^^^ In some benighted parts of this country, winning the primary means that you automatically win the general. We actually have a multi-county zone like this along the border in Texas, but it's slooowly getting better.

To add to my above post the darling of a little girl on the right in the photo has now passed. Six years old. No ranting and raving in the press just a matter of fact blurb that she died. No BLM or Antifa to be heard or seen anywhere. I bet if you told one of these protesters the names of all three of these kids they would have no clue of who you are talking about. There is no better illustration to point out how disingenuous these mob groups are.

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together should be able to see what they are really about.

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To add to my above post the darling of a little girl on the right in the photo has now passed. Six years old. No ranting and raving in the press just a matter of fact blurb that she died. No BLM or Antifa to be heard or seen anywhere. I bet if you told one of these protesters the names of all three of these kids they would have no clue of who you are talking about. There is no better illustration to point out how disingenuous these mob groups are.

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together should be able to see what they are really about.

It's only going to get worse.
We had a 2 year old shot on Lake Shore Drive at 11:00 in the afternoon. Pretty much the same thing: crickets.
No protests, marches...
Same with the other fuck knows how many shootings of kids here in Chicago. You'd think that there'd be a protest in some of the more violent neighborhoods... Like where all of the BLACK kids are being killed, because after all, BLACK lives are supposed to matter. I guess not.

So we shot (we as in Chicago Police) a 13yo Mexican kid with a gun a month or so back. Yup, you guessed it, marches and protests downtown, a rough day or two at the police station where the incident occurred, a death threat to the commander of the district of occurrence....
Oh, the night of a "peace protest" (where the local idiots want "peace" in their neighborhood) a 17 year old girl was shot and killed.

Meanwhile, the founder or head of black lies matter is buying up multi million dollar properties all over. Naaaa... No red flags there. And you're a racist if you investigate it.

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Meanwhile, the founder or head of black lies matter is buying up multi million dollar properties all over.

Not all over, but in majority white neighborhoods...

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The Atlanta Police Chief just said they we can not arrest our way out of crime. He just actually said that this morning.

I agree. They're eventually released and continue. Vigilante justice would decrease crime more than arrests...

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Originally posted by Edmond:
I agree. They're eventually released and continue. Vigilante justice would decrease crime more than arrests...

That was tried also. The group (NFAC) shot up a child because her mom parked in the wrong spot.

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Families are calling for justice and begging whoever did this to turn themselves in.

How's that working out for you, Minneapolis?

With a little effort Minneapolis could elevate themselves to the status of Chicago or Baltimore.

I'm sure they'd be really nice about it, too.

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The Atlanta Police Chief just said they we can not arrest our way out of crime. He just actually said that this morning.

Murder is up 50% and violent crime is up 60%.

Partly he's right.
There's arrests, trials and convictions.
Not only do the Police play a part in this, so do state's/ district attorney's and judges.

If Officers are willing to arrest, but the State's / District Attorney's aren't willing to do their part, and Judges start going soft too... Well, Cops get the message, and arrests still go down.

Bad guys get the message too... And they do more of what they do.

'Make crime illegal again'

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...ime-violence-seattle

Washington state congressional candidate Matt Larkin is running on a tough-on-crime platform based on supporting law enforcement in an effort to "make crime illegal again" amid skyrocketing crime and failed liberal leadership in Seattle.

"There is an astounding failure of left-wing prosecutors to pursue charges against criminals and it makes us all unsafe. They refuse to prosecute crime, and I’m running on a platform to make crime illegal again," Larkin told Fox News.

He said that 89% of arrests for all crimes in the city of Seattle go without any resolution.

"Our Seattle city prosecutor refuses to prosecute crime and is making it easier and easier to commit crime," said Larkin. "If crimes go without any resolution, people think they can get away with anything. If you give an inch, criminals will take a mile."

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...yment-in-dc-n2589872

The National Guard's deployment in Washington, D.C. will end Sunday after troops were called to the Capitol following the Jan. 6 riot.

More than 2,000 National Guard troops are set to return to their home bases this week after the Department of Defense did not request an extended stay for the force to guard the nation’s capital.

related:

The Capitol Police have not requested the Guard to stay past May 23. Once the mission concludes, D.C. National Guard will return to normal operations and the out-of-state Guard members will return to their home station.

I'm going to post this here because the riots in America have been justified by some as based on "systemic racism".

Never has anything been farther from the truth.

No Race Has Ever Done More for Another Race than White Americans Have Done for Black Americans

In the last twelve months, we have been ceaselessly bombarded by claims that America is a racist society in which Black people are oppressed by White people.

This is a truly astonishing claim because nothing could be further from the truth.

You can conduct a quick reality check yourself. Despite their fervent accusations of racism, those who make them have not been able to point to a single racist law, ordinance, or practice in the whole of the United States. This holds true across the spectrum: the federal, state, and local levels. If the United States were indeed an institutionally racist society, you could surely find at least one law or practice in this vast nation to support your contention. But they cannot do it and that for a good reason: there aren’t any.

Please mark this well: In the whole of the United States there is not a single law or ordinance that can be identified as racist or discriminatory. There has not been one for at least five decades. Please do contemplate the implications of this.

The only “proof” of racism offered is underrepresentation in some areas and overrepresentation in others. But this situation is not due to racism or discrimination. The reason why Blacks are underrepresented among neurosurgeons, for example, is the same reason they are overrepresented in the NBA, the NFL, and in many areas of entertainment. It is fundamentally a matter of inclination, availability, skill, and talent.

Similarly, the reason why we have proportionally more Black people arrested for violent crimes than White people is that Black people commit violent crimes at greater rates than White people. In fact, Black people have by far the highest crime rates of any racial demographic in the United State. Nor is this disproportion a result of some underlying racist policies or practices. It has been repeatedly shown that this situation is largely due to the moral breakdown of the Black community where nearly two-thirds of children now grow up in broken families. Such children are many times more likely to commit violent crimes than children from intact homes. And once this state of affairs becomes established, it often ends up being a vicious circle. According to the Atlantic, “kids have a habit of imitating their parents’ criminal behavior. It’s no wonder, then, that by one measure, 10 percent of families account for two-thirds of criminals.” This is the true reason for high rates of Black incarceration, not racism.

Children from broken families are also far more likely to underperform in school, which is one of the reasons why Blacks are underrepresented in professions that require high levels of educational attainment such as neurosurgery.

The notion that Blacks in America are oppressed by White people is a complete lie. The exact opposite is, in fact, the case. Rather than being discriminated against, American Blacks enjoy special rights, privileges, and advantages that are unavailable to White Americans. These advantages extend into every aspect of America’s public life and can be traced to legislation passed back in the 1960s.

As Paul Craig Roberts put it recently:

“A system of racial privileges for blacks was forced on universities, employers, and the population. Less qualified blacks were given preference over more qualified whites in university admissions, employment and promotion. Freezes are used against white admissions, employment, and promotion until racial balance is achieved.”

Rather than being institutionally oppressed, American Blacks have been accorded a whole array of institutional advantages over Whites.

This represents a truly remarkable state of affairs because it stands as the only known instance in history whereby a racial majority in power has voluntarily agreed to relinquish its standing and allow discrimination against themselves in favor of a racial minority.

We urge you to pause and spend some time contemplating the profound significance of this. Never before has such a thing happened in the annals of mankind.

Can you conceive of any other race that would ever do such a thing? Can you imagine an Arab majority voluntarily discriminating against themselves in favor of Blacks? Can you imagine the Chinese doing this? Or Indians? As far as Blacks themselves they have been known – when in power – to be among some of the most ruthless oppressors of other races and ethnicities. Can you imagine a ruling Black majority in any country relinquishing its power and discriminating against themselves in favor of a minority? This is simply unimaginable.

And yet White Americans have done precisely this. They are the only racial group in history about whom such a thing can be said. This is a historic achievement and a powerful testimony to the intrinsic kindness and goodwill of White Americans.

The help that White Americans have extended to Blacks is not limited to voluntary self-abnegation, reverse discrimination, and preferential treatment. In 2012, for example, nearly half of the Black population have been on some kind of federal means-tested program. According to the data provided by the United States Census Bureau, “at 41.6 percent, blacks were more likely to participate in government assistance programs in an average month” than any other racial demographic. As a point of comparison, Black participation in these programs was three times the rate of non-Hispanic Whites.

Thus, over the years, trillions of dollars have been pumped into the Black community through various government initiatives. From nearly thirty trillion spent on the war on poverty, a disproportionate share has flowed into the Black community. According to the analysis by Independent Institute:

The estimated aggregate cost of the War on Poverty is nearly $28 trillion, which is three and a half times higher than the $8 trillion total price tag of every major war since the American Revolution.

If we make the assumption that the rate of Black participation in the War on Poverty related programs has historically been around 40 percent (see here), Black people would have received more than 10 trillion dollars in government transfer payments as part of this initiative alone. Reparations, anyone?

And do you remember Barrack Obama, a Black man, who was elected President of the United States almost solely because of the color of his skin? Were Mr. Obama White, he would have stood no chance of being catapulted to the highest office in the land given his rather limited accomplishments at the time of his candidacy. Furthermore, Barrack Obama was elected president not once but twice with most of his votes coming from White people.

Given the feeble condition of Joe Biden, it is quite likely that we will have another Black president soon. Like Barrack Obama, Kamala Harris has been selected for her high post almost solely on the basis of the color of her skin. How could this occur in an allegedly racist society? How can a prospect of two Black presidents in quick succession come about in a nation that discriminates against Black people? This would simply be absurd.

In light of all this, how can anyone claim with a straight face that America is a racist country? Such accusations run in complete contravention of reality and are levelled for political reasons by those – mostly leftists – who are keen on weakening American society through strife and division.

To claim that America is a racist country constitutes one of the most egregious forms of gaslighting we have seen.

If you truly care about racial justice, modern White Americans should be held out and celebrated as an unprecedented example of racial empathy. Never before has any racial group extended such an effort and displayed such a sincere desire to help and elevate another racial group as white Americans have done toward their black fellow citizens.

Rather than being slandered by political opportunists, White America should be praised and celebrated for its unprecedented acts of racial goodwill. No race has, indeed, done more for another race than white Americans have done for their Black compatriots.

This is the true racial story of modern America.

https://www.americanthinker.co...black_americans.html

Well said, chellim1

That's exactly the way it is and if they keep pushing, they're going to get something they won't believe.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...led-seattle-n2589922

After a summer of riots and not being allowed to restore order, along with an overall anti-police atmosphere, are we shocked that scores of cops have fled Seattle? Around 20 percent of the police force has left

The Seattle Police Department is struggling under the backlash of recent police reforms. The state of Washington has just enacted a dozen police reform laws, following nearly a year of protests over police brutality.

According to one social justice group, more than $840 million were cut from U.S. police budgets in 2020.

This has caused a shortage of police in Seattle. The police chief tells CBS News that 260 officers, which is almost 20 percent of the force, have left in the past year and a half.

Officer Clayton Powell has served nearly 27 years on the streets of Seattle. He said it was his goal to stay on the force for 30 years, but even though he is three years away from that goal, he's retiring early.

"The support that we had in my generation of policing is no longer there," Powell told CBS News' Carter Evans.

Last summer's protests over the killing of George Floyd led to violent clashes with Seattle police. Powell said the stress on officers was compounded by city leaders' decisions to abandon a police precinct and letting demonstrators, some armed, occupy an entire neighborhood for a whole month. As a result, Powell said he and other officers had rocks, bottles, and in some cases, cinder blocks thrown at them, and they had to "stand there and take it."

"When you see businesses get destroyed and families lose their livelihood because of that destruction and we can't do anything about it. We're not allowed to intercede," he said.

if Democrats don't think this will be a 2022 issue, they didn't read their 2020 autopsies regarding this 'defund the police' nonsense.

The big question for Washington residents, is how much voter fraud there is going to be. The Dems in that state will stop at nothing to stay in power, and voting has been mail in only for 16 years. They will throw out republican ballots, falsify new ballots, and everything else that will allow them to hold on.

George Floyd: One year sober today.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politic...=social_twitter_abcn

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George Floyd: One year sober today.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politic...=social_twitter_abcn

Don’t know what the ABC article had to say about it and I really don’t care. But to me it’s the one year anniversary of the world being just a little bit of a better place since he took his blacktop nap.

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Don’t know what the ABC article had to say about it and I really don’t care. But to me it’s the one year anniversary of the world being just a little bit of a better place since he took his blacktop nap.

The article is a stomach churning piece on how his family is going to be honored at the White House and have a private meeting with the guy who is standing in as president for now.