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Racist Shoplifter Proves This Author's Points

4/7/2024

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I'm featuring this poster child's bodycam mostly because he hit all the notes.  Also because this incident happened at a Walmart, where a black high school student was recently stabbed to death at random while working, in a racial attack.  Like the road-rage scrub I just wrote about, when they kill somebody, it's always someone more valuable to society than themselves.

So nothing about this guy wandering around Walmart throwing N-words works for me due to the murder of Jason Jenkins last week.  But I'm blogging him because  he covered my American idiot BINGO card for this week.  I'm surprised he doesn't tell them he's Thomas Jefferson's grandson.  All he needs to do now is run for governor.
  • B is for Bigot -- This person -- who is well known to the police and has already been trespassed from this store -- immediately starts blasting out N-words when confronted.  I can't do whatever and whenever I want?  RACISM IS THE ANSWER.
  • I is for It's Mine! -- When somebody in America wants something, they just go and take it. 
  • N is for Narcissistic -- He's a douchebag to the female officer that transports him, because of course he doesn't think any woman could possibly be in authority.  She says he's a nice guy when sober.  He definitely isn't. 
  • G is for Growly -- He begins threatening violence against all of the officers because he's not allowed to walk through Walmart eating off of the shelves.  He's ready and willing to kill everybody when hangry.
  • O is for Out -- He assumes one of the officers is Mexican and tells him to get out of "my country."  This guy doesn't have a home, is such a bigshot in America he's not allowed to go to Walmart.  But he thinks he has a country to kick gainfully employed police officers out of. 
That's where the whole problem lies.  Confederate sympathizers yearn to "Make America Great Again."  They want to go back to the days when they didn't need to be anything but white, or accomplish anything in particular except kidnapping, to stomp all over other people.  They can't have that kind of power and authority anymore . And they're fit to be tied.
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Women Getting Randomly Sucker Punched -- Police Say No Relation, Not Hate Crime

4/6/2024

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One of the people arrested in a string or random attacks where women have been punched in the face on city streets is named Skiboky.  Rhymes with both kooky and spooky.
Skiboky's social media feed is the psychosocial version of a clogged dispose-all.  A plethora of random bits and pieces are in there, partially ground up and full of bacteria. 

I'm sure it will all be taken down eventually. 

I'm looking through the shorts on his YouTube feed while I still can.  Because Skiboky's the poster child of how nothing makes sense in America.   His videos are some extreme brain diarrhea of racism and sexism, overlaid with  angry politics and delusions of grandeur.  The only surprise about him being charged with assaulting a random woman is that it took this long.

This random face-punching situation, which started in New York and has now moved to Chicago, is a natural extension of how much everybody has hated Karen for the last five years or so.  My life changed noticeably once that meme took off. People behaved differently toward me in public.  I started speaking only when spoken to.  It's been fashionable to openly hate white women for a while.  I'm surprised it took this long to boil over. 

For example, in the above video, titled "the white man," Skiboky obviously  has a bone to pick with the white MAN.  And yet the person he's accused of randomly smacking in the face  unprovoked is clearly a woman, and not a scary one either.  Funny  how that works, how often the hate mail for Kevin gets delivered to Karen.

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And of course, THIS!  LOL  All his rage at the white man leads him directly to... TRUMP, current leader of the Confederate party.  Weird how the snake always eventually eats its tail, how the haters somehow all end up together at the end of the day.  That's the way the bowl swirls when you push the handle (multiple times if you're Trump).

.I tried to embed a number of Skiboky's shorts, and for whatever reason they all show up as "private" when I do that.  But they aren't private.  There are many clips of Skiboky inserting himself into the lives of ordinary New Yorkers of every race and gender, in many obnoxious and frightening ways.    The fact that he posted some of these at all speaks to his terrifying mental state.  Skiboky spends a lot of time freaking women out on the train, acting strange with law enforcement, and ranting about Marcus Garvey.

If you scroll through Skiboky's feed, ask yourself how often someone came close to getting harmed.
  • "This white piece of shit just put his hands on me. You not gonna press charges?" Skiboky rages at two cops in this video.  No, the police aren't pressing charges.  Skiboky is furious, screaming, "Where this N* at?" over and over as he descends into the subway in search of the person.  The police did nothing to prevent that person from being found and shoved onto the tracks.  Skiboky appears to be quite the ticking bomb, like so many of the MAGA faithful.
  • Here is Skiboky's incredibly weak pickup game.  "What kind of hat is that?"  "I got it from Shein," a woman on a train politely answers about the most basic beanie hat in the world.  "I thought it was the same type of hat 'those people' have," gesturing to one white guy with the same kind of hat.  She gets up and leaves.  Is it her stop?
  • In this video, an elder patiently tries to explain that the line for services restarts each day, and it doesn't matter that he was there yesterday also.  He counters that he's SKIBOKY, Marcus Garvey's grandson.  She asks him what that means. He apparently wants to get in front of her in line, and is willing to be a huge asshole about it, because he was there yesterday.  Me, I just let people like him step in front of me constantly in Long Beach.  Absolutely not worth it.  My time is my own.  Easier to let the manbaby have his way in line than deal with it after he punches me.  But ask yourself, why did he post this?  Why was he trolling this woman at all?
  • This video opens with Skiboky apparently mistaking himself for a well-known superhero in Gotham, specializing in non-issues that nobody asked for help with.  "It's me, Skiboky, Marcus Garvey's grandson," he notifies a young man crouching down on a sidewalk, being assisted by a relative.  He offers to call the police for them.  The woman, possibly his mother, says it's okay, he's just not feeling well.  Skiboky blames the Democrats for a bad school lunch, and advises the youngster to "never let a girl see you down.  The black man always gotta stand up, brother," because he was crouched down while vomiting.   "Um, okay," he replies, probably feeling a whole lot better now that he realizes he's not Skiboky.
  • This video entitled "Not nice" appears to be nothing more than Skiboky videotaping a young man wearing a Frozen backpack on a train.  In hindsight I'm glad he wasn't attacked.  Skiboky has harsh words for men he finds insufficiently  masculine.
  • Here is Skiboky refusing to pay an Asian street vendor, calling him various rude names including "faggot."  "Y'all white people keep playing with us blacks, man."   He again mentions his credentials as Marcus Garvey's grandson. Because Skiboky's family was abused by Chinese immigrants?  Because Marcus Garvey would be so proud?  Again, this was posted by Skiboky, not the vendor.
  • In this video, "Don't Act Lightskin," Skiboky approaches someone that he recognizes from giving out free haircuts.  Jim Jordan? Joyner? He  tries to start taking a video, but is quickly rebuffed for not asking permission.  There are other people there waiting to greet the guy.  Skiboky gets handled.  THAT GUY WAS IN ZERO DANGER OF GETTING FACE-PUNCHED, GO FIGURE. 
  • "Wherever there's darkness, the black man stands as the light of the world.  The whole world would be in darkness without the black man.  He's amazing."  And in the background, frogs seem to be vomiting the phrase "I love you."  This is Skiboky, and why he must punch us. For our own good.
  • The superhero nobody asked for  intervenes in a fender bender, apparently for no reason other than to side with a man against two women.  Because this is America, this unhinged person will be left roaming the streets until he actually kills some woman.  Then when they solve it as a cold case, he'll be sent to prison for a while.  And it won't be charged as a hate crime, which it totally would be. Whoever he kills will be a woman, and it will be random as fuck.  She will be any available woman.  Skiboky is a ticking bomb of hatred, looking for women to antagonize.
  • In a video called "Double Twins" maybe Skiboky thinks he's dissing this Latina by calling her twins with her white friend?  They're both exponentially too cute to talk to him.  Why does he post videos of himself striking out so hard?  He's shockingly nuts while focused on women in public --  these girls, grandmas in line, really all of them.  He's a disaster waiting to happen to some vulnerable person.
  • No seriously, Skiboky will approach a group of transit police, instigate a fight with one of them, and project a ton of wild, racist shit onto him.  The guy gives him some friendly recognition in a possible de-escalation attempt.  This seems to be another video of the same good-natured guy.  But one thing I can tell you for sure, there is no reasonable way to deal with Skiboky no matter who you are, what race or gender. 
  • In a video titled Spanish Fly, Skiboky gets smacked by a black woman on a train.  He makes a beeline to approach her from behind as she's on her phone.  She wheels around, furious, and cracks him one.  Does he know her?  Has he bothered her before?  Did he touch her or what?  Why does he post this shit?  What does the title mean, that it turned him on to have bothered her like that?  Or that she turned him on so much he couldn't resist bothering her?  Will this be presented as evidence of him being a menace to society?  As a hate crime against women? Not until there's a corpse.
  • Skiboky trolling the funeral of a clergyman.  "Was he black?"
  • As part of his campaign for governor, Skiboky mentions to a random woman waiting in line that he can tell she didn't put lotion on her feet!!!!
ABC7:

"NYPD said there were seven incidents of women being punched In Manhattan. However, police do not believe any of the attacks are related"

See, the attacks aren't "related," in that no, they're not coordinated.  The people who are doing it don't know each other or whatever.  It's just where we're at as a community now.  This is where our margins have frayed to.  This is where our Overton Window has shifted to, the new normal.

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Man Shocked To Discover Woman He Hit With Car Might Die

4/6/2024

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Ryan Swett -- who does look like a sweaty bastard, although he's innocent until proven guilty of all charges -- is accused of intentionally  running down a young woman in a road rage incident.

Her injuries are horrific.  She was knocked all the way out of her clothing.  A bystander had to come and cover her in her jacket until the medics arrived.  I wish her the best.
A few points leap out at me about this:
  • His version of the story, where he was surrounded by attackers and had to make a getaway, is wildly different than that of uninvolved bystanders.  Not surprising.
  • The look of shock on his face when learning the extent of the woman's injuries hints at the level of delusion in play in this person's head, what a long commute it is for him to Earth 1.
  • When you see the picture of the woman he hit, and look at him, that girl wouldn't give this toad the time of day.  Were there no men in her party?  Why didn't Mr. Tough Guy deal with one of them?  How did the hot girl become the focus of his untethered vehicular rage?

One thing that never ceases to be obvious to me:  almost nobody in America thinks that men constantly do hate crimes against women, which is how it looks to me.   I'm not sure if this was one or not.  But it kind of seems like it might be.

People in America largely believe that things are fine between men and women.   On the right side, they think the only problem is women need to learn our place and stay there.

The left, including the woke, mostly believe that men and women have justice parity in this country unless the women are black. Confederate women were allowed to abuse black people with the same impunity as Confederate men.  That's why that group of white women voted for Trump, so they could "Make America Great Again."  That gender-equity dynamic has incorrectly been attributed to all white people, including immigrant communities like mine, where it never existed.  
Abortion rights wouldn't still be a problem right now if women hadn't been litigating this conversation amongst ourselves all my life.  I have no idea what "feminism" means other than "Shut up, woman."  I learned long ago that "white feminist" means "Shut up, white woman."
So when men do violence against women in America, it isn't a hate crime unless the woman is black.  It's just the same as when they do violence against each other.  I think it only works that way because men make all the rules about how things will work.  Luckily my opinion doesn't count for anything so nothing has to change.

I don't know if this woman's attractiveness in particular is what drew his ire, made her the specific target as opposed to the other people that she was with. 

But I can tell you that everything about his surprise at the extent of her injuries was entirely familiar to me:  boys will be boys!  He didn't mean nothin' by it.  Meanwhile, nobody's ever heard of Kevin, only Male Karen.  Karen is the worst.

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Woman Escapes Months of Torture in Captivity; Alleged Kidnapper Arrested in High-Speed Chase

4/5/2024

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It's hard to imagine what this woman went through.  She was panhandling in January.  Someone offered her food, shelter, and drugs.

The person who had befriended her eventually began beating her with a baseball bat and stabbing her with a screwdriver.  She says he threatened to kill her and wouldn't let her leave.   Her assailant is alleged to be Walter Medina, who was arrested after a high-speed chase, and who also has a record for false imprisonment.

There aren't details about where or how exactly she was held, if she was in a vehicle the entire time.  She fled her captor when he went into a store.  She contacted authorities and Medina was apprehended later.  He is innocent of everything until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Lawsuit Claims Child Branded in Religious Ceremony in Texas

4/3/2024

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This is horrifying.  And I have to ask where the father was?  How did he not know someone was taking a branding iron to his son?

Once again we see people who are willing to go to any extremes to impose their religious beliefs on minor children.  I can only imagine what else happens to kids in this community.
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Indianapolis Cop Fired For Allegedly Raping Domestic Violence Victim, Admits to Long History of Potentially Criminal Conduct

4/3/2024

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Myron Howard was still on probation when he got fired from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.  Like everyone else on this blog, he's innocent of all conduct discussed herein until proven guilty in a court of law.

WTHR:

According to police, Howard was called with other officers to a home on Olney Street, near East 25th Street and North Sherman Drive, on Jan. 6 for a domestic violence call. A man was taken into custody during that incident. 

Howard then allegedly returned to the scene after other officers left. According to court documents, Howard allegedly told the female victim, "you know you could've went to jail too, but I didn't say anything, so I need you to do something for me."

Howard turned his body-worn camera off during the incident, according to the court documents. Police said they verified this because the device was missing nearly 20 minutes of GPS data during the alleged incident. His patrol car GPS showed he had returned to the woman's home after the domestic violence call and was there for approximately 17 minutes.  [This is why I'm such a huge fan of GPS and bodycams.]

"I felt obliged to do what he tells me,” the alleged victim told police.

She said her boyfriend was arrested again in February for domestic violence and that Howard came to her home after other officers left. That time, she said she told him to leave her alone and didn't open the door to her home.

When questioned, Howard claims he was doing patrols in the area after the domestic violence call and the woman waved him down and the sex was consensual. He claimed he didn't talk to her after that. The woman submitted screenshots from her home of text messages Howard allegedly sent her and a call he made.

In a separate incident in August 2023, another woman said Howard was helping her after a car crash. She said he then came back and offered her a ride home. She said he told her that she needed to buy him gas or have sex with him. She said she offered gas money, but he told her it needed to be sex. She said the two had sex and then he drove her home.

"The allegations made in the probable cause affidavit are deeply disappointing and disturbing,” IMPD Chief Chris Bailey said. “His alleged actions not only violated his sacred oath to our community, but he abused his power and took advantage of a victim when she was most vulnerable. His actions do not represent the brave women and men who serve Indianapolis with integrity every single day. My prayers are with the victim during this difficult time.""

Both of those complaints are horrifying, descriptions of practiced predation.

In the linked video, Howard is said to have told investigators that he had sex all the time on his other police jobs before being hired at Indianapolis Metro.

One problem is that I don't have any research resources at this time.  I don't have an intern, no LEXIS/NEXIS account, no ability to find out where this guy worked before and begin rocking the FOIA requests. 

Another issue is that Howard, like many others, described the sex he had as consensual.  They all do.  And like with the Bert Lopez video, and even all the progressive people thinking it was awesome, and at worst him loafing on the taxpayers' dime, there's no convincing this country that it's inherently, automatically problematic, rapey behavior when cops are having sex with citizens on the job.

Americans, even so-called progressive ones, just don't believe that cops rape people on the job all the time, in a lot of different ways.  This article just described two different Holtzclawing tactics, and neither one of those women was either a sex worker or drug user. 

Even when you can convince people maybe it did happen, like with Holtclaw or Golubski, Americans generally don't believe it does happen to anyone but black women. They just barely believe/care that it happens to black ladies. Had Holtzclaw not tried to run "the deal" on a woman with no warrants, no nothing, simply not the right one, and had she not fought back, it would probably still be "no business as usual" in OKC. 

Police rape can and does happen to anybody. America's stuck on thinking it's a "bad apples" or Black Lives Matter issue.  Americans can only think in bumper stickers.  And they almost don't believe in rape anyway, overall.  You have to be a daycare-owning church grandma to take down Daniel Holtzclaw.  That was literally what it took. 

Women in particular can scream to high heaven that they didn't consent, it wasn't their idea, they didn't like it, they didn't want it, they didn't appreciate it -- and all of that will be thrown back in their faces a million different ways because rape culture always says she wanted it.  I remember Cenk from The Young Turks -- an attorney in real life -- inferring consent from the woman in the Bert Lopez video from the angle of her foot in a still photograph.

"He said, she said." "She's lying for money."  Because just like being black is obviously the fastest way to the White House, there's no easier way to catapult yourself to the lifestyle of the rich and famous than getting raped.  Voice of experience here.

I'm glad this person came forward about Myron Howard.  I am thankful for the GPS and bodycam that exist to back her up in court.  None of that was a thing in my day, God bless.  As her attorney said, he was allegedly on a reign of terror  Her ordeal sounds absolutely harrowing, with her attacker allegedly coming back to her home because he knows her boyfriend has been a problem again, that there's been more police activity. 

If proven, wow, what an asshole.  His  police job was like being a roadie for David Lee Roth, kind of, in terms of being able to keep an eye out for different women who might be negotiable.  And he describes it as all consensual because of what I explained above.  Unfortunately he seems to have worked at other departments that shoved him off without getting him arrested.

It's not exactly clear where the other complainant came from, if the department began looking over his GPS records, or she came forward, or what. 

I'm glad that her attorney is out front on this.  But as a survivor, unraped people say things that slap me in the brain.

"You don't expect a police officer, someone in law enforcement, to do such a thing.  And that's what makes it worse."

I appreciate the work this guy is doing.  But is he talking to the mouse in his pocket?  Because I definitely halfway think they're going to try to pull some shit, and I never have warrants or anything. 

I had an experience about a year ago out in the Mojave Desert where it was me and one police officer, not a soul for miles around, in the dead of night.  At first I wasn't sure if he was a real cop or not. 

My second concern was simply being detained by a random man with a gun under those circumstances.  Right?  Anyone who doesn't halfway want to shit themselves in that scenario isn't thinking clearly.  I have no way of knowing whether he's called my plates in to dispatch, turned off his body cam, or what.  The person with the most guns can always do whatever the fuck they want.

So if you didn't know, now you do.

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Teen Walmart Employee Murdered:  America In Tantrum

4/1/2024

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Okay, here's another example of how America's mental health crisis constantly becomes a crime problem.  This young man was randomly murdered while working, probably at his first job, in a sucker attack that he couldn't have seen coming.

Having seen a lot of bodycam videos of Walmart's back room, where they have a team of people watching a battery of cameras with casino-type security, I have to ask how in the fuck this goofball was able to wander through the store with two knives for any length of time.  Point 1.  That's fucking infuriating, that they're too busy guarding Wally's money to make sure this young man didn't get murdered that day.  It seems like there had to be some chance to intervene based on the reporting.

But this suspect's (because everybody is innocent until proven guilty on this whole blog)  statement is the same old shit for almost everybody in America.  It's the full-on tantrum mentality that gets attributed to white women, "Karen," but is actually seen in every demographic in America:

"If I don't get what I want, when I want it, I will flip out, up to and including random mass violence (if I'm a white guy)."

Fuck you, dude.  Seriously fuck yourself. 

You don't like black people?  That's great.  What do they, or anybody, need from your monkey ass?  What do you contribute to humanity in any way, shape, or form, you gigantic, murderous toddler?  If you don't get what you want, when you want it, you're ENTITLED to go remove some productive young person from society?   Who the fuck needs you, and for what?   What white person do you imagine would trade you for Jason Jenkins, the young man you murdered?

Fuck you isn't a good enough phrase for how I feel about this individual.  And I say this as someone permanently disabled by my mental health.  Fuck everything about this guy.  What bothers me so much is that he's one of an army.  Nobody in America imagines that responsibility is something they, personally, can take in their own lives.

I don't know how long I went without the mental healthcare that I need.  A lot of us do it all the time.  And you know what?  I just keep persevering and doing my best until I can get my needs met. As they mention in the reporting, you can go to the emergency room any fucking time and get an emergency referral.  Grow the fuck up like a grown man, and don't give yourself a free pass to kill a high school kid.  Asshole.

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Easter and the Circle of Life at Walmart

3/31/2024

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Wally is having a really bad Easter 2024.

In Rockford, Illinois, somebody stabbed an 18-year-old Walmart employee to death in a racially motivated attack.  He walked up behind this high school student employee, unprovoked, said some racial slur, and stabbed him to death before he could know what hit him.

This comes hot on the heels, within a day, of a young man smoking some weed that was laced with something, and going on a stabbing spree also in Rockford, IL.  He killed a postal carrier, ran people over, terrorized some young girls, it was a horrible trail of destruction.

Then in Fayetteville, Georgia, one of Wally's employees opened fire inside the store, killing an adult and injuring a 9-year-old.  He's now on the run.  There's no real information as to what that was all about.  But fortunately the little girl is expected to survive.
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Georgia Teacher of the Year Arrested, Woman Tased, In Middle School Parking Lot Altercation

3/31/2024

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I'm taking a little time to look at America's mental state, the world our children live in.  It's time to look away from the teachers and police who are actively sexually exploiting them, and focus on the ones who appear to be doing a great job, like the teacher of the year in this video.  No, really.

I love the show Parking Wars for this exact reason.  It's a great cross-section of how insane everyone in America is, how entitled they feel to do whatever the hell they want with their cars.  "There wasn't any parking available, that's why I'm parked on the sidewalk!"  Everybody in America believes if they only need to do one quick thing, wherever they want to park is fine.

The incident in this video happens in the parking lot of a Georgia middle school.  There's a transcript provided from the local news station, WMAZ, that you can follow right along with.

Per that transcript, a lady is going the wrong way through a middle-school parking lot.  A crossing guard tells her to go around the other way.  She declines, saying she needs to pick up her nephew, and keeps going.  The crossing guard calls for an actual police officer to go and deal with her as a traffic infracion, and he does.  Mayhem ensues.

But there are things I hear in body cam videos all the time now that shock my ears every time.  I can't imagine saying this to the police, as if dealing with them was optional, or somehow a negotiation.  And people do it constantly:
  • You're doing too much
  • No, I'm not (in response to "you're under arrest")
  • I'm not comfortable right now
  • We're not doing this
  • Don't touch me
  • This is my house
Maybe it's because I grew up with the old school Chicago Police, who wore black leather motorcyle jackets like the Hell's Angels.  But none of that would ever have come out of my mouth.  I avoided the shit out of them, complied when they spoke to me, and remained silent, to good effect.  The cops never had to tell me anything twice, even when it was total bullshit. 

Yes, I get that I am also white and female.  And yet I ask you to consider how using that strategy might have changed this entire situation.  In fact, had this woman complied with the original guard who told her to drive around -- which is exactly what I would have done -- none of this would have happened at all.  When you blow the first one off, they call other ones.  When they tell you to stay there and wait for them, if you walk away, you get arrested.

Similarly, on Parking Wars, people often call the police on the parking authority, as if they aren't coworkers on the payroll, fingers on the same hand.  It's the childlike nature of Americans, to stamp their feet and make demands, with no idea how their public safety actually works.

"You're doing too much" is a mind-blower to me, the concept that every citizen gets to direct their interactions with the police.  I hear that all the time on body cams, including this one.  The lady who insists that they can't physically control her en route to the car has that same issue, that she gets to pick and choose which protocols will be employed with her.  And if not, the entire conversation will be about why not.  Many people think they can direct which officers will or won't work with them.  Fascinating.  As if the city has unlimited personnel resources to devote to their every whim and preference, like waitstaff.

That is simply not how public safety works.  Police, fire, and paramedics intervene when the basic parameters of society have gone off the rails, and order needs to be restored, like when someone is driving the wrong way in a middle-school parking lot where someone could easily be run over.  The fact that she's picking up her nephew is irrelevant to everyone but her -- the only important person on Earth. 

If you want them to "don't touch me," I suggest staying off their radar by obeying traffic laws.  That's the method I use.  And when I mess that up, I comply with whatever they tell me the first time.  I've also never been tazed.  I've had my civil rights violated by the police many times.  I'm grateful they've never raped or robbed me. 

For me as someone who has run some 911 calls, this incident again shows America as a tantruming toddler who has no idea where its food and shelter come from, how that safety net gets there, nor does it care.  It just wants what it wants, NOW. 

These ladies won't hesitate, won't blink an eye, to call these same officers when they need help, if someone is breaking in, if one of their kids goes missing.  She will expect them to be Johnny-on-the-spot if she gets in a wreck.  But she can't be expected to give them the time of day if they ask her to go around, simply go around and follow the marked flow of traffic.  If they want to talk to her about her driving, they can fuck off.  She's walking away because she's picking up her nephew right now.  I feel like that would be rude to walk away from pretty much anyone who was speaking to you like that, much less an authority figure.  Second one in 90 seconds.

It's her world.  The rest of us are living in it.  This is the same pandemic the shoplifter I just wrote about from Kroger has.  Manifest Destiny and American Exceptionalism have metastasized into this Main Character Syndrome where you can't tell anybody anything.  We're a nation of Sovereign Citizens, where everyone is their own ultimate authority figure.  How many times do you imagine that shoplifter has been told not to come back to Kroger?  She's been caught enough times that all the employees know her.  And she's "being harassed by the cops."  Just ask her.

America is a nation of victims whose freedom is constantly being curtailed.

What's so troubling about this scenario:
  • It happened at the school where this "teacher of the year" works.  Great example for the kids
  • Nice grammar for an elementary teaching professional
  • A person who reflexively, repeatedly replies, "No, I'm not" to "You're under arrest," may not be the best one to teach such impressionable children the emotional skills they're learning at that age.  She has to actually be convinced that she's going to jail, that it's not an illusion.  No really, how does she run her classroom?  If she's this difficult for the police to redirect in this scenario, what happens when a child doesn't follow her rules in class?
  • Specifically the rant about her feelings being hurt, and that's why she was behaving that way, should call her teaching credentials into question.  She can't throw her teaching credential out as the reason she's allowed to stick her nose into a traffic stop and not move away when she's told to.

    No, seriously.  That's a failure to grasp a core, essential concept that we need her to be relaying to the children, that the world isn't here to kiss your ass.  You don't get to freak out and have the police work around you because you feel like driving the wrong way today.  Kiss Mr. Zappy on the dick now, then go look for your new job when you get out of jail.  Her coworkers standing around making excuses for her filled me with a feeling of doom.  Plenty of black people aren't idiots.  There's no reason to lower the bar for her.

Both of these women behaved like complete asses.  Their feelings are irrelevant.  The question is, ma'am, will you please follow the marked flow of traffic with your vehicle.  If not, you will have to deal with a traffic stop by the police.  That's something a lot of adults can't do in America without losing their shit.  She has an obligation to behave like an adult on school grounds even if her sister can't.

I watch a lot of bodycam videos where the person ends up getting tazed and/or arrested, where nothing would have happened to me.  Know how I know?  Because again, when the crossing guard redirected me to go around, I would have apologized and gone the fuck around.  And when a cop yelled, "Ma'am, I need you to wait right there," I would've waited right the fuck there.  D'OH


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Missouri Teen Severely Beaten by Classmate; Story Reported Under "Politics"

3/31/2024

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HERE is a story from KSDK about a high-school student, Kaylee Gain, who was beaten into a coma by a classmate about half a mile from the school.

Note that the story "Kaylee Gain identified as student suspended for fight inside school hallway the day before she was severely injured" is under the "Politics" tab.  This is why America is screwed.

Because once again, the violence against this person is irrelevant other than the larger, toxic narratives swirling around it.  She and the girl who attacked her are merely pawns in a game that has always been designed to grind human life into money.

This is the same issue I have always faced, and why I cut money out of my pension to maintain a blog that nobody reads.  Because the people in high places, who have booming voices, constantly use them to maintain low-quality conversations that drown out anything I might find important to discuss.

Why is this article under "politics" instead of "crime" or "schools"?  Politics should have nothing to do with it.  The question should be how we can de-escalate our kids."

"After the alarming video gained national media attention, Attorney General Andrew Bailey attempted to inject divisive racial politics into the story. He announced he was launching an "investigation" into the school district in an attempt to somehow link the altercation to the administration's DEI 'Statement of Solidarity' from four years ago. [emphasis added]"

Because that's what this Republican Attorney General wants that school district spending its time/money on, defending themselves legally against his investigation.  Not books, not conflict de-escalation programs for the kids, his bullshit.  Duly noted.

"In Bailey's initial letter, he inaccurately assumed school hallways were no longer being patrolled by guards, and he attempted to pin the absence of School Resource Officers on the district's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs. Local police and the school district later refuted both claims.

Bailey used the tragedy to score quick a TV hit on Fox News where he accused school district administrators of "promoting this culture of violence."

"They attend a school that has a history of promoting DEI programs that promote racial divisiveness at the expense of having uniformed police in their schools," Bailey incorrectly told cable show host Laura Ingraham.

She amplified the racially charged rhetoric by telling her audience the video showing a Black girl attack a white girl was an example of "rage spilling out across America, especially in inner cities."

Sen. Josh Hawley quickly heralded Bailey's maneuver and shared a link to the Fox News story, which promoted it as an "exclusive." However, the entire premise was based on false information. 

Cindy Ormsby, an attorney representing the Hazelwood School District, dissected Bailey's false claims one-by-one in a strongly worded letter. She scolded Bailey's "incomplete" investigation, saying it's "dangerous and will likely be an embarrassment to you and your office when and if the facts become known to you and the general public."

But it won't be an embarrassment.  Because he and his contingent DGAF about anything but the little games they play.  The violence among the kids was never a problem for them.  There's no way to have the original conversation that I'm interested in, about conflict de-escalation in the first place.  Because their whole agenda was about ratcheting up the conflict in the specific way they want it escalated.  They're deliberately turning away from the original conversation.

Continuing from the above-linked article:

"Attorneys who file false accusations or submit phony evidence can face a variety of consequences from the courts or the Bar Association, including a motion for sanctions or financial penalties. 

"The district is looking at all with all of its options here. It's not backing down," Ormsby said. "We're looking at whether or not we'll file an ethics complaint.""

We may never get down to what actually happened between the two girls.  Because it happened off of school grounds, which is why there was no school resource officer to break it up.  It had nothing to do with any DEI policy.  That was just red meat for Laura Ingraham and her scumbags.

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Now, if I may discuss the actual crime at hand, if the politicians are quite done.

Eight teens have been referred to family court and are facing assault charges in this incident.  So it was ugly. 

I'm not watching the video for the same reason I didn't watch the video of George Floyd being murdered.  As a survivor, I don't believe in re-violating people by watching videos of their assaults unnecessarily.  If I were on a jury, if there were some need-to-know, I would watch.  But I don't watch bodycams where someone gets seriously injured for the same reason.  I'm not a gawker.  I'm always looking for something teachable or what we can do better.

Yesterday I wrote about a terrible apology by a parent of an alleged perpetrator.  Here's another one.  The other lady was unprepared for her media debut.  But these folks already had a lawyer and the NAACP on board and should have had a better statement ready for God's sake.  They should already have had a clue about what not to say.

KSDK:

"Officials had not publicly identified DeClue before now, but her family issued an open letter on Thursday night "to address the misconceptions surrounding Maurnice's character," highlighting her honor roll status, proficiency in four languages, and that she played volleyball and violin in school orchestra."

Um... all that and then she almost beat another kid to death by smashing her head repeatedly on the sidewalk.  Even if the other brat provoked her the day before, nobody wants to hear your little maniac play the violin now. 

Or maybe that's just the state of America's racial divide, that people reflexively side with one child or the other based on race alone and the violence is truly irrelevant now.  This country may be at that level of failed humanity, entirely possible.  Maybe there are no people, it's all just a huge game of skins.

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In a Friday phone call, they tell 5 On Your Side their daughter was "dismayed to hear" Gain was in a coma for so long, and relieved to hear about her recent improvements because, "she wants to apologize.""

In this case "wants to apologize" is a euphemism for "doesn't want to be charged with murder." 

""I just feel for my daughter," DeClue's mother said. "She's not a troublemaker, she's not a bully.""

This is the exact sort of thing you should leave out of an apology in my personal opinion.  I've never met any of these people, and this made me want to lunge at this woman.  Ma'am, we know you support your horrible daughter.  That's a given.  That's probably why we're all in this situation now, your parenting.

""Maurnice was not the aggressor," she said. "

I believe there is a video that will contradict this position in court.  Seriously fuck off with that entire statement.  Why did their lawyer allow them to put this out? 

""This had manifested over a three-month period. My daughter was focused on her education, and I don't know... maybe they thought she was a nerd.""

Perhaps.  I got bullied in the home, which led to me getting bullied in school.  I got hit by other kids, called names, sent to school hungry and without adequate clothing.  I got teased about my body which developed faster than everybody else, and called a whore every day in 7th and 8th grade -- and I was a trafficking survivor, which my mother attacked me about daily.  My friend Wendy and I had to flee high school altogether in order to avoid being killed by a gang because of a simple misunderstanding.  All of that lasted much more than three months.  And yet we never beat anybody up, go figure.  Fuck this woman and her daughter too.

"According to DeClue, police investigators have compiled copies of Instagram messages that included menacing threats to Maurnice. 

"My daughter said she blacked out during the fight. I didn't know she was being bullied," Consuella DeClue said. "I would have pulled her out of school.""

Woulda, shoulda, coulda.  Your daughter beat another child into a coma, and you're on the news talking about what a talented little angel she is.  It's the parenting pandemic that will kill us all.

The fact that she claims to have blacked out is an aggravating, not mitigating, factor.  Someone who "blacks out" and attempts to murder someone is a very serious threat to society.

In my world, where I make the rules, we squeeze every disaster for all of the possible benefits  It's my variation of "they go low, and I go high."  I make as much lemonade as possible, basically.

In this situation, here's how it looks:
  • We might use this situation to come up with more creative approaches to conflict de-escalation.  For example, some team approach where other kids might work as a group to talk things out, involving maybe the school counselor, when they see things boiling over between the two girls, before it ever comes to a fight.  Because if eight other kids are charged after things go off the rails, those same eight kids could have been enlisted to help them work things out earlier.  Right?
  • We can learn how to do better apologies, how not to apologize, and what to say or not say in volatile situations.  We can learn how not to be manipulated by watching the way these things play out.
  • We can see who the bad actors are, and by dissecting their narratives, understand their motives and predict their behaviors.
  • Now that the Attorney General has initiated some nonsense, this may be a good time to revisit the DoJ's findings about Ferguson, or push forward on some of the other issues in Missouri as Attorney Ormsby is quoted about pursuing him with the Bar Association.  Let him FAFO.  He stepped in it.  Wedge that open now.
  • We can better understand and identify what options and resources we do have available to us, that can't be taken away from us, like our creativity, integrity, and willingness to cooperate with people of good faith.
  • Sometimes we learn by bad example, like the parents who refuse to see anything bad in their child no matter what.  Remember that responsibility is response-ability, the ability to respond.  It's the biggest blessing we have while alive.


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