The video:

Protesters In Elizabeth City, NC…Hit With Car By Racist Confederate Support #Justice4AndrewBrown pic.twitter.com/gZdNVzkcRq

— Kerwin Pittman (@KerwinPittman) May 25, 2021

There seems to be no evidence that the driver is a racist or a confederate supporter beyond not wanting to submit to the mau-mauing.

Notice how the driver was very slow and the protesters rushed in front of her car and hit it.

Now the news story:

Driver accused of hitting two people peacefully protesting police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr.
Lisa Michelle O’Quinn, who is white, was charged with striking two Black women with her car. North Carolina authorities are still investigating if it was a hate crime.

A white driver was arrested after she was accused of striking two Black women with her car during a peaceful protest over the death of Andrew Brown Jr., North Carolina authorities said Tuesday.

Lisa Michelle O’Quinn, 41, was charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill by use of a motor vehicle, one count of careless and reckless conduct and one count of unsafe movement, Elizabeth City Police said in a news release. Investigators said they were still determining if the incident was a hate crime.

The incident occurred about 6:45 p.m. ET Monday at the intersection of Ehringhaus Street and Griffin Street in the city, police said. In a video posted on Twitter, a white car could be seen hitting two protesters, causing one to fall to the ground.

In the same hour O’Quinn struck the two women, authorities advised residents to be extra cautious of peaceful protesters.

“Be vigilant as Elizabeth City prepares for peaceful protests,” police said in a tweet. “Please expect delays as traffic may be redirected around citizens exercising their constitutional right to a peaceful protest.”

O’Quinn is being held on a $40,000 bond at the Albemarle District Jail in Elizabeth City. She is expected to appear in court on Thursday.

Blocking traffic is not peaceful, nor should there be any expectation that the people blocking traffic intend peace given the number of times drivers have been assaulted and shot at by protesters blocking traffic.  The prescedent is that protesters blocking traffic intend to do great bodily harm to the drivers that they stop.

Also, and I say this as someone who is not a lawyer, when protesters rush in front of a moving vehicle, the onus should be on them.  One should not have the right to dive onto a car then soccer flop.

It’s clear that the police are overcharging this woman as a way of appeasing BLM and the protesters.

This wasn’t some guy flying Confederate flags from his pickup as he plowed through protests at 70 mph.

This woman came to a complete stop.  The protesters ganged up in front of her vehicle.  She eased through them at maybe 5 mph, one fell down took a dive, and then she slowly drove away.  This seems to indicate a scared woman trying to get out of being cornered.

Calling it assault with a deadly weapon and a hate crime is ridiculous but I suspect that if the police and prosecutor believe that if they don’t throw the book at her, there will be more riots.

This is why laws protecting drivers in these types of situations are important.  It is tantamount to Stand Your Ground laws.  The default assumption needs to be that a driver on a road being ganged up on by a mob, and ends up knocking people down as the driver goes through them, was acting defensively instead of offensively and should not be prosecuted.

I hope this woman has a good lawyer.  I wonder if her lawyer has the ability to sue for malicious prosecution or civil rights violations or something because from the video it’s crystal clear that her charge and prosecution are driven by politics not evidence.

Doing some painting so posting will have to wait.

In the meantime, feast yourself with some spectacular accidents from Mother Russia.

OK, going back up.

David  “Biff Tannen” Chipman, President Biden’s nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), said at his confirming hearing Wednesday he supports banning the AR-15. Apparently they are a menace to society and integral cause of “Epidemic of Gun Violence” we are “suffering.”

This morning, I saw this tweet who threw a different perspective on the “lethality” of the rifle.

I figured, “why not?” and checked and found this paper: Sexual Masochism Disorder with Asphyxiophilia: A Deadly yet Underrecognized Disease.

Asphyxiophilia is one of the most dangerous conditions associated to SMD and is characterized by the use of various strategies to achieve the level of oxygen depletion needed to enhance sexual arousal, such as self-strangulation, hanging, suffocation with an object like a plastic bag over the head, chest compression, use of gas or volatile solvents, or a combination of these, up to the point of loss of consciousness [5]. Participants often establish some sort of “rescue mechanism” as a safety release in case they lose consciousness. Sometimes, however, this safety release does not function correctly or the individual incorrectly measures the amount of oxygen restriction, which may lead to death or serious brain injury.

Estimates of the mortality rate of autoerotic asphyxia range from 250 to 1000 deaths per year in the United States.

I seemed to recall that the FBI UCR has consistently shown that death by all type of rifles are not that many compared to other means of murdering, even non-firearm. So I checked again: Expanded Homicide Data Table 8,  Murder Victimsby Weapon, 2015–2019.

Well, ain’t that a geographical oddity? For the past 5 years, murders by hands,  feet and other body parts run an average of twice of all kinds of rifles. Kinda consistent theme since I started this blog.

Now, if we really want to combat violence, we need to pass commonsense legislation restricting the ownership of the implements that kill twice as many people as “assault weapons.” How about a ban on two hands? Nobody needs two hands, really. One hand is good enough for self defense and two hands can be used to hit really fast, automatic beatings need to be regulated!

So, We need mandatory hand amputation but let’s call it Hand Buyback and we give everybody free Obamacare and a $50 Gift card from CVS pharmacy.

Makes as much sense as any gun ban.

This is a headline that shouldn’t ever be published but was:

MPS Teacher On Leave After Allegedly Wearing Trump Mask On Floyd Anniversary

Minneapolis Public Schools says a teacher is on leave after allegedly wearing a Donald Trump mask to school Tuesday, the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder.

“We take these allegations and their impact on students very seriously,” the district said in a statement. “We want to be clear: Every student in our school deserves to be treated with respect and dignity.”

The Left has turned the day George Floyd died into a national religious holiday.

A teacher was put on leave for wearing a mask in support of the former President of the United States on the day a criminal died while being detained for criminal activity because it is being treated like eating a steak on Good Friday in the Middle Ages, a sin committed on a holy day.

US embassies fly BLM flags to mark anniversary of George Floyd death

American embassies across the world marked the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin Tuesday by prominently displaying the Black Lives Matter flag.

.@POTUS: "'I can’t breathe.' Those were George Floyd’s last words. We cannot let them die with him. We have to keep hearing them. We must not turn away. We cannot turn away." #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/dxIQQRsN8W

— Department of State (@StateDept) May 25, 2021

This has become a de facto national holiday, which is especially egregious since it kicked off a year-long spike in crime and political upheaval.

The Church of Leftism has fully beatified George Floyd and his Saint’s Day is now a holy day in the Leftist calendar.

The Left made it absolutely crystal clear that “all lives matter” in response to  “black lives matter” was the zenith of racism and bigotry.  “All lives matter” became hate speech and Leftists groups declared that it was a white supremacist statement.

So it makes perfect sense that the Left is absolutely unable to condemn antisemitism.  They can only do it by watering it down and mixing it with other condemnations.

This is from Christopher J. Molloy, Chancellor of Rutgers University on Wednesday:

Dear Rutgers–New Brunswick Community,

We are saddened by and greatly concerned about the sharp rise in hostile sentiments and anti-Semitic violence in the United States. Recent incidents of hate directed toward Jewish members of our community again remind us of what history has to teach us. Tragically, in the last century alone, acts of prejudice and hatred left unaddressed have served as the foundation for many atrocities against targeted groups around the world.

Last year’s murder of George Floyd brought into sharp focus the racial injustices that continue to plague our country, and over the past year there has been attacks on our Asian American Pacific Islander citizens, the spaces of Indigenous peoples defiled, and targeted oppression and other assaults against Hindus and Muslims.

Although it has been nearly two decades since the U.S. Congress approved the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act, the upward trend of anti-Semitism continues. We have also been witnesses to the increasing violence between Israeli forces and Hamas in the Middle East leading to the deaths of children and adults and mass displacement of citizens in the Gaza region and the loss of lives in Israel.

At a time when the ravages of the pandemic and the proliferation of global conflict are leading to death, destruction, and ethnic strife, the university stands as a beacon of hope for our community. We have the opportunity amidst the turmoil to serve as a model for institutions that respect and value the dignity of every human being.

This recent resurgence of anti-Semitism demands that we again call out and denounce acts of hate and prejudice against members of the Jewish community and any other targeted and oppressed groups on our campus and in our community.

Our commitment to creating a safe learning environment that is inclusive of difference requires that we hold ourselves and each other accountable for our behaviors.

Therefore:

• • • We call out all forms of bigotry, prejudice, discrimination, xenophobia, and oppression, in whatever ways they may be expressed.
    • We condemn any vile acts of hate against members of our community designed to generate fear, devalue, demonize, or dehumanize.
    • We embrace and affirm the value and dignity of each member of our Rutgers community regardless of religion, race, ethnic background, sexual orientation, gender, and ability.

If you have been adversely impacted by anti-Semitic or any other discriminatory incidents in our community, please do not hesitate to reach out to our counseling and other support services on campus. Our behavioral health team stands ready to support you through these challenging times. In addition, our Student Affairs Office is already working in close partnership with leaders of the Rutgers Jewish community, and meetings have been held with students to assess and respond to their needs. If you are aware of hate incidents on campuses or places that have been made unsafe due to expressed bigotry and other unacceptable and insensitive acts, please report them using the bias reporting system.

Although we face many challenges and may have differing perspectives, we must condemn acts of violence and all forms of bigotry. We will continually strive to realize the aspiration embodied in President Holloway’s articulation of a vision for Rutgers as a ‘beloved community’—a community where we welcome and affirm humanity and find strength in our diversity.

He couldn’t just come out and condemn Jews being cursed at on-campus and being beaten in the streets without tying it to George Floyd, but at least he called it out by name.

The Left attacked him for that and on Thursday he had to “all lives matter” his condemnation of antisemtism.

Dear Members of the Rutgers–New Brunswick Community,

We are writing today as a follow-up to the message sent on Wednesday, May 26th to the university community. We understand that intent and impact are two different things, and while the intent of our message was to affirm that Rutgers–New Brunswick is a place where all identities can feel validated and supported, the impact of the message fell short of that intention. In hindsight, it is clear to us that the message failed to communicate support for our Palestinian community members. We sincerely apologize for the hurt that this message has caused.

Rutgers University–New Brunswick is a community that is enriched by our vibrant diversity. However, our diversity must be supported by equity, inclusion, antiracism, and the condemnation of all forms of bigotry and hatred, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. As we grow in our personal and institutional understanding, we will take the lesson learned here to heart, and pledge our commitment to doing better. We will work to regain your trust, and make sure that our communications going forward are much more sensitive and balanced.

Our goal of creating a beloved community will not be easy, and while we may make mistakes along the way; we hope we can all learn from them as we continue this vital work together.

There haven’t been random beatings of Muslims or Palestinians.  There hasn’t been a spike in Islamophobic violence, but the Left hates Jews so much they can’t let condemnations of antisemitism stand.

This is how bad it is.

Even acknowledging that rise in antisemitsm will get you in trouble.

Jews, if you think Leftists will stand up for you, they won’t.  They will destroy you and then bury the evidence of your destruction.  That is how much they hate you.

Remember this asshole from yesterday whose opinion on the Second Amendment was a half-veiled threat?

https://twitter.com/EricG1247/status/1397621359874691073

“Your AR-15 is no defense against the Government Jackboot, vote for me to wear the Jackboot.”

Yup.

Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida, on the other hand, gets it.

Matt Gaetz says the 2nd amendment is about “maintaining within the citizenry the ability to maintain an armed rebellion against the government” pic.twitter.com/MNATrjBrhr

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 27, 2021

That’s pretty much it.

This is from the New York Times and Taco Stand:

I am pretty sure the moment you realized you caught the ‘Rona, it meant that whatever self-created contagion protocol proved itself to be a failure. And then you got the vaccine, but still keep strapping your face like you were a comedy show’s first time dad changing diapers for the first time.

This has nothing to do with epidemiologic safety and all to do with ritualism as a way to cope with whatever anxiety these people are experiencing.  This is not “Science” but First World Voodo or Santeria. The rabbit’s foot and four leaf clover have been substitute by a mask and googles and put on full display to prove to the masses they are following a higher call and they are morally superior than anybody else.

They will eventually find another “blankie” to hold on to when this one gets too embarrassing to keep using. This is deeper than just the virus and no vaccine can be developed for it.