A fly he would not hurt, but a human being is a different story.
EXPOSED: WHAT THE MEDIA ISN'T TELLING YOU ABOUT DAUNTE WRIGHT
A MUST WATCH BEFORE IT GETS
DELETED.
DANIEL
HOROWITZ April 14, 2021
Criminals on the street are
the whole reason why police are so often confronted by violent fugitives
Here we have yet another
example of a saintly youth needlessly shot dead by police simply because he was
black.
That is the narrative the media wants you to believe about the Daunte Wright
shooting, but the reality is that while the shooting was obviously a clear
mistake, his criminal record and the fact that he was not behind bars are
precisely why the police are now confronted by violent fugitives who either run
or fight with them.
No, Daunte Wright was not just
a young man living an upstanding life who wound up dead because the police
pulled him over for an expired car registration or for an air freshener hanging
from his rearview mirror. According to documents obtained by the U.K. Daily Mail, the outstanding warrant police were
attending to after they pulled Wright over was for aggravated robbery at
gunpoint.
According to charging
documents, Wright was sleeping over at the house of a young woman after a party
on Dec. 1, 2019, when he suddenly pulled a gun on her and demanded she hand
over money she had obtained from an ATM. He proceeded to choke her and threaten
to shoot her while she kneeled.
After he was arrested, Wright
was released from jail after a bondsman posted $40,000 bond, but in July 2020,
his bail was revoked by a judge when he was caught with a firearm, a violation
of his bail, and failed to check in with his probation officer.
Wright is one of thousands of young males in every major city of
this country who have become increasingly violent, successfully thwart the law,
suffer few consequences, and thus feel invincible against law enforcement.
We often hear protests and
hand-wringing over the fact that young men, black or otherwise, wind up dead
because of "stupid crimes" or a traffic stop. But in almost every
case, there is a reason for it. In a previous era, these people would have been
behind bars, but recently our justice system keeps them on the streets. When
police confront them, either to serve a warrant or often because of lower-level
traffic stops, the criminals – either because of their violent nature or
because they know they have reason to fear the law – explode. They fight
because they are criminals and they know that police are now watched closely
and treated as if they are the ones on probation.
Many violent career criminals
are often caught committing low-level crimes. Cops approach them as if they are
innocuous, just as in this case, where clearly the cops treated him just as
anyone else pulled over during a traffic stop. But there's something
interesting about violent criminals who barely serve time for past offenses:
They are not deterred from acting violent again. Cops never know when someone is
going to turn violent on them.
Obviously, this particular
case is anomalous, because the cop meant to fire the Taser after Wright
resisted, but tragically picked up the gun, a reality borne out clearly by the
bodycam video. But police are confronted with these situations more and more,
which will trigger stress-related responses — appropriately or inappropriately
— that get themselves or others killed.
So what is the answer?
Do we terrorize the police
into being even more passive? Well, we need not speculate about the
consequences of such a strategy. The past 11 months or so show that the body count in our
major cities is set to skyrocket to levels we've never seen before. Those who
fight with the police are not the sort of people who will live very long within
the civil population without exhibiting violence. If the police ratchet down
their encounters by laying off warrants and terminating traffic stops,
law-abiding citizens will be the new line of defense … and body count. That is
already happening.
With woke judges refusing to
hold almost any repeat violent offender and with few of them ever getting
convicted and serving meaningful time, we will have more people like Raquan
Wilson out on the streets. This is just one of endless examples, but a
Brooklyn, New York, judge recently released Wilson on charges of illegal
weapons possession, even though he had four open cases for
packing loaded pistols and for armed robbery.
Just like Wright, Wilson, 19,
had been charged with pointing a gun at someone's head. At just 15, he was also
arrested for attempted murder and then a slew of other crimes over the past two
years, including one incident in which he allegedly pistol-whipped his victim
in an armed robbery. All through the process, he was bailed out on extremely
low bail and appears never to have served time in prison, despite breaking the
condition of his bail in the most dramatic way imaginable.
Wilson was arrested a few
weeks ago during a traffic stop and was caught in possession of a gun. Luckily
for the cops, Wilson did not resist arrest, but his criminal record was never
even brought up during his bond hearing by the woke judge or Soros prosecutor,
and he is out again. Multiply this story times 1,000, and you have endless
scenarios where cops are pulling over people and discovering their violent
records, often with outstanding warrants or bail/parole violations, and it
doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to realize why police will likely face more
violence than ever before.
This is exactly what the
"criminal justice reform" crowd wanted — more people out on the
streets rather than behind bars. What that means is that cops will be dealing
with prison-like situations in the volatile environment of the open streets.
Many criminals are on drugs more than ever and are emboldened to fight with the
police more than ever. Most of the time, the cops will react appropriately, and
often, even with underwhelming force (although you never hear about
those cases). But once in a while, mistakes will occur.
To continue promoting the
de-incarceration agenda and the war on cops as the solution will only lead to
even more record crime and thousands more homicide victims every year. The real
story is that repeat violent gang members with a history of armed robbery and
gun charges are given endless chances, not just "second
chances," as called for by the liberal governors in both parties
with their mindless tropes and slogans.
So no, this is not just a case
of "driving while black" or getting pulled over for hanging an air
freshener from a mirror. It's that the same liberals who cry over gun control
suddenly don't find gun violence to be a problem when it's perpetrated by
career criminals. In this case, they think Wright was a saint and had no
problem with him remaining on the streets, despite his violation of the
conditions of his bail for a violent gun crime.
At its core, "criminal
justice reform" is the agenda to keep repeat violent gang members out of
jail whenever they are caught with more gun and drug charges and probation
violations. But those are the people who go on to commit murder and mayhem,
which is why the crime bubble is exploding. Yet rather than speaking with one
voice against the cause of this entire cycle of violence and volatile police
interactions, Republicans like Tennessee Governor Bill Lee suggest that this agenda "is a natural fit for
conservatives" and will "make Tennessee communities safer." Yes,
sort of the same way Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson believes chemical castration is a natural fit for
conservatives and would have been embraced by Ronald Reagan and Bill Buckley.
Because a generation of
Republicans forgot what it meant to be conservative on crime, the Left has been
free to pursue a radical de-incarceration agenda with impunity. They use
examples of the symptoms of this problem to aggravate rather than cure the
underlying ailment of undeterred violent crime. We will pay for it on our
streets, one way or another.
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