It's Never a Stretch to Believe That a Dem Wants to Kill a Cop
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Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (In preparation for a whirlwind book tour, the Sine Qua Non Sequitur is spending a few weeks in a restorative mud bath.)
Obviously, I must begin by thanking Kevin and Sarah for brilliantly taking care of things here in my absence. It was wonderful to kick off the year with my daughter and other members of the family. We're a scattered bunch, and the time together grows ever more precious now that the kids are adults.
I may have taken a few days off, but Democrat-induced crises never rest. We'll be painting with broad brush strokes today rather than diving deep into the weeds regarding what happened in Minneapolis last week. My colleagues have been covering all of it brilliantly, as always.
Since January 2009, the blame for most violence against law enforcement in the United States can be laid at the feet of His High Holiness the Lightbringer Barack Obama. While it's true that the Democrats frequently had a fraught relationship with the law and those who enforce it before then, Obama's presidency retrofitted the party's DNA with hatred of all cops.
In any police/civilian conflict, Obama was never presidential or circumspect in his responses. His default was always to jump to conclusions before getting any facts and assume the worst about law enforcement and side with the lawbreakers. He got behind the "Hands up, don't shoot" lie during the Ferguson riots in 2014. His support made it that much easier for the Dems' flying monkeys in the mainstream media to perpetuate the false narrative.
Obama's "law enforcement officers last" approach led to the Democrats becoming comfortable with both implicitly and explicitly encouraging violence against cops everywhere. The George Floyd riots that coincided with the "Defund the Police" demonization of law enforcement were Obama's legacy.
The agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are here to enforce the law, yet high-ranking Democrats everywhere relentlessly portray them as lawless marauders. Sometimes it's overt, sometimes a little subtlety is attempted. Here's an example from my Twitchy colleague justmindy:
That's Philadelphia's district attorney. He's all but saying that ICE agents and military personnel are criminals. Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2026 Democratic Party. Not surprisingly, Krasner is one of those Dem DAs who are friendly to actual criminals.
This is who the Democrats are now. Law enforcement officers are right to feel threatened by any of them, because they're out there being very threatening. Hypervigilance is key in a life-or-death job, but entitled leftists don't understand consequences, so naturally they're surprised to find out that their tough guy/gal posturing isn't welcomed by cops.
Motor vehicles pose a very deadly threat, of course. Jamie wrote an excellent post that breaks down the basics of man vs. motor vehicle:
Now apply those physical realities to what happened in Minneapolis. Strip away the slogans and the biographies. What matters is geometry.
An ICE officer was positioned at the front-left corner of a vehicle so that when he fired, the bullet entered straight through the windshield roughly a foot from the bottom and several inches in from the driver’s side. He was probably right-handed, which matters, because it tells us how his body was oriented and how little room he had to move.
The vehicle began to move toward him.
At that distance, intent is irrelevant. There is no time to determine whether the driver is panicking, fleeing, confused, or attacking. A human being standing in front of a vehicle does not get to pause and assess motives. He gets fractions of a second to decide whether he will still be standing a second later.
Since nuance and reality are anathema to the idiot propagandists in the MSM, things like physics and the nature of split-second decisions aren't taken into account. It is very true that, as Jamie noted, intent is irrelevant in that situation. However, when an unhinged leftist and a law enforcement officer are involved, the intent of the former is pretty easy to infer.
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