A common thread in Waukesha tragedy, Kenosha shootings: Government failure

[SVPete]

A common thread in Waukesha tragedy, Kenosha shootings: Government failure

https://nypost.com/2021/11/25/common-thread-in-waukesha-tragedy-kenosha-shootings-government-failure/

When is a racial hate crime not a racial hate crime? When it doesn’t advance the left’s, and the Democrats’, narrative.
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After police shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, sparking unrest, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) didn’t call up the National Guard and secure the streets. Instead, he sent out an inflammatory tweet, saying, “What we know for certain is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed at the hands of individuals in law enforcement in our state or our country.”

What followed was a night of arson and rioting. Evers nonetheless sent only a trickle of National Guard over the next two days and declined federal assistance. The result was a huge amount of violence and property destruction (largely affecting the city’s working-class and poor neighborhoods) and a background of unrest that led Kyle Rittenhouse to try to guard businesses and help the injured — a teenager setting out to do what the government refused to do.

Likewise, the Waukesha mass murder was the result of government failure. Darrell Brooks had already been charged with deliberately running over his girlfriend at a gas station and, incredibly, had been released on a mere $1,000 bail. All told, Brooks had been charged with three felonies, plus resistance to arrest and bail jumping.

All that and only $1,000 bail?

But an opposition to cash bail is a cornerstone of Democrats’ criminal-justice policies. They’re not always wrong — there’s a real problem of poor people who can’t raise bail being held in jail for often trivial offenses. But Brooks wasn’t charged with trivial offenses. He was charged with violent, potentially murderous crime.

[thundley4]

Every time, almost every single time there is a mass casualty attack in the US, the perpetrator was known to local authorities, state and federal. Sometimes all three. They don't care.

Their agenda is to get control and dead bodies help get laws passed.

[Mr Mannn]

In this case, govt failure = DEMOCRAT failure. Democrats turn every place they rule into shit holes.

[DLR Pyro]

I place a large portion of the blame for the shit that happened in Kenosha squarely on jacob blake for failing to comply to orders from Law Enforcement to surrender, but rather seeking to evade LEOs and eventually reaching into his car for what LEO thought could be a weapon.  His actions and failure to comply with LEOs even after being tasered caused the Officer to consider him a threat and fired.  This sparked blm and other wokesters to riot and loot to protest the shooting of blake which eventually lead to Rittenhouse to go to Kenosha to help protect the property of business owners and render aid to injured people.

As for argument that cash bail making it difficult for poor people to raise the money to post a bond, the answer is simple:  Don't break the law and comply when approached by Law Enforcement.  I've lived to be 59 years old and have not had to post bail one single time in my life.  It isn't hard to do. 

[Eupher]

The destructive example that is being set for all those scumbags who live for anarchy is the idea that consequences don't occur.

You can burn, loot, rape, pillage and plunder and get away with it.

Well, that is, until somebody like KR comes along. Unfortunately, there are too few of guys like him and with the sheer amount of bullshit that he went through, the other destructive example is set -- if you get involved and have to shoot somebody to defend yourself, get ready for the onslaught.

In short, it's gonna get worse before it gets better -- IF it gets better.

[Muddling 2]

I place a large portion of the blame for the shit that happened in Kenosha squarely on jacob blake for failing to comply to orders from Law Enforcement to surrender, but rather seeking to evade LEOs and eventually reaching into his car for what LEO thought could be a weapon.  His actions and failure to comply with LEOs even after being tasered caused the Officer to consider him a threat and fired.  This sparked blm and other wokesters to riot and loot to protest the shooting of blake which eventually lead to Rittenhouse to go to Kenosha to help protect the property of business owners and render aid to injured people.

As for argument that cash bail making it difficult for poor people to raise the money to post a bond, the answer is simple:  Don't break the law and comply when approached by Law Enforcement.  I've lived to be 59 years old and have not had to post bail one single time in my life.  It isn't hard to do.

IMO, the MSM deserves a large portion of the blame for not reporting the entire story of the Jacob Blake encounter; specifically the sexual assault of the mother of his children, theft of her vehicle and violation of the restraining order issued afterwards.  Had the MSM reported the entire story in context it likely would have taken away a lot of the impetus for the riots.