THE SILENT AMERICAN JEWS Caroline B. Glick 6- 26-20

THE SILENT AMERICAN JEWS

Caroline B. Glick     6- 26-20

https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/06/26/the-silent-american-jews/


The silence of the Jews of America in the face of rising anti-Semitism is stunning.
Over the Shavuot festival on May 30, members of Black Lives Matter, (BLM) carried out a pogrom in Fairfax, the oldest Jewish community in Los Angeles, largely populated today by ultra-Orthodox Jews. They vandalized five synagogues and three Jewish schools. Most of the Jewish businesses on Fairfax Avenue were looted.

As Daniel Greenfield reported at Frontpage, Allyson Rowen Taylor, a co-founder of StandWithUs shared an account of the riots in which they chanted, "F**k the police and kill the Jews."

Aryeh Rosenfeld, whose store was looted, told the Jerusalem Post that when he came to defend his store there were people driving through the streets screaming, "effing Jews," at the Jewish store owners.

Greenfield revealed that the Jews were not incidental victims in a larger night of "anti-racist" rioting by BLM. BLM in Los Angeles is led by outspoken anti-Semites with intimate ties to the virulently anti-Semitic Nation of Islam.

Over the past several years both the BLM-Los Angeles head Melina Abdullah and her daughter Thandiwe Abdullah, who is the co-founder of the BLM Youth Vanguard, have racked up long records of anti-Semitic rants and fawning praise for Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan. Farrakhan who has praised Hitler, recently called Jews "termites," and obsessively rails against Judaism and Jews.

As its charter makes clear, BLM itself is structurally anti-Semitic.

While accusing Israel of committing "genocide," BLM blames Israel for the US war against militant Islam. Its charter states, "The US justifies and advances the global war on terror via its alliance with Israel and is complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian people."

According to the BLM charter, US military aid to Israel is the foundation of America's problems.  Because of US military aid to Israel, BLM alleges, "Every year billions of dollars are funneled from US taxpayers to hundreds of arms corporations, who then wage lobbying campaigns pushing for even more foreign military aid. The results of this policy are twofold: it not only diverts much needed funding from domestic education and social programs, but it makes US citizens complicit in the abuses committed by the Israeli government."

In other words, Israel is the root of America's troubles at home and abroad.

The charter accuses Israel of being an "apartheid state," and supports the anti-Semitic boycott, sanctions and divestment campaign against Israel. It calls for local, state and federal action against Israel. Among other things, BLM demands that the US military budget be cut by 50%, "which will lead to the closure of over 800 US military bases in the US and around the world, and the elimination of the sale of weaponry to violators of human rights, reduces the use and stockpiling of nuclear weapons and return all troops back from the current theaters of war."

So for BLM, anti-Semitism isn't a bug. It is a feature. Hatred of Israel and the Jews is part of its DNA.

This brings us back the pogrom over Shavuot in LA.

Two aspects of the Shavuot pogrom expose the increasingly problematic nature of the relationship between the American Jewish community and the American left.

The first is the media's indifference to anti-Jewish violence. Aside from a few Jewish reporters and Orthodox websites, the Shavuot pogrom was largely ignored. And when it was reported, the deliberately anti-Semitic character of the attacks was either downplayed or ignored altogether.

The media's refusal to cover the pogrom makes clear that most US media outlets have accepted the limits on freedom of speech dictated by the left. Identity politics now dominate the left in America. BLM controls identity politics.

BLM considers Jews oppressors, not victims. So attacking them is not an act of bigotry. Jews – particularly Israeli Jews, Zionist Jews and Jews who dress in ways that identify them as Jews – are fair game. After all, if Zionism is Nazism and apartheid, then Israelis, Zionist Jews and "Jewy" Jews are racists. The graffiti on Beth El synagogue in Fairfax told the tale. "F**k Israel, Free Palestine," they wrote.

The media's subservience to the identity politics mob was exposed earlier this month by the forced resignation of The New York Times' op-ed editor James Bennet and his deputy for the thought crime of publishing an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton calling for the riots to be quelled – by military force if necessary.

This week, NYT announced their replacements. Charlotte Greensit from the Intercept will be associate op-ed editor and managing editor of the Times.

Greensit is a member of the mob. As such, last month she participated in the left's newest blood libel that Israel is responsible for the alleged systemic racism of American law enforcement agencies when she tweeted, "Israeli security forces are training American cops despite history of rights abuses."

The Times, which has long peppered its news stories with anti-Semitic undertones can be expected to double down on its anti-Jewish slant with Greensit in place.

The second aspect of the Shavuot pogrom that bears consideration is the low-key responses it generated from the Jewish community. Aside from a pro-forma statement by the Anti-Defamation League's Los Angeles office, the Jewish organization that proclaims itself the go-to place for calling out and fighting anti-Semitism has been mum. Even the modern Orthodox communities in Los Angeles failed to condemn the attack on their ultra-Orthodox neighbors.

Greenfield reported that while the modern Orthodox synagogues quickly removed their Torah scrolls from their prayer halls to protect them from possible looters, the modern Orthodox communities refused to condemn the rioters even as they quickly removed their Torah scrolls from their synagogues to protect them. Rather than condemn the BLM rioters targeting their community and expressing solidarity with the victims and the police who stopped the riots from spreading, local modern Orthodox leaders told their communities to support BLM bigots and atone for their own imagined racist crimes. Only the ultra-Orthodox cheered the police and thanked them.

The silence of the Los Angeles Jewish community and the national Jewish organizations in the face of the assault against it isn't unique. In New York, Jews have marched against anti-black racism while their community is subjected to repeated anti-Semitic assaults by their black neighbors. Few and far between have been the condemnations of Mayor Bill DeBlasio despite his repeated acts of anti-Semitic targeting and discrimination.

Last week DeBlasio sent police to padlock a playground in the ultra-Orthodox Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn for coronavirus distancing violations. As the police physically blocked ultra-Orthodox Jewish children from entering the park, non-Jewish children played happily in neighborhood parks throughout Brooklyn and the rest of the city.

DeBlassio wasn't available padlock the playground himself because he was busy participating in a mass protest with BLM in another section of Brooklyn.

Needless to say, New York Jews not only didn't riot in response to the city's bigotry against Jewish children in Williamsburg. When local Jewish leaders broke the locks on the playground in Williamsburg to let the children play, Jews from Park Slope and Manhattan didn't join them. They were alone.

This is the context in which Cong. Elliot Engel, a 16-term incumbent and the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee was defeated in his primary race for re-election. Engel was long one of the staunchest supporters of US-Israel ties in the Democratic Party and a very liberal Democrat.

Jamaal Bowman, Engel's victorious primary opponent supports the BLM charter's call not to legislate curbs on BDS operations. He supports conditioning US military aid to Israel on Israeli concessions to the Palestinians. Bowman ascribes to BLM's racist view of Israel, saying that as a (racially oppressed) African American, he identifies with the Palestinians. Both Bowman and the media that supported his campaign, (particularly Greensit's colleagues at the Intercept) focused on Engel's support for Israel. The undertone of their focus was clear – and anti-Semitic. They communicated the message that Engel the Jew is more loyal to Israel than to the voters of his district.

Instead of decrying Bowman and his supporters for their bigotry, many progressive Jews supported Bowman. As Peter Joseph argued in the progressive Jewish newspaper Forward, "Jamaal Bowman's candidacy asks our community to return to its formerly broad-based concerns and demands that we recognize how urgent it is to address and repair the social, economic, and racial suffering in our nation.

"As this election pits a sixteen-term white Jewish incumbent offering more of the same against a younger Black voice offering a response to this moment in America, Jewish voters should express their aspirations for a better future."

In other words, Engel was too tribal and of course, too pro-Israel.

Why are American Jews refusing to stand up for themselves? Three explanations present themselves. Either they are afraid to speak up, or they are unaware of the danger, or they are part of the problem.

Like their non-Jewish counterparts, many Jews whose businesses were looted by BLM expressed the support and concern for their attackers. While some of them may actually sympathize with the people who destroyed their income source, no doubt many are too terrified to criticize them. They don't need any more trouble. And in the current atmosphere of mob rule, where the police charged with defending them are themselves under attack, caution may be the better part of valor.

The ignorant are a product of their environment. Most American Jews are Democrats and most Democrats get their news from the very news organizations that, as members of the identity-politics dominated left, are not reporting what is happening. Large organizations and liberal synagogues are openly supporting BLM. How are average Jewish Democrats supposed to know what is happening?

This brings us to the Jews that are part of the problem.

This week, a group of far-left Jewish groups published an open letter to the community demanding that American Jews pledge allegiance to a "new covenant" based on seven new principles. The first principle: "Explicit endorsement that Black Lives Matter. Recognizing that Black Lives Matter is a statement that is inherently true and should be accepted without caveat or qualification."

The other six principles are extrapolations and expansions of the first.

So not only is the community not dealing with BLM's structural anti-Semitism, radical groups now demand that the rest of the community make supporting these anti-Semites and embracing their anti-Semitic cause the first principle of a "new covenant" for American Jewry.

So far, Hillel International, the Reconstructionist movement and the San Francisco Jewish Federation among others have written letters of support for the "new covenant."

On Monday, the Wall Street Journal called on members of the political left to wake up and oppose the thought policemen of identity politics. Sadly, it appears that the Jewish victims of those policemen will be the last to hear or heed the call.

America’s Hapless[Left-wing, Democratic party] Mayors Are Hostage to the Protests

America’s Hapless[Left-wing, Democratic party] Mayors Are Hostage to the Protests

by Christine Rosen     Commentary  Magazine  6-19-20

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/christine-rosen/cities-under-siege/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Why+the+Right+Foresaw+the+Statues+Coming+Down&utm_campaign=Daily+newsletter+06%2F19%2F20

This week, Libby Schaaf, the mayor of Oakland, Calif., announced that she had ordered a hate-crimes investigation after “racially-charged symbols” were found in a local park. A social media post claimed that someone had hung nooses from a tree.

The nooses turned out to be ropes that a black man, Victor Sengbe, told local news reporters he had rigged to use as exercise equipment. He seemed surprised by the attention they received. “Out of the dozen and hundreds and thousands of people that walked by, no one has thought that it looked anywhere close to a noose. Folks have used it for exercise. It was really a fun addition to the park that we tried to create,” Sengbe said.

But this reasonable explanation did not satisfy Mayor Schaaf. Schaaf doubled down on her narrative that the ropes must be racist, and in a press conference declared that city officials should “start with the assumption that these are hate crimes.” She went on, “Intentions don’t matter when it comes to terrorizing the public. It is incumbent on all of us to know the actual history of racial violence, of terrorism, what a noose represents, and that we as a city must remove these terrorizing symbols from the public view.” The city’s director of parks, Nicholas Williams, added, “The symbolism of the rope hanging in the tree is malicious regardless of intent. It’s evil, and it symbolizes hatred.”

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If this incident strikes you as surreal, you haven’t been following the country’s mayoral politics. Mayor Schaaf isn’t the only local official to abandon common sense to curry favor with mobs demanding the abolition of the police, shamelessly destroying private property, inciting violence, and, in some cases, occupying public land to establish their own insurrectionist fiefdoms.

Consider Mayor Jenny Durkan of Seattle, a former U.S. Attorney, who told NPR in 2017 that the seizure of property in Oregon by armed members of the Bundy family was a conspiracy, not a political protest, because the participants were armed. “They did not come with flowers. They came with AR-15s. They did not respect the property. They dug trenches and trashed it,” she said.

Today, as armed BLM and Antifa protestors have taken over several city blocks of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood after forcing police from their precinct building and vandalizing and looting the area, declaring it the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (or CHAZ), Durkan reaffirmed her support for the activists, some of whom are armed with guns, and got into a twitter spat with President Trump when he criticized the occupation.

Durkan’s reality is far removed from the one many of her citizens have experienced. “It looks like a war zone,” one local radio reporter stated, after seeing the damage done after a night of rioting and looting across the city during the BLM protests there. Durkan responded with a curfew and the statement, “Please be kind to somebody and compassionate, and do your part to make our city whole again.”

When asked about reports of criminal behavior in CHAZ, Seattle’s police chief told local news that “rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts have been occurring in the area and we’re not able to get to [them], so it is not right for us to not be able to deploy our officers here.” Durkan responded with a tweet contradicting her own police chief’s assessment. She claimed CHAZ was not a “lawless wasteland of anarchist insurrection—it is a peaceful expression of our community’s collective grief and their desire to build a better world.” Durkan later appeared on CNN and compared the occupied zone to a “block party atmosphere” while assuring viewers that “we take public safety very seriously.” This hasn’t satisfied activists, who are still demanding radical defunding of the Seattle police department and the release of anyone arrested during the often-violent protests.

Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, might at first glance appear to be a rare exception to other progressive mayors. He declared his opposition to CHAZ and said, “I do not want an autonomous zone set up in Portland.” But it’s worth noting that Wheeler phrased this as a wish (he doesn’t “want” a zone in his city) rather than as a clear statement that such a zone would not be tolerated in Portland. As well, his expression of doubts about autonomous zones is suspiciously timed. They came only after activists attempted to establish just such an autonomous zone in front of the mayor’s downtown condominium. He had police remove the barricades and called autonomous zones “a distraction” from the movement for “justice for black people.”

It’s clear Mr. Wheeler is having trouble governing amid such distractions. For weeks the mayor has done little to stem the rioting, looting, vandalism, and violence that gripped the city as part of the protests about the killing of George Floyd. And as independent journalist Andy Ngo documented, the mayor has said nothing about protestors who yesterday defaced a statue of George Washington with the words “genocidal colonist” and “f—k the police” — a statue they eventually toppled and attempted to burn. Earlier, protestors toppled a statue of Thomas Jefferson. No defense of the Founding Fathers was forthcoming from Mayor Wheeler.

Like Wheeler, the mayor of Richmond, Va., Levar Stoney, (who gained the imprimatur of the country’s star Democratic mayor, Pete Buttigieg) had his surrogates in the community denounce intimidation and vandalism. . . but only after a group of protestors made their way into his apartment building and, according to a Richmond police spokesperson, “chanted about the mayor and tagged the building with graffiti.” Richmond is one of many cities currently attempting to defund its police, and Stoney forced out the current police chief after recent protests turned violent; luckily for Mayor Stoney, a world without police won’t be a problem for him. The protestors who infiltrated his apartment building were safely “removed by private security.”

In the wake of recent widespread and sometimes violent protests, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti reversed his plans to increase the police department’s budget and instead promised funding cuts that BLM activists were demanding. “We need to keep moving toward a new model of peace officer. Of a guardian-based system. And invest long before any criminal activity ever comes,” he said, but only after protestors rallied outside his home in the Hancock Park neighborhood for several nights.

A week earlier, Garcetti had taken a knee outside LAPD headquarters and reassured protestors, “I hear you. I hear what you are saying about police,” but this genuflection was not deemed suitable given that he had also called out the National Guard to help quell the rioting and looting in the city.

Similarly, citizens of Minneapolis watched their boyish mayor Jacob Frey publicly shamed by Black Lives Matter activists after he dared to state, “I do not support the full abolition of the police.” In the immediate aftermath of Floyd’s killing, Frey had fired the four officers involved and proclaimed his intentions to push for further reforms, but after the city descended into chaos and looting (and Minneapolis police were forced to retreat from their own third precinct, whose building was burned by protestors), Frey’s tenuous grip on the situation was made painfully clear.

And then there’s New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, whose incompetence in the face of widespread looting and violence in the city during nights of protest was deemed a “disgrace” by the state’s governor. In the aftermath, de Blasio has spent his time eliminating the police department’s plain clothes-detective unit and welding shut playgrounds in Jewish neighborhoods, even as he can’t seem to keep behind bars a man who has been arrested more than 100 times and who idly assaulted a 92-year-old woman on the street.

Likewise, after widespread looting in Washington, D.C., which prompted President Trump to summon the National Guard, Mayor Muriel Bowser responded by using city funds to paint a large Black Lives Matter sign on a major thoroughfare near the White House, a stunt that prompted swooning by the press but, ironically, a denunciation from the D.C. chapter of BLM, which deemed the act a “performative distraction” done to “appease white liberals” and criticized the mayor for not agreeing to their demands to cut the police budget. “Black lives matter means defund the police,” they stated—a statement someone quickly added to the BLM street mural, with no protest from Bowser.

These are merely the most recent examples of mayoral mau-mauing to the mob and general incompetence in the face of civil unrest. What do they have in common? They are all elected Democrats, and many are outspokenly progressive. In fact, 64 of the 100 largest cities in the U.S. are run by Democrats. Democratic mayors dominate the cities named the most dangerous (as measured by the violent crime rate per number of residents). Even solidly red states that consistently vote Republican in national contests, such as Alabama, often elect local leaders who are Democrats (such as Randall Woodfin, mayor of Birmingham, a city that is ranked the third most dangerous in the U.S. by Neighborhood Scout)

As the recent unrest has shown, many of these local leaders have eagerly embraced progressive bromides during peaceful times to satisfy liberal voters. But when things turn violent, or unsettled, their progressive theories are put into practice, and, more often than not, found wanting. The result is a spate of local leaders who have caved to the mania of the moment, excusing violence and lawlessness while claiming to do so in the name of peaceful protest and reform. They refuse to be honest about the complicated circumstances involved in police reform, or the persistence of criminal behavior, or the difficult but necessary work of crafting meaningful political compromises among competing local interests. They appease the mob rather than perform their duty.

It remains to be seen if there will be any political repercussions for their cowardice in the years to come. Given the clear breakdown of leadership in many cities across the country, perhaps it’s time more Americans revisited that old cliche — all politics is local— and vote accordingly.

BlackLivesMatter more about radical social upheaval than "Black Lives" William A. Jacobson August 11, 2016

BlackLivesMatter more about radical social upheaval than "Black Lives"

William A. Jacobson    August 11, 2016

Using Black Lives Matter movement to redefine the American experience into anti-Capitalist upheaval

If you think the Black Lives Matter movement is just or even primarily about “Black Lives,” then you don’t understand the movement.

A new research report, based on detailed interviews with those active in the movement, demonstrates that the organized movement is a vehicle for a radical leftist anti-Capitalist agenda, using “Black Lives” as the hook.

The research is by Anne Sorock of The Frontier Lab using a “deep values” methodology. Several years ago Anne was a regular contributor to Legal Insurrection, but that has fallen off as she devoted herself The Frontier Lab.

Deep values research is something pioneered by Dr. Brian Wansink at the Food & Brand Lab at Cornell University. Anne received her MBA at Cornell and worked with that group. Deep values research seeks to understand not just what consumers like or want, but what deeply held values lead to such decisions.

At The Frontier Lab, Anne applies those research methods to politics.

We have highlighted previously her analysis of why people decide to become politically active,  Occupy movement participants’ motivations, and why Republicans won’t call themselves Republican, among others. Anne also years ago interviewed Legal Insurrection readers to understand the deep values of why people visit Legal Insurrection. (Perhaps I’ll share those findings with you in a later post.)

Now Anne has researched the Black Lives Matter movement, and released a report, Black Lives Matter – The Privileged and the Oppressed (full embed at bottom of post).

While the report details the methodology, I asked Anne to explain the methodology in light of likely criticism that people should not give credence to a white woman writing about blacks. She responded by detailing that her information and data come from active participants in the movement themselves:

We began our process by seeking out high-intensity supporters of Black Lives Matter
through two channels: an online survey targeting young Americans aged 18-34 about
their involvement with, and enthusiasm for, the Black Lives Matter movement. We
were seeking those with high-intensity support for Black Lives Matter and who had
been involved with the organization either as an organizer or activist – attended an
event, been to a meeting, joined a Facebook support group, etc.

We used this survey instrument to identify and then contact 47 strong supporters of Black Lives Matter whom we probed at-length about the meaningful underlying reasons for attachment in 30- to60-minute telephone interviews and written questionnaires.

The interviews employ the“Laddering” in-depth interview market-research methodology. We also advertised a separate screener survey on the Facebook pages of Black Lives Matter and the Black Youth Project (a separate but affiliated organization) to recruit more interviewees.

Recognizing that most people will not want to wade through a lengthy report, I asked Anne for her 3 Big Takeaways, here’s what she listed:

Black Lives Matter is a vehicle for consolidating decades of unfulfilled and disparate goals of the left “Oppression” and “privilege” are the updated terms to described the “Haves” and the “have-nots” Privilege restricts free speech in a subtler but more powerful way than use of force
Despite positioning itself as counter to the “system,” they simply want to take the system over for their own ends Activists who are not black are termed “allies,” refer to themselves as such, and admit to reacting to a culture of fear, driven primarily by the fear of being ostracized from the left’s cultural community, “Allies” reported that their motivation for joining, in addition to avoiding community exclusion, was to promote their own “oppression” by tethering it to that of the black community.
Operatives shared that one of their greatest fears was activists perceiving that the movement was not driven by black leadership but instead “the same old” Civil-Rights-era types with a diversity of backgrounds. They feel it is important to distinguish the movement from the “failed” Civil Rights era movements, which did not achieve the operatives of BLM’s goal: “radical social upheaval.”
The Report itself lists 10 key insights:

Black Lives Matters core message is built upon, depends upon, and has as its ultimate goal, the larger retelling of the American story as one of oppression and racism.
The police, as representatives of the state, must be messaged as exemplifying the Black Lives Matter framing by being themselves oppressive and racist.
Black Lives Matter frames their cause as one against a systemic problem and necessarily utterly rejects the one bad apple counterargument BLM relies upon the elevation and equating of other underprivileged groups to a status just as oppressed as Black America in order to build a narrative of an America divided into the Oppressed and the Privileged. For this reason causes such as undocumented workers, LGBTQ, and womens reproductive rights, are recruited and welcomed into the Allies category of supporters (see below).
Supporters of BLM, for the most part, have moved on from desiring to silence dissent through amending free-speech laws; instead, Black Lives Matter (1) pressures authorities to do it for them, (2) creates an atmosphere of intimidation through threats of violence and shows of force, and (3) incorporates a culture of self-censorship in which those with privilege have a lesser voice than the oppressed.
While social-media and cameras are utilized uniquely and effectively to communicate with and recruit new supporters, it is the framework of organizing learned from past attempts and overarching magnanarrative that in reality gives Black Lives Matter its edge.
There are three distinct segments of supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, each with their own emotional pathways to a deeply felt connection: Activists, Allies, and Operatives.
These mental maps explain current reasons for support as well as provide strategic pathways for weakening that same support.
Common across all segments is the emotion of fear of being ostracized from the lefts cultural community.
The specificity of the cause injustice toward the Black community is both central to its appeal and also a window into an Achilles-heel weakness of the movements core positioning.
The movement is at a critical juncture in its lifecycle, with maximum cultural influence but having failed to transition this influence into policy impact.
In the Report, Anne addresses the motivations of “allies” and confirms that many non-blacks participate as a way of virtue signalling:

The Black Lives Matter Allies segment hopes to make amends for a sense of  privilege and accompanying guilt through their involvement with Black Lives Matter. Allies told us one of most fulfilling aspects of their connection to Black Lives Matter was that it afforded them the opportunity to demonstrate to their peers that they were actively pursuing good. It is important that they demonstrate their solidarity with Black protesters and in doing so make amends for their culpability as unfairly privileged members of society.

The most important aspect to me, and one I see play out on campuses, is what Anne calls RETELLING THE AMERICAN STORY, an attempt portray the American experience as irreversibly negative:

Black Lives Matter’s core message is built upon, depends upon, and has as its ultimate goal, the larger retelling of the American story as one of oppression and racism. There are two narratives that describe the foundational story of America, and they diverge both in how they view the past and the path they offer for the future.

The first is that America’s story is an attempt to match the institution of government with the premise that all men are created equal – that the system equalizes us and unites us through the law (Constitution) and that, despite failures to always deliver on this promise, the spirit of the country has been a departure from other cultures’ impediments to advancement. The second presents a different view: an America of competing groups that should not place their faith in the law (or a promise of equal treatment), for the system—the governing structures rooted in the Constitution—are designed to preserve elites’ power and preclude the rest of society from achieving equal status.

The second story, the story of division and systemic injustice, is the foundation for the Marxist “Haves and Have-Nots” class division, and reveals the philosophical underpinnings of the Black Lives Matter movement are deeply entwined with far-left Marxist ideology.

Anne also details the passive-aggressive, and sometimes aggressive, methods to silence dissent:

First, Black Lives Matter has created an atmosphere where forces more emotionally compelling than “truth-seeking” encourage fealty through the threatened stigma of being an outsider, and discourage diversity of opinion. Through our research, we found that both the Activists and the Allies were united by the fear of being ostracized from the left’s cultural community and clung to the community they were provided by publicly supporting Black Lives Matter.

Black Lives Matter frequently uses shows of force – either by seeking them from university administrators or through aggressive demonstrations – to silence dissent, as well. Activists recounted to us that they found it appropriate to ask administrators to step in and stop perceived “hate speech,” although they considered themselves to be supporters of free speech.

Finally, by portraying criticism of their cause as an attempt tostifle their speech, they in effect demand freedom from criticism.

That last point is what I have documented in the anti-Israel movement, which has thoroughly infiltrated and hijacked Black Lives Matter groups. Groups like Students for Justice in Palestine and the (dishonestly named) Jewish Voice for Peace, claim that there speech is being stifled when harsh criticism is made of their positions and actions.

Anne also found that Black Lives Matters key activists previously were involved in other leftist movements:

When The Frontier Lab spoke with Operatives in the Black Lives Matter movement, they revealed that they had all been involved with other leftist movements, including Occupy Wall Street, but found that their involvement with Black Lives Matter was far more rewarding due to its success in the media and ability to create a sustainable and more widespread perception of moral authority. Operatives’ prior association with Occupy Wall Street reveals that they goals are not particular to the Black Community but to the Marxist ideals instead.

With this in mind, we need to see the Black Lives Matter movement as a leftist, anti-Capitalist movement using Black Lives as the vehicle.

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Black Lives Matter: The Privileged and the Oppressed

Race in America today...... L. Todd Wood [ a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy ]

Race in America today...... L. Todd Wood [ a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy ]

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This was sent to me by Col. DJ’s. wife. She said :

Steve:

As  the widow of interracial  marriage that lasted more than 50 years, I am  very upset at the statements made by “Black Lives Matter’ since they appear to have been hijacked by the anti-semetiic left.  Also, based on my previous  career  employment , I am alarmed at the current riots since every aspect appears to be preplanned and very well organized  in execution.  I came across  this very alarming video and believe that it is fully correct. Also,  I have viewed undercover DOJ  video tapes of Antifa training sessions.  They are vicious.  The ones I saw  concentrated  on street fighting  and included such crippling techniques as gouging out eyes. [ Undercover in Minneapolis...... preplanning the riots   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MmS-72YQKM&feature=emb_logo  ]

Daryl’s   father was a career Army Sgt.  Daryl grew up traveling  throughout the world. Then he went to college and joined ROTC. Then he  spent 30 years on active duty rising to full Col. before retiring and getting employment at the Hughes Aircraft Company.  There he rose through the ranks retiring as Director of Facilities.  He was  very  active in the UCLA alumni Association and served on their Board of Directors. He was also  elected as a director of the Kinecta federal credit union and a director of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.  From the earliest time  that he can remember  he said that his father always received encouragement from his coworkers and his commanders and that he too  always enjoyed tremendous support.  Daryl  always believed that the United States of America was the best country on earth and that  he was lucky to have been born into a society that offered so much opportunity.   Daryl   would agree with Wood’s column. Is there any diplomatic way of conveying this message.

 Helen




Here's an interesting perspective on the problem of race in America today......


L. Todd Wood, a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, flew special operations helicopters supporting SEAL Team 6, Delta Force and others. After leaving the military, he pursued his other passion, finance, spending 18 years on Wall Street trading emerging market debt, and later, writing. The first of his many thrillers is "Currency." Todd is a contributor to Fox Business, Newsmax TV, Moscow Times, the New York Post, the National Review, Zero Hedge and others. For more information about L.. Todd Wood, visit LToddWood.com.

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ANALYSIS/OPINION:

I know of no white person alive today in the United States who has ever legally owned a black slave, or any slave for that matter. Almost 700,000 mostly white men died 160 years ago to end slavery. Jim Crow ended generations ago. Yet black America, for the most part, is still locked in inner-city gang violence and economic hardship. Why?

Is it because America is racist?  Is it because of some overhanging white supremacy?  Is it because of the Illuminati?

No, unfortunately, it is because of black culture and the adoption of Democratic Party government dependency.

We have just had eight years of the first black president.  Black athletes, and entertainers, routinely earn multi-million dollar incomes.  I can easily name several black billionaires without even trying too hard. A large percentage of black America is very successful. But, it is not enough. Too many black youth are being left behind.

And it is no one but black America’s fault.

No one can solve this problem but black America.  No one can throw enough money at it.  We’ve tried that.  Black America needs to look in the mirror and stop blaming others, especially white people.

I am obviously white and conservative, and I served in the military, which, during my time, was as color blind as you could be. I can also honestly say I don’t give a damn what color your skin is, neither do any of my friends.  I do care about your actions.

Blacks are around 15 percent of the population. Depending on what study you look at, they commit around 40 percent to 50 percent of violent crime in America. Of course, there is going to be a problem with police.  And, of course, there are some bad policemen.. However, those bad apples do not kill black people statistically anymore than they kill white people.  Even Harvard said that recently. If you were a cop, and you had to work in a neighborhood infested with crime and murder, wouldn’t you act differently than in a neighborhood where there was little crime? The most effective thing black America could do to improve its relationship with police is to significantly reduce violent crime where they live.  Yes, that means change the culture of where you live and your community.

I for one am tired of being blamed.  I am tired of dealing with people who only want something from others.  I don’t oppress anyone.  I don’t hold anyone down.  I’m tired of getting on the D.C. metro and seeing white people being harassed by roaming gangs of black youth with their pants around their knees.  Yes, you want a white person uncomfortable?  That makes me uncomfortable.  It’s our nation’s capital and it’s embarrassing.

Blacks have nothing but opportunity in America.  Try finding the same opportunity anywhere else in the world.  If you are born in America you’ve won life’s economic lottery.  Take advantage of it.

The problem is this generation has been taught an agenda of cultural Marxism by our education system.  They’ve been taught to be a victim, and it’s still going on.  All you have to do is watch the young black, female student at Yale screaming at the college president to understand that.  Blacks in America don’t even know how good they got it.

Don’t kneel when my anthem is played.  Too many people died for that flag.  You are free to protest but not then.  I am free to not watch, or pay to watch you play if you do that.  The NFL should make it a rule that you stand for the national anthem.  There is no free speech to disobey a private employer on private property.  This would solve the problem immediately.

The NFL has deeply offended most of America.  They will pay an economic and reputational price, as they should.

We have a real cultural problem in this country, the result of the Leftist multicultural agenda.  Multi-ethnicity is perfect and should be encouraged..  Having more than one American culture is destroying the country.  But then again, that is what the Left wants.

Do Black Lives Matter?

It is your job to determine if this is a racist rant or just a review of factual data...

WHAT IF ALL THE BLACKS SUDDENLY LEFT AMERICA, WHICH IS 13.3% OF THE TOTAL U.S.POPULATION:


Amount of people in poverty would drop - 34%,
The prison population would go down by -37%,
Welfare recipients would go down by - - - 42%,
Gang members would go down by - - - - - 53%
Chlamydia cases would go down - - - - - - 54%,
Homelessness would go down - - - - - - - -57%
Syphilis would go down  - - - - - - - - - - - - 58%.
AIDS & HIV would go down by - - - - - - - -65%,
Gonorrhea would go down - - - - - - - - - - -69%,
Average ACT scores would go UP - - - - - 5.5 points.
Average IQ would go UP - - - - - - - - - - - -7.4 points,  putting us 3rd in the world tied with Japan,
Average SAT scores would go UP almost - - - - -100 points,
The average income for Americans would go UP over $20,000 a year,

BUT DEMOCRATS WOULD LOSE 76% OF THEIR VOTING BASE!!!

And, many criminal defense attorneys would have to find another line of work!


Yes, Black lives DO matter

Minneapolis riots were preplanned.... inside video

Minneapolis riots were pre-planned.... inside video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MmS-72YQKM&feature=emb_logo

Black Lives Matter Must Rescind Its Anti-Israel Declaration by Alan Dershowitz

 Black Lives Matter Must Rescind Its Anti-Israel Declaration

by Alan Dershowitz



It is a real tragedy that Black Lives Matter — which has done so much good in raising awareness of police abuses — has now moved away from its central mission and has declared war against the nation state of the Jewish people. In a recently issued “platform,” more than 60 groups that form the core of the Black Lives Matter movement went out of their way to single out one foreign nation to accuse of genocide and apartheid.

No, it wasn’t the Syrian government, which has killed tens of thousands of innocent people with barrel bombs, chemicals and gas. Nor was it Saudi Arabia, which openly practices gender and religious apartheid. It wasn’t Iran, which hangs gays and murders dissidents. It wasn’t China, which has occupied Tibet for more than half a century. And it wasn’t Turkey, which has imprisoned journalists, judges and academics. Finally, it wasn’t any of the many countries, such as Venezuela or Mexico, where police abuses against innocent people run rampant and largely unchecked. Nor was it the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, where the police are a law unto themselves who act as judge, jury and executioner of those whose politics or religious practices they disapprove.

It was only Israel, the nation state of the Jewish people and the only democracy in the Middle East. The platform accuses the US of being “complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian people” by providing aid to “an apartheid state.”

To be sure, Black Lives Matter is not a monolithic organization. It is a movement comprising numerous groups. Many of its supporters have no idea what the platform says. They cannot be faulted for supporting the movement or its basic mission.

But the platform is the closest thing to a formal declaration of principles by Black Lives Matter. The genocide paragraph may well have been injected by radicals who are not representative of the mainstream. But now that it has officially been published, all decent supporters of Black Lives Matter — and there are many — must demand its removal.

Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic. Like other democracies, including our own, it has faults. Criticizing Israel’s settlement and occupation policies is fair game. But singling Israel out and falsely accusing it of “genocide” can be explained in no other way than blatant hatred of Jews and their state.

In defending its citizens against terrorism since before its establishment as a state in 1948, Israel has killed fewer Palestinians than did Jordan and Syria in two much shorter wars. The relatively low number of civilian deaths caused by Israeli self-defense measures over the past 68 years compares favorably to the number of civilian deaths in other conflicts. This is because, as Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of British Forces in Afghanistan, put it: There has been “no time in the history of warfare when an Army has made more efforts to reduce civilian casualties…than [the Israel Defense Forces].” Though Kemp was specifically referring to the wars in the Gaza Strip — which are also the apparent focus of the Black Lives Matter Platform — his conclusion is applicable to all wars Israel has fought.

Genocide means the deliberate extermination of a race, such as done by Nazi Germany to Jews and Sinti and Roma or by the Hutu against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It has no application to deaths caused by self-defense measures taken to protect citizens against terrorism. To falsely accuse Israel of “genocide” — the worst crime of all, and the crime whose very name was coined to describe the systematic murder of 6 million Jews — is antisemitic.

Until and unless Black Lives Matter removes this blood libel from its platform and renounces it, no decent person — black, white or of any other racial or ethnic background — should have anything to do with it. We should continue to fight against police abuses by supporting other organizations or forming new ones. But we must not become complicit in the promotion of antisemitism just because we agree with the rest of the Black Lives Matter program.

To support an organization or movement that promotes antisemitism because it also supports good causes is the beginning of the road to accepting racism. Many racist groups have also promoted causes that deserve support. The Black Panthers had breakfast programs for inner-city children, while advocating violence against whites. And the Ku Klux Klan organized summer camps for working-class families, while advocating violence against blacks.

There must be zero tolerance for antisemitism, regardless of the race, religion, gender or sexual orientation of the bigots who promote, practice or are complicit with it. Being on the right side of one racial issue does not give one a license to be on the wrong side of the oldest bigotry.

To give Black Lives Matter a pass on its anti-Jewish bigotry would be to engage in racism. Black antisemitism is as inexcusable as white antisemitism or white racism. There can be no double standard when it comes to bigotry.

I write this column both in sorrow and in anger. In sorrow because I support the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement — I have long been involved in efforts to expose and prevent police abuses — and worry that this obnoxious and divisionary platform plank may destroy its credibility with regard to police abuse in America by promoting deliberate lies about Israel. It is also alienating Jewish and other supporters who could help them achieve their goals here at home — as many such individuals have historically done in actively supporting all aspects of the civil rights movement.

I write it in anger because there is never an excuse for bigotry and for promoting blood libels against the Jewish people and their state. It must stop. And those who engage in it must be called out for condemnation.

Black Lives Matter should rescind the portions of the platform that falsely accuse Israel of genocide and apartheid. If it does not, it risks ending in the dustbin of history, along with other discredited bigoted groups.

It would be sad if the good work done by Black Lives Matter were now to be sidetracked by the mendacious and irrelevant accusation of “genocide” and “apartheid” against one foreign democracy — Israel.

Alan M. Dershowitz is professor emeritus of law at Harvard University and author of “Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law.’’

Groups on far-left, far-right Infiltrate Black Lives Matter to assault Jews and demonize Israel

Groups on far-left, far-right Infiltrate Black Lives Matter  to  assault Jews and  demonize Israel 

 Groups on the far-right and far-left, including pro-Palestinian organizations  identified by the DOJ as having links to terrorism, have been   infiltrating the Black Lives Matter movement  to physically  destroyJewish owned businesses and  to demonize Israel.

The exploitation of  Black Lives Matter by groups controlled by foreign terror movements repeats the many other times when terror groups   have  employed human shields to actively push their violence and hate.  Black Lives Matter, a “civil-rights movement, has now been hijacked by  these extremists to push their agenda of  anti-Semitism and hate."

Last week, it was widely reported that several Jewish institutions were targeted during protests in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles,. This included vandalism to Jewish businesses and synagogues, such as Congregation Beth El, which was vandalized with graffiti stating “Free Palestine” and “F*** Israel.”

At the same time,, several far-left anti-Israel groups have been  conducting a campaign on social media and at the protests  blaming Israel for police violence and linking the Black Lives Matter movement to Palestinian uprisings.

These anti-Israel groups have been  attempting to change the focus of the protests (the  death of 46-year-old George Floyd in Minnesota by a police officer )  to  manufacturing rage against Israel over past training programs set up between the United States and Israeli police departments.

“This is where the Minneapolis Police Department learned their police brutality tactics from. israeli occupation terrorist soldiers (on the left) murder Palestinians on a daily basis. We must stop training our American police officers to be gestapo units. #GeorgeFloyd #Palestine.” tweeted Abbas Hamideh of the group Al-Awda, a pro-Palestinian BDS group.

Similarly, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and a student leader in Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) also blamed Israel for the police tactics.

The Israeli military trains US police in racist and repressive policing tactics, which systematically targets Black and Brown bodies. The recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery are examples of racialized, systematized violence. https://t.co/DJ7T2qh6RL— US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (@USCPR_) May 28, 2020

The anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), which in 2017 launched its “Deadly Exchange” campaign, has long blamed Israel for helping to train U.S. police in “extrajudicial executions, shoot-to-kill, police murders, racial profiling, massive spying and surveillance, deportation and detention.”

Over the past week, JVP’s campaign has spread and become a popular conspiracy theory among anti-Israel activists, according to the Canary Mission, an anti-Semitism watchdog group.

“Anti-Israel activists have claimed that Israel and American Jewish organizations are responsible for police brutality resulting in the deaths of black people, such as George Floyd,” said the Canary Mission. “They state that U.S. police forces are trained by Israel to deliberately use brutal methods of policing. They further claim that this training is organized and sponsored by the American Jewish community.”

It’s past time to defund Minneapolis PD. The violence of police depts across the country is magnified in moments of crisis like this one, and has deepened for years thru #DeadlyExchange trainings with Israeli armed forces. E.g. https://t.co/wKxza2czYD https://t.co/qaHShZP50o— DeadlyExchange (@DeadlyExchange) May 28, 2020

At the same time, several pro-Palestinian BDS groups have applied violent terms such as intifada (Arabic for “uprising”) to the current eruption of protests in the wake of Floyd’s death.

The term was the name given to the first and second Palestinian bouts of violence in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and then from 2000 to 2005, which witnessed daily terror attacks, including suicide bombings, stabbings and shootings against Israeli civilians, claiming thousands of lives.

In a Facebook post, the group Samidoun, which advocates for Palestinian prisoners and has ties to the U.S.-designated terror group the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), called the Floyd protests an “intifada.”

“We support the uprising in Minneapolis, the intifada of people subjected to an ongoing, vicious and structural racism, inheriting a lengthy and rich tradition of Black resistance, organizing and struggle,” wrote the group.

In a statement, PFLP also expressed its solidarity with the protests.

“It is not surprising for a country like the United States, which has a strategic alliance with the Zionist entity [Israel], to intersect with it in the discrimination, racism and repression that embodies its treatment of Palestinians,” the terror group wrote on its site.

‘Meanwhile, far-right neo-Nazi individuals and organizations have also been blaming Jews for the violence associated with the protests.

Andrew Anglin, founder of the Neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, wrote in a blog post about the protests, saying “Fear not the blacks who can burn your city, but fear the Jews who can release the blacks to burn your city and lock you in your house in hell.”

Similarly, the far-right is also claiming that the violent protesters are being controlled by Jewish money.

“They [Jews] Are Starting a Race War So People Don’t Rally Against ZOG [Zionist Occupation Government],” wrote neo-Nazi Kyle Hunt, according to the Canary Mission.

Hunt, who is also a supporter of the BDS movement, has previously joined anti-Israel groups IfNotNow (INN) and Al-Awda in protesting against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in 2017, according to the Canary Mission.

At the same time, pro-Palestinian activists have also sought to link and draw parallels between police violence in America and violence against Palestinians by Israel.

In what has been termed “intersectionality,” these groups posit that no form of discrimination if distinct from one another.

Following the killing of Floyd, anti-Israel activists immediately began drawing comparisons with what they describe as systematic and deadly Israeli brutality against Palestinians. Those comparisons were given further impetus in the wake of the May 30 killing of Iyad Halak, an autistic Palestinian from eastern Jerusalem, by Israeli police in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Drawing on this, several social-media posts depicted U.S. and Israeli police as one and the same on social-media imagery.

In a picture shared on Twitter by “Los Otros Judios,” it depicts an Israeli and American police officer embracing while kneeling on the necks of a Palestinian and a black man, respectively.

#NecesitamosRespirar #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #MinneapolisRiot #FreePalestine pic.twitter.com/QgiqY6wkJM

— ???? Los Otros Judíos ???????? (@losotrosjudios) May 29, 2020

Similarly, a picture shared by the Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj on Twitter depicts the U.S. and Israeli flags as the same color, while also having the knees of soldiers on the necks of a black man and Palestinian.

Our Conservative Black voices are being drowned out on social media. We need to be heard. Today.

Our Conservative  Black voices are being drowned out on social media. We need to be heard. Today.

My current prime source is Marvin Martin a retired Washington DC school executive. Previously, my prime sources included Andrew Brimmer a former governor of the Federal Reserve Board and  former of chairperson  of the Washington DC Financing Authority,

Darryl F. Johnson  former Kinecta Board Chairperson   and a former Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Board  Director. 

 All of these conservative Blacks were  dedicated to promoting the welfare the Black community by promoting welfare of all Americans.

 All of the incidents I report you can check out for yourself through the Associated Press. If I am in error do your research and cite your sources. Uttering words  and carrying signs is  cheap ….But doing this does make people feel good. Hard work is more difficult.

If you are sincere get out and work….Make tomorrow better than today. Results won’t come instantly…. But they will come.

In the meantime listen carefully to the communication sent to me one of  my black associates complaining that his and other   Black voices are being drowned out on social media. [  See Immediately below ]

Our Conservative  Black voices are being drowned out on social media. We need to be heard. Today. 

A must listen is the  video by Candice Owens with the actual numbers!

https://www.facebook.com/realCandaceOwens/videos/273957870461345/?vh=e    

 

“No one -- not a single solitary person defended or excused the death of George Floyd, so why is this rioting happening? Because that is what the media wanted….BLACK AMERICA, WAKE UP. ENLIGHTEN YOURSELVES. DO NOT BE OWNED BY A MAINSTREAM MEDIA AGENDA.”

CANDACE OWENS

“One of the big #FakeNews narratives is that ‘institutional,’ ‘structural’ and ‘systemic’ racism remain a major problem in America, when, in fact, race has never been a more insignificant barrier to success in America.”  LARRY ELDER

“There is nothing white liberals fear more than a God fearing, educated, black man.”

No my friends...there is no systemic racism in America...just Systemic “Marxist Elitism”...an EVIL that uses, abuses and discards anyone for POWER.”

BURGESS OWENS

"Don’t let the Media fool you! The majority of Americans support the police. Do not support the destroying of their city.

The biggest problem with growing up black in America… IS not racism, police brutality, or black on black crime… It’s the Mental Brainwashing.” 

BRANDON TATUM

"Black activists and white progressives stress racism because it serves their own interests, not because it actually improves the station of blacks.”

JASON RILEY

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Cops Ambushed with Guns and Explosives, Leaving One Officer Dead

A California sheriff’s sergeant was killed Saturday in an ambush that left two law enforcement officers injured.

The crime took place about 1:30 p.m. in Santa Cruz County, which is south of San Francisco.

Police “received a call about a suspicious van parked off the road near Jamison Creek, Boulder Creek. The caller saw guns and bomb making materials inside the van. When deputies arrived, the van was seen leaving the area and [deputies] tried to follow it,” the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office reported on its Facebook page.

“As deputies began investigating, they were ambushed with gunfire and multiple improvised explosive devices. Sergeant Damon Gutzwiller was shot and taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead,” the sheriff’s office reported.

“Another deputy was either shot or struck by shrapnel and struck by a car as the suspect fled the property. We are hopeful the deputy will recover,” the department posted.

A California Highway Patrol trooper was also wounded while authorities were pursuing the suspect, according to KTLA.

Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart said Gutzwiller “was a beloved figure here at the sheriff’s office,” KTLA reported.

“Damon showed up today to do his job, to keep this community safe, and his life was taken needlessly,” Hart told the station.

“In my 32-year career, this is the worst day I’ve ever experienced,” he said, according to KGO.

The sheriff’s office post said that after a report of a carjacking, deputies arrested Steven Carrillo, who was shot during the arrest and received what were described as non-life-threatening injuries. He will face charges when he is discharged from the hospital.

Citing what it said were sources it did not name, KGO said Carillo was “an active duty US Air Force sergeant based out of Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield.”

The station also reported that improvised explosive devices were found at Carillo’s home on Saturday. The FBI is now investigating, KGO reported.

“Words cannot express the pain we feel for Damon and his family,” Hart said in the Facebook post.

The sergeant had been with the sheriff’s office since 2006.

“He was the kind of person we all hope to be. Today, we lost a hero. We are grateful to have known him and we mourn with his family,” Hart said in the post.

Gutzwiller is survived by his wife, who was reported to be pregnant, and one child, according to KSBW.

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Protesters Follow Police Home, Attempt To Torch Cars: Report

Police officers are becoming targets even at home amid a rising tide of violence aimed at law enforcement, authorities said.

Three suspects were arrested last week in Gwinnett County, Georgia, after police cars were vandalized.

Police say the individuals charged actually “tracked” the officers home, according to WSB.

Ebuka Chike-Morah, 21, Alvin Joseph, 21, and Lakaila Mack, 20, all face multiple charges.

In its reporting on recent protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minnesota, WSB had interviewed one of the suspects last weekend.

“I’m just trying to get the message across,” Chike-Morah said then, according to WSB. “We’re going to continue walking until we don’t feel like walking no more.”

View the WSB report below:

On Tuesday night, a Gwinnett County Police Department car was set on fire in Duluth, Georgia, while parked outside the home of an officer.

“Pieces of glass, filled or coated with accelerant coupled with a wick, was thrown at the driver side window of the county vehicle,” a police report on the incident said, according to the Ledger-Enquirer.

“Another jar may have been placed on top … just behind the light bar. A piece of burning cloth was recovered,” the report said.

Later Tuesday night, a police car was set on fire in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

In this case, the fire was started on the ground behind the vehicle. The car also had two dents on the driver’s side.

Witnesses had reported three people fleeing the scene of the first fire and a car fleeing the second.

Joseph and Mack were arrested on Tuesday. Chike-Morah was arrested on Wednesday.

All three suspects face charges that include arson, possession and manufacturing of a destructive device and criminal trespass. Joseph also faces the charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

In an unrelated case, a police officer in Lawrenceville, Georgia, found his patrol car windshield and the driver’s side window smashed early Wednesday. Investigators said it appeared a brick was thrown at the car, according to WAGA.

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Rioter Douses Police Officer, Sets Him on Fire as Unrest Spreads Across Globe

Inspired by riots across America that have led politicians to repudiate law enforcement, violent protesters are now attacking police around the globe.

Protests reached a horrifying apex of violence Thursday in Mexico when, during a protest in Guadalajara, a police officer who took his eyes off demonstrators was set on fire in an incident caught on video.

Video of protest shows a police officer getting on a motorcycle. Once his back was turned, he was splashed with some type of liquid by a rioter, who quickly set the officer on fire with what appeared to be a lighter.

As the officer rolled on the street, police tried to help put out the fire while also battling protesters.

The condition of the police officer could not be ascertained from media reports.

WARNING: The video below contains violent images that some views may find disturbing:

Mexican rioters also attacked the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City:

French protesters also took to the streets this week,  holding signs that read, “Black Lives Matter,” according to NBC News.

British protests occurred in London, Manchester and Nottingham. claiming “We’ve had enough. George Floyd is [one of] a long line of black males that have died at the hands of police.In Sydney, Australia, thousands marched, with some chanting, “No justice, no peace, no racist police,” according to The New York Times.

The Myth of Systemic Police Racism By Heather Mac Donald June 2, 2020

The Myth of Systemic Police Racism

By Heather Mac Donald
June 2, 2020 


https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883


Hold officers accountable who use excessive force. But there’s no evidence of widespread racial bias.

George Floyd’s death in  Minneapolis  has revived the Obama-era narrative that law enforcement is endemically racist. On Friday, Barack Obama tweeted that for millions of black Americans, being treated differently by the criminal justice system on account of race is “tragically, painfully, maddeningly ‘normal.’ ” Mr. Obama called on the police and the public to create a “new normal,” in which bigotry no longer “infects our institutions and our hearts.”

Joe Biden released a video the same day in which he asserted that all African-Americans fear for their safety from “bad police” and black children must be instructed to tolerate police abuse just so they can “make it home.” That echoed a claim Mr. Obama made after the ambush murder of five  Dallas  officers in July 2016. During their memorial service, the president said African-American parents were right to fear that their children may be killed by police officers whenever they go outside.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz denounced the “stain . . . of fundamental, institutional racism” on law enforcement during a Friday press conference. He claimed blacks were right to dismiss promises of police reform as empty verbiage.

This charge of systemic police bias was wrong during the Obama years and remains so today. However sickening the video of Floyd’s arrest, it isn’t representative of the 375 million annual contacts that police officers have with civilians. A solid body of evidence finds no structural bias in the criminal-justice system with regard to arrests, prosecution or sentencing. Crime and suspect behavior, not race, determine most police actions.

In 2019 police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015. That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects. In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the  U.S.  and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population.

The police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively, in 2015. The Post defines “unarmed” broadly to include such cases as a suspect in  Newark ,  N.J. , who had a loaded handgun in his car during a police chase. In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide victims. Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.

On Memorial Day weekend in  Chicago  alone, 10 African-Americans were killed in drive-by shootings. Such routine violence has continued—a 72-year-old Chicago man shot in the face on May 29 by a gunman who fired about a dozen shots into a residence; two 19-year-old women on the South Side shot to death as they sat in a parked car a few hours earlier; a 16-year-old boy fatally stabbed with his own knife that same day. This past weekend, 80 Chicagoans were shot in drive-by shootings, 21 fatally, the victims overwhelmingly black. Police shootings are not the reason that blacks die of homicide at eight times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined; criminal violence is.

The latest in a series of studies undercutting the claim of systemic police bias was published in August 2019 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers found that the more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that a member of that group will be fatally shot by a police officer. There is “no significant evidence of antiblack disparity in the likelihood of being fatally shot by police,” they concluded.

A 2015 Justice Department analysis of the Philadelphia Police Department found that white police officers were less likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot unarmed black suspects. Research by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer Jr. also found no evidence of racial discrimination in shootings. Any evidence to the contrary fails to take into account crime rates and civilian behavior before and during interactions with police.

The false narrative of systemic police bias resulted in targeted killings of officers during the Obama presidency. The pattern may be repeating itself. Officers are being assaulted and shot at while they try to arrest gun suspects or respond to the growing riots. Police precincts and courthouses have been destroyed with impunity, which will encourage more civilization-destroying violence. If the  Ferguson  effect of officers backing off law enforcement in minority neighborhoods is reborn as the  Minneapolis  effect, the thousands of law-abiding African-Americans who depend on the police for basic safety will once again be the victims.

The  Minneapolis  officers who arrested George Floyd must be held accountable for their excessive use of force and callous indifference to his distress. Police training needs to double down on de-escalation tactics. But Floyd’s death should not undermine the legitimacy of American law enforcement, without which we will continue on a path toward chaos.

Ms. Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of “The War on Cops,” (Encounter Books, 2016).