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Another dust-up occurred last Saturday, when BLM supporters and their “allies” tussled with police in downtown Chicago. That peaceful protest riot injured 17 police officers along with other protesters.
But consider the actions and response of one Jeremey Johnson, a protester and rap artist who repeatedly bashed a police officer with a skateboard. Does he feel guilty? Oh no. Blame the police, he says.
Here’s the video of Johnson in action.
Johnson doesn’t deny that he attacked the officer. But don’t you dare call him an agitator. It’s the fault of the police, he said, after his release from the Cook County jail on Friday.
“To call me an agitator just flips all of the narrative on its head and completely blames protesters for agitation that police are guilty of because police officers should not be infringing upon the rights of citizens.”
So because an officer was “controlling an uncooperative crowd,” according to the police report, they were “infringing on the rights of citizens.” Rights of citizens to do what — shut down traffic on a major Chicago street? How about infringing on the rights of Chicagoans and tourists to shop in the Loop on a summer weekend afternoon? Or the rights of businesses to maintain commerce and, you know, those jobs that BLM agitators keep caterwauling about?
It wasn’t Jeremey Johnson’s responsibility to remain peaceful, you see. It’s not his fault that the police sprayed pepper spray after being attacked. Blame the police instead, in addition to systemic racism, and white people, and who knows what else.
Yet Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot isn’t helping to quell tensions either, either. On June 15, she rolled out a 20-member panel called the “Use of Force Working Group,” which is supposed to propose improved policing policies. According to the mayor, the group will:
“. . . propose policy recommendations designed to further ensure use of force policies respect the sanctity of all lives, officer safety and de-escalation techniques that prevent or reduce the need for force.”
Sounds all fine and high-minded, but this group has BLM fingerprints all over it.
Credit: Joshua Mellin/flickr/CC BY NC-ND-2.0.
For example, according to Chicago Contrarian, the group has not invited police input. Nor do many members have expertise in police policy, either. But they sure are anti-cop.
Like the persons representing the Chicago Teachers’ Union, the Chicago Public Schools, and the ACLU. None of those groups are police-friendly. In fact, members of the CPS and CTU have protested to defund police. Plus, the group includes a Chicago priest, Father Larry Dowling, who advocates abolishing police.
But it gets worse. Community organizer and BLM activist Amika Tendaji is on the board — she uploaded a video to YouTube called “#FTP (Fuck the Police).” There’s also activist Tanya Watkins, organizer for the Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL) and Black Roots Alliance. They have deep roots with BLM.
And then there’s Arewa Karen Winters. She despises police, calling them “psychopaths with guns.” Her vitriol stems from police killing her nephew Pierre Loury. But of course, it wasn’t his fault, either. Loury was merely an innocent drug user and gangster whom police shot in 2016 after he leveled his gun at them.
Winters is in for the long haul, too.
Meet Arewa Karen Winters, Alice Howell and LaToya Howell—members of what they call the “Unwanted Sorority,” a group of mothers and women who have lost their loved ones to police violence. Hear their conversation with @LissaDruss & @Thom_Serafin now: https://t.co/LC1Zs6hsGP pic.twitter.com/tuSeHSAXrj
— The Crisis Cast (@crisiscastpod) August 21, 2020
Never mind that so far in this horrendous year of 2020, police have shot all of nine perpetrators in Chicago. Plus, only three died. But you know the drill. The police are always to blame.
BLM will not take responsibility for the carnage brought about by black-on-black crime. If they acknowledge it, they will blame white people for somehow causing their pain. Never mind that so many black children grow up in fatherless homes. Never mind that those same kids learn to hate police, hate school, and then blame others when their lives go sideways.
No, BLM is all about attaining power for power’s sake, and they do so by maintaining the black victim narrative. And as for their white “allies,” BLM will use them like the useful idiots they are, chewing them up and spitting them out when they no longer serve their cause.
It’s always someone else’s fault, and that someone is always a white person. You racist.
Featured image: Geoff Livingston/flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
talgus says: victim privilege to the max
NTSOG says: “The devil [or my sister, or the Police, etc.] made me do it!” This is the response typical of toddlers who tantrum and those so-called adults who have not developed a mature conscience probably because they have been excused their childish behaviour by indulgent [and weak] parents, teachers and a progressive social philosophy that denies personal responsibility in its favourite victims while proclaiming that others are always responsible, i.e. to blame for the behaviour of the ‘chosen ones, also known as thuggish brats. Such brats have poor self-esteem and project their own weakness and self-hatred onto those who are functional and civil.
GWB says: de-escalation techniques that prevent or reduce the need for force
Which is where part of the problem lies. They have pushed out lesser violent techniques over the decades until the only possibilities for many cops is talk or shoot (and occasional tasers). Once they’ve got the cuffs on they can tussle a bit. But heaven forbid you whack someone with a nightstick/flashlight. Or put a chokehold on them to subdue them. Or (now) shoot them with a beanbag round.
Some dude doesn’t want to go to jail, your only choice is to subdue him, and that will involve “violence”. You can seldom talk that dude out of his resistance – he’s not listening.
Nor do many members have expertise in police policy, either. But they sure are anti-cop.
Of course. Because this isn’t about actually restraining cops where necessary, but about hedonism. It’s about getting to do whatever you want without consequences, and achieving power to prevent those consequences.
a group of mothers and women who have lost their loved ones to police violence
More like a group of women who lost their loved ones to their own choices. I would bet very few (if any) of those women’s loved ones were not resisting arrest or otherwise innocent in their own shootings.
(BTW, I like that “mothers and women” bit. The mothers aren’t women?)
those same kids learn to … blame others when their lives go sideways
This is one of the prime problems in our society. Refusing to accept consequences (NTSOG nails it) is one of those things Franklin meant when he said “A republic, if you can keep it.”
that someone is always a white person
Until, of course, they need someone else for their purposes.
Kodos the Executioner says: *a group of mothers and women who have lost their loved ones to police violence
More like a group of women who lost their loved ones to their own choices. I would bet very few (if any) of those women’s loved ones were not resisting arrest or otherwise innocent in their own shootings.
(BTW, I like that “mothers and women” bit. The mothers aren’t women?)*
Be sure to put “single” in front of both of these appellations.
Explains a lot of the problem, and why their “little darlings” are dead.
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