So how do you demonize a cop who saves a black girl’s life by shooting her knife-wielding attacker?
It’s easy: just tell people that knife fights are as American as apple pie, a rite of passage — sorta’ like the day you finally learned to ride a bike.
It’s hard to imagine, but this claim has essentially been made. In fact, “one Black Lives Matter activist, Bree Newsome, found herself the subject of ridicule on Twitter and beyond for jumping the shark on the subject of stabbings, which is the topic of the day regarding a police intervention in Columbus, Ohio, where an officer shot a 16 year-old in the act of stabbing another girl,” reports commentator Monica Showalter.
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“Newsome’s [sic] twisted herself into a pretzel over the incident to whip up the narrative that cops are evil and knife stabbings are everyday occurrences, effectively declaring the vicious near-disemboweling of a teenager in pink jammed up against the hood of a car at the hands of another teen, Ma’Khia Bryant, a sort of rite of passage for Black people,” she continued. “And after a torrent of ridicule, she won’t stop digging.”
Here was Newsome’s first effort with the shovel:
Yes, in fact, I think this was portrayed on Leave it to Beaver. Whitey got a punctured large intestine, Gilbert had an ear sliced off, Richard lost an eye, and Miss Landers commended Beaver on his technique. But they all had fun!
As for the Twitterati, they had their fun, too:
(Of course, Newsome doesn’t prefer to be stabbed; she’s just content to let other black people be stabbed if it advances her agenda.)
(Tweet hat tip: American Thinker.)
Yet evidencing how detached from reality leftists can be, Newsome doubled down:
Of course, were Newsome really in trouble, she’d likely be the first to call the police. Just consider fellow rabble rouser Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who “called the cops to provide her with bodyguard services as she whipped up riot sentiment in Minneapolis the other day,” Showalter reminds us.
Waters “joins others, such as basketball star LeBron James, President Obama’s consigliere Valerie Jarrett, and comedians such as Kathy Griffin, all of whom one way or another share her view that the stabbing should have happened, and the police move to halt that murder was a jailing offense for the officer who saved the girl in pink. (Or, ‘other woman‘ as the New York Times insists.),” Showalter continues a sentence later.
“Jarrett, for one, re-narrative-ized the incident from ‘stabbing’ or ‘attempted murder’ to ‘knife fight’ even though only one participant had a knife.”
For the record, there’s now additional video (below) of the Ma’Khia Bryant situation, in which she can be heard screaming, “‘I’m gonna stab the f*** out of you, b***h,’ while lunging at two unarmed people who were posing no imminent physical threat to her,” writes journalist Matt Walsh.
While there are neighbors who witnessed the shooting and say the police officer acted rightly, media such as The Washington Post are busy canonizing Bryant and turning her into a martyr. They obviously want to advance the “national conversation” — and we certainly should have one. But not the kind they think.
Consider: A 16-year-old girl, Ma’Khia Bryant, becomes so outraged that she grabs a knife and launches a possibly deadly attack on another girl, not at all deterred by the police’s presence. Is what’s wrong with this picture that a cop shot her?
Consider: On March 29, 13-year-old Adam Toledo was running around at 2:30 a.m. in Chicago carrying an illegal gun. He was in the company of an older gang-banger, and one or both of the two had fired multiple rounds as a vehicle passed. What’s wrong with this picture? Is it that Toledo was later shot by police?
If the rabble-rousing activists, politicians, and media personalities really cared about black and Hispanic youths, they wouldn’t encourage protests and riots whenever a Bryant or Toledo is shot by the cops. They wouldn’t advocate “defunding” the police, which only leads to more minorities being murdered.
They’d instead ask: How is it that so many young people’s moral compasses are so warped that they would engage in egregious criminal behavior? What’s a 13-year-old doing on the streets with a gun in the wee hours? How is it that a girl reaches age 16 with so little emotional control that she’ll attempt to kill someone right in front of the police?
If the race-hustlers really cared, they’d go into inner-city communities and emphasize the importance of virtue, of becoming God-centered, and of dispensing with moral relativism. In other words, if they really wanted to heal, they’d be good physicians who make the right diagnosis and prescribe the correct cure. But that wouldn’t get them power, money, and the furtherance of their agenda.
In fact, if black criminals stopped committing crimes and being shot by police, the race hustlers might be very disappointed because their careers would be over. They need blood.
