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.”

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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...

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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:

Black Lives Matter Terrorists Murder Dallas Cops

From Matthew Vadum, at FrontPage Magazine, "Is the race war Barack Obama wanted breaking out in Dallas and across America?":

The ambush-style mass shooting of cops in Dallas, Texas, last night makes it clear that it is time for the dangerous, anti-American insurgency called Black Lives Matter to be designated a terrorist organization for fomenting a war against the nation’s law enforcement officers.

As FrontPage went to press early Friday morning, five Dallas area police officers were dead, systematically slaughtered by snipers.

That makes it the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since Sept. 11, 2001.

The officers were killed during a demonstration in downtown Dallas against police brutality that leftists say is directed at black Americans as a matter of government policy. Similar marches and rallies took place in other cities, including New York, Oakland, Calif., and Denver, Colo. One suspect has been killed and three others remain in custody. Police have not yet released their identities. [Police now have released the identity of one suspect, Micah Xavier Johnson, who was killed in the standoff.]

Of course, murdering police officers has long been encouraged by activists with the Black Lives Matter cult, with the support of the activist Left. A year ago Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who openly advocates the mass murder of whites, called for “10,000 fearless men” to “rise up and kill those who kill us.” Like many radicals, Farrakhan mischaracterizes Black Lives Matter as a rising civil rights movement.

President Barack Obama, who a decade ago promoted inter-racial warfare in Kenya, has long tried to provoke civil unrest here in the U.S. with his hateful anti-cop rhetoric and his relentless demonization of opponents. His goal is fundamental transformation of the United States. A Red diaper baby who identifies violence-espousing communist Frantz Fanon as an intellectual influence, he has also steadfastly refused to condemn the explicitly racist, violent Black Lives Matter movement. In fact Obama has lavished attention on the movement’s leaders and invited them to the White House over and over again.

Members of the Democratic National Committee expressly endorsed Black Lives Matter, throwing their lot in with black racists and radical Black Power militants. The DNC officially embraced a statement that slams the U.S. for allegedly systemic police violence against black people. A resolution passed by hundreds of delegates at the DNC meeting in Minneapolis last year accuses the nation’s police of "extrajudicial killings of unarmed African American men, women and children."

The Left persists in these lies because, well, that’s what these people do.

According to one analysis, of all the people shot and killed in the U.S. by police so far in 2016, only 24 percent, or 122, were black. Black people are only about 13 percent of the population but they commit around half of all violent crimes. So far this year 47 percent of people shot and killed by police, or 235 individuals, were white.

Only 3 percent, or 13 people shot and killed by police year to date were black and unarmed. The percentage for whites is exactly the same. In other words, police are shooting and killing unarmed blacks and whites at the same rate, Paul Joseph Watson observes.

“There’s no racial disparity,” he says. “Do we have a problem with police brutality in America? Yes, undoubtedly. Is it almost exclusively targeted towards black people as Black Lives Matter claims? No, but the polarizing way in which Black Lives Matter made it all about race has divided the nation and made half of the country completely disinterested.”

Watson addresses “black people,” telling them that “Black Lives Matter is hurting you. It’s doing incredible harm. Martin Luther King achieved justice and civil rights by championing equality and building bridges with white America.”

Black Lives Matter, on the other hand, demands racial segregation, keeps whites out of its meetings, and urges the killing of police, he adds.

Returning to the situation in Dallas, as of 11:45 p.m. Central time, 11 officers from the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) system had reportedly been shot. DPD chief David Brown told reporters that two snipers opened fire from elevated positions in downtown Dallas. Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings (D) said the shooting began at 8:58 p.m. local time. Brown added that suspects may have also planted a bomb downtown.

Four of the murdered police officers worked for the DPD. The other deceased officer worked for DART.

The killing spree followed days of media-hyped adverse publicity for police forces in Louisiana and Minnesota.

In its intensifying assaults on American law enforcement the Left seized upon a police-involved death earlier in the week of a notoriously violent criminal in Louisiana who had reportedly menaced an innocent by-stander with a gun.

Recidivist felon Alton Sterling, a black offender well known to local law enforcement, was shot to death by police early Tuesday morning in Baton Rouge following a physical struggle with police in which Sterling may have reached for a weapon. Both officers “believe they were completely justified in using deadly force,” according to the local district attorney.

Although even with graphic video footage of the shooting it’s not entirely clear what happened as the two cops and Sterling struggled, the Left is moving full speed ahead portraying the deceased career criminal as a martyr slaughtered by the evil system that rules a hopelessly racist America.

The Left reveres thugs. It jumped on the bandwagon promoting the lie that Michael Brown of Ferguson, Mo., and Trayvon Martin of Sanford, Fla., were innocent angels unjustly cut down by white executioners. The truth, as we now know, is that both young black men were killed in self-defense by the white men they intended to harm...

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All the racial healing...

Following-up, "Race War: 5 Officers Killed in Sniper Ambush Attack During #BlackLivesMatter Protests in Dallas."

Here's Jon Gabriel:

My favorite part about the Obama era is all the racial healing.

— jon gabriel (@exjon) November 24, 2014

And also, from Michelle Malkin:

#FlashbackFriday What Assata taught me ===> https://t.co/kMXlLJeWCJ

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) July 8, 2016

"The left’s sick fetish for cop-killers is still going strong after four decades of violence..." https://t.co/zPXoFqBIEE via @MichelleMalkin

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 8, 2016

Race War: 5 Officers Killed in Sniper Ambush Attack During #BlackLivesMatter Protests in Dallas

Well, I knew something was going to happen last night. Sadly, it was even worse than I predicted at my post, "Heading Out to Dodger Stadium."

Here's Heather Mac Donald's book, which should see some brisk sales today, considering, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe.

I was having a great time at the ballgame. Dodger Stadium is a relaxing place. I was sitting there thinking that if we could just set aside our ideological battles and enjoy baseball together, things would get better. Silly me to sit there all dreamy and idealistic while white cops were being gunned down by a Black Lives Matter sympathizer in Dallas. I guess I have to step back into the real world again, and I hope my predictions aren't quite so accurate.

Some photos from last night:







I'll be blogging about events throughout the day. Thanks for reading.

Heading Out to Dodger Stadium

I'm taking my son to see the San Diego Padres at the Los Angeles Dodgers.

I'm going with my now-retired colleague Greg Joseph and his son Eric.

Eric's a director of an after-school program and we're taking a bus full of kids up to the game. It's going to be cool.

At any rate, I'll have more blogging late tonight or tomorrow.

Meanwhile, check out Heather Mac Donald's new book, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe.

I think there's going to be rioting tonight. Probably in Minneapolis, and perhaps all over, if the Black Lives Matter thugs are able to foment an uprising.

Deal of the Day: Hoover Shoulder Vac Pro Backpack Vacuum [BUMPED]

Cool vac.

At Amazon, Hoover Commercial C2401 Shoulder Vac Pro Backpack Vacuum with 1-1/2-Inch Attachment Kit.

Also, The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (The Fellowship of the Ring / The Two Towers / The Return of the King Extended Editions) [Blu-ray].

Plus, Game of Thrones: The Complete Sixth Season.

More, Alonzo Hamby, Man of Destiny: FDR and the Making of the American Century.

Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States.

And H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900.

BONUS: Max Hastings, The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945.

WATCH: Raw Video Shows the Moment Police Shot and Killed Alton Sterling

This is graphic.

Content warning, at Ruptly, "USA: Footage shows moment police shoot Alton Sterling dead *GRAPHIC*."

Previous blogging at my "police brutality" tag.

Why Trump Will Win In November

From David Horowitz, at FrontPage Magazine, "It’s national security, stupid":

In elections generally - but this one in particular - things are not always what they seem. Take the apparent exculpation of Hillary by FBI director James Comey. The Democrats responded with a statement that the issue had now been “resolved” because the target had not been indicted. But not so fast. The failure to indict was not an exoneration, and what the public witnessed - the secret meeting between the head of Justice and the target’s husband, the job offer to her would-be prosecutor, and the FBI’s  dossier of her misdeeds – was in effect a second trial, and it came with a conviction. The former Secretary of State had lied to Congress and the public, and not about private matters like sexual escapades with interns. She had lied about national security matters, and was reckless in handling secrets that affect the safety of all Americans. Worse, the fact she appeared to be getting away with a serious crime was a dramatic confirmation of Trump’s campaign narrative: the system is corrupt, the fix is in, I will change all this.

The Comey episode also turned a lot of Republican heads – most notably Paul Ryan’s – that had been openly skeptical of Trump’s candidacy, and lukewarm in endorsing his campaign. Until that moment, the failure of some Republicans to rally behind the Republican nominee, indeed to refrain from seconding Democrat attacks, has been the chief weakness of Trump’s candidacy. When Trump objected to an obviously biased judge – a member of “La Raza” and opponent of securing the border – Ryan and other Republicans joined the Democrats in the ludicrous charge that Trump was a racist. (What Republican candidate in the last thirty years have the Democrats not slandered as racist?) But Ryan is not attacking Trump now. Instead he is calling on officials to remove Hillary’s security clearance – a strong signal to voters that she is not fit to be commander-in-chief, and a powerful reinforcement of Trump’s campaign theme.

At the moment, Trump is in a virtual dead heat with Hillary, which is remarkable considering the slanderous attacks on his character not only by Democrats but by the chorus of #NeverTrump Republicans who have also called him a sexist and xenophobe, and have compared him to Mussolini and Hitler. These negatives have hurt him but will ultimately fail for the same reason that the anti-Trump attacks in the primary failed. Trump is not an unknown quantity. He has been in front of the American public for thirty or forty years. Nothing in the public record would validate the charge Trump is a racist, let alone Hitler. Consequently these negatives are unlikely to over-ride the actual issues when voters make the judgments that will determine the election. At the same time, the obviousness of the slanders merely serves to confirm Trump’s narrative that corrupt elites fear him and will do anything to prevent him from upsetting their apple carts.

The reason Trump will win in November is that national security is at the top of voter concerns and Trump has been a strong advocate on this front. Beginning with his promise to build a wall, made national security issues – vetting Syrian Muslim refugees, rebuilding the military, “bombing the sh-t” out of ISIS and naming the enemy – have been centerpieces of his campaign. Of course he has also had help from the terrorists who carried out the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino and Orlando, and from a feckless Obama who refuses to recognize the Islamist threat. But so did Mitt Romney, who had Benghazi and Fort Hood and the same feckless commander-in-chief to work with. Romney, however, chose not to do so. He took the war issue off the table when he embraced Obama’s foreign policy in the third presidential debate and never tried to make it central again.

 Since World War II no Republican has won the popular vote in a presidential election where national security has not been a primary issue. The one seeming exception is Bush’s victory in 2000. But Bush did not win the popular vote even though he was able to get the necessary majority in the electoral college.  In this election, Trump has instinctively seized the high ground on national security. He has put the disasters of Obama’s Middle East retreats front and center, and s challenged the crippling denial of the commander-in-chief and his failure to take appropriate measures to defeat our enemies at home and abroad.

Thanks to nearly eight years of a party in power that refuses to secure our borders and is more interested in disarming law-abiding Americans than confronting the terror threat in our midst, national security is now a primary issue on the minds of all Americans. Donald Trump speaks to those concerns in a way that the damaged and compromised Hillary cannot. Her fingerprints are all over the disastrous Obama policies in the Middle East. National security is an issue that crosses party lines and also gender lines. Even more important, it is an issue that unifies the Republican coalition, whose current disunity is Trump’s greatest weakness. With the fallout from Hillary’s server fail as a backdrop, Trump should be able to bring his party together at the upcoming convention, and go on to secure a victory in November.

Philando Castile Character Assassination?

Following-up on my previous post, which has all the links to the debate I've been discussing, "Black Deaths and Police Brutality, Caught on Video."

I still think the Minnesota shooting was an unjustified use of force, and frankly, I don't see why it's necessary to assassinate the guy's characters. Same thing for Alton Sterling, although he was clearly resisting arrest. It's not to say that background is irrelevant, and of course I'd never be one to feed into the Black Lives Matter propaganda program of lies.

But still, this isn't my first reaction. See Cernovich on Twitter, linking Charles C. Johnson. It's nasty dirty politics. I guess somebody's gotta do it:

BREAKING: #PhilandoCastile From #FalconHeightsShooting Was Crips Gang Memberhttps://t.co/zNSZRZGBxj

— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) July 7, 2016

Nina Agdal Checks Out Vintage Cars at Coney Island Mermaid Parade (VIDEO)

She's vintage, lol.

Via Sports Illustrated:

Black Deaths and Police Brutality, Caught on Video

I wanna re-up my post from yesterday, where I expressed my misgivings on the issue of police brutality. Where the Alton Sterling case had some gray areas (IMHO), the Philando Castile case in Minnesota is very different. It looks like the cops just opened fire for no reason (see Bearing Arms).

Here's yesterday's post, "Update on Alton Sterling Shooting."

And previously, "Police Officer Fatally Shoots Driver in Falcon Heights, Minnesota; Aftermath Video Posted."

And now here's Sarah Kendzior, who I linked yesterday. She's good.

At Toronto's Globe and Mail, "Black deaths, police brutality, caught on video: No justice, only sequels":

My latest for @globeandmail: Black deaths, police brutality, caught on video: No justice, only sequels https://t.co/ZNGaz7KeEL

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) July 7, 2016

In 1991, when video was released of Rodney King being beaten by Los Angeles police officers, Alton Sterling of Louisiana was 12 years old. Philando Castile of Minnesota was seven.

The King video was supposed to provide irrefutable evidence of what black Los Angeles residents had been describing for decades: systematic, racist police brutality. Now, many assumed, the violence black Americans had long endured from police would not be denied. Now, finally, officers would have to face legal repercussions.

But instead, the officers who abused Mr. King walked free. And today, videos of Mr. Sterling and Mr. Castile being killed by police officers circulate online, joining videos of police officers killing Laquan McDonald of Chicago, Walter Scott of North Carolina, and Eric Garner of New York, among others.

The legacy of the Rodney King video was not justice, but sequels.

Mr. Sterling died at 37. Mr. Castile died days before his 33rd birthday. They left behind children, parents, and friends. They were men who loved and were loved. Today their loved ones, in the midst of grief, are tasked with not only proving these men’s innocence, but vouching for their basic humanity. Advocates of Sterling and Castile will fight to put the officers who killed Sterling and Castile on trial, knowing Sterling and Castile were on trial their whole lives in the court of public opinion. Their very existence as black men is considered, in the eyes of many Americans, evidence of their guilt.

Police officials and media will publicize criminal records – as they already have for Mr. Sterling – to try to justify a killing that had nothing to do with his previous low-level offences. They will assassinate Mr. Castile’s character, as they consistently assassinate the character of even the youngest African-Americans – children like 12-year-old Tamir Rice, killed by a police officer while playing in a park.

They will do anything to make people turn away from the videos, the proof, the pain.

They know that no documentation will bring justice if the audience is willfully blind – seeing only what they want to see. What many want to see is justification for black death...

Keep reading.

Trump Endorsements

After this week, lots of folks bit the bullet and endorsed Donald Trump. The FBI's refusal to indict Hillary was the last straw.

Here's Bruce Kesler, at Maggie's Farm, "You can’t avoid the truth, sad as it may be: Trump is the only revolution we’ve got."

And Peter Ingemi, at Da Tech Guy's Blog, "Donald Trump or Civil War, I Choose Trump."

Police Officer Fatally Shoots Driver in Falcon Heights, Minnesota; Aftermath Video Posted

Well, it's the summer of black police brutality videos, I guess.

At the New York Times, "Philando Castile Shooting in Minnesota Leads Governor to Seek U.S. Investigation."

CBS News Minnesota's posted the 10:00 minute video, and blacked out the bloody images of the victim. But he's definitely dying, "Video: Police Shooting Aftermath Live On Facebook."

And, at Memeorandum, "Police Fatally Shoot Man During Traffic Stop, Aftermath Video Posted."

ICYMI: Roger Scruton, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands

This book's like a handbook for the postmodern left.

I'm keeping it handy as I read a lot of the hardcore Marxist literature.

Here, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left.

Tomi Lahren Interview: Sexual Assault Survivor and 2nd Amendment Advocate Kimberly Corban (VIDEO)

She spoke at Politicon.

Great legs.

And watch, at the Blaze, "Joining me now, sexual assault survivor and Second Amendment advocate, Kimberly Corban."