A report card on the Biden administration

The Republicans in Indiana have clamped on national coverage concerning Hole, but the local news continues to dig up information on him, although, days later, we still don't know a thing about Hole or his family, Nothing of a personal nature, that is.

The IndyStar reports, "The 19-year-old man who police say fatally shot eight people at a FedEx facility Thursday night had white supremacist websites on his computer when officers searched his home in March 2020, Indianapolis police said Monday night.

"An Indianapolis Metropolitan Police report from March 3, 2020 for a mental health check in which Brandon Scott Hole, the suspect in Thursday’s shooting, was detained for reportedly threatening to commit “suicide by cop” said an officer “observed what through his training and experience indicated" was white supremacist websites on the teen’s computer after police had confiscated a shotgun from the home."

A few months later Holt was able to legally purchase two AR-15 style assault rifles. He used both to kill eight people at the FedEx facility in Indianapolis.

No wonder Indiana Republicans are trying to shut this down as quickly as possible, which explains the absence of national coverage.

 

I beg to differ with the woman. The jury in Minneapolis ruled that Derek Chauvin was guilty on all counts.

Chauvin faces up to 40 years in prison for second-degree murder, up to 25 years for third-degree murder and up to 10 years for second-degree manslaughter.

Many experienced a great deal of satisfaction when they saw Chauvin stand up after the verdict was read, was handcuffed and led off to his jail cell.

You see, Peggy, there is justice and Blacks are safe in Minnesota.

 

Nothing from the Democrats on this forum. Of course, what Waters said was indefensible. Democrats in Congress are justifying her dangerous remarks by recalling the dangerous remarks by Republicans.

As if two wrongs make a right.

There is little doubt that Chauvin's lawyer is going to appeal, and he is going to use the comments made by the long serving Congresswoman from Los Angeles.

 

Report card?

NK and russia already more hostile towards US. We are less safe


Illegals pouring in, more drugs, we are less safe

crime up everywhere... more blacks getting killed than before.. police, even though they kill only 20 unarmed blacks a year, under siege yet blacks killing thousands of blacks a year, no problem. Criminals being given free pass to commit more crime

Energy jobs being killed

women being discriminated against in sports so transgender can feel like women..

Overt racism against whites, assault on founding principles that have made this country great. Yes, european principles mixed with immigrants have made this country great. Attacking what has made america great just because there have been some mistakes along the way, is ignorance at it’s peak

incompetent people being put in position of power just because of their gender, race

cancel culture run amok

push to take guns away from law abiding citizens but keep them in hands of criminals

So grade? F-

 

So are you grading Biden on his political appointments? Linda Greenfield is doing an awesome job of representing the U.S. at the U.N. right? I'm thinking about starting a poll, to sort of take bets or get predictions on how long it'll be before Ambassador Greenfield asks the U.N. to impose sanctions on the U.S. for human rights violations.

 

President Biden's DOJ is looking into the Minneapolis police force with the blessing of the Minneapolis chief of police and the city council.

ABC News reports, "Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday that the Justice Department is launching a "pattern or practice" investigation into the Minneapolis police department."

"Today, I am announcing that the Justice Department has opened a civil investigation to determine whether the Minneapolis Police Department engages in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional, unlawful policing," he said.

Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said Wednesday that he welcomed the investigation and pledged his department's full cooperation. “The chief has been insistent that he wants to make the MPD the best department possible," a statement from the department said.

 

NBC News reports, "Lisa Christensen was an alternate juror in Derek Chauvin's trial but said she agrees that the former Minneapolis police officer is guilty of murder in George Floyd's death."

"I felt he was guilty," she said in an interview that aired Thursday on "CBS This Morning."

"Christensen lives in Brooklyn Center, where Daunte Wright was fatally shot by police April 11. She said on "CBS This Morning" that protests in the city did not play a role in her believing Chauvin is guilty.

"Dr. Tobin was the one that really did it for me," she said, referring to Dr. Martin Tobin, a world-renowned expert on breathing.

"Tobin testified that, by his calculation, he believes 91.5 pounds — half of Chauvin's body weight and half the weight of his gear — were on Floyd's neck at one point."

"This means that all of his body weight is being directed down at Mr. Floyd's neck," Tobin said.

"Christensen said on "CBS This Morning" that Tobin's testimony really explained things."

"I understood it, down to where he said this is the moment that he lost his life really got to me," she said.

 

CNBC reports, "Leaders of countries like Brazil, Canada and Japan made commitments on Thursday to curb domestic greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change during President Joe Biden’s climate summit.

"The pledges come shortly after Biden vowed to reduce U.S. emissions by at least 50% by 2030, more than doubling the country’s prior commitment under the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

"The president convened the summit to urge global cooperation on climate change. “It’s an encouraging start,” Biden told world leaders during the summit. “We’re really beginning to make some real progress.'"

Biden's main opposition to all this? Republicans in the U.S. Senate.

 

Why would other countries oppose the US handicapping itself while sending them foreign aid and not holding them to the same standards?

Duh.

 

This is really beginning to hack me off.

NBC reports, "More protests are planned this weekend in the wake of the deadly shooting of a 16-year-old girl by police in Columbus, Ohio, another fatal police encounter roiling a city where allegations of police brutality and police shootings of Black children and men have bred public mistrust."

"Now that we're here and we've had a consistent decade of patterns and practices of ineptitude and racism, our call is for the Justice Department to investigate," Jasmine Ayres, a community organizer who was part of the mayor's working group to develop a police review board, said.

Why didn't Officer Nicholas Reardon just let the Bryant girl stab the second girl to death?

Why didn't the police officers on the scene huddle around and discuss what to do as Bryant lunged toward the second girl with a knife?

Let's spend another two days deciding on what Reardon should have done.

This is getting ridiculous. This was a good shoot.

 

CNBC reports, "Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is scheduled to be sentenced June 16 after his conviction this week on charges including second-degree unintentional murder in the death of George Floyd, a Minnesota court said Friday.

"Chauvin’s sentencing will take place at 1:30 p.m. CT, according to the court schedule, NBC News reported.

Chauvin’s attorneys will have 60 days to appeal the outcome.

 

The only person who was killed during that riot was Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed white woman. And we still don't know the name of the officer who murdered her.

Contrast that with the Antifa and BLM riots in which people were injured, killed, and over a billion dollars in damages was done.

 

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., on Thursday downplayed the urgency of vaccinating all Americans against Covid-19, putting the controversial Wisconsin Republican at odds with public health guidance aimed at easing the ongoing pandemic.

"The science tells us that vaccines are 95% effective. So if you have a vaccine, quite honestly, what do you care if your neighbor has one or not? I mean, what is it to you?" Johnson said in an interview with conservative radio host Vicki McKenna.

"You got a vaccine, and science is telling you it's very, very effective. So why is this big push to make sure everybody gets a vaccine?" Johnson asked.

How in the world did this idiot get elected?

It's easy to see why Republicans on this forum do not want to talk about Republicans. Their entire focus is on Democrats. Strange, huh?

 

How is the suit going?

 

Biden's approval rating hits 53%.

CNBC reports, "More than half of Americans say they support President Joe Biden’s performance in office so far and approve of his sweeping infrastructure proposal, according to a new NBC News poll.

"The poll findings released Sunday showed that 53% of respondents approve of Biden’s job in office, including 90% of Democrats, 61% of independents and 9% of Republicans, while 39% [percentage equal to the dwindling Trump cult] of respondents disapprove of Biden’s performance."

Throughout his Presidency Biden's approval numbers have exceeded his disapproval numbers.

Throughout his Presidency, beginning with 40% approval, Trump's disapproval numbers consistently exceeded his approval numbers. Not once did Trump's approval number exceed his disapproval number.

That is what happens when a President is regarded as the worst in American history.

 

The sheriff's department in North Carolina is definitely hiding something.

USA Today reports, "The mayor of Elizabeth City declared a state of emergency Monday as authorities in North Carolina worked to redact bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. before allowing the Black man's family and lawyers to view it."

Redact?

USA Today continues, "The family and its representatives plan on viewing the video at the Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office, lawyers said at a news conference where they urged immediate release of the video.

“City officials realize there may potentially be a period of civil unrest within the city following the public release of that footage,” Mayor Bettie Parker said in the emergency declaration.

"The lawyers said they wanted the raw video, not a redacted version."

Redacted or not, after an exhaustive internet search, I was unable to determine if the video(s) will be released to the media. That seems like a very curious omission from the sheriff and/or the North Carolina courts.

Why does it take a court order in North Carolina to release videos of a police shooting?

To protect the police, of course.

That doesn't work. The protests are getting stronger and more violent by the day as many are frustrated by the silence from North Carolina. It is definitely not a wise course of action.

 

What is REALLY strange is how you continually pretend to be a Republican. It makes no sense whatsoever. Yet you persist regardless.

 

USA Today reports, "Lawyers and a family member for Andrew Brown Jr. repeatedly referred to his death in North Carolina as an “execution’’ Monday while complaining they were only allowed to watch 20 seconds of body-camera video of his fatal encounter with law enforcement."

The stupidity on the part of the sheriff's department and the Pasquotank County attorney general cannot be understated. In how many ways can their stupidity be measured? Count them.

They allowed only the family and its lawyers see the video. This means that only one view of the incident in question is being presented to the public at large -- the view of Edward Brown's family.

The American public knows no different. News correspondents know no different.

The authorities permitted only one unfavorable highly prejudicial view of their departments to be seen by the public! That kind of stupidity defies understanding.

The family was allowed to see only a 20 second body cam video from one officer. We don't know what happened before the short video, and we don't know what happened after the short video. There were seven other deputies present. There were seven body cam videos. The family was shown only one 20 second video.

It is almost as if the county authorities wanted to make themselves look incredibly stupid while lacking even a hint of transparency. Does the sheriff and his department think they are above the law?

If we are to believe what the family and its lawyers are saying, the 20 seconds shown was the worst possible 20 seconds of the entire incident. Brown was in his car on his driveway with both hands in plain sight on the steering wheel when the eight deputies open fire. Brown was not armed.

The part of the ME's report made public did not tell us how many times the unarmed Brown was shot. We do know he was shot in the back from recorded calls of the sheriff's department. Brown died from a shot to the back of his head the ME said.

The Justice Department in the past five days has announced that they will be investigating the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments. The country would be well served if Garland investigated the Pasquotank County attorney general and sheriff department. They both need a lot of help.

 

Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy S. Wooten in a video statement later Monday characterized the incident as quick and said that outside investigators are interviewing witnesses and gathering more information.

 

ABC News reports, "The family of a 42-year-old Black man who died in a barrage of bullets fired at his car by North Carolina sheriff's deputies said Tuesday that an independent autopsy shows he was shot five times, including once in the back of the head.

"Andrew Brown Jr.'s relatives and attorneys announced the outcome of the postmortem exam they commissioned during a news conference Tuesday morning outside the Pasquotank County Sheriff's Department in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, saying it confirms he was "executed."

"Dr. Brent Dwayne Hall, the former medical examiner for five northwest North Carolina counties, performed the independent autopsy, the family's attorney's said.

"Wayne Kendall, an attorney representing Brown's family, displayed autopsy graphics pointing out that Brown was shot four times in his right arm. Kendall described those wounds as glancing wounds that did not kill Brown.

"He said the fatal shot hit Brown as he tried to drive away to save his own life. He said a bullet hit Brown at the base of the back of his skull and lodged in his brain."

"He was able to back up, turn the vehicle around, spin off across a vacant lot. And at that time he was hit in the back of he head and that is the fatal bullet wound," Kendall said.

 

What does that have to do with the Biden administration report card?

 

What does this have to do with the Biden report card?

 

ABC News continued, "According to the search warrant obtained by ABC News, sheriff's investigators wanted to search Brown's home for crack cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin. In an affidavit attached to the search warrant, detectives claimed they used a confidential informant to record audio and video of the informant purchasing crack cocaine and methamphetamine from Brown on several occasions."

Brown's family and their attorneys claimed investigators failed to find weapons or drugs in Brown's vehicle and home.

Body cam videos still haven't been made public by the sheriff's department. All we get is meaningless rhetoric.

 

All this is occurring on Biden's watch, and it is important.

How will the Biden administration handle the several incidents of blacks being gunned down by law enforcement?

 

So you blame Biden. It perhaps means you really are a Republican.

Cops gun down far more whites than they gun down blacks.