A white police officer in the South who was recently beaten bloody and unconscious by a black suspect now admits he failed to defend himself properly because he was afraid if he used force he would have been accused of racism…
The drama in this specific case began August 7 when a plainclothes officer in Birmingham, Alabama, who has since decided to remain anonymous to protect his family, pulled 34-year-old Jenard Shamar Cunningham over for erratic driving. The detective reportedly ordered Cunningham, a felon with robbery and assault convictions, to remain inside his vehicle. Instead, the man got out of his car and became belligerent. He grabbed the officer’s handgun and pistol-whipped him with it…
In Baltimore, following anti-cop riots and the indictment of six officers for the death of drug dealer Freddie Gray, arrests dropped 60 percent in May compared with arrests the previous year. In New York City, criminal summonses, a powerful gauge of proactive enforcement, were down 24 percent through July, compared with the same period the previous year; total arrests were down 16.5 percent. Arrests in Los Angeles are down 8 percent city-wide, and even further in some of the highest-crime areas. In the LAPD’s Central Division, home to the chaotic, squalid Skid Row, arrests are down 13 percent, while violent crime is up 57 percent.
In some cities, government officials have essentially ordered police to let black criminals run wild.
During the rioting that followed the suspicious April 19 death of career criminal Freddie Gray in police custody, Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D) ordered police not to enforce the law against black looters. The mayor infamously admitted after riots began that she gave space “to those who wished to destroy.”
The problem is those with common sense just don’t have the anger to act, due to resource availability. As a result, those who are acting, and driving the course of events are the insane. This will last until the sane are driven by enough irritation to act, and reset the balance of sanity.
Until then, I would not overestimate the public condemnation that would flow from police dealing with these animals and their protests harshly. As with the Donald, if Police took one protest, cracked a few heads and sent the protestors scrambling for cover, and then amusedly laughed at their helplessness when they whined, I think the public would approve, and the #Blacklivesmatter group would feel so out-grouped and impotent that future protests would not be “fun.” As conditions deteriorate, the level of public upset with a crackdown will only diminish, and the likelihood of such a crackdown will only increase.
For now, evil reigns, but it won’t last forever.
Apocalypse cometh™