Not in raw numbers, but Austin’s homicide rate has increased about 64%. And that’s tops, says an analysis by the Wall Street Journal.
“Thanks to ‘defund the police’ and the Democrat cities going along with it, violent crime including homicide is surging in most of America’s largest cities. While the raw numbers are terrible for Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and other very large cities, it’s Austin, Texas, that’s leading by percentage-increase year over year.”
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Some toppled, some defaced, some beheaded. And multiple removals. Most Confederate, but also Christopher Columbus and a few anti-slavery abolitionists. All interesting to one degree or another.
Via Daily Signal
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Why is it that President Trump repeatedly calls the rioters “anarchists,” which may be true of Antifa but hardly defines Black Lives Matter? The mainly-white BLM are admitted Marxists (a scholarly cover name for communists) who are reported to often be the majority of the rioters, especially in Seattle and Portland.
The white AK-47 toter killed in Austin was said to be there for BLM. I suppose Trump, hoping for significant black support in November, doesn’t want to get into a fight with them because of their deceptive name. He may do so after he’s re-elected. Or perhaps they’ll just fade away. Or double down.
I like the pepper ball gun, which looks less like a weapon and more like a rolled up magazine. But all five are good alternatives. Especially the steel Shillelagh.
Not that I get out much but it couldn’t hurt to be prepared, especially in a town where the lib pols have defunded the police by $11 million.
Via Instapundit
For years now we’ve been hearing about how multiple federal agencies have SWAT-like forces for emergencies. This would seem to be one in Portland (after 50 days of escalating “protests”) and, indeed, feds are being dispatched, using tear-gas to disperse the mobs around the federal courthouse and making arrests.
Brilliant, really, on Trump’s part. Takes the onus off federalizing the guard and avoids the controversy that would come with sending in the active-duty army. Although local Dimocrat officials, who have preferred mob rule, are protesting, they aren’t being heard.
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And would be if several outspoken councilwomen (who are supposed to be independents but actually are Dimocrats) got their way. They wanted $100 million taken from the police budget. Instead, common sense (sorta) prevailed and the defund only amounted to $11 million—which still will strain the Austin cops who are 180 officers shy and now will stay that way.
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Protesters Spell Out ‘Love’ With Burning Homes And Businesses
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 