Peaceful Gun-Control Liberals and their Cesspool Killing Fields

Overall, it ain't been a good year for Baltimorons, and this past Memorial Day weekend was no exception. Barely a month removed from mayhem and ignorant animalistic hooliganism during the Mayor-sanctioned riots, the long holiday weekend saw 29 shootings in Baltimore with 9 of them fatal. Among the wounded was a 17-year-old boy shot in the arm and a 9-year-old boy shot in the leg, according to local sources.

They get a lot of use out of that graphic

 The violence began during the weekend and spilled into Monday, with two more people killed shortly after Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D, as if that’s a surprise) met with the Baltimore Police Department to discuss the violence and likely lay the blame upon their shoulders. Oh, wait...there were three more shootings overnight Monday so the weekend total was actually 32.

It seems in the Charm City there have been 38 homicides so far this month and 111 this year. By comparison, New York City -- with a significantly higher population -- has seen 118 murders this year. To be exact, Baltimore had a 2010 population of a little over 622,000 and a greater metro area of nearly 2.7 million people. The Big Apple clocks in with around 8.5 million and a greater metro area of a staggering 24.5 million. 

Nashville, with a population of about 658,000, has only seen six homicides this month and 21 for the year so far. Louisville, whose population is about 20,000 less than Baltimore's, has only had three homicides for the month and 28 for the year. Las Vegas (603,488) has recorded 12 homicides in May  and 41 for the year; Denver (663,862) has logged just two homicides this month and its yearly total matches Baltimore's monthly tally. Even sixth-largest metro area Boston, which has a population 645,966 and a greater metro area of 8 million, has had just one homicide for the month of May and 15 for year-to date.

 

Her Mayorship is "disheartened and frustrated by this continuing violence, particularly when you think about the progress that the city has made," said her spokesman, Howard Libit.

Progress? What in the serious f-bomb are you talking about? The Mayor gets quoted as saying the rioters had free reign to destroy a neighborhood. Businesses were looted and burned. People lost their jobs and livelihoods. Property, both municipal and private, was destroyed. What that bunch of scumbags destroyed in 20 hours will take 20 years to recover from. Hooray, Progress!

This is Progress. Can't you tell?

However, not to be outdone by the 20th largest metro area in the country, the nation's third-largest city (and first in gun control), Chicago, saw a staggering 56 people shot over the holiday, 12 fatally. Hell, go here to see dashcam footage of a shooting this past weekend. And of course, this isn't an anomaly. It's the norm. Remember this article from last year?Every holiday weekend we get dozens shot in Chicago.

Stay Classy, Chicago.

And this right after Supreme Leader Rahm Emanuel was sworn in to another term as Ringleader of the Freak Show that is the Socialist Republik of the Windy City, with an inaugural speech that focused on young people and violence. And right on cue, the guy in charge of the city with the most idiotically strict gun laws in a nation where your right to own a firearm is guaranteed by the Constitution, what did he do? Called for stricter gun laws! 

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.--Albert Einstein

You stupid mother effing liberals. You've shamed the Boy Scouts into banning water guns. You blame the NRA, an organization of legal gun owners and hunting enthusiasts, for your inner city crime problems, when the murders are committed by criminals with illegally obtained guns. And it doesn't stop there. A kid makes a finger gun at recess? SUSPENDED! A kid has a gun company logo on a t-shirt? SUSPENDED! A kid has a miniature plastic gun that came off an action figure six inches tall? SUSPENDED! A kid bites a Pop Tart into a shape that could possibly be construed as a gun if you close one eye and think Rorschach thoughts? SUSPENDED! So of course, stricter gun laws are in order. How much stricter can they possibly be? Banning the word "gun"?  Ban the use of phrases in sports like "bullet pass", "shotgun formation", and "long bomb"? People will no longer be allowed to shoot the breeze or rifle through papers. 

Lovingly borrowed from my man SooperMexicn.

 Oh wait. It gets better. Turns out Mayor Hyphenated Name of the Baltimorons expects you and me to pay for the riots. And by pay, I mean, quite literally, pay the cost of her idiocy and the criminal behavior of her constituents.

Dozens of stores smashed and looted. Hundreds of cars destroyed, including but sure as hell not limited to city-owned police vehicles. Over 159 fires set, including one that burned down an old age home. The city just released its estimate of damages and it comes to about $20 million. 

Henry J. Raymond, Baltimore’s finance director, said the city can temporarily cover the costs from its discretionary "rainy day" fund while seeking reimbursement for up to 75 percent from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “The city remains on strong financial footing,” Raymond said. “Hopefully, with the FEMA reimbursement, it will reduce the financial stress that we’re under. In terms of the city’s overall revenue structure, we’re on firm footing and we’ll move forward.”

You idiots. You let your animals out of their cages and allowed them to run amok and now you want the American taxpayer to foot the bill by raiding the coffers of something that is intended to help people after floods, fires, tornadoes, and hurricanes. You know, actual natural disasters and not berserker rages by thugs and hoodlums.

Sorry, Texas. Yp're a red state. Nothing for you; we gotta pay for rioters and criminal in a blue state.

People in Texas just watched actual houses be picked up by flood waters 40 feet deep and carried away miles downstream to be bashed against bridges, killing terrified people inside who tried to shelter from the storms, and you expect the FEMA funds that should help them rebuild what you allowed to be destroyed when your animals left their cages?

Eff you sideways with a hack saw.

 

So, in the past year, liberal-controlled Chicago and Detroit have festered and continued to decline further into decay. Democrats fiddled while Ferguson burned. Liberal Baltimore is a freshly-picked scab oozing ichor. What's next? Funny you should ask. Could be another of the cities I've mentioned before, in a list of the ten most dangerous cities in America.

In my humble opinion, Cleveland is the next Liberal stronghold to ignite and burn. It's been out of the national spotlight for awhile after  Just a few days ago, a white Cleveland cop was acquitted of manslaughter in the shooting deaths of a black man and woman in 2012 following a car chase.

The officer, Michael Brelo, was one of 13 officers who fired 137 rounds in 18 seconds at Timothy Russell and his passenger, Malissa Williams, who were killed after a chase on November 29, 2012. Officer Brelo fired his pistol 49 times, including at least 15 shots after he reloaded for a second time  and climbed onto the hood of Russell’s 1979 Chevrolet Malibu and the other officers had stopped firing. The chase started downtown after reports of gunfire from the car; prosecutors said the noise apparently was the result of the car’s backfiring. More than 100 officers in 62 cars pursued the car for more than 20 miles at speeds that reached 100 miles an hour. They began firing when the car was stopped and cornered. Russell was hit 23 times, four of the bullets fatal. Williams was hit 24 times, seven of which would have killed her.

Kabul? Nah, just Cleveland.

I wasn’t there, of course, but it does sound more than just a tad excessive. Still, if you've done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, why run? Why lead 62 cars and a hundred cops on a 20 mile chase?

In the aftermath, the Cleveland Police are under double-secret probation and are being kept on a very short leash by Democrat Mayor Frank Jackson. And, as expected, there were protests.

Ferguson Resistance? But this is Cleveland?

That doesn't endear you to people. It pisses them off and your ass is gonna get run over.

 After the verdict came on Saturday, 71 people were arrested during protests, but the streets have remained calm since then. Most people were arrested on misdemeanors, but four were arraigned Tuesday on felony charges. One, a high school senior, 18, was charged with assault and rioting. A 21-year-old art student was accused of throwing a rock at the police and of assaulting an officer, because art students are so peaceful.

But wait...Al Sharpton has arrived to save the day.  Huzzah! Call the TV stations!

When Al Sharpton got up to speak at the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church on Friday night, he was given a standing ovation. At what was billed as a “justice and reform revival”, attendees, mostly congregants of the church itself, had been primed by several hymns and scriptural invocations. Their pastor, reverend Jawanza Colvin, introduced the civil rights campaigner as “one of God’s trombones”. Sharpton proceeded to deliver a barn-burning speech that had the assembled on their feet and shouting praise, sometimes drowning out his words.

How come he owes the federal government $3 million in back taxes but still walks free to race bait and make money off tragedies? And his daugter sues the city of New York for $5 million after allegedly spraining her ankle and receiving a permanent injury falling on a city street, yet is spotted all over the Interwbz in heels ( hard to do with busted up ankles) and CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN in Nepal. A scamming liar like her father. The rotten apple never falls far from the tree.

Back to Cleveland. Why do I say it's next? Because hot on the heels of this acquittal, two other high-profile police-involved deaths still hang over the city: a boy holding a pellet gun fatally shot by a rookie patrolman and a mentally ill woman who died after officers took her to the ground and handcuffed her.

 

The deaths of 12-year-old Tamir Rice and 37-year-old Tanisha Anderson occurred just eight days apart last November. An investigation by the Cuyahoga County sheriff's department into Tamir's death is nearly finished and ready to be given to county prosecutors to decide whether to pursue criminal charges against the patrolman.

The status of the investigation into Tanisha Anderson's death is unclear. A medical examiner said she died of positional asphyxiation, which means she couldn't breathe, and ruled her death a homicide. Tamir and Anderson, like Williams and Russell, were black. The rookie officer who fatally shot Tamir is white. In the Anderson case, one officer is white and the other is black, although a family lawsuit does not make an issue of race. That's up to the good people of the NAACP,  revcom (The Revolutionary Communist Party) , #blacklivesmatter, and other sundry organizations.

 

Yup, these protests are brought to you by communists and home grown terrorists.

But anyways, I fully expect the agitators  to arrive spoon and whip the masses into a frenzy. Meanwhile, their erstwhile supporters will continue to dodge bullets fired by their neighbors over turf and drugs and other criminal enterprises, and blame Whitey, and blame Republicans, and blame everybody but themselves and the children they "raise" and the creatures they keep electing.

It's gonna be a long, hot summer, kids. Plenty of time to foment hate, riot, loot, burn, and blameshift. And we still have the long holiday weekend of July 4th to murder your fellows as we celebrate our freedoms, so make sure to shoplift some more ammo, Dem-Led Inner City Dwellers!

We've got a bigger problem now.....

And way out on the horizon, I see trouble.

When last we convened here at our favorite corner of the blogosphere we discussed how the Holy City, quaint tourist paradise and Friendliest City In The Galaxy, Charleston-by-God-South-Carolina, and the surrounding environs were doing everything possible to hush up the burgeoning crime problem in the area before the outside world caught wind of just how many people get shot here on a weekly basis. This is being accomplished mostly by ignoring it and hoping no one hears.

Instead, the local media is all a-flutter over an organized swarm of fake bums panhandling on every corner in shifts and whether they're tarnishing our fair city's image. They also seem to have the vapors over Carnival Cruise Lines docking a second cruise ship in the city for a few cruises over the summer, aghast at all the traffic and riffraff and alleged pollution spewing forth from the most modern of vessels as if they were antebellum coal-fired paddle-wheelers.

I say, Muffy, we'll gladly accept tourist money, but do keep Charleston for the Charlestonians.

Well, we've got a bigger image problem now, kids. And for the foreseeable future there's no putting this genie back in the bottle.

Shortly before lunch Saturday before last I received a notification on my phone from a local news source that an officer of the North Charleston Police Department has been involved in a shooting during a traffic stop. Sadly, many of us in the area have become so inured to receiving reports of shootings in the metro area that an officer-involved shooting was just a matter of time. In all honesty I didn't pay the notification any real nevermind. Later on I received another notification that SLED (the State Law Enforcement Division, kinda like the state's own FBI) was investigating the shooting, as they do with every officer-involved shooting. No surprises there.

The next notification was that the suspect had died. This actually did cause an eyebrow to raise because the first question everyone would ask is whether the suspect was black and the cop was white. You see, the media and the professional protesters of the world look the other way when it's black-on-black violence, and ignore it if a white cop kills a white suspect; it's barely even news if a black cop kills a white suspect, and it is quickly pushed aside.

Then the dreaded notification that indeed it was a black suspect shot by a white cop, and that there had apparently been a struggle over a Taser. And then the report that the suspect had been unarmed. Now I started to worry, because now the professional protestors, agitators, and the media was primed to make this into another Ferguson-style circus. All this powder-keg needed was a spark, and that spark was provided by a young man from the Dominican Republic who caught the shooting on video using his phone.

By now pretty much everyone who can fog a mirror has seen the video, along with the released dash-cam footage and accompanying audio from the officer's mic. I'm not even going to link to them.

Why the hell is the local TV station here in Charleston, who pretty much broke the story with the video, sourcing the NY Times for the news of the officer being charged? Wouldn't they get it right from the City?

The video is damning enough. Without so much as a "Stop!", "Freeze!", or "Halt or I'll shoot!", the officer unloads 8 rounds on a (slowly) fleeing subject and hits him five times. Four of those were minor wounds but one did go through his back and into his heart, fatally wounding him. I'm not going to make any excuses for the officer shooting an unarmed man in the back as he ran away. You simply cannot do that.

However, all the people clamoring for the officer's head on a pike are overlooking a great many things that the mainstream media doesn't want to discuss.

1. While the traffic stop was, in my opinion, a weak reasoned stop for a brake light violation, the suspect changed his story several times in talking to the officer. He was unable to produce the registration or insurance, claiming he just bought the vehicle, and then was going to buy the vehicle, and then tried to exit the vehicle. He was promptly told to remain in the vehicle. He then opens the door and hauls ass.

2. The subject had a history of failure to pay child support, but did not yet have a bench warrant out. Fearing be jailed yet again for failure to pay, he ran, thinking somehow that a moderately overweight 50 year old man was going to outrun a 31 year old in-shape police officer who had backup en route. The media and pundits are portraying him as a father taken from his children, but not that he was wanted for not paying for his kids. From what I've read he had at least ten previous arrests on his record, once for assault back in 1987, and once for possession of a bludgeon in 1991.

 He had been in jail three times over child support. In 2008, after a traffic stop in which he was charged with an open-container violation and driving under suspension, he was sent to jail in Charleston for six months for failing to pay about $6,800. In 2011, bench warrants ordered deputies to bring him in, and he spent a night in jail when he was $7,500 behind. In 2012, he spent another night in jail when he owed $3,500. At the time of the shooting he was another $7500 behind, and with court fees it would have totaled over $7800. He couldn't pay his child support but somehow had the money to be buying a Mercedes from his neighbor? Gotta have priorities. The passenger in his car also had an arrest record.

3. As the video taken by the bystander starts, one can hear the clicking of the officer's Taser being deployed. The deceased was found to have only one Taser prong in him, indicating that the Taser was ineffective in subduing him. As he turns and flees, the Taser goes flying to the ground. As the subject turns to flee you see one wire from the Taser between him and the officer. That wire hangs from that one probe and appears to have gotten caught up on the officer’s gear.

4. The media was quick to jump all over the fact that the officer picked up the Taser after he shot the subject, and that when he approached the subject on the ground he drops the Taser by the body. They pursued the narrative that he was planting evidence, ignoring the fact that about 30 seconds later he picks the Taser back up and holsters it.

Again, I'm not condoning the shooting. Not at all. But, this guy knew he was in arrears for back support, chose to flee, struggled with the cop, and fled again after an attempt to Taser him failed. That doesn't justify the shooting in my opinion, but this dude started this very bad chain reaction series of events himself and continued to move them along. In my opinion, the cop should have continued to give chase. The dude was barely at a jog. The cop had backup enroute; you can hear the sirens coming and a second officer shows up mere seconds after the shooting. You could have had a K-9 give chase if one was close by. Use of deadly force is a LAST RESORT when all other lesser methods have failed and your life or the life of others is in danger.

Of course after the shooting, a "concerned citizen" came forward to yammer on to the media about how the same officer assaulted him previously. This reliable, honest, concerned citizen also has a lengthy arrest record  of fleeing, hindering and assaulting law enforcement officers. This guy was arrested in November of 2014 and charged with Possession of Ecstasy, PWID Marijuana and 2nd Degree Assault & Battery. He is currently free on a total bond of $17,000. He was arrested for those offenses while he was free on bond on a pending 2013 charge of PWID Marijuana. He is free on another $10,000 bond on that charge. Other charges over the past few years include: Possession and PWID Marijuana and Possession and PWID Crack Cocaine/PWID Crack Cocaine near a School (multiple charges on these), Failure to Stop for Blue Light, Resisting Arrest,Various Probation Violations, Assault on Police While Resisting Arrest (multiple charges), Armed Robbery, Assault and Battery With Intent to Kill – Reduced to Assault and Battery of a  High and Aggravated Nature. Yeah, a real standup guy. I'm not sure how much credibility he has.

So, SLED doubted the cop from the beginning, wondering about a dead man with five holes in his back and 8 shell casings over 50 feet away. The video just pushed the investigation along faster and with much more concrete results.

Inside of four days, the officer was fired, charged with murder, and talks were in the works to get the department more body cameras. The City and the department acted swiftly and decisively. This should have placated the masses, and for the most part, it did. The family asked for peace and calm, and the locals obliged. But the media descended upon City Hall ready to stir up a circus and outside agitators arrived and set up shop next to the satellite trucks ready to stir up a shitstorm.

Protestors arrived (note, I said ARRIVED, as in, CAME HERE FROM OTHER PLACES) and thought to shut down traffic at various chokepoints, like the Ravenel Bridge that connects the City of Charleston to the City of Mount Pleasant. The Charleston Police and Mount Pleasant Police quickly shut them down.  At one intersection a reporter tried to interview a screaming woman with a bullhorn trying to rile up the masses into a frothy mob. She could barely cobble together a coherent sentence and told the reporter to talk to her spokesman. This guy couldn't even get the dead man's name right and used the wrong name. I mean seriously, WTF people?

Bullhorns, magic marker signs, hastily-printed shirts. Hey, nice I Can't Breathe shirt...wrong killing. Nice try though, homie.

Furthermore, I hasten to add a geography lesson to you erstwhile protestors. Blocking traffic in the City of CHARLESTON to protest what happened in the City of NORTH CHARLESTON involving a NORTH CHARLESTON city cop just serves to piss off people in CHARLESTON and involves CHARLESTON city cops in your bullshittery.  Blocking traffic during rush hour does not endear you or your cause to the good citizenry of greater CHARLESTON. Nor does marching into various DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON (not NORTH CHARLESTON) restaurants interrupting people's meals clamoring for attention. That simply makes you look like assholes. It'll also get your asses thrown in jail post haste for trespass....just sayin'.

Hey, all you "protestors" from #BlackLivesMatter, try addressing the rampant BLACK ON BLACK crime in Charleston and in cities nationwide. Or do black lives only matter when you can get on TV when a white cop shoots a black citizen? Where are you every weekend when the black on black shootings in Chicago number in the double digits?

What the hell is left to protest? The cop was fired, arrested, and charged with murder in less than five days.

And of course, The Jesse and Al Show had to come to town. Those two race-baiting clowns wouldn't miss this for the world. The family asked Sharpton to stay away and he eventually wore them down. Then Jesse had to come and mumble incoherently into the cameras. The dead man was laid to rest, and life has moved on, sort of.

I say sort of because a few of these effing protesters are still hanging around, trying to make demands (kudos to the local municipal governments who so far have refused to address those demands because, frankly, we don't negotiate with terrorists.) But these people are still sniveling for TV time and interrupting peoples' meals at our area's first-class dining establishments, such as High Cotton and Hominy Grill. (Yeah, that Hominy Grill, the one that's been featured on the food networks and Travel Channel and that all the celeb hosts rave about.)

So, they pretty much admit that the only justice they want is rioting, looting, burning, and death to whitey.

And why is it that none of the protesters are saying anything about the big black cop who handcuffed the subject as he lay there bleeding on the ground before even attempting first aid? Oh, wait, that doesn't fit your narrative.

Again, I gotta hand it to the locals of North Charleston and the surrounding environs who have maintained a peaceful posture during all of this.  They haven't rioted or looted. They let the city and the police department handle this, like rational human beings. Thank you. Not everyone acts like reasonable people; take the Baltimorons for example.

Not finding any kindling in Charleston to start a fire with, the #BlackLivesMatter crowd has now moved on to Baltimore, where a kid named Freddie Gray died in police custody recently. They incited a riot last night in from of Camden Yards, where the Baltimore Orioles play baseball. Things got so insane that at one point 15,000 people were held hostage against their will under orders of the mayor of Baltimore for their own safety. Read all about it here. Stay classy, B'more. Decades of neglect at the hands of one Democrat regime after another has turned you into a Third World hole.

Ah, yes. Peaceful protests. That certainly looks like Justice For Freddie. Bunch of savages is more like it. I'd suggest that the Justice Department look into #BlackLivesMatter, and #BlackBrunch, and their affiliated organizations as possible domestic terrorists, but that would be a moot point since the current White House administration is patently disinterested in such things. They didn't do a damned thing when Ferguson was burned to ashes, and they won't do a damned thing now. They called the shootings at Fort Hood "workplace violence" until public outcry finally prevailed. The TSA won't look at obvious suspects through profiling but instead strip searches babies and 90-year olds in wheelchairs when they aren't fondling people they've selected as attractive. I could go on, but what's the use when we're stuck with these clowns in office for another 18 months or so.