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One of the very first men canonized by the high priests of the church
of BLM was Michael Brown. Described in media reports as a “gentle
giant,” and hailed as a promising young man and valuable member of his community, Brown died while assaulting a police officer and trying to
take his gun. George Floyd, whose death at the hands of police is being adjudicated as we speak, died while resisting arrest and high on a
potentially lethal dose of fentanyl. His rap sheet included the home
invasion armed robbery of a woman. Another canonized (though still
living) saint, Jacob Blake — a man who received ceremonial visits from
Joe Biden and other Democratic dignitaries while in the hospital —
allegedly broke into a woman’s house and raped her in her bedroom
before stealing her debit card and vehicle. On the day of the shooting,
Blake had returned to the home of his alleged victim and was attempting
to take her car keys. When the police arrived, he fought them, pulled a
knife, and eventually was shot.

That brings us to Daunte Wright, the latest posthumously appointed
martyr for BLM. The immediate circumstances of his death are well
known: He was pulled over for a traffic violation, police discovered
that he had an open warrant, they tried to make the arrest, he
resisted, climbed back into his vehicle, and was shot by a female
officer who says that she meant to use her taser. She has been charged
with manslaughter in his death.

Now, after a Daily Mail report on Tuesday, more pieces of the puzzle
have been revealed. The Mail reports:

Daunte Wright choked a woman and threatened to shoot her if
she did not hand over $820 she had stuffed in her bra, court
papers obtained by DailyMail.com allege. That is the case that
led to a warrant for his arrest at the time he was shot and
killed by police officer Kimberly Potter in Minnesota on
Sunday, leading to days of unrest… Wright was allegedly pulled
over for having expired license plate tags, although he called
his mother and told her it was for having an air freshener
hanging on his rear-view mirror. While checking his details,
Potter and other officers learned of the warrant.

The full details of the alleged crime are quite chilling. In December
of 2019, Wright and another man, Emajay Driver, stayed the night in a
house shared by two female roommates. The Daily Mail explains what
allegedly happened the next morning:

In the morning, one of the women went to the bank to get her
$820 rent money which she gave to the other woman and then
left for work. As Wright, Driver and the second woman were
leaving, Wright allegedly tried to hold up the woman.

‘The three of them were walking to the door to exit the
apartment and defendant Wright turned around and blocked the
door preventing victim from leaving,’ says the report, written
by Osseo Police Officer Shane Mikkelson. Defendant Wright then
pulled a black handgun with silver trim out from either his
right waistband or his right coat pocket and pointed it at
victim and demanded the rent money,’ continued Mikkelson.

‘Victim said “Are you serious?” Defendant Wright replied:
“Give me the f**king money, I know you have it.”

When the woman again asked him if he was serious, Wright is
said to have replied: ‘I’m not playing around.’

Mikkelson’s report said: ‘The $820 cash was tucked in the
victim’s bra and defendant Wright placed his hand around
victim’s neck and choked her while trying to pull the cash
from under her bra.

‘Victim was able to get loose from defendant Wright and
started to kneel down and scream.’

After more yelling, Wright allegedly told the woman that he
was going to shoot her unless he got the money.

‘Give me the money and we will leave,’ he allegedly said.
‘Give me the money and we will go.’

Mikkelson added: ‘Defendant Wright then tried to choke victim
a second time and tried to take her money. Defendant Driver
was telling her to give defendant Wright the money.’

The victim reported the crime to police, easily identified Wright as
the culprit, and he was arrested. Wright was initially released on
bail, but the bail was revoked when he was found in possession of a
firearm. That is when a judge issued the warrant for his arrest.

Wright was not arrested simply because he had a handgun without a
permit. It certainly wasn’t because of an air freshener, which was the
insane lie promulgated on Twitter in the immediate aftermath of the
shooting. It was because he allegedly choked and robbed a woman at gun
point.

For those keeping track, this means that of the three most recent and
most prominent BLM martyrs — the three men that BLM insists we
collectively wail and mourn and honor and celebrate, and whose faces we
must paint in murals, and whose names we must remember and repeat — all
three allegedly committed acts of brutality against women. These are
not men accused of Me Too style “harassment,” but of cruel and vicious
abuse.

Now, the inevitable question: Does it matter? For Daunte Wright,
specifically, should we even bother bringing up this heinous crime?
Yes, it does, and we should, for two significant reasons.

First, a lot of people die every day in this country, often unjustly.
Usually they die at the hands of other civilians, but sometimes at the
hands of agents of the state. Out of all of that death, all of that
misery, all of that suffering, all of that loss, these men in
particular are chosen by the cultural powers that be. We are told that
we should honor and mourn them more than we honor and mourn the average
murder victim. They are the ones who get the politicians weeping beside
their golden caskets. They are the ones with the murals and the streets
named in their honor.

Our collective reaction to their deaths goes way beyond a simple call
for accountability. These men are honored in a way that other victims
of injustice are not. Sometimes they receive treatment that is very
close to worship. It becomes all the more necessary, for this reason,
to speak the truth about who these people were, what they did, the harm
they caused, and to ask whether they — of all people — should be the
ones with halos placed around their heads.

Second, this alleged crime by Daunte Wright is what led directly to his
arrest, which is what led to his death. It is an inextricable part of
the story. If Daunte Wright had not robbed a woman at gunpoint, he
would be alive today. That much is indisputable, and it brings us to
the most important point of all. Daunte Wright, like so many of the
other men that BLM calls on us to mourn and honor, appears to have been
a violent man who met the fate that so often befalls men of that sort.
Does that mean he, or they, “deserved to die”? No. It means simply that
when you live that kind of lifestyle, you probably will die, sooner
than later, if not at the hands of the police then at the hands of
another criminal on the street.

If we don’t want people to die like Daunte Wright, then we should tell
them not to live like Daunte Wright. In the words of the Gospel: live
by the sword, die by the sword. That message has stood the test of
time, and we need to heed it in our culture more than ever.

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