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Under everything else; the recent death of a "jogger" in Georgia sparked outrage. That these two "white men" would shoot a black "jogger" is unacceptable. They did call 911 and of course the police where only minutes away as the "jogger" was fleeing the scene. They did try to detain the "jogger" who fought back viciously to defend his 4th amendment rights and grabbed the shotgun trying to take it from this "white guy" who had called 911 to report a burglary and the cops were only minutes away more than enough time for the "jogger" to get away. Of course these two "white men" should have known better than to try to detain a "jogger" who was also black who also was committing burglaries because the national media will make you appear to be a racist.
This is a useful story in that we can watch to see how long it takes the national media to put an asterisk on this story and actually mention that he was in fact burglarizing a home under construction when he was spotted by a neighbor. And after a news outlet does ion fact acknowledge this new fact how will they report it? Also it will be interesting to see how long they continue to show the nice clean graduation [picture of this felon instead of his mugshot photo as they would with any other felon. But there is a new meme called "Jogging with Ahmaud". The supporters of this "jogger" now are jogging themselves trying to drum up support for the felon/jogger who was actually running not jogging from a home he burglarized. Watch to see if they alter them meme "jogging with Ahmaud" to include entering and burglarizing a home. This could be the next big thing in exercise videos; "How fast can you jog while carrying a 50" TV?" Thanks for bringing this up. Was trying earlier to find information showing what the whole story was about.
There are video's of the "jogger" taking a break from his Olympic tryouts as he "cases" a possible burglary site and then after "jogging" around to make sure the coast is clear enters the property to see what he could possibly carry out with him to improve his physical conditioning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg8CaecNJI8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z99E6Vq6Hc The second video is very long and it is speeded up. In the comments of the video they suggest setting the playback speed to .25 and starting the video at about 13:30. Otherwise you might fall asleep waiting for the "jogger". In the video you strangely don't see him "jogging" as he cases out his target. But you can notice that a neighbor comes out and spots him after which our "jogger" turns out to be a "sprinter" as he beats feet to get out of there. Jogging with Sheldon Francis:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/10/husband-and-wife-in-their-80s-fatally-shot-in-veterans-cemetery/ Shot a husband and wife who were in their 80's while they were visiting the Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery. The "jogger" was shot by the police in an exchange of gunfire. Unlike New York and the NJ residents who commute into NYC, people in California rarely use public transportation and the neighborhoods are sprawling instead of built up. Sure seems obvious that those filthy subways were how some many people got so sick.
Breaking news:
The Detroit Running Club is going to hold a virtual "jogging with Ahmaud" run in his memory. No word yet if they will burglarize homes as they "jog" around Detroit. Police are cautioning citizens to stay in their homes less they be accused of looking at the "joggers" the wrong way and get into a fight which of course would bring down the weight of the entire government on you. Another homicide committed by a Georgia "jogger".
https://www.wtoc.com/2020/05/07/suspect-arrested-killing-teenage-girl-w-th-street-february/ Hmmm... black victim, where are the Black Lives Matters folks. The "jogger" also committed armed robbery when he is out "jogging". Media uninterested in the story. Lacks a certain "something" that they need to make the story fit their biases. The DA had viewed the video and this was his assessment of it:
"District Attorney George E. Barnhill, who has worked as a criminal prosecutor for 36 years, detailed what happened in the video in a a public letter on the case. Barnhill wrote: From said video it appears Ahmaud Arbery was running along the right side of the McMichael truck then abruptly turns 90 degrees to the left and attacks Travis McMichael who was standing at the front left corner of the truck. A brief skirmish ensues in which it appear Arbery strikes McMichael and appears to grab the shotgun and pull it from McMichael. The shot is through Arbery's right hand palm which is consistent with him grabbing and pulling the shotgun at the barrel tip, the 2nd and 3rd wounds are consistent with the struggle for the shotgun as depicted in the video, the angle of the 2nd shot with the rear of the buttstock being pushed away and down from the fight are also consistent with the upward angle of blood plume shown in the video and that McMichael was attempting to push the gun away from Arbery while Arbery was pulling it toward himself. The 3rd shot too appears to be in a struggle over the gun. The angle of the shots and the video show this was from the beginning or almost immediately became-- a fight over the shotgun. Given the fact Arbery initiated the fight, at the point Arbery grabbed the shotgun, under Georgia Law, McMichael was allowed to use deadly force to protect himself." I was surprised to learn that in addition to his home inspection and jogging hobby Ahmaud likes to "jog" at night too.
https://twitter.com/ramzpaul/status/1259635624795136000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1259635624795136000&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationliberation.com%2F%3Fid%3D61436 In addition to "jogging" through other people's homes, it seems our "jogger" has committed other crimes.
https://www.news4jax.com/news/2013/12/09/police-man-brought-gun-to-high-school-basketball-game/ Interestingly this may be when Ahmaud took up "jogging" as he ran from the police who were forced to chase him down to arrest him. One of Ahmaud's fellow "joggers" created a fake social media profile of a white man who backed Trump and made racist statements. Then used this profile to threaten anyone who questioned that Ahmaud was just a "jogger" and was "gunned down" for being black. I'm sure he acted alone without any input from the race baiting lawyers and activists who hope to benefit financially from this story.
Still think that the Ahmaud "jogger" story is what the media is telling you it is? The media would have you believe that the two white men were released because they were white or that one of them was a former cop. But the reason they were released is because they probably did not break any laws. They saw a suspicious person who broke the law and trespassed. Their own home had been broken into recently and they believed this man might have been the same person. They followed him and when he would not stop they got out of their truck to confront him to hold him for the police who had been called. The mad who got out of the truck had a shotgun. So far no laws broken. The "jogger" decided that he would not stop and wait for the police and in fact was seen on the video punching the guy who held the shotgun. Right there a law was broken by the "jogger" he assaulted the man with the gun. Pretty stupid. Then the "jogger" grabbed the shotgun by the barrel. OK, now we have moved passed simple "stupid" into incredibly stupid. Note to "joggers" don't punch someone with a gun and seriously don't grab the end of the shotgun where the really bad stuff comes out. I mean, seriously can you be that stupid? Did the white man with the gun break a law at that point? Well, it depends. Had they both been white the answer is no. Had the person with a gun been a female of any color and the person holding the deadly end trying to take the gun had been a man of any color the answer would be no. But in our crazy culture where any person of color can claim racism is the reason for the result of their own crazy actions it is likely that a court will decide that indeed the white man broke a law by trying to convince the black "jogger" to wait for the police.
Now there are those who would have you believe that in the South black people are being attacked (some like to say lynched) by white folks all the time and they are in a constant state of fear. But ironically the truth is the exact opposite in most of the South. Blacks kill whites with impunity and 90% of the crime is committed by blacks and most of that is against whites. More whites are shot and killed by blacks in the South than vice versa. If anything this hysteria we see about this case should really be applied to the many vicious attacks on whites by blacks exactly for racial hatred reasons. Bottom line is that these two men will probably go to jail for a long time and once in jail will probably be murdered by black gangs. As the minority race in the South and hated by the black race it is a stupid mistake to try to seek justice against those odds. Ask Mr. Zimmerman who only by miracle was saved from that fate and he literally did nothing wrong prior to the vicious attack on him by the "jogger". The media will act totally irresponsibly in this, that is what they do. Even those who know better will not speak the truth because it is a job killer to side with the wrong race in these trumped up cases. The only hope these two men have is that they get an honest unbiased jury with the guts to do their job. Good luck on that in Gerogia. |