WALSH: A Black Woman Was Murdered On Video While Holding Her Baby. BLM
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You probably haven’t heard the name Brittany Hill. If you have, you
certainly haven’t heard it as often, or as loudly, or accompanied with
as much performative grief, as a name like George Floyd or Daunte
Wright or Michael Brown. But the video of her death at the hands of
Chicago gang members — a video which has been online for over a year —
is impossible to get out of your head once you’ve seen it.
The footage, captured by a police surveillance camera, shows Hill
standing near her car, talking to two men. She is holding her 1-year-
old daughter in her arms. When the car with her murderers approaches
slowly, Hill’s daughter innocently smiles and waves to the men inside.
Moments later they open fire. The two men standing with Hill take off
in opposite directions while the men in the car stop, get out, and
continue shooting. Hill, struck in the abdomen, takes cover behind a
parked vehicle and lies on top of her daughter to shield her from the
gunfire. The killers drive away. Hill is left bleeding on the pavement,
dying.
The alleged perpetrators of this, as the judge correctly called it,
“chilling, mind-boggling and utterly senseless” crime, were arrested
and charged with first degree murder a short time later. Police say the shooting was probably some kind of gang retaliation, though they do not
believe Hill was the intended target.
This all happened nearly two years ago. It made some waves locally in
the immediate aftermath, but was quickly forgotten. Most people across
the country never heard of it, even after the dramatic and gut
wrenching footage leaked to the public. There were no mass protests. No memorial services attended by politicians from across the country. No
public officials weeping uncontrollably over her casket, as the mayor
of Minneapolis did for George Floyd. And her casket, we can assume, was
not plated in gold, like George Floyd’s, nor is her face, like George
Floyd’s, featured on murals all over the nation. No major corporations expressed their sorrow over her death. The Democratic Party did not
kneel in silence to honor her. Nobody rioted or looted. Black Lives
Matter did not organize mass demonstrations for months on end. No
liberal activists or politicians told us to “remember her name.” No
laws were passed in response to her death. No calls for reform. She
just died and that was it. Another statistic. Another tally to add to
the body count.
Indeed, Hill’s death followed a Memorial Day weekend in Chicago that
saw 38 shootings and 5 deaths. She was one of 490 murders in the city
that year. There were 769 homicides in 2020 — a year that featured the
single most violent day in Chicago in over half a century, with 18
homicides on one bloody Sunday in May. 2021 is shaping up to be even
deadlier than 2020. But none of these murders, or any of the hundreds
of other murders that happen in our cities every year, provoke outrage
or garner attention even remotely on par with the killings of George
Floyd, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, etc.
The point I’m making here has, of course, been made many times. And for
good reason. Those who seek to justify the disparity in coverage and
outrage have a number of responses at the ready. Let’s address the two
most common rejoinders:
1. “In cases like Brittany Hill, the murderers are arrested and brought
to justice. There is no need to protest.”
It is true that in the specific case of Brittany Hill, the murderers
were arrested and charged, thanks in large part to the fact that they
happened to commit their crime in full view of a surveillance camera.
But a great many murders in Chicago and elsewhere go unsolved and
unprosecuted every year. Besides, George Floyd’s killer was also
arrested. That, you may have noticed, did nothing whatsoever to quell
the protests. The killing of Michael Brown was investigated on both the
local and federal level, and both investigations — to include the
investigation conducted by Obama’s DOJ — cleared the officer of
wrongdoing, citing, among other things, eye witness testimony and
forensic evidence indicating that Michael Brown was shot while in the
process of attacking and attempting to disarm the officer. But this
also has done nothing to satiate the protesters. Still to this day they
repeat the thoroughly and repeatedly debunked lie that Brown had his
hands up and was pleading for his life. The actual outcome of these
cases seems to matter very little or not at all to the protesters.
2. “The protesters are speaking out against injustice in government.
They are seeking certain legal and policy changes. Citizen-on-citizen
murder is not a matter of governmental injustice and there is no need
to call for changes to law or policy in response to it.”
As covered above, the protesters are often upset about things that do
not amount to governmental injustice. Michael Brown was not a matter of governmental injustice. The vast majority of police shootings are not
unjust. Even the majority of police shootings of unarmed suspects are
not unjust. But even if this is about injustice, or perceived
injustice, then that would be all the more reason to take to the street
for the sake of the Brittany Hills of the world. These crime-plagued
cities have been brought to their knees by decades of ineffectual and
unjust Democratic policy. The epidemic of violent crime in places like
Chicago is most certainly the result, at least in part, of bad laws and
bad leaders, who, for a start, have facilitated the collapse of the
nuclear family by cynically breeding dependence on welfare and other
Nanny State programs.
Also, many of the killers who terrorize these communities have already
been convicted of multiple violent felonies and yet are still in the
street. They are filtered again and again through the court system and
prison system and then back into the community until they finally do
something so incomprehensibly heinous that there is no choice but to
send them away for good. Three friends in Florida were executed in cold
blood last year by a man who had over 200 felonies, 15 convictions, and
two stints in state prison already under his belt. The man who
assaulted an Asian woman in New York City a few weeks ago had a rap
sheet that included the murder of his own mother. The guy who shoved an
elderly woman into a fire hydrant in the same city a few months before
that had over 100 previous arrests.
Time and time and time ago, people who have demonstrated themselves to
be dangers to the public are allowed back into the public to continue victimizing the innocent. Injustice? Yes there is quite a lot of it
fueling the chaos and bloodshed in our streets.
The excuses don’t hold up. A movement that was really concerned with
the unjust killing of innocent lives would be eager to stand up for
Brittany Hill, to speak out on her behalf, to “say her name.” And
certainly a movement that claims to defend the dignity and value of
human life would have quite a lot to say about Hill and the many
hundreds of victims like her each year. “Life matters” is indeed a
message that our culture desperately needs to hear. It’s a message that
— if it was listened to and heeded — would save many lives, including
Brittany Hill’s. It’s just a shame that the movement which claims to
defend life seems to care so little about it.
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