“Say her name.” From Portland to Philadelphia, the mantra is being used by politicians to fuel the anger over the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. While many of us have noted that the shooting appears to fall within the guidelines set by the Supreme Court for the justified use of lethal force, there is an effort to make Good the personification of a “resistance movement.”
Across the country, Democrats are holding “I am Spartacus” moments like a low-budget casting call for B-grade actors, chest-thumping demands for everything from the defunding of ICE to the arrest of law enforcement officers. Sen Cory Booker (D., N.J.) was widely ridiculed for his own such moment years ago. However, he found that while most people found his self-aggrandizement cringeworthy, many longed for such demonstrations.
From Portland to Philadelphia, Democratic leaders are engaging in performative press conferences to try to outdo each other in declaring the shooting of Renee Good “murder” or declaring a “war” with the federal government over the enforcement of immigration policies.
The tone was set almost immediately after the shooting by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who not only declared the officer a murderer but called claims of self-defense “bllsh*t” and told ICE, “get the f–k out” of the city.
When many of us denounced his conduct, he mocked his critics by apologizing if his profanity “offended their Disney princess ears.”
Frey seemed to trigger a race to the bottom. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and others rushed to the nearest camera to condemn the officer and fuel the rage. Democratic politicians seemed to struggle to find ways to up the ante with new levels of profanity or escalated threats. Rep. Dan Goldman (D., NY) is facing a serious challenge from a Mamdani-endorsed socialist in the primary and has fought to out-rage the competition.
Goldman not only called for the arrest of the officer but also moved to strip all ICE officers of immunity. Goldman is, of course, protected by immunity as a member of Congress and, as an heir to the Levi-Strauss fortune, can afford any litigation. However, he wants to strip protections for law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line every day. It seems that no price is too great to secure Goldman a third term.
In Portland, Mayor Keith Wilson and Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, expressed outrage over ICE being in the city after a shooting. It did not seem to matter that the wounded were two suspected Tren de Aragua gang associates who were shot after allegedly trying to run over ICE officers.
Portland Police Chief Bob Day finally confirmed that Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras are Venezuelan criminal illegal aliens with ties to TdA. He admitted that the Portland Police Department hesitated to disclose the suspected gang connection because it did not want to be accused of “historic injustice of victim blaming” by law enforcement.
He then began to cry, saying, “It saddens me that we even have to qualify these remarks because I understand or at least have attempted to understand your voices, your concern, your fear, your anger.”
In Philadelphia, District Attorney Larry Krasner and Sheriff Rochelle Bilal took the performative press conference to a new and absurd level.
Krasner, who has been known to make sensational and unfulfilled pledges in the past, told ICE to stay out of the city, and portrayed their conduct as criminal, adding, “You will be arrested. You will stand trial. You will be convicted.”
Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal then went full Spartacus in an embarrassing demonstration more befitting an Antifa activist than a law enforcement official. She called ICE officers “fake, wannabe” law enforcement and claimed that they were violating both “legal law” and “moral law.”
Bilal pandered to the mob, warning the federal government that “You don’t want this smoke. Cuz we will bring it to you.” She added that “the criminal in the White House would not be able to keep” ICE agents from heading to jail.
These are leaders who are openly playing to the mob.
He assumes he is only speaking to leftists because no one but leftists require these qualifications. Open-minded intelligent people take details as details, not as some over-arching incrimination of every human being in the world. They were illegal immigrant gang members. Intelligently, the widest net you could cast would be incriminating ALL illegal immigrant gang members, something not necessarily inaccurate.
How can such idiots get elected? Oh… that’s right. Leftists. Never mind.
That is the absolute truth. Chauvin was only tried and convicted because the community was terrorized by fascists. No doubt, we are about to see the same strategy to end the deportation of illegal immigrants and the preservation of the left’s new slave class.
I use the new lists of local 24-7 news channels to get local takes on news like in Minneapolis and Portland.
An important thing to keep in mind, made crystal clear if you had local instead of national coverage of the Portland shooting is this:
ALL those leftists made their anti-ICE statements before learning a single fact about the shooting of the two people.
What a shortcut!
These “leaders” were making sweeping statements against ICE while ignorant of any circumstances.
We used to have a “24 hour rule,” where facts were collected and digested before conclusions were reached.
Now orders are spewed out before any facts are clear.
When facts start to dribble out to the public they can be called lies or unimportant.
Cute.
Liberal Democrats are always exploiting a shooting incident to push their radical agendas the Ambulance Chasers and the Gun Control Useful idiots like Hogg and his March for our Lives Useful Idiots
Alinsky tactic at play.
If the anti-ICE terrorist Renee Good was just attempting to leave the scene, then why wasn’t that queer turd partner of hers in the car with her instead of running around yelling for her to “drive baby drive” to run over the ICE agent?