Louisville: ‘Burn It Down!’ ..by Robert Stacy McCain

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 Louisville: ‘Burn It Down!’
Cops get shot after #BlackLivesMatter incites mob violence.

by Robert Stacy McCain
September 24, 2020, 1:08 AM

Organized hatred is a frightening thing to behold, and no one can blame Americans for being terrified by what happened Wednesday in Louisville. After it was announced that a grand jury had indicted only one of the police officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor, an angry mob began shouting threats punctuated with obscenities. “We didn’t get it! Burn it down!” was one of the threats. Another voice in the protest mob was still more specific, shouting at police: “All y’all get ready to f***ing die!”

    This is simply terrorism, and Democratic politicians like Joe Biden are complicit in this when they parrot BLM’s rhetoric about “systemic racism.”

There followed the inevitable confrontations between police and the “mostly peaceful” protesters, who engaged in vandalism and arson. By 8:30 p.m., Louisville police reported that one officer had been shot in a confusing scene on East Broadway near the Interstate 65 overpass. Subsequently, it was reported that two officers had been shot, which perhaps the #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) movement will consider adequate to satisfy their slogan of “Justice for Breonna.”

What this is about is not justice, but a primitive sense of vengeance. BLM rhetoric about “systemic racism,” amplified by the media and echoed by Joe Biden and other politicians, has inflamed hatred to the point where some people consider violent reprisals necessary to even the score. The deliberately radical tone of BLM pronouncements about the Taylor case (e.g., their repeated use of the word “murder”) was intended to produce such a violent reaction. Anyone who still believes that BLM is about peaceful protests simply hasn’t been paying attention.

There was never any rational justification for the rage that erupted in violence Wednesday. The facts of the Taylor case, which I described in detail two months ago (“Who Is to Blame for the Death of Breonna Taylor?”), provided no support for claims of racist motivation. To summarize the case as briefly as possible: Louisville police were investigating Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, a drug dealer named Jamarcus Glover. He had listed her apartment as his mailing address; detectives saw him visit her apartment several times, and believed Glover had stashed drugs and/or money at Taylor’s apartment. On the night of March 13, police executed search warrants on three addresses in Louisville, including the so-called “trap house” on Elliott Avenue where Glover conducted his retail drug traffic, and Taylor’s apartment 10 miles away on Springfield Drive. Glover was arrested at the Elliott Avenue address. When police raided Taylor’s apartment, however, they did not realize she had her new boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, spending the night. Walker, who understandably feared Glover, had legally armed himself with a pistol. Although police had a so-called “no-knock” warrant, they actually did knock on the door and announce themselves as police, but when no one answered, Police Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly ordered officers to use a battering ram to break down the door:

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