End of Watch. 1 deputy killed, another injured in shooting during welfare check at North Carolina home - ABC News
One deputy was killed and another injured while performing a welfare check at a North Carolina home Wednesday, authorities said. [SNIP]
One of the officers, identified by authorities as Sgt. Chris Ward, died after being flown to Johnson City Medical Center.
He thought breaking into an occupied home was a good idea. Myrtle Beach homeowner opens fire on burglary suspect, police say
A 15-year-old kid was trying to break in. The homeowner opened fire, but didn't hit anyone. The kid ran like a rabbit.
It doesn't say how cops knew who he is, or if the homeowner knew him from the neigborhood, though he was apparently captured on security video. Cops are still investigating.
Self-defense is a human-right.
In Chicago they ask for a small payment. New York doesn't even ask for a token amount, they just turn people loose. Freed gang member goes on crime spree after injuring cop: sources
A reputed gang member who was freed without bail despite attempted-murder charges allegedly went on a crime spree that included dragging an NYPD officer with a car Friday — enraging the city’s top cop. [SNIP]
Newson, 32, allegedly ran amok for nearly 12 hours after cops approached him behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz with excessively tinted windows that was blocking traffic near Rockaway Parkway and Willmohr Street in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn at around 3:30 a.m., sources said.
The judge, a rookie who the Bar Association rated poorly, put this guy back on the streets without any bail, because "supervised release" was the best option. For who, exactly?
At least he didn't kill anybody.
First he dragged a cop with a vehicle when they tried to stop him. The officer was treated for his injuries and released.
About 90 minutes later, Newson allegedly broke into a house nearly 15 miles away on Grassmere Terrace in Far Rockaway, where he smashed his way inside by breaking the lock on the door, sources said.
He terrorized the residents of the home a 66-year-old woman and her son, for some time. The woman had been trying to help Newson’s girlfriend and her mother.
He left and stole a Jaguar sedan and headed to Long Island.
He was arrested on Long Island. Maybe the judges in Suffolk County are more realistic.
(See, I can pick on New York as well as Chicago!)
Because keeping violent offenders in jail is unfair.
Is this because no one heard him say anything? Ex-con Jarrod Powell arrested in attack on Asian man in NYC
The guy arrested in Jarrod Powell.
Cops on Tuesday arrested a 49-year-old ex-con who they say is the monster caught on video repeatedly kicking an Asian man in the head last week in East Harlem.
This guy is known to police. Is anyone shocked?
Powell — who has at least 33 prior run-ins with the law, the majority of which for assaults, dating back to 1988 — was arrested early Tuesday and charged with two counts of felony assault, cops said.
“He shouldn’t be out in these streets,” one police source said.
But keeping habitual, violent offenders in jail would be unfair.
Cops are not sure about the motivation for the attack. Or if they are sure, they don't believe that they can prove anything.
Michael Collins: Oct. 31, 1930 – April 28, 2021. He took the photo below at 21:34:00 UT or 5:34 PM EDT, 21 July 1969
Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo, is the only human, alive or dead that isn’t in the frame of this picture, 1969
Collins took this picture of the Lunar Module, containing Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong with Earth in the background, during the Apollo 11 mission. This makes him the only person ever to have lived who was not inside the frame of the photo. Matter cannot be created or destroyed. That means that every human that lived up to the point of this photo being taken still exists, at least in some form, and every human that has been born since then was also is in this photo, at least in some form. So even if you were born after this picture was taken, the materials you’re made from are still on the frame of this picture.
For the Large Scale version of the photo, click this link. And for all of the Apollo 11 photos, see this link at NASA.
It is not an unintended consequence. NYC councilman admits he's 'running out of reasons to tell people to stay' amid crime surge
“The rise in crime is not really a bug in this system; it’s a feature. For eighteen months, New York’s woke Democrats have systematically eroded criminal justice and empowered criminals,” [New York City Council member Joe Borelli, a Republican,] told host Tucker Carlson.
Who even knew that there were any Republicans left in NYC?
“There was bail reform, it was defunding the police, it was ending qualified immunity. It was criminalizing police actions. So it’s tough to imagine any other outcome that they could possibly have foresaw other than a spike in crime,” he added. [emphasis in original]
He goes on to discuss the increases in crime: the 130% increase in shootings in June of last year over the prior year, the increase in murders and the rise in sexual assault, etc.
What’s notable is that you rarely hear Democrat politicians, mainstream media “journalists,” sports stars and Hollywood actors and actresses complain about these increased murders and sexual assaults. There’s a political reason for this, according to Borelli.
“You don’t hear about it, and you won’t, because the solution to this is proactive policing. It’s a type of policing that most of the celebrities, most reform activists, and people on the street protesting around New York City, it’s that type of policing which they specifically do not want,” he said.
Now you would have to be living under a rock not to have seen things about the Ma'Khia Bryant Shooting. But what you may not have seen is the Bree Newsome take on the issue. BLM co-founder ‘frightened’ cop stopped stabbing: ‘Teens have been having fights involving knives for eons’
And according to Ms. Newsome you should just let them stab one another.
The media and activists immediately started claiming that Bryant was unarmed and just an innocent, sweet girl. But the video shows exactly what she was doing. Newsome unbelievably seized on the tragic incident to posit that teenage knife fights were normal and that the police had no business interfering.
But then chaos and violence normalized is exactly the goal of BLM and Antifa and all the eliminate police activists want.
Regarding crime in the Democrat “utopia” of New York City, this week alone a corpse was found stuffed in a bag in Manhattan, a woman was executed in broad daylight in Brooklyn and a career criminal who’d been released without bail earlier this month on an attempted murder charge was re-arrested for dragging an NYPD officer with his vehicle.
Dangerous suspects being released without bail and then going on to commit additional crimes has become the norm in NYC thanks specifically to the “woke” Democrats mentioned by Borelli.
‘You can’t stop me!’ Bragging NYC subway thief, with 138 arrests, thanks Dems for new bail reform law https://t.co/zYWlcIkWDz
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) February 17, 2020
I suppose that the Dems think if they tear it all down, they can rebuild it how they see fit. I doubt it will work that way. I am reminded, as I always am, about Hobbes' description of the state of war, which exists in the breakdown of law and order.
no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
I think that could describe the state of some of our large cities.
In Chicago not too well. CWB Chicago is keeping a count of the victims. #18: Man charged murder of 7-year-old at McDonald's drive-thru has 2 pending felony cases, prosecutors say | CWB Chicago
Because keeping violent and repeat offenders in jail is unfair. Or something.
Prosecutors on Sunday charged a suburban man in connection with the fatal shooting of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams at a West Side McDonald’s drive-thru restaurant and trying to carjack a family from Las Vegas on the Eisenhower Expressway.
Marion Lewis had two felony juvenile cases pending — one for burglary and looting, the other for possessing a stolen motor vehicle — when he participated in the murder and other crimes this month, prosecutors said.
Pirate's Cove starts us off today with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup
- Pacific Pundit notes how many cops are leaving the NYPD
- Patterico’s Pontifications discusses the Washington Post’s shooting of unarmed black men
Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkage
Bustednuckles: Rain Delay
Woodsterman: Happiest of Funday in the Morning
Victory Girls: Media Plays Games With Body Cam Video
Daley Gator - Your CCW News Update For Tuesday (04/27/21)
An angry pastor posted a video Saturday calling local police the “Gestapo” and “Nazis,” after they presented him with a court order related to investigations that his church is violating COVID-19 safety protocols.
Wombat-socho at The Other McCain - In The Mailbox: 04.27.21
Shark Tank: FL Redistricting Will Help GOP, But Not Much
Shot In The Dark: Pondering, also, A Little Concerning
STUMP: Weekend Videos
Political Hat - News of the Week (April 25th, 2021)
The New and Improved Green New Deal Is Still Insane
Senator Ed Markey and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “formally” reintroduced the Green New Deal today.
EBL - Mad Max (1979)
American Elephants: Did you have a happy Earth Day?
Diogenes Middle Finger News: A Good Monday Morning
Don Surber - Highlights of the News
ITEM 5: The New York Post reported, "A group of 22 members of Congress is demanding President Biden’s nominee for head of the ATF commit to investigating allegations that Hunter Biden lied on a background check to buy a gun.
A View from the Beach - Election 2020: They're Making a List, and Checking it Twice
John Solomon at JTN reports Growing number of black leaders embrace voter ID, reject Biden's Jim Crow claims, "From sports to politics to business, black leaders are beginning a counteroffensive against Stacey Abrams' views on voting".
Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.27.21 (Evening Edition)
Victory Girls: John Kerry – Once A Traitor, Always A Traitor
Volokh Conspiracy: “The Common Objects Of Their Love”
Weasel Zippers: CDC Says Fully Vaccinated People Don’t Need Masks Outside
Gates of Vienna - News Feed 4/26/2021
UK: ‘White Saviour’ Isaac Newton Benefited From ‘Colonial-Era Activity’, Claims University: Report
The grandfather of modern physics, Sir Isaac Newton, has become the latest target of the woke mob in the push to “decolonise the curriculum”
Vlad Tepes - Police targeted for attacks in NY, UN elects Iran to Women’s commission: Links 2, April 27, 2021
4. Comparing Ontario with Florida:Ontarians are now political prisoners...5. ‘It feels like a sick joke’: UN elects Iran to women’s commission
Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report - 4/27/21 [J.J. Sefton]
"Hollywood is a political business that can use Georgian money back to fund leftist endeavors, warns Professor J.C. Bradbury."
How Hollywood Uses State Tax Credits to Profit Off of the People it Hates
Doug Ross is having some issues with Google... - Here are the Linx Google Removed...
Sen. Manchin Backs ‘Targeted’ Infrastructure Bill, Opposes Reconciliation: Jack Phillips
Why Californians Are Losing Hope in the States Political Party Structure: Anne Dunsmore
Maggie's Farm - Monday morning links
Rutgers students provided with 'trigger' warnings in Classics and history courses. A Rutgers professor is using trigger warnings for his courses involving uncomfortable realities of Greek and Roman history.
I leave you with The Geek in Pictures: No Country for Young Leftists Edition from Power Line, Sunday Funnies, 04-25-21 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Sunday gifdump from Knuckledraggin My Life Away, and Sunday Memes … from Freedom Is Just Another Word…
This post was originally going to be titled "Kim Foxx and the Destruction of Justice in Chicago," but while the video and the article deal with Chicago, the George-Soros-funded PAC that helped her get elected is bringing similar "prosecutors" (in quotes because they won't prosecute) to big cities all over America. As someone has pointed out somewhere in the past week or so, Democrats have decided that violence in the streets is beneficial to their cause.
The destruction of the Criminal Justice System in Chicago continues. Rising crime and murderers walking free: 'Tucker Carlson Originals' analyzes the crisis in the Windy City
'This isn't random violence, it's the consequence of bad policy,' says host Tucker Carlson
Kim Foxx was backed in her election by a George-Soros-funded PAC. The chaos running wild in Chicago is the direct result of her policies. Well, and others' policies as well.
The episode shows gut-wrenching footage of violence and murder, with the families of victems explaining how Foxx chose not to prosecute the perpetrators, letting murderers walk free.
This is the video for episode 1 of Tucker Carlson Originals, "Chicago in Crisis." The video is 23 minutes, so plan accordingly. I think it is worth it. A brief 1 minute and 30 second portion of the video is at this link.
Hat tip to Chicago Contrarian: Kim Foxx's Chicago Exposed.
Across twenty-three minutes, Carlson takes viewers on a guided tour of Chicago and forthrightly tells the story of the unraveling of law and order in Chicago under Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. A chronicle Chicago’s media has ignored for five years, through interviews with Preib, 15th Ward alderman Ray Lopez, an anonymous Chicago police officer serving with a Gang Unit, David Applegate, Anjanette Albert and Omar Tungekar, both of whom are the family of victims of murder, it is difficult not to come to the conclusion Kim Foxx is a proud apologist for the worst criminal offenders.
She didn't want them anymore, and of course what she wants outweighs everything. NYC mother charged with murder in the brutal deaths of her 6-week-old twins | Daily Mail Online
A Queens mother has been charged with two counts of murder for the brutal deaths of her two six-week-old twins, whose bodies were found stabbed to death in her apartment Thursday - one with a knife sticking out of his head.
While New York does have a Safe Haven law, the cutoff date for abandoning an infant is 30 days, not 6 weeks.
I can't help but think that if there was any support - dare I say it - from a church - homes could have been found for these 2. But religion is old-fashioned. And don't even suggest that her life might be better if the father of her children were involved in her life, and theirs; that is just a 19th Century idea. This is the 21st Century, where feelings account for everything. There is no greater purpose than what you want, how you feel, etc. And so she wanted 2 infants to stop being a bother.
'I do not want them,' she reportedly told arriving officers, according to the New York Daily News.
'I can't take it anymore,' she told police, according to the Post.
Welcome to the future.
Yello came up in the comments on a post recently And since I have always liked their music I thought I would revisit their newest album.
Most people only know Yello from the use of "Oh Yeah" in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and in a dozen other places after that, but Dieter Meier and Boris Blank, the two guys in Yello, were known in the club scene before that.
You can find the lyrics to today's song at this link, though I am not sure you need them.
This song is "Waba Duba" by Yello from their 2020 album Point. I can't decide if the video is annoying or clever, though I suppose it is fairly typical for a video from Yello. The song was released as a single ahead of the album. (I think.)
Is anyone surprised? Drunk Michigan Democrat Invoked Whitmer’s Name During DUI Bust
He drove his car into the ditch. His pants were "partially off." His blood alcohol was twice the legal limit. He said he wanted to call the Michigan governor to intervene, presumably because he thought she would say that the rules don't apply to him. And he did it all on vide.
Get drunk. Drive your car into a ditch. Without pants. That’s basically the Democratic Party platform, right there. And I repeat: It’s on video.
That's quote of the day material.
Click thru for the details and the video.
AC also has a link to great piece of commedy. Rush, Canadian Libertarian Birth Control
From the commedy...
No one has ever gotten pregnant while listening to the music of Rush. Clinical studies show that when combined with watching a male sexual partner play air bass along to the extended solo in “Freewill,” the contraceptive efficacy of Rush approaches 100%.
From AC
I’m linking to YYZ, an instrumental that spares the novice a headlong plunge of Lee’s singing. Note that it starts with the IATA airport identification code of Toronto Pearson International Airport. Yes, they heard morse code on a VHF aviation radio and said “fuck it… lets turn this into something that’s neither rock nor jazz”. Then Neil Pert set out to destroy his cymbals and the other two somehow managed to keep up.
Click thru for "YYZ" by Rush from the 1981 album Moving Pictures.
Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes. Bodycam video shows cop getting shot by man suspected of having just seriously wounded Brighton Park guard at Home Depot - Chicago Sun-Times
I know that most criminals are not the sharpest tools in the shed, but this is insane. The most expensive stuff at Home Depot you need a cart to haul away.
A security guard at Home Depot confronted 18-year-old Travon Chadwell about shoplifting. He shot the security guard in the head, and ran.
Two officers arrive and begin a pursuit of him into an alley.
One of them chases the suspect into an alley. As the officer turns the corner of a garage, he sees the suspect standing in the middle of the alley.
“What’s up, man?” the officer says.
In seconds, a single gunshot is heard as the officer starts to turn and duck back into the gangway. He falls to the ground and shouts, “I’m shot, I’m shot, I’m shot.”
He put two people in the hospital over something at a Big Box store that probably cost much less than $100. Then, while surrounded by Chicago cops, after having just shot one of them, he doesn't even try to surrender.
The Left would surely be screaming about Chadwell's death, except for the fact that they are still screaming about Adam Toledo, who was also shot in Little Village. That is the same neighborhood where this shooting took place.
Here is the video: "Bodycam footage shows Chicago cop get shot minutes before suspect dies in shootout with police." It includes some bodycam video, some security video and at least one bit recorded on a bystander's smartphone.
Now that is what you call ironic. This sorority accused a sister of racism after she anonymously criticized its woke agenda. Then they learned she’s not white.
What's the opposite of diversity? University.
So it is a sorority on the Wesleyan University campus. So slightly to the Left of Lenin as a jumping off point. But they had to buff up their diversity creds so, they appointed a diversity chair and set about to promote social activism. Criticism was NOT allowed.
Though eventually they did have an anonymous feedback form. They didn't like what they found.
Despite the anonymity of their critic, leadership harshly denounced her as a racist, demanding that she immediately come forward and leave the sorority.
Here, it is evident that those who condemned this individual immediately concluded that she was a white racist as her feedback did not fall in line with the politically correct consensus on racial discourse. However, much to the dismay of the sorority, the author of the form is, in fact, a woman of color.
Diversity: only as long as you think the thoughts we tell you to think.
And she did leave the sorority because they made her feel unsafe. (That is the magic word today...)
The fallout has been poetic justice, a kind of justice you don't see much today. When she left the sorority, she produced statement about how the diversity chair made people feel unsafe to even ask questions, such as "What is politically correct?" Only one other person has asked to leave the sorority, but opinion of the sorority is tanking.
She expressed vindication for her initial response contending Rho Epsilon was not acting to dismantle biases, but rather acting in a “performative and hyper-polarized manner” that was a result of cynical posturing and “closed-minded” judgement as opposed to genuine concern.
The "leadership" hasn't been able to explain what went wrong with their diversity efforts, and how those efforts ended with asking a "woman of color" to leave the organization. Which from my point of view is a delicious bit of schadenfreude.
Also, why didn't he stop after he had been shot once? Police: 19-year-old killed in self-defense shooting in Rock Hill
The 19-year-old started strangling a man, and was then shot by another person. The 19-year-old then started to strangle a woman before he was shot again. Police said he stopped the assault and collapsed.
He could have stopped after the first shot and been taken to a hospital. Why didn't he?
The shooting was deemed to be in defense of self and others, and the shooter will face no charges.
Self-defense is a human-right.
Rely for our safety, that is.
Conditions are even worse in the UK, because you are not allowed to defend yourself. You are certainly not allowed to own anything that might enable self-defense. And The System™ will not protect you. How could lover who held me hostage soon be free to live in my village? | Daily Mail Online
This is a fairly typical story of domestic violence. It starts out good. Then it isn't good. Then it is bad. Then she leaves. He doesn't react well.
Gareth, however, refused to accept it was over and began a campaign of stalking.
He’d watch me from the road or lie in wait for me at the farmhouse. When I finally summoned the courage to call the police, he was arrested for harassment and menacing behaviour.
In fact, over a three-week period, he was arrested twice more, but devastatingly the CPS decided no further action should be taken, and his campaign continued.
So for menacing and harassment he was jailed for much less than 3 weeks. Are we surprised? Then things got bad.
Oh, and he was threatening her childern during this time, but police couldn't be bothered to follow up.
He showed up with a gun - in gun-free UK? Color me shocked! - and held her hostage, threatened to kill her, to kill himself. Eventually he drove her to a doctor's appointment that she had scheduled.
He followed me to the surgery —but finally, alone in the GP’s room, I could tell someone what was happening. The police were called, the surgery was locked down and Gareth was arrested as he waited for me in the car park.
So for kidnapping and threatening, and having a gun in gun-free Britain, (no longer Great Britain) and the existence of security camera video to prove he was lying about some stuff, he was sentenced to 4 and a half years in prison with 25 percent reduction for his guilty plea. Oh they sentenced hin to 20 years, but a bunch of the time is concurrent.
Gareth has since been jailed for a total of 20 years on five different charges including making threats to kill and false imprisonment.
But with concurrent sentencing and a 25 per cent reduction owing to his guilty plea, he is serving four and a half in prison and five on licence.
Recently, I learned that he had been transferred back to prison from the medium-secure psychiatric unit where he was being held. That means he could be considered for parole as early as August 2022.
And so he will be free to restart his campaign of terror. Do you think he learned a lesson? Do you think 3 years is long enough for all of this? All of this took place in August of 2019.
This the future that the gun-hating Left want to import into the US. Where the small are at the mercy of the large. Where the old and the infirm are at the mercy of the young and the violent. Because self-defense is icky, or something, and you should just rely on "The System," the very same system that the Left wants to defund.
The politicians and the CPD brass claim it is down, even if it isn't. But the latest stats will be hard to explain away. A year after boasting of sharp crime reductions during COVID lockdown, CPD faces reality | CWB Chicago
So last year they could claim "Crime is Down!" with a straight face, because it was. Was it because of anything the police or politicians were doing?
The department seemed to take full credit for the crime reduction in its statement, giving no indication that crime reports might have been down due to unprecedented restrictions on day-to-day life.
But that didn't last forever.
Between March 20 and April 13 this year, murders are up 26%, shooting cases are up 38%, criminal sexual assaults are up 47%, carjackings are up 52%, and motor vehicle theft is up 24% compared to the same days in 2020, city data shows.
There are data for several sections of chicago that are seeing particularly nasty increases. And then there is the fact that the numbers are higher than they were in 2019.
And the data shows violent crime categories like murder, shootings, and carjackings are up in recent weeks even compared to the same time in pre-COVID 2019. That won’t be easy to explain away, either.
I predict that they will just ignore the statistics and concentrate on the crisis de jour.
As for the Crime is Down mantra, that dates to 2014, when CPD got caught cooking the books to make themselves look better. From Chicago Magazine - The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates: The city’s drop in crime has been nothing short of miraculous. Here’s what’s behind the unbelievable numbers.
Chicago conducted a 12-month examination of the Chicago Police Department’s crime statistics going back several years, poring through public and internal police records and interviewing crime victims, criminologists, and police sources of various ranks. We identified 10 people, including Groves, who were beaten, burned, suffocated, or shot to death in 2013 and whose cases were reclassified as death investigations, downgraded to more minor crimes, or even closed as noncriminal incidents—all for illogical or, at best, unclear reasons.
This troubling practice goes far beyond murders, documents and interviews reveal. Chicago found dozens of other crimes, including serious felonies such as robberies, burglaries, and assaults, that were misclassified, downgraded to wrist-slap offenses, or made to vanish altogether.
Because nothing says, "Making the city safe!" like lying through your teeth about safety. It's part of the Chicago Way.
Today we have a song that was inspired by Lone Star Parson. He had a musical interlude, "Monday Night Juke Box," a while back and this was one of the songs featured.
The Scorpions was never a band I listened to much. A few of their songs were on the radio, such as "Rock You Like a Hurricane," but in 1979, I was not listening to Hard Rock much.
I'm going to call today's song a Power Ballad, because the first 2/3rds of the song is exactly that, though it picks up at the end. I quite like it.
This song is "Holiday" by the Scorpions from their 1979 album Lovedrive.
