Wednesday, January 06, 2021



Cops not charged over shooting of dysfunctional black in Wisconsin

I cannot see how shooting someone in the back is self-defence. So the verdict is very stretched. But why was it stretched?

The cops clearly fired to prevent an escape by a known villain. But shooting to prevent an escape is against the law. Preventing escape is not an allowable reason for firing potentially fatal shots at anyone.

But the offender in this case was weilding a knife so any attempt to lay hands on him would have risked the life of a cop. They had already used a taser so firing was the only option left. And bringing to book an obnoxious offender was clearly in the public interest.

So in recognition of that the cops were exonerated via a legal fiction. What this all shows is that the law should be amended to allow shooting at a fleeing offender in at least some cases


US prosecutors have cleared a white police officer over last year's shooting of Black man Jacob Blake, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during an incident that prompted street protests and inflamed racial tensions in the United States.

Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley found police officer Rusten Sheskey acted in self defence, and said he would not issue any charges in connection with the incident.

The decision not to prosecute Mr Sheskey or the two other officers on the scene could incite more demonstrations, which have frequently broken out in the United States in recent years after police have been cleared of wrongdoing in shootings of African Americans.

During a police intervention in a domestic dispute that was captured on a phone video, Mr Sheskey shot at Mr Blake's back seven times from close range as Mr Blake opened the door of his car.

The bullets struck him four times and paralysed him from the waist down.

Officials said Mr Blake was armed with a knife and refused police commands to drop it, which Mr Graveley said gave Mr Sheskey the right to self defence.

"It is absolutely incontrovertible that Jacob Blake was armed with a knife during this encounter," Mr Graveley said, adding that Mr Blake admitted several times to investigators he had the knife.

The police who were called to the scene had been told there was a felony arrest warrant against Mr Blake for domestic abuse and sexual assault, Mr Graveley said.

The officers attempted to detain Mr Blake and stop him with a taser multiple times, but Mr Blake withstood the use of force to avoid arrest, he added.

The knife was not clearly visible in the video, which also began after the previous attempts to arrest Mr Blake, Mr Graveley said.

Radical-Left Prosecutors Continue to Upend the Concept of 'Justice'

New Washtenaw County, Mich., prosecutor Eli Savit has declared an end to cash bail. “I pledged during the campaign that we would not be seeking cash bail, and I’m proud to make good on that promise today,” Savit said in a statement. Savit, whose office serves liberal Ann Arbor, apparently hasn’t been paying attention to what’s happening in New York City, Chicago, and other cities that have outlawed cash bail.

In those cities, crime has skyrocketed, including crimes committed by recently released defendants. It became so obvious that the new approach was a failure that New York rolled back most of its reforms just a few months after they were imposed. Other cities have also sought to make changes after prisoners, dedicated to a life of crime, not unexpectedly continued to commit crimes when allowed to leave jail instead of remaining incarcerated.

But Mr. Savid is one of the new breed of left-wing prosecutors supported by George Soros’s Real Justice PAC, which has doled out millions in campaign contributions to local prosecutor campaigns. These so-called “reformers” are being elected largely because opposition to their radical policies is disorganized and scattershot.

But these radicals know exactly where they’re going and what they’re doing.

The Appeal:

Prosecutors don’t set bail themselves, but their recommendations and motions weigh heavily on what judges do. Over the last few years, prosecutors elected on progressive platforms have reformed the use of cash bail, including Kim Gardner in St. Louis, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, and Rachael Rollins in Boston, especially for lower-level offenses. Studies have found that jurisdictions that have experimented with bail reform have not seen an increase in crime.

“We know from our almost 16,000 bailouts, including in Washtenaw County, that when a defendant’s financial needs are met, when they have rides, text message reminders, child care, they show up to court,” said Asia Johnson, a communications associate at the Bail Project.

Showing up for their court appearance is an entirely different issue from whether or not they commit crimes that they ordinarily would have been prevented from committing if they were unable to post bond. The whole point of incarceration is to protect society from predatory criminals. New York found their no-bail policy was leading to increases in crime and sensibly changed the law.

Savit swears his no-bail law doesn’t mean that those charged with a violent crime will go free. But that’s not been the real-world experience of jurisdictions that “reform” bail laws in this manner.

Savit’s prosecutors can also choose to recommend the denial of pretrial release for some serious offenses, including murder, armed robbery, and repeat violent offenses. Advocates worry that asking prosecutors to decide who presents a safety risk before they have been afforded a trial poses problems, especially when those determinations are made with algorithmic tools that researchers say are faulty and racially biased. Savit, however, is avoiding the algorithmic tools, and told the Political Report he “consciously chose not to go down that route” because he “read the studies and knows those can often reinforce human and racial biases.”

Washtenaw prosecutors will still be permitted to request nonfinancial conditions for pretrial release like drug and alcohol testing, GPS tethers, and in serious instances, oversight by a “responsible” member of the community, though Savit will encourage his staff to articulate specific reasons for seeking such conditions.

Savit refuses to use the algorithm because numbers, as we all know, are “racially biased.” When you use outcomes to determine what is or isn’t racist, a whole host of things become “racist.”

But in the end, “criminal justice reform” is the simple effort to make fewer things illegal — especially activities enjoyed by the underclass. The “reforms” are also designed to decrease the penalties for those laws still on the books — all because of who is being convicted rather than what they’re convicted for.

The right doesn’t have the money or the organization to counter this left-wing onslaught on the justice system. There is no leadership at the local or national level to concentrate resources to combat this attack on justice. Until there is, the left is likely to continue winning.

Leftist Thugs Show Up at Senator Hawley's Home. Terrorize Wife and Newborn Baby

Republican Senator Josh Hawley, who announced earlier this week he will object to the certification of the 2020 presidential election during a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, has revealed disturbing news about his family.

Tonight while I was in Missouri, Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who can’t travel. They screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door. Let me be clear: My family & I will not be intimidated by leftwing violence

And didn’t have the guts to do it in daylight, but only under cover of darkness so you could hide. You’re scum. And we won’t be intimidated

Shortly before the incident, Hawley explained his decision to object during an interview with Fox News.

"This is about the integrity of our elections and I this is about taking a stand where you can take a stand," Hawley said. "I suppose you can say 'nothing I do will matter. It won't matter if I object or not so I'll sit by and do nothing.' I mean, that's one approach, but I can tell you the people of my state they won't understand that and they shouldn't. They say, 'You have the opportunity to stand up and be heard and to object. You have the opportunity to try and force change and you should.' And that's what I'm going to do."

'I don't think J. K. Rowling is transphobic': Genderfluid Eddie Izzard defends author amid 'people who menstruate' row and calls for critics to read explanations in her blog

Last June, J.K., 55, was accused of transphobia after making a controversial comment about menstruation, two years after she liked a tweet which referred to transgender people as 'men in dresses'.

The author denied claims of transphobia as she insisted she 'respects every trans person's right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them.'

Eddie, 58, who last year asked to be called a 'she', after previously refusing to be pinned down on gender, told the Daily Telegraph: 'I don't think JK Rowling is transphobic. I think we need to look at the things she has written about in her blog.'

Eddie went on: 'Women have been through such hell over history. Trans people have been invisible, too. I hate the idea we are fighting between ourselves, but it's not going to be sorted with the wave of a wand.

'I don't have all the answers. If people disagree with me, fine - but why are we going through hell on this?'

J.K. was accused of transphobia last year when she reacted to an online article titled 'Opinion: Creating a more equal post COVID-19 world for people who menstruate.'

''People who menstruate.' I'm sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?', the award-winning writer told her 14.2million followers.

Disappointed fans and other users of the micro-blogging site branded the screenwriter's remarks 'anti-trans' and 'transphobic', as transgenders, non-binary and gender-nonconforming individuals can also menstruate.

The producer stood by her tweet as she later insisted: 'If sex isn't real, there's no same-sex attraction.

'If sex isn't real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn't hate to speak the truth.'

The media personality insisted she 'respects every trans person's right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them.'

J. K. elaborated: 'The idea that women like me, who've been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they're vulnerable in the same way as women - ie, to male violence - 'hate' trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences - is a nonsense.

'I'd march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans. At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. I do not believe it's hateful to say so.

'I've spent much of the last three years reading books, blogs and scientific papers by trans people, medics and gender specialists. I know exactly what the distinction is. Never assume that because someone thinks differently, they have no knowledge.'

With Congress Killing American Business, One Media Company That Liberals Hate Took Action

Congress has failed. That’s not hard task for the idiots we have working on the Hill. Dare I say, democracy has failed, but I won’t go down that rabbit hole. As the nation deals with the coronavirus outbreak, thousands of businesses have been destroyed, specifically bars and restaurants. Initially, I get why there was a stay-at-home order, now there are raw numbers that show these establishments are not the main source of spread. In New York, one of the states hardest hit by the virus, new data shows that bars and restaurants account for only 1.4 percent of COVID spread. Also, schools are not sources of so-called “super spread.” Reopen the damn schools and resume indoor dining.

For months, businesses have needed aid. Families have needed assistance. Unfortunately, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats had other plans. You see they knew COVID relief packages helped Trump. They wanted him gone, so they admitted to nuking past negotiations in order to better the chances of Joe Biden winning the election. And now, after months of economic disruption and bills stacking as high as Everest, they’re going to give struggling families $600. My eyes cannot roll hard enough.

Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports, a media company that liberals hate for all the obvious and idiotic reasons, decided to do more than Congress has done in months to help Americans save their dream. His rants on social media about how politicians are trying to kill our right to earn a living are must-watch material. I think even the most ardent Trump hater would agree that if Americans were given a choice of getting COVID or seeing their businesses destroyed because of a virus that has a 90+ percent recovery rate, I think you know that most, if not everyone, would pick the former. Anyways, Barstool has established a relief fund that’s probably going to raise close to $10 million helping businesses have a few more weeks of oxygen, which is more than Congress is doing right now (via Fox Business):

Dave Portnoy, founder of media company Barstool Sports, has raised $ 6.3 million for 18 small businesses as of Saturday morning.

Portnoy launched the fundraising effort with the nonprofit 30 Day Fund for small businesses impacted by COVID-19 called "The Barstool Fund" last week and contributed $500,000 of his own money toward the effort.

"It was certainly humbling and a little embarrassing," Kerry Counard, owner of Abbey Bar in Wisconsin -- which Portnoy chose as one of the initial six restaurants to receive funds -- told Fox Business. He expressed empathy for the "thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of small businesses" still struggling amid lockdowns.

Outstanding work. And Stoolies are a loyal and dedicated bunch who will mobilize for good causes like this. In fact, everyone is like that here; we’re the most charitable nation on earth when it comes to giving. It just shows you that this axiom will remain constant for all time: non-government entities do more to help the poor, the afflicted, and those, in general, need better than government ever could. Look, I’m not the most religious person, but I’m not going to deny that religious-based charities have done eons more to help the inner-city poor than Pelosi and her group of Democratic Party gangsters. Good on El Prez for launching this effort.

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