Did the BLM Protests Against the Police Lead to the 2020 Spike in Homicides?

Did the BLM Protests Against the Police Lead to the 2020 Spike in Homicides?

Bottom Line…

“…And crimes have victims. While I mourn for dead fellow citizens of any color, a sad and absurd reality of both post-Ferguson and summer 2020 violence is that a great many of those killed unnecessarily were black Americans. In Chicago, 81.8 percent of those murdered in 2020 were African Americans, while 3.9 percent of victims were white. The simplest possible sort of number-crunching shows us that, assuming consistent rates of homicide by race, the Windy City’s vertical move from 481 to 748 deaths by violence cost 218 black lives inside one year. Assuming that murders nationwide increased only by 35 percent from 2019’s total of 16,425 and that only 50 percent of these new victims were black, the equivalent toll country-wide would be 2,874 dead black folks, including horrifying victims such as hero cop David Dorn and little eight-year-old Secoriea Turner.

The numbers speak for themselves. The ideas advanced by Black Lives Matter may be popular and “woke,” but they are also very often the worst possible policies for those of us who actually want to preserve black, and other, American lives.”

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Whitlock: I stand by my comparison of BLM to the KKK — no matter who might object

Whitlock: I stand by my comparison of BLM to the KKK — no matter who might object

Wednesday evening, during an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program, I analogized Black Lives Matter to the Ku Klux Klan.

It’s a provocative and jarring analogy. It’s a comparison I truly believe.

Friday morning, a reporter from my hometown paper, the Indianapolis Star, contacted me asking for clarification of my analogy. I told the reporter that I would respond in writing via email because I felt it was the best way to ensure that I thoughtfully addressed the inquiry.

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Man Suspected of Setting Fire to Church and Painting ‘Jesus Is Black’ Kills Cop in Shootout

In the wee hours of the morning on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, an arsonist spray-painted the message, “Jesus is Black” in a Roman Catholic Church in Toledo, Ohio, while setting fire to parts of the church. Police later caught up to the suspect, 27-year-old Christopher A. Harris. Harris shot and killed a police officer in a shootout that also claimed his life.

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BLM activist who ‘plowed her car into Trump supporters’ is hit with additional charges for using stun gun and beating two men with a pole

BLM activist who ‘plowed her car into Trump supporters’ in September is hit with additional charges for using stun gun on victim at rally and beating two men with a 4ft pole during a previous march

A Black Lives Matter activist who allegedly plowed her car into supporters of Donald Trump during a California rally in September, has been hit with a slew of additional charges.

Tatiana Turner, 40, has now been accused of using a stun gun against a counter-protester at the September 26 BLM march she organized in Yorba Linda, where she allegedly also ran over a Trump supporter.

Turner is also accused of beating two men with a four-foot-long rod at a Seal Beach rally on August 29.

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‘White lives matter’ banner taken down in California suburb, calling it ‘a despicable act of vandalism’

A “White Lives Matter” banner went up on Sunday at Smith and Dyer streets in Union City CA, just north of Oakland. It was immediately taken down and denounced by officials.

“This is despicable and we removed it immediately,” said Union City Mayor Carol Dutra-Vernaci. The sign was strategically placed in one of the town’s busiest intersections.

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DC’s BLM Plaza mural restored for third time since June

BLM Plaza, a two-block pedestrian stretch of 16th Street NW in Washington, DC, elevated to its current status by Mayor Murial Bowser in June, 2020, got a fresh coat of paint Friday.

Just in time for the upcoming presidential inauguration, workers could be found feverishly painting the street mural, reading “Black Lives Matter,” to have it ready in time for Jan. 20.

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“Man” charged with hate crimes for ‘beating nine light-skinned women in random attacks over six weeks’

A man has been arrested after carrying out a suspected string of random assaults on ‘light-skinned’ women at a Brooklyn subway station.

Khari Covington, 29, was arrested and charged with a slew of hate crimes on Tuesday.

He is accused of attacking nine women on separate occasions in East Williamsburg since last August.

Seven of the alleged assaults occurred within the Morgan Avenue subway station.

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NY Times Story On Cleveland Crime Wave Seems To Overlook Some Significant Factors

Just last week I wrote about the strong possibility that the U.S. will set a new record for the increase in the murder rate this year. That seemed like pretty big news to me but I only saw it appear in a Twitter thread and in one story quoting the author of that thread.

So when the NY Times published a piece Saturday about the rise in violent crime in Cleveland, I read it thinking perhaps the Times was going to get the word out about the trend and maybe even kick off a discussion about what was behind it. 

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Candace Owens warns of real ‘evil’: ‘Racist Democrats rebranded segregation as black empowerment’

Outspoken conservative author and commentator Candace Owens took to Twitter on Saturday to not only expose the big picture at play here, but to warn black Americans about who’s really bringing harm to them.

“Netflix now has a category for ‘black cinema’. Uber Eats now has a category for ‘black restaurants,’” Owens tweeted. “The Left has reintroduced segregation back into American society under the guise of progressivism— they used #BLM propaganda to anger black people to the point of blindness.”

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The Politics of Patrisse Cullors, Founder of Black Lives Matter

The Politics of Patrisse Cullors, Founder of Black Lives Matter

A curious mix of Marxism, identity politics, and race and gender confusion.

“We actually do have an ideological frame,” says Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Cullors of herself and co-founder Alicia Garza. “Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories.”

Much has been made of that statement from Cullors, and rightly so.

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