This video is a year old and comes to us from BBC Three in the UK, but I just saw it and it is worth watching. Especially in the wake of the gang robberies and beatings in Minneapolis.
Real simple. If you don’t want to be a victim, don’t act like a victim. Maintain your situational awareness, don’t walk down the street with your nose in your phone tuning out the world. Criminals don’t want to work more than they have to so if you look like a hard target, you will more likely be left alone.
Holy shit, that guy is just beating on a shop window with a hammer in broad daylight. The police are nowhere to be found. The citizenry is just taking pictures and asking him politely to stop.
They know they can’t do anything to stop him because it is more illegal for them to use force than it is for this guy to violently break his way into a shop and threaten innocent people.
I know the Europeans and American Leftists love to say that we in flyover land are a bunch of knuckle-dragging savages but this doesn’t happen in Alabama, or Texas because trying to smash into a jewelry store and threaten bystanders with a hammer is a good way to get ballistically ventilated.
Coincidentally, it’s also those same Progressive places that people routinely shit on the streets. Just saying.
The Metropolitan Police later said that a man was arrested on Saturday Morning before being charged on Sunday.
A spokesman said: ‘Nathan Thamby, 30, of no fixed address was charged on Sunday, 23 September with aggravated burglary, possession of an offensive weapon, possession of a knife and assaulting an emergency worker.
‘He was further charged in connection with another burglary. He is due to appear Bromley Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 23 September.
‘He was further charged in connection with another burglary.’
Ah yes, a vagrant in a progressive city who has been taught that the law does not apply to him and he can do whatever he wants.
I guarantee that he will be let out of prison in a very short time if he is even sent to prison at all.
This is the same thing that has happened in San Francisco which is why they have more than 30,000 car break-ins in a year.
As Progressive America goes the way of tolerating lawlessness, disarming the citizenry, and emasculating the police, we will see more and more of this brazen crime.
Which is why toting a battle rifle on your back to get a burger and fries is simply jackassical stupidity, and everyone with an IQ above room temperature knows why.
We are an armed society, and also generally a polite one, and that sort of a-whoring violates common sense decorum, and gives reasonable people grounds to be very much on edge. Just to accommodate the perversions and mental incapacity of a few lunatics, seeking the farthest limits of a constitutional right. There’s always some idiot who’ll stand on the fence at the Grand Canyon or the zoo, and lean over, and next thing you know, everyone finds that fence moved back fifty yards, of necessity.
And who’s butthurt and screaming the loudest then?
These are the same jackwads who muzzle sweep the entire gun store and half the gun show, then get butthurt again when someone who doesn’t think it’s funny suggests they’re about to activate their dental plan deductible
Beta O’Rourke thought he could harness the zeitgeist and increase his poll numbers to above 1% by calling for gun confiscation. That has had such a backlash that other Democrats are having to tell him to “please, shut the fuck up before you guarantee Trump’s reelection.”
The Democrats have tried to have a hearing on gun control, but they couldn’t keep it together because every time one dozed off in committee and woke up, they’d reflexively say “impeach Trump.” That would start a chain reaction of other Democrats saying “impeach Trump” like dogs barking at each other from their yards. By the time the committee quieted down, they forgot what they were talking about.
Besides a Ukraine, the other big news of the week was an emotionally traumatized teenage Swedish girl with a learning disability was brought to the UN to advocate for the total destruction of the Western economy at the hands of socialism to save the glaciers.
It is for all of these reasons that David Hogg has decided that the best way to keep relevant is to wax philosophical about climate change and Trump as indignantly and ignorantly as he did about guns when he was at his zenith.
Sorry to be so partisan but I am so fucking mad
-Our Children are dying -Our president is committing treason -Our planet is on fire
REPUBLICANS ARE DOING NOTHING
If we don’t have an absolutely revolutionary turn out in 2020 our species will be extinct in 100 years
Every statement he made in that Tweet wrong, but over-the-top factual inaccuracies and hateful accusations are his brand.
The saddest part about this is this.
He is at Harvard, which you didn’t get into to. He’s going to graduate from there because it is impossible to flunk out of Harvard. He will make connections with the rich and powerful, and when he is minted into a member of the elite, he will be offered a job at a think tank or big money backed activist group and get paid more than you will ever make.
This is all despite the fact that is Tweets prove beyond any doubt that he is stupid, ignorant, lacks critical thinking capabilities, and is driven entirely by partisan emotions.
A quote often attributed to Abraham Lincoln goes: “It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.”
Hogg’s Tweets remove all doubt that he is a fool on every single subject.
The “whistleblower” drops an accusation against the President about things he was never a witness to nor has evidence, and we are watching a full blown congressional impeaching hearings in order to unseat Trump.
In Operation Fast and Furious we had the testimony of the people who were directly involved, plus hard evidence from paperwork to the actual firearm used in the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and it was pretty much dismissed and nobody went to jail or even fired.
Miguel has mentioned this before. The Left was gung-ho about making sure every cop had a bodycam on them at all times. They were dead sure that every cop was a racist and that the bodycam footage would prove beyond any doubt that just about every police shooting was a bigoted murder.
Except that didn’t happen. It turns out that most shootings captured on bodycam and dashcam were justified.
So now what are anti-cop activists supposed to do?
Remember that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said “I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.” Vice President Joe Biden said something similar, “we choose truth over facts.”
When the facts are not on your side, it’s perfectly acceptable for the Left to keep saying that there are five lights or that we had always been at war with Eastasia.
A tragic officer-involved shooting of a black man has sparked nearly two weeks of activist marches and cries for justice in St. Paul, Minnesota. Angry protesters demanding police transparency have flooded the city’s streets and added 31-year-old Ronald K. Davis to their list of “martyred” African American males “unlawfully” shot and killed by police.
The evidence of this crime, it was presumed, was on the white police officer’s body camera video footage. Officer Steven Mattson’s patrol car had been rammed by Davis at intersection of North Griggs Street and Thomas Avenue. As Mattson exited his vehicle, Davis ignored Mattson’s demands to halt.
Davis rushed at Mattson with a knife, and Mattson subsequently shot Davis, killing him.
According to a release from the Anti-Police Brutality Coalition, as reported by KMSP FOX 9:
Activists are calling for an independent review of all video footage available in this case, including the full body camera video, any dash cam video, street cameras, and any other surveillance footage.
“It is unclear from the limited body camera footage what types of de-escalation tactics were used by Officer Mattson, why he fell to the ground, why his flashlight fell, and whether he attempted to use nonlethal force before using deadly force against Ronald Davis,” the coalition wrote in the release. “The public also has a right to demand an independent investigation in police shooting cases in Minnesota, given the relative frequency within which they have been occurring the disproportionate rate of Black men and other men of color being killed by police. Beyond that, there have been allegations of corruption within the St. Paul Police Department and the BCA for many years and those concerns have not been taken seriously by Governor Walz or other elected officials.”
Fine, they can call for whatever they want, but that video is pretty cut and dry as to what happened.
There you have it: A fair and impartial accounting of videotaped officer actions in this incident and a complete gathering of all the facts in the case never were part of the desired end state. In the activism business, you have to stoke fiery emotion, and it does not necessarily require a tethering to facts. The “grievance industry” is predicated on stirring up raw, naked sensations and opportunistically isolating the few bad actors in order to smear an entire profession.
Miguel has also pointed out the radical Left has hitched its wagon to the anti-cop movement.
I’m not sure why, unless they believe that the demographic of people who hate police is larger than the demographic of people who like living in safe and civil societies.
In St. Paul, it seems that “the truth” of the anti-cop activists is more important than the facts presented in a bodycam video.
As Miguel says, cui bono? I wonder why people would work so hard to undermine police and cast doubt on bodycam video.
All I can come up with is that the radical Left wants to Portlandize the United States. The police in Portland have been emasculated and declawed by the city government. Antifa as near free reign to do what they want.
If the rest of America, or at least its big cities, are turned into Portland re their police forces, then come 2020 Antifa and similar protest groups will have the ability to turn up the violence knob with little fear of police crackdown.
I am officially living rent free in somebody else’s brainpan. It seems that if I say I support Open Carry but do not partake in the practice, I am a liar.
Bubba, I support Gays, but I do not partake in having my ass penetrated by another male as a manner of enjoyment. Hell, I have been avoiding colonoscopies like the plague.
It seems that makes me a lying homophobe.
PS: It is not about you.
PS2: I m Pro Israel and Pro Jewish, yet I never been to Israel.
I must be a Palestinian terrorist in disguise and have j. Kb. fooled.
