Let’s play “one of these things not like the other.”
On April 11, a young black man named Daunte Wright was accidentally shot and killed while resisting arrest in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.
The officer had mistaken her pistol for her Taser.
Bad training there, no doubt.
But here’s the thing. I say “her” because it was only a matter of hours before the Brooklyn Center police released the officer’s name: Kim Potter.
Ashli Babbitt
Contrast that story with the story of Ashli Babbitt, the young veteran and pro-Trump activist, who was shot and killed at the Jan. 6 melee at the Capitol.Babbitt was unarmed. She was going through a shattered window, but was in close proximity to several armed Capitol Police officers.
Who shot her and why?
We don’t know the answers to those questions.
Babbitt was a useful prop when the media was in overdrive describing the Jan. 6 events as an “armed insurrection,” in which wild supporters of Donald Trump, supposedly (but not really) at his instigation, attacked the Capitol with the intention of overturning the rigged 2020 election.
That “rigged” is my addition to The Narrative.
You remember The Narrative.
According to it, five people, including Babbitt, died in the skirmish. Moreover, Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick was actually bludgeoned to death by a raging Trumpster wielding a fire extinguisher.
The boy was wearing a red MAGA hat, for God’s sake, he just had to be guilty!
But he wasn’t.
And there was no “armed insurrection” at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Of course, it’s absolutely critical to the Democratic narrative that the Jan. 6 incident be made to seem as violent and crazed as possible.
Only thus can pro-Trump Americans be excluded from what the left calls “our democracy” (meaning, not your democracy) and transformed into “domestic extremists” if not, indeed, into “domestic terrorists”—you know, the ordinary folks languishing in jails courtesy of Christopher Wray’s corrupt FBI.
Yes, five people died at or near the Capitol on Jan. 6 or a couple of days later.
None was murdered by the protesters. Babbitt was shot in the neck at close range by we know not whom.
That was the only shot fired at the Capitol that day.
Kevin Greeson, Greenwald notes, was killed not by the protesters but died of a heart attack outside the Capitol; Benjamin Philips, 50, the founder of a pro-Trump website called Trumparoo, died of a stroke that day; and Rosanne Boyland, a fanatical Trump supporter, was, the NY Times says, inadvertently “killed in a crush of fellow rioters during their attempt to fight through a police line.”
2 Tiers
So: Potter is instantly arrested and charged with manslaughter.The chap or chapette who killed Ashli Babbitt?
Trump did nothing of the kind. But now, we see Waters traveling to Brooklyn Center and demanding that people stay in the streets.
How much more confrontation can the mob be? They are already looting, rioting, and destroying property in cities across the country.
Yes, “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should strip her of her committee assignments and move for a vote to remove Waters from office.”
But of course, she won’t. Nor will Jack Dorsey remove her from Twitter.
He removed Trump. James O’Keeffe was just suspended for life because he embarrassed CNN. Dorsey and the rest of Big Tech tried to destroy Parler.
But that is different because—reasons.
In fact, we know the reasons.
We are living in a society with a two-tier justice system.
Moreover, it is a society with a two-tier system of social values.
It’s not what the founders of this country envisioned. But it’s been clear for some time that our masters hold everything associated with that dispensation, from the Constitution on down, in utter contempt.