Meanwhile Officer Chauvin is on trial for murder because he didn't perform CPR
Authorities had considered for months whether criminal charges were appropriate for the Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt, 35, an Air Force veteran from San Diego. The Justice Department’s decision, though expected, officially closes out the investigation.
Prosecutors said they had reviewed video of the shooting, along with statements from the officer involved and other officers and witnesses, examined physical evidence from the scene and reviewed the autopsy results.
So, it is April, and we finally learn that it is perfectly acceptable to shoot white people, even if they are unarmed and not any sort of mortal threat. So it took that long to make this decision. I bet white people are out rioting all over the place, or maybe not.
Not to mention the white cop who shot the black man by accident just a few days here in Brooklyn Center ago has already been charged. That didn't take three plus months to figure out.
Just for reference, I worked for about a year at the mall in Brooklyn Center. The company had chosen that location as one of the stores they wanted to spend a half million dollars remodeling and it was tanking (not a nice neighborhood). I was called in to save things.
I recall that our numbers were quite good and I brought the store back to profitability rather quickly. I also had two employees fired (and one arrested) for stealing from the store, I had two assaults reported between employees. I had two people file civil suits against the store because they thought they could make a quick buck (neither did). Witnessed multiple fights, assaults, and shoplifting attempts. All in all, not my favorite place I ever worked.
Ironically, the one lawsuit was a Haitian woman who sued the company for racial discrimination, saying that our store created a hostile work environment for minorities. Her first attorney dropped the case after getting a list of employees that included another black person, a Laoian, a Korean, and a Vietnamese, along with the three white people who worked there. She went through several attorneys before poorly representing herself.
But I digress.
Next time someone claims that if the black person shot had been white, there would have been more justice... please introduce that person to reality.
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In a rare bipartisan vote of 92-6, the Senate advanced legislation aimed at improving anti-Asian hate crime tracking and identification.
Why it matters: The bill had looked initially unlikely to garner the 60 votes necessary to end debate and move to a final vote. But Republicans decided to not filibuster, in part because Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose wife Elaine Chao is Taiwanese American, signaled openness to working on it with Democrats prior to final passage, the Associated Press reports.
“I can tell you, as a proud husband of an Asian American woman, I think this discrimination against Asian Americans is a real problem. And it preceded the murders that were recently on full display, and I’m hoping we can work out an agreement,” McConnell said, according to the Washington Post.
The intrigue: "Both sides cautioned that the tentative framework could still fall apart, but senators signaled a willingness to merge various proposals that could lead to bipartisan passage of a bill by the end of the week," the Post writes.
"Such passage would be highly unusual in a chamber that has been dominated in recent months by a presidential impeachment trial and the Democrats’ party-line passage of a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill."
What's next: Democratic lawmakers said Tuesday they were willing to work with Republicans to strengthen the bill and ensure passage by incorporating the broader bipartisan Blumenthal-Moran "No Hate Act," which would streamline federal responses to all hate crimes, as an amendment.
The bill, if signed into law, will improve anti-Asian hate crime tracking, train law enforcement to better identify anti-Asian racism and appoint an official in the Justice Department to review and expedite COVID-19-related hate crime reports, among other measures.
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Megan McArdle
Columnist
March 7, 2021 at 5:00 a.m. PST
It happened again last week: Blue America unleashed a storm of media attention and righteous fury when Texas and Mississippi announced they were lifting all their covid-19 restrictions, including their mask mandates — only to be embarrassed when true-blue Connecticut announced that it, too, would be lifting most of its restrictions, though the mask mandates would stay. Connecticut, predictably, got a bit less attention, and a lot fewer epithets like “reckless.”
Conservatives are entitled to argue that public health experts are too cautious. They’re also entitled to wax indignant at the inconsistency of the responses from the liberal establishment. Left America once again got out over its skis, and politicized what ought to be a purely prudential question. It deserves to writhe a bit.
But the conservative movement doesn’t deserve what this kind of discourse is doing. Because arguments and indignation are starting to define the limits of conservative ideas — and defiant gestures are increasingly what the party has in place of policy.
There are legitimate arguments about where and when to open up now that vaccination is helping us protect the vulnerable. I’d prefer it if Texas and Mississippi — and Connecticut — had stayed closed a little longer, so that the vaccination campaign has a chance to really hammer transmission into submission before summer (hopefully) finishes the job. But I do not own a small business that’s suffering, and many of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) constituents do, and I’m willing to listen respectfully to arguments from the other side.
And then there are the masks.
Sure, there are questions about just how well mask mandates work, especially considering most masks are worn under “typical use” conditions rather than in laboratory tests. Even so, the benefit is unlikely to be zero, the laws of physics being what they are. And if you want to throw all your businesses open, a mask mandate is about the cheapest way to minimize the associated health costs. On the margin, masks could even help bring some of the more anxious folks back into shopping malls and theaters, both by reducing transmission and by reassuring them that public spaces are safe. So why the rush to throw them
But, of course, masks aren’t just a public health tool anymore; they’re a political symbol. And on the right, symbolic gestures are becoming the dominant form of political expression.
Have you seen the Republican messaging blitz about the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion stimulus package that bails out bankrupt union pension funds, offers blue states a federal piggy bank to help balance their budgets, subsidizes family planning services and rapid transit, and gives $128 billion to schools that mostly won’t spend the money by fall?
Of course, you haven’t, though congressional Republicans have been fitfully complaining about these things during debate. They seem to have forgotten, however, how to make these real, substantive questions into a matter of national contention. They seem to have forgotten, in fact, how to think about real, substantive questions.
Complain all you want that the covid-19 relief bill has been packed with all sorts of unrelated stuff from the Democratic wish list — at least the Democrats have a wish list. What’s the Republican equivalent? Often it seems to be literally a bunch of wishes — that the media wouldn’t be so liberal or so mean, that corporations wouldn’t go Full Woke in their diversity trainings, that social media platforms would stop wielding the ban-hammer so enthusiastically against conservatives. The closest thing this has produced to a real, live governing agenda is “Repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act,” which wouldn’t really fix the problems with social media that Republicans want to address and might do a bunch of things they don’t want, and at any rate is not, by itself, enough to run a country.
But I can’t entirely blame them, because this is how the party’s activists and even its intellectuals are thinking. As I wrote recently, I’ve been spending some time on Clubhouse, a new audio app that has attracted a lot of think-tank and political folks. No matter what the ostensible topic, the conversations most conservatives are having there almost always seem to end up in complaints about wokeism and cancel culture.
Heck, I share many of their complaints, and their fears about where all this is heading. I talk about it a lot, too. But that can’t be all we talk about. There’s a lot of important stuff going on in the world, and I’m worried we’re missing it by becoming literally reactionary — not so much for anything as against whatever the left is doing. A once-proud movement risks turning into one perpetual, primal scream: “I’m not gonna, and you can’t make me.”
That is not a movement; it is a second adolescence. And whatever the merits of masks or reopening, that reflexively oppositional impulse is unhealthy — for conservatives, and for America.
Scott is going through his second adolescence.
The Republicans don't have an agenda, all they have, is opposition to the Democrats.
The Republicans didn't have an agenda during the last election cycle.
Scott spends hours claiming that racism doesn't exist! So he opposes anything except liberals. Neither does anyone in the current Republican party now.
The author is a conservative. In the current season party people like her and RINOS.
Views. McArdle has described herself as a "right-leaning libertarian." David Brooks categorized her as part of a group of bloggers who "start from broadly libertarian premises but do not apply them in a doctrinaire way."
Scott used to be more libertarian than a Trumpit
This makes no sense. Just a week ago Babbitt's death was ruled a homicide. So the scumbag who shot her is literally getting away with murder.
We can only hope that his identity is revealed and...
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And then there are the masks.
My new mask source:
https://fakemaskusa.com/
Fuck these assholes.
LOL.
This makes no sense. Just a week ago Babbitt's death was ruled a homicide. So the scumbag who shot her is literally getting away with murder.
We can only hope that his identity is revealed
I did see some speculation it was an individual who was a black man with strong BLM postings on his Facebook page but the sourcing wasn't convincing.
The narrative does make sense however and it is curious that this individual was brought up. He is capitol police. Reminds me of the "unknown" Trump impeachment "whistleblower" who was never identified...
It's truly absurd this hasn't been made public, no way the identity is not known.
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Meanwhile Officer Chauvin is on trial for murder because he didn't perform CPR
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!FALSE FUCKING EQUALIVACY LIL SCHITTY...!!!!! HE IS ON TRIAL BECAUSE HE KNEALT ON FLOYDS NECK!!!!!
It is curious that the thief thinks a person rioting and attacking cops in the capital is the same as Chauvin !!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!
Delta, American, United, and other major airlines signal rejection of new CDC guidance saying they should block middle seats"
The very un-science CDC.
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