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2021-06-27 -Great Cultural Revolution

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On November 19, 2019, Nathaniel Pinnock was shot and killed by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department. Pinnock, 22, had robbed an auto parts store in Hollywood while armed with a machete and was walking from the scene when officers arrived and confronted him. Despite the presence of several officers, Pinnock refused orders to stop and drop the machete. Instead he ran to the drive-through lane of a nearby Chick-fil-A restaurant where he carjacked a Lexus and sped off. He made it only as far as the adjacent street where, after colliding with police cars, he got out and ran down Sunset Boulevard.

Officers pursued on foot, and after running some distance Pinnock turned and charged at one of them while wielding the machete. The officer retreated and fired his pistol at Pinnock, who despite being shot continued charging. The officer ran into the street where he stumbled and fell, and when it appeared Pinnock was about to deliver what surely would have been a devastating blow with the machete, the officer again fired his pistol. A second officer also fired. Pinnock fell to the ground mortally maimed.

That Pinnock’s death did not become a national news story is owing to the fact that the shooting was so manifestly justified, as can be determined even from the cursory presentation of facts above. But such is the transparency now attendant to officer-involved shootings in Los Angeles that anyone questioning the propriety of the officers’ actions can find the LAPD’s video summary of the incident and the involved officers’ body camera footage here, the civilian police commission’s 37-page report here, and the Los Angeles County district attorney’s 12-page legal assessment here. All officer-involved shootings in the city of Los Angeles are similarly investigated and documented, and while one may argue with the conclusions reached by the police commission or district attorney in any given case, no one can claim the relevant facts have been concealed.

This level of transparency regarding the use of deadly force by police has come to be expected and is now common (though not yet ubiquitous) across the country, which makes it all the more curious that what rightly should be regarded as one of the most controversial police shootings to have occurred recently has gone all but unexamined in the press. The case of Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was shot and killed by a U.S Capitol Police officer during the so-called insurrection of Jan. 6, has gone largely unexamined, either in the media or among the self-professed experts who find fault in even the most clearly justifiable police shootings.

Ashli Babbitt’s shooting was not clearly justifiable, far from it in fact, yet the U.S. Department of Justice, in a memo just over a page in length, explains it away by saying their "investigation revealed no evidence to establish that, at the time the officer fired a single shot at Ms. Babbitt, the officer did not reasonably believe that it was necessary to do so in self-defense or in defense of the Members of Congress and others evacuating the House Chamber."

And that, peasants, is that. Your rulers have made their decision, do not dare question it.

Posted by Fred 2021-06-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 It's easy for us to sneer and smirk and snark, but this is deadly serious. It's more than another Big Lie. The Democrats truly are using this ridiculous trespass incident as a pretext for shutting down any and all debate, dissent, opposition to their bullshit.

This has to be resisted. Our Republic is on the line.

Posted by Ebbatch Gurly-Brown8221 2021-06-27 00:45|| 2021-06-27 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Another big lie, are you kidding me?
They
Stole
The
Election
The Capitol Protesters were and still are Righteous and Just.

Posted by Xyz 2021-06-27 01:00|| 2021-06-27 01:00|| Front Page Top

#3 The incident in the Capitol was the 'Emperor has not clothes' moment. They desperately want to put that genie back into the bottle.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-27 07:28|| 2021-06-27 07:28|| Front Page Top

#4 The shooter had likely just returned from leave and not been properly briefed on the upcoming events.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-27 08:36|| 2021-06-27 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 gedankenexperiment: Ashli Babbitt was black; shooter was white.

Posted by Retard Strength 2021-06-27 08:48|| 2021-06-27 08:48|| Front Page Top

#6 #4
There is no evidence to support your comment
You’re just making excuses for a killer.

Posted by Xyz 2021-06-27 09:49|| 2021-06-27 09:49|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ A bit of sarcasm Xyz. I erred in not labeling it as such.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-27 09:55|| 2021-06-27 09:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Shooter was probably Anitfa (possible in capital police outfit, possibly not) which is why they can't be tracked down.

Posted by rjschwarz 2021-06-27 11:01|| 2021-06-27 11:01|| Front Page Top

#9

An election OPENLY STOLEN and then supported by the Media is a COUP and 5th Column support.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-06-27 15:02|| 2021-06-27 15:02|| Front Page Top

#10 The Washington Post published video of the last two minutes leading up to the shooting, taken from near the front rows of the crowd. The policeman, quickly put on leave during the investigation, according to the January 8, 2021 article, was a substantial Black gentleman in a dark suit with simple gold cufflinks in his French cuffs shooting from inside the House lobby out toward the protesting crowd — cufflinks surely not being a common detail for that kind of duty.

Rantburg was down at that point, much to my distress.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-27 15:25|| 2021-06-27 15:25|| Front Page Top

#11 From Heavy.com, which has several videos:

DC police later said the officer, who has not been named, was a plainclothes Capitol police officer.

Elsewhere he is described as a Capitol Police lieutenant.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-27 15:44|| 2021-06-27 15:44|| Front Page Top

#12 My bad B. I should have known.

Posted by Xyz 2021-06-27 18:04|| 2021-06-27 18:04|| Front Page Top

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