by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:

Be careful what you wish for…. you might get it.

Minneapolis.  The predicate looks obvious; a black man with a white cop’s knee on the back of his neck.

For several minutes while other cops stand around and watch, doing nothing to intervene.  Which, incidentally, is an awful lot like what the video-taker did in Georgia (and got charged with Murder 2), right?

Floyd dies in an ambulance.

That looks like manslaughter or worse for every cop that was there.

Is it?

I’m not sure yet but on the publicly-visible evidence that’s what it looks like.  Was he dead when the EMTs got to him and attempted to assist?  We don’t know.  Was he tweaking and in fact died from a heart attack or similar?  We don’t know.  The cops say he was resisting arrest after trying to pass a bogus $20.  By what means was he resisting?  We don’t know.  Where did he get the $20, what was he trying to do with it, and was it in fact counterfeit? We don’t know.

The cops were not immediately arrested.  You or I would have been.  We might have been released later when the facts were developed, but we would have been detained and tossed in a cell instantly.  

They were not, despite being fired immediately.

Why not?

Is it that magical blue costume thing again and if so aren’t we long past the point where it should be revoked for good?

These questions are not out of the realm of reason.  Just the other day a dude in Panama City broke through the front door of a nearby residence.  He attacked the woman therein which prompted her husband to retrieve his gun and ventilate the assailant.  Subsequent to that event the short-term rented house where the assailant was staying prior to the assault (don’t you just loooove what the AirBNBs of the world do to the “vitality” of your neighborhood?) was raided and a number of other people were arrested — because in the residence was found a plethora of various illegal mind-altering drugs.  Oh, and apparently some of them were stoned too because child neglect charges were also filed, so it’s reasonable to assume at least one kid, who wasn’t being cared for, was there as well.

While it’s not yet known if the thug in Panama City was jacked up on one or more of those drugs it’s a pretty good bet that he was.

None of this mattered and none of it has been considered in Minneapolis, home of peace-and-Jew-hating Ilhan Omar, I remind you.  Target, the store, which had exactly nothing to do with the alleged assault on the dead black man nor whatever crime(s) he might have committed, was looted — along with a liquor store which also bore no responsibility on either side.  Arson figured prominently into the evening’s festivities as well, with structures burned.  Oh, and exactly zero of those folks were “social distancing” and they sure weren’t wearing masks to prevent Covid-19 in observance of said Governor’s orders, were they?  Nor were the cops so-equipped and following said orders!

Incidentally the cops did nothing to put down the riot.  Did you learn anything from that?  Such “bravery” all those thugs have when the numbers aren’t 3:1 or better in their favor.  If you didn’t learn anything from that (and it’s not the first time either) you’re not very bright.

Why didn’t the rioters go attack a police station — or City Hall?  After all it was the cops who committed the alleged offense at issue — and they work for the Executive.  We all know the reason, don’t we?  If you’re going to take what you consider to be justified anger out on someone, why not sack the cop shop, the homes of the cops, City Hall or the Mayor’s residence?  Isn’t it interesting that instead of taking retribution for what they perceived to be a “just insult” against the people responsible for the insult the mob decided that they all needed a new flat-screen TV, pair of sneakers and a bottle of booze to enjoy along with the other two?

(Update: Well well, last night they did sack a cop-shop…. that’s a first!)

That’s the general problem with mobs, you see, and always has been.

The lack of evidence never bothers a mob.

Nor is the action of a mob typically “retribution” or aimed at “justice” or even “mitigation”; when you boil it all down what you have is personal aggrandizement and profit, whether measured in the form of destroying something or stealing something.

Of course exactly nobody considers that often the mob is in fact a government.

Such as, for example, the acts of governments over the last three months or so.

Did THE GOVERNMENT MOB consult and compile “evidence” before closing schools, as just one example?  There’s no evidence that Finland’s reopening schools spread the virus faster.  Indeed there is plenty of evidence that schools, with this virus, are terrible (that is, very inefficient) vectors — kids with very-nearly no exceptions get sick at all contrary to ordinary influenza and they don’t appear to be very efficient at giving the bug to others either.  Never mind that from a public health perspective you want people to get the bug who won’t get actively sick since that helps suppress transmission between those who do get sick.  Doesn’t matter; we closed all the schools and colleges, and the CDC has in turn put forward “guidelines” for reopening public schools that will effectively turn them into prisons.  Not one district has stood up and told the CDC to blow goats even though we now know these are facts.

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