Getting Old

 

Having to call out the Propaganda & Criminals, Andrew Knapp and others for ridiculously slanted and biased reporting is getting old. In the latest piece of garbage reporting titled “Charleston stop and frisk policy opens door for profiling, critics say after Denzell Curnell death“, Andrew Knapp runs to his standby “expert” who basically says stopping suspicious people is bad. Very bad, and should almost never be done. Knapp tries to prove his point by publishing some excerpts from a CPD policy relative to that subject in the sidebar. He wants you to read the headline, then read the sidebar, and assume CPD is littered with racist, unconstitutional polices.

Unlike Andrew Knapp, we did some actual research rather than just calling up a liberal college professor who claims to be a police expert, but has never worn a badge. As we ran through the policy’s “incriminating” list of items we found that CPD policy not only followed policy guidelines from police accreditation agency CALEA, but it also followed guidelines set forth by the United States Supreme Court in a whole bunch of cases. Some of that policy is actually taken from Supreme Court decisions almost word for word.

In spite of the cries of bullshit organizations like the NAACP, you simply can’t go wrong following what the USSC tells you to do. Andrew Knapp keeps referring to the now abandoned New York City stop and frisk policy. We haven’t read that one, but we doubt it strayed very far from what the Supreme Court has decreed. Since a liberal judge struck down portions of the policy, and NYPD simply gave up on pursuing it in the courts due the election of a criminal coddling liberal mayor, shootings have skyrocketed in the city. Some areas are seeing double, even triple, the numbers they have seen in the past. But you know, it’s all good because black gang members are no longer subjected to having to deal with police. You folks should note that just because one liberal judge deems something unconstitutional does not mean it is. Had NYPD appealed that decision all the way to the USSC we suspect things would have come out differently. They didn’t pursue that option because their new mayor was going to shut it down anyway.

Samuel Walker, libtard professor at the University of Nebraska, thinks police should be required to ignore things like prior behavior, criminal history, personal knowledge of a suspect, and all of those other things the Supreme Court has said they can use to evaluate the totality of the circumstances in any given situation. Maybe one of our future idiots in the Oval Office will put Walker on the Supreme Court. Until then, he should probably re-examine some legal precedents before representing himself as an expert then running off at the mouth in direct contradiction of what the Supreme Court has said is acceptable. Every action Walker listed as faulty in the consideration of whether someone is either engaged, or about to engage, in criminal activity has been listed as a valid observation officers can use.

Andrew Knapp desperately grasps at straws trying to support claims that Curnell wearing a hoodie in the summer isn’t suspicious. He points to Hazel Parker, a city employee who frequently wore a coat throughout the year. Here is a photo of Hazel Parker from the P&C’s own archive. We are pretty sure no one would mistake her for a drug dealing, gun toting thug. We are also pretty sure she wouldn’t be skulking around a violent, drug infested housing project late at night, dressed all in black and armed with a stolen handgun. But then, this is the kind of apples to oranges, or thug to old person, comparison the media resorts to in an effort to bolster their dubious claims of racism.

 

 

Knapp gave Andy Savage another bite at the race-baiting apple. “Savage said he doubted Parker would be stopped on the city’s streets today, so he questioned whether any other factors, such as race, would prompt an officer to act.”

Notice how the only “other factor” these folks like to point to is race. By their liberal standards, that is the only possible explanation for a black man being approached by police. Things like suspicious clothing, lurking about in a project which is posted with no trespassing signs and is plagued by drugs and violence, refusing to show a police officer your empty hands, etc. should not even be considered. Well, at least according to Andrew Knapp’s go-to expert Samuel Walker.

Savage also said, “Like Parker, Curnell didn’t walk the streets with plans to commit crimes.” Really, Andy? So, Denzell didn’t plan to commit a crime when he stole the revolver from a family member? He didn’t plan to commit a crime when he concealed that stolen revolver and ammunition in the pocket of his hoodie and went walking around through a public housing project? You are going to have to be more honest than that if, as one comment on another post said, you plan to run for Mayor when Riley dethrones.

Savage also expressed the hope that this incident would contribute to improved communication between citizens and law enforcement. We think CPD learned their lesson about their failure to at least talk to members of Curnell’s family. Unfortunately, there are family members who removed items of potential evidence from Curnell’s room after he committed suicide and before it could be seen by police. What do you think they learned, if anything? How about the folks who told the lies about Curnell being shot in the back? What have they learned?

Then we have old guy Joe Darby of the NAACP trotted out for a comment. He wants us to know young black males dress trendy and considers it insensitive that anyone would would say anything about such apparel being associated with criminal activity. Uh-oh, looks like CPD officers will soon be subjected to another round of sensitivity training!

Kind of like the guys in the photo below from our post earlier today on another area plagued by drugs and violence, Joe?

 

 

As we have seen from all the evidence on social media and in these pages, guns also seem to be a trendy fashion accessory for the urban youth of today. And let’s not forget, Denzell Curnell was, in fact, armed with such a fashion accessory he had stolen from a family member.

None of that illegal activity matters to the NAACP, however. They want to ask the Department of Justice to investigate a suicide. We are willing to bet that won’t happen. The suicide of one young black man after being confronted by police is just not a big enough story to distract from all of the controversies generated by the DOJ themselves. Of course, all of those scandals are also due to racist white folks and have absolutely nothing to do with the smuggling of guns to drug cartels, covering up the events leading to the death of four Americans in Benghazi, the refusal to prosecute criminally inclined employees of the IRS, etc, etc, etc.

We also love how this situation portrays the fair weather loyalty of the local media. Normally, the City of Charleston is immune from public criticism by the local press due to their loyalty to their favorite Democrat, Mayor Joe. Now you folks see the truth. Race baiting trumps everything.  If they have a chance to imply racism, all bets are off.