New "Normal"

So this morning, our e-mail lit up with rumors of a full cancellation of days off for Wednesday. As far as we can tell, this turned out to be false, but guess what the trigger was?

• a Lancaster (PA) Police Officer killing an Hispanic subject who charged him with a knife.

Bear in mind that this had zero to do with #blm mopes, Lancaster PD released the video literally within hours - and there's a knife clear as fucking day - raised to stab, and this subject was charged with stabbing FOUR people just last year.

Better have a riot!

• The overnight violence came on the heels of the death of Ricardo Munoz, the mentally ill 27-year-old who was seen on bodycam footage charging with a knife in hand at a cop. The officer shot and killed Munoz Sunday afternoon outside his mother’s house in downtown Lancaster.

Heather MacDonald, the brilliant author of The War on Cops, decries this development:

• If the nation’s police officers walked off the job today, it would be hard to blame them. Sunday’s anti-cop riots in Lancaster, Pa., have made the current de facto rules of engagement clear: Officers may never defend themselves against lethal force if their attacker is a minority. They should simply accept being shot or stabbed as penance for their alleged racism.
  
  In Lancaster, an officer responded to a domestic violence call at a residence where a man had stabbed four people last year. As the officer approached the house, a female escaped out the front door. A man — the suspect from the previous slashings — then emerged and ran at the officer, brandishing a knife over his head. The officer shot him, as the officer was by all appearances legally authorized to do, to stop the threat of deadly force. Twenty-seven-year-old Ricardo Munoz died from the officer’s gunfire.
  Bodycam shows police shoot knife-wielding man in Lancaster, PA
  
  The response from the “community,” after this summer of lethal cop hatred, was predictable. Rioters pelted Lancaster cops with bricks, glass bottles, and sharp projectiles ripped from road barricades. They smashed the windows of police cruisers, the downtown police precinct, the post office, cafés and stores. They torched a dumpster dragged from another part of the city. They pulled street signs and bike racks out of sidewalks to use against the police.
  
  Such anarchy, with its photogenic arson, is just the latest chapter in the violence that is now routinely directed at officers during ordinary law enforcement activities, as well as during riots.

This is going to be the rule from here on out - cops shoot someone, no matter how justifiably, and the terrorists are going to burn something somewhere that night. Because you can't expect someone who has been lied to by years of indoctrination that they're "oppressed" (in the freest civilization ever created) to actually follow the rules of a civilized society.

Watch your backs.