{"id":230308,"date":"2021-04-19T03:19:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T00:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/two-police-shootings-two-different-outcomes-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2021-04-19T03:19:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T00:19:05","slug":"two-police-shootings-two-different-outcomes-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/two-police-shootings-two-different-outcomes-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Two police shootings, two different outcomes and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2811ec14db5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2811ec14db5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/two-police-shootings-two-different-outcomes-and-other-commentary\/#Centrist_Two_Police_Shootings_Two_Outcomes\" >Centrist: Two Police Shootings, Two Outcomes\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/two-police-shootings-two-different-outcomes-and-other-commentary\/#From_the_right_The_Critical-Theory_Ambassador\" >From the right: The Critical-Theory Ambassador\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/two-police-shootings-two-different-outcomes-and-other-commentary\/#Conservative_Dems_Hopeless_Demographics\" >Conservative: Dems\u2019 Hopeless Demographics\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/two-police-shootings-two-different-outcomes-and-other-commentary\/#Liberal_Don_Has_Thumb_on_the_GOP\" >Liberal: Don Has Thumb on the GOP\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/two-police-shootings-two-different-outcomes-and-other-commentary\/#Culture_critic_The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Woke\" >Culture critic: The Unbearable Lightness of Woke\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Two police shootings, two different outcomes and other commentary<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/1313185885.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Centrist_Two_Police_Shootings_Two_Outcomes\"><\/span>Centrist: Two Police Shootings, Two Outcomes\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The charging decisions in the police shootings of Daunte Wright in Minnesota and Ashli Babbitt in DC were announced within an hour of each other \u201cwith strikingly different conclusions,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2021\/04\/15\/police-mistakes-and-difference-between-wright-and-babbit-shootings-column\/7225813002\/\">observes Jonathan Turley at USA Today<\/a>. While Babbitt was \u201cat the forefront of a riot, there is no claim that she was threatening any officer or possible person with serious bodily injury or death,\u201d but the Department of Justice declined to prosecute. Meanwhile, a jury will have to decide \u201cwhether a possible split-second mistake legally constitutes a conscious choice of an officer\u201d in the Wright case. Neither shooting <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears justified, \u201cyet in one case, an officer is charged, and in the other, the officer is cleared.\u201d These cases \u201ccapture the uncertain line\u201d of when \u201cmistakes or errors by police are criminal matters,\u201d but \u201cthe Babbitt decision leaves more questions than answers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_the_right_The_Critical-Theory_Ambassador\"><\/span>From the right: The Critical-Theory Ambassador\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe US ambassador to the United Nations is supposed to speak for American values and interests,\u201d but new envoy Linda Thomas-Greenfield\u2019s recent remarks indicate she \u201cis going to speak mainly about the faults of her own country,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-ambassador-of-blame-america-first-11618527312?mod=opinion_lead_pos2\">fumes The Wall Street Journal editorial board<\/a>. \u201cHer recitation of America\u2019s sins\u201d and claims that we are racist to our roots \u201ccould have come from China\u2019s Global Times\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>paper. She seems to have forgotten about \u201cAmerican progress on race since the Founding, such as the Civil War that ended slavery or the civil-rights movement.\u201d Instead, she spoke of President Biden\u2019s decision to rejoin the UN Human Rights Council as if America were morally equivalent to \u201coffenders\u201d like Cuba, China, Russia and Venezuela. Bottom line: Thomas-Greenfield imagines \u201cher job is to bring critical race theory to the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conservative_Dems_Hopeless_Demographics\"><\/span>Conservative: Dems\u2019 Hopeless Demographics\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats know they can no longer win by the old agreed-upon rules, constitutional or otherwise,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/topic\/decline-democrats-base-demographics\/\">argues Daniel McCarthy at Spectator USA<\/a> \u2014 hence \u201cthe desperation of their struggle to abolish the filibuster and federalize election law\u201d and their \u201cdreams of packing the Supreme Court.\u201d Demographics \u201cwere supposed to save\u201d the party, which is \u201cwhy race-baiting has become\u201d its central stratagem. \u201cThey try to terrify Asian Americans with insinuations that white Americans are targeting them with violence, when the reality is that whites, Asian, Hispanics, blacks and everyone else is most at risk from the lawlessness that Democrats have tolerated.\u201d In 2020, former President Donald Trump, supposedly \u201cthe embodiment of white diabolism,\u201d won \u201ca greater percentage of Hispanics and blacks than liberal-sensitive Republicans\u201d John McCain and Mitt Romney. The GOP, then, should \u201ctry a right-wing message to minorities\u201d and leave the Democrats to their party\u2019s woke furies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Liberal_Don_Has_Thumb_on_the_GOP\"><\/span>Liberal: Don Has Thumb on the GOP\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s recent insult to Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell is unlike most intraparty \u201cdust-ups,\u201d where fellow senators rally around their colleague, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/04\/13\/mcconnell-trump-republican-party-spat-481222\">contends Jeff Greenfield at Politico<\/a>. Indeed, \u201cthere\u2019s always been something different about Trump and the Republican Party \u2014 in part because he seems to have a stronger connection to its voters than the party leadership does.\u201d After seven Republican senators voted to convict him of \u201chigh crimes and misdemeanors,\u201d GOP leaders \u201cwatched, to their horror, as Trump, like Freddy Krueger, emerged whole and ready to inflict fatal political wounds on those who defied him.\u201d The only option now is to strike a \u201ctruce,\u201d because \u201casking Trump not to insult those who have \u00adoffended him is like asking him not to exhale.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Culture_critic_The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Woke\"><\/span>Culture critic: The Unbearable Lightness of Woke\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The left has long claimed to speak to power, but its outrage-mongering these days mostly reflects a combination of opportunism and \u201cintellectual bankruptcy,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2021\/04\/how-not-to-speak-truth-to-power\">writes Carl R. Trueman at First Things<\/a>. Leftist race and gender theories \u201care now pathways to promotion, to lucrative book deals, to New York Times op-eds and to well-paid speaking gigs. .\u2009.\u2009. Now one merely needs to recite the liturgy \u2014 white privilege, patriarchy, heteronormativity, etc. \u2014 to establish one\u2019s critical credentials\u201d and take down potential competitors. \u201cThe new New Left seems to prefer <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s of \u2018gotcha!\u2019 to anything resembling real critical thinking. Of course, the left can do so with impunity because it is so powerful.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board\u00a0<\/em>\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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