THE BIDEN INVASION - Health inspections for foreign nationals entering our country illegally have gone out the window. That's enabled the importation of many diseases which affect livestock and other agricultural output, and already these things are happening. Legal immigrants and even returning U.S. citizens must pass these inspections to protect the U.S. food supply. But under Joe Biden's catch-and-release, illegals are exempt from such cumbersome requirements. MONICA SHOWALTER
Santa Fe Resolves To Be Sanctuary City - ‘We’re Thumbing Our Nose’ At Trump: The resolution, co-sponsored by City Councilors Joseph Maestas and Renee Villarreal, includes multiple policies intended to strengthen Santa Fe’s position as a sanctuary city, including keeping the immigration status of any person confidential and refusing access by immigration agents to city property
Santa Fe Resolves To Be Sanctuary City - ‘We’re Thumbing Our Nose’ At Trump
Last week Santa Fe, New Mexico lawmakers passed a resolution incorporating policies protecting illegal aliens and strengthening their position as a sanctuary city.
According to the Albuquerque Journal, the resolution, co-sponsored by City Councilors Joseph Maestas and Renee Villarreal, includes multiple policies intended to strengthen Santa Fe’s position as a sanctuary city, including keeping the immigration status of any person confidential and refusing access by immigration agents to city property
BLOG: HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A MEX WHO DID NOT THUMB THEIR NOSE TO OUR BORDERS, LAWS, ORDINANCES, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE.... AND YET THEY SILL GO OUT AND VOTE FOR MORE!
“This is doubling down,” Maestas said. “We’re thumbing our nose at this incoming administration.”
On Thursday, Santa Fe officials gathered to announce the city has received a $150,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to work on Santa Fe’s stormwater management plan.
Mayor Javier Gonzales told the Santa Fe New Mexican that the city will continue to seek federal grants despite President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to cut off federal funding to “sanctuary” cities that don’t use local resources to help enforce federal immigration laws
“We fully are prepared to go forward and not only defend our status but to continue to seek more federal funds to invest in our community because we have positioned ourselves to be able to be good models for what can happen with those federal funds to improve the lives of its citizens,” Gonzales said.
TEXAS GOV FIGHTS BACK LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION!
WHY ARE ILLEGALS ABOVE THE LAW?
SANCTUARY CITIES and SANCTUARY STATE of CALIFORNIA: The LA RAZA welfare state on our backs!
Between one-quarter and one-third of the 1.5 million new arrivals in 2014 were illegal aliens, meaning that a conservative estimate is that 1,000 illegal aliens a day are moving to the United States.
LA RAZA FACISM:
Ethnic Cleansing By Mexicans Occupying California…. Where Mexico loots first!
“Taco Runt” is a member of the Mexican Fascist Movement of M.E.Ch.A. and a racist (yes, Mexicans think of themselves as a unique “race”) LA RAZA supremacist.
He is proud of the fact that he FAILED California’s State Bar test more than any other illiterate Mexican on earth and that qualifies him to operate California’s Mexican Welfare State for LA RAZA.
MEXICO’S CITY of SANTA ANA, in the ORANGE COUNTY, California should secede and join Mexico.
It didn’t stop Becerra, a prominent Latino rights advocate who has served in Congress since 1993, from pushing for the dealer’s release at the request of his
father, Horacio. The elder Vignali, a rich Los Angeles businessman, contributed thousands of dollars to Becerra’s various campaigns and a favor was in order.
THE OBAMA DOCTRINE:
Let the Mexicans Destroy America
…. Amnesty will destroy the GOP, white and black middle America, keep wages depressed and build the LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEMOCRAT PARTY
Fermin Rivera, 28, allegedly beat a puppy to death while trying to break into a neighborhood home. During the attempted burglary, Rivera had broken into the backyard but was met with barking by a small puppy. Surveillance cameras show Rivera subsequently “cornered the Bichon-Maltese mix, lifted the dog over his head and slammed it down with all his strength on the concrete slab twice.” River is now reportedly “facing felony counts of animal cruelty charges and attempted burglary charges.” Rivera is reportedly on an immigration hold.
LEADING MEMBERS OF THE LA RAZA DEMOCRAT PARTY:
2,000 CALIFORNIANS HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY MEXICANS..... WHO THEN FLED BACK OVER THE OPE BORDER TO AVOID PROSECUTION
"Republicans should call for lower immigration to stop the Democrat voter recruitment. But more importantly, all Americans should call for lower immigration in order to offer a better opportunity of finding jobs for those millions of their fellow Americans of all political persuasions who would like to work."
MILLIONS OF AMERICAN JOBS HANDED OVER TO ILLEGALS ALONG WITH BILLIONS IN WELFARE.... AND THE PARTY HAS JUST BEGUN!
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY PLATFORM:
NO DAMNED LEGAL NEED APPLY!
VIVA LA RAZA FASCISM? THEN VOTE DEM!
"Republicans should call for lower immigration to stop the Democrat voter recruitment. But more importantly, all Americans should call for lower immigration in order to offer a better opportunity of finding jobs for those millions of their fellow Americans of all political persuasions who would like to work."
Here did those vehicles go? Who stole them? Take a guess. Arizona is the temporary home of 500,000 illegal aliens. They cost Arizona taxpayers over $1 billion annually in services for schools, medical care, welfare anchor babies, loss of tax base and prisons. Illegals use those vehicles for smuggling more people and drugs from around the world into our country. When the vehicles are recovered, they are smashed-up wrecks in the desert. If not found, they have new owners south of the border as thieves drive the cars through the desert and into Mexico as easily as you drive your kids to soccer practice. THAT’S how porous our borders are!
Santa Fe Resolves To Be Sanctuary City - ‘We’re Thumbing Our Nose’ At Trump: The resolution, co-sponsored by City Councilors Joseph Maestas and Renee Villarreal, includes multiple policies intended to strengthen Santa Fe’s position as a sanctuary city, including keeping the immigration status of any person confidential and refusing access by immigration agents to city property
Santa Fe Resolves To Be Sanctuary City - ‘We’re Thumbing Our Nose’ At Trump
Last week Santa Fe, New Mexico lawmakers passed a resolution incorporating policies protecting illegal aliens and strengthening their position as a sanctuary city.
According to the Albuquerque Journal, the resolution, co-sponsored by City Councilors Joseph Maestas and Renee Villarreal, includes multiple policies intended to strengthen Santa Fe’s position as a sanctuary city, including keeping the immigration status of any person confidential and refusing access by immigration agents to city property
“This is doubling down,” Maestas said. “We’re thumbing our nose at this incoming administration.”
On Thursday, Santa Fe officials gathered to announce the city has received a $150,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to work on Santa Fe’s stormwater management plan.
Mayor Javier Gonzales told the Santa Fe New Mexican that the city will continue to seek federal grants despite President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to cut off federal funding to “sanctuary” cities that don’t use local resources to help enforce federal immigration laws
“We fully are prepared to go forward and not only defend our status but to continue to seek more federal funds to invest in our community because we have positioned ourselves to be able to be good models for what can happen with those federal funds to improve the lives of its citizens,” Gonzales said.
TEXAS
GOV FIGHTS BACK LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION!
WHY
ARE ILLEGALS ABOVE THE LAW?
SANCTUARY
CITIES and SANCTUARY STATE of CALIFORNIA: The LA RAZA welfare state on our
backs!
Between one-quarter and one-third of the 1.5 million
new arrivals in 2014 were illegal aliens, meaning that a conservative estimate
is that 1,000 illegal aliens a day are moving to the United States.
LA
RAZA FACISM:
Ethnic
Cleansing By Mexicans Occupying California…. Where Mexico loots first!
“Taco Runt” is a member of the
Mexican Fascist Movement of M.E.Ch.A. and a racist (yes, Mexicans think of
themselves as a unique “race”) LA RAZA supremacist.
He is proud of the fact that he
FAILED California’s State Bar test more than any other illiterate Mexican on
earth and that qualifies him to operate California’s Mexican Welfare State for
LA RAZA.
MEXICO’S
CITY of SANTA ANA, in the ORANGE COUNTY, California should secede and join
Mexico.
It didn’t stop Becerra, a prominent Latino
rights advocate who has served in Congress since 1993, from pushing for
the dealer’s release at the request of his
father,
Horacio. The elder Vignali, a rich Los Angeles businessman, contributed
thousands of dollars to Becerra’s various campaigns and a favor was in
order.
THE OBAMA DOCTRINE:
Let the
Mexicans Destroy America
…. Amnesty will destroy the GOP, white and black
middle America, keep wages depressed and build the LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEMOCRAT
PARTY
Fermin Rivera, 28, allegedly beat a puppy to death while
trying to break into a neighborhood home. During the attempted burglary, Rivera
had broken into the backyard but was met with barking by a small puppy. Surveillance
cameras show Rivera subsequently “cornered the Bichon-Maltese mix, lifted the
dog over his head and slammed it down with all his strength on the concrete
slab twice.” River is now reportedly “facing felony counts of animal cruelty
charges and attempted burglary charges.” Rivera is reportedly on an
immigration hold.
LEADING
MEMBERS OF THE LA RAZA DEMOCRAT PARTY:
2,000
CALIFORNIANS HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY MEXICANS..... WHO THEN FLED BACK OVER THE
OPE BORDER TO AVOID PROSECUTION
"Republicans
should call for lower immigration to stop the Democrat voter recruitment.
But more importantly, all Americans should call for lower immigration in order
to offer a better opportunity of finding jobs for those millions of their
fellow Americans of all political persuasions who would like to work."
MILLIONS OF AMERICAN
JOBS HANDED OVER TO ILLEGALS ALONG WITH BILLIONS IN WELFARE.... AND THE PARTY
HAS JUST BEGUN!
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY
PLATFORM:
NO DAMNED LEGAL NEED
APPLY!
VIVA
LA RAZA FASCISM? THEN VOTE DEM!
"Republicans should
call for lower immigration to stop the Democrat voter recruitment. But
more importantly, all Americans should call for lower immigration in order to
offer a better opportunity of finding jobs for those millions of their fellow
Americans of all political persuasions who would like to work."
Here did those vehicles go? Who stole them? Take a guess. Arizona is the
temporary home of 500,000 illegal aliens. They cost Arizona taxpayers over $1
billion annually in services for schools, medical care, welfare anchor babies,
loss of tax base and prisons. Illegals use those vehicles for smuggling more
people and drugs from around the world into our country. When the vehicles are
recovered, they are smashed-up wrecks in the desert. If not found, they have
new owners south of the border as thieves drive the cars through the desert and
into Mexico as easily as you drive your kids to soccer practice. THAT’S how
porous our borders are!
The left says that certain kinds
of bigotry are okay. Racism isn't always wrong. There's hate that punches up
and hate that punches down. Punching up is the essence of intersectionality.
A
black woman declared her disdain for "white people" before pummeling
two white passengers on board a moving Ride On bus, Gaithersburg Police said.
Kimberly
Jordan, 24, of Silver Spring, is charged with racial harassment, obstructing
and second-degree assault due to her alleged offensive and physically painful
antics.
Jordan
allegedly began to stare at two white passengers and then murmured, "I
hate white people." A short while later, Jordan, who weighs 250 pounds,
reportedly stood up and clocked the female white passenger in the face. The
male white passenger attempted to defend his friend, but got smacked in the
face as well, police state.
The male
victim suffered a "long" cut to this nose while the female victim had
a number of scratches on her palms, likely defensive wounds.
There's the usual profile.
According
to court documents, Jordan was
unemployed and lived with her grandmother
at the time of her arrest. She has a
lengthy arrest record for charges like
theft, burglary, destruction of property, assault
and domestic violence.
So how long until Jordan becomes a
contributor to The Root?
Violet racism is created equal
through its sheer reality. Physically attacking someone has the same impact
regardless of race. And yet the left vocally denies the existence of black
racism. And denies its end results. This isn't an aberration. We've seen Black
Lives Matter racial harassment and violence. We've seen the murder of police
officers in New York and Dallas. But this is a more everyday kind of violence.
And anyone who has spent enough time riding the New York City subway system has
encountered this kind of behavior already. It's just a form of racial that no
one is allowed to talk about.
But if we're going to have that
national dialogue, that needs to change.
On Monday,
an eyewitness video obtained by TMZ circulated on social media, showing Jahseh
Onfroy, better known as the artist XXXTentacion, slumped in the driver’s seat
of his black BMW outside of a motorcycle dealership in Deerfield Beach,
Florida. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Onfroy had been
shot in broad daylight. He was confirmed dead at a local hospital a short while
later. The killers made off with a Louis Vuitton bag. (On Wednesday night a
twenty-two-year-old suspect was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.)
Onfroy
lived his short life chaotically, violently. And his jagged confessional music, which enraptured millions, sprang
nakedly from that violence. Usually, when musicians die as young and as
tragically as Onfroy, they are the subject of hagiography. We lament the beauty
gone, think forlornly of the future art the cruel present has stolen. The death
of Onfroy and that of Lil Peep, in November of last year, are alarming signs of
the recklessness governing the new-money life styles of certain young Internet
celebrities, who are the inheritors of America’s dangerous crises of mental
health, drug abuse, and masculinity. But reflecting on Onfroy’s legacy also
requires a frank confrontation with the malignity he inflicted.
Onfroy
was born in Plantation, Florida, in 1998, and raised in Broward County,
primarily by his grandmother. His mother was a teen-ager when she had him, and
she drifted in and out of his life, bringing lavish gifts and leaving sizable
voids. Onfroy said, in an interview with the podcast “No Jumper,” in 2016, that
he would instigate fights in grade school as a ploy to get her attention. In a
recent interview with the Miami NewTimes, he told the reporter Tarpley Hittthat his mother once gave him
permission to retaliate against a female classmate who was hitting him as a
form of juvenile flirtation. In response, he “slapped the shit out of her and
kneed her.” Onfroy said that his mom was surprised; she “realized how seriously
I took her.” Later, he would get her name—Cleopatra—tattooed on his chest.
Among
the ranks of the SoundCloud rap generation, there are pranksters, heartthrobs,
and dilettantes, but Onfroy clawed to the surface as the genre’s wretched bard.
He stalked the shadows of metal and emo and punk rock, and fleeced rap of its
devotion to materialism, focussing instead, obsessively, on existential crisis.
There wasn’t a dark thought that he kept hidden. He unleashed a tremulous
bombardment of pessimism, occasionally interrupted by feral gestures of
overwhelming helplessness. “Here is my pain and thoughts put into words. I put
my all into this, in the hopes that it will help cure or at least numb your
depression,” he speaks, on the introduction to his first album, “17.” He
peddled the seductive notion that depression is license to hurt people, perhaps
because it was his own personal justification. He wrote ditties threatening
suicide if a partner left him, which I would hear blasting from cars on my
block. Throughout his music, there are presages to an early death.
Onfroy
purposefully collapsed the real-life pain he wrought on others into his
artistic persona. The art for “Look At Me!,” a breakout single, featured one of
his mugshots. It climbed the charts while he was in jail on charges of false
imprisonment, witness tampering, and the assault and battery of a pregnant
woman, his former girlfriend. (When she established a GoFundMe campaign for an
operation to fix her broken orbital socket, people calling themselves
XXXTentacion fans targeted her until the Web site temporarily shut it down.) To
promote his music on “No Jumper,” Onfroy bragged about beating a gay peer at a
detention center until they were both covered in blood. XXXTentacion lived his
art, which some would call a mark of authenticity. He was admired by J. Cole and advocated for by Kendrick Lamar, whose label, TDE, threatened to remove its music
from Spotify when the service briefly stopped promoting XXXTentacion on its
playlists as part of its policy against hateful conduct. Many artists have
memorialized him in recent days, including Kanye West, whose own new album, “Ye,” includes disturbing musings (“I thought about killing you”)
that sound influenced by XXXTentacion. Onfroy’s victims are sacrifices, the
thinking goes, on the pyre of raw art. The immaturity is part and parcel of the
genius. The only unforgivable thing would be to be a hypocrite.
In
remembrances of Onfroy in recent days, some have argued that, however grossly
misguided his behavior, he provided his listeners with invaluable solace and
understanding. Even that is a simplification. He could be strangely
encouraging, uploading inspirational homilies to fans he knew were struggling
with issues of mental health, which his followers have clung to in the days
since his death. (“If I’m gonna die or ever be a sacrifice, I want to make sure
that my life made at least five million kids happy,” he said in an Instagram Live
video posted late last year.) But he could also be despotic. At the Rolling
Loud Festival in California, in 2017, he beat one fan with a microphone. On
Instagram, he taunted people who challenged him about domestic violence. Last
year, in an episode of particularly cruel chicanery, he uploaded a video in
which he appeared to be hanging himself from a tree, sparking an online panic.
His fans, sometimes out of ignorance, but most often, I think, out of
desperation, loved him. They propped him up, voting him to the XXL Freshman
List of 2017.
I’ve
counted myself lucky to have grown up before XXXTentacion’s vicious ironies,
knowing that as a teen-ager I may well have been enthralled by his lazy groans
on tracks like “Moonlight.” But how much better did the teen idols of older generations really treat us? Music
fandom is a passion that discourages rational thinking, and some artists take
advantage of that. The fans do the rest. (On Tuesday, Onfroy’s former
girlfriend posted a message on Instagram saying that she had been driven out of
a vigil for him in Florida.) I am not sure that it is fruitful to patrol how
people will remember XXXTentacion. If Onfroy is made a saint, he will join a
pantheon that is plenty confused already. If people stomp on his name, I
understand. Last October, he’d signed a new deal for a reported six million
dollars. He died on the brink of something. We just don’t know what.
GHETTO BLACK AMERICANS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT SUBCULTURE IN THE WORLD!
The Anti-Profiling Movement Is Killing Black Pedestrians
From time to time, the media tell the truth about issues that have a racial edge, usually by accident. Such was the case in February of this year, when a local TV news crew visited a largely black St. Louis neighborhood to follow up on a hit-and-run incident.
A speeding car had struck two ten-year-old boys and kept on going. Local people were outraged. School principal Stella Erondu told the reporter, "It's just like the wild, wild west. Anyone can do whatever, drive however they want on these streets." Other neighbors echoed her comments.
The reporter on the scene had no reason to doubt the neighbors. While he was there monitoring the intersection in question, an estimated 50 percent of the drivers blew right through the stop sign.
Back at the studio, the news anchor expressed shock at the "blatant disregard for children, the laws, everything in this neighborhood." He called the situation "unbelievable." It may have been unbelievable in the anchor's neighborhood, but in urban St. Louis, reckless driving is something of a norm.
If these local news people were willing to shed some light on a serious problem, their betters at the Washington Post prefer to keep their readers in the dark. A recent Post article that focused on St. Louis led with the perfectly useless headline "Pedestrian deaths soar nationally as SUV use increases."
The reporter made the case that pedestrian deaths nationwide were up 46 percent from 2009 and attributed the increase to there being more SUVs on the road. This correlation explained close to nothing. From 2006 to 2013, as SUVs increased in number, pedestrian deaths declined, as did overall auto fatalities, the latter by 25 percent.
Pedestrian fatalities did not start spiking until 2015. In that year, they increased 9 percent from the prior year. In 2016, they increased 12 percent over the total in 2015. The 2017 numbers were almost identical to those of 2016.
As it happens, pedestrian fatalities track closely with homicides. This may not be a coincidence. From 2006 to 2014, homicides nationwide declined steadily save for a minor blip in 2012. This trend resulted in 3,000 fewer murders in 2014 than in 2006.
After August 2014, the trend abruptly reversed itself. In 2015, murders rose at their fastest pace in a quarter-century. In 2016, America experienced 17,250 murders, 3,086 more than in 2014. In sum, from 2014 to 2016, homicides increased 21 percent, and pedestrian traffic deaths increased 22 percent.
There appears to have been a precipitating event, certainly for homicides. In August 2014, Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri. A furor ensued, particularly in the St. Louis area, where Ferguson is located. The police pulled back to protect themselves from physical harm and legal jeopardy, and the thugs moved in to fill the void left behind.
Not surprisingly, the so-called "Ferguson effect" has had its most dramatic impact on Missouri. In 2013, there were 120 murders in St. Louis. In 2015, post-Ferguson, there were 188. In 2017, there were 205, a 71-percent increase from 2013. Kansas City went from 76 homicides in 2014 to 149 in 2017, a 96-percent increase.
The Ferguson effect appears to have influenced driving habits as well, especially after the release of Attorney General Eric Holder's "scathing" March 2015 report. Unable to nail Wilson for the shooting, Holder called out the whole Ferguson Police Department for its "implicit and explicit racism."
Holder cited as evidence the fact that blacks accounted for 85 percent of traffic stops in a city that was 67 percent black. Local and national media latched on to this story and did not limit their criticism to Ferguson. Cops throughout the state, if not the nation, got the message.
Years earlier, New Jersey trooper union vice president Dave Jones spoke to the effect of these a priori condemnations on the police psyche. "There's a tremendous demoralizing effect of being guilty until proven innocent," said Jones after his fellow troopers came under scrutiny from the Clinton Justice Department. "Anyone you interact with can claim you've made a race-based stop, and you spend years defending yourself."
The St. Louis numbers seem to confirm Jones's concern. In 2015, as homicides were soaring in the city, so were pedestrian deaths. They increased from 5 to 21 in just one year and have eased only a little in the years since. Just as with homicides, blacks are more likely to be the victims of a fatal pedestrian encounter than are members of other races. Nationwide, they are 87 percent more likely to be killed in pedestrian accidents than whites.
The release early this month of the annual report on vehicle stops by the Missouri attorney general's office will only make life more dangerous for black pedestrians. The AP's Jim Salter hit all the predictably false notes in his write up on the report.
"Nearly four years after protests in Ferguson raised concerns about racial profiling of blacks in Missouri," Salter wrote, "a report from the state attorney general shows that African-American drivers are 85 percent more likely to be pulled over than whites – the highest percentage in the 18 years the state has compiled data."
Salter talked about the "disparity index" with a willfully ignorant NAACP rep straight out of central casting. "Quite frankly, it's really deplorable," said John Gaskin of St. Louis. "It's why we've ended up in a situation where people are talking about travel advisories and African-American groups are less likely to come and do business in our state."
A look at the actual report, however, suggests that the perceived disparity is much more likely to be a result of black driving habits than police biases. Yes, statistically, blacks were 85 percent more likely to be stopped than whites.
What the media did not report, however, is that blacks were 129 percent more likely to be stopped than Hispanics, 224 percent more likely to be stopped than Asians, and 400 percent more likely to be stopped than American Indians.
The possibility that different ethnic groups have, in general, different driving habits should not have come as news to those paid to report the news. In 2002, the New Jersey attorney general commissioned a study to determine driving habits by race. The study found that 25 percent of those driving 15 or more miles above the speed limit on the New Jersey Turnpike were black despite the fact that they made up only 16 percent of the drivers. The disparity was even higher at higher speeds.
As Heather Mac Donald reported in a much discussed City Journal article, "[b]lack drivers speed twice as much as white drivers, and speed at reckless levels even more." In fact, blacks were stopped less by troopers than their driving habits might have predicted.
The New Jersey study was the most authoritative one ever done on the subject. The study should have put an end to the incendiary articles that scorch America's police departments every time a new traffic stop report is released, but it obviously has not.
Instead, the media ask their audiences to ignore all inconvenient statistics, all logic about police motives, and even the fatal consequences to black pedestrians for no better reason than to perpetuate the myth that law enforcement practices are "deplorable." Cops have heard that word before, and that is one reason why Donald Trump is president.
A Window Into a Depraved Culture
The Chicago torture video provides a close-up look at gang-centered criminal mayhem.
Anti-police activists and the mainstream media are incensed at the suggestion that the Black Lives Matter movement could have influenced the behavior of the four individuals in Chicago who tortured a disabled white man for hours last week while yelling “Fuck white people” and “Fuck Donald Trump.” In one sense, the activists and media are right: The influences were broader than that. They include the reign of racial victimology, inner-city gang culture, and black anti-white animus.
We live in Ta-Nehesi Coates’s America, characterized by the assumption that blacks are the eternal targets of lethal white oppression. Coates’s central thesis in Between the World and Me, his acclaimed phantasmagoria of racial victimology, is that America continuously aspires to the “shackling” and “destruction” of “black bodies.”
Chicago’s four torturers certainly have not read Between the World and Me. But the book’s worldview echoes throughout our society, including in the inner city. Michelle Alexander’s equally publicized book, The New Jim Crow, argues that the U.S. seeks to reimpose de facto segregation on blacks via the criminal justice system. Alexander has been a staple on black media, among many other outlets. President Obama has insisted, even up to his last days in office, that blacks are the victims of a racist criminal-justice system. The press routinely disseminates phony statistics that purport to demonstrate a police war on blacks. These ideas matter.
Black Lives Matter ideology is just a more in-your-face manifestation of the Coatesian conceit that blacks are living in a system determined to destroy them. The Chicago Black Lives Matter chapter embraces the motto “Stop killing us,” aimed at the Chicago Police Department. It chants: “CPD, KKK: How many children did you kill today?” (The answer is: Virtually none. Last year, over 3,400 people in Chicago were shot, overwhelmingly black. Victims included 24 children 12 years of age or younger. The Chicago cops shot 25 people, virtually all armed and dangerous, or .6 percent of the total.) The Chicago Black Lives Matter chapter disseminates inflammatory lies about the Chicago police, such as that BLM activist Ja’Mal Green was beaten for 30 hours following an arrest for battery against an officer and trying to disarm an officer. Increasing the size of the Chicago Police department, per the Chicago BLM, will simply result in “more killings by police, more police torture and violence.”
These anti-law enforcement claims reinforce existing anti-white animus in the inner city. The notion that the dominant or exclusive racism in America today is white anti-black racism is absurd. Though many urban residents harbor no racial animosity, the recurrent “Fuck Whitey” and “Kill the cops” themes in rap music are not accidental. (Sample: “Kill the White people; we gonna make them hurt; kill the White people; but buy my record first,” by Apache, adopting without obvious irony lines from an Eddie Murphy parody; “The White man is the devil… Drive-by shooting on this White genetic mutant,” by Menace Clan.) I have been warned by residents of one East Harlem housing project not to go to a neighboring project because “they really hate whites there.”
Even if there weren’t already a strain of racial hostility in inner-city culture, the constant establishment refrain that whites oppress blacks at every opportunity would create it. Every highly publicized cop assassination in the last two years has triggered gloating on social media. Ja’Mal Green told the New York Times that the assassination of five Dallas police officers was “not a setback at all” for Black Lives Matter. The Dallas gunman had said he wanted to kill white people and white cops. Though Green insisted that he was not encouraging violence, he said that the assassination showed “the people of this country that black people are getting to a boiling point. We are tired of watching police kill our brothers and sisters. We are tired of being tired.” At some point, there “comes a time when black people will snap,” he said. While one is grateful for Green’s avowal not to be encouraging violence, such sentiments come close to rationalizing it.
The establishment typically looks the other way at manifestations of black anti-white animus. Racism in rap music is usually ignored. The Associated Press excluded any reference to the race of the victim and assailants in its initial report on the Chicago torture episode, as John Hinderaker observed at Powerline, and merely noted that police were investigating a “beating” captured on social media. The AP’s follow-up report acknowledged that someone in the video appeared to use profanities about “white people” and that the victim “appeared to be white,” while “others shown in the video appeared to be black.”
Radley Balko rushed to tweet out that the Chicago kidnapping is not a trend because since 2001, 80–85 percent of white murder victims were killed by whites. True, but the percentage of blacks killed by blacks is higher. From 1980 to 2008, 93 percent of black victims were killed by blacks. White-on-black homicides are much rarer than black-on-white homicides. The vast bulk of interracial violence is committed by blacks. In 2012, blacks committed 560,600 acts of violence against whites, and whites committed 99,403 acts of violence against blacks, according to data from the National Crime Victimization Survey provided to the author:
Distribution of violent victimizations, by race/Hispanic origin of victim and perceived race/Hispanic origin of offender, 2012–2013
Blacks, in other words, committed 85% of the interracial crimes between blacks and whites, even though they are 13 percent of the population.
This data accords with the last published report on interracial crime from the Bureau of Justice Statistics; the Bureau stopped publishing its table on interracial crime after 2008, the first year of the Obama presidency.
Some portion of those black-on-white crimes may be driven by the same racial hostility that gives rise to urban flash mobs and the knockout game. As Dead Prez rapped: “We gonna order take out and when we see the driver/We gonna stick the 25 up in his face . . . White boy in the wrong place at the right time.” Even if the higher rate of black-on-white violence is simply a product of blacks’ higher rate of violence generally, that violent crime rate is another fact suppressed by the mainstream media whenever possible. In response to the Chicago torture video, Callum Borchers of the Washington Postsneered at conservatives’ supposed delusions, such as that “Chicago is a war zone.” This idea struck Borchers as so preposterous that he repeated it later in his column: “Oh, and by the way, Chicago (the part inhabited mostly by black people, anyway) is a super-dangerous place, just like Trump said.”
One wonders how quickly Collum would move his family out of the allegedly pacific South and West Sides of Chicago if he actually had to live there. The following is a partial sampling of crime headlines from Chicago papers over the last few weeks, in reverse chronological order:
FAMILY SINGALONG ENDS AS BULLETS FLY THROUGH CAR WINDOW ON PULASKI ROAD
SHOOTINGS KILL 4 PEOPLE, WOUND 24 SINCE SATURDAY, POLICE SAY [referring to the 24-hour period from December 31, 2016 to January 1, 2017]
TWO BOYS, 16, KILLED IN SHOOTING THAT ALSO WOUNDED 65-YEAR-OLD WOMAN
A VIOLENT CHRISTMAS IN A VIOLENT YEAR FOR CHICAGO: 11 KILLED, 50 WOUNDED
BROTHERS KILLED, 5 OTHER PEOPLE WOUNDED IN CHRISTMAS SHOOTING
3 KILLED, 17 WOUNDED IN CITY SHOOTINGS
4 DEAD IN FERNWOOD ATTACK, 15 OTHERS WOUNDED IN SHOOTINGS
3 WOUNDED IN PARTY BUS SHOOTING NEAR LAKE SHORE DRIVE
WOMAN RAPED BY ARMED MEN AFTER ROBBERY IN HUMBOLDT PARK
MAN WHO ATTACKED, ROBBED 94-YEAR-OLD GARFIELD RIDGE WOMAN SOUGHT BY POLICE
47 SHOOTINGS SO FAR ON EXPRESSWAYS IN CHICAGO, 10 ABOVE ALL OF LAST YEAR
BOY, 16, SHOT ON HIS WAY TO SCHOOL — BUT WENT TO CLASS ANYWAY
INBOUND EISENHOWER SHUT DOWN AFTER SHOOTOUT BETWEEN CARS
MEN CHARGED WITH ROBBING WOMEN WALKING ALONE IN LAKEVIEW, POLICE SAY
SHOOTINGS KILL 9, WOUND 66 OVER THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY, POLICE SAY
Or maybe Borchers is only interested in the white areas of Chicago, which are not yet a “war zone.”
Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King, responding to the Chicago torture, rejected the idea of speaking out “on crimes committed by black folk because nobody in this country is held more responsible for the crimes they commit, and even the crimes they don’t commit, than black folk in America. . . . American prisons are full of black folk who are being held responsible for every mistake they’ve ever made.” Try telling that to Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson. Johnson regularly bemoans the fact that convicted gun felons in Chicago have little to fear from the criminal-justice system, because they are so quickly back on the streets following a shooting. The Illinois Black Caucus has blocked stiffer penalties for gun crime.
The victims of a November 2016 robbery spree in Chicago may also disagree with King that the criminal-justice system is vindictive against black criminals. Isaiah Scaife had already been convicted of theft, attempted theft, criminal trespass, and possession of a stolen motor vehicle before he turned 18, according to DNAInfo. He continued to commit gun crimes as a young adult. At age 19, after a conviction for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, Scaife was already out on parole. That’s when he began his five-day crime spree on November 18, robbing a Subway store’s customers after sticking his gun in a baby’s face and trying to manhandle his way behind the restaurant’s counter. A few minutes later, he robbed a man leaving a Citgo gas station, beating the victim unconscious with his gun before shooting him in the face. The next day, Scaife returned to the same Subway, where he robbed and choked a man while a juvenile accomplice pointed a gun at the victim. A few days later, Scaife pulled a gun on a man at another gas station and stole his possessions and car. At his arraignment, he yelled at the court deputies: “I’m going to spit on your ass.”
Scaife is hardly unique. A huge percentage of violent crime is committed by people with serious criminal histories who are free to continue terrorizing the innocent. And, pace King, if you commit a drug crime, you’ll get more leniency in a large urban jurisdiction than in a rural county, where sentences for white drug dealers dwarf those of inner-city traffickers, according to the New York Times.
At least one of the Facebook torture assailants belonged to the gang culture that produces Chicago’s violent crime. Tesfaye Cooper posted a video on his YouTube channel in October in which he points a rifle at the camera and says: “I’ll put a bullet in your ass,” reports DNAInfo Chicago. Cooper’s Facebook page glorifies him posing with guns and paying homage to local murderers. His raps threaten to kill people who disrespect him and his crew.
The violence in the Chicago torture video does not arise in a vacuum. Most residents of inner-city areas are hardworking bourgeois citizens longing to live in safety and in racial harmony. But the video opens a window into a culture that America would prefer to turn its eyes away from—and which it has helped create.
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of the New York Times bestseller The War on Cops.
Ten Minnesota football players who were accused of gang rape of student and suspended will NOT face criminal charges due to 'lack of evidence'
Ten football players were suspended by the school in connection with an alleged sexual assault near campus in the early morning hours of September 2
In the alleged incident, one woman was said to have been the victim of a sexual assault by 10 to 20 members of the football team
Minnesota prosecutor said there wasn't enough evidence to pursue a criminal case, although he called the players' behavior 'deplorable'
The school conducted its own investigation and saw fit to indefinitely suspend 10 players involved, prompting the team to threaten a boycott of a bowl game
Report revealed that the woman recalled a group of members of the team 'lining up like they were waiting for a turn on her'
One team member also told investigators he heard the woman saying 'I don't want to' and 'this is too many people' and that she was in pain
Ten suspended University of Minnesota football players will not face criminal charges in connection with an alleged sexual assault of a 22-year-old female student.
The woman claimed she had been assaulted by 10 to 20 men on the team who 'lined up like they were waiting for a turn on her' after their season-opening victory against Oregon State on September 2.
But Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman has declined for the second time to charge any of the players, despite calling their behavior 'deplorable'.
Freeman previously decided not to prosecute the players in November, until the school's own investigation revealed troubling details about the alleged assault.
After reviewing that report, Freeman stood by his November decision, saying the school's investigation didn't add sufficient evidence to warrant criminal charges.
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University of Minnesota football players Antonio Shenault, Kobe McCrary and Mark Williams were among those suspended for the alleged sexual assault of a 22-year-old female student
Ray Buford, Carlton Djam, KiAnte Hardin and Dior Johnson were also suspended, although none of the 10 players will face criminal charges, it was revealed on Friday
Football players Tamarion Johnson (left), Seth Green (center) and Antoine Winfield Jr. (right) were also idefinitely suspended from all team activities
'That report shined a light on what can only be described as deplorable behavior,' Freeman said in a statement.
'Reviewing the full report and comparing it to the criminal investigation file shows no new significant evidence that would enable prosecutors to bring charges against any individuals that could be sustained under our much higher standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt,' he added.
The university said in a statement that it respects Freeman's decision, but noted their own suspensions of the players stem from different standards and policies than the criminal process Freeman worked through.
UM indefinitely suspended the 10 players after completing its own investigation.
Kiante Hardin, Ray Buford, Dior Johnson and Tamarion Johnson were suspended in September.
Carlton Djam, Seth Green, Kobe McCrary, Antonio Shenault, Mark Williams and Antoine Winfield Jr were suspended in December after the school's Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action issued its report on the assault.
A redacted copy of the 82-page report was published by local TV station KSTP and revealed the woman's horrifying recollection of the night.
The victim, who reported the alleged attack the morning after it happened, told police she was at the game that night before attending multiple parties.
At the last party she attended, the woman recalled meeting two members of the team, one of whom was a recruit.
One of the men lived in the same complex the party was being held and invited her back to the apartment with the recruit.
The woman recalled feeling 'uncomfortable' after with the situation after she entered the apartment and went to the bathroom.
One of the men told her she was taking too long and when she came outside he stood between her and the apartment's front door in a manner that made her feel 'unable to leave', according to the Pioneer Press.
The two men then began to take off their clothes and the woman felt 'overpowered', 'confused' and 'trapped'.
She told the school she felt she had no way out of the situation, which she said quickly escalated.
Prosecutor Mike Freeman declined to charge any of the players, despite calling their behavior 'deplorable' (pictured is the team celebrating after winning the Holiday Bowl Tuesday)
The Gophers had initially announced they planned to boycott the Holiday Bowl following their teammates' suspension, but ended it two days later following immense backlash
At one point the victim recalled seeing a 'line of people, like they were waiting for their turn' on her.
One of the players revealed he had received a FaceTime call from one of the men involved in the threesome who claimed the woman in his room was 'down with it', meaning she was 'willing to have sex with others', the report reads.
While most of the players involved claimed their sexual interactions with the woman had been consensual, one teammate told investigators that 'she didn't seem to like it'.
He recalled players gathering outside the bedroom door and that men were talking about who would go 'next'.
The player revealed someone said the group was 'training her', meaning multiple men were lining up to have sex with her.
He told investigators that at one point he peeked into the bedroom and heard the woman say 'I don't want to' and 'this is too many people' and that she was in pain.
The player said he had told the teammate who first initiated the threesome that things seemed to be getting out of hand, but they only replied: 'No man, she straight'.
But the player's recollection matches that of the woman, who said she remembered 'yelling for them to stop sending people in the room because she couldn't handle it', the report reads.
The victim also told investigators that sh wrapped herself in a blanket that was on the bed at one point to try and 'shield herself from people in the room'.
She also recalled two of the men 'trying to force their penises into her mouth' while another 'had vaginal sex with her', it continues.
The victim said she believed she was 'being held down' during some moments and that she remembered 'trying to push people off her by pushing on their stomachs and being unsuccessful'.
Their boycott, which the team announced two weeks ago (pictured), was supported by Head Coach Tracy Claeys
She also recalled men grabbing her hair and forcing her head toward their genitals.
The woman told investigators she 'focused on the ceiling' to try and get through the ordeal, telling them she often felt 'confused' and 'dazed'.
An hour to an hour and a half passed by before the last man finished.
The victim said the man looked down at the ground, which was littered with condoms, and said 'Oh my god'.
She said the man asked her in the hallway of the apartment if she was okay and she replied, 'I don't know'.
He then asked her if she planned to tell anyone what happened.
The woman said she immediately began to cry when she left the apartment.
'She realized she had no idea what had happened to her, expect that men had had sex with her, she had been violated and she felt physical pain,' the report reads.
The report concluded that the victim’s account of that night was more credible than the players it interviewed, and said some players tried to impede the university’s investigation into the incident by deleting text messages and video footage.
Several players face permanent expulsion from the university, while others could be suspended for a year.
Two days after the suspension was announced, the football team revealed they planned to boycott all remaining events including the Holiday Bowl.
Their boycott, which lasted just two days after it faced immense backlash, was supported by Head Coach Tracy Claeys.
More than 3,000 people have signed a petition calling for Claeys, who has two years remaining on his contract, to be fired.
Athletic director Mark Coyle, who made the decision regarding the suspensions, has said he plans to meet with the football coach in the near future.
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More than 3,000 people have signed a petition calling for Claeys, who has two years remaining on his contract, to be fired
BLACK LIVES WHO HOME INVADE.
5,000 HOME INVASIONS BY BLACK
GANGS.
An army of law enforcement officers led by Torrance police arrested 13 reputed South Los Angeles gang members Friday in a massive pre-dawn operation to break up an organized ring believed responsible for some 5,000 residential burglaries in five Southern California counties.
The $100 million gift is an acknowledgment by a powerful section of the ruling class that the aims of the Black Lives Matter movement are aligned with those of Wall Street and the US government.
Judging by video evidence, the participants in the violent mall brawls over the Christmas weekend were overwhelmingly black teens, though white teens were also involved. The media have assiduously ignored this fact, of course, as they have for previous violent flash mob episodes. That disproportion has significance for the next administration’s school-discipline policies, however. If Donald Trump wants to make schools safe again, he must rescind the Obama administration’s diktats regarding classroom discipline, which are based on a fantasy version of reality that is having serious real-world consequences.
The Obama Justice and Education Departments have strong-armed schools across the country to all but eliminate the suspension and expulsion of insubordinate students. The reason? Because black students are disciplined at higher rates than whites. According to Washington bureaucrats, such disproportionate suspensions can mean only one thing: teachers and administrators are racist. The Obama administration rejects the proposition that black students are more likely to assault teachers or fight with other students in class. The so-called “school to prison” pipeline is a function of bias, not of behavior, they say.
This week’s mall violence, which injured several police and security officers, is just the latest piece of evidence for how counterfactual that credo is. A routine complaint in police-community meetings in minority areas is that large groups of teens are fighting on corners. Residents of the South Bronx’s 41st Precinct complained repeatedly to the precinct commander in a June 2015 meeting about such street disorder. “There’s too much fighting,” one woman said. “There was more than 100 kids the other day; they beat on a girl about 14 years old.” In April 2016, a 17-year-old girl in Coney Island, Brooklyn, Ta’Jae Warner, tried to protect her brother from a group of girls gathered outside her apartment building who were threatening to kill him; one of the group knocked her unconscious. She died four days later. At a meeting in the 23rd Precinct in East Harlem in 2015, residents asked why the police hadn’t stopped a recent stampede of youth down Third Avenue. In April 2012, a group of teens stomped a gang rival to death in a Bronx housing project.
The idea that such street behavior does not have a classroom counterpart is ludicrous. Black males between the ages of 14 and 17 commit homicide at ten times the rate of white and Hispanic males of the same age. The lack of socialization that produces such a vast disparity in murder rates, as well as less lethal street violence, inevitably will show up in classroom behavior. Teens who react to a perceived insult on social media by trying to shoot the offender are not likely to restrain themselves in the classroom if they feel “disrespected” by a teacher or fellow students. Interviews with teachers confirm the proposition that children from communities with high rates of family breakdown bring vast amounts of disruptive anger to school, especially girls. It is no surprise that several of the Christmas riots began with fights between girls. School officials in urban areas across the country set up security corridors manned by police officers at school dismissal times to avoid gang shootings. And yet, the Obama administration would have us believe that in the classroom, black students are no more likely to disrupt order than white students. Equally preposterous is the claim that teachers and administrators are bigots. There is no more liberal a profession than teaching; education schools are one long indoctrination in white-privilege theory. And yet when these social-justice warriors get in the classroom, according to the Obama civil rights lawyers, they start wielding invidious double standards in discipline.
The best solution to such alleged teacher racism, according to the Obama Justice and Education Departments, is to pressure teachers to keep unruly students in the classroom rather than removing them. This movement goes by the name of “restorative justice;” its result has been anarchy, adding a school-to-hospital pipeline to the school-to-prison pipeline. The St. Paul school district has been in the restorative-justice vanguard. Assaults on teachers tripled in 2015, reports Katherine Kersten of the Center for the American Experiment; one teacher sustained a traumatic brain injury, while another required staples in her head. Melees of 40 to 50 people (resembling the mall violence) are common, according to Kersten; roving packs of students attack isolated individuals. One high school issued emergency whistles to teachers. (Kersten has a full-length feature story on the St. Paul schools in City Journal’s upcoming issue.)
Over the last year, a Seattle school district in the throes of “restorative justice” experienced an alleged gang rape and several student deaths. Criminal charges, including murder, were filed against a group of students not yet out of middle school, reports the Seattle Times. Teachers’ unions in Fresno, Des Moines, New York City, and Indianapolis have all lodged complaints about the anti-discipline philosophy, according to Education Week. The Fresno teachers signed a petition pointing out that students are returned to class after cursing at teachers and physically assaulting them, without suffering any consequences. Fresno’s teachers have been injured trying to stop fights; some are retiring because teaching where severely disruptive students cannot be dislodged has become impossible. In Des Moines, students now hit and scream at each other and their teachers, reports the Des Moines Register.
Undeterred by such news, the Obama administration has rolled out reams of material for combatting supposed teacher racism. Since 2014 alone, it has produced a School Climate and Discipline Guidance Package, a Rethink Discipline Public Awareness Campaign, a Resource Guide for Superintendent Action, a National Resource Center for School Justice Partnerships, a template for “School Climate Surveys,” and a “Quick Guide on Making School Climate Improvements.” The DOJ is “investing” $1 million (read: showering money on left-wing consultants) for the Pyramid Equity Project, which is supposed to establish national models for addressing issues of implicit bias in early learning programs.
Naturally, federal litigation has followed. Just this month, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division imposed a consent decree on the Watson Chapel, Arkansas, School District, after suing it for racially discriminatory school-discipline practices. Those practices “prevent students of color from reaching their full potential,” according to Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta. A federal court will continue to have jurisdiction over the school until the DOJ declares it in absolute compliance with the decree, a process anticipated to take three years.
Given this threat of lawsuits, it’s no wonder that district superintendents dismiss the rising violence and announce that restorative justice is “working.” It’s certainly “worked” to reduce expulsions and suspensions—in Seattle, by a whopping 77 percent from 2013 to 2016. Never mind that students aren’t learning and teachers are at risk.
The Trump administration must tear up every guidance and mandate in the Justice and Education Departments that penalize school districts for disproportionate rates of school discipline. Absent clear proof of teacher or administrator racism, Washington should let schools correct student behavioral problems as they see fit. Students in classrooms where disruption is common are far less likely to learn; that is the civil rights problem that should get activists’ attention. Taxpayer dollars should not be funding specious federal crusades against phantom discrimination; school districts might have more resources if their local taxpayers were not also being hit by federal levies, which are redistributed around the country in the delusional pursuit of “social justice.” Until the two-parent family is reconstructed, classrooms remain the only hope for socializing children and for preventing the teen violence that broke out across the country this Christmas. Schools can only accomplish that civilizing mission, however, if they are allowed to insist on strict rules, respect for authority, and consequences for misconduct.
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of the New York Times bestseller The War on Cops.
The $100 million gift is an acknowledgment by a powerful section of the ruling class that the aims of the Black Lives Matter movement are aligned with those of Wall Street and the US government.
STAGGERING BLACK VIOLENCE IN AMERICA WHERE JOBS STILL GO TO ILLEGALS
An army of law enforcement officers led by Torrance police arrested 13 reputed South Los Angeles gang members Friday in a massive pre-dawn operation to break up an organized ring believed responsible for some 5,000 residential burglaries in five Southern California counties.
AMERICA: LAND OF FREE COP MURDERS ON INNOCENT PEOPLE
Of the 25 people shot to death by the police in the past week, beginning with Tyre King, at least half were white, according to the grisly tally kept by killed by police.net.
Of the 702 people shot to death by police this year, according to a database maintained by the Washington Post, 163 were black men, about 23 percent of the total. Whites made up roughly half the victims, while Hispanics, Native Americans, Asians, black women and people of mixed race made up the balance.
AMERICA’S YOUTH STARVE
FOR EIGHT YEARS BARACK OBAMA AND HIS HAREM OF CORRUPT DEM POLS HAVE SABOTAGED OUR BORDERS TO EASE TENS OF MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS INTO OUR JOBS, WELFARE OFFICES AND VOTING BOOTHS.
What is left for Legals is only the tax bills for La Raza's looting!
The new reports show that in addition to “traditional” coping strategies of skipping meals and eating cheap food, these teens and pre-teens are increasingly forced into shoplifting, stealing, selling drugs, joining a gang, or selling their bodies for money in a struggle to eat properly.
AMERICA’S YOUTH STARVE…… ILLEGALS SUCK IN BILLIONS IN WELFARE… they also get our jobs!
The new reports show that in addition to “traditional” coping strategies of skipping meals and eating cheap food, these teens and pre-teens are increasingly forced into shoplifting, stealing, selling drugs, joining a gang, or selling their bodies for money in a struggle to eat properly.
“The report noted that many illegals don't have jobs or have difficulty in landing good jobs because of local laws.”
“However, it identified several states that have begun easing employment laws so that illegals can get a job.”
TRUMPERNOMICS:
"The collection of billionaires, bankers, CEOs, generals and social arch-reactionaries that will comprise his cabinet and White House inner circle is pledged to remove all constraints on the ability of the rich to plunder American society for their own personal gain and profit."
AMERICA: One paycheck and two illegals away from homelessness.
CHICAGO (AP) — Four black people were charged with hate crimes Thursday in connection with a video broadcast live on Facebook that showed a mentally disabled white man being beaten and taunted, threatened with a knife and forced to drink from a toilet.
The assault went on for hours, until Chicago police found the disoriented victim walking along a street, authorities said.
The suspects, who were jailed, can be heard on the video using profanities against white people and President-elect Donald Trump.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said investigators initially concluded that the 18-year-old man was singled out because he has “special needs,” not because he was white. But authorities later said the charges resulted from both the suspects’ use of racial slurs and their references to the victim’s disability.
It’s also possible that the suspects were trying to extort something from the victim’s family, police said. The man’s parents reported their son missing Monday and told authorities they later received text messages from people who claimed to be holding him captive.
The victim was a classmate of one of the attackers and initially went with that person voluntarily, police said.
“He’s traumatized by the incident, and it’s very tough to communicate with him at this point,” police Cmdr. Kevin Duffin said.
Excerpts of the video posted by Chicago media outlets show the victim with his mouth taped shut and slumped in a corner of a room. At least two assailants are seen cutting off his sweatshirt, and others taunt him off camera. The video shows a wound on the top of the man’s head. One person pushes the man’s head with his or her foot.
A red band also appears to be around the victim’s hands. He was tied up for four to five hours, authorities said.
The victim does not appear to make any attempt to defend himself or to escape his attackers. He is a suburban Chicago resident described by Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson as having “mental health challenges.”
“There was never a question whether or not this incident qualified as being investigated as a hate crime,” Johnson said. But “we need to base the investigation on facts and not emotion.”
The case heightened political tensions on social media, with some conservatives suggesting it was linked to the Black Lives Matter movement. Police said there was no indication of any connection.
The incident began Dec. 31, when the victim and one of the suspects, 18-year-old Jordan Hill, met at a suburban McDonald’s to begin what both the victim and his parents believed would be a sleepover, police said.
Instead, Hill drove the victim around in a stolen van for a couple of days, ending up at a home in Chicago, where two of the other suspects lived, detective Cmdr. Kevin Duffin said.
The victim told police what began as playful fighting escalated, and he was bound, beaten and taunted with racial slurs and disparaging comments about his mental capacity.
A downstairs neighbor who heard noises threatened to call police. When two of the suspects left and kicked down the neighbor’s door, the victim escaped. A police officer later spotted the obviously disoriented man wandering down a street.
The man was bloodied and wearing a tank top that was inside-out and backward. He had on jean shorts and sandals, despite freezing weather, officer Michael Donnelly said.
Most hate crimes are connected to the victim’s race, but hate-crime charges can be sought in Illinois if a victim’s mental disability sparked an attack, though it is rare.
In addition to hate crimes, the four were charged with kidnapping, aggravated battery and aggravated unlawful restraint. Three were also charged with burglary. It was unclear whether any of the suspects had attorneys. They were to appear in court Friday.
Family members of the victim spoke briefly to reporters Thursday at a suburban hotel but declined to comment on the allegations or the investigation.
Neal Strom, who is acting as a family spokesman, told The Associated Press that the victim has had “profound emotional and physical disabilities throughout his life.” He did not elaborate.
The grandmother of a young woman associated with the video said the granddaughter she raised from infancy is “not this person.”
“I’m so upset, my head is about to bust open,” said Priscilla Covington of Chicago. “I don’t know if someone influenced her … She had her ups and down. (She) was a good person. I’m so confused.”
In Washington, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the beating demonstrated “a level of depravity that is an outrage to a lot of Americans.” He said he had not yet spoken to President Barack Obama about the attack in the president’s hometown.
Cook County prosecutors identified the suspects as Brittany Covington and Tesfaye Cooper, both of Chicago, and Hill, of suburban Carpentersville. All are 18. A fourth suspect was identified as 24-year-old Tanishia Covington, also of Chicago.
The video emerged at a time when police dealings with Chicago’s black community are being closely watched. Less than a year ago, the nation’s third-largest police force was sharply criticized by a task force for using excessive force and honoring a code of silence.
The department has also been the subject of a long civil-rights investigation by the Justice Department, which is expected to report its findings soon.