White House Fans Racial Hate with a Pack of Lies
When the Columbus, Ohio police yesterday fatally shot a black teenager, the White House promptly labelled the action racist. Only one thing: The teenager they shot was in the immediate act of knifing another teenager, also black, as plainly shown on the bodycam. It takes only minimal imagination to envision what the White House would have said if the police had not prevented the imminent, probably fatal stabbing: “President Biden deplores that white police in Columbus, Ohio idly looked on as an innocent black teenager was violently killed. Racist policing must end.”
When trashing the police and fomenting racial hate is your thing, the truth might need to get shoved aside, but you can always think of something.
The Federalist has the story (emphasis added):
The White House said, without evidence, that Tuesday’s police shooting of a black teenage girl who charged another black teen with a knife was motivated by racism.
Sixteen-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant was fatally shot by a police officer whose body camera footage, released Tuesday night, revealed Bryant was charging another girl with a deadly weapon.
“She was a child,” the White House wrote in a Wednesday statement on the shooting.
“We know that police violence disproportionately impacts Black and Latino people and communities and that black women and girls, like black men and boys, experience higher rates of police violence,” the statement said without evidence.
The White House promoted the progressive narrative that the Columbus officer’s gunfire, which saved another black teenager, was motivated by racist inclinations.
“Her death came as you noted, just as America was hopeful of a step forward after the traumatic and exhausting trial of Derek Chauvin, and the verdict was reached,” the White House wrote in response to a reporter’s inquiry.
The Columbus shooting came moments after jurors in the Minneapolis trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin found the defendant guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd. The rush to conflate Floyd’s death with all other police shootings sensationalized in legacy media, however, has erased all nuance in what are often chaotic scenes, such as an officer forced to make a snap decision to save the life of another teen.
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A friend of mine with a strong background in criminal defense spells it out better than I did:
“Exactly, and too-little remarked upon, on both counts. Yes, call it by its name, “racial hate.” More precisely: anti-white racial hate. It is *the* organizing principle of the Democratic Party, because it has nothing else to “unify” (if that is the proper word) its various constituencies. Appalling as that is to contemplate.
“Related, but distinct are the incessant attacks on the police. As Bill suggests, they are now placed in a double-bind: kill the knife-wielding attacker and you’re a racist because you just shot someone who’s black; hesitate to shoot and you’re a racist because you let a black girl die in a knife attack committed in your very presence. The only rational strategy for the police is to withdraw altogether, or at least as much as possible. Fail to see suspicious behavior on your watch, and you don’t have to take intrusive action. When you do have to respond, make the response time slow to a crawl, and with luck, you’ll arrive after the carnage. Let the bodies pile up, and tell the nascent “Violence Prevention Division” attached to the local health department to explain it to the public.”