Narrative:

Gay pride or LGBT pride is the promotion of the self-affirmation, dignity, equality, and increased visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people as a social group.

Reality? :

Bernie Sanders has a new hobby

pic.twitter.com/lsacnXbraF

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) June 30, 2020

Sorry normal LGBT people, but this is what happens when you let the crazies take control: You get tagged with the trash.

Miguel sent me a copy of this video earlier.  We wanted to wait until more facts were available and a buddy of mine came through on that front.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCEbEASHEcR/

Yes, a protester shot at a person in his vehicle.

The Herald Extra reported the story.

Protest aftermath: Police seeking information regarding shooting, hit-and-run incidents

Officers with the Provo City Police Department are investigating several allegations of violence on both sides of the End Police Brutality Provo counter protest down University Avenue — which resulted in the shooting of a driver who was attempting to force his way through protesters.

The protest was organized to counter a “Back the Blue” event also held in downtown Provo on Monday evening.

Police say that both the police rally and counter protest coincided without incident until just after 8:30 p.m. At that time, Provo city police received a call regarding gunshots and a potential hit-and-run. Sometime later, authorities received another call about a possible shooting victim that had been checked into Utah Valley Hospital.

Based on video footage captured by other protesters, a white SUV was driving south on University Avenue before pulling into the right lane in an attempt to turn onto Center Street, said Deputy Chief of Police John Geyerman.

Several protesters began approaching the vehicle as it was attempting to force its way through and a male protester ran up to the SUV on the passenger side, pointed a handgun at the driver, and shot one round through the window, striking the driver.

The driver accelerated southbound onto University in an attempt to get to safety, Geyerman said.

The male protester who is seen shooting into the vehicle ran after the white SUV and shot a second round through the rear passenger window. Video footage then shows the protester concealing the firearm and continuing to protest.

Reports indicate that same male protester later approached another vehicle at 500 N. and University Avenue, striking and breaking the window with the same handgun, Geyerman said.

Police are investigating, there is a victim, and he was injured and hospitalized.

The protester with the gun apparently attacked a second vehicle.

This looks like an ambush.  A dozen people surround the car to slow it down so one could take a shot at the driver.  Whether the shooter coordinated with the other protesters or not, slowing the vehicle down was key to the driver getting hit.

Cars are not bulletproof.

IANAL but it seems if this is the new tactic for protesters against cars, slowing down is a bad idea.

The vehicle in the video is a early Ford Excursion.  Even with the smallest engine configuration, that is still 7,200 lbs of truck powered by a 350 ft-lbs V8.  Bowling over protesters like skittle pins is not difficult for a truck like that.

It not just about getting pulled out and beaten.

It’s about getting shot through your side window.

If I have my kids in the back seat I’m not slowing down for fuck all.

Driving a 7,000 lbs, 410 HP, 3/4-ton truck, physics is on my side and it’s the protesters who need to get the fuck out the way.

So, so sweet:

Resident Who’s Sick Of Hundreds Of BLM Signs Across The Street From House Rips Them Down and Gets Assaulted pic.twitter.com/Jx3OwYyCle

— Eddie Donovan ?? (@EddieDonovan) June 30, 2020

And in case the Tweet disappears:

My hearing is not that good anymore, but I think he got called a homophobic remark besides the threats of physical violence and destruction of private property.

How do we stop the abuse against African Americans? By attacking African Americans! Let’s see if we hear calls from local leaders demanding the immediate arrest of the White idiots, appropriate  doxxing and firing for whatever job he has…if he has one.

I know I made this as a joke, but holy crap, it seems I was in the money.

Remember, this piece of shit won a Nobel Prize.

Reality is coming for white supremacists driving golf carts https://t.co/dx4vM4taww

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 30, 2020

Now he’s cheering on the deaths of the elderly in Florida from a horrible disease because of Trump and one video.

Somewhere in hell Yasser Arafat is disappointed that he’s no longer the worst human being ever to be given that award.

This just popped in Twitter:

The 2-mile long line of cars currently waiting outside @HardRockStadium testing site… @WPLGLocal10 pic.twitter.com/wO9bcRL1EI

— Trent Kelly (@TrentKellyWPLG) June 30, 2020

Hard Rock stadium used to be Dolphin Stadium / Joe Robbie Stadium in North Miami Dade county.

Damn!

Now, this is not new. Ever since the state opened testing sites to anybody over 18 with or without symptoms and antibody kits (non-invasive and fastest) are now available, people have been flooding to get tested.

It is basic common sense: You expand your pool of test subject, make it easy for them to take the tests and make it free and it is not out of the realm of possibilities that people that had caught the virus but were asymptomatic are now detected and entered in the database which will rise in numbers. But is that how the media portrays it? Nope, it would make sense and oppose the Narrative.

MIAMI GARDENS (CBSMiami) – As Florida’s number of coronavirus continues to surge, there has been an increase in the number of people wanting to be tested.

Long Lines Form At Hard Rock Stadium Test Site As Florida Coronavirus Numbers Surge

Yup, they play it backwards. It does not give them pause for one second to think that unless there is testing, nobody can know the number of people infected. Apparently the number of infections they harp on rise without the need to have tests made, it is like they have superpowers that let’s them know things and the testing itself is not quite necessary.

No, I don’t get it either.

J. Kb. sent me a hashtag to check out #TrumpKillsFlorida.

In case you don’t recognize the author/copier of the tweet, that is our Florida Grim Reaper who has been walking the beaches and open spaces of the state for over 6 weeks warning us of the upcoming mass deaths because freedom.

It is a mixture of President Trump selecting Florida for the Republican Nomination soiree and demonizing DeSantis because the Wuhan V infections detected have increased in numbers since testing has been expanded to every Floridian over 18.

So, are you as a Floridian ready to die? I mean, there must be some sort of Government conspiracy where Trump and DeSantis are injecting a new 99% deadly version of the virus in our systems while we sleep right? We were warned a month and a half ago when the state opened that we would be see dead dropping 2 weeks later!

From the Pro Trump & Ultra conservative Newsweek:

The thing is after six weeks of opening, Florida’s numbers have been steady with a slight tendency to drop.

Florida was never near in the neighborhood of critical for number of beds or ICU beds or ventilators with only 14,354 hospitalizations since this thing began.  But you will hear that we have less beds now than before the opening and that is true, but it also indicates that hospitals are back to doing regular business and taking care of non-emergency procedures that had been ignored and now have a huge backlog to take care of.

We are going to keep hearing more and more over-the-top things from the Democrats till the elections are over in November. You still run a 97% chance of survival if infected with Kung Flu and any horrifying end-of-the-world crap is just political grandstanding.

Tucker Carlson Tonight is the one media opinion show I’ll watch.  He is good about covering stories that nobody else in the media will.

That doesn’t mean I agree with everything he says, and for the last few days he’s been on a tear about Republicans who want to help revise the law on qualified immunity.

Tucker’s accusation is that they are closet Leftists or have been compromised by Koch Brothers’ money.

I don’t know about those politicians specifically, but I know that I have never taken a dime from the Koch Brothers and am not a closet Leftist and I want to revise qualified immunity.  My friends are generally not Leftists and they haven’t taken Koch Brothers’ money either, and they also are against qualified immunity.

I understand the point Tucker is trying to make about qualified immunity protecting officers who have to make tough decisions in the heat of the moment.  I also understand that qualified immunity doesn’t attach in criminal acts.

The problem is that there is a wide area in between these two scenarios where qualified immunity overprotects officers who have engaged in what can only be described as gross negligence.

Let’s start with the case of Leo Lech.  An armed shoplifter broke into his house and barricaded it against the police.  SWAT was called in and after a 19-hour stand-off, the SWAT raid did so much damage to the house that it was condemned and destroyed.  The damage was valued at $580,000 but insurance only paid $345,000, leaving Lech with $235,000 in uncovered damages.  He sued the police and lost.

In Georgia, an officer tossed a flashbang into a crib critically injuring a baby’s face and blowing a hole in his chest.  While the family settled with police, the officer who threw the grenade was acquitted and protected by qualified immunity.

I wrote about the Swatting of Andrew Finch before.  A jumpy officer shot finch at a distance of 35-40 yards with an AR-15 across four lanes of traffic a sidewalk and a front yard in the dark.  Multiple officers were screaming multiple directions without a loudspeaker at that same distance when the officer who had a bad view of the situation fired a shot in a clusterfuck of confusion failed command and control.  That officer was not charged and qualified immunity was attached.

The shooting of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky is another cluster fuck.  She was shot eight times by plainclothes police conducting a no-knock raid at 1:00 am.  Her boyfriend thought their place was being broken into and defended himself with a handgun.  He was shot and Breonna was killed.  Let me repeat, a no-knock raid by plainclothes officers at 1:00 am.  Anyone of us would have looked at three guys in civilian clothes kicking in our door as a home invasion.

Radley Balko of the Cato Institute has covered just how often police engage in no-knock raids and get the address wrong and shoot up innocent people.  The LAPD even has a special team to deal with these sorts of fuck-ups.

I believe that qualified immunity should not protect gross negligence.

As a PE, if I make a mistake of gross negligence and people get hurt or die, I will get sued and perhaps go to jail.

If your surgeon drops some piece of medical equipment on the floor, picks it up, says “five-second rule,” and puts it in you, and you die of an infection, he is personally liable.

Professional law enforcement should do due diligence before a raid and make sure that they get the address right and know if there are kids in the house before throwing stun grenades at babies, shooting innocent people, and burning the house down.

Police shouldn’t get a mulligan for killing someone because they went off half-cocked.

I don’t believe qualified immunity should protect “We shot up apartment 9b instead of 9d, oops.”

It’s not unreasonable to hold officers to a standard of professionalism that we ask other professionals to be held to, namely being personally responsible for major, life-ending fuckups due to carelessness or negligence.

That doesn’t make me some sort of closet socialist that wants to abolish the police.  It makes me someone who doesn’t want to die because some officer didn’t pay attention to the number on the mailbox before taking a battering ram to my door instead of my neighbors.