Timothy Birdnow

Some thoughts on the shooting of Ralph Yarl, the 16 year old black kid shot by a white man on the porch of the man's house in Kansas City.

First, the media keeps stressing Yarl's age. We've heard this tune before. They did it with Trayvon Martin, and they did it with Mike Brown. In both cases these were not just little kids but rather powerful men. The media is showing photos of Yarl that I suspect are probably a couple of years old and make him look younger than he probably looked to Andrew Lester, the 84 year old shooter. They did this with Martin in particular when "Whie Hispanic" George Zimmerman shot him while Martin was bashing his head against the ground. But the media presented a middle school photo of a cute kid, not the threatening thug that up-to-date photos suggested.

Second, how, pray tell, did this kid get the wrong house? Young people are usually really good at that. But this guy was not just on the porch knocking but was trying to open the door, from what I gather. To an elderly man that would be very frightening.

It makes me rather suspicious, to put it mildly.

Remember, almost all the information feeding these media accounts are coming from the boy's family and their attnorny, the race hustler Benjamin Crump. When Crump is involved you can bet you aren't getting a true picture of what happened. He's goes around the country finding cases like this to gin up racial hatred.

(If there was ever a guy who should be investigated it's Crump. I suspect he has all sorts of skeletons in his closet..)

The police were slow to press charges. Now why do you suppose that was? This while there were protests trying to force their hand.

No, the Kansas City Police are hardly a hotbed of racism.

Crump had the unmitigated gall to say this:

"Gun violence against unarmed Black individuals must stop. Our children should feel safe, not as though they are being hunted. "

???!!!

Now young black kids get shot every day and live in horribly unsafe environments, in Chicago, in St. Louis, in Kansas City, in L.A. and Baltimore and in a host of other Democrat-controlled cities. Crump says nothing about any of those. He cares nary a wit about the black kids killed by stray bullets in these towns, or those murdered for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But he's outraged at an elderly white man shooting a black man who was trying to get into his house.

It was observed to me that the man was too old to have a gun. I countered that at his age he NEEDED a gun, more than ever, because he physically couldn't defend himself. A gun is the great equalizer.

I would add that no doubt this man moved into what had once been a safe neighborhood but was probably now getting dangerous, and he was skittish.

And so here a black kid, who may have looked much more ominous at the time, starts trying to get in his door and Mr. Crump says the kid is the one being hunted?  What about elderly white men just trying to be left alone being hunted?

This kid ran away so Mr. Lester couldn't drag him into the house and claim the protections of castle doctrine. Missouri has that.

I smell a rat with this story. There were a number of black-on-white racial assaults in the last few days and suddenly we have this story break.

For example, we had a video surface of a mob attacking a terrified woman in downtown Chicago. I'm sorry but black violence is real, and a white man living alone in a working class neighborhood has reason to worry.

In a "Bonfire of the Vanities" style the AP described Yarl as an honor student (anyone who has ever read the story, or seen the movie, knows this is what they did with the kid who was hit and killed; he didn't cause trouble so he soon became an "honor student" in the media.) 

This is the kicker here:

"When asked why attempted murder or hate crime charges weren't pursued against Lester, Thompson said his office chose the charges that held highest level of possible prison time for the shooter."

So being frightened is now a hate crime? 

I guess any time you hurt a black person, even when they may well be getting ready to hurt you, you are guilty of a hate crime if you are white.

A writer named Colin Flaherty has written several excellent books about black-on-white crime, including "white girls bleed a lot" (a title gleened from an actual statement from a thug) and "Don't Make the Black Kids Angry". Flaherty has kept a database of black-on-white crimes over the years, crimes which get little or no media attention.

Ben Shapiro goes through a bit of this here.

The fact is we are moving into the political season and the Democrats need black anger to prevent them from voting for Donald Trump or some other Republican. So they are going to look for any and every incident they can gin up to enrage the black community and make them fear they are "being hunted". It is they doing the hunting though.

This story stinks to high heaven, in my opinion.

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