Democrat Officials Are the Real ‘Domestic Terrorists’
“…Blood is flowing in the streets of American cities. Gang members and anyone in the vicinity are being shot by rivals. Random pedestrians are being shot and stabbed. Public transit customers are being stabbed on subway cars and thrown off the platform and onto the rails. Little children are being shot in their strollers, on their porches, and in their car seats.
In 2020, according to the Washington Post, murders rose 45% in New York over 2019; in Chicago murders increased 56%, while Seattle saw a murder spike of 74%. Shootings rose 97% in New York. Across 57 large jurisdictions, murder increased by nearly 37%. “In Minneapolis, homicides increased by 60% in 2020, with many of the crimes left unsolved because there are fewer police detectives and other resources to work the cases.”
As violent as 2020 was, 2021is seeing skyrocketing violence over 2020. Murders in New York in the first ten days of 2021 were double what they were in 2020. Murders in Chicago were up 46% from the previous January. Homicides in Philadelphia to date were up 55% over 2020.
The Chicago Tribune reports that, in Chicago, by June 15, 294 people were killed, more than in all of 2020. During the last week in June, 77 people were shot and killed. Here are just a very few of the names of 2021 Chicago victims: Jamari Williams, 18 years old; Jessica C. Johnson, 30; Duntae Manuel, 36; Benjamin Barber, 62; Marcus Lewis, 25; Bryone Dupart, 27; Ramiro Morales, 19; Tiara Banks, 31; Mario A. Sanders, 31; Darius Fairly, 20; Carl Taylor, 32; Jaslyn Taylor, 7; Paul Williams, 43; Martanisha Robinson, 18; Devon Jackson, 34; Verico T. Veal, 25; Vickie T. Braboy, 61. These are fellow Americans who have lost their lives to violence. Should we not know their names?
In Portland, as of the end of May, 37 people died in homicides, a 700% increase from 2020. Shooting injuries tripled compared to 2020, and quadrupled compared to 2019. As reported in the Epoch Times, on June 19, in Chicago, a couple, Gyovanny Arzuaga and Yasmin Perez, celebrating Puerto Rico Day were dragged from their car by a mob and shot execution style. On the same day, in the downtown “Loop,” Anat Kimchi, a Maryland graduate student studying criminal justice, was fatally stabbed by a homeless man. And to bring you up to date, on the first three days of the 4th of July weekend, 82 people were shot in Chicago; 14 of the shooting victims died.
Why is this happening? The answer is that there has been in 2020 and 2021 a perfect storm of reckless endangerment by public officials. The “justice reform” movement by far left politicians and race activists found rich opportunities in 2020. “Justice reform” was needed, according to these sources, because criminals were not really responsible for their acts, but were victims of social inequalities imposed by capitalism. Black prisoners were doubly victims, because they were convicted of being citizens while black, that is, by racism. The arrival of the Wuhan virus provided the excuse to de-incarcerate by releasing thousands of felons from prison, many of them violent offenders. It was the “progressive” thing to do. The governors, judges, and prison officials who conspired to release convicted felons into the public were not, of course, on hand when many reoffended. But the victims of crime are of little interest to those concerned with “justice reform.”…”