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From Fox News:

Owner of Ohio store ransacked by rioters says she’s receiving threats for cooperating with police

An Ohio business owner told “Fox & Friends” on Monday that she is receiving threats for cooperating with law enforcement officials investigating the looting of her cupcake store last month.

Kelly Kandah, the owner of Colossal Cupcakes in Cleveland, which was destroyed by looters, said some of those threats include people telling her that when her store is rebuilt, “it’s going to get hit again.”

On Monday, Kandah told “Fox & Friends” host Ainsley Earhardt that the week after her store was destroyed, “I was showing some of the damage and I was leaving, a friend and myself, and someone walking by approached us and said, ‘When the store rebuilds, when you rebuild this, I’m going to come back and destroy it again and you.’ He kept walking and was gone.”

When Earhardt asked Kandah if she is now scared to reopen, she responded: “Yes.”

This woman and her four employees spent the riots terrified, locked in a bathroom, listening to her business get looted and destroyed.

She called the police.

Because she didn’t lay back and take the violation, the mob wants to destroy her again.

I doubt she will ever reopen given that.

The mob wants permanent control through the threat of violence.

Call the cops they attack again.

Not give them what they want, they attack again.

Not pay sufficient deference to their cause and they attack again.

There is no was businesses could survive under that sort of mob protection racket.

I think next time you are going to see a lot more Roof Koreaning.  Business owners campaign out in their business with guns shooting everyone who tries to loot.

The cops are not coming, the insurance isn’t paying out without a police report, you have nothing to lose, you might as well stack up the bodies.

This is CNN:

The fake signups for Trump's rally weren't just a prank, they were a form of protest. Here's what @MJLaupp told me on @ReliableSources today pic.twitter.com/UqnmW0uWAi

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 21, 2020

This is not a protest. Politicians have to pay for venues, security, and other expenses out of their campaign budgets.

When these people registered for thousands or tens of thousands of tickets they intended not to use, the Trump campaign had to pay for security and other expenses based on numbers they thought would attend but didn’t.

This wasted a huge amount of campaign funds.

The celebration of this, rather than calling it the foul play it was, is going to make everything worse. Win at all costs should not be how American politics is played.

That eventually  leads to bullets being used.  Once you remove fairness from the process, anything goes gets very ugly very quickly.

Chicago saw its highest number of gun violence victims in a single weekend this year with 102 people shot across the city from Friday evening to Monday morning, 14 of them fatally. Five of those killed were minors.

The weekend saw more shooting victims but less fatalities than the last weekend of May, when 85 people were shot, 24 of them fatally — Chicago’s most deadly weekend in years.

In a Sunday news conference, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown reflected on the surge in gun violence. “Bullets don’t just tear apart the things they strike,” Brown said. “Bullets also tear apart families. Bullets destroy neighborhoods and they ruin any sense of safety in a community.”

102 shot, 14 fatally, over Father’s Day weekend in Chicago

This is the kind of news item that makes you go “Do I have enough magazines loaded?”

The question that is buzzing in my head is: what’s the end game in destructing the police force? Force the governor to call the National Guard? He is also a Democrat, so his reputation will be affected negatively. Are they seriously expecting for President Trump to intervene and then call him the dictator they always suspected? I have the strange feeling he know it and he will let them play till they burn themselves out.  Much like W.O.P.R.

Or maybe, just like in War Games, they started something that they thought could control, but took on a life of its own and they can’t find the off switch.

I’ll be humming something from the Blues Brothers for a while:

Come on
Baby don’t you wanna go
Hidehey
Baby dont you wanna go
Back to that same old place
Oh sweet home Chicago.

Hat Tip R.K.

Eve’s Hubby sent me an email last week.

There was a reported incident in my apartment parking lot earlier this week. From what I heard, the car trunk was wide open with all the belongings scattered about. No other cars were vandalized, including mine.

I pity the owner, but this is an important lesson of maintaining security. Car thefts in Madison are widespread, and most are easy pickings with unlocked doors, keys left in the ignition, etc.

Needless to say, I feel very vindicated in ensuring my car is locked wherever I am out of it for any period of time. I also have you to thank for never relenting in pushing the message for safe storage of pistols in cars and guns in the home. I shudder to think what would have happened if that had been my car and I ignored your advice.

And that made me realize I had not given you guys more crap lately about making sure no weapons are left in your vehicle overnight and to keep the damn thing locked. And again, to have a box to lock your firearm should you have to go to a non-friendly place.

Apparently Jeeps are easy to break in? And old tradition continues.

This lady left the car unlocked and she is laughing about the guy getting caught by the dash cam. How about locking the car?

I am seeing that they are also more organized: two or three suspects, highly mobile and with glass punchers, flashlights and gloves.

Nothing visible, doors locked, they left. Notice the security light coming on and they just ignored it.

Cameras do not deter, lights do not deter, glass can be broken.

They change tactics, that was something not unexpected. Criminal behavior is Darwinian: They adapt, evolve to the circumstances.  Still the principles to counter this behavior remain: Keep the vehicle locked and do not leave anything valuable or looking valuable visible.

Will it work 100%? No, nothing does, but it will reduce the chances, specially if other idiots continue to leave their cars as big fat easy targets.

Interesting, no? Go ahead and post the image of a noose and see what happens to you. But we are in a time period that being murderously Anti Cop is well seen and approved.

The point I want to make is that it is  not fruitful to complain anymore but you can still make headways by simply adapting and changing how you use Facebook and other restrictive social media.

I always like to use Paypal as example. The company was one of the first to restrict its use for the transaction of firearms and they blocked countless purchases if you all remember. And I know a lot of you do not use Paypal on principles, but many do because you have learned to “live” under those rules without denying yourselves of the advantage. And I can’t think of the billions that Paypal has lost by marrying the wrong side of the Gun argument.

So, we need to stop bitching to Facebook about pics like the one above and figure out what to do. I can’t tell you what is best for you, I can’t say if you should remove yourself from all platforms, some, be grey and not call attention or what. Your millage may vary.

All I know it is time to switch tactics. Beating our head against the corporate wall is not the solution.

The Left is looking to make a victim out of everyone and it’s stupid.

If you were in Nashville over the weekend, you might have seen a vigil for Black Trans Lives inspired by the shooting of Tony McDade.

The narrative is that McDade was killed for being black and trans and that there is an epidemic of black trans people being killed.

Unfortunately, the details really don’t fit.  McDade was shot by Tallahassee police who were searching for the suspect in a stabbing.

According to police, McDade reportedly had a handgun and “made a move consistent with using the firearm” against an officer, prompting the officer to shoot McDade.

McDade had previously made statements on video indicating his proclivity for violence and possible participation in the stabbing.

In a video posted to Facebook early Wednesday morning, less than 10 hours before the McDade shooting, McDade said he’d been attacked by a group of men and that he planned to fight back.

“It’s just Tony the Tiger all alone coming for your blood,” McDade said. “I am killing and going to be killed, because I will not go back into federal prison.”

McDade was released from prison in January after serving 10 years on federal charges of possessing firearms following felony convictions.

That is very, very different than the narrative that police are going around killing black trans people.

This narrative is being pushed because the Tallahassee initially misgendered McDade in their reporting, which was the result of information from the coroner’s office (who were looking at a naked dead body).

The media is also reporting that there is an epidemic of black trans murders, which so far has numbered to be eleven.  Again, it needs to be pointed out that homicides in 2020 are up.  Chicago had its deadliest weekend since they first started recording the numbers 60 years ago.  Baltimore is seeing record homicides as well.  Overwhelmingly, these victims are black.  It seems that eleven trans victims out of hundreds of victims is just statistical representation and not an epidemic.

One of the black trans murder victims was the victim of an armed robbery with no evidence that their gender non-conformity played any role in the crime.  But don’t let that stand in the way of a good narrative.

This desire to turn every intersectional shooting victim into a martyr is getting stupid.  Someone who makes a Facebook video of their desire to get revenge then pulls a gun on a cop is not an innocent victim just because of their identity.

Facts matter and this movement is going to lose any credibility it might have doing this, which is sad because there are many people like me on the right who abhor actual police brutality but won’t side with this bullshit.

I saw Miguel’s post Your new NYPD in inaction and went into the Tweet and started to read the comments.  What I saw revealed a lot to me about how the anti-police people think and it’s scary.

You and I watch this and it disgusts us.  We see a bunch of thugs beating each other up in a city street.  At one point one tries to stomp on the head of the guy on the ground.

This is lawlessness.  This is street justice of the ugliest kind.  This is not how people behave in a civilized society.  This is what happens in failed states and shithole nations were people take the law into their own hands.

This is what the other side sees:

Looks like good policing to me. Everyone walked away alive.

— Booze Springsteen (@JDOLLA417) June 19, 2020

This is how it should be, maybe a lot less murders. Let them fight it out, and than the cops to break it up when it looks like its over. Good job by them cops. Nobody shot over this.

— Reed (@RaiderDeedo) June 19, 2020

Honestly let those guys fight. Why should cops be escalating the situation by also getting violent with these fools?

— morte de’della (@moredadella) June 19, 2020

what do you suggest? to shoot them right? this page is ran by a former racist cop I imagine

— County of Kings ?? (@bake718) June 19, 2020

Street justice, beatings, some guy getting his head stomped, this is fine by the anti-cop crowd.  The cops trying to maintain law and order, that’s bad.

We have no idea what started this, but it doesn’t matter.  In a civil society, we employ an impartial justice system because you fundamentally don’t have a free society when “the strongest guy with a club wins” is the basis of your laws.

A few days ago a Macy’s employee was beaten up in a store in Flint, Michigan.  The beating was filmed by the brother of the attacker.  The beating was allegedly provoked by when the employee called the attacker the N-word.  That part was not caught on camera and Macy’s has said the attack was “unprovoked.”

However, the Twitter mob cheered on the beating.

A man at a store in #Flint allegedly referred to a Black man in the store as a “n***er” while talking on the #phone .

The Black man overheard him, then things went left.#CleanUpOnAisle3#Ogun#NoAntiBlackRacism pic.twitter.com/8XNYgwxb5K

— Tariq Nasheed ?? (@tariqnasheed) June 17, 2020

We need more of this behavior from our black men

— Wyakee Vinegar (@wyakee) June 17, 2020

The true reason they fear us.

If we wanted to be violent we could have been that way many times.

We have always worked for peace, but sometimes you have to knock a fool out.

Because they won’t get it any other way.

— Étienne Bowie (ET) ? (@etiennebowie) June 17, 2020

I’m not defending the use of the N-word if that happened, but there are ways to deal with something like that, that doesn’t involve beating the person up.

The prevailing anti-cop attitude seems to be for a desire to allow street justice to flourish.

I prefer to live in a civil society where disagreements are sorted out civilly.

They seem to want to live in a society where the meanest and most violent to exact mob justice against slights, real or perceived.