The Trump administration has dismantled key federal tools for imposing accountability on police forces engaging in systemic racial discrimination, severely hampering efforts to heal the wounds of the police killing of George Floyd and the ongoing protests convulsing the country.

Under Donald Trump, the US justice department has allowed federal mechanisms designed to impose change on racist police agencies to wither on the vine. As a result, law enforcement agencies that practice racial profiling, use excessive force and other forms of unconstitutional policing are now free from federal oversight.

The most important of those tools, known as consent decrees, were deployed extensively by the Barack Obama administration in the wake of previous high-profile police killings of unarmed black men. They included the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014; 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio, that same year; and the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland.

Under Obama, 14 consent decrees were enforced upon troubled and discriminatory police agencies. By contrast, none have been issued in the more than three years of the Trump administration.

By scrapping the use of consent decrees, Trump has effectively made it much harder for the US to recover from the turmoil roiling the nation. In the absence of federal pressure, any reform impetus will have to come from cities and states acting in isolation or from inside police agencies that are likely to be resistant to change.


This article was written June 7th. ... “The protests aren’t going to die down. We have a very long summer ahead of us,” he said.

Boy was he right.

I hate to break it to you Coyote, but it is progressive politicians who are to blame. They have consistently lowered the standards for police and have actively trained out the ability to think for themselves.

I am very pro good cop. But I am also very anti bad cop. It is a problem I have been writing about here, for years.

Bullshit. You guys blame progressives for everything but when we look at the facts, republicans are the ones who support draconian policing policies.

The left goes too far in terms of softening policing at times - case in point would be allowing "creative destruction" as some term it. Should probably have come down on it earlier. But, there can also be a reasonable rationale for some degree of that in that it provides a somewhat controlled safety valve for the anger by allowing it to dissipate rather than continue to build until it an reaches explosive point. Mob Management 101. Many otherwise repressive governments recognize this and allow limited protests and violence.

But we are clearly seeing the authoritarian impulses from the right in these discussions aren't we? Send in the Feds (which would otherwise have been damned, as in the Bundy takeover of federal property) without consulting or coordinating with local authorities (what happened to the principles of federalism...states rights). Make excuses for attacking the protestors who were not engaging in destructive behavior but exercising their rights to demonstrate.

And to top it off - send federal agents to big cities to "fight crime" despite the fact that a city like New York has not experienced a significant rise in violent crime since it was Republican controlled years ago. At least now they are backing down a little and working WITH the local authorities who welcome assistance in solving unsolved cases but don't want uncontrolled feds patrolling their streets and rounding up citizens.

It's pretty clear, when you look at - the ratcheting up of rhetoric regarding crime rates - that the right is intent on creating the fiction that Dem controlled cities are rampant with skyrocketing crime rates (they ONLY single out urban areas that vote Dem, no Republican cities or towns), so it's clearly an effort to politicize crime despite the fact that violent crime rates have fallen sharply over the past 25 years. So what does a president who wants to claim a "tough on crime" meme do? He has to invent soaring crime rates to justify federal take-overs of local law enforcement.

What does the data actually show us?

Crime rates in all categories have been falling.

What about some of the cities mentioned?

Chicago does have a rising homicide rate - almost entirely gun violence. If you subtracted that, according to this article, it would resemble that of other cities.

Yet New York - often targeted by Trump - is one of the safest large cities, with a low violent crime rate compared to other large metropolitan areas. But Trump wants to send feds to NY?

There are ways federal assistance can be valuable, and various mayors have spoken up about this. One example is in solving unsolved homicides. None of them wanted feds patrolling the streets.

Chicago has 150,000 KNOWN gangbangers. Guns don't magically kill people on their own.

Someone has to pull the trigger. You blame an inanimate tool, when you should be blaming the monster using it, and the fellow travelers in the DAs office who continue to let the monsters out.

 

[badbob85037]

A car drove through a crowd of protesters that were walking on I-225 in Aurora, Colorado, and a protester shot other protesters while trying to shoot the driver.
At least two protesters were hit or grazed by bullets as a fellow “protester” tried to shoot the driver. There were multiple gunshots on the car, but the people inside did not appear to be injured.



TRENDING: Car Drives Through Mob of Protesters on Colorado Highway, Protester Shoots Fellow Protesters While Trying to Shoot Driver (VIDEO)

“While the protestors were walking on I-225, a vehicle decided to drive through the crowd. A protestor decided to fire off a weapon, striking at least 1 other protestor. They were transported to the hospital in stable condition,” the Aurora Police Department tweeted.

In a follow up, the department wrote that “Someone else showed up to the hospital with a graze wound. The vehicle was towed and we are investigating that incident.”



Videos of the car following the incident show at least one tire was popped, possibly by the mob. It is unclear if they hit anyone.

But wait thiers more

This was the second time “protesters” have shot fellow “protesters” on Saturday.

A member of a black militia that marched in Louisville earlier in the day also shot himself and one of his peers by accident.

Muffughin bix nood!

Read it all and watch the vids at banned by the ministry of truth gateway pundit

Car Drives Through Mob of Protesters on Colorado Highway, Protester Shoots Fellow Protesters While Trying to Shoot Driver (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cassandra MacDonald

A car drove through a crowd of protesters that were walking on I-225 in Aurora, Colorado, and a protester shot other protesters while trying to shoot the driver.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

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two points.


1. idiot reporters, a "protester decided to fire a weapon"?

first of all, if you are firing a weapon, you are not a "protesters", hell, you are not even a "rioter" at that point. at that point, you are at best an "Armed radical" if not a "armed partisan".

secondly, "a weapon"? makes it sound like the guy was standing there, and just noticed a weapon was next to him and he decided to press the red button, out of curiosity. IT WAS HIS FUCKING GUN! He decided to bring a gun to the "protest" so that he could use lethal force to block the road. and then he did.

finally, he did not just "fire" the fucking gun. he SHOT at someone. At best he was aiming to disable the car, at worst he was trying to kill someone.


point two. WTF?! no mention of an arrest or even an investigation?! is this really acceptable behavior now?

Here's an idea. Let's arm all protesters with guns of .308's or larger caliber weapons taking care of any survivors. By the day after tomorrow the problem would take care of it self.

 

[bravoactual]

Long story short: White guy, BLM-supporter, police-hater, points AK-47 at car when car is mobbed. Car owner protects himself by ventilating armed "protester."

"Austin police and emergency medical services said on Twitter that one person was killed during the shooting. There were no other deaths or people shot, according to the EMS department.

Initial reports indicate the suspect was carrying a rifle and shot at the victim, who was in his car, police told a briefing. The suspect has been detained, they said. "

One person shot, killed during Black Lives Matter protest in Texas

Garrett Foster, the Black Lives Matter supporter who was shot and killed tonight in Austin, TX, was interviewed with his AK47.

pic.twitter.com/fb0kNL0sij

Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 26, 2020

Clip of the shooting at the protest in Austin Texas from Hiram Gilberto on FB pic.twitter.com/VFbzqfoSff

Anthony Martino (@anthonyfartino) July 26, 2020

The article DOES NOT identify who was shot or if the person shot was in fact armed.

Lie much

 

[badbob85037]

Wow. So I hear things like “police need better training” and reform not defund ... like no one ever thought of that. Until now.

Imagine that. We’ve been saying that for years!

Protests and riots don’t appear out of nowhere. Nor are they typically instigated, micromanaged, or controlled by shadowy conspiracies intent to on overturning the mythical American Way of Life. This one was brewing for a long time. Rodney King...Ferguson...now. So why is it that no one listens?

Oh wait. They did listen. After Ferguson. The DoJ implemented a series of reforms. But guess what? Rightists scrapped them. In their (by now) typical Rightist fashion, they purged the DoJ of all Obama era reforms.

Trump's scrapping of Obama-era reforms hinders police reform

Trump’s justice department has dropped the use of consent decrees to bring federal oversight of troubled police departments

www.theguardian.com

The Trump administration has dismantled key federal tools for imposing accountability on police forces engaging in systemic racial discrimination, severely hampering efforts to heal the wounds of the police killing of George Floyd and the ongoing protests convulsing the country.

Under Donald Trump, the US justice department has allowed federal mechanisms designed to impose change on racist police agencies to wither on the vine. As a result, law enforcement agencies that practice racial profiling, use excessive force and other forms of unconstitutional policing are now free from federal oversight.

The most important of those tools, known as consent decrees, were deployed extensively by the Barack Obama administration in the wake of previous high-profile police killings of unarmed black men. They included the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014; 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio, that same year; and the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland.

Under Obama, 14 consent decrees were enforced upon troubled and discriminatory police agencies. By contrast, none have been issued in the more than three years of the Trump administration.

By scrapping the use of consent decrees, Trump has effectively made it much harder for the US to recover from the turmoil roiling the nation. In the absence of federal pressure, any reform impetus will have to come from cities and states acting in isolation or from inside police agencies that are likely to be resistant to change.


This article was written June 7th. ... “The protests aren’t going to die down. We have a very long summer ahead of us,” he said.

Boy was he right.

I hate to break it to you Coyote, but it is progressive politicians who are to blame. They have consistently lowered the standards for police and have actively trained out the ability to think for themselves.

I am very pro good cop. But I am also very anti bad cop. It is a problem I have been writing about here, for years.

Bullshit. You guys blame progressives for everything but when we look at the facts, republicans are the ones who support draconian policing policies.

The left goes too far in terms of softening policing at times - case in point would be allowing "creative destruction" as some term it. Should probably have come down on it earlier. But, there can also be a reasonable rationale for some degree of that in that it provides a somewhat controlled safety valve for the anger by allowing it to dissipate rather than continue to build until it an reaches explosive point. Mob Management 101. Many otherwise repressive governments recognize this and allow limited protests and violence.

But we are clearly seeing the authoritarian impulses from the right in these discussions aren't we? Send in the Feds (which would otherwise have been damned, as in the Bundy takeover of federal property) without consulting or coordinating with local authorities (what happened to the principles of federalism...states rights). Make excuses for attacking the protestors who were not engaging in destructive behavior but exercising their rights to demonstrate.

And to top it off - send federal agents to big cities to "fight crime" despite the fact that a city like New York has not experienced a significant rise in violent crime since it was Republican controlled years ago. At least now they are backing down a little and working WITH the local authorities who welcome assistance in solving unsolved cases but don't want uncontrolled feds patrolling their streets and rounding up citizens.

It's pretty clear, when you look at - the ratcheting up of rhetoric regarding crime rates - that the right is intent on creating the fiction that Dem controlled cities are rampant with skyrocketing crime rates (they ONLY single out urban areas that vote Dem, no Republican cities or towns), so it's clearly an effort to politicize crime despite the fact that violent crime rates have fallen sharply over the past 25 years. So what does a president who wants to claim a "tough on crime" meme do? He has to invent soaring crime rates to justify federal take-overs of local law enforcement.

What does the data actually show us?

Crime rates in all categories have been falling.

What about some of the cities mentioned?

Chicago does have a rising homicide rate - almost entirely gun violence. If you subtracted that, according to this article, it would resemble that of other cities.

Yet New York - often targeted by Trump - is one of the safest large cities, with a low violent crime rate compared to other large metropolitan areas. But Trump wants to send feds to NY?

There are ways federal assistance can be valuable, and various mayors have spoken up about this. One example is in solving unsolved homicides. None of them wanted feds patrolling the streets.

Mob Management 101. is a .50 caliber Browning Machine Gun mounted at an elevated advantage. Your violent crime stats are cheery picked. The murder rate in America is 4.5 per 100,000 putting America in the middle of a list of all countries. If you subtract the 10 most murderous cities from that 4.5. all cities in long democrat control, it moves America to second from the bottom of that list. These democrat controlled cities have other things in common besides democrats and murder. No jobs, high poverty, all other violent crime is ramped, massive gun laws making victims easy targets. Seeing this makes anyone voting for democrats damn right crazy. I have no idea where you got your stats on New York but at best they are laughable. You should stop believing everything your told and learn to fact check especially knowing how these democrats lie.