More Protests, More Ignorance

All based on false narratives (i.e. lies):

• With the nation continuing to reel from the recent killings of two African-American men by police, as well as the deadly attack on Dallas officers, activists in Chicago snarled traffic downtown on Saturday and successfully took their protests inside the annual Taste of Chicago festival, into the Loop and up North Michigan Avenue.

The nation isn't reeling. The nation is concerned. We've been thanked more in the past two days by citizens of all races since 9/11. The nation is dismayed by the divisiveness being exploited by various political actors.

• Activists affiliated with the local Black Lives Matter movement and their supporters also called for tourists to withhold spending on the Magnificent Mile to punish City Hall for failing to penalize officers who kill civilians.

Sure. That'll work. Makes perfect sense to penalize officers who are acting within the scope of their duties and the law without any sort of investigation or finding.

• From Grant and Millennium parks to the Loop and North Michigan Avenue, familiar chants echoed through the crowd from early afternoon into the evening: "No justice, no peace. No racist police" and "You can't stop the revolution" and "Hands up, don't shoot."

Again, none of these chants were heard during the shootings of over 2,000 people so far this year, 80% of whom were shot by other black folks (or people). And we have yet to see a scintilla of evidence of racism - Correlation does not imply causation. As far as this being a "revolution," it would be a lot messier if it was. And the tired refrain of "Hands up, don't shoot" was debunked by none other than the Obama Justice Department - it didn't happen.

• Protests have popped up in Chicago and in cities across the nation in recent days, with officers across the country under close scrutiny over what some see as indiscriminate use of deadly force against blacks.

Again Your Honor, facts not in evidence. This is a media driven movement, leaping from conclusion to conclusion without any regard for a proper investigation. And once the investigation is actually completed, ignored as if it never happened, the narrative being set in concrete by the actors who stand to make money or gain power.

Exhibit A - Ferguson
Exhibit B - Baltimore

Facts are pesky things. In Baton Rouge, the dead offender had threatened a homeless man with a gun. Police were called and responded. They saw a subject matching the description and took police action. The offender resisted as the police used hands on, escalated to a Taser (which didn't work) and when the one officer determined the subject was armed and attempting to get to his pocket, he was shot. The gun was recovered. What's the problem? Oh yeah, the officers are the wrong color. Bad Officers!

In Minnesota, the dead offender matched the description of an armed robbery offender - the "broken taillight" story narrated by the girlfriend is a lie - the authorities released the radio tapes from the officer about his intent to pull over a car with a "BOLO" (Be On the Look Out For) offender. The Concealed Carry narrative is still being investigated. There's a warning screen that usually pops up on police systems, and one Minnesota sheriff has already stated that the dead offender didn't have any permit issued by his office. Is anyone else suspicious how the media isn't trumpeting every quarter hour about how a cop shot a Concealed Carrier? We are, but we're waiting to see how the investigation unfolds. And oh yeah, the Officer is Latino, but the media is calling him white the four times we bothered to listen to the news today. [race corrected]

But the ignorant train keeps rolling along.