Makiah Bryant - Unbelievable

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I hope Officer Reardon sues the hell out of LeBron and wins himself an early retirement and time to find a better profession.

The defunding,disarming, and tying the hands of the police is the first step toward the breakdown of the rule of law. Unfortunately as conservatives we'll also have to live in constant fear of these thugs, knowing that defending our lives or property will subject us to mob justice. But seeing we don't have the unity, will, nor might to carve out our country I suppose we deserve this.

[Chap]

The defunding,disarming, and tying the hands of the police is the first step toward the breakdown of the rule of law.

Oh, have the police recently been defunded, disarmed and had their hands tied? When and were did that happen?

I hate to have to be the one to break it to you, but more police, more heavily armed, and with restraints on their use of lethal force removed, is not going to give you a safer and more peaceful society. If you want to work on that, try following the advice from a very tough and experienced police chief that I quoted earlier in this thread:

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Cutting poverty and inequality is the best way to reduce crime, a police chief has said, calling for more money for deprived areas to thwart criminals’ attempts to recruit those left desperate by deprivation.

In an unusually frank interview for a senior officer, given to mark his retirement as chief constable of Merseyside police, Andy Cooke said that if he was given £5bn to cut crime, he would put £1bn into law enforcement and £4bn into tackling poverty.

Cooke, who has started a new role with the inspectorate of constabulary, said that in his experience most criminals, including those committing serious violence, were not inherently bad.

“The best crime prevention is increased opportunity and reduced poverty. That’s the best way to reduce crime. So there needs to be substantial funding into the infrastructure of our inner cities and our more deprived areas.

“Why do people get involved in crime and serious crime? It’s because the opportunities to make money elsewhere aren’t there for them. And never more so than in our inner cities and in our more difficult to police areas.

“We need to reduce that deprivation and the scale of deprivation that we see in some of our communities, because if you give people a viable alternative, not all but a lot will take it.”

He said children educated at “some of our tough schools” needed something to look forward to other than a life of crime, and that opportunities for apprenticeships needed to be increased. “If we don’t do that, then policing will always be on the back foot,” he said.

Asked what he would do if he were given £5bn to cut crime, Cooke said reducing inequality and deprivation should be the priority: “I’d put a billion into law enforcement and the rest into reducing poverty and increasing opportunity.

“Plenty of entrepreneurial skills get lost in our inner city communities or get directed into the wrong things.

“If you give [someone] a legal opportunity to actually earn money, a legal opportunity to actually have a good standard of living, a number of people would take that because they know they can sleep in their beds at night … they don’t have to worry about what’s happening with the kids and what’s happening with their families and the doors going through at seven in the morning.”

Cooke’s route from chief of Merseyside to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services mirrors that of Bernard Hogan-Howe, who eventually became commissioner of the Metropolitan police.

Under Cooke, the Merseyside force gained a reputation for tough policing. It was a keen user of stop-and-search powers, and he was the first commander of Merseyside’s Matrix unit, set up to tackle gang crime and violence.

But he said the police, courts and criminal justice system could not simply scare people into not offending. He said such an approach taken in the US had led to “ridiculous prison sentences as deterrence, and all they end up doing is building more prisons, and you don’t see reduction in firearms crime or a reduction in murders over there”.

Tough enforcement and social and economic justice need to go hand in hand, he said.

“The solution is building community cohesion,” he said. “The solution is building the opportunities for young people, and levelling up the playing field. It’s such an unequal playing field we have at the moment with job prospects, and with opportunities for the future. There’s got to be some levelling up.”

Cooke’s views about the relationship between deprivation and offending comes after 11 years of Conservative government, which critics say has widened inequalities. Police chiefs usually keep such views private.

He also said aspiration needed to be boosted to prevent hopelessness cascading from one generation to the next. “It’s linked to deprivation issues, but because Liverpool particularly, is so predominantly white working class, there are low levels of attainment, there are low levels of academic achievement and low levels of aspiration, and aspiration is one of the key problems.”

The aspiration gap had to be closed, he said: “There is a massive gap. If your father hasn’t got a job, and your grandfather hasn’t got a job or if those jobs are particularly poorly paid … what’s the aspiration to achieve?

“Some families do [achieve]. It’s not right across the board. Some families do it, some individuals do it. But vast swathes now, they’ll go to school, they’ll leave with no qualification and they’ll have no prospect of gainful employment. Something’s got to change in relation to that.”

Cooke’s replacement is Serena Kennedy, the first female chief constable of Merseyside.

This guy knows of what he speaks. What do you think about his ideas?

[Moksha]

If the Regime Media’s craven coverage of yesterday’s Columbus case is any indication, it is no wonder much of the American public no longer takes them seriously.

I'm part of the public and I have never heard of Regime Media before. Maybe they are up to no good, but I know some other media outlets that lie every single day.

[Icarus]

LeBron owes officer Reardon an apology.

What if the officer had just let the stabbing happen? It wouldn't even be a national news story. How do I know? Nyaira Givens 13 just got stabbed to death in Ohio and it's not even a national news story. Her black life doesn't matter to BLM because another black girl killed her, not a police officer. BLM, Icarus, and LeBron James don't care about black life. They're just anti police.

The standard white supremacist line. Since black people die in the streets at the hands of other black people, no one should say anything when white agents of the state are unlawfully murdering them.

[Chap]

Regime Media

Who is this woman? Has she got an Oscar nomination, or what?

[Some Schmo]

Regime Media

Who is this woman? Has she got an Oscar nomination, or what?

LOL

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This guy knows of what he speaks. What do you think about his ideas?

Let's get back to the original post and try to tie this together. Makiah Bryant was in foster care. Her step sisters or whatever you call them were telling her to clean up the house because their foster mom doesn't like coming home to a dirty house. Being told what to do is what set her off into attack mode. So why was she in foster care? Where was her mother over the past three years?

Adam Toledo had not been home for 3 days. Was his mother even looking for him? She didn't report him as lost. What kind of a mother lets her 13 yoa child roam the streets of Chicago at 3am with a gun? Was his Mom even aware that he had joined the Latin Kings gang and was sporting a tatoo to prove it? Did he even know who his Dad was?

I do believe that economic growth helps, but how will that stop irresponsible people from having children? Globalism, New World Order Socialism and open borders will actually hurt the standard of living of people in their situation much more than it will hurt professionals like myself. And when the police are defunded or many of them just start turning in their badges, it won't be my neighborhood that falls into anarchy. Repeal of the 2nd amendment won't change the number of guns on the street nor it will stop someone like Makiah from grabbing a butcher knife.

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Ibram Kendi thinks that the policeman should have been able to talk down and defuse the situation. I'm not sure if the man shouting you shot my baby is even Makiah Bryant's Dad but if defusing the situation were possible, why didn't he do that?

Apparently this guy was an active part of the fight. He was more concerned with trying to kick one woman in the head than disarming his "baby."

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Ibram Kendi thinks that the policeman should have been able to talk down and defuse the situation.

If he said that, he can't have looked at the body cam footage. The choice was between 'shoot big blue girl before she stabs pink girl' and 'let big blue girl stab pink girl and then try to grapple with her when I can get close enough (which I am not yet)'.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

I can’t recall where I saw it, but there was a full grown man who was present at the scene who didn’t think to intervene. He might’ve said something to the effect of, “Why did you shoot my baby!?” What the hell is going on where a dude just stands there watching girls go at it with knives? Bananas.

Imnsho, if Leftists and BLM types are going to protest every shooting then we’re just going to have more “kids” knife fighting as they’re apparently known to do, and law enforcement will have to resort to less effective means to prevent a murder from happening - In other words, more victims are going to die. Maybe more counseling or mental health services will nip this in the bud since the adults in these kids’ lives are crap at parenting or mentoring or even knowing what they’re up to.

- Doc