The New York Times and the Left Have Blood on Their Hands

From Dennis Prager, at FrontPage Magazine, "The white-hating and cop-hating hysteria that fueled the Dallas shooting":

It was very appropriate that on Friday, the day after the massacre of five Dallas police officers, The New York Times devoted nearly the whole top half of its front page to four enormous photos of the death of Philando Castile, a black motorist killed by a Minnesota police officer.

Of course, the paper was printed prior to the Dallas murders; and even The New York Times might not have so prominently featured the Minnesota killing on its front page had the Dallas murders occurred a few hours earlier.

Nevertheless, it was completely appropriate. The New York Times has been in the forefront of the left's hysterical, hate-filled attacks on police officers and whites.

Also appropriately, on the day of the Dallas murders, the Times published two white-hating, police-hating pieces.

One was by Michael Eric Dyson, a radical black professor of sociology at Georgetown University.

The Dyson column is nothing more than a racist hit piece on "white America."

An example:

"At birth, (whites) are given a pair of binoculars ... Those binoculars are privilege; they are status, regardless of your class. In fact the greatest privilege that exists is for white folk to get stopped by a cop and not end up dead when the encounter is over."

Dyson wrote these words based on the police killings of two blacks last week, about which he knows nothing except the narrative of the (left-wing) media and what he has seen on some grainy phone videos.

And not once does Professor Dyson mention that the Minnesota police officer was Latino. Why would he? That would suggest that Latinos, too, are given racist binoculars at birth. But Dyson would never say so, because it is white America he loathes.

Nor does he note, or perhaps even know — because of his left-wing binoculars — facts such as these:

In 2015, of the 990 people shot dead by police, 93 were unarmed and 38 of them were black. Of the 505 people shot dead by police thus far in 2016, 37 were unarmed and of them 13 were black. Given that blacks murder and rob more than whites — they committed 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties in the country in 2009 (despite comprising about 15 percent of the population in these counties) — an unarmed black is less likely to be killed by police than an unarmed white. (Data from the Washington Post.)

Does Dyson, a professor of sociology, not know these statistics? Does he not know that, statistically, whites have more reason to fear being murdered by a black than vice versa? If he doesn't, he shouldn't be teaching sociology. If he does, students should be aware that he is a left-wing, black nationalist propagandist, not a teacher.

The same day the Times published Dyson's piece, it published a second anti-white, anti-cop, hate-America piece by the mother of Michael Brown, the young black man killed in Ferguson, Missouri. That black grand jurors and even Obama's Department of Justice found the policeman who killed Brown was acting in self-defense after being attacked and thus justified him in doing so means nothing to The New York Times. So it published the grieving mother's anti-cop hate.

The blacks and whites of the left have led much of America, especially black America, to believe that cops are generally racist, that there is "systemic" racism and that whites are privileged and racist. It's all a lie that has had — and will continue to have — murderous consequences.

America has become the least racist multiracial, multiethnic country in world history. This drives the America-hating left crazy...

Still more.

Kalyn Chapman James, First Black Miss Alabama, Says Dallas Cop Killer Was a 'Martyr'

That's truly despicable.

At Blazing Cat Fur, "First Black Miss Alabama: 'I Don't Feel Sad for the Officers That Lost Their Lives … Shooter Was a Martyr'."

Donald Trump: 'I am the Law and Order Candidate' (VIDEO)

Hat Tip: The Daily Pundit.

Also, at USA Today, "Trump declares himself 'law and order' candidate."

Unraveling Obama's False Narratives (VIDEO)

From Jonathan Tobin, at Commentary:

President Obama stated something that was incontrovertibly true on Saturday when he said, “America is not as divided as some have suggested.” He’s right. The awful nature of two police shootings of African-Americans last week followed by the horror of the murder of five police officers in Dallas has left some Americans feeling as if their country is falling apart. The comparison being mooted in many places was to 1968 when race riots and political assassinations seemed to drive the country to the brink of chaos. So President Obama did the right thing when he sought to use the bully pulpit of the presidency to remind us that this perception is highly misleading. As bad as the last week felt—and it felt very bad indeed—there is no comparison to that moment of crisis.

But if many Americans feel as if the nation is heading toward an abyss, it is due in no small measure to the same person who is, belatedly, trying to calm public opinion. Throughout his presidency and in particular during the last two years since the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, he and other administration figures, such as former Attorney General Eric Holder, have worked hard to promote a false narrative of resurgent American racism. If the president is now trying to assert that individual acts of violence, whether an arguably unjustified shooting by a police officer or a mass shooting by a disturbed individual, should not cause us to jump to conclusions about that act representing the intentions of an entire group, then it is he, as much as anyone who has encouraged Americans to think in this manner. Having helped to encourage that fundamental misreading of American society as irremediably racist despite the fact that we twice elected an African-American to the presidency, it is a little too little and far too late for him to be offering wiser counsel.

It must be understood that the Black Lives Matter movement, which has done its best to perpetuate the myth that all blacks are in danger from the police everywhere, did not operate in a vacuum. Though their hateful statements were more extreme than anything said by the president or Holder, the administration helped legitimize the now widely held belief that police are an out-of-control force that is over-militarized and inclined to murder minorities with impunity.

The closer one looks at many of the individual episodes that form the core of the racism narrative, the harder it is to fit them into a pre-existing context. Some of the iconic incidents that sent people into the streets and provoked outrage from the White House and were held up as “proof” that it is open season on blacks by cops have turned out to undermine the racism narrative. The death that set off this movement—the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri—was judged by legal authorities to be justified.

To state this is not to deny that there are instances of police misconduct. Like all governmental agencies and employees, police departments and officers are fallible. But if there is a heightened sense of an adversarial relationship between police and some of the minority communities they serve, it has been exacerbated by forces like Black Lives Matter in an irresponsible manner. They have seized on every tragedy that could be possibly viewed through a racial lens and done their best to use it to promote an inchoate agenda that promoted hatred. Racism is an integral element of the history of this country and should never be ignored or underestimated. It has even reared its ugly head at times during the presidential campaign. But it cannot explain every crime or action taken by the police...

Keep reading.

Police Chief David Brown Receives Death Threats After #Dallas Attack (VIDEO)

Well, he's the chief of police. He should be okay.

But still.

Leftists are truly evil.

Watch, via AP, "Dallas Police Chief Receiving Death Threats":

Dallas Police Chief David Brown confirmed Monday that he and his family are receiving death threats in the wake of last Thursday's killing of five police officers. He also said the country is asking its police officers "to do too much."

Debating Black Lives Matter's Impact on the National Conversation (VIDEO)

Here's an impact segment with Megyn Kelly, on Fox News, "The role of Black Lives Matter in the national conversation: Panel debates the movement's impact on 'The Kelly File'."

The Fire Next Time

Here's the classic, from James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time.

Selena Gomez Gets Tight for Marie Claire

At the Last Men on Earth.

And on Twitter.

Emily Ratajkowski Lingerie Behind the Scenes (Video)

Hat Tip: Egotastic!

Deal of the Day: Select WowWee Robots Starting at $39.99

Here, at Amazon, Miposaur by WowWee.

Pretty trippy, heh.

Also, WowWee Robosapien X.

And keep shopping, WowWee Robots.

More, from Tony Wright, British Politics: A Very Short Introduction.

And from Professor David McKay, The New British Politics.

Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World.

Still more, from Correlli Barnett, The Collapse of British Power.

Robert K. Massie, Dreadnought.

BONUS: From Professor Paul Kennedy, The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914, and The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000.

Facebook Live Video Represents New Chapter for Citizens' Journalism

This is pretty interesting.

And game-changing.

At Columbia Journalism Review, "Philando Castile, Facebook Live, and a new chapter for citizen journalism."

Philando Castile, Facebook Live, and a new chapter for citizen journalism https://t.co/mI1wBZbRt6 pic.twitter.com/h8AH487aaB

— CJR (@CJR) July 7, 2016

David Cameron Hums a Tune as He Heads Into 10 Downing Street (VIDEO)

Following-up, "Andrea Leadsom Quits Leadership Race (VIDEO)," and "U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May Set to Become Britain's Prime Minister (VIDEO)."

Watch, via Sky News, "David Cameron Hums a Tune After Resigning."

More, at Telegraph U.K.:

From being booed on Centre Court to bidding farewell to Downing Street: David Cameron's final 72 hours as Prime… https://t.co/65OvTyPvE7

— Telegraph News (@TelegraphNews) July 11, 2016

U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May Set to Become Britain's Prime Minister (VIDEO)

Following-up, "Andrea Leadsom Quits Leadership Race (VIDEO)."

At the Telegraph U.K., "Live - 'Together we will build a better Britain': New Tory leader Theresa May delivers vision for the country ahead of coronation as Prime Minister on Wednesday":

Theresa May will become Britain's second female prime minister on Wednesday evening after David Cameron makes his final Commons appearance as premier.

Mr Cameron hailed his successor as "strong and competent" as he announced he would go to Buckingham Palace to offer his resignation to the Queen following Prime Minister's Questions.

Mrs May's coronation follows rival Andrea Leadsom's shock decision to pull out of the Tory leadership race.

The Prime Minister said he was "delighted" that the Home Secretary would succeed him in Downing Street.

Mr Cameron will chair his last Cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning and will take his final Prime Minister's Questions at noon on Wednesday.

In a statement outside the Commons following her election as Tory party leader, Mrs May praised May Cameron for his stewardship of the party and country.

Mrs May also hailed Andrea Leadsom, whose shock decision to pull out of the Tory leadership race paved the way for her coronation, for the "dignity" she had shown...

Still more.

Andrea Leadsom Quits Leadership Race (VIDEO)

Leadsom cried in an interview with the Telegraph on Sunday. There's no crying in politics!

Maybe that's why she quit?

I'll check, but meanwhile, at the New York Times, via Memeorandum, "Theresa May Poised to Be Britain's Next Premier as Andrea Leadsom Quits Race."

The Meaning of Donald Trump

From Salena Zito, at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, "Can we retire our 'politics of the ridiculous'?":

Email says everything
PS does not fit voter stereotype most journalists parachute in to find https://t.co/RaA7w7Cek2 pic.twitter.com/qYveSEoUka

— SalenaZito (@SalenaZitoTrib) July 10, 2016

Take last week, when a scathing FBI report concluded that Clinton essentially lied several times about her conduct regarding her State Department Internet server and her handling of classified information. The headlines for two days afterward insisted that Trump failed to focus on Clinton's problems, that he was off-message.

Well, what the headline-writers didn't comprehend is this: If Trump had delivered a crisp, scripted message about Clinton to his supporters in suburban Cincinnati, he would have lost the audience; they were looking for vintage Trump and they got him.

Such Americans are tired of scripted messages; they don't want to hear about Clinton's woes, because that was pounded into them all day by the news networks and by social media.

They want to hear about Trump, from Trump; they enjoy his confrontation with the national media — just as they enjoyed his riff with NBC's “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd — or that he talks about his grandchildren and mosquitoes.

This race has never been about ideology, a strict platform that no candidate can veer from, scripted messages that are so coordinated that every candidate in the party repeats the same talking points.

This moment is about what happens when you spend an entire generation ignoring the will, the wants and the needs of your people beyond cosmopolitan America.

This is what happens when voters get tired of putting on their team jerseys and supporting their side, but get nothing in return when that team wins.

If politicians and academics begin diving into the whats and whys of Campaign 2016, instead of just walking around shaking their heads in judgment, then perhaps they will root out the results from 30 years of political correctness, of policies that benefit a select few, of creating a culture of “otherness” when it comes to the country's interior, of mouthing promises that they can't keep.

Then, maybe, we can retire our politics of the ridiculous and start to govern the country once more...

RTWT.

How Many People Have to Die Because of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement?

From John Hawkins, at Town Hall:

John Hawkins - How Many People Have To Die Because Of The #BlackLivesMatter Movement? https://t.co/Q07pZff1KJ

— Kim Priestap (@kimpriestap) July 10, 2016

“Pigs In A Blanket, Fry 'Em Like Bacon!” – Chant at a #BlackLivesMatter protest in Minnesota

“What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!” – Chant by "Million Marchers" in New York City

The whole Black Lives Matter Movement is pure crap designed to help liberals get their names out there and to increase black turnout in elections for the Democratic Party.

It’s a movement funded by liberal white Americans like the Ben and Jerry’s Foundation and supported primarily by privileged black liberals that does nothing but produce a bigger body count.

For whatever reason, black Americans have always had a more hostile relationship with the police than other groups. Maybe that comes from the bad old days of the civil rights movement when the police weren’t always fair to black Americans. Maybe it comes from the sky high crime rate in black America which insures that percentage wise, more black Americans profit from criminal activities or know people involved in regularly breaking the law than people from other races. Perhaps it’s just a “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” problem? Did police hostility cause black Americans to become more distrusting of law enforcement or did hostility by black Americans cause the police to become more distrustful? If that hostility and distrust ceased on one side, would it disappear on the other side, too? Whatever the reason for it, it exists and the Black Lives Matter movement has greatly exacerbated it for its own purposes.

The sad reality is that the police have to do a dirty, dangerous, unpleasant job that sometimes involves killing other human beings to protect themselves or others. There will NEVER be a time when mistakes aren’t made. So, if the goal is supposed to be to stop the police from ever making a mistake, it’s pie in the sky.

Moreover, the overwhelming majority of police shootings are justified and those that aren’t are USUALLY punished in a court of law. There are undoubtedly cases where guilty police officers skate in court for their crimes, but as Nicole Simpson could tell you if she were still alive, murderers don’t always get convicted in America.

Because this really isn’t a huge problem for black Americans, the #BlackLivesMatter scumbags have taken ambiguous cases and elevated them to practically legendary status.

Take the death of Eric Garner. The cops were trying to arrest him for illegally selling cigarettes. The cops weren’t the ones who decided that should be illegal, but it’s their job to enforce the law. Garner resisted arrest, the cops used an appropriate amount of force subduing him and he died because of underlying health issues (“acute and chronic bronchial asthma, obesity, and heart disease.”)

You may think Eric Garner was choked to death because it takes lies like that for #BlackLivesMatter to justify its existence. However, it’s not true. In fact, the person most responsible for Eric Garner dying is Eric Garner...

Actually, the cops used a choke hold on Garner that was banned by the NYPD, but the fact is, Garner resisted arrest, and told the police, "This ends right here!" You think the police might be concerned about him resisting and posing a threat to their safety? Of course, you never hear that part from the ghoulish leftists of BLM. Never.

But keep reading.

Natasha Lennard, Far-Left Rolling Stone Columnist, Won't Say 'Blue Lives Matter' — Because White Supremacy!

Typical leftist.

She's a former writer for Salon, so that helps explain things, heh.

After Dallas, we dont need to say 'Blue Lives Matter'- it's as established as white supremacy. My 1st @RollingStone: https://t.co/pY4CObQ6Tl

— Natasha Lennard (@natashalennard) July 8, 2016

I won't say Blue Lives Matter, because it does not need to be said. We know this because the death of five officers this week provoked an immediate response from the president, as did the assassination of two NYPD officers in 2014. That's what mattering looks like. While the president’s remarks earlier in the week on the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were moving, dozens of unarmed black men killed by cop go without presidential comment....

There was never any doubt about the mattering of cops' lives in this country. To say Blue Lives Matter is to falsely assert that the cops' lives are undervalued and systematically discarded. They are not — no life should be — and the shootings in Dallas do not change that fact.

Five police deaths provoke cries of "Civil War," but hundreds of black deaths are just the "tragic" normal.

And that is why we continue to shout "Black Lives Matter" — the statement contains in itself the recognition that it very much still needs to be said.

It's also relevant that it has consistently taken the visceral and visual representation of black death — Emmett Till's broken corpse in the open casket his mother demanded, Mike Brown's body in the street, Philando Castile bleeding out onto his whiteT-shirt — to prompt popular and media outrage. Black civilian bodies get humanized only through death. It doesn't take a photo or video of a killed cop to provoke outcry. That mattering doesn't demand brutal spectacular cues.

Which is not to delegitimize growing fears among police ranks that they will become targets by virtue of their profession, their uniform. Dallas shows the validity of these concerns. Yet it remains the case that policing does not even rank in the ten most dangerous jobs, according to a 2015 Bureau of Labor Statistics report. Fisherman, farmers and, above all, loggers are more likely to die on the job, and police are, according to the same statistics, more likely to commit suicide than be killed by a criminal. While cops may have reasons for increased concern, this does not deserve a movement. There remain no grounds at all to call police officers a persecuted minority, nor to equate the oppression of black life with that of police in America....

By comparison, for example, Peter Liang was the first NYPD officer to be convicted for an on-duty killing in the last ten years. He shot unarmed black man Akai Gurley in a Brooklyn project housing stairwell, after he had his gun drawn because a stairwell light was out in the residential block he was patrolling. He had not been called to the scene of a crime. He won't spend a day in jail; his manslaughter conviction was accorded a sentence of five years' probation.

I'm not equating the intentional assassination of police officers with the (regular) killing of black people by cops. I don't believe most cops are hunting down black people — but I also don't believe murderous racist intention is necessary to make an execution a brutal, racist act. There are not very many people hunting down cops. Cops' lives are already valorized; it costs everything to take one. For a cop to take a black life, in criminal-justice currency, costs nothing at all. This, again, is what mattering does and does not look like.

Ms. Lennard is someone whose default position is to hate the police, and it's visceral.

Keep in mind that police are the only ones who run to the source of danger, to protect those very same people, black Americans. No one is more important to the lives of blacks, with the sole exception of black families themselves. But as Heather Mac Donald has said, until we see the reconstitution of the black family in America, it's the police who're the first line of defense for at-risk black communities. Leftists like Natasha Lennard thus make the problem worse, actually threatening the safety of black lives.

She might as well be saying, "No Lives Matter," for that's the logical consequence of her thesis.

Angry Leftist Shot and Killed by St. Louis County Officer After Online Argument About Black Lives Matter

Everything's falling apart in Obama's America.

At Gateway Pundit:

Black Lives Matter Activist SHOT DEAD After Breaking Into St. Louis Police Officer’s Home https://t.co/BQ2oZVgT9Z via @gatewaypundit

— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) July 11, 2016

And at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Off-duty St. Louis County officer fatally shoots intruder at home https://t.co/glbOTweOqm pic.twitter.com/xUu8Wk6poN

— STLtoday (@stltoday) July 10, 2016

LAKESHIRE • A former Affton High School football standout forced his way into a South County home and was shot and killed by an off-duty officer inside after a Facebook dispute over Black Lives Matter apparently boiled over late Saturday afternoon.

That's what can be pieced together from the accounts of police and an uncle of Tyler Gebhard, who said the young man had been struggling with mental health issues.

"He walked over there and into a gunfight," Gebhard's uncle, Patrick Brogan said, drawing on accounts offered by friends of his nephew. "When he got there, he was met with a gun and the guy killed him."

Authorities said Gebhard, 20, and the officer were acquainted, and Gebhard made Facebook threats to the officer's family and “uninvolved members of the community” in advance of the Saturday encounter with the unidentified officer.

Gebhard threw a 50-pound concrete planter through the window and entered the Lakeshire residence as the officer's wife, mother-in-law and two young children struggled to escape through a bedroom window, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said. The off-duty officer shot and killed Gebhard.

"I don’t think the officer had a choice — I honestly don’t,” Belmar told reporters on Saturday, labeling the situation “a very difficult position to be in.”

Toxic Political Culture, Divisive Politics, and the Left's War on Cops

From Karen Tumulty at WaPo:

"To acknowledge one horror guarantees being accused of diminishing or excusing another." @ktumulty https://t.co/y4bhTfcGI0

— Anne Hull (@annevhull) July 9, 2016

And Dan Balz at WaPo:

"This is not the summer of 1967 or 1968. But the political climate and the racial climate ..." https://t.co/HoxgG0khRN via @washingtonpost

— Jan Nolf (@NolfJan) July 9, 2016

Leaked Photos Appear to Show Dead Body of Dallas Attack Suspect Micah Xavier Johnson

This is London's Daily Mail, and it's a tabloid-style story.

But if there are indeed photos leaked online, we'll be hearing more about it.

Have photos of the dead body of Dallas sniper been leaked?https://t.co/TcburcwdoS #Dallas

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 11, 2016

Here's an image from an online forum, and it looks like him.

Violent Protesters Shut Down Interstate 94 Near St. Paul, Minnesota (VIDEO)

Here's the report, at CBS News 4 Minnesota, "102 Arrested, 21 Officers Hurt Following I-94 Protest."

More here, "Protesters Shut Down I-94; Multiple Officers Injured."

And at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "Police chief 'disgusted' by violence at I-94 protest; 21 officers hurt":

About 100 people protesting late Saturday and early Sunday in a sometimes violent response to the police killing in Falcon Heights of Philando Castile were arrested, either during an hourslong human blockade of Interstate 94 in St. Paul or during a follow-up gathering elsewhere in the city, authorities said.

The violence perpetrated by some of the protesters against the police prompted denouncement in the strongest terms by St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and Police Chief Todd Axtell, who called the pelting of officers with rocks, bottles and other items "a disgrace."

Axtell said 21 officers from all law enforcement agencies on the scene were injured in the mayhem. One of them suffered a broken vertebrae after a concrete block was dropped on his head, police said late Sunday afternoon. The State Patrol said six of the 21 were troopers who were slightly hurt by what the protesters were throwing.

President Obama weighed in Sunday on protesters directing violence against police, saying at a news conference during a one-day stop in Madrid that "any violence directed at police officers is a reprehensible crime."

The nation's first black president went on to say, "Whenever those of us who are concerned about failures of the criminal justice system attack police, you are doing a disservice to the cause."

More.

Chief Axtell says last night saw the worst anti-police violence in his 28 years on the job. He was "disgusted" by the criminality. There's a full video of the press conference here, "Saint Paul Police Headquarters July 10, 2016 8:00AM Central."

Heather Mac Donald Discusses the 'War on Cops," the Ferguson Effect, and Black-on-Black Violence

Here's a video/audio interview with Jesse Lee Peterson, "Heather Mac Donald: War on Cops & Ferguson Effect, Increase Black-on-Black Violence - #BlackLivesMatter."

Grab a beer or a soda a listen to the whole thing.

A couple of things in particular stand out: 1) Peterson reflects on the Black Lives Matter movement and compares it to the KKK, saying that BLM's anti-white racism is just as visceral as anything one would see with so-called white nationalist/KKK-types. That's fascinating, since Tomi Lahren made virtually the exact same point on Twitter and subsequently came under vicious attack by totalitarian leftists. Lahren's got nothing to apologize about, nor should she back down. But I think she got scared by the backlash and stepped back from those statements, mostly likely in fear for her job. That's exactly what the left is after. That's exactly what its faux outrage is about: to shut down conservative voices and conservative views that hit too close to home, voices calling out the radical left for its racism and deliberate, revolutionary violence.

But also, 2) Ms. Mac Donald reports that after she first published her essay on the Ferguson effect, she was doxxed by Black Lives Matter organizers in Austin, Texas. Ms. Mac Donald is almost hilariously cool while discussing it, but to think for moment it's so fucking outrageous the lengths that leftists go to destroy dissenting opinion. When I talk about The New American Civil War #TNACW I mean it as war in every sense of the term: political, cultural, sociological, educational, on top of subversive leftist armed struggle against the totality of the U.S. system. It's the entire package. It's the full program of the radical left. And mainstream media types who enable it are working off their purported moral superiority over the so-called "racist" white redneck flyovers who are allegedly holding the country back from the promised land. Witness the shocked response from the elitist chattering classes, among both Democrats and Republicans, by the way, to the rise of Donald Trump and the GOP nomination. If Trump wins in November the debate over British voters backing Brexit's going to look like a trip to the grocery store. The entire world's going to erupt in anti-Americanism. We'll have the Nazification of Trump far above the scale we saw against George W. Bush and Iraq. We'll see a global culture war come to head. And importantly, lots of mainstream leftist folks in both parties are noticing. For various reasons, culture is peaking this year and its volatile. Criminal justice is one of the main platforms for the left's assault on the police, law, order and tradition --- something Ms. Mac Donald points out at the interview above.

In any case, the Wall Street Journal republished Ms. Mac Donald's February op-ed yesterday. See, "The Myths of Black Lives Matter."

And see, "The New Nationwide Crime Wave."

Her new book is here, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe.

Bill Clinton Met with African American Defense League (AADL) in May

From Robert Stacy McCain, at the Other McCain, "Bill Clinton Met With Anti-Police Hate Group Leader Two Months Ago."

Remember, with Democrats it's "no enemies on the left," and the prove it time and time again:

During a campaign visit to Kentucky this year former President Bill Clinton met with the leader of a racial hate group that has been implicated in Thursday’s attack that killed five Dallas police officers. Mauricelm-Lei Millere is leader of the African American Defense League (AADL), which has repeatedly advocated violence against police. Dallas gunman Micah Xavier Johnson supported the AADL on Facebook, where Millere’s group posted messages that declared “ATTACK EVERYTHING IN BLUE EXCEPT THE MAIL MAN” and “sprinkle Pigs Blood” prior to Thursday’s attack. On his Instagram page, Millere wrote: “We have no alternative! We must kill white police officers across the country!”

Keep reading.

Kate Hudson Rule 5

Well, let's get things rolling this afternoon with something beautiful.

Here's ome lovely Kate Hudson, who's one of my absolute favorites.

I don't want to meet her in person, because Hollywood celebrities usually blow it for me.

I just want to gaze at her loveliness.

Kate Hudson covers the June 2016 issue of Shape magazine in her Fabletics swimwear https://t.co/wOobsLzQs6 pic.twitter.com/xh8LD2sHQT

— Shoppers Shop (@shoppersshop) May 31, 2016

Kate Hudson is giving Us all the motivation to hit the gym: https://t.co/7TqR7zpPyz

— Us Weekly (@usweekly) June 3, 2016

Kate Hudson flashes her derriere as she shares nude flashback photo on Instagram https://t.co/lgIGutNV18 pic.twitter.com/qv407TUngI

— WEST FUNDZ (@WEST_FUNDZ) June 30, 2016

Kate Hudson is totally nude in this epic throwback photo: https://t.co/ObzDDiu5m2 pic.twitter.com/j2V8JBHrKi

— InStyle (@InStyle) July 1, 2016

Kate Hudson flashes her derriere in nude flashback photo on Instagramhttps://t.co/6wEsn5uW8P via @DailyMailCeleb

— jackie stuart (@auldcove) July 1, 2016

ICYMI: Heather Mac Donald, The War on Cops [BUMPED]

It's a great book.

Should be mandatory reading for every American.

At Amazon, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe.

WATCH: New Black Panther Party Wants to 'Arm Every Black Man' (VIDEO)

Following-up, "Micah Xavier Johnson Was an Active Member of New Black Panther Party's Houston Chapter (VIDEO)."

Here's more, a video showing the Black Panther Party protesting at the SXSW convention in Austin last year:

Around 40 New Black Panther Party members marched with their firearms on display through the streets of Austin during SXSW festival on Monday. The protesters took to the streets of the Texan capital to condemn the murders of black civilians and show respect to the families of those who have been killed by the police in the United States.

Micah Xavier Johnson Was an Active Member of New Black Panther Party's Houston Chapter (VIDEO)

From J. Christian Adams, at Pajamas, "Obama Justice Department Laughed Off Armed New Black Panther Threat":

Obama #DOJ Laughed Off Armed New Black Panther Threat | PJ Media https://t.co/6vMDYcv4xC #Dallaspoliceshooting #police

— J. Christian Adams (@ElectionLawCtr) July 10, 2016

In 2009 and 2010, lawyers working at the United States Justice Department warned top Obama political appointees and other Justice Department officials about the dangerous threats of New Black Panthers to kill police officers and other whites. I was one of those lawyers who delivered those warnings.

Our warnings came in the context of the Voting Rights Act case I and other lawyers brought against the New Black Panthers on behalf of the United States in 2009, a case the Obama administration ultimately abandoned.  Both top DOJ officials, including now Labor Secretary Tom Perez, as well as rank and file employees in the Civil Rights Division, were warned but did not take the New Black Panther threat seriously or otherwise considered the organization to be a laughable joke.

Allies in the media echoed the narrative that the defendants in the voter intimidation case were harmless clowns.

Among the information presented to top officials was a video produced by the New Black Panthers entitled "Training Day." The video proposes killing police officers by ambush.  I wrote about the video:

Another New Black Panther posing in the above photo and kneeling with a shotgun is "Field Marshal" Najee Muhammad. As I wrote in my book Injustice: One of them was Panther “Field Marshal” Najee Muhammad, who is seen in a Panther video called “Training Day” in which he encourages blacks in DeKalb County, Georgia, to don ski masks, lie in wait behind shrubs, and kill police officers with AK-47s. Following that exhortation he mocks the hypothetical victims’ grieving widows.

Justice Department employees ridiculed the video and noted very few were in the video's audience, apparently oblivious of the role and power of social media to reach people not sitting in an auditorium.

Attorneys working on the voter intimidation case made an effort to broadly educate employees of the Civil Rights Division about the murderous rhetoric of the New Black Panthers. We planned a screening of a National Geographic special on the New Black Panthers where members could be heard threatening to kill white babies.  We widely disseminated information about the screening in a Justice Department conference room.  On a floor with nearly one hundred employees, exactly two DOJ employees showed up to watch the screening, and one of them was the paralegal on the case.

As we shall see, Obama allies in the media could also be counted on to ridicule the seriousness of the New Black Panther organization...

Keep reading.

And see Bob Price, at Breitbart, "Confirmed: Dallas Shooter was Member of Houston New Black Panther Party."

According to Price, Micah Xavier Johnson can be seen here, at a Sandra Bland solidarity demonstration in Texas in 2015, chanting "Off the Pig!"

Black Lives Matter Was Gaining Ground, Then — Oops — It Revealed Its True Face

Black Lives Matter is a revolutionary communist organization that will use any means necessary to destroy the free-market American democracy.

Dallas reveals its true face, again.

But see the New York Times, FWIW, "Black Lives Matter Was Gaining Ground. Then a Sniper Opened Fire":

It felt like a watershed moment for a scattered and still-young civil rights movement.

Inside Black Lives Matter, the national revulsion over videos of police officers shooting to death black men in Minnesota and Louisiana was undeniable proof that the group’s message of outrage and demands for justice had finally broken through.

Even the white governor of Minnesota, Mark Dayton, in a pained public concession, embraced the movement’s central argument. “Would this have happened if those passengers — the driver and the passengers — were white?” he asked. “I don’t think it would’ve.”

Then, in an instant, everything changed.

Black Lives Matter now faces perhaps the biggest crisis in its short history: It is both scrambling to distance itself from an African-American sniper in Dallas who set out to murder white police officers and trying to rebut a chorus of detractors who blame the movement for inspiring his deadly attack.

“What I saw in Dallas was devastating to our work,” said Jedidiah Brown, a Chicago pastor who has emerged as an outspoken Black Lives Matter activist over the past year. The moment he learned of the attack on the police, he said, he immediately sensed that any emerging national consensus would “tear down the middle.”

“The thing I vividly remember thinking was, this is going to show exactly how divided this conversation is,” he said.

For those who have harbored doubts or animosity toward Black Lives Matter — among them police unions and conservative leaders — the Dallas attacks are a cudgel that, fairly or not, they are eager to swing.

In Texas, several state officials, including Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, lashed out at the group, directly linking its tone and tactics to the killings. Mr. Patrick acknowledged that the demonstration in Dallas on Thursday night had been peaceful until the gunman struck, but he accused the movement of creating the conditions for what happened. “I do blame former Black Lives Matter protests,” he said.

“This has to stop,” Mr. Patrick said, adding of the police officers, “These are real people.”

State Representative Bill Zedler, a Republican, was equally blunt in his assessment of the group’s influence on the 25-year-old gunman, Micah Johnson.

“Clearly the rhetoric of Black Lives Matters encouraged the sniper that shot Dallas police officers,” he wrote on Twitter.

But a bigger problem for Black Lives Matter, supported by many liberals, is that Mr. Johnson’s actions could jeopardize the movement’s appeal to a broader group of Americans who have gradually become more sympathetic to its cause after years of highly publicized police shootings.

In the days before the Dallas massacre, Aesha Rasheed, 39, an activist in New Orleans, felt that at long last, white and black America were watching the same images with the same horror: two Louisiana police officers tackling and then shooting Alton Sterling, 37, at point-blank range; the slumped, blood-soaked body of Philando Castile, 32, after a Minnesota police officer shot him through a car window, with his girlfriend and her daughter sitting inches away.

“It seemed like a national consciousness was sinking in,” Ms. Rasheed said.

After the massacre in Dallas, she said, “it turned on a dime.”

She now worries that the episodes involving black men may be overshadowed and overlooked.

“Does this get ignored?” she asked. “Do five officers take center stage?”

Still more.

Derek Jeter Marries Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Hannah Davis

Yeah dude.

She's a longtime feature of Rule 5 blogging around here. See, "Hannah Davis for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit." (More here.)

And at the New York Post:

Today's cover: Derek Jeter marries Hannah Davis https://t.co/TIfceK5uIL pic.twitter.com/1uniRnhId4

— New York Post (@nypost) July 10, 2016

Pat Condell on #Brexit (VIDEO)

Saving Britain's democracy.

Cornel West Calls for End to Israeli Occupation of Palestine at Democrat Platform Meeting in Orlando

At the Orlando Sentinel, "Sanders backers frustrated by defeats at Orlando platform meeting."

The hateful anti-Semitic Rania Khalek was on hand:

Cornel West calls 4 end to Israeli occupation. He says it's South Africa of today & Dem party has been "in denial for too long" #DemPlatform

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

Clinton supporters opposes calling for end to Israeli occupation in #DemPlatform. Room erupts in boos.

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

Mayor of Columbia, South Carolina Steve Benjamin is arguing against opposing Israeli occupation and settlements in #DemPlatform.

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

What is with South Carolina politicians' staunch support for Israel?

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

"Democrats, you've been in denial too long." -@CornelWest on #Palestine our "generation's Vietnam, South Africa." #DemPlatform

— Katie Halper (@kthalps) July 9, 2016

The amendment is defeated, supporters of Palestine are shouting that Democrats are in bed with AIPAC. #DemPlatform

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

New amendment proposed asks #DemPlatform to call 4 "international effort to rebuild Gaza, which UN warns could be uninhabitable by 2020"

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

Wow, there will be someone speaking in opposition. What kind of person argues against rebuilding an uninhabitable ghetto? #DemPlatform

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

Cornel West says over 500 babies were killed by Israel in Gaza and our elites said nothing. #DemPlatform

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

If we can't pass this amendment "we're in the same condition this party was in 80 yrs ago" when it denied Jim Crow, says West #DemPlatform

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

"Nebraska Democrats believe the people of Gaza need salvation," says another supporter of the amendment #DemPlatform

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

Hillary Clinton supporter says Israelis are not to blame for Gaza's humanitarian catastrophe & amendment "distracts" from 2-states. What?

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

Another Hillary Clinton supporter argues that talking about Gaza in #DemPlatform distracts from Israeli suffering. Unbelievable.

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

These people are being recorded. They will go down in history as blaming an occupied people for their ghettoization. #DemPlatform

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

The amendment to rebuild the Gaza ghetto was defeated. People began chanting but I couldn't make out what they said. #DemPlatform

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

Water in Gaza's undrinkable. Nearly 2 million ppl are under air/land/sea blockade 4 crime of not being Jewish. Shame on Clinton #DemPlatform

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

It was Marc Stanley, chairman of National Jewish Dem Council, who opposed rebuilding of Gaza bc it "distracts" from Israeli suffering.

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

To Hillary Clinton & her base, merely entertaining the idea that Palestinians are human beings is anti-Israel. https://t.co/kKDRTDDbv2

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

Cornel West: "We're in same condition party was in 80yrs ago when they didn't wanna deal w Jim Crow" #DemPlatform pic.twitter.com/1Yb5CaePTo

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 9, 2016

One Boy, Two Men Killed In San Bernardino Triple Shooting

At the SB Sun, "2 men, 1 boy dead in San Bernardino shooting."

It's a 9-year-old boy.

Because Black Lives Matter.

More, at LAT, "9-year old boy, father killed in triple shooting in San Bernardino":

#BreakTheStreetCode contact the #SanBernardino PD if you know the identity of this #killer pic.twitter.com/a3kLhSoogk

— Lt. Travis Walker (@SBPDLTWALKER) July 10, 2016

In line at a liquor store in San Bernardino on Friday night, 9-year-old Travon Williams asked his father to buy him a bag of candy. His father agreed and Travon, like the soon-to-be fifth-grader he was, marked the moment with a jump and a dance out the door beside his dad and another man, an employee recalled.

In the parking lot, just steps away from the door, someone opened fire and then ran.

The child  was killed along with his father, Travon Lamar Williams, 26, and Samathy Mahan, 25, San Bernardino police said.

"It was 30 seconds to kill three people," said store manager Saifaldin Baji.

San Bernardino police said the three were exiting the Superior Liquor & Grocery on Del Rosa Avenue about 9:15 p.m. when a man armed with a handgun approached them from behind and shot all three.

The motive for the shooting is not yet known, but Mahan was a known gang member and was believed to be the intended target, police Sgt. Vicki Cervantes  said. It was unclear what Mahan’s relationship may have been to the boy and his father, she said.

The child’s mother, Ebony Newman, 27, came upon the scene at the liquor store as she and her husband – Travon’s stepfather – and Travon’s two younger sisters were out walking.

She did not realize that her son was one of the victims at first, when someone told her that the dead boy, whose face was covered, was 11 years old.

“I pulled up to the scene, thinking it’s another situation in San Bernardino, and it’s my baby,” she said, crying uncontrollably. “What mom in her mind would think, that’s my baby? This is not right. This is not right.”

More.

Spanish Bullfighter Victor Barrio Gored to Death in Teruel, Spain (VIDEO)

Oh man.

It was painful. You can see the agony of defeat in the man's face.

The bull just sinks his horn into Barrio's side, and kind of grinds it. The man is helpless, clutching his gut and screaming in pain.

Here's another video, "Le torero Victor Barrio, est mort aujourd’hui, encorné à la poitrine, dans la Plaza de Teruel."

And at the Mirror U.K., "Matador is mauled to death in horrifying footage showing first bullfighting fatality in Spain this century."

If they're going to ban bullfighting, maybe this is why: it's too fucking dangerous. Sheesh.

Obama on #Dallas: It's hard to 'untangle the motives of the shooter...' (VIDEO)

Actually, it's not.

He said he wanted to kill white people, especially white cops.

Not hard at all.

But see the clip from Obama's comments at the NATO summit, here.

And more, via CNN:



O again pushes the lie that blacks in the criminal justice system face "disparate" treatment.

Those kind of comments are what's driving the divisions of this nation. There's your division right there.

'By Any Means'

This shit's prolly on O's iPhone.

ScHoolboy Q, agitatin':

You can fuck my bitch, you can have my hoe
Get yours, get yours, get yours by any means
You can smoke that kill, you can push that dope
Get yours, get yours, get yours by any means
You can steer that wheel, hit the gas and go
Get yours, get yours, get yours by any means
You can fuck my bitch, you can have my...

I make a scene around me, hit the corner, Heaven, Hell
I come from pimpin', bangin', baby momma rockin' yayo
Was always Grandma's baby, Moms always kept in veil
I swear my cousin want me bangin', settin'

Nigga fuck all that, tryna go my road
I can take you back nigga, 'round '04
You can do clown dance, I'ma rob that store
You can paint your face, I'ma kick down doors
I'ma shoot my gun, I'ma free my locc
I'ma sell her tongue, I'ma tan that coke
I'ma dark my lungs, I'ma heal my soul
I'ma stack my bread, I'ma cop that boat
I'ma get them M's, I'ma whip that ghost

You can fuck my bitch, you can have my hoe
Get yours, get yours, get yours by any means
You can smoke that kill, you can push that dope
Get yours, get yours, get yours by any means
You can steer that wheel, hit the gas and go
Get yours, get yours, get yours by any means
You can fuck my bitch, you can have my...

I make a scene around me, hit the corner, Heaven, Hell
I come from pimpin', bangin', baby momma rockin' yayo

50 Crip, contraband for chips, sold all kinda shit
You know we on, turned that white to stone, just don't call my phone
From scrub to boss, shit my necklace gloss, plus my Bentley cost
You poppin' pills, shit we sellin' pills, pussy sell in heels
Her booty fat, fuck her gluteus max, I'm still that groovy cat
Off 51st, yeah we pushin' work, all my pots is burnt
My section turnt, see my soda rise, dimes be super sized
Say yes to dope, cop that Enz and oh

You can fuck my bitch, you can have my hoe
Get yours, get yours, get yours by any means
You can smoke that kill, you can push that dope
Get yours, get yours, get yours by any means
You can steer that wheel, hit the gas and go
Get yours, get yours, get yours by any means
You can fuck my bitch, you can have my hoe

I make a scene around me, hit the corner, Heaven, Hell
I come from pimpin', bangin', baby momma rockin' yayo

You can fuck my bitch, you can have my hoe
You can fuck my bitch, you can have my hoe
You can fuck my bitch, you can have my hoe
You can fuck my bitch, you can have my hoe
You can fuck my bitch, you can have my....

Will the Cycle of Black Violence Change the Election Campaign?

From Cathleen Decker, at the Los Angeles Times, "Analysis: Will the violence across America change the presidential campaign?":

Crises that arise during presidential campaigns often define the candidates.

Will this horrific week prove to be the crucible of the current campaign?

Violence has shuddered through America since Tuesday: First, two controversial shootings by police of African American men, captured on cameras and spread on social media; then the assassination of at least five Dallas police officers and the wounding of others by a sniper after a peaceful march protesting the earlier deaths.

At the very minimum, the bickering between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton has been temporarily overshadowed, much as it was less than four weeks ago when a single assailant killed 49 people and wounded more than 50 others in an Orlando, Fla., nightclub.

That pause proved temporary and for all its horror, had little effect on the presidential race.

But in past decades, dramatic disorder has had a political impact. The convulsions of protests and violence in 1968 — albeit occurring in a vastly different country — helped swing the presidential election that year  to the law-and-order candidate, Republican Richard Nixon.

The effect of the latest outbreak may be fully determined only when more specifics are known about the Dallas attack.

Already, however, the three days of shootings have served as a reminder of how events outside the campaign can overwhelm the carefully plotted strategies of the candidates. For a time, at least, the question of whom Trump will pick as a running mate and the details of Clinton’s handling of classified information in her emails while secretary of State seem unlikely to attract much attention.

Whether the effect goes deeper and persists also will depend on how a polarized public — and the candidates — frame the week’s deadly events with their fraught elements of racial tension and maintenance of public order.

Both candidates began shaping their responses — and the public’s view of events — on Friday.

Trump, who cancelled a planned Florida event, has built much of his campaign around the idea that America is no longer “safe.” He couples his denunciations of illegal immigration with claims that American cities are places of danger where his audiences — mostly older, white and nonurban — would rightly fear to walk.

He could benefit if voters see this week’s killings as part of a general picture of national chaos — a crisis of authority requiring a tough response.

In a statement released early Friday, Trump largely cast the events in that vein, saying it was necessary to “restore law and order” and “the confidence of our people to be safe and secure in their homes and on the street.”

But he also used terminology rare for a candidate who has been criticized for months for using divisive racially-inflected rhetoric — and one who regularly lauds police while dismissing complaints about police violence.

He called the shootings by police of African American men in Louisiana and Minnesota “senseless” and said they remind “us how much more needs to be done.”

“Our nation has become too divided,” Trump said, adding that “racial  tensions have gotten worse, not better.”

More.

Tomi Lahren at Politicon

She spoke on the panel with Mary Katharine Ham.

And previously, "Tomi Lahren Calls #BlackLivesMatter 'the New KKK'."

Tomi Lahren Calls #BlackLivesMatter 'the New KKK'

She's taking some flak:

Petition started after @TheBlaze host @TomiLahren called #BlackLivesMatter "the new KKK": https://t.co/T2lGpP1Cbv pic.twitter.com/OEI62e82Oj

— Heat Street (@heatstreet) July 9, 2016

And @TomiLahren weighs in but can't hit the delete button fast enough.@AnnCoulter, come get your daughter. pic.twitter.com/CdDt4xf4HL

— W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) July 8, 2016

And she said she was "angry last night' in a follow-up "Final Thoughts":

Kristen Keogh All-Star Weekend Forecast

It was definitely hotter yesterday than on Thursday, when we took in the Dodgers game.

Perfect July weather, at any rate.

Via ABC News 10 San Diego:

Ethics Debated After Dallas Police Use Robot Bomb to Kill Suspect Micah Xavier Johnson (VIDEO)

I don't see a problem at all. If the bomb saved lives, there's your ethics.

At the Los Angeles Times, "Dallas police used a robot to kill a gunman, a new tactic that raises ethical questions."

And at USA Today, "Using robots to kill: Ethics debated after Dallas."

And watch, at CBS News 2 Los Angeles:

Chloe Lattanzi Hits Back at Trolls After Posting Busty Bikini Photo to Instagram

Here's her post at Instagram.

Seems perfectly fine.

But see London's Daily Mail, "'Having big breasts does not make you stupid': Chloe Lattanzi hits back at trolls who insulted her after she posted a busty bikini shot... with another skimpy photo":

Chloe Lattanzi has hit back at trolls who called her stupid after she posted a busty bikini shot on social media on Thursday.

The daughter of Olivia Newton-John ignited an Instagram comment flame war with a photo of herself swimming in a pool wearing a hot pink bikini top that barely contained her ample assets.

Then on Friday, she posted a strongly-worded response next to a new photo of her standing by the pool flaunting her trim figure and busty frame in another bikini.

Genevieve Morton Checks Out Vintage Muscle Cars (VIDEO)

Via Esquire:



BONUS: "Genevieve Morton In Nothing But Body Paint - Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2015 (VIDEO)."

Beach Babe at Wiamea Bay (VIDEO)

Awesome.

Playboy Abroad: Adventures with Photographer Ana Dias at the Dead Sea in Israel (VIDEO)

Photos here:

In our latest edition of Playboy Abroad photographer Ana Dias travels to the Dead Sea in Israel. While there she ran into beautiful blonde model Dasha.

And watch the video, "Ana Dias at Work in Israel at the Dead Sea - Playboy Abroad."

Rush Limbaugh Says #BlackLivesMatter is 'Quickly Becoming a Terrorist Group' (AUDIO)

It's good.

Listen, "Rush: #BlackLivesMatter ‘Quickly Becoming a Terrorist Group'."

The Violent Tone of #BlackLivesMatter Has Alienated Even Liberals Like Me

According to Wikipedia, Asra Q. Nomani's a professor of "journalism at Georgetown University and co-director of the Pearl Project, a faculty-student, investigative-reporting project into the kidnapping and murder of her former colleague, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl."

Sounds like a pretty good lady to me, and of course, that's why radical leftists are out to destroy her.

At Heat Street:

The Violent Tone of Black Lives Matter Has Alienated Even Liberals Like Me https://t.co/VjK0DklocX

— Heat Street (@heatstreet) July 9, 2016

DALLAS — Early Thursday evening, in the loud pitch of protests for the Black Lives Matter movement here at Belo Garden Park, at the corner of South Griffin Street and Main Street, a quiet moment went mostly unnoticed. A smiling middle-aged black man, carrying a handwritten placard, “No Justice. No Peace,” stopped to take a photo of a phalanx of several police officers.

One of the officers, a white man, responded with a smile and said, “Wanna take a picture together?”

A Hispanic female officer stepped forward to take the man’s camera phone, while the protestor stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the police officers, his sign visible at his feet, a black police officer on his right and the white officer on his left, all smiling. Beside them, with friends and my son, I smiled. It was a moment of warmth in an unfortunate race war that has polarized America.

In town for a fencing tournament, we had stepped out of dinner moments earlier to the buzz of helicopters overhead. Emergency vehicles wailed nearby. A young man, hustling for money, told us folks were in downtown for a demonstration against police shootings of black men. “Be careful,” he said.

We followed others to the protest, crossing South Griffin Street, to enter the well-manicured Belo Garden Park, where a black man shouted into a megaphone, with about 500 protestors around him. My friend, who is Hispanic, was wary of possible danger, having grown up years ago amid violent anti-dictatorship protests.

We stopped when I spotted the line of police. “We’ll be safe next to the police,” I told my friend. It is a difficult truth to acknowledge: After watching the streets of America burn from Ferguson, Missouri, to Baltimore, we feared violence from the protestors, not the police. Little could we know, we were — metaphorically, at least — in the sniper’s line of fire, with targets on the backs of police, six of them to be injured, five of them to be slain, hours later.

In Belo Garden Park, studying the crowd of demonstrators, I had told my friend: The tenor of the Black Lives Matter movement — with headline moments of storming stages, seizing microphones, sabotaging a gay pride event, expressing rage and even hate to police — had alienated even liberals, like myself, who care deeply about racial justice.

To be sure, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said that the sniper, Micah Xavier Johnson, killed by a police robot with an explosive, had told police negotiators that he wasn’t affiliated with any organization, and the movement officially denounced the murders. But the killings in Louisiana, Minnesota, and Texas reveal there is a needle we must still thread as a nation. We must face the wounds of social injustice with a nonviolent spirit of reconciliation and healing. When I expressed these sentiments on Twitter, not long after bullets flew blocks from where we had stood, some supporters of Black Lives Matter attacked me, particularly co=religionists from my Muslim community, using shaming techniques, like calling me “coon,” “racist,” “mental midget,” propagandist for Islamaphobia and now anti-Black racism,” to attempt to silence me and bully me to “f–k off.”

Keep reading.

It's interesting how much supporters of #BlackLivesMatter have cussed at me while trying to defend their honor. https://t.co/11HDoV49wa

— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) July 9, 2016

Yes, I wanted you to say it. It's NOT okay to dehumanize others in the name of social justice. @HessahP @AbuBishrr

— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) July 9, 2016

This flawed premise that it's okay to incite hate against others is a hallmark of your campaigns @rabiasquared @MuslimMatters @nathanlean

— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) July 9, 2016

FYI Fmr @CAIRNational @RabiaSquared, #AdnanSyed fan, incites folks to "have at it" w/me to "set" me "straight." https://t.co/n742Lq4W8Z

— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) July 9, 2016

#Stalker https://t.co/jGhO2fSeg2

— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) July 9, 2016

Their hopes to smear folks as "Islamophobes" hinges on race wars, @mistahspock. @rabiasquared @MuslimMatters @nathanlean

— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) July 9, 2016

Do you now see how Muslims throwing around the "Islamophobia" smear exploit the race wars for their own agenda? @nonpromqueen

— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) July 9, 2016

I am talking about storming stages, silencing speakers, stopping LGBT parade. I empathize w/the anger but dont agree w/the tactics @tarynj19

— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) July 9, 2016

@AsraNomani Slander, misrepresentation, lies and obfuscation are the traits of @nathanlean

— Stefan Ride (@SRide44) July 9, 2016

Yes, there is real racial injustice, police misconduct. I just dont agree with BLM "tone" so they dehumanize me as "racist" @yepmeister

— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) July 9, 2016

Yes, there is real racial injustice, police misconduct. I just dont agree with BLM "tone" so they dehumanize me as "racist" @yepmeister

— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) July 9, 2016

More cursing. More demands to shut up, as if that is okay. Thank you for proving my point. @PersianCeltic

— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) July 9, 2016

G'night haters unleashed by @MuslimMatters @nathanlean @rabiasquared. W/hate, you prove my concerns on #BlackLivesMatter tactics. #Dallas

— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) July 9, 2016

The New American Civil War: Leftists Against Conservatives; Black Lives Matter Against Blue Lives Matter; Protesters Against Police

It's #TNACW.

At the New York Times, "A Struggle for Common Ground, Amid Fears of a National Fracture":

Even as political leaders, protesters and law enforcement officials struggled to find common ground and lit candles of shared grief, there was an inescapable fear that the United States was being pulled further apart in its anger and anguish over back-to-back fatal shootings by police officers followed by a sniper attack by a military veteran who said he wanted to kill white police officers.

Just days after the United States celebrated its 240th birthday, people in interviews across the country said that the nation increasingly felt mired in bloodshed and blame, and that despite pleas for compassion and unity, it was fracturing along racial and ideological lines into angry camps of liberals against conservatives, Black Lives Matter against Blue Lives Matter, protesters against the police. Whose side were you on? Which victims did you mourn?

In a televised interview, the executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations blamed President Obama for waging a “war on cops.” On social media, others confronted the discrepancies in the everyday lives of black and white Americans, hoping understanding would lead to conversations and action.

Along the Las Vegas Strip, a sunbaked cross-section of races, backgrounds and political views, tourists and workers said the relentless parade of violence during the week had left them mostly in shock and disbelief. They worried that more would follow.

Police departments across the country took precautions, ordering officers to double up in their patrol cruisers and to work in pairs or teams. Civilians were also on guard. Trey Jemmott, an incoming freshman at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said his mother warned him to be careful before he left for the gym the other night.

“She always told me, being an African-American, you already have strikes against you,” he said. “I just feel like something’s got to change. We thought we were over this.”

At an outdoor food stand on the Strip, three co-workers — black, white and Asian — debated whether the bloodshed would lead to healing or deeper divisions as they talked about their own experiences with the police.

Martin Clemons, 28, said he and other black friends had been frisked for jaywalking across the Strip. Zach Luciano, 23, who is white, said he had never been stopped or had a negative run-in with law enforcement, and had considered becoming a police officer.

“There’s more good cops than bad cops,” Mr. Luciano said. “I wanted to be one of those good ones.”

What the three co-workers shared was a grim view that the country’s divides would not heal anytime soon.

“It’s sad, but this is what the world’s coming to,” Mr. Luciano said...

More.

Sheriff David Clarke Slams President Obama for 'Irresponsible Rhetoric' After Dallas Sniper Attack (VIDEO)

I see a lot of commentators starting to get all mushy and "Imagine"-like in their statements.

I don't think it's a time for idealism, although I often have my flights of fancy. It's time for hard-headed realism and truth-talking.

You'll enjoy (and be reassured by) this video with Sheriff Clark, from Maria Bartiromo's show on Fox Business, "Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke on the sniper shootings of police officers in Dallas."

Also, at Politico, "GOP rips Obama after Dallas police shooting."

BONUS: At the Dallas Morning News, "Dallas chief after sniper attack: 'We don't feel much support most days. Let's not make today most days'."

Police and Civilians Run for Cover Amidst Sounds of Sniper Fire in Dallas (VIDEO)

Very intense raw video, at Ruptly, "USA: Police officers and civilians run for cover from sniper as fifth officer dies."

Previously, "Did Black Lives Matter Inspire Dallas Attack Suspect Micah Xavier Johnson? (VIDEO)."

Did Black Lives Matter Inspire Dallas Attack Suspect Micah Xavier Johnson? (VIDEO)

Actually, the suspect told the police, during standoff negotiations, that he wanted to kill white people, especially white cops. And the suspect was upset by the recent police killings of black men. He "expressed anger for Black Lives Matter," according to Dallas Police Chief David Brown.

Was the suspect a member of Blacks Lives Matter? I don't know. But it's clear that the larger leftist, anti-cop environment fostered by BLM is a contributing factor to the violence, for sure.

In any case, see Robert Stacy McCain, at the Other McCain, "DALLAS SHOOTER MICAH JOHNSON: Did #BlackLivesMatter Inspire Terrorist?":

Critics have accused the Black Lives Matter movement of being a hate group that exploits and incites racial animosity. Fanatical supporters of Black Lives Matter flooded Twitter with anti-police messages after Thursday’s shooting, calling for even more violence against police.

“This is the war that Black Lives Matter asked for,” David Horowitz said Thursday night after the deadly attack in Dallas, later asking: “Do you think we have a domestic terrorist threat from the left?”

The anti-police ideology of “Black Lives Matter has historical roots in the radical Left, investigative journalist Matthew Vadum reports...

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My own opinion is that this is entirely on the left. I agree with David Horowitz that the left has its race war. And as I've said repeatedly, it's likely to get worse before it gets better. Frankly, years ago I compared the contemporary American radical left to the Baader-Meinhof Group from the 1970s. Bob Schieffer was on CBS This Morning today, and he asked the $64,000 question: Was the Dallas suspect part of a larger organized movement? He may not have been, but I suspect that we're likely to see an escalation of deliberate, organized violence to match the vicious calculation and brutality seen in Dallas last night. Indeed, as I've noted, before I went out last night to the Dodger game, I predicted some kind of urban unrest coming out of Black Lives Matter and this week's events. It was worse than I expected, but today I'm confident that it's the tip of the iceberg.

In any case, here's Schieffer from earlier today:

WATCH: Raw Video Shows Police Officer Shot and Killed by Suspect in Dallas Attack

I'm not embedding AP's video, which shows the execution-style killing of the police officer. This clip will probably be pulled.

Here, "Dramatic Footage Shows Dallas Officer Shot."

RT has footage of moments before the officer was murdered. This clip probably won't be pulled: