In order to reinforce the false narrative that blacks are
systematically discriminated against in America, the Left and its
accomplices in the mainstream media spent much of last week lying over
and over again about two black men shot to death by police officers.
Like
a burnt out Hollywood screenwriter, the Left keeps recycling the same
old stock characters. Black men are tragic heroes. White people and
police are racist agents of an evil system. The facts are never allowed
to intrude on these fantasies.
Michael Brown of Ferguson, Mo., was supposedly a gentle giant.
Trayvon Martin of Sanford, Fla., was said to look like the son President
Obama never had. “When I think about this boy, I think about my own
kids,” Obama said after Martin’s death in 2012. Later we learned these
were politically motivated lies generated by leftist lynch mobs.
This
evidence has become available after the horrific Black Lives
Matter-inspired massacre of police officers in Dallas during a Black
Lives Matter demonstration. With five policemen dead, it was the
deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since Sept. 11, 2001.
FrontPage reported
Friday on the media’s beatification of Alton Sterling, who died in
Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile, who died near St. Paul, Minn.
But new information has emerged through enhanced scrutiny of
independently shot crime scene videos showing Castile
in extremis after being shot and the physical altercation between Sterling and police.
The
new information makes it clear that Sterling, a career criminal well
known to Baton Rouge police, was trying to wrest a gun away from a cop.
While cops were wrangling him, Sterling indicated he intended to harm
the officers. The cops responded appropriately, shooting him to death.
With Castile, it now appears he may have had a gun at his side or on
his lap. In addition, the lawyer for the officer involved, Jeronimo
Yanez, reportedly said his client ordered Castile to stay motionless but
the man refused to comply. In other words, Yanez responded to the
presence of the gun and moves by Castile, not to Castile’s race.
Castile’s
girlfriend, Diamond “Lavish” Reynolds, had said Castile was trying to
retrieve his wallet after informing police that he was in possession of a
concealed weapon and a permit allowing him to carry it. “He let the
officer know that he had a firearm, and he was reaching for his wallet
and the officer just shot him in his arm,” Reynolds said. She told
Yanez, “You told him to get his ID, sir—his driver’s license.”
An audio recording of police communications
purports
to depict officers saying they were about to pull over Castile because
he matched the description of a robbery suspect. Still video frames of a
robbery in Minnesota have also surfaced that show a man who at least
somewhat resembles Castile. At time of writing neither piece of evidence
appeared to have been authenticated. A squad car video of the incident
also exists, according to investigators, but it does not appear to have
been made public.
Castile, who had a long history of driving
infractions but no felony convictions, did in fact possess a permit to
carry a gun, the
Star Tribune reported Saturday, citing a
confidential source. Under state law, the names of such permit holders
are not made public but the source said Castile was issued the permit
when he lived in Robbinsdale, Minn.
There are still many
unanswered questions about the slaying of Castile, but the new
information seems unhelpful to those arguing his shooting was
unjustified.
A
slow-motion version
of one video of the Sterling incident, which took place in the parking
lot of a food store, appears to exonerate the officers involved who
responded to a 9-1-1 call about a man menacing another with a gun.
According to the slow-mo analysis, while the cops were on the ground
leaning over Sterling one shouts “he’s got a gun” before they draw their
firearms. An officer cautions Sterling shouting, “hey bro, you fu—ing
move, I swear to God.”
Sterling seems to reply, “thanks for the
free gun,” a clear indication he had taken or was trying to take an
officer’s gun, and shots ring out. Someone shouts “you’re dead” and more
shots ring out. The camera cuts away then returns to show Sterling
lying on his back with blood pooled over his chest.
Unless this
version of the video was dishonestly manipulated or inaccurately
interpreted (which does not appear to be the case), that would seem to
close the book on the Alton Sterling case. We’ll have to see if any more
evidence surfaces.
FrontPage readers are painfully aware that the Left cannot advance its agenda without lying.
The
Left reveres thugs. It jumped on the bandwagon promoting the lie that
Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin were innocent angels unjustly cut down
by white executioners. The truth, as we now know, is that both young
black men were killed in self-defense by the white men they intended to
harm.
We now know that “hands up, don’t shoot,” the mantra of
angry mobs and left-wing talking heads, was a complete hoax. Brown was a
thug killed by a white police officer and trying to grab the cop’s gun.
He did not get gunned down while trying to surrender, as the Left
claims.
We now know that Martin, who was suspected to have been a
burglar, wanted to hurt Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman
because he believed his friend when she told him Zimmerman might be a
homosexual stalking the area.
The Left creates alternate realities in order to justify or rationalize past events and to move its agenda forward.
The
Left lied when it claimed the recent Orlando and Dallas massacres were
about the arguably easy availability of guns. The Left lied when it
claimed former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot because Sarah
Palin put her congressional district on a “target list,” ignoring the
fact that military metaphors have long been a bipartisan part of
America’s political culture.
The Left lied when it claimed during
the Obamacare debate that there were tens of millions of uninsured
Americans and that an angry anti-Obamacare mob hurled racist epithets at
black Democrat lawmakers on their way to the U.S. Capitol.
The Left lied when it claimed Bill Clinton was impeached because
Republicans were sexual prudes. The Left lied when it claimed Matthew
Shepard was murdered because he was gay—in fact, his connection to the
drug underworld was the central factor in his killing. The Left lied
when it claimed Ronald Reagan hated and discriminated against gays, an
absurd claim to make about a former six-term president of the Screen
Actors Guild whose livelihood was dependent on getting along with the
many powerful gays of Hollywood.
The Left lied when it claimed
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was a racist conservative when in
fact he was an agnostic animal rights enthusiast and anti-bullying
activist enraged at the Janet Reno-orchestrated massacre of mostly
non-white members of the Branch Davidian church of Waco, Texas.
This is not an exhaustive list of leftist lies.
Meanwhile,
information has surfaced about the identity of the allegedly lone
sniper in Dallas who late last week gunned down a reported 12 police
officers, killing five of them. The massacre apparently inspired copycat
attacks on police across the nation.
The Dallas shooter was
identified as 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson of Mesquite, Texas, a
black man who served in the U.S. Army Reserve and did a tour in
Afghanistan. Bomb-making materials and an arsenal of weapons and
ammunition were found at the man’s home.
Johnson is said to have
told police he was not part of any group which is essentially worthless
as evidence with respect to the the Black Lives Matter movement. The
movement is fairly amorphous and decentralized. Anyone can claim to be
or not be a member of the movement.
Johnson, who has been found in
a photo posing in a dashiki with a raised arm Black Power salute, said
he was upset at the recent deaths of black men at the hands of police.
Dallas police chief David Brown said Johnson told police he “wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.”
Johnson
had been a member of the Houston chapter of the New Black Panther Party
for six months some years ago, Breitbart Texas reports, citing KPRC
NBC2. The source of the membership information was a man called Quanell X
who said Johnson left the organization because he would not respect the
chain of command. Breitbart posted a photo of what it claimed was
Johnson at a New Black Panther armed march.
Of course former Justice Department civil rights division lawyer J. Christian Adams
warned the Obama administration years ago about the real danger posed by the New Black Panther Party and was ignored.
The
episode in Dallas came to an explosive ending early Friday. In a
wonderful law enforcement innovation, Dallas police used a robot to
deliver a bomb that blew  Johnson to bits.
Something called the Black Power Political Organization
reportedly claimed
responsibility for the Dallas massacre. On its now-offline Facebook
page it stated, “More Will Be Assassinated In The Coming Days! Do You
Like The Work Of Our Assassins? Get Your Own Sniper.”
Whether BPPO
is a real group isn’t yet clear. It doesn’t appear to have been
incorporated anywhere. Its Facebook page has been taken down. The page
referenced various black power groups such as the New Black Panther
Party and the Huey P. Newton Gun Club. Something called the Black People
Protection Agency, also allegedly known as Black Knights, was referred
to on BPPO’s Facebook page. BPPA’s status is similarly murky.
BPPO’s
page did list contact information in the form of a telephone number
with an 876 area code, which corresponds to the Caribbean nation of
Jamaica. That number
also appears on a funding page for something called the Black Men Entrepreneurship Foundation. At time of writing BMEF had an
active Facebook page. That organization’s status is also unclear.
The
Left is desperate to protect Black Lives Matter, which has been
officially endorsed by the Democratic National Committee. Prominent
left-wingers are publicly scratching their heads wondering what possibly
could have motivated the Dallas attack even though Micah X. Johnson
spelled out his anti-white, anti-cop animus in an abundantly clear
fashion to police.
During a press conference in Poland, a
befuddled President Obama pretended to  struggle to understand why the
Dallas shooter did what he did. “I think it is very hard to untangle the
motives of this shooter. I’ll leave that to psychologists and people
who study these kinds of incidents.”
“I think the danger is that
we somehow suggest the act of a troubled individual speaks to some
larger political statement across the country,” Obama said.
Democrat
presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton blamed white people. “White
Americans need to do a better job of listening when African Americans
talk about the seen and unseen barriers you face every day,” she tweeted
Friday.
Later the same day Clinton continued her delusional rant in a CNN interview.
“I
will call for white people, like myself, to put ourselves in the shoes
of those African-American families who fear every time their children go
somewhere, who have to have ‘The Talk,’ about how to really protect
themselves [from police], when they’re the ones who should be expecting
protection from encounters with police.”
“I’m going to be talking
to white people. We’re the ones who have to start listening to the
legitimate cries coming from our African-American fellow citizens.”
Listening
to Black Lives Matters supporters who want to kill white people and
police is exactly the kind of useless, possibly counterproductive remedy
Hillary Clinton would propose.
But pandering is a principal focus of the Left nowadays, the real-world consequences be damned.
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