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Jordan Neely and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I have two questions for AOC regarding the Jordan Neely incident where she has accused the former Marine — who applied a “chokehold” and which probably resulted in Jordan Neely’s death — of racially motivated murder.
1. If she were riding the subway, and Neely was in the same subway car, would she have wanted a man to protect her? Remember, too, her concerns about her safety during J6, even though none of the people were in her office building where she was hunkered down. It doesn’t take a lot for her to be concerned for her physical well-being.
2. Her congressional district includes parts of Manhattan and Queens. Her constituents have access to the subway, so many of them probably ride it. When was the last time she rode the subway? Given her low tolerance for physical risk, would she be willing to ride it unaccompanied?
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How many of her constituents would have been afraid of being in the same subway car as Jordan Neely? How many would be afraid of being in the same subway car as the former Marine?
She would have no reservation about lying on either question. Ain’t no hypocrisy like the hypocrisy of a young, female radical.
She does not care. Her armed guards would have dealt with him and she would be fine.
If a Republican wins the Presidency, the marine needs a full pardon, and maybe some kind of presidential medal, on January 21. 2025.
Of course not. As a (relatively) cute girl professional victim, she has the white-knight bat signal on speed dial.
The president can only issue pardons for federal crimes, and this would not seem to be one.
I suspect that before she became famous, she probably had more than a few people, well men, get into her face.
Part of her shtick is to infuriate her opponents, especially men – especially the way she shows contempt for them – and for the vast majority of them, she’s able to successfully hide behind her womanhood. Men who don’t have the social skills to fight her at her own game will indeed be infuriated.
She’s always pushing it, and I can understand why she’s easily fearful of them.
Progressives are effectively trying to legally lynch this hero, just like they tried to do with Kyle Rittenhouse, and succeeded in doing to that man in Austin, not to mention that man in Nebraska who killed himself after a similar political prosecution. Those are just the ones I remember off the top of my head.
And Derek Chauvin, who apprehended a violent felon who was ODing. That coroner’s report is pure brownshirt intimidation.
If you’re looking for accurate information from a hardline leftist, asking questions is not the right way to get it.
This is the case of the woke dog that did not bark. Hundreds of violent crimes and a couple of murders are the daily norm in NYC but the narrative only applies to a minuscule number of events (and even then only with some heavy massaging of facts) that alone triggers the noise output. Selective outrage is definitive proof that AOC does not give a rat’s a$$ about black lives but just wants a performative platform using convenient deaths. Somebody should ask her if she can name the last ten murder victims in her home district.
How should she know, the names will be in TOMORROW’S newspaper.
If Derek C had followed police procedure, which required that an individual who is being arrested either be immediately placed in the patrol car, or else, if complaining of being sick, be put in an ambulance along with an officer of the law, he’d never have been charged with a thing.
Perception by the public does count for a lot when a cop is charged with a crime. Maybe it should not be given that amount of weight, but the reality is that it does.
Of course, none of what happened that day should have been an excuse for “social justice warriors” to loot, arson and murder their way through 38 neighborhoods across America. This resulted in uncounted amounts of money – perhaps 20 to 40 billions of dollars of property value – to be lost. (The property is devalued twice. Once during its destruction and then afterwards as its value on the market has been diminished to pennies on the dollar.)
Didn’t he/they actually do both, at first? But Floyd put up a fight, etc.
As I recall, he did follow procedure for an agitated, resistive subject in “euphoric distress” or whatever it was called.
Exactly. Floyd was sitting upright in the patrol car repeatedly hollering “I can’t breathe,” which was obviously not true, but is a common sensation caused by his OD. They took him out of the car because they were required to by procedure, and put him on his side, on the sidewalk, in the recovery position, and restrained him there because he was agitated / resistive.
Chauvin was railroaded by the race mafia. If not for video and brownshirt terrorism, the ME might have found that GF OD’d. Cause of death was something like “pressure on the neck,” which was the RIGHT ANSWER according to the BLM brownshirts and the media/government cabal organizing and protecting them.
Chauvin is a political prisoner.
There were also at least two dozen lives lost.
At this point I don’t even remember whether or not Chauvin was following procedure in the event someone was resisting arrest; much like the murder of Mary Phagan in 1915, any possible crime and perpetrator take a back seat to the exploitation of the incident by demagogues in order to instigate mass pogroms by a bigoted and delusional public for the purpose of advancing a hate movement with good publicity.