Greetings, Dear Reader,
I have to keep this one short today (hopefully). My Thursdays are action packed and the schedule is super tight.
I came across a video yesterday …
THE HIDDEN COST OF BLACK LIVES MATTER
When held against the backdrop of human history, by the numbers, modern American policing is far and away the most humane and efficient iteration yet.
Yes, even for ethnic minorities. For that matter, even for violent criminals.
We all can thank Teddy Roosevelt for this revolution in peacekeeping. He modernized policing in New York City. He purged corruption. He formalized the training. He instituted the first police academy.
American police are, by and large, underpaid, but well trained and more often than not, patient well beyond a normal person’s capacity. Watch a half hour of bodycam videos online and you’ll see what I mean.
And if there’s even one third-order benefit of the “Black Lives Matter” movement, it’s bodycams. Coincidentally, liberal intellectuals who once overwhelmingly supported the notion now do not. The reason is obvious: It’s much harder to spawn a fake (neo marxist) narrative about police wantonly gunning down “unarmed” black people when the entire engagement is caught on tape that is publicly owned, and therefore public domain.
Take the case of one time Georgetown basketball athlete Sidney Wilson, who was gunned down by a police officer in her apartment complex. Initially activists appeared ready to organize protests (See: BLM riot) over her death.
Then the bodycam was released.
Here’s a screencap.
Yes that is a knife in the hand of a snarling, charging maniac.
Oops, cancel the riot, guys.
Despite the accountability – mostly on activist organizations rather than police, it turns out – of bodycams, the public benefit legacy of the mythology-based Black Lives Matter movement is decidedly in the red.
While Roland Fryer at Harvard demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt, not once but twice, that no such trend of murdered black people ever existed, there’s been a hidden and deadly cost of the myth.
Then-23-year-old Aaliyah Daz Jhanay Renee Glenn had run no less than four red lights at speeds of over 70 miles per hour in a densely trafficked area of Detroit before she slammed head on into another motorist.
Dr. Sujon Miah, 37, was killed instantaneously. His father, 73, was grievously wounded and later died at the hospital. Riding with Glenn were two other women. One, her sister, was eight months pregnant. She subsequently lost her baby.
Glenn had been approached by police at a gas station for failure to display proper plates. As police attempted to get to the bottom of the matter, Glenn not only failed to comply with basic requests, she became increasingly agitated. Eventually, longer than it would have taken me frankly, police decided to arrest her.
And that’s when she drove off.
Why any of this matters is because of what Glenn said repeatedly once police pulled her out of the smoking wreck.
“Y’all tried to kill us, y’all tried to kill us,” she shouted, “we see people getting killed every day by y’all! They always kill us!”
“Nobody’s going to kill you!” an officer shouted back. “Just sit down and don’t cause trouble for yourself.”
“They always kill us!”
“Nobody is killing you,” said the officer, audibly frustrated. “If you would have followed orders none of this would have happened!”
“I just graduated from criminal justice, y’all gotta train better than this for her!” she shouted, gesturing to her pregnant sister, who clearly knew something was amiss with her baby and was growing more impatient for the arrival of EMS.
Later, as they were finally hauling her off, she kept on.
“He were going to kill us. Y’all always be dragging women out of the car and killing them!”
“No! Nobody was going to kill you!”
“Everybody die because of y’all, everybody die because of y’all. Y’all be dragging women out the car. Y’all killing us every day. We just seen that last week!”
Then as she was being perp walked by a female police officer (in hijab), she maintained.
“They was going to kill us. They was being aggressive. They be snatching women out the car and killin them.”
Her other friend or family member who was in the car required the jaws of life to cut her out of the wreck. Her lower extremities were crushed.
Glenn was later charged, convicted and sentenced to 7-15 years in prison. It’s so obviously an example of how the general population has reacted to being bombed with messaging from a misguided, political media operation hellbent on conveying forged ideas, namely that police routinely shoot and kill black people.
Her media-induced delusions and subsequent behavior cost three lives. There’s no public information about whether or not Miah was married with children, but if he was, the cost of losing a father and a husband is incalculable. The cost of unborn innocence is likewise incalculable.
The largest institutional propagator of the lie that so obviously damaged the psyche of Aaliyah Glenn was none other than The Washington Post. For their exhaustive, data-driven effort to mislead the public about the risks associated with routine police encounters, the paper earned itself a Pulitzer for Public Service. Of all the Pulitzers, it’s considered the most prestigious category.
It’s awarded under the auspices of performing journalism that acts as a service to the public, of which Dr. Miah was once a part.
Three innocent people dead.
Will there be a similar project by the likes of the Post to track all the routine police interactions that have gone sideways since, resulting in damaged property, loss of life, and long sentences?
Not likely.
This, Dear Reader, is the hidden price of left-wing delusions perpetrated on the populace.
Dead fathers, dead children, ruined lives in the very ethnic cohort the Post was seeking to defend.
MORE LINKS
Mayor Pete Tries To Beardfish Black Voters
Nice try, Pete.
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Jasmine Crockett Wasn’t The Only Loser In Texas Senate Primary
She had a lot of industry donors so many people didn’t know about.
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Police Begged Progressive Prosecutor To Put Criminal Illegal Behind Bars — Then He Killed Someone
How many more times will we allow this to happen?
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