#BlackLivesMatter – Page 44

Minneapolis violent crimes soared in 2020 amid pandemic, protests

Violent crimes soared by 21% in Minneapolis last year, adding a painful coda to the city’s struggles in coping with a deadly pandemic and widespread protests against racial injustice.

The city recorded 5,422 violent crime incidents, including homicides, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults, according to preliminary year-end Minneapolis police statistics. That is a dramatic jump over the previous five years, which averaged roughly 4,496 such crimes. Property crime saw a more modest 10% increase.

by Blazingcatfur•February 7, 2021February 7, 2021•0•"Depolicing", #BlackLivesMatter

Why I am one of many former Minnieapolis PD officers

Minneapolis police officers have gotten no support in the aftermath of the 2020 protests, and many are struggling with PTSD.

I sit here in mourning.

I had a friend over for dinner recently and she told me that two Washington, D.C., police officers have committed suicide since the civil unrest at the Capitol on Jan. 6. I know so many people will jump to blame former President Donald Trump, but I don’t. I know better.

You see, I was a lieutenant with the Minneapolis Police Department, assigned to the Third Precinct. I had been a police officer in Minnesota for 37 years. I use the words “was” and “had been” because effective this month, I am retired.

h/t Marvin

by Blazingcatfur•February 6, 2021February 6, 2021•0•"Depolicing", #BlackLivesMatter

Minnesota governor activates National Guard ahead of trial for police officer involved in George Floyd’s death

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is preemptively activating the National Guard ahead of February’s trial for one of the police officers who has been arrested in connection with the death of George Floyd.

The governor warned that the trial, which is set to begin on March 8, could lead to “civil unrest” in Minneapolis and the surrounding area, in an executive order on Friday. Walz said he requested assistance from the state to “support public safety and security and to prevent or respond to potential civil unrest.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 6, 2021February 6, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter

150 People Were Shot in Chicago Since Illinois Sent the National Guard to D.C.

Democrats occupy D.C. while their own people die every day.

After shooting deaths shot up 75% in Chicago, Governor Pritzker announced that he was dispatching 500 more National Guard troops to fight “the dark forces of racism” in D.C.

Washington D.C. may be suffering from “the dark forces of racism” since it’s currently in the hands of the party of racism, slavery, and segregation, but those National Guard troops would do a lot more good in Chicago where 81%, the majority of shooting victims, are black.

by Blazingcatfur•February 5, 2021February 5, 2021•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", #BlackLivesMatter

Not The Bee: Black Lives Matter movement nominated for Nobel peace prize

The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel peace prize for the way its call for systemic change has spread around the world.

In his nomination papers, the Norwegian MP Petter Eide said the movement had forced countries outside the US to grapple with racism within their own societies.

“I find that one of the key challenges we have seen in America, but also in Europe and Asia, is the kind of increasing conflict based on inequality,” Eide said. “Black Lives Matter has become a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice.

by Blazingcatfur•January 29, 2021January 29, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter, WTF?

Did the BLM Protests Against the Police Lead to the 2020 Spike in Homicides?

Bottom Line…

“…And crimes have victims. While I mourn for dead fellow citizens of any color, a sad and absurd reality of both post-Ferguson and summer 2020 violence is that a great many of those killed unnecessarily were black Americans. In Chicago, 81.8 percent of those murdered in 2020 were African Americans, while 3.9 percent of victims were white. The simplest possible sort of number-crunching shows us that, assuming consistent rates of homicide by race, the Windy City’s vertical move from 481 to 748 deaths by violence cost 218 black lives inside one year. Assuming that murders nationwide increased only by 35 percent from 2019’s total of 16,425 and that only 50 percent of these new victims were black, the equivalent toll country-wide would be 2,874 dead black folks, including horrifying victims such as hero cop David Dorn and little eight-year-old Secoriea Turner.

The numbers speak for themselves. The ideas advanced by Black Lives Matter may be popular and “woke,” but they are also very often the worst possible policies for those of us who actually want to preserve black, and other, American lives.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 28, 2021January 28, 2021•0•"Depolicing", #BlackLivesMatter, Crime

Whitlock: I stand by my comparison of BLM to the KKK — no matter who might object

Wednesday evening, during an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program, I analogized Black Lives Matter to the Ku Klux Klan.

It’s a provocative and jarring analogy. It’s a comparison I truly believe.

Friday morning, a reporter from my hometown paper, the Indianapolis Star, contacted me asking for clarification of my analogy. I told the reporter that I would respond in writing via email because I felt it was the best way to ensure that I thoughtfully addressed the inquiry.

by Blazingcatfur•January 24, 2021January 23, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter

Man Suspected of Setting Fire to Church and Painting ‘Jesus Is Black’ Kills Cop in Shootout

In the wee hours of the morning on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, an arsonist spray-painted the message, “Jesus is Black” in a Roman Catholic Church in Toledo, Ohio, while setting fire to parts of the church. Police later caught up to the suspect, 27-year-old Christopher A. Harris. Harris shot and killed a police officer in a shootout that also claimed his life.

by Blazingcatfur•January 22, 2021January 22, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter

BLM activist who ‘plowed her car into Trump supporters’ is hit with additional charges for using stun gun and beating two men with a pole

BLM activist who ‘plowed her car into Trump supporters’ in September is hit with additional charges for using stun gun on victim at rally and beating two men with a 4ft pole during a previous march

A Black Lives Matter activist who allegedly plowed her car into supporters of Donald Trump during a California rally in September, has been hit with a slew of additional charges.

Tatiana Turner, 40, has now been accused of using a stun gun against a counter-protester at the September 26 BLM march she organized in Yorba Linda, where she allegedly also ran over a Trump supporter.

Turner is also accused of beating two men with a four-foot-long rod at a Seal Beach rally on August 29.

by Blazingcatfur•January 21, 2021January 21, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter

New York Times Says Deadly BLM Riots Were ‘Isolated Instances Of Property Destruction’ That GOP ‘Exaggerated’

In an attempt to justify the corporate media and Democrats’ sudden affection for rule of law after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, the New York Times published an article on Sunday demonizing Republicans for raising issue with the Black Lives Matter riots.

by Sarcasticat•January 20, 2021January 20, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter, New York Times

Federal Judge Releases BLM Capitol Rioter Without Bail

According to Utah District Magistrate Judge Daphne Oberg, the motion for Sullivan’s detention was denied because it didn’t meet the court’s threshold for a hearing. Prosecutors had asked for Sullivan to be retained in jail at least until inauguration day.

by Sarcasticat•January 18, 2021January 17, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter, idiot judges, Protest, riot

‘White lives matter’ banner taken down in California suburb, calling it ‘a despicable act of vandalism’

A “White Lives Matter” banner went up on Sunday at Smith and Dyer streets in Union City CA, just north of Oakland. It was immediately taken down and denounced by officials.

“This is despicable and we removed it immediately,” said Union City Mayor Carol Dutra-Vernaci. The sign was strategically placed in one of the town’s busiest intersections.

by Sarcasticat•January 17, 2021January 17, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter, California, Political Correctness

DC’s BLM Plaza mural restored for third time since June

BLM Plaza, a two-block pedestrian stretch of 16th Street NW in Washington, DC, elevated to its current status by Mayor Murial Bowser in June, 2020, got a fresh coat of paint Friday.

Just in time for the upcoming presidential inauguration, workers could be found feverishly painting the street mural, reading “Black Lives Matter,” to have it ready in time for Jan. 20.

by Sarcasticat•January 16, 2021January 15, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter, Election 2020

Extreme BLM activist identified in mob that stormed Capitol detained by DC police

One man who participated in the siege of the Capitol building on Wednesday has been identified as John Earle Sullivan, a Black Lives Matter activist from Sandy, Utah.

by Sarcasticat•January 8, 2021January 8, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter, Election 2020, Protest, riot, USA