Morons Against Public Safety: A Man Fights Back
Who ya gonna call...Ghostbusters? Social workers to give hugs to people who do drive-bys?
In the New York Post, Rav Arora writes about an immigrant to America from Jamaica who was stunned by the idiocy of those calling for "defunding the police":
Don Samuels, 72, is an American success story. Born in Jamaica, he moved to the United States 52 years ago. He has since built a prosperous life as a designer, eventually settling in Minneapolis, inventing and creating toys for major manufacturers. He became a member of the Minneapolis City Council, where he served during 2003 to 2014, and even ran for mayor in 2013.So, last year, he was shocked to see his city go up in flames after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. While many peaceful protests erupted on the streets, so did violent riots that left some neighborhoods looted and burned. As anti-cop sentiment grew, the Minneapolis City Council voted to dismantle the city's police force, slashing $8 million from its budget and diverting it to other services.
Samuels said he and his wife Sondra were stunned by the council's move.
"They just thought, 'Get rid of police and the world would be great.' My wife and I look at each other and go like, 'Oh, my God, it's going to be crazy around here.' "
Their fears of a hamstrung police department giving rise to emboldened criminals sadly came true.
...Stories of horrific violence are no longer aberrational in the city, Samuels said, particularly in his area of North Minneapolis.
The home of one family he knows "has two bullet holes, one in the front door and one in their daughter's bedroom wall." Last summer, gang members were "shooting at each other across a field of 50 elementary school children practicing peewee football," he said. The coaches and the parents had "to dive on them to cover them up," he said.
This man refused to roll over for the ruin of civilized society, and -- I love this -- he sued!
Late last year, Samuels and his wife, along with their neighbors, finally took action by filing a lawsuit against the city for failing to provide the minimum number of police officers per citizen in Minneapolis. On July 1, a judge ruled in their favor, ordering the Minneapolis Police Department to hire more officers. The department is now required to staff at least 730 officers by June 30, 2022, or .0017 sworn officers per resident.The city council has also reversed its original decision to defund the police, approving $6.4 million in additional funding that the department requested to hire and train more cops.
"We are still a long way from the 888 [officers] that used to be our goal," Samuels said. "But it will be a big improvement, by about 80, from where we are today. At least the council will not continue its defund strategy."
Samuels said he is satisfied that people like him -- minorities living in neighborhoods where violence escalated amid anti-police sentiment -- are finally being heard.
"We are thrilled that the voices in the most ignored quadrant prevailed against a national movement of naïveté," he said. "A black life matters when taken by cops and each black life matters when lost to community violence. We deserve community services, affordable housing and a decent relationship with police. And we most certainly deserve to live."
This is obscene:
6-year-old Nyiah Courtney was fatally shot in Washington, D.C. on Friday. The late-night shooting also left five adults, including her mother, wounded. She had been riding her scooter on a sidewalk when shots rang out. https://t.co/0hqfVrLtsl
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 19, 2021
And here's a newsflash ... it wasn't the firearm's fault, and the person doing the shooting doesn't care about you or your firearms laws.
ruralcounsel at July 19, 2021 6:08 AM
There was an old definition for what was the favored victim class of the Left for a while: "she who hates women as much as she claims men do."
Time to bring that back; still working on making it pithy, but I've got "who hate law-abiding minorities as much as they claim MAGA-hat-wearing whites do."
El Verde Loco at July 19, 2021 6:20 AM
"If the king did not, without tiring, inflict punishment on those worthy to be punished, the stronger would roast the weaker, like fish on a spit.
–the laws of Manu, 1500 BC
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/65895.html
David Foster at July 19, 2021 6:44 AM
The department is now required to staff at least 730 officers by June 30, 2022
Oh, good luck with that.
And if by some miracle they make that quota, there's nothing to force them to actually answer your call.
I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2021 9:26 AM
And like that, the press will start reporting it was always and only the Republicans who wanted to abolish the police.
If a Democrat policy implodes enough it will be blamed on Republicans.
Joe J at July 19, 2021 9:37 AM
And like that, the press will start reporting it was always and only the Republicans who wanted to abolish the police.
If a Democrat policy implodes enough it will be blamed on Republicans.
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You mean like how republicans are blamed for:
* Slavery (it was Confederate democrats)
* The KKK (bully arm of the Democrats)
* Opposing civil rights legislation (Democrats lead by LBJ)
Some day, Antifa's website redirect to Biden will be erased it it will be called far right.
With the Left, the future is set and the past changes.
Trust at July 19, 2021 11:08 AM
For the Left, it is all about what you believe, not what you do or what reality is. You can defund the police because you firmly believe that without "oppression" by cops there would be no crime. No matter how contrary to fact this is (for example, that there has always been crime in every nation) it is your belief and all we need to do is follow your belief and the world will be like in John Lennon's song.
They believe in magic. You can burn it all down and a new wonderful world will rise up from the ashes. Instead you will get Somalia. You can exclaim your hatred for whites and somehow this will lead to justice.
The BLM statement from 2018 when Castro died decried US interference in the will of the cuban people, ignoring that castro was a dictator. The cuban people didn't "choose" him.
cc at July 19, 2021 11:32 AM
cc,
Very true. Like how slavery, which existed in every nation, has been painted as something unique to America. What was unique is how America was the first to abolish it.
Even the 1619 Project is a baseless justification. It's a lie, but even if it were 100% true, would that justify burning down black-owned businesses over 400 years later?
Trust at July 19, 2021 12:21 PM
Or how police are leftover slavers, and only exist in the US, er um.
In America you have Oprah, one of the wealthiest, influential and powerful people on the planet; Megan, an actual Princess, and Obama, the ex (possibly current) most powerful person in the world complaining how oppressed they are compared to a disabled homeless vet.
Joe j at July 19, 2021 12:33 PM
Then again:
Sgt. Tyler Longman, Utah cop. Excused for his third kill (point-blank execution of a handcuffed suicidal man inside the police station, on video).
Nothing to see here, folks, just good police work. Move along.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at July 19, 2021 2:16 PM
Trust > What was unique is how America was the first to abolish it.
Haiti (then Saint-Domingue) formally declared independence from France in 1804 and became the first sovereign nation in the Western Hemisphere to unconditionally abolish slavery in the modern era.
Slavery Abolition Act, (1833), in British history, act of Parliament that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada.
Legalized private slavery in Russia ended in February 19th, 1861 when Russian Emperor Alexander II issued The Emancipation of Russia's serfs in 1861, for which he is known as Alexander the Liberator
Though Russia has done some back-sliding in that regard.
Spiderfall at July 19, 2021 2:31 PM
... And even earlier British Common Law did not recognize slavery as a status.
The very first African slaves to hit the American colonies had to be released after 10 years as for indentured servants. Some received land grants like European indentured servants - and went on to buy their own slaves.
IIRC the Virginia legislature changed that default in the early 1700s,allowing automatic re-enslavement of freed slaves.
BenDavid at July 20, 2021 3:02 AM
I believe both Alexander and Catherine tried to ameliorate the effective slavery of Russian serfs, but their efforts were so watered down in an effort to placate the nobility as to be mostly symbolic.
Conan the Grammarian at July 20, 2021 4:58 AM
According to PBS:
Here is the body camera video obtained by the Salt Lake City Tribune. It's disturbing on many levels.
Conan the Grammarian at July 20, 2021 5:19 AM
Spiderfall, thank you. I sincerely appreciate being corrected when I say something in innocent error.
The USA, however, while not being the first to abolish slavery (as I thought), did in fact abolish it and at great cost. I will correct my statements moving forward.
Best,
Trust
Trust at July 20, 2021 7:47 AM
To add to Spiderfall's info: Britain set about using its navy to stop the slave trade from Africa in the 1800s and did so for many decades at considerable cost. Judging people in the past by today's standards is unfair and stupid.
cc at July 20, 2021 9:12 AM
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Crid at July 20, 2021 9:32 AM
Trust,
Apologies of my own. We've been wrestling with misinformation on another thread and there may have been some carry-over
Spiderfall at July 20, 2021 9:52 AM
You mean like how republicans are blamed for:
* Slavery (it was Confederate democrats)
* The KKK (bully arm of the Democrats)
* Opposing civil rights legislation (Democrats lead by LBJ)
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I have never heard anyone make the first two claims (and I have my doubts about the third claim as well). Certainly no one tries to claim that Lincoln was a Democrat - even though anyone who bothers to read about him in depth knows that he wasn't that fond of abolitionists.
What people DO claim these days is that when KKK members (or sympathizers) bother to vote, they tend to vote Republican, and hardly anyone in the GOP seems to mind.
(Think of David Duke's supporters 30 years ago - or when George W. Bush kicked off his 2000 campaign at Bob Jones University. Jones Sr., who died in 1968, supported Klan members, and in 2000, interracial dating was still prohibited at BJU; BJU was anti-Catholic, etc.)
Also, the Party of Lincoln doesn't seem to care that their black membership has been pretty low for decades. What exactly are they doing to attract more black members? Do they really want them at all?
One thing that's puzzled me for ages is why so many seem to agree that the racists made their switch in the 1960s and not earlier - namely, sometime during the FDR administration. Of course I know that Americans of Japanese descent have little reason to remember him fondly, but, from journalist Ellen Tarry's 1955 autobiography The Third Door (pp 253-254):
"To write of Harlem in 1945 without making mention of the great sorrow which blanketed the community on April 12 at the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be a serious oversight. Regardless of the numerous controversies which have arisen over the role played by our wartime president, Roosevelt was the first chief executive since Lincoln who succeeded in creating a national atmosphere in which the Negro felt as if he were really free.
"I was ironing the last of a pile of tiny dresses when the announcement was made over the radio that Roosevelt had died in Warm Springs, Georgia. At first I thought I had been mistaken, then as additional details filled in the death picture my first impulse was to call out to someone, to say: 'Can it be true?' But I was alone except for the baby. I took her in my arms and said a prayer for the repose of the soul of this every human, physically handicapped man who, by being aware of the changing tides and nodding at the right times, had helped my people to walk taller, to dream and to hope.
"When I went out to shop, the streets were crowded with little groups of Negroes standing aimlessly together looking as if they were lost. Some were crying. Others were asking: 'What will happen now? What will become of us?' Franklin Delano Roosevelt succeeded in making many enemies, but none of them that I have known was black. He was our 'Great White Father,' the first since 'Father Abraham,' and we were bereft."
lenona at July 20, 2021 2:21 PM
"One thing that's puzzled me for ages is why so many seem to agree that the racists made their switch in the 1960s and not earlier"
Because the party switch lie is taught in school. Why the 60s? because all the major racists in the 60s were card carrying Democrats, and the KKK were the honor guard at the Democratic National convention.
As to why "You mean like how republicans are blamed for:
* Slavery (it was Confederate democrats)
* The KKK (bully arm of the Democrats)
* Opposing civil rights legislation (Democrats lead by LBJ)"
Well if the parties switched then the Republicans were the Democrats from pre 60s.
But it's all a lie. pushed by media and an education system trying to re write history. Out of the thousands of elected officials, only 3 switched sides in the 30 years. Voter party registration did not have any significant switch. The Dems just hid the worst and media covered for them completely.
And as for David Duke, hew was officially in the KKK while part of the Democrats "after they switched" without any repercussions, He later left the KKK saying they were to racist for him. Years later he left the Democrats for the same reason. But then he started getting called racist.
As to why most Blacks vote Dem. They sold out for welfare. Long before the parties supposedly switched. So yes blacks were massively voting Democrat while the KKK was on full display at their conventions. Remember back them few had TVs, fewer poor blacks still, and media bias was in full swing then too.
SO if your teachers, the news, and your parents tell you R means racist. Do not question it? And if you question it you will be labeled a sell out and be basically disowned.
Who cares if it's true that is the lie they are fed 24x7, put up a republican sign in Baltimore is signing your death warrant. Most people aren't willing to risk it to speak against the party line.
As to What Repubicans do? they try but fail, they are fighting a decades long indoctrination, it doesn't matter how bad Blacks schools are or how racist anything a Democrat says or does is. It will be spun in the Black community as a pure innocence mistake.
When just pointing out that a Democrat run city is horrible is decried as racist, the Republicans can't win. If they denounce the KKK 100 times they'll be asked 101 times and just being asked is proof to many. The Virginia governor a Democrat had a scandal, he was photographed in either a KKK outfit or in blackface. The scandal lasted one day and the press fixed it. How, by mis reporting him as a republican for the first day of the story. After that kill the story. So a Democrat gets caught doing something racist, Republicans get the blame and the story is buried and forgotten by next election time.
Joe J at July 20, 2021 4:09 PM
Reuters timeline for the abolition of slavery - focused mostly on European countries.
Slavery was legal in all US states until 1804, when the last Northern state abolished slavery. The US banned the import of slaves in 1808.
Slavery was legal in Britain and its colonies until 1833. Slavery was legal in France and its colonies until 1794 (although the decree was ignored in several Caribbean colonies), reinstated in 1802, and outlawed again in 1848. Slavery was banned in Spain in 1811, although the ban was ignored in Cuba until 1886.
The British government nearly went bankrupt compensating slave owners for their newly-freed slaves.
Merchants and shipowners in the Northern US continued to make money on slavery after 1804, both in transporting slaves and dealing in commodities heavily dependent upon slave labor (e.g., cotton, indigo, tobacco, molasses).
Conan the Grammarian at July 21, 2021 7:05 AM
"I have never heard anyone make the first two claims (and I have my doubts about the third claim as well). Certainly no one tries to claim that Lincoln was a Democrat ..." ~Lenona
Then you aren't paying attention. I've heard that multiple times. It is pretty common in the south for poor blacks to think Lincoln was a Democrat.
Ben at July 21, 2021 8:44 AM
@Joe J: If they denounce the KKK 100 times they'll be asked 101 times and just being asked is proof to many
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Exactly.
I say former Democrat, the gay married Dave Rubin, try to answer questions at an event (a college I think but I don't recall for sure). He was drowned out by a crowd chanting "black lives matter! black lives matter!" Of course, anyone who knows anything about Dave Rubin knows he cares for blacks, but the portrayal is the fact had to be beat into his head.
How about when protesters chased Rand Paul drowning him out with "Say her name! Breonna Taylor! Say her name! Breonna Taylor!" again and again. Few realized the Rand Paul was the author the "Breonna Taylor Justice in Policing Act." The fact that he was a Republican was enough to falsely portray as though he wouldn't say her name.
The George Floyd debacle was also telling. A black man was killed by a democratic police officer, under a democratic sheriff, in a town with a democratic mayor, in a state with a democratic governor, and the killing was condemned by Trump... yet it was somehow Trump's fault.
Meanwhile, former Klansman Robert Byrd said "white n-word" on television and got by with a simple apology because he was a democrat. Now, I believe Senator Byrd sincerely changed his views and did not die a racist, so my point is not to demonize him. My point is, since when has the Left every taken an apology from a Republican as anything but a confession?
Trust at July 21, 2021 9:19 AM
Also keep these numbers in mind:
2008: 4%
2012: 6%
2016: 8%
2020: 12%
What are those numbers? I'm glad you asked.
That is the percent of the black vote the republican candidate got in the last 4 presidential elections.
That trend terrified the Left, so they have concocted a fake war on blacks to counter it. Now that they got power this way, good luck putting the genie back in the bottle.
Trust at July 21, 2021 9:25 AM
@What people DO claim these days is that when KKK members (or sympathizers) bother to vote, they tend to vote Republican, and hardly anyone in the GOP seems to mind.
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Nonsense. David Duke couldn't get nominated dog catcher in a republican primary. The only time anyone cares what he thinks is when a member of the press sticks a microphone in his face hoping to make a republican look bad.
Yes, many former KKK members started voting republican as blacks started voting democrat. They do not care for affirmative action or disproportionate social assistance on surface. However, if they saw big picture, they would realize this "help" to blacks has harmed blacks in ways that the KKK would be proud of.
But two can play at this came. The KKK has literally no hold on the republicans or any societal institutions. Meanwhile, illegal aliens, criminals, and rioters tend to vote democrat and they not only don't mind, they encourage it and want to make it easier.
Tell me lenona, what have the republicans done to actively try to get more KKK members to the polls?
Trust at July 21, 2021 9:31 AM
Ben: "Then you aren't paying attention. I've heard that multiple times."
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Paying attention to which TV channel or academic study, in particular? I'm not in the habit of following every single survey - it's too pedantic - and time-consuming - a pastime. (Besides, you only mentioned a narrow slice of society, not average Americans.) Also, it's not exactly polite to go quizzing every person you meet, so how does one know what they think?
Of course, I've heard of the hand-wringing, again and again, over young students who don't even know which century the Civil War was fought in. Offhand, though, I don't know if the students are typically high-school age or younger; why should we expect most kids younger than ten to know that?
And Trust, what exactly has the GOP done to DISOWN the Proud Boys or anyone who's known as a white supremacist and who also supported Trump, KKK member or not? Silence implies complicity.
Btw, re David Duke, I clearly said "30 years ago." Also, Bush could have steered clear of BJU and chose not to.
Lenona at July 21, 2021 1:26 PM
Why would you believe the Proud boys are white supremacists? just because the left labels them. The left labels being 'on time' or 'working hard' to be white supremacy.
Trump equivocally denounced white supremacy, many times. What else can he legally do.
Every law they try to pass gets called racist, no proof or logic needed, when it has nothing to do with race. The left gets to say rioters and murderers are peaceful. and no one questions it.
Joe j at July 21, 2021 3:56 PM
lenona,
Did you see the way Trump said the Proud Boys were an idea, not a group? Wait, that was Biden talking about Antifa.
Did you see the way the Proud Boys web site redirected to the Trump page? No wait, that was Antifa redirecting to Biden.
Speaking of the Proud Boys (who I condemn) and Antifa (who I condemn even more), how many cities did the Proud Boys burn down? How many businesses did they destroy? How many people did they kill?
Did you see the way Pence bailed Capitol rioters out of prison? No wait, that was Kamala Harris.
The fact that we are even talking about the ridiculous Proud Boys in comparison to the carnage and destruction by Antifa shows just how politically biased the Democrats, not the Republicans, truly are.
So when you accuse us of not properly distancing, look at the tree in your eye before exaggerating the speck in another.
Trust at July 22, 2021 8:29 AM
Joe J,
They only look right when crossing the street since they think danger only comes from the right, and then project that onto us wrongly.
Every prominent republican that condemned all the riots of 2020 also condemned the far less destructive January 6. Every prominent democrat who ignored excused or took a knew in honor of the 2020 riots now want blood over January 6.
No, it is not the right that is inconsistent and hypocritical.
Trust at July 22, 2021 8:32 AM
Spiderfall: "What was unique is how America was the first to abolish it.
Haiti (then Saint-Domingue) formally declared independence from France in 1804 and became the first sovereign nation in the Western Hemisphere to unconditionally abolish slavery in the modern era."
This was the first _nation_, but not the first government. In the colonies before the Revolution, Massachusetts and Georgia tried to abolish slavery but were overruled by British colonial authorities.
The "1619 Project" claim that the American colonies revolted to preserve slavery is thus utter BS; winning the Revolution enabled half of the USA to move to end slavery. Vermont abolished slavery in 1777 (AFAIK this was the very first abolition by law rather than by a judge), Pennsylvania in 1780, and several other northern states followed between 1783 and 1804. The other states north of Maryland freed a few slaves at a time to lower the economic impact. In these states with gradual abolition, it was illegal to bring slaves into or out of the state or enslave anyone not previously a slave, a date was set when each slave would be free, and slaves' children were born free.
The only abolition that I know of before Vermont was by some judges in England, who declared that slavery had no place in England. But this was not a law and does not seem to have been even binding precedent; only part of the English courts freed slaves brought before them. There were also white men enslaved in Scottish mines at the time Parliament and Congress both banned the cross-Atlantic slave trade (1807, to take effect Jan 1, 1808). So AFAIK, the first abolition law passed by a legislature and not vetoed was Vermont's in 1777.
markm at July 22, 2021 8:49 AM
I agree, 1619 Project is utter nonsense.
That said... even if it were true, even if something reprehensible happened in 1619, it isn't an excuse for burning cities down over 400 years later.
Trust at July 22, 2021 9:26 AM
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