#BlackLivesMatter

A restaurant that cheered rioters who burned down its building during the George Floyd riots now complains that Minneapolis has too much crime after being victimized again.

“Let my building burn,” immigrant restaurant owner Ruhel Islam declared as his business was set ablaze during anti-police protests last summer. “Justice needs to be served, put those officers in jail,” he said on Facebook. His daughter, Hafsa Islam, even penned an op-ed for The Washington Post praising those who torched Gandhi Mahal, their restaurant.

h/t Marvin

Now that House Democrats have created a committee to investigate the January 6 Capitol riot, most voters believe Congress should also investigate the Black Lives Matter protests that sparked violence in major cities last year.

A new national telephone and online survey by the National Police Association and Rasmussen Reports finds that 66% of Likely U.S. Voters think Congress should investigate last year’s violent protests, in which more than 2,000 police officers suffered injuries in the line of duty. Twenty-one percent (21%) don’t think Congress should investigate last year’s protests, and 13% were not sure.

This will come as a surprise to no one but Gallup’s latest survey on race relations in the United States shows a further decline this year. In fact, the number of people who say things are good or somewhat good has hit a new low for two years in a row. Gallup notes that this latest sample was being conducted at the time that Derek Chauvin was sentenced.

Girl, six, is killed and five adults are injured in mass shooting outside Popeyes in Washington DC

A six year old girl was killed and five adults were injured in a mass shooting in Washington DC late on Friday night.

The shooting happened just after 11pm near a Popeyes restaurant at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X avenues.

Chicago: Worse Than Vietnam

A Marine Corps. veteran who survived two tours of duty in Vietnam died of a heart attack after being beaten during a carjacking in Chicago yesterday. The horrible crime happened in broad daylight. Carjackings in the city began skyrocketing in 2015 when then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel decided to come down easy on mostly black juvenile car-purloiners. Can you guess what happened next? Teens began jacking more cars.

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Isn’t it a little late for the rehabilitation of the Black Panther Party (BPP)? After all, the organization that first caught the public’s attention in 1969 was already in its death throes by the early 1970s, beset by internal splits, criminal prosecutions, and violent faction-fighting. Yet, five decades later, the BPP is being energetically romanticized, its legacy is being whitewashed, and its leaders are being valorized in murals, documentaries, and major Hollywood productions that portray the movement and its leaders as revolutionary icons of righteous struggle.

Isn’t it weird how the loudest voices assuring America we’re all incurably racist tend to do so from very comfortable, financially secure perches?

That fact couldn’t have been illustrated more perfectly than in an article last week by Washington Post columnist Paul Butler, an oppressed minority who also happens to be a law professor at the prestigious Georgetown University and a well-paid legal analyst on national television for MSNBC.

Five California police officers sued the city of Palo Alto after officials commissioned a mural featuring a convicted law enforcement killer.

In June 2020, authorities approved 16 paintings that spelled out “Black Lives Matter” in a 245-foot-long display, according to a lawsuit filed in a superior court. The letter “E” portion of the mural featured Joanne Chesimard, better known as Assata Shakur, who was convicted in 1977 for the murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster before she escaped confinement and fled to Cuba for refuge.

The FBI classifies her as a most-wanted terrorist.

In the wake of the killings of George Floyd; Daunte Wright; and Andrew Brown, Jr., which have received huge national attention in the media, it’s time to establish the truth in our thinking about race and crime. How common are killings of blacks by police officers, most of them white, or, for that matter, by whites in general? And how common are killings of white police officers, and other whites, by blacks? And why is it that only the killings of blacks seem to receive extensive media attention?