BLM and Antifa are Rioting Over a Police Shooting in Minneapolis... Again
Yet again, the long-suffering city of Minneapolis is facing a police shooting and another set of protests.
This time, the spark that set off the flame was the police shooting of a 32-year-old local man named Winston Boogie Smith. Police shot and killed Smith after they allege that he pulled a gun on an officer.
Protests Began June 3
Bodycam footage of the shooting has not yet been released. Now that protesting has begun over this incident, there’s no doubt that it soon will be.
Some on the right feat that BLM and Antifa will distort the narrative. In their world, police just shoot and harass black people for no reason at all — or probably because of some sort of deep-seated racism on their part.
Black people are indeed arrested and shot by police in disproportionate numbers. This is why reform may be necessary. However, most police officials will say they are not unjustly persecuting blacks. After all, there is no good reason to expect that blacks, or any other group, would be arrested or shot by police in numbers that precisely match their share of the total population. The only reason to expect this would be if the police arrested or shot people totally at random — which, of course, they do not do. The police arrest criminals — people who have committed, or are accused of committing, crimes.
And that, ultimately, is the key to this whole issue. Once one adjusts for black crime rates, the alleged racial disparity in police shootings almost completely disappears.
In fact, when one makes a proper apples-to-apples comparison — such as comparing the percentage of people killed by the police who are black to the percentage of murderers who are black — one can almost draw the conclusion that police show extraordinary restraint in their dealings with black people.
But again, BLM and Antifa don’t want to hear about this. They want to scream, complain, riot, loot, destroy stores like CVS, set fires in the street and just generally cause chaos. They also definitely don’t want to hear that Winston Boogie Smith had a rap sheet a mile long, having been previously arrested multiple times for aggravated robbery.
Rebecca Brannon’s Twitter videos show just a small portion of this looting and burning.
And this will all go on until people gather the courage to start telling the truth about crime and the black community.
Poster Comment:
Just another night in the ghetto.
#1: Darkwing To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Darkwing posted on 2021-06-11 07:50:04 Reply Private Reply
#2: TommyTheMadArtist To: BTP Holdings (#0)
You would think that BLM and Antifa are paid for by our tax dollars or something....
TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2021-06-11 13:34:20 Reply Private Reply
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-06-12 05:48:04 Reply Private Reply
#4: BTP Holdings To: TommyTheMadArtist (#2)
My cousin had as a boyfriend a guy that was a Chicago cop.
He told me when they would get a call at the CHA high rise they would go in there. If the bed was made up nice and neat they would flip up the mattress and there was the pistol.
As in all public housing, firearms possession are prohibited.
Now all of those high rises have been torn down and they moved those people out to Section 8 housing in the suburbs. My sister told me she knew a woman out there that was a cop. She told her, "Things are not the way they used to be." Many of those blacks are into drugs and petty theft. Where the drug consumers are, the dealers follow. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2021-06-12 15:20:30 Reply Private Reply
#5: Lod To: BTP Holdings (#4)
Some court rightly reversed that policy a few years back.
Lod posted on 2021-06-12 15:42:11 Reply Private Reply
#6: BTP Holdings To: Lod (#5)
Someone ought to inform them of that policy change out here since the Public Housing across the street from me still has no guns allowed signs up. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2021-06-12 15:50:27 Reply Private Reply
#7: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#3)
When MLK, Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis in 1968, they cancelled the leaves for all the guards at the Cook County Jail since most of the jail population was black.
One black guard, because he had a good job he was able to get a mortgage on a 4-flat on near west side. The County Jail was at 26th and California.
He lived on the 2nd floor. When he opened the door to go to work there was a black guy standing on the landing below. He was ready to light a Molotov Cocktail. He said to the black guy, "Whatchoo think you doing?" The black guy answered, "I'll show whitey. I'm gonna burn down this building."
The black Guard pulled his pistol and killed that guy right where he was standing. My friend, who was also a Guard at the jail asked him, "How are you going to explain that?"
The black Guard replied, "When they come along and pick him up, it's just another dead nigger."
The good blacks call the bad blacks niggers too.
BTW, most of the west side of Chicago was burned to the ground in the riots that ensued after King's killing. There was a dusk to dawn curfew in effect.
My Mom was driving back from Montgomery Ward catalog pick up at that time in the Buick station wagon. She told me those people came running out of those buildings. The put a brick in the windshield and a bottle thru the driver window. She got a cut on her pinkie. She stopped to tell a cop. He told her, "Go home and call the station." :-/
BTP Holdings posted on 2021-06-12 16:06:50 Reply Private Reply
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-06-12 16:24:08 Reply Private Reply
#9: TommyTheMadArtist To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Check out the funeral
TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2021-06-13 02:18:07 Reply Private Reply
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Esso posted on 2021-06-13 02:25:00 Reply Private Reply
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Esso posted on 2021-06-13 02:29:18 Reply Private Reply
#12: TommyTheMadArtist To: Esso (#10)
The definition of a white supremacist is a white guy without a felony on his record these days. Sure... I'll take that title.
TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2021-06-13 02:31:10 Reply Private Reply
#13: Esso To: TommyTheMadArtist (#12)
You can hang with me anytime.
Esso posted on 2021-06-13 02:35:08 Reply Private Reply
#14: TommyTheMadArtist To: BTP Holdings (#0)
And it is going to hit full blown riot season. I guess I better get my vehicle armored up in case I find myself surrounded by protestors.
TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2021-06-14 08:25:41 Reply Private Reply
#15: TommyTheMadArtist To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Check it out.
TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2021-06-15 01:07:36 Reply Private Reply