By their own admission, they’re nothing but a marxist\/communist action front. And they should be treated as the ‘enemies domestic’ that they are.<\/p>\n
Black Lives Matter Was Violent From The Start, And Media And Politicians Knew It<\/a> The Black Lives Matter protests are radical, they are violent, and they have claimed innocent lives all over the country. This isn\u2019t a surprise: We\u2019ve watched this movement played out before by many of the exact same leaders and even under the exact same name. Now, through a combination of political foolishness, public amnesia, and willful media gaslighting, America gets to live it all again \u2014 and more civilians and police officers are being attacked and even killed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Black Lives Matter movement isn\u2019t new at all. It\u2019s the same loose collection of good-thinking people concerned over police violence and violent, anti-police and anti-family radicals as it was when it first gained national prominence in 2014.<\/p>\n As a refresher, the group was founded in 2013, during President Barack Obama\u2019s second term and after the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida. It wasn\u2019t until a rash of viral police-related deaths the next year that its national profile began to rise, including protests over the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Eric Garner in New York City, and then the following year Freddie Gray in Baltimore and Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina.<\/p>\n It was cheered on at the time by the media for all the same reasons it\u2019s being cheered on today: Some of the viral videos and events convincingly depicted unjustified killings of black suspects by police, and despite the clear and radical politics of the founders, their name conveys an obvious truism. Unfortunately, it quickly showed its violent and intolerant side then, just as it has today.<\/p>\n Americans likely most clearly recall Ferguson\u2019s protests, where for days black-owned businesses were torched and looted. Over the next few years, we watched in horror as Baltimore\u2019s years-long revival was stopped in its tracks, block after block burned, and families attending an afternoon baseball game were set upon by screaming mobs.<\/p>\n As editor in chief of The Daily Caller News Foundation then, I oversaw our broader Baltimore 2015 riot coverage. As two in the morning approached on April 28, I turned off the police scanner, confident our guys were OK and looking forward to a few hours\u2019 sleep before an early workday. Minutes later, our man running the coverage on the ground texted, \u201cWe are alright,\u201d which indicated to me that they were not alright at all. Indeed, my friend was in the emergency room with two of our young reporters, who had been beaten and robbed by the rioters.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I saw the guy heading our way with a hammer in his hand and a bandanna covering his face, I knew he meant business,\u201d a New York Daily News reporter who ran to their aid and then drove our guys through the mob to safety\u00a0wrote later that morning<\/a>. By the time they escaped, Caller reporter Casey Harper was struggling to stay conscious with a severe concussion, broken eye socket, and stolen phone, while his colleague Connor Wolf got off with a broken nose (and managed to hold onto his blood-stained notebook throughout<\/a>). The two had been targeted for being white. No one slept until after we were back in the newsroom and their story was filed.<\/p>\n The violence and disruption they\u2019d been subject to were tolerated and papered over by Democrats and corporate media, who made excuses for attacks on civilians, police, and media, and blamed outside agitators even while they were shouted down and disrupted by activists demanding \u201ca conversation\u201d but committed to ensuring no one speaks but them.<\/p>\n The following year, 2016, national Black Lives Matter protests broke out against the killing of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dozens of officers were injured with projectiles and threatened by protesters. Then on July 7, just before 9 p.m. CT, a man opened fire on police preparing for one of the protests in Dallas, killing three policemen, wounding three others, and wounding one civilian.<\/p>\n During his retreat, he killed another officer, shooting him in the back after sneaking around a pillar he was taking cover behind during a gunfight. Seeking to fortify an El Centro College building, he opened fire on two campus cops, hitting one in the gut and injuring the other with shattered glass.<\/p>\n Police followed the man\u2019s trail of blood through the school, engaging when they could clearly make him out in the darkness. From a window near where he made his last stand, he was able to kill another police officer who was on the street below. After negotiations broke down, the department killed him with a remote bomb.<\/p>\n Before he was killed, the gunman told a negotiator he was motivated by anger on behalf of the Black Lives Matter movement.\u00a0His Facebook page called for people to<\/a>\u00a0\u201cKILL EVERYTHING IN BLUE EXCEPT THE MAIL MAN.\u201d By the morning of July 8, the murdered men included Officers Lorne Ahrens, Michael Krol, former Army Ranger Michael Smith, former U.S. Navy sailor Patrick Zamarripa, and former Marine Brent Thompson.<\/p>\n \u201cProtests are messy,\u201d a Vox writer\u00a0wrote dismissively a week later<\/a>. \u201cWhen thousands or millions of people rise up in very passionate demonstrations, some bad, violent people are going to get caught up in the cause.\u201d<\/p>\n But the pressure was intense, and reluctant cracks began to form in the ranks. \u201cBlack Lives Matter Was Gaining Ground,\u201d a New York Times\u00a0headline lamented<\/a>, \u201cThen a Sniper Opened Fire.\u201d<\/p>\n Things quieted down. Donald Trump won the presidency, and shell-shocked journalists and Democrats went on a short-lived soul-searching mission, wondering what went wrong and how they could have misread the American public so badly. \u201cMaybe we pushed too far,\u201d President Obama\u00a0privately reflected<\/a>. \u201cWhat if we were wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n The introspection did not last, and by the end of the year \u2014 a year five police officers were killed and dozens wounded and hospitalized by Black Lives Matter radicals \u2014 BuzzFeed\u00a0fondly looked back<\/a>\u00a0on 2016 as \u201cthe year Black Lives Matter went global.\u201d<\/p>\n Just a few short weeks into the summer of 2020, it\u2019s happening again:\u00a0Seven shot<\/a>\u00a0in a Louisville protest park; one week later a\u00a0protester killed;<\/a>\u00a0two dead<\/a>\u00a0in Chicago;\u00a0four shootings<\/a>\u00a0in Seattle\u2019s \u201cautonomous zone;\u201d a 77-year-old, black, retired St. Louis Police captain\u00a0murdered<\/a>; a 22-year-old, black woman\u00a0in Davenport<\/a>\u00a0shot as she tried to leave.<\/p>\n Once again, politicians and media are defending and gaslighting for the violence. \u201cI want to be clear how I characterize this,\u201d MSNBC\u2019s Ali Veshi\u00a0said while buildings visibly burned in the night sky behind him.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThis is mostly a protest. It is not, generally speaking, unruly.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut fires,\u201d he admitted, back-lit by flames, \u201chave been started.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile in Washington, D.C., rioters\u00a0threw frozen bottles, glass, rocks, and bricks<\/a>\u00a0at police, then lit a church on fire. Afterward, corporate reporters, Democratic politicians, and even the leader of that church called the protests peaceful and attacked police tactics. The mayor allowed protesters to maintain that space, rename it Black Lives Plaza, and paint \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d on the street.<\/p>\n \u201cWhite women are lucky that we are just calling them \u2018Karen\u2019s,’\u201d Washington Post editor Karen Attiah\u00a0wrote June 29,<\/a>\u00a0\u201cAnd not calling for revenge.\u201d She listed her reasons for revenge on white women as the deadly racist massacre in Tulsa 99 years ago, the lynching of Emmet Till 70 years ago, liberal feminists making her feel excluded, and white women voting for Donald Trump.<\/p>\n Eight days later,\u00a0she complained<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cThe ideas of the elite class is to be protected [sic] and supported at all costs,\u201d but \u201cblack people\u2026 poor people\u2026 [and] uneducated people? We\u2019re supposed to accept our marginalization.\u201d She graduated from Northwestern University, won a Fulbright Scholarship, got a master\u2019s at Columbia University, is now the global opinions editor for The Washington Post, and still has not been fired.<\/p>\n But the charade cannot stand. This past weekend, an eight-year-old black child was shot and killed besides her frightened mother as the driver tried to navigate around illegal barriers Black Lives Matter protesters were guarding near the Atlanta Wendy\u2019s where a black man was killed after scuffling with police and stealing and firing one officer\u2019s Taser. The little girl\u2019s name was Secoriea Turner.<\/p>\n \u201cThey say \u2018black lives matter,’\u201d her father,\u00a0hoarse with pain<\/a>, accused the movement just hours later. \u201cYou killed your own. You killed your own this time.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou killed a child. She didn\u2019t do nothing to nobody.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy baby,\u201d her mother sobbed as family comforted her and helped her walk from the stage.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the point that an eight-year-old baby is killed, the discussions have ended,\u201d the\u00a0mayor announced<\/a>.\u00a0Just hours later<\/a>, another person was killed and two more wounded nearby.<\/p>\n But some aren\u2019t getting the message. \u201cIf you want an all-black lives matter movement started \u2026 then start that movement,\u201d CNN\u2019s Don Lemon\u00a0told black actor Terry Crews Monday<\/a>. \u201cBut that\u2019s not what Black Lives Matter is about.\u201d<\/p>\n Lemon was wrong on most things during that segment, but on that one point, he was right. Let\u2019s see how long it takes us to remember.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By their own admission, they’re nothing but a marxist\/communist action front. And they should be treated as the ‘enemies domestic’ that they are. 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\nBy the end of a year five police officers were killed and dozens wounded and hospitalized by Black Lives Matter radicals, BuzzFeed fondly looked back on 2016 as ‘the year Black Lives Matter went global.’<\/em><\/p>\n