westernjournal--2020-08-09--Hunter Biden’s $450,000 Tax Debt Mysteriously ‘Resolved’ Despite His Having No Discernible Income

A large tax debt owed to the government by the son of former Vice President Joe Biden has disappeared , according to a report .
Hunter Biden , who has faced scrutiny over allegedly profiting from businesses internationally using his father ’ s influence , recently told a court in his Arkansas paternity case that he was out of work and broke .
The Washington Free Beacon reported Saturday that despite the younger Biden ’ s reported personal and financial woes , he was able to resolve a six-figure tax debt in a short period of time .
“ Hunter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lien in July over delinquent state income taxes , which he paid off in six days despite having no discernible income , ” the Free Beacon ’ s Alana Goodman reported .
The ability to pay nearly half a million dollars in back taxes in less than a week seems to contradict statements from Biden to an Arkansas court that he could not afford to pay child support .
TRENDING : Border Agents Discover 'Most Sophisticated Tunnel in US History' In January , Biden agreed to pay the mother of a child he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a job , retroactive to November 2018 , Fox News reported .
Biden failed to turn over documents relevant to his income and was held in contempt of court , according to Fox .
After a court-ordered paternity test , Biden was found to be the child ’ s father .
There was also a legal dustup concerning how much Biden ’ s permanent monthly child support payment would be calculated .
The paternity and child support case in Arkansas furthers the mystery surrounding Biden ’ s ability to pay off the reported @ @ @ @ @ @ @ D.C. ’ s Office of the Chief Financial Officer confirmed that Hunter Biden ’ s lien was released on July 15 after the ‘ tax issue was resolved.
’ The office declined to say whether Biden had paid off the debt , ” The Free Beacon reported .
It is unclear what income , if any , Biden has at the moment , as his father seeks to unseat President Donald Trump in November .
Biden has been linked to a series of financial scandals .
After being hired by Ukrainian energy company @ @ @ @ @ @ @ paid a salary of $ 83,333 a month , Fox reported .
RELATED : As Voters ' Opinions on China Sour , Trump and Biden Fight To Portray Each Other as Weak The high salary was paid despite the former VP ’ s son holding a job as a non-executive “ ceremonial figure.
” It was also said by three individuals close to Biden ’ s Burisma deal that he never visited Ukraine , despite the exorbitant salary , according to Reuters .
Biden was reportedly paid that salary from April 2014 until @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down from Burisma until last year , a time period in which his salary was as much $ 50,000 per month , according to The New York Times .
There is also widespread speculation about Biden ’ s potential income stemming from business dealings in China .
The New York Post outlined how Biden became involved in a billion-dollar business venture with Chinese investors who were back by the state-owned Bank of China .
“ In December 2013 , Hunter landed in Beijing aboard Air Force Two , accompanying his father on an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two weeks later , Hunter ’ s company , Rosemont Seneca , became a partner in a new investment , ” the report read .
“ Hunter Biden claimed to the New Yorker that he and his partners have not seen any money from the BHR deal .
But even if true , the potential payouts are significant.
” Biden is not drawing salaries from his previous business deals , according to the Free Beacon .
In Biden ’ s 2017 divorce , his former wife claimed he sent the family into financial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , alcohol , prostitutes , strip clubs and gifts for women with whom he had sexual relations.
” Kathleen Biden said the family was left with massive debts by Biden ’ s alleged activities , including tax debt , medical bills and credit cards that were maxed out .
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A large tax debt owed to the government by the son of former Vice President Joe Biden has disappeared, according to a report.
Hunter Biden, who has faced scrutiny over allegedly profiting from businesses internationally using his father’s influence, recently told a court in his Arkansas paternity case that he was out of work and broke.
The Washington Free Beacon reported Saturday that despite the younger Biden’s reported personal and financial woes, he was able to resolve a six-figure tax debt in a short period of time.
“Hunter Biden was hit with a $450,000 lien in July over delinquent state income taxes, which he paid off in six days despite having no discernible income,” the Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman reported.
The ability to pay nearly half a million dollars in back taxes in less than a week seems to contradict statements from Biden to an Arkansas court that he could not afford to pay child support.
In January, Biden agreed to pay the mother of a child he fathered in Arkansas, despite not having a job, retroactive to November 2018, Fox News reported.
Biden failed to turn over documents relevant to his income and was held in contempt of court, according to Fox.
After a court-ordered paternity test, Biden was found to be the child’s father.
There was also a legal dustup concerning how much Biden’s permanent monthly child support payment would be calculated.
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The paternity and child support case in Arkansas furthers the mystery surrounding Biden’s ability to pay off the reported tax debt.
“A spokesman for D.C.’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer confirmed that Hunter Biden’s lien was released on July 15 after the ‘tax issue was resolved.’ The office declined to say whether Biden had paid off the debt,” The Free Beacon reported.
It is unclear what income, if any, Biden has at the moment, as his father seeks to unseat President Donald Trump in November.
Biden has been linked to a series of financial scandals.
After being hired by Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings in 2014, Biden was paid a salary of $83,333 a month, Fox reported.
The high salary was paid despite the former VP’s son holding a job as a non-executive “ceremonial figure.”
It was also said by three individuals close to Biden’s Burisma deal that he never visited Ukraine, despite the exorbitant salary, according to Reuters.
Biden was reportedly paid that salary from April 2014 until November 2015.
He did not step down from Burisma until last year, a time period in which his salary was as much $50,000 per month, according to The New York Times.
There is also widespread speculation about Biden’s potential income stemming from business dealings in China.
The New York Post outlined how Biden became involved in a billion-dollar business venture with Chinese investors who were back by the state-owned Bank of China.
“In December 2013, Hunter landed in Beijing aboard Air Force Two, accompanying his father on an official visit to China. Less than two weeks later, Hunter’s company, Rosemont Seneca, became a partner in a new investment,” the report read.
“Hunter Biden claimed to the New Yorker that he and his partners have not seen any money from the BHR deal. But even if true, the potential payouts are significant.”
Biden is not drawing salaries from his previous business deals, according to the Free Beacon.
In Biden’s 2017 divorce, his former wife claimed he sent the family into financial ruin by spending money on “drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs and gifts for women with whom he had sexual relations.”
Kathleen Biden said the family was left with massive debts by Biden’s alleged activities, including tax debt, medical bills and credit cards that were maxed out.
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westernjournal--2020-08-09--Horror Story: Chinese Model Sneaks Out Video of Time in Uighur Concentration Camp

In May of 2019 — in the good old days , back when campaign stops could be packed with people — former Vice President Joe Biden , then a recently declared as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president , said something extraordinary about President Donald Trump ’ s tough stance on China .
“ China is going to eat our lunch ?
Come on , man … they can ’ t even figure out how to deal with the fact that they have this great division between the China Sea and the mountains in the east , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ told a campaign rally , according to The Hill .
He added that the communist nation “ can ’ t figure out how they ’ re going to deal with the corruption that exists within the system .
I mean , you know , they ’ re not bad folks , folks .
But guess what , they ’ re not , they ’ re not competition for us.
” By “ not bad folks , ” given that it came directly after how China couldn ’ t deal with corruption , there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the Chinese government .
We knew plenty , at that point , regarding China ’ s flagrant violations of human rights , including so-called “ re-education camps ” in Xinjiang Province where members of the Uighur ethnic group — who are primarily Muslim — were being imprisoned .
We knew all of this at that time — but we didn ’ t know about the case of Merdan Ghappar .
TRENDING : Border Agents Discover 'Most Sophisticated Tunnel in US History' According to the BBC , Ghappar is a Uighur and a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Xinjiang camps earlier this year .
His relatives hadn ’ t heard anything from him — until he was reportedly able to get access to a phone and send texts and video from inside a detention facility .
The 31-year-old Ghappar , born in Xinjiang , left the province in 2009 for the wealthier southern Chinese city of Foshan .
He became a model , including a face for Chinese retail giant Taobao , earning up to 10,000 Chinese yuan ( about $ 1,430 ) a day for his services .
He faced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China , the BBC reported .
He would tell prospective employers his facial features were “ half-European ” to escape scrutiny and , when he purchased an apartment , had to register it in the name of an ethnically Han Chinese friend .
Things turned sour in 2018 when Ghappar was arrested for allegedly selling cannabis .
For whatever it ’ s worth , there ’ s some doubt as to his culpability in reports ; the BBC says his friends called the charges “ trumped up ” ; those Radio Free America @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ghappar served 16 months .
A month after his November 2019 release , Ghappar was contacted by authorities who told him to return to Xinjiang , with authorities saying “ he may need to do a few days of education at his local community ” — a euphemism for being interred in the re-education camps , the BBC says .
Ghappar ’ s family didn ’ t hear from him until March , where he sent them text messages and a video from inside the camp .
“ A propaganda announcement can be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has never been an ‘ East Turkistan , ' ” the announcement says , spoken in both Mandarin and Uighur .
“ Separatist forces at home and abroad have politicized this geographical term and called for those who speak Turkic languages and believe in Islam to unite.
” RELATED : Establishment Media Reaches New Low with Glowing Article About Growing Faith in Communism Experts told the BBC the video appeared to be genuine .
The texts sent to the BBC paint an even darker picture .
“ I saw 50 to 60 people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than 50 square meters , men on the right , women on the left , ” Ghappar wrote in one message .
“ Everyone was wearing a so-called ‘ four-piece-suit , ’ a black head sack , handcuffs , leg shackles and an iron chain connecting the cuffs to the shackles.
” When Ghappar told guards he couldn ’ t sleep with the handcuffs and leg shackles , he was threatened with death .
“ I lifted the sack on my head and told the police officer that the handcuffs were so tight @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wrote .
“ He shouted fiercely at me , saying ‘ If you remove your hood again , I will beat you to death ’ .
And after that I dared not to talk .
“ Dying here is the last thing I want.
” A picture of a document sent from the camp , meanwhile , shows officials saying children as young as 13 should “ repent for their mistakes and voluntarily surrender.
” As for food , Ghappar says the inmates only had a few bowls and spoons for a room @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the police would ask people with infectious diseases to put their hands up and they ’ d be the last to eat , ” he writes .
“ But if you want to eat earlier , you can remain silent .
It ’ s a moral issue , do you understand ?
” Torture was another constant Ghappar described in the camp .
In one text , he talks about hearing screams from “ Interrogation rooms.
” Then he described a group of young people between 16 and 20 who broke quarantine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China .
“ During the epidemic period they were found outside playing a kind of game like baseball , ” he writes .
“ They were brought to the police station and beaten until they screamed like babies , the skin on their buttocks split open and they couldn ’ t sit down.
” The prisoners had to wear masks along with the hoods , which made it difficult to breathe , Ghappar ’ s texts said .
Then his temperature tested above normal , which had him moved upstairs to a room @ @ @ @ @ @ @ made sleep impossible .
It also meant he could hear the torture more clearly .
“ One time I heard a man screaming from morning until evening , ” he said .
When the prisoners were being moved , the BBC said Ghappar was separated sent to what he described as an “ epidemic control center ” because of a cold .
He described the conditions there as filthy — but more relaxed , meaning he could get the texts and videos out .
“ My whole body is covered in lice .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ them off from my body – it ’ s so itchy , ” he wrote .
“ Of course , the environment here is better than the police station with all those people .
Here I live alone , but there are two people guarding me.
” The videos and texts were sent , according to Radio Free America , to his Ghappar ’ s aunt Ayshemgul Ghappar , who forwarded the material to her brother , Abdulhakim Ghappar , who is based in the Netherlands .
“ We exchanged messages for a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time ] around March 9 or 10 , I can ’ t remember exactly , ” Abdulhakim Ghappar told Radio Free America .
“ He sent me a message and then he and my sister were just gone .
I ’ ve heard nothing from my sister since.
” Abdulhakim Ghappar says Chinese authorities “ undoubtedly took his phone away.
” “ It seems clear that he got in even worse trouble after sending the video — I think this is why he disappeared , ” he told Radio Free America .
Chinese @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for comment on the whereabouts of either Merdan or Ayshemgul Ghappar , BBC reported .
Ghappar ’ s professional career has been erased , according to the BBC : “ Taobao , the online retailer that had hired Merdan as a model , no longer has any record of him on its website , while any mention of him has been scrubbed from Baidu , China ’ s most popular search engine.
” There are over 1 million Uighurs in the Chinese Communist Party ’ s network of camps , by every reliable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , no politician , no world body that can compel Beijing to disassemble this vile apparatus .
They can put pressure on them , however — which makes Biden ’ s recent change of tone curious .
In July , Biden accused Trump of being “ weak ” on China and its abuses of Uighurs , according to the Washington Examiner , after reports surfaced of forced sterilizations of Uighur women .
“ Time and again , President Trump has surrendered our values and reassured China ’ s autocrats they have a like-minded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden said in a statement .
“ Trump ’ s record on Beijing ’ s human rights abuses is indefensible , marked by desperation for a failing trade deal , fealty to Xi Jinping , and an open admission that he ’ s willing to turn a blind eye to even the worst atrocities.
” What changed , one wondered , in that intervening year ?
We knew as much about human rights abuses in China , particularly against the Uighur people , as we do now .
Trump has to deal with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economically , militarily and otherwise .
He ’ s in office .
Biden , meanwhile , is just running for office .
He can promise whatever he wants .
And last May , he wasn ’ t promising to “ take stronger steps ” on goods imported to the U.S. from Xinjiang or “ stand against ” repression there like he did in July .
Remember , last May , it was just that Beijing “ can ’ t figure out how they ’ re going to deal with the corruption that exists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you know , they ’ re not bad folks , folks.
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In May of 2019 — in the good old days, back when campaign stops could be packed with people — former Vice President Joe Biden, then a recently declared as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, said something extraordinary about President Donald Trump’s tough stance on China.
“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man … they can’t even figure out how to deal with the fact that they have this great division between the China Sea and the mountains in the east, I mean in the west,” Biden told a campaign rally, according to The Hill.
He added that the communist nation “can’t figure out how they’re going to deal with the corruption that exists within the system. I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what, they’re not, they’re not competition for us.”
By “not bad folks,” given that it came directly after how China couldn’t deal with corruption, there’s little doubt Biden was referring to the Chinese government. We knew plenty, at that point, regarding China’s flagrant violations of human rights, including so-called “re-education camps” in Xinjiang Province where members of the Uighur ethnic group — who are primarily Muslim — were being imprisoned.
We knew all of this at that time — but we didn’t know about the case of Merdan Ghappar.
According to the BBC, Ghappar is a Uighur and a former model who was put into the Xinjiang camps earlier this year. His relatives hadn’t heard anything from him — until he was reportedly able to get access to a phone and send texts and video from inside a detention facility.
The 31-year-old Ghappar, born in Xinjiang, left the province in 2009 for the wealthier southern Chinese city of Foshan. He became a model, including a face for Chinese retail giant Taobao, earning up to 10,000 Chinese yuan (about $1,430) a day for his services.
He faced the usual prejudices visited upon Uighurs in China, the BBC reported. He would tell prospective employers his facial features were “half-European” to escape scrutiny and, when he purchased an apartment, had to register it in the name of an ethnically Han Chinese friend.
Things turned sour in 2018 when Ghappar was arrested for allegedly selling cannabis. For whatever it’s worth, there’s some doubt as to his culpability in reports; the BBC says his friends called the charges “trumped up”; those Radio Free America talked to denied he was guilty.
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Ghappar served 16 months. A month after his November 2019 release, Ghappar was contacted by authorities who told him to return to Xinjiang, with authorities saying “he may need to do a few days of education at his local community” — a euphemism for being interred in the re-education camps, the BBC says.
Ghappar’s family didn’t hear from him until March, where he sent them text messages and a video from inside the camp.
“A propaganda announcement can be heard in the background: “Xinjiang has never been an ‘East Turkistan,'” the announcement says, spoken in both Mandarin and Uighur.
“Separatist forces at home and abroad have politicized this geographical term and called for those who speak Turkic languages and believe in Islam to unite.”
Experts told the BBC the video appeared to be genuine.
The texts sent to the BBC paint an even darker picture.
“I saw 50 to 60 people detained in a small room no bigger than 50 square meters, men on the right, women on the left,” Ghappar wrote in one message.
“Everyone was wearing a so-called ‘four-piece-suit,’ a black head sack, handcuffs, leg shackles and an iron chain connecting the cuffs to the shackles.”
When Ghappar told guards he couldn’t sleep with the handcuffs and leg shackles, he was threatened with death.
“I lifted the sack on my head and told the police officer that the handcuffs were so tight they hurt my wrists,” he wrote.
“He shouted fiercely at me, saying ‘If you remove your hood again, I will beat you to death’. And after that I dared not to talk.
“Dying here is the last thing I want.”
A picture of a document sent from the camp, meanwhile, shows officials saying children as young as 13 should “repent for their mistakes and voluntarily surrender.”
As for food, Ghappar says the inmates only had a few bowls and spoons for a room full of prisoners.
“Before eating, the police would ask people with infectious diseases to put their hands up and they’d be the last to eat,” he writes.
“But if you want to eat earlier, you can remain silent. It’s a moral issue, do you understand?”
Torture was another constant Ghappar described in the camp. In one text, he talks about hearing screams from “Interrogation rooms.”
Then he described a group of young people between 16 and 20 who broke quarantine during the height of the coronavirus in China.
“During the epidemic period they were found outside playing a kind of game like baseball,” he writes.
“They were brought to the police station and beaten until they screamed like babies, the skin on their buttocks split open and they couldn’t sit down.”
The prisoners had to wear masks along with the hoods, which made it difficult to breathe, Ghappar’s texts said. Then his temperature tested above normal, which had him moved upstairs to a room with the windows open. Freezing temperatures made sleep impossible. It also meant he could hear the torture more clearly.
“One time I heard a man screaming from morning until evening,” he said.
When the prisoners were being moved, the BBC said Ghappar was separated sent to what he described as an “epidemic control center” because of a cold. He described the conditions there as filthy — but more relaxed, meaning he could get the texts and videos out.
“My whole body is covered in lice. Every day I catch them and pick them off from my body – it’s so itchy,” he wrote.
“Of course, the environment here is better than the police station with all those people. Here I live alone, but there are two people guarding me.”
The videos and texts were sent, according to Radio Free America, to his Ghappar’s aunt Ayshemgul Ghappar, who forwarded the material to her brother, Abdulhakim Ghappar, who is based in the Netherlands.
“We exchanged messages for a week … [and for the last time] around March 9 or 10, I can’t remember exactly,” Abdulhakim Ghappar told Radio Free America.
“He sent me a message and then he and my sister were just gone. I’ve heard nothing from my sister since.”
Abdulhakim Ghappar says Chinese authorities “undoubtedly took his phone away.”
“It seems clear that he got in even worse trouble after sending the video — I think this is why he disappeared,” he told Radio Free America.
Chinese authorities didn’t respond to requests for comment on the whereabouts of either Merdan or Ayshemgul Ghappar, BBC reported.
Ghappar’s professional career has been erased, according to the BBC:
“Taobao, the online retailer that had hired Merdan as a model, no longer has any record of him on its website, while any mention of him has been scrubbed from Baidu, China’s most popular search engine.”
There are over 1 million Uighurs in the Chinese Communist Party’s network of camps, by every reliable estimation. There’s no president, no politician, no world body that can compel Beijing to disassemble this vile apparatus. They can put pressure on them, however — which makes Biden’s recent change of tone curious.
In July, Biden accused Trump of being “weak” on China and its abuses of Uighurs, according to the Washington Examiner, after reports surfaced of forced sterilizations of Uighur women.
“Time and again, President Trump has surrendered our values and reassured China’s autocrats they have a like-minded partner in the White House,” Biden said in a statement.
“Trump’s record on Beijing’s human rights abuses is indefensible, marked by desperation for a failing trade deal, fealty to Xi Jinping, and an open admission that he’s willing to turn a blind eye to even the worst atrocities.”
What changed, one wondered, in that intervening year? We knew as much about human rights abuses in China, particularly against the Uighur people, as we do now. Trump has to deal with Beijing on a number of fronts — economically, militarily and otherwise. He’s in office.
Biden, meanwhile, is just running for office. He can promise whatever he wants. And last May, he wasn’t promising to “take stronger steps” on goods imported to the U.S. from Xinjiang or “stand against” repression there like he did in July.
Remember, last May, it was just that Beijing “can’t figure out how they’re going to deal with the corruption that exists within the system. I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks.”
Right.
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westernjournal--2020-08-09--NYPD Ordered To Stand Down from Hours-Long Siege of Assault Suspect After Mob Shows Up

A standoff between police and a suspect who reportedly assaulted an officer ended with officers retreating when protesters overwhelmed them in New York City on Friday .
The New York Post reported the NYPD was involved in a standoff with an anti-police activist accused of assault after he allegedly screamed into the ear of a female officer using a bullhorn , causing her hearing damage .
Police gathered outside of an apartment looking for the suspect , a man named Derrick Ingram , on Friday afternoon in Manhattan ’ s Hell ’ s Kitchen neighborhood .
After spending hours waiting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were inundated by nearly 100 anti-police protesters and ordered to stand down .
TRENDING : Border Agents Discover 'Most Sophisticated Tunnel in US History' Dozens of police officers in tactical gear had waited in vain , while Ingram organized protesters online from inside .
The officers , with no recourse because they did not have a warrant to enter the property , left the scene without Ingram , the Post reported .
The order to stand down came directly from the top , from NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea .
Shea ’ s order @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the newspaper .
One person the Post referred to as a police insider said that the order to leave without the suspect is “ another example of mob rules.
” “ Today ’ s action encourages resisting arrest , ” another person said .
“ That is not good for anyone : Cops , civilians and the people being arrested.
” Worse for the officers , the suspect reportedly had agreed to turn himself in later , but did not honor that agreement , per information the Post had been given by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to make an apprehension for assault on a police officer , ” an NYPD spokeswoman said .
“ At this time , the investigation is active and ongoing.
” A state lawmaker spoke of the order for officers to stand down and supported the decision .
New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman , a Democrat who represents the neighborhood in the capital of Albany , criticized police in a statement to the Post .
“ The police should be aware by now of the need to de-escalate situations like this rather than show @ @ @ @ @ @ @ individual using dozens of officers and not even have a warrant in hand , ” Hoylman said .
Friday ’ s stand-down order is the latest perceived attack on the integrity of the country ’ s largest police department amid months of anti-police rhetoric .
The mayor also joined city leaders in announcing the partial defunding of the NYPD .
NYPD officers have been targeted during violent incidents in recent months as crime rates have skyrocketed in New York City .
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A standoff between police and a suspect who reportedly assaulted an officer ended with officers retreating when protesters overwhelmed them in New York City on Friday.
The New York Post reported the NYPD was involved in a standoff with an anti-police activist accused of assault after he allegedly screamed into the ear of a female officer using a bullhorn, causing her hearing damage.
Police gathered outside of an apartment looking for the suspect, a man named Derrick Ingram, on Friday afternoon in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood.
After spending hours waiting for Ingram to come out, officers were inundated by nearly 100 anti-police protesters and ordered to stand down.
The protesters slowly congregated over a six-hour period, chanting anti-NYPD slogans.
Dozens of police officers in tactical gear had waited in vain, while Ingram organized protesters online from inside.
The officers, with no recourse because they did not have a warrant to enter the property, left the scene without Ingram, the Post reported.
The order to stand down came directly from the top, from NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea.
Shea’s order angered officers and others who spoke to the newspaper.
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One person the Post referred to as a police insider said that the order to leave without the suspect is “another example of mob rules.”
“Today’s action encourages resisting arrest,” another person said. “That is not good for anyone: Cops, civilians and the people being arrested.”
Worse for the officers, the suspect reportedly had agreed to turn himself in later, but did not honor that agreement, per information the Post had been given by the NYPD.
“The NYPD was attempting to make an apprehension for assault on a police officer,” an NYPD spokeswoman said. “At this time, the investigation is active and ongoing.”
A state lawmaker spoke of the order for officers to stand down and supported the decision.
New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Democrat who represents the neighborhood in the capital of Albany, criticized police in a statement to the Post.
“The police should be aware by now of the need to de-escalate situations like this rather than show up to try to arrest a single individual using dozens of officers and not even have a warrant in hand,” Hoylman said.
“It’s a misapplication of resources,” he added.
Friday’s stand-down order is the latest perceived attack on the integrity of the country’s largest police department amid months of anti-police rhetoric.
In June, Mayor Bill de Blasio disbanded the department’s non-uniformed Anti-Crime Unit.
The mayor also joined city leaders in announcing the partial defunding of the NYPD.
NYPD officers have been targeted during violent incidents in recent months as crime rates have skyrocketed in New York City.
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westernjournal--2020-08-09--Antifa Punks Throw Paint on Older Woman and Scream in Her Face as She Protects Police Precinct

I ’ m not a believer in the theory , especially popular in certain corners of the left , that there ’ s an argument to be made for destroying property .
Nor am I believer in the argument that violent clashes with police enforcing the law could just be avoided if the police would stop enforcing a lot of laws — particularly relating , say , to destroying property .
The argument for property destruction is most frequently hauled out when dealing with two cities in the Pacific Northwest — Seattle , Washington , and Portland , Oregon — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the wake of George Floyd ’ s death in Minneapolis police custody on May 25 .
The argument is usually the second part of a two-part apologia for the demonstrations .
First , they ’ re “ mostly peaceful.
” Second , to the extent they aren ’ t , the destruction is the result of a small minority of demonstrators that is still justified in its actions .
Leftist commentator and Columbia University Ph.D. R.H. Lossin argued , in a June 10 piece in The Nation titled “ In Defense of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mainstream media has reached “ an understanding that too many lines have been crossed , too many innocent people murdered , too many communities over-policed and otherwise neglected to expect anyone to react ‘ reasonably.
’ ” Of course , to believe the mainstream media was judging correctly , the argument rests upon the idea that demonstrators can ’ t be trusted to act reasonably with property but can be trusted to act reasonably when human lives are involved .
To the extent this argument isn ’ t already self-defeating , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , whose last name was redacted by local media .
TRENDING : Border Agents Discover 'Most Sophisticated Tunnel in US History' According to Portland-based KGW-TV , Cobey was one of two septuagenarians who , fed up with property destruction in and around the Portland Police Bureau ’ s East Precinct on Thursday night , confronted the rioters behind it .
She had no power to stop it and represented no threat to the mob .
“ I just got heated under the collar and said ‘ Hey , this is not OK .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ re not helping my black friends , ’ ” Cobey said , according to KGW .
“ It ’ s not OK to destroy property .
You can say what you have to say but be part of the solution , not part of the problem.
” So members of the mob , identified in tweets as being antifa-affiliated , splashed paint on Coby and tried to drape her in police tape .
WARNING : The following video contains graphic language that some viewers will find offensive .
“ This isn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for us , ” a demonstrator — apparently a woman — can be heard shouting at Cobey in the moments after she was splashed with paint .
“ Our black friends are dying !
“ Put your mask on , b—- !
Put your mask on !
” a voice that sounds like another woman can be heard saying , apparently under the misapprehension that the primary threat to human life in this situation came from COVID-19 transmission .
RELATED : Trucking Company Owner : Cities That Defund Police Are in for a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Penny tried to put out a fire set by a protester and met with similar treatment .
Penny had a Black Lives Matter sign with her — as well as a walker , but this wasn ’ t going to deter anyone from bullying her .
“ Wednesday night they broke windows , it was a real mess , ” she told KGW .
“ I ’ m very , very pro-Black Lives Matter , ” she added .
“ But I just think vandalism sabotages the message.
” The video from Zane @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Portland Tribune , was taken moments after Penny put out the fire .
Rioters lit it again , which led to Penny trying to repeat the task .
“ There was a young woman and a man and they wouldn ’ t let me by , ” said Penny .
“ While I was arguing with the young woman , the man grabbed [ the fire extinguisher ] and ran away .
I thought , ‘ Shoot , I have no fire extinguisher.
’ ” What was happening outside the East Precinct Thursday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Portland ’ s “ mostly peaceful ” demonstrators that have required the adverb “ mostly ” to do a lot of heavy lifting these past few weeks .
For this crowd , vandalism is part of the message , as well as a means to an end .
Thursday was Night 70 of the protests and the second night where the Portland Police Bureau ’ s East Precinct was the focus of events .
KOIN-TV in Portland reported police officers were pelted with glass bottles , rocks and other projectiles , with one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rock hit his shoulder .
It ’ s stomach-churning , but hardly surprising , that these protesters would clash with police .
What I have more trouble fathoming are the two separate confrontations with 70-something women .
I don ’ t expect violent demonstrators to run constant cost-benefit calculations inside their head as they chuck glass bottles at police .
That said , at some point the adrenaline has to ease up enough to realize neither of these women had power to arrest or physically harm them and neither were going to have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s goals , whatever they may have been .
There were cameras all over the place .
One of these women had a walker .
Both were “ mostly ” powerless .
What ’ s notable is that , at least in these these short clips , no one among the crowd seems to have the common decency or common sense to restrain their fellow demonstrators as this happened , even knowing that the cameras were running .
Did they think this would play well once it hit social media , as it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they agreed that intimidating two elderly women who disagreed with them was the right and proper thing to do ?
Or was this the Milgram experiment in action among the antifa ranks , with no one willing to challenge the goons who had seized group authority ?
After this happened , KGW reported , “ both women said there seemed to be a lot of caring people in the crowd , including some who offered to walk them home.
” If only they ’ d have stepped in to stop it from happening @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be looking to press charges , KOIN reported .
“ Just don ’ t do the vandalism , ” Penny told KGW , addressing the rioters .
“ I don ’ t think it helps and I think there is collateral damage.
” But that ’ s the thing : As per liberals like R.H. Lossin , these are demonstrators who can ’ t be expected to act “ reasonably.
” To them , there ’ s too much rot , the system too infected with evil , to expect any kind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saw Thursday — and which we ’ ve now seen in Portland for the past 72 nights .
The problem with this argument is that it relies on the idea that demonstrators , in their unreason , can still maintain a discrete line between property and human beings .
With recent events in Portland , even those who bought that theory in the first place must realize its underpinnings are under heavy strain .
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I’m not a believer in the theory, especially popular in certain corners of the left, that there’s an argument to be made for destroying property. Nor am I believer in the argument that violent clashes with police enforcing the law could just be avoided if the police would stop enforcing a lot of laws — particularly relating, say, to destroying property.
The argument for property destruction is most frequently hauled out when dealing with two cities in the Pacific Northwest — Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon — which have seen months of sustained rioting in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody on May 25. The argument is usually the second part of a two-part apologia for the demonstrations.
First, they’re “mostly peaceful.” Second, to the extent they aren’t, the destruction is the result of a small minority of demonstrators that is still justified in its actions.
Leftist commentator and Columbia University Ph.D. R.H. Lossin argued, in a June 10 piece in The Nation titled “In Defense of Destroying Property,” that at least the mainstream media has reached “an understanding that too many lines have been crossed, too many innocent people murdered, too many communities over-policed and otherwise neglected to expect anyone to react ‘reasonably.’”
Of course, to believe the mainstream media was judging correctly, the argument rests upon the idea that demonstrators can’t be trusted to act reasonably with property but can be trusted to act reasonably when human lives are involved. To the extent this argument isn’t already self-defeating, I present how Portland rioters treated 77-year-old Cobey, whose last name was redacted by local media.
According to Portland-based KGW-TV, Cobey was one of two septuagenarians who, fed up with property destruction in and around the Portland Police Bureau’s East Precinct on Thursday night, confronted the rioters behind it. She had no power to stop it and represented no threat to the mob.
“I just got heated under the collar and said ‘Hey, this is not OK. This is my neighborhood, you’re not helping my black friends,’” Cobey said, according to KGW. “It’s not OK to destroy property. You can say what you have to say but be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”
So members of the mob, identified in tweets as being antifa-affiliated, splashed paint on Coby and tried to drape her in police tape.
WARNING: The following video contains graphic language that some viewers will find offensive.
Antifa splashed paint at an elderly Portland woman and verbally abused her. “This isn’t your world anymore.” pic.twitter.com/lmkbR1fewb — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 7, 2020
“This isn’t your world anymore! You ruined it for us,” a demonstrator — apparently a woman — can be heard shouting at Cobey in the moments after she was splashed with paint. “Our black friends are dying!
“Put your mask on, b—-! Put your mask on!” a voice that sounds like another woman can be heard saying, apparently under the misapprehension that the primary threat to human life in this situation came from COVID-19 transmission.
There was a separate unknown woman using a walker outside of East Precinct who attempted to extinguish a fire set by the group. The woman depicted in this photo was not using a walker. — Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) August 7, 2020
Separately, a 73-year-old named Penny tried to put out a fire set by a protester and met with similar treatment.
Antifa punk bullies old woman. pic.twitter.com/O1gsJcSNt4 — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 7, 2020
Woman with BLM sign on walker is trying to stop Portland protester hitting wooden barricades on east precinct pic.twitter.com/qPjfeX9GVY — Zane Sparling (@PDXzane) August 7, 2020
Penny had a Black Lives Matter sign with her — as well as a walker, but this wasn’t going to deter anyone from bullying her.
“Wednesday night they broke windows, it was a real mess,” she told KGW.
“I’m very, very pro-Black Lives Matter,” she added. “But I just think vandalism sabotages the message.”
The video from Zane Sparling, a reporter with the weekly Portland Tribune, was taken moments after Penny put out the fire. Rioters lit it again, which led to Penny trying to repeat the task.
“There was a young woman and a man and they wouldn’t let me by,” said Penny. “While I was arguing with the young woman, the man grabbed [the fire extinguisher] and ran away. I thought, ‘Shoot, I have no fire extinguisher.’”
What was happening outside the East Precinct Thursday was perpetrated by the ugly portion of Portland’s “mostly peaceful” demonstrators that have required the adverb “mostly” to do a lot of heavy lifting these past few weeks. For this crowd, vandalism is part of the message, as well as a means to an end.
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Thursday was Night 70 of the protests and the second night where the Portland Police Bureau’s East Precinct was the focus of events. KOIN-TV in Portland reported police officers were pelted with glass bottles, rocks and other projectiles, with one officer sustaining severe injuries after a large rock hit his shoulder.
It’s stomach-churning, but hardly surprising, that these protesters would clash with police. What I have more trouble fathoming are the two separate confrontations with 70-something women.
I don’t expect violent demonstrators to run constant cost-benefit calculations inside their head as they chuck glass bottles at police. That said, at some point the adrenaline has to ease up enough to realize neither of these women had power to arrest or physically harm them and neither were going to have any tangible effect on the mob’s goals, whatever they may have been. There were cameras all over the place. One of these women had a walker. Both were “mostly” powerless.
What’s notable is that, at least in these these short clips, no one among the crowd seems to have the common decency or common sense to restrain their fellow demonstrators as this happened, even knowing that the cameras were running.
Did they think this would play well once it hit social media, as it inevitably would? Was their silence because they agreed that intimidating two elderly women who disagreed with them was the right and proper thing to do? Or was this the Milgram experiment in action among the antifa ranks, with no one willing to challenge the goons who had seized group authority?
After this happened, KGW reported, “both women said there seemed to be a lot of caring people in the crowd, including some who offered to walk them home.” If only they’d have stepped in to stop it from happening. Whatever the case, neither woman will be looking to press charges, KOIN reported.
“Just don’t do the vandalism,” Penny told KGW, addressing the rioters. “I don’t think it helps and I think there is collateral damage.”
But that’s the thing: As per liberals like R.H. Lossin, these are demonstrators who can’t be expected to act “reasonably.” To them, there’s too much rot, the system too infected with evil, to expect any kind of other reaction other than what we saw Thursday — and which we’ve now seen in Portland for the past 72 nights.
The problem with this argument is that it relies on the idea that demonstrators, in their unreason, can still maintain a discrete line between property and human beings. With recent events in Portland, even those who bought that theory in the first place must realize its underpinnings are under heavy strain.
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westernjournal--2020-08-09--Major Texas City Sees Surge in Murders as Left Pours More Gas on Fire

It ’ s an ignominious distinction .
In a year where almost every major American city is experiencing a surge in violent crime , Austin , Texas is leading the race to the bottom .
According to The Wall Street Journal , Austin ’ s homicides are up 64 percent over 2019 — well more than second place in the ignominious contest , Chicago , which saw a 52 percent rise .
No other major city came close to 50 percent .
Overall , the analysis of the United State ’ s 50 largest cities showed a 24 percent increase @ @ @ @ @ @ @ surprised at the consistency of the increase across all of the different cities , ” said Jens Ludwig , director of the University of Chicago ’ s Crime Lab .
“ Anecdotally , many police departments point to a rising tide of gang violence , in which rival groups of mainly young offenders battle over control of neighborhoods , catching rivals and innocents in the process , ” the article published Sunday read .
TRENDING : Border Agents Discover 'Most Sophisticated Tunnel in US History' “ Schools let out young adults in March @ @ @ @ @ @ @ largely stopped .
Churches and other social institutions were restrained for the sake of social distancing .
Police first were hit by coronavirus and then blowback in the neighborhoods they patrol after the killing in Minneapolis of George Floyd , a Black man , while in police custody.
” Austin ’ s KVUE-TV noted that “ out of all the cities this analysis compares , Austin generally sees considerably fewer murders.
” “ And according to city press releases and online crime data , Austin homicides appear to be evening out through July @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the APD had put out media releases for 28 homicides … and had put out 23 through the end of July last year , amounting to an increase of about 20 % .
” But still , homicides are up by an astounding 64 percent .
One hopes Austin has it figured out .
A quick look at how the Austin City Council has treated law enforcement , however , isn ’ t reassuring .
Let ’ s go back to June 11 , when the council met virtually to discuss a number @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There ’ s hardly a major city across these United States where the government didn ’ t have some sort of “ reckoning ” in the weeks following the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody .
Austin ’ s response was fairly pro forma , as these things go — unfortunately .
According to KVUE , two weeks after violent protests gripped the city , the council passed a set of five resolutions aimed at police reform : “ [ s ] et a goal of zero racial disparities in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ c ] reate a Public Safety Committee from the existing Judicial Committee , ” “ [ d ] irect City Manager Spencer Cronk to recommend policies that reduce the look-back period for vetting rental applications for a prospective tenant with a criminal history , ” “ [ p ] rohibit the use of chokeholds and no-knock warrants and reduce the use of militarized equipment by APD ” and “ [ r ] emove funding from the upcoming year ’ s City budget for hiring additional APD officers or acquiring equipment like beanbag @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” And that wasn ’ t all that came out of the city council meeting , according to KEYE-TV .
“ In upcoming budget talks for the next fiscal year , city council aims to reallocate a significant portion of APD funding to other community programs .
Some council members have said they support reallocating about 24 percent — or $ 100M — of the department ’ s more than $ 400M budget , ” the station reported .
“ For me this is not taking away anything from anybody .
This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health , a mental health , a housing crisis , ” Austin Mayor Pro Tem Delia Garza said .
Whoever first coined “ right-sizing ” as a cheerful euphemism for layoffs or cuts , I hope you ’ re happy with yourself and what you ’ ve wrought .
This is defunding , no matter how many smiley-face emojis you want to put after it .
Anyhow , so far , so Seattle .
But once the stone gets rolling , it becomes difficult to stop it .
According to the Austin American-Statesman @ @ @ @ @ @ @ council members floated ideas to further disempower police — even as the crime spike continued apace .
“ [ Council Member Greg ] Casar suggested three amendments to the city ’ s proposed budget that would remove internal affairs and forensics from the Police Department and shift money from previously scheduled police cadet classes to programs that prevent violence and other harm in the city , ” the Statesman reported .
“ Such programs could include family violence shelters , homeless services , and housing and mental health care , among others.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have a $ 40 million impact — and combined with amendments proposed by my colleagues and future amendments from me — we can reach an over $ 100 million change in the police budget toward progressive change , ” Casar told his constituents in an email .
Council Member Leslie Pool , meanwhile , floated the idea that $ 41.5 million could be saved by not filling unfilled positions in the Austin Police Department ranks as well as canceling that year ’ s cadet class .
Finally , there was Council Member Jimmy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ special attention to how the newspaper described his proposals before we go into how he described his proposals .
“ Flannigan proposed a plan to reconstruct police operations into separate departments with independent department heads and civilian executive leadership in the city manager ’ s office , ” the American-Statesman reported .
“ His second proposal was to move Austin police headquarters out of its downtown building and into other city space that is underutilized .
Flannigan said the building could be used to address historical economic inequities in Austin ’ s Black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proposal accurately : It ’ s not worth going into the particular details of it here , but he would “ shift more than $ 90 million from under the control of sworn leadership to civilian leadership and allow for each department to have separate metrics and oversight , thereby creating a way to shift organizational culture and drive outcomes.
” It ’ s the characterization of the second proposal that misses a key part : “ The building that houses APD HQ and formerly housed the Municipal Court has long been known @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s useful life .
We should expedite the demolition of the APD Headquarters by directing the City Manager to move all remaining APD staff out of the existing headquarters building and into other underutilized city facilities.
” [ Emphasis mine . ]
So no , the building would not be used “ to address historical economic inequities in Austin ’ s Black community.
” It ’ d be demolished and the police department would be shifted into “ other underutilized city facilities.
” Where these facilities are , whether they would allow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with each other and how this would help address those inequalities — not addressed .
Also unaddressed : Whether or not a renovation of the building might be more sensible , or how much it would cost to demolish .
None of these are proposals as of yet , mind you .
They are , however , ideas that members of the Austin City Council were willing to float in a public forum as murders have spiked 64 percent year-over-year in their city .
If one is to glimpse the macro of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ restructure police inside the micro Austin ’ s example , we should be genuinely horrified .
These aren ’ t proposals a city should be considering when crime is down .
When murders have skyrocketed 64 percent and these are Austin ’ s solutions , it ’ s impossible to take this seriously .
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It’s an ignominious distinction. In a year where almost every major American city is experiencing a surge in violent crime, Austin, Texas is leading the race to the bottom.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Austin’s homicides are up 64 percent over 2019 — well more than second place in the ignominious contest, Chicago, which saw a 52 percent rise.
No other major city came close to 50 percent. Overall, the analysis of the United State’s 50 largest cities showed a 24 percent increase across the board.
“I was surprised at the consistency of the increase across all of the different cities,” said Jens Ludwig, director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab.
“Anecdotally, many police departments point to a rising tide of gang violence, in which rival groups of mainly young offenders battle over control of neighborhoods, catching rivals and innocents in the process,” the article published Sunday read.
“Schools let out young adults in March because of the pandemic and after-school activities largely stopped. Churches and other social institutions were restrained for the sake of social distancing. Police first were hit by coronavirus and then blowback in the neighborhoods they patrol after the killing in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a Black man, while in police custody.”
#Austin leads the country in percentage change for homicides compared to the previous year. @Officer_Bino said it best: This is not the list we want to be on https://t.co/gV7A4iPI3v pic.twitter.com/7VWW0lfTBb — Lt Eve Stephens (@apdevestephens) August 3, 2020
Austin’s KVUE-TV noted that “out of all the cities this analysis compares, Austin generally sees considerably fewer murders.”
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“And according to city press releases and online crime data, Austin homicides appear to be evening out through July. Through the end of July, the APD had put out media releases for 28 homicides … and had put out 23 through the end of July last year, amounting to an increase of about 20%.”
But still, homicides are up by an astounding 64 percent. One hopes Austin has it figured out. A quick look at how the Austin City Council has treated law enforcement, however, isn’t reassuring.
Let’s go back to June 11, when the council met virtually to discuss a number of proposals dealing with law enforcement.
There’s hardly a major city across these United States where the government didn’t have some sort of “reckoning” in the weeks following the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody. Austin’s response was fairly pro forma, as these things go — unfortunately.
According to KVUE, two weeks after violent protests gripped the city, the council passed a set of five resolutions aimed at police reform: “[s]et a goal of zero racial disparities in traffic stops and arrests,” “[c]reate a Public Safety Committee from the existing Judicial Committee,” “[d]irect City Manager Spencer Cronk to recommend policies that reduce the look-back period for vetting rental applications for a prospective tenant with a criminal history,” “[p]rohibit the use of chokeholds and no-knock warrants and reduce the use of militarized equipment by APD” and “[r]emove funding from the upcoming year’s City budget for hiring additional APD officers or acquiring equipment like beanbag rounds, rubber bullets and tear gas.”
And that wasn’t all that came out of the city council meeting, according to KEYE-TV.
“In upcoming budget talks for the next fiscal year, city council aims to reallocate a significant portion of APD funding to other community programs. Some council members have said they support reallocating about 24 percent — or $100M — of the department’s more than $400M budget,” the station reported.
“For me this is not taking away anything from anybody. This is about right-sizing our response to a public health, a mental health, a housing crisis,” Austin Mayor Pro Tem Delia Garza said.
Whoever first coined “right-sizing” as a cheerful euphemism for layoffs or cuts, I hope you’re happy with yourself and what you’ve wrought. This is defunding, no matter how many smiley-face emojis you want to put after it.
Anyhow, so far, so Seattle. But once the stone gets rolling, it becomes difficult to stop it. According to the Austin American-Statesman, on July 27, several city council members floated ideas to further disempower police — even as the crime spike continued apace.
“[Council Member Greg] Casar suggested three amendments to the city’s proposed budget that would remove internal affairs and forensics from the Police Department and shift money from previously scheduled police cadet classes to programs that prevent violence and other harm in the city,” the Statesman reported. “Such programs could include family violence shelters, homeless services, and housing and mental health care, among others.”
“These three initial amendments alone would have a $40 million impact — and combined with amendments proposed by my colleagues and future amendments from me — we can reach an over $100 million change in the police budget toward progressive change,” Casar told his constituents in an email.
Council Member Leslie Pool, meanwhile, floated the idea that $41.5 million could be saved by not filling unfilled positions in the Austin Police Department ranks as well as canceling that year’s cadet class.
Finally, there was Council Member Jimmy Flannigan. I want you to pay special attention to how the newspaper described his proposals before we go into how he described his proposals.
“Flannigan proposed a plan to reconstruct police operations into separate departments with independent department heads and civilian executive leadership in the city manager’s office,” the American-Statesman reported.
“His second proposal was to move Austin police headquarters out of its downtown building and into other city space that is underutilized. Flannigan said the building could be used to address historical economic inequities in Austin’s Black community.”
The paper described his first proposal accurately: It’s not worth going into the particular details of it here, but he would “shift more than $90 million from under the control of sworn leadership to civilian leadership and allow for each department to have separate metrics and oversight, thereby creating a way to shift organizational culture and drive outcomes.”
It’s the characterization of the second proposal that misses a key part: “The building that houses APD HQ and formerly housed the Municipal Court has long been known to be beyond the end of it’s useful life. We should expedite the demolition of the APD Headquarters by directing the City Manager to move all remaining APD staff out of the existing headquarters building and into other underutilized city facilities.” [Emphasis mine.]
So no, the building would not be used “to address historical economic inequities in Austin’s Black community.” It’d be demolished and the police department would be shifted into “other underutilized city facilities.”
Where these facilities are, whether they would allow the police to keep in logistical contact with each other and how this would help address those inequalities — not addressed. Also unaddressed: Whether or not a renovation of the building might be more sensible, or how much it would cost to demolish.
None of these are proposals as of yet, mind you. They are, however, ideas that members of the Austin City Council were willing to float in a public forum as murders have spiked 64 percent year-over-year in their city.
If one is to glimpse the macro of the left’s movement to defund and restructure police inside the micro Austin’s example, we should be genuinely horrified.
These aren’t proposals a city should be considering when crime is down. When murders have skyrocketed 64 percent and these are Austin’s solutions, it’s impossible to take this seriously.
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westernjournal--2020-08-11--New Book: Trump’s the 1st GOP President Since Nixon To Court Black Voters & They’ll Re-Elect Him

Ed .
Note : The following Op-Ed is an excerpt from “ Coming Home : How Black Americans Will Re-Elect Trump ” by Vernon Robinson and Bruce Eberle , reprinted by permission of Humanix Books .
The original style and structure of the text have been preserved .
When Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower on June 16 , 2015 , and announced that he was a candidate for president of the United States , the authors of this book were not only skeptical but dismissive .
We were both heavily involved in a super PAC supporting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was running ahead of every other candidate , and we certainly did not see Donald Trump as a threat to him .
We could not have been more wrong .
Trump quickly shot to the top of the polls and stayed there until he won the Republican nomination for president at the Cleveland convention of the GOP .
Even after Trump was the Republican nominee for president we were not enthralled .
We were both certain that he was not a conservative and that with his past record of being a Democrat , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ best a moderate Republican in the mold of Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush—a president without a governing philosophy who would be on the left on one topic , be on the right on another topic , and mostly muddle in the middle .
Nevertheless , we voted for Trump and worked for Trump because we knew he would be better than Hillary Clinton .
We knew that if Hillary packed the Supreme Court with liberal jurists , the U.S. Constitution would quickly become meaningless and the rights of all Americans , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In short , we worked for and voted for Donald Trump because we saw him as the lesser of two evils .
We were wrong about Donald Trump again .
Once elected , he not only picked members of the federal judiciary , including the Supreme Court , from a list put together by the Federalist Society , he also put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of this transition team , which was packed with folks from the Heritage Foundation .
Also , his foreign policy turned out to be more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than with the military adventurism of George W. Bush .
Unlike any other Republican president before him , Trump insisted that our allies in Europe start paying more of the cost of maintaining their defense through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) .
As his administration took charge , he cut taxes , he slashed regulations , he ended the Obamacare personal mandate and put that albatross of a program on life support , and he has done more than any president since Eisenhower to secure our southern border .
TRENDING @ @ @ @ @ @ @ War Exercise , Utterly Humiliates Itself Instead Although some Never Trumpers on the right didn ’ t support the president and still don ’ t , the overwhelming majority of conservatives are now fully behind his economic , domestic , and foreign policies .
In fact , today the number of conservatives who do not support Donald Trump is so small as to be politically insignificant .
Their argument that Donald Trump is not a philosophical conservative may be true , but according to Tommy Binion , who is responsible for the advocacy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ At the end of 2017 , we reviewed all 334 recommendations presented in our ‘ Mandate for Leadership ’ series and found that the Trump administration had embraced fully 64 percent of them .
That ’ s nearly two out of three—and that ’ s very good indeed.
” Exactly how good is Trump ’ s performance according to the Heritage Foundation ?
Kay Coles James , Heritage ’ s president , said in a speech that in eight years Ronald Reagan was able to fulfill less than 50 percent of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Leadership book prepared for the Reagan administration .
Of course , Reagan often faced a hostile Congress , whereas Donald Trump had a somewhat supportive Republican Congress during the first two years of his administration .
There ’ s no doubt that today ’ s Republican Party is Donald Trump ’ s Republican Party , and to a greater or lesser extent he is the leader of today ’ s conservative movement .
To put it another way , “ there ’ s no longer any doubt that the conservative movement has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him with a fiercely loyal base of support as he prepares for a 2020 re-election campaign.
” On many fronts , Donald Trump has followed historical conservative positions , reducing the power of government by eliminating more than 30,000 pages of regulations , creating a booming economy by reducing taxes , dramatically rebuilding our military power , pursuing a foreign policy of peace through strength , exiting the dreadful Paris accords ( the climate change agreement ) , getting America out of the ill-conceived Iran deal orchestrated by President Obama , and enabling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by encouraging energy production and the building of pipelines .
But on other fronts , Trump has undertaken policies heretofore not espoused by traditional conservatives and establishment Republicans , such as asserting strong pressure on NATO nations to pay their fair share for their own defense ; working hard to protect Americans by building a wall on our southern border ; advocating for immigration reform based on merit ; using tariffs to negotiate better trade deals with China , Mexico , and other nations ; and advocating for infrastructure rebuilding .
Slowly but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new policies , understanding that our European allies are not paying their fair share to defend themselves , that we need a secure southern border , and that America does require an influx of legal immigrants who bring something to our nation .
However , too many members of the Republican establishment continue to resist Trump ’ s commonsense policies .
Globalist Republicans fight against border security because they rely on money from the Chamber of Commerce and its members who want the cheap labor that is available when our borders are open @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a member in good standing of the Washington , D.C. , swamp that Donald Trump is trying to drain .
Ironically , the truth is that when it comes to free trade , it is clear that Donald Trump is actually doing more to achieve free and fair trade by using tariffs to create a level trading field than traditional conservatives and establishment Republicans have ever done .
There is one more thing that has the Republican establishment up in arms , and that is the effort by Trump to end the military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presidents .
Failed nation-building schemes have cost American taxpayers trillions of dollars and have not brought the world any closer to peace .
Donald Trump is a realist and knows that the United States can not be the policeman to the world or spread democracy across the globe .
And although Republican politicians succumb to political correctness , Donald Trump has taken this abridgement of free speech head on .
Whereas previous Republican and Democrat presidents pledged to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem , Trump actually did it to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , members of the Washington , D.C. , swamp .
Inheriting a military quagmire in the Middle East , Trump ignored the big brass at the Pentagon and talked directly to the field generals and the sergeants fighting on the ground in Iraq .
As a result , the gloves were taken off our fighting men and women , making it possible for the United States to destroy ISIS in a matter of months instead of years .
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He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ point in recorded history , and his policies have made it possible for black-owned businesses to increase by 400 percent in just one year .
In the Oval Office and across the nation , President Trump has gone on the ground to see what needs to be done to help black Americans in poverty climb America ’ s amazing economic ladder of success .
He is determined to restore the strong bond that Republicans had with black Americans before the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt .
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And as a by-product of black economic success and the actions he has taken , Trump is convinced that black voters will rally to him in 2020 .
He is not satisfied with winning just a few votes from these fellow Americans ; President Trump wants to win a majority of the black vote .
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As a result of his economic policies , nearly 6 million Americans have been able to get off food stamp dependency .
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In his entire business career , he has been a disrupter , someone who shakes things up and gets things done .
He appealed to Democratic blue-collar workers because he wanted to bring manufacturing jobs back to America , and he has .
He appealed to evangelical Christians because he promised to defend Christianity and Christians , and he has .
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Trump received strong military and veteran support because he promised to rebuild America ’ s military and clear up the mess in VA hospitals .
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Donald Trump may not be a philosophical conservative , but clearly he has wonderful conservative instincts along with a populist perspective that is not dissimilar to that of the late Jack Kemp .
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He rejects the foolish idea that diversity is the strength of America and understands that assimilation and unity are the strength of America .
There ’ s no doubt that Donald Trump has achieved great success as president in his first term , rebuilding the economy , taking concrete steps to lift the poor out of poverty , restoring respect for America around the globe , appointing judges dedicated to the Constitution , and standing up to attacks on Christianity .
But who is Donald Trump the man ?
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He is bold and strong and at times painfully candid , even abrasive .
But what are his values ?
What does he believe in ?
The best explanation of the values of Donald Trump is found in the book by David Brody and Scott Lamb , The Faith of Donald J. Trump .
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One takeaway from their book is that Trump is a 1950s man , or as Victor Davis Hansen put it , “ Trump seemed a Rip Van Winkle .
He was waking up from a 1950s slumber into an unrecognizable culture.
” What does it mean to be a 1950s man ?
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Donald Trump believes in and respects the police and the military .
He may not be a conservative , but he is a proud American through and through .
He works hard , and he treats people with respect .
Those who work for him and work with him clearly like him .
In business he greatly values talent and doesn ’ t care if the person is male or female , black , white , Asian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump organization , he even received praise from Jesse Jackson for being a leader in race relations and opportunity for black Americans .
There are hardworking , talented men and women , black and white , throughout the Trump organization and at all levels of leadership .
He also is strongly influenced by the evangelical Christians with whom he meets regularly in the White House .
Donald Trump comes to his views via patriotism and common sense .
That ’ s why he is today the de facto leader of the Republican Party @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good because he knows how to win and bad because whatever baggage the conservative movement carries is automatically associated with him .
Therein lies a problem because those in the conservative movement do carry baggage when it comes to their history with black Americans , specifically their inaction during the days of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s .
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Ed. Note: The following Op-Ed is an excerpt from “Coming Home: How Black Americans Will Re-Elect Trump” by Vernon Robinson and Bruce Eberle, reprinted by permission of Humanix Books. The original style and structure of the text have been preserved.
When Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, and announced that he was a candidate for president of the United States, the authors of this book were not only skeptical but dismissive. We were both heavily involved in a super PAC supporting Ben Carson for president. Dr. Carson was running ahead of every other candidate, and we certainly did not see Donald Trump as a threat to him. We could not have been more wrong. Trump quickly shot to the top of the polls and stayed there until he won the Republican nomination for president at the Cleveland convention of the GOP.
Even after Trump was the Republican nominee for president we were not enthralled. We were both certain that he was not a conservative and that with his past record of being a Democrat, if elected, he would be at best a moderate Republican in the mold of Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush—a president without a governing philosophy who would be on the left on one topic, be on the right on another topic, and mostly muddle in the middle. Nevertheless, we voted for Trump and worked for Trump because we knew he would be better than Hillary Clinton. We knew that if Hillary packed the Supreme Court with liberal jurists, the U.S. Constitution would quickly become meaningless and the rights of all Americans, especially God-fearing Americans, would be circumscribed. In short, we worked for and voted for Donald Trump because we saw him as the lesser of two evils.
We were wrong about Donald Trump again. Once elected, he not only picked members of the federal judiciary, including the Supreme Court, from a list put together by the Federalist Society, he also put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of this transition team, which was packed with folks from the Heritage Foundation. Also, his foreign policy turned out to be more in line with conservative icon Robert Taft than with the military adventurism of George W. Bush.
Unlike any other Republican president before him, Trump insisted that our allies in Europe start paying more of the cost of maintaining their defense through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). As his administration took charge, he cut taxes, he slashed regulations, he ended the Obamacare personal mandate and put that albatross of a program on life support, and he has done more than any president since Eisenhower to secure our southern border.
Although some Never Trumpers on the right didn’t support the president and still don’t, the overwhelming majority of conservatives are now fully behind his economic, domestic, and foreign policies. In fact, today the number of conservatives who do not support Donald Trump is so small as to be politically insignificant. Their argument that Donald Trump is not a philosophical conservative may be true, but according to Tommy Binion, who is responsible for the advocacy of policies set forth by Heritage Foundation, “At the end of 2017, we reviewed all 334 recommendations presented in our ‘Mandate for Leadership’ series and found that the Trump administration had embraced fully 64 percent of them. That’s nearly two out of three—and that’s very good indeed.” Exactly how good is Trump’s performance according to the Heritage Foundation? Kay Coles James, Heritage’s president, said in a speech that in eight years Ronald Reagan was able to fulfill less than 50 percent of the goals set forth in the Mandate for Leadership book prepared for the Reagan administration. Of course, Reagan often faced a hostile Congress, whereas Donald Trump had a somewhat supportive Republican Congress during the first two years of his administration.
There’s no doubt that today’s Republican Party is Donald Trump’s Republican Party, and to a greater or lesser extent he is the leader of today’s conservative movement. To put it another way, “there’s no longer any doubt that the conservative movement has been redefined by President Trump, leaving him with a fiercely loyal base of support as he prepares for a 2020 re-election campaign.” On many fronts, Donald Trump has followed historical conservative positions, reducing the power of government by eliminating more than 30,000 pages of regulations, creating a booming economy by reducing taxes, dramatically rebuilding our military power, pursuing a foreign policy of peace through strength, exiting the dreadful Paris accords (the climate change agreement), getting America out of the ill-conceived Iran deal orchestrated by President Obama, and enabling the United States to achieve energy independence by encouraging energy production and the building of pipelines.
But on other fronts, Trump has undertaken policies heretofore not espoused by traditional conservatives and establishment Republicans, such as asserting strong pressure on NATO nations to pay their fair share for their own defense; working hard to protect Americans by building a wall on our southern border; advocating for immigration reform based on merit; using tariffs to negotiate better trade deals with China, Mexico, and other nations; and advocating for infrastructure rebuilding. Slowly but surely, conservatives are moving toward these new policies, understanding that our European allies are not paying their fair share to defend themselves, that we need a secure southern border, and that America does require an influx of legal immigrants who bring something to our nation. However, too many members of the Republican establishment continue to resist Trump’s commonsense policies. Globalist Republicans fight against border security because they rely on money from the Chamber of Commerce and its members who want the cheap labor that is available when our borders are open. This old guard Republican establishment is a member in good standing of the Washington, D.C., swamp that Donald Trump is trying to drain. Ironically, the truth is that when it comes to free trade, it is clear that Donald Trump is actually doing more to achieve free and fair trade by using tariffs to create a level trading field than traditional conservatives and establishment Republicans have ever done.
There is one more thing that has the Republican establishment up in arms, and that is the effort by Trump to end the military adventurism of previous presidents, including Republican presidents. Failed nation-building schemes have cost American taxpayers trillions of dollars and have not brought the world any closer to peace. Donald Trump is a realist and knows that the United States cannot be the policeman to the world or spread democracy across the globe. And although Republican politicians succumb to political correctness, Donald Trump has taken this abridgement of free speech head on. Whereas previous Republican and Democrat presidents pledged to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Trump actually did it to the chagrin of many, if not most, members of the Washington, D.C., swamp.
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Inheriting a military quagmire in the Middle East, Trump ignored the big brass at the Pentagon and talked directly to the field generals and the sergeants fighting on the ground in Iraq. As a result, the gloves were taken off our fighting men and women, making it possible for the United States to destroy ISIS in a matter of months instead of years. His years of experience building a multi-billion-dollar corporation have taught him to bypass those at the top and speak directly with the men and women on the ground who really know what is going on. No wonder he is known as the “blue collar billionaire.”
Whereas other presidents have taken action only after years of deliberation and political calculation, Donald Trump has a bias for action. That has made it possible to rebuild our military by pumping an additional $160 billion into the Pentagon budget. His economic policies have resulted in 5.3 million new jobs, 491,000 of which are manufacturing jobs, jobs that former president Barack Obama said “aren’t coming back.” In fact, according to a Barron’s Market Watch headline, “Manufacturing jobs [are] growing at fastest rate in 23 years.” That’s “more than six times the 73,000 manufacturing jobs added in Obama’s last two years.”
Whereas previous Republican presidents have virtually ignored the real needs of black Americans or parroted the failed policies of the Democrats, who offer a handout instead of a hand up, Donald Trump has become a champion of black Americans. He has brought black unemployment to the lowest point in recorded history, and his policies have made it possible for black-owned businesses to increase by 400 percent in just one year. In the Oval Office and across the nation, President Trump has gone on the ground to see what needs to be done to help black Americans in poverty climb America’s amazing economic ladder of success. He is determined to restore the strong bond that Republicans had with black Americans before the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Donald Trump believes that black economic success is crucial if America is to achieve racial harmony that benefits both races. And as a by-product of black economic success and the actions he has taken, Trump is convinced that black voters will rally to him in 2020. He is not satisfied with winning just a few votes from these fellow Americans; President Trump wants to win a majority of the black vote. That’s unlikely to happen in 2020, but already, through Trump’s direct, candid approach, black Americans are taking a serious second look at him and his policies. Even as the Democrats falsely accuse him of being a racist, Trump has begun the long overdue effort to reestablish trust with the black American community. As a result of his economic policies, nearly 6 million Americans have been able to get off food stamp dependency.
To put it bluntly, most Republican presidents since but not including Richard Nixon have simply ignored the black community. It’s not that their policies weren’t helpful to the black community, it’s just that they were told by inside-the-Beltway political consultants in Washington, D.C., that their best course of action was to stay quiet and ignore black Americans, especially in an election year. They were told that appealing to black voters would only increase the black turnout and thus aid the Democrats more than the Republicans.
But Donald Trump didn’t come from Washington, D.C. He didn’t want to become a Washington, D.C., insider; he wanted to change the way things are done inside the Beltway. In his entire business career, he has been a disrupter, someone who shakes things up and gets things done. He appealed to Democratic blue-collar workers because he wanted to bring manufacturing jobs back to America, and he has. He appealed to evangelical Christians because he promised to defend Christianity and Christians, and he has. And because he appealed directly to black Americans, they supported him more strongly in key swing states than they supported any Republican candidate in the last 50 years. Trump received strong support from small business owners because he understood their challenges and promised to address them. He did. Trump received strong military and veteran support because he promised to rebuild America’s military and clear up the mess in VA hospitals. He did both. And because Trump promised to restore prosperity, he received stronger support from Hispanic Americans than did Mitt Romney four years earlier, receiving 29 percent of the Hispanic vote, and recent polls indicate that if the election were held now, he would receive 49 percent of the Hispanic vote. He is especially popular with Hispanics who fled socialist dictatorships in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
Donald Trump may not be a philosophical conservative, but clearly he has wonderful conservative instincts along with a populist perspective that is not dissimilar to that of the late Jack Kemp. We are not, of course, suggesting that Trump has the same temperament as Kemp, but Trump’s strong desire to be the president of every American regardless of race, religion, ethnic background, or any other trait has made him popular with all races and ethnic groups. He rejects the foolish idea that diversity is the strength of America and understands that assimilation and unity are the strength of America.
There’s no doubt that Donald Trump has achieved great success as president in his first term, rebuilding the economy, taking concrete steps to lift the poor out of poverty, restoring respect for America around the globe, appointing judges dedicated to the Constitution, and standing up to attacks on Christianity. But who is Donald Trump the man? Yes, he is a serial exaggerator, as Brit Hume put it. He is bold and strong and at times painfully candid, even abrasive. But what are his values? What does he believe in?
The best explanation of the values of Donald Trump is found in the book by David Brody and Scott Lamb, The Faith of Donald J. Trump. Brody and Lamb extensively researched the Trump family, tracing its history back into Germany, the home of the Trumps, and back to the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, where Donald’s mother came from. They also examine the faith of Donald Trump, his values, and his work ethic. One takeaway from their book is that Trump is a 1950s man, or as Victor Davis Hanson put it, “Trump seemed a Rip Van Winkle. He was waking up from a 1950s slumber into an unrecognizable culture.” What does it mean to be a 1950s man? Simply put, it means that Donald Trump is an old-fashioned patriot who loves America, loves all Americans, and reveres the Founders of America. He cares about people, and when it comes to race, he is as color-blind as a human can be. Donald Trump believes in and respects the police and the military. He may not be a conservative, but he is a proud American through and through. He works hard, and he treats people with respect. Those who work for him and work with him clearly like him. In business he greatly values talent and doesn’t care if the person is male or female, black, white, Asian, or Hispanic. While running the Trump organization, he even received praise from Jesse Jackson for being a leader in race relations and opportunity for black Americans. There are hardworking, talented men and women, black and white, throughout the Trump organization and at all levels of leadership. He also is strongly influenced by the evangelical Christians with whom he meets regularly in the White House.
Donald Trump comes to his views via patriotism and common sense. That’s why he is today the de facto leader of the Republican Party and the conservative movement. That is good because he knows how to win and bad because whatever baggage the conservative movement carries is automatically associated with him. Therein lies a problem because those in the conservative movement do carry baggage when it comes to their history with black Americans, specifically their inaction during the days of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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