Nationwide George Floyd riots are the price of liberalism: Devine – New York Post
The tragedy of the riots sparked by George Floyds death was brought home by a distraught elderly black woman interviewed by the local ABC affiliate in her ruined south Minneapolis neighborhood.
These people did this for no reason, wept Stephanie Wilford, who lives in an apartment next to where shops were looted and burned Friday night. They went straight to . . . every store over here that I go to. I have nowhere to go now and I have no way to get there because the buses arent running.
The violence is not going to bring George back. George is in a better place than we are. Im going to be honest, I wish I was where George was.
But liberal agitators dont care about Stephanie and the poor urban communities that have been destroyed in the four-day orgy of self-congratulatory violence they sanctioned.
They are too busy dreaming up fantasy scapegoats.
Videos abound on social media of shadowy figures, dressed in black, systematically smashing store windows, but not looting, cutting through fences outside police stations, but not pushing the fences over softening defenses for the rioters.
These are the domestic terrorists who have hijacked peaceful protests across the country. Attorney General Bill Barr described them in his Saturday press conference as outside radicals and agitators [who] are exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate and violent agenda.
In many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized, and driven by anarchistic and far-left extremists, using Antifa-like tactics.
This is why Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison pretends that the external agitators in Minneapolis riots were Trump-voting white supremacists, because the former DNC deputy chairman is one of those in his party who has normalized Antifa as a useful part of the political process.
See his Twitter feed of January 2018, when he posed for a selfie at a bookstore holding Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook and wrote: I just found the book that strikes fear in the heart of @realDonaldTrump.
No wonder he and the rest of Minnesotas Democratic leadership are trying to offload blame for their persistent policing failures.
Invariably, it is cities run by soft-on-crime Democrats where police forces betray the people they are supposed to protect.
The Minneapolis police force is the creature of a city that has had Democratic mayors for almost 50 years.
As former Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Fox News over the weekend, Dont elect progressive Democrats if you want to be safe.
All you need to know about Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is that he made the decision for police to evacuate the Third Precinct station, allowing it to be overrun by rioters and burned to the ground.
For four nights, criminals ransacked his city and terrorized its residents while the police were nowhere to be seen.
Instead of nipping the violence in the bud, Frey set a terrible precedent, allowing the contagion to spread across the country.
Brick and mortar is not as important as life, he blithely told a press conference Thursday night as the city burned.
Its just property, say liberals who have never known a life without plenty. But the property they dismiss so easily can be a lifes work, like the sports bar in Minneapolis into which Korboi Balla, a black firefighter, had poured his life savings. It was destroyed a few days before he was due to open this week.
Stores and businesses are a communitys lifeblood, and many will never come back, causing more misery for the most vulnerable.
In any case, the policing vacuum also unleashed terrible violence.
There are videos all over social media of mobs chasing defenseless people, knocking them unconscious and kicking them in the head as they lie on the ground. Looters punched a store owner in the head and beat her with planks of wood in front of her husband. A man reportedly trying to protect his store with a sword was beaten senseless.
Bad people exist. Thats why the vulnerable need police forces, which, for some perverse reason, progressives keep trying to disempower.
With five months left until the election, Democrats are trying to capitalize on mayhem and disharmony to make President Trump look bad.
But he is the avowed law-and-order president who vowed Saturday: My administration will stop mob violence, and well stop it cold.
Just as the 1968 riots led voters who were worried about social disorder to choose Richard Nixon as president, the 2020 riots are likely to play in Trumps favor.
Four NYPD cops were almost burned alive when a Molotov cocktail was thrown at their car over the weekend. Another officer was smashed in the face with a brick. On Saturday night alone, 33 cops were injured in pitched battles with anti-police protesters.
NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan described it as an organized attempt to attack police with bottles, bricks, Molotov cocktails and brass knuckles.
Considering the mortal danger they faced, the officers restraint was remarkable.
At one point, when two police SUVs were surrounded by protesters trying to block their passage, cops decided not to be sitting ducks for another Molotov and gingerly drove though the mob.
There were no reports of serious injuries, but that didnt stop Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from demanding the cops be brought to justice.
Unlike in Minneapolis, the NYPDs forceful action stopped the city from being ransacked and burned to the ground and probably saved lives.
But instead of thanking them, Gov. Andrew Cuomo slams their behavior as disturbing and wants to investigate them.
Shame.
It took a pandemic for the CNN audience to cotton to the fact that Chris Cuomo is a vainglorious chump.
Maybe it was the tone-deaf back-slapping routines with his brother, the luv gov, that did it, with nary a mention of all the nursing-home deaths that could have been avoided.
Or maybe it was his hypocrisy instructing viewers to wear masks while famously refusing to wear one himself when he actually was infected with COVID-19.
Either way, Fredo lost 50 percent of his audience in the last two months. Now they know; its unlikely theyll come back.
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Nationwide George Floyd riots are the price of liberalism: Devine - New York Post
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