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BLM: Mostly Peaceful
From the article:
The head of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York met with Eric Adams, the city’s mayor-elect, to discuss policing and warned that there will be “bloodshed” if the city returns to its pre-De Blasio model, according to a report.
And:
“If he thinks that they’re going to go back to the old ways of policing, then we are going to take to the streets again. There will be riots, there will be fire and there will be bloodshed because we believe in defending our people,” Newsome told the paper. He said that the group prays for peace but prepares “for the worst.”
You know, it’s almost as if going easy on last summer’s protesters emboldened them. (Satire filter set to on.)
Craven city leaders from coast to coast let protesters run wild, and now they threaten the cities with more violence. The only way out of this downward spiral is massive crackdown on any protests that result in violence, including wanton destruction of property. Mayor-elect Evans knocked out all the candidates who were weak on crime, and yet this BLM leader didn’t get the message. What really stinks is that the people who suffer the most from this abandonment of public order are the people progressives claim to care about — the poor. (I know — progressives don’t really care about the poor, but they think they do.)
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I am not a fan of “old policing” nor the trend in “non-policing”. Hopefully the path forward is focused on “protect and serve” and less on whatever goofy metrics-driven policing is used around the country. Metrics-driven management is good for managers, but bad for customers.
That man is evil, plain and simple.
Just observing the masks in the photo.
Based on my Google search, that may actually be Mr. Newsome in the photo.
More detail in this NY Daily News article. These are truly reprehensible individuals.
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Communities should get what they want. If Blacks do not want police in their communities then remove police from those communities.
Nice city you got here…be a shame if something happened to it.
It seems to me that the only people that believe in law and police is middle class whites. The rest do not want police or laws to apply to them. That seems to be where we are going. Fine, just allow the citizen to carry weapons and use them to defend them and theirs.
The problem is that the black people who live in those communities want the police more than ever. They have radical outsiders dictating what happens.
Do they? I do not seem them marching in the streets asking to support the police. Quite the opposite.
Here in Louisville we had the tragic Breonna Taylor incident where the police broke into the apartment of Saint BT and shot her for no reason at all. BLM marched and burned and harassed whites to show how much they hated police and whitey. The government seems to support their point of view. Fine, let them have it. Take out the police. I will just stay away since it is no longer safe.
How would you know? Do you expect them to go out in the streets to only be attacked by BLM from wherever? Do not trust your eyes.
Susan is right. Don’t assume that the people marching are from the affected neighborhood. The Left is very good at bringing in (often paid) protestors from all over the country and making it look like a grassroots demonstration. They know their allies in the media will cover for them.
You beat me to it. As I said in the original post, people in these beat down neighborhoods suffer the most from this political violence. They already live in fear of these thugs; now government inaction in the face of threats from mostly white protesters leaves law abiding poor citizens in abject fear.
Sounds like there just might be an actual conspiracy to initiate mayhem underway, so as to intimidate the mayor-elect. Hope there are still some LE undercover infiltrators into BLM and antifa so when the first molotov cocktail flies, the whole gang and their ringleaders can be swiftly rounded up. I won’t hold my breath.
Yes, yes, I can’t believe my lying eyes or my lying ears or your my experience.
When I start seeing more blacks / low income saying they want police I may believe it. When I see that they start helping police to catch criminals and stop hiding them or lying for them I may believe that community wants some law. What I see is BLM comes in and rabble rouse and the local community joins in on the fun and the looting. All I think is that a community should get what it wants.
It would be unfair to assume that demonstrators are just jobless singles with nothing better to do than shout slogans, but it seems reasonable to assume that people with jobs and family responsibilities are not out demonstrating and that their views are unaccounted for.
Edit: The above was more than already covered.
Do we know who those areas voted for to be mayor?
Let’s see … threats of mayhem, rioting, fires and bloodshed unless they get what they want … now THAT sounds like domestic terrorism. But I don’t suppose anyone in the media or politics made mention of that.
Yes, that looks like Wally Newsome in the photo. You know his name is really Walter but he goes by Hawk because Wally is so dweebish.
I’ve seen poll after poll that says blacks in urban areas want more policing, not less. However, their voices are drowned out by the elected “leaders” who supposedly know what’s best . . .
There was a great relevant scene in the show “Action!” starring Jay Mohr, but sadly no clips seem to be available.
But at least imdb has a quote from that bit:
Do we know who those areas voted for to be mayor? I mean, blacks typically vote 90%+ for Democrats who want them to have LESS policing. Instead of saying one thing but voting another, maybe they should try voting for what they say they want?
Maybe someone should alert AG Garland to this by asking him to read the NY Post. Or get the White House staff to help draft a letter to the DOJ.
Nah, the NY Post is icky. Anything not in the NY Times or the Washington Post, it falls “outside his purview”. (h/t Robert Mueller)
Now that Trump is out of office and Biden installed in the White House, I wonder if BLM and Antifa violence will still be indulged. I guess it depends on the status of those groups within the left; useful idiots, or enforcers.
If they were merely useful idiots used to undermine Trump, any further violence will not be tolerated even by lefty mayors and DAs. They are now no longer useful and can be disposed of.
If they are enforcers, the Democrat Party’s goon squad, then they’ll continue to get a pass for their violence.
They say they do.
Igniting a mob is easy, controlling the blaze is not.
I believe it…
And if you or I said that on Twitter, we’d get banned. Imagine what would happen if we said it to an elected official. Hell, they impeached DJT for less.
Sure it is. Mobs tend to break fast when bodies start dropping. Controlling a blaze is possible as long as the 2nd stands.