The Insanity of the Left's 'Let the Kids Have Their Knife Fights' Argument
John Kass
Posted: Apr 28, 2021 12:01 AMOne of the more insane developments from the tragic shooting death of knife wielding Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio, has been the emergence of a desperate fantasy from the political left:
The "Let the kids have their knife fights" coalition that must think "West Side Story" is real life.
Valerie Jarrett, the former Obama administration adviser, offered her idiotic notion, echoed by many others.
"A Black teenage girl named Ma'Khia Byrant was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight," Jarrett tweeted. "Demand accountability. Fight for justice. #BlackLivesMatter."
I liked Jarrett. She was once the most powerful woman in America, Barack Obama's "consigliere," and before that she advised Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. When Daley was going off the rails, plunging Chicago into its current fiscal death spiral, I met her for coffee and asked her to run for mayor to save the city.
I must have been living in a fantasy world. But all I wasted was a cup of coffee.
"Teenagers have been having fights involving knives for eons," tweeted Bree Newsome, a prominent defund-the-police activist. "We do not need police to address these situations by showing up to the scene & using a weapon against one of the teenagers. Y'all need help. I mean that sincerely."
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