WASHINGTON, DC –The amount of gaffes that current Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden makes is astounding. His latest one happened during a televised interview with CBS News in which he called for the arrest of Breonna Taylor, a woman who was shot and killed by police who were returning fire after her boyfriend shot a police officer.
When asked the question as to whether or not he believed that the officer who fired on Jacob Blake in Kenosha (who admitted he was armed with a knife) and the officers involved in the Taylor shooting should be charged, he responded:
“I think we should let the judicial system work its way. I do think there’s a minimum need to be charged for the officers, and as well as Breonna Taylor. And I might add by the way, I think what happened in uh, in uh, Portland.
“Where one of the Trump guys riding along in vans inciting response is shooting rubber bullets I guess, or paint balls, apparently there was someone shot by someone in the crowd.”
Biden continued:
“With a bullet. Killed. I think that person should meet the legal requirements of whatever that calls for. It should be investigated and it should follow through on what needs to be done. Let the judicial system work. Let’s make sure justice is done.”
Biden says he thinks the officers involved in the shootings of Jacob Blake and Breonna Taylor should be charged: “Let’s make sure justice is done” https://t.co/YXQ3DPZd42 pic.twitter.com/nesJDB5Tkf
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 2, 2020
Now, while it is entirely unclear, just by listening to Biden, what exactly he was trying to communicate, but we can probably figure it out.
What Biden probably meant to say is that he believes that Louisville Metropolitan Police Officers involved in the shooting death of Taylor need to be charged criminally. That incident stemmed from a no knock search warrant, which was authorized by a judge, and was executed on March 13th.
The search warrant was connected to alleged drug shipments that Taylor had been receiving at her residence for her ex-boyfriend. Officers allege that they knocked and identified themselves several times prior to entry, even though they were not required to.
After there was no answer at the door, officers breached the doorway and were fired upon by Taylor’s boyfriend. During the initial gunfire, one of the officers was shot and fell to the ground. The other officers returned fire tragically striking Taylor who was standing next to her boyfriend.
Regarding the shooting of Jacob Blake, that incident occurred in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Officers were attempting to take Blake into custody either from the reported domestic situation they were called to deal with by his girlfriend, or the open warrants he had for his arrest.
The warrants for Blake stemmed from a rape report in which a friend of his alleged that he had illegally entered into her home, raped her, and then stole her credit card and other items.
When Kenosha Police contacted Blake, they attempted to take him into custody and he physically fought with officers. One of the officers on scene deployed a Taser which had no effect on him and he got up and walked to his vehicle.
Witnesses advise they heard the officers, who had him at gun point, yell several times for him to stop and drop a knife. Blake refused and walked and opened the driver’s door of an SUV as an officer tries to stop him by grabbing his shirt.
Blake then enters into the vehicle and reaches toward his floorboard when an officer opens fire, striking Blake in the back several times. According to the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Blake admitted to investigators that he was armed with a knife.
Now, if Blake was armed with a knife, the initial shooting itself may well be deemed justified. However, the seven shots that were fired will be closely looked at to see if they were necessary or not.
Regardless of whether or not the law enforcement officers will be arrested in either incident, the important question is why any political candidate would weigh in on something like that until investigations are complete? Now, there is good video of the Blake shooting, and as President Trump put it, it certainly does not look good. But a prudent person would wait on facts instead of just jumping to conclusions.
Presidential candidate Biden to meet with avowed anti-Semite in Kenosha (Op-ed)
The following editorial is written by a retired police officer and current staff writer for Law Enforcement Today
KENOSHA, WI- Hidin’ Biden might want to rethink this one. On Thursday, September 3rd, Biden continues his “escape from the basement” tour, this time going to Kenosha, Wisconsin to meet with the Jacob Blake Sr.
Biden’s visit comes on the heels of President Trump’s trip to the city to view the damage caused by looters and rioters last week. Given some of Blake’s anti-Semitic Facebook posts, old sleepy Joe may want to reconsider.
Back to Biden. The Hill reported that a campaign spokesman had confirmed Biden’s visit to meet with Blake Sr. President Trump declined to meet with the Blake family after they made a request that a family attorney be present during their conversation.
The president told reporters ahead of his visit on Monday:
“I spoke with the pastor, wonderful man, the family’s pastor. I thought it would be better not to do anything where there are lawyers involved,
“They wanted me to speak but they wanted to have lawyers involved, and I thought that was inappropriate, so I didn’t do that,” the president said. “I may at some point do that, but they did have a lawyer that wanted to be on the phone, and I said, ‘No that’s inappropriate,’ but I just gave my best regards.”
Suddenly, Biden and the rest of the Democrats are acknowledging the violence that they denied existed for three months, as their poll numbers started taking a beating. Funny how that works. Ironically, Biden and the Democrats are now blaming President Trump for the violence that they refused to acknowledge during the four days of their national convention last month.
Now, Biden’s handlers might want to take a closer look at Jacob Blake Sr. A trip through his Facebook account, which appears to be public, shows us a couple of things about Jacob Blake Sr.
First of all, he hates white people. His Facebook pages are filled with his railing against anyone who is a lighter skin tone than he is. He also sees racism everywhere, except apparently within himself.
Secondly, he is a Trump hater. Once again, post after post in his news feed shows that he is a chronic sufferer of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
A post from 2019 from a page called “Occupy Democrats” for example, criticized the president for congratulating Nick Bosa, a Trump supporter in the 2019 NFL draft. Bosa was selected number two, while Kyler Murray, an African American was selected first.
Of course, liberals see racism everywhere, so it was assumed that this was a racial issue when it simply was a matter of Bosa being a supporter of the president, as reported by the Washington Examiner.
The same picture implied that President Trump did not present the award for “Teacher of the Year,” also in 2019. Once again, that was incorrect. The president invited all of the award winners to the White House, including National Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson, who said that the president congratulated him on winning the award.
Robinson, who teaches at a school inside a juvenile detention center in Richmond, Va., said:
“He was happy that I was giving the kids a second chance,”
Blake Sr. is also what appears to be a voracious anti-Semite. There are numerous posts on his page that are blatantly anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic. We are not sure who vets visits like this for Biden, but clearly this is a bad decision meeting with Blake.
The following tweet captured a number of Blake’s Facebook posts.
Some FB posts by Jacob Blake, the guy @JoeBiden is planning to meet with.
He’s a vicious antisemite.
If the investigation finds that his son’s shooting was unjustified those responsible should be held accountable, but there is no excuse for Biden to meet with a Jew hater. pic.twitter.com/5aoRZuftqc
— Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) September 2, 2020
One post on his page said:
“I’m with Farrakhan 100%” Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is a blatant, well-established anti-Semite.
Let’s look at some other posts:
“The Jewish media picks and chooses who is a terrorists (sic) and who is not”
Blake Facebook Screenshot Jewish Media
Another:
“The same pink toe Jewish people that control the interest rate control the media they control Minds and money.”
Jacob Blake Facebook screenclip Pink Toe media
Again:
“The first Jews where (sic) brown not pink damnit (sic)”
First Jews Were Brown Jacob Blake Facebook
“Jews are not special they’re just like everybody else”
Jacob Blake Facebook
“White Jews want you to believe there are no brown Jews”
Jacob Blake Sr Facebook
Then, a meme:
“Abraham, the “founder of Judaism” wasn’t even born until around 1675 BCE.
Jacob Blake Sr Facebook
That’s 900 years after these pyramids were built. How could they possibly have been built by the Hebrew slaves?”
In yet another post, Blake Sr. inferred that prior to the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh which occurred in October, 2018, he intimated that they had been warned, and compared it to a shooting in Kentucky:
Jacob Blake Sr. Facebook Screenshot
Anti-Christian? Yup, we have that too…
Jacob Blake Sr. Facebook Screenshot
Finally, Blake Sr. criticized young African Americans who attended a Young Black Leaders Summit at the White House in 2018, referring to them as “young black coons.”
Jacob Blake Sr. Facebook Screenshot
Understanding that some are understandably suspicious of “posts,” below are links to the actual posts:
Some links to his vile Facebook posts.https://t.co/wGcSiQNSv1https://t.co/pf9hpBbIwyhttps://t.co/UH68gXCBOdhttps://t.co/mk7bXG6A9ahttps://t.co/D1y6nJBFuPhttps://t.co/CZQq5uOUPOhttps://t.co/Dttg2TSKCrhttps://t.co/iSfHN1S3iuhttps://t.co/1AsBBN3lMl
— Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) September 2, 2020
As if the above wasn’t bad enough, Breitbart News uncovered one of Blake Sr.’s Instagram posts, where he posted a video about the September 11, 2001 terror attacks: “Man, I give a fuck about 9/11.”
Biden followed in the footsteps of his mentor, Barack Obama in jumping to conclusions about the criminal case. He echoed the call of anti-police activists to charge the officer who shot Blake’s son, even though an investigation has yet to be fully completed.
Biden told reporters:
“I think we should let the judicial system work its way,”
while adding that:
“at a minimum,” the officer in the case should “be charged.”
According to a campaign press release, while he’s in Kenosha, Biden also plans to:
“hold a community meeting in Kenosha to bring together Americans to heal and address the challenges we face,”
That is, if Biden is awake long enough to do so.
In the meantime, given Blake Sr’s clear anti-Semitic point of view, Biden should maybe reconsider meeting with him. That might not play well with the Jewish community.
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