by GREGORY HOOD
Anyone can see the footage. Ashli Babbitt was a young woman at Wednesday’s protests. She had no weapon, not even a stick. There were armed police in front of her and behind her. She posed no danger to anyone. Still, a police officer, apparently black, shot and killed her.
I never thought I’d say this, but Shaun King is right.
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1347392343666786306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1347392343666786306%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unz.com%2Fghood%2Fher-name-was-ashli-babbitt%2F
Joe Biden, allegedly quoting his granddaughter, said of Wednesday’s protests:
No one can tell me if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that’s true. And it is unacceptable. Totally unacceptable.
That’s true. And it is totally unacceptable.
If BLM took over the Capitol, once the mob went home, congressmen would kneel in submission. Journalists would praise the takeover. Corporations would give billions.
It’s already happened. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, festooned in kente cloth, knelt for George Floyd. The Capitol Police knelt too. Washington D.C. symbolically renamed 16th Street Black Lives Matter Plaza. New York City painted a huge Black Lives Matter sign on the street just outside Trump Tower.
And we’re supposed to think BLM got harsh treatment? In what must have been millions of man-hours of rioting, how many people did police kill? Not one. Did they shoot outright looters or arsonists? Only with rubber bullets, and only a handful. So far as I can tell, police did not even open fire and wound a single BLMer — not one — even in the 300 cities with such bad rioting there had to be curfews.
The very phrase “Black Lives Matter” has almost religious importance. The NYPD, unable or unwilling to stop the crime wave, cracked down on people who desecrated the phrase. Saying “All Lives Matter” can get you suspended, fired, maybe even killed.
In Minneapolis, the mob burned down an entire precinct station. In Seattle, anarchists set up an “autonomous zone” that police broke up only after paramilitaries shot two black teenagers. Rioters destroyed an incalculable amount of property. That wasn’t just “stuff.” Behind countless looted stores were small business owners and their employees. If the lockdowns didn’t put them on the breadline, BLM did.
Homicides are rising in Chicago, Los Angeles, Jackson, Philadelphia, and many other major cities. There are several reasons why, but one is undoubtedly the “Ferguson Effect” on a mass scale. Police don’t think doing their jobs is worth the risk. Policing blacks is dangerous. They hate cops. It’s better to lie low and wait till you get a pension or just quit.
From what I can tell, journalists and the black “community” don’t care about crime and disorder, even though blacks suffer from it the most. Journalists, activists, and politicians have defended violent protests and property destruction. The media cheered while mobs tore down monuments to our greatest heroes, including, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson. Not even the dead can rest in peace — not white men, anyway. Hapless conservatives think it’s about the “Confederacy.” When even Lincoln is no longer safe, it’s clearly about race.
So spare me the outrage from Tom Daschle, Dick Durbin, Andy Kim, Joe Scarborough, and others who lecture us about “sacrilege” and “desecration” because Americans trespassed in the Capitol. I’m far more offended at what’s been done to the memory of Washington.
Police are offering up to $1,000 if you help them catch anyone who “desecrated” the Capital. Were there any rewards offered for turning in BLM arsonists? Or for the people who laid siege night after night to the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, setting fires, trying to blind officers with green lasers, and trying to kill them with commercial-grade fireworks? These are serious felonies. The people who “desecrated” the Capitol were trespassers.
One rabbi tells us “we lost something sacred” when the Capitol was “defiled,” comparing it to the fall of the Jewish Temple. After months spent watching our cowardly leaders do nothing while our cities, history, and heroes were ransacked, I think a better parallel may be Jesus Christ driving out the moneychangers. Where have all the respectable people been, now that they’re suddenly worried about national honor, civil debate, and the rule of law?
I can tell you where they’ve been.
SUERCUT!
Media: Yes, violence is the answer pic.twitter.com/1juSdYtKvD
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 7, 2021
In 2017, a “Bernie Bro” opened fire on Republican congressmen, badly wounding Steve Scalise. Jesse Benn and Tariq Nasheed, both Twitter bluechecks, had this to say:
What's more harmful: Putting millions already on the margins more at-risk via draconian policies, or shooting a racist lawmaker in the hip?
— Jesse Benn (@JesseBenn) June 14, 2017
For violent resistance to work it'd need to be organized. Individual acts can be understandable, but likely counterproductive/ineffective.
— Jesse Benn (@JesseBenn) June 14, 2017
It seems like a decade, but it was just two years ago that a mob occupied a Senate office building to protest Brett Kavanaugh. MSNBC called it “well-organized” and a “boost of energy to the opposition.” Organizers bragged they had preemptively shut down the Capitol. It wasn’t “desecration” then.Pollster Matt McDermott called it an “incredible scene.” However, this week’s action was “domestic terrorism.”
Except a BLM agitator, arrested for violence and repeatedly released, a BLACK man, was right next to Ashli when she was shot. So, Joe… if you are awake, tell us… which one was shot and killed? The black BLM agitator leading the riot or the white girl being pressed forward by the mob?
In violent confrontations with authorities with guns, sometimes people get shot. Sometimes it is out of overreaction. Sometimes it is wrong. This is the point that has been tried to be made with violence-hungry leftists time and time again and, only when a white military veteran girl is killed do they finally apparently get it. There can be no doubt that the next time a cop kills a black man, regardless of the circumstances, that this truth will be, once again, lost upon them.
For, as we can see with “calming and unifying” Joe, raising and exploiting racial tensions is what is important.
Without social media spreading facts, total control of information is complete. Even as Democrats all simultaneously put on their shocked faces and denounced violence in DC (the latest violence, not that that BLM/ANTIFA carried out in June), Portland was under attack by ANTIFA… again. Yet, even as they shed their crocodile tears for the Capital, they make no mention of the endlessly continuance of violence carried out by the leftist mobs.
Clearly only CERTAIN violence and CERTAIN deaths are objectionable.
Democrats have defiled the Capital. They will defile the White House. Make sure to show Joe where the basement is.
Ashli Babbitt’s life does not matter.
She was not black. She was not engaged in a felony. She was not apprehended by the Police. So forget about her.
Let’s get back to the issue. The 10 or more black felons who suffered harm while in police custody in 2020. 10 out of 330 million is a BIG problem. It needs to be dealt with by draconian measures. So let us defund all the police, empty all the jails, and abandon the Courts. Then no black felons will be detained by police. And we will be safe.
Safe from police brutality. Not safe from Antifa or BLM goons, but that does not matter. The Fascists will not be able to hurt us. And it is ever so much nicer to be beaten to death by BLM than it is by Police.
Blame shifting isn’t going to work this time. Those who laid siege to the Capitol are responsible for the deadly consequences. Everyone knows who they are and who encouraged them.
@Greg:
Yet, your side of the aisle canonized George Floyd, a criminal who was hopped up on drugs when he died. But according to your statement, a 14 year American veteran who was a white girl apparently deserved to be shot because she helped lay “siege” to a f*cking building. Ummm, I don’t remember you saying anything like that when your side tried to burn down a police station with police officers locked inside.
You are EVIL.
@Greg: You’re damn right it’s not going to work, so stop trying. Is it OK to kill ANTIFA thugs now? You cried when Rittenhouse popped a few. We’ll keep that in mind.
For at least 60 years The Press has lied about liberal violence. Calling it, as they did in St. Paul, “peaceful protests”. The liberal MSM has also fabricated “news” about violence done by liberals, as that done by conservatives. The murder of Ashli seems to be an example of fabricated news that is the opposite of the truth.
I did not say they did lie here, that has not to my satisfaction been proved, but they have done so in the past and not unreasonable to think they are so doing with Ashli.
You squandered your time, energy, money, and hopes on a mentally unbalanced flim-flam man who hijacked your movement, ruined your party, wrecked your government, tried to undermine your democracy, instigated a siege of your Capitol by angry yahoos, and has picked your pockets for $200 million in “stop the steal” donations on his way out the door, but you think it’s all the fault of the people who knew he was a disaster waiting to happen from the start…
Trump may be responsible, but he never could have screwed things up without your support.
@Greg: Geeze the FBI is still the KGB of the democrat party. Barry still has his DC mansion with his #2 wife.
Do tell how he screwed things up, add a bit of detail.
Arrests in Italy are bigger than you think. When you get it through your brainwashed skull that this has nothing to do with Trump the healing can begin.
He has been warning about election fraud since 2012.
@Greg:
Trump did the best job of any President since Reagan. Even with non-stop Democrat opposition, harassment and investigations of issues they already KNEW were false. In his first two years, he was far more successful than Obama was in 8. The last thing the party of crybabies wanted to see was Trump doing his job WITHOUT obstruction which hurt the American people more than it hurt the President. In the end, only massive fraud and a coordinated effort to refuse to hear any of the substantial evidence. Simply put, the fix was in.
@retire05: you do realize that Ashli also has been arrested and charged with violent crimes ? Better google. First
@Kurt:
I don’t use Google.
But hey, Ashli Bobbit was a Trump supporter so she must have cancel culture applied to her, right?
And I notice you did not provide a link. Why is that?
@retire05: Its true THE woman killed at the US Capitol had previously been accused in court of reckless endangerment and malicious destruction of property, The Sun can reveal. Found not guilty
The Sun in its poor accuracy said she was shot in the chest.
We know that she was executed at point blank range with a bullet in the neck.
Seems the officer that died actually may have had a stroke and the media just made up he was hit with a fire extinguisher and died of injuries.
With a murder investigation it was bound to be revealed in an autopsy. So will leak out and be ignored by the ignorant.
https://trulytimes.com/capitol-police-officer-has-died-from-medical-emergency-suffered-during-capitol-protest-chief-resigns.html
@Kurt: Did you know the guy next to her that was trying to push the doors open had been arrested before for violence? NUMEROUS times? Arrested and released. NUMEROUS times. Of course, he is black. He is with BLM. Proving the Democrat’s lies, SHE was shot, he was released… AGAIN.