The "systematic racism" lie of the left

Clarice Feldman:

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Every few years it seems that the Democrats gin up riots in response to the death of a black criminal at the hands of the police. And each time the media play along. I don’t need to remind you of the Holder DoJ stirring up the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown cases, which fell apart before juries when the facts were finally presented in open court. Not before the false tales precipitated substantial destruction to lives and property -- largely of those minorities living in the areas of these incidents.

This time, the race baiting has gone beyond targeting the individual citizens and cops involved to argue that there is systemic racism in law enforcement. And the claim has been the rallying cry of the Black Lives Matter gangs.

Matt Walsh at the Daily Wire busts that narrative wide open, systematically examining every police shooting and finding that: 

It is by now well publicized -- at least in some corners -- that, despite all of the panicking and rioting over race-based police brutality, only a very small number of unarmed black men are killed by police each year. But an even closer look at the data, and a study of each “unarmed” killing, reveals that the real number of unjustified police shootings of actual unarmed people -- black, white, or any other race -- is much smaller still. 

First, to put the statistics into perspective, it’s helpful to begin with the overall number of arrests. According to the DOJ, police make about 10 million arrests each year. As a rough average, 7 million of the arrested suspects are white and 3 million are black. Out of that number, last year, 25 unarmed white people were killed by police, compared to 14 unarmed black people, according to the Washington Post database of police shootings. That means about .0004 percent of all blacks arrested were killed while unarmed. The percentage for whites is comparable. In total, 1,000 people were shot and killed by police in 2019, the vast majority of whom were armed. Still, that’s a mere .01 percent of all arrests. 

He analyzes eight cases tagged as the killings of eight “unarmed suspects” and shows why “No reasonable person could describe any of the cases just listed as cold-blooded murder, much less racist hate crimes. These were violent criminals shot while in the act of physically attacking and threatening officers.”

Still, BLM, linking up with Antifa and just plan looters, screams “systemic racism,” and far too many corporations and colleges play along.

While, for the most part, the press is reporting the thuggery in places like Portland and Seattle as “peaceful protests” or  “mostly peaceful protests,” they’ve hidden from the readers and viewers what has been going on there. 

From the New York Post:

“A federal agent’s hand was impaled by planted nails, another federal agent was shot with a pellet gun, leaving a wound deep to the bone, and tragically, three federal officers were likely left permanently blinded by the rioters using lasers pointed directly into their eyes,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters Friday.

The press cut away from the conference when McEnany showed videos of the destruction. Federal officers have guarded federal facilities there because local authorities refuse to enforce the law. As if to prove that the local authorities are complicit in this mayhem, Oregon’s Attorney General Ellen Rosenbaum sought a restraining order against the federal officers but lost. The judge accepted the argument by the federal government that the state lacked standing to sue on behalf of the protestors. Apart from lack of standing, the government attorney asserted that the claim itself was based on ”a few threadbare declarations from witnesses and a Twitter video.” (Maybe Rosenbaum confused this court with FISC.)

Federal officers have arrested 18 people in Portland for their lawless acts at the federal courthouse.

Seattle is much the same. There the riot-friendly city council banned the police from using necessary and standard riot control techniques. Chief of Police Carmen Best warned owners and residents that given these restrictions the force could not be deployed to handle rioting

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How much longer can the left perpetuate its criminal conduct and the media perpetuate its fraudulent coverage of it?  I suspect they will keep doing until they either get their way or they are embarrassed by an overwhelming rejection of their perfidy.  The cutaway from the video was an obvious play to continue their fraudulent attempts to say their rioters were peaceful.  They will continue to hide the truth until at least election day.

Here is more on the BLM fraud.