• WALSH: A Black Woman Was Murdered On Video While Holding Her Baby. BLM

    From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 18 04:45:23 2021
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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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    Trump won.

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