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They Murdered Her for Saying All Lives Matter
Murdered by the insurgency, her three year old will never know her
It is a season of remembering names. I am adding one to the list. She was shot dead on July 5 in Indianapolis for exercising her First Amendment rights by responding to mostly peaceful rioters proclaiming that black lives matter with “all lives matter”.
Her name is Jessica Doty Walker, and these hate mongers canceled her permanently. The cowards pulled guns on her and her friends, who responded in kind. So the BLMers deescalated, bumped fists, and waited nearby in ambush for them to leave and then fired from cover.
These are the fruits by which we can judge the current violence and the politicians that indulge and enable it. The message is simple. Elect a man rapidly progressing to a vegetative state who will surrender to Xi and the insurrection, or they will continue to escalate the violence. Like Jenny Durkan, the Seattle Mayor, Indianapolis mayor Joe Hogsett is a former US Attorney nominated by Barack Obama.
On June 1, Former President Obama decried the violence that continues to erupt:
First, the waves of protests across the country represent a genuine and legitimate frustration over a decades-long failure to reform police practices and the broader criminal justice system in the United States. The overwhelming majority of participants have been peaceful, courageous, responsible, and inspiring. They deserve our respect and support, not condemnation — something that police in cities like Camden and Flint have commendably understood.
On the other hand, the small minority of folks who’ve resorted to violence in various forms, whether out of genuine anger or mere opportunism, are putting innocent people at risk, compounding the destruction of neighborhoods that are often already short on services and investment and detracting from the larger cause. I saw an elderly black woman being interviewed today in tears because the only grocery store in her neighborhood had been trashed. If history is any guide, that store may take years to come back. So let’s not excuse violence, or rationalize it, or participate in it. If we want our criminal justice system, and American society at large, to operate on a higher ethical code, then we have to model that code ourselves.
Second, I’ve heard some suggest that the recurrent problem of racial bias in our criminal justice system proves that only protests and direct action can bring about change, and that voting and participation in electoral politics is a waste of time. I couldn’t disagree more. The point of protest is to raise public awareness, to put a spotlight on injustice, and to make the powers that be uncomfortable; in fact, throughout American history, it’s often only been in response to protests and civil disobedience that the political system has even paid attention to marginalized communities. But eventually, aspirations have to be translated into specific laws and institutional practices — and in a democracy, that only happens when we elect government officials who are responsive to our demands.
I agree with these words. Would that his political progeny were as dedicated to reform within a framework of civil order as these words demand rather than condoning broad insurrection.
In unrelated news, background checks for gun purchases nationwide were four times more numerous in June 2020 than June 2019.
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I saw this on Parler over the weekend. Not a peep in national news, not even Fox (that I’m aware of). Ironically, BLM may end up being responsible for bringing actual white supremacy out of the woodwork if things like this continue to happen and get no condemnation.
Found this as well: https://fox59.com/news/crimetracker/indy-mother-becomes-2nd-homicide-along-downtown-canal-in-1-week/
That is their greatest ambition. Antifa has resorted to masquerading members as white supremacists to support their narratives. By BLM standards, everyone is a white supremacist that isn’t utterly submissive to them. That is their whole game.
Yup, sounds like a hate crime to me; wait, I think that hate crime stuff only goes one way.
Regarding the actual white supremacy, you may be more right than you realize. With all the Soros-backed stooges being put into the local DA offices (such as St Louis), the divisions in our society are growing wider and wider.
I fear this is one of the first in a long series of BLM inspired tragedies. Whatever shred of honor or credibility the first George Floyd protests had, this sheer amount of violence that these protests have inspired is sickening and has careened way out of control. These BLM/George Floyd protestors have now all been tarred with the brush of this and other murders made in their name.
The story is a bit more complicated.
So while, yes, she was murdered after saying “all lives matter,” her group may not have been attacked because she said it – the use of the phrase may simply have been incidental to what was already an overheated racial exchange and shouting match between two armed groups of people, both out at 3:30 AM.
https://heavy.com/news/2020/07/jessica-doty-whitaker-dead/
I won’t go that far. Not all protests have been violent and not all protesters have stayed when the insurrectionists showed up and went to work. Many protesters respond angrily to offers of bricks and molotov cocktails and are enraged at the attempts to co-opt the righteous outrage at the Floyd incident and con protesters into serving as useful idiots. They have not gotten the massive black response they were going for, leaving much of their rioting effort to people of pallor contrary to their narrative in attempting to recreate 1968.
And both sides drew their weapons at one point, talked it down, and high-fived each other.
Very strange.
And very tragic.
I’m going to steal that phrasing.
In the account I read, the claim came from the other group, not the fiancé. WTHR probably has the best account of the fiancé’s account and it isn’t there, either. Stipulating that there was a racial slur as described, are you suggesting that should result in guns drawn and excuses murder?
And it was in the early morning following the July 4th celebration as the lockdown was loosening, and we are talking twenty-somethings. All nighters with friends are not unusual.
And I will not be going back to my comment in which I said something like Ahmaud Arbery was chased down, struck, and murdered by racists to see who of you started a ponderous chain of yeah-buts to demonstrate that his story had nothing to do with race, to verify that you color-blindedly apply the same rigor to the premise that this awful, awful tragedy was the result of BLM (not ®) run amok.
From the Fox59 version:
In another account, he says that he didn’t see who shot at them, but it’s unclear whether he means that he didn’t see anyone while he was firing but that he had seen who fired the shots. My impression is that he does not know who fired at them, but maybe I missed something.
Did I say that? No, I most certainly did not. Do not put words in my mouth here.
I am, however, cautioning that the various accounts do not provide anywhere near enough information to draw a bright line between her say “all lives matter” and then being shot for it. To claim otherwise at this point is little better than the BLM claiming George Floyd was “murdered by a racist cop” – drawing conclusions on motivations not in evidence.
Which is rather my other point – nothing good comes from angry late night encounters, especially when both sides are flashing weapons.
It sounds to me like Doty-Whitaker’s group crossed paths with a gang.
I am not finding any later reporting on the police investigation, but there was a report that the suspect admitted to firing but it was just in the general direction and he hoped he didn’t hit anyone, so I think the shooter has been identified.
That wasn’t the suspect; that was the fiance! He was returning fire.
Got it. Thanks.
Crikey, the secondary reporting on this is awful.
The father is being quoted like he was there, and the grandfather, who likely wasn’t there, either, said it was “multiple black assailants.”
And the confrontation is being billed as with a BLM mob.
In the original story the other group is described as a group. No number, no color, nothing.
It’s this kind of crap that causes conservative outlets to lose their credibility in the same way that CNN’s crap harms theirs.
Amen.
I read this story earlier today, and I’ve been trying to forget about it until there’s more reporting. Confirmation bias, sure – I know I’m a p-o’d redneck to begin with. If this is what it seems it will really bother me because it’ll crystallize some thoughts I’ve managed to keep in the abstract.
Even so – would the use of a racial slur justify murder?
Also, as I’ve said elsewhere and will continue to repeat: do any of us think for a moment that the other group does not use racially-charged language and rhetoric? If “racial slur” justifies murder in and of itself, then by their own logic, something only just short of a black genocide is fully justified. Of course it’s not justified, because racially-charged language does not justify murder. But make no mistake about this, “racism” is not the evil that these people are angry about. They are far more racist than any of the people they hate. The message of “black lives matter” is that only black lives matter, and that they matter at the expense of all other lives. Not only is that a despicable sentiment, it is an overtly racist one. As long as that remains the message, this problem will not go away. They are making it much, much worse.
One thing that strikes me about the story is that everybody’s weapon skills were absolute crap.
Would that they had been a bit worse.
There’s not even a tangible connection between the slur and the shots, and the location and time are a place where random gunfire happens, and some not so random.
Still very possible, though.
Yeah, like pointing the thing backwards. I’m not sure she was even the target; I’m waiting for more data. The thing with the fiancee shooting blindly lacks context.
Asked and answered already. See comment #13.
I’m not suggesting that you think it is justified. I am, however, saying that the extreme reactions coming from people who are actually on the ground are both unjustified and self-contradictory. Regardless of what was or was not said, you have actual murder as a result … and that really is the only logical outcome.
The problem is, that we have more than one incident based on a lie to fuel one side. This shows how dangerous things are and close to spilling out of control.
Without being able to determine who the first shooter was.
I smell rodent.
It sounds like two raunchy groups of ill-motivated people getting into each other’s faces like West Side Story. The unfortunately deceased young woman out roaming around in the middle of the night (that’s the info I read) left behind a 3-year-old child. Sad, very sad.
I read the story on Fox, and it made me sick to my stomach. BLM is doing more to raise membership in white supremacist organizations than the riots did for gun sales . . .