Wisconsin | November 16, 2021
Rittenhouse Prosecutor Thomas Binger Has Swung and Missed Before at Charging Armed Self-Defense
Wisconsin | November 16, 2021
From his opening statement to closing argument, Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger has not just made missteps, as the legacy media loves to call them, he has literally stepped in the muck, then kept wading in up to his knees. My colleagues Nick Arama and Jim Thompson are working attorneys, and don’t just play ones on TV. Along with our other contributors that have covered the trial of Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, they have given us great analysis on just how badly Binger has screwed up an already weak case that should have never been brought to trial… (Excerpts from Red State)
District of Columbia, Wisconsin | June 22, 2021
Ron Johnson Asks DC Mayor if Racial Justice Protesters Are Being Treated Like Jan. 6 Rioters
District of Columbia, Wisconsin | June 22, 2021
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) wants to know if racial justice protesters charged with crimes that occurred during the summer protests in 2020 are being treated the same as individuals arrested for allegedly participating in the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
During a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Johnson asked Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, “Do you know how many people were arrested for the summer riots?” “We’ve had dozens of people arrested over the last year,” Bowser responded…
(Excerpts from Independent Journal Review)
Wisconsin | May 7, 2021
After the Riots: Kenosha police claim they’ve been unfairly villainized
Wisconsin | May 7, 2021
On Aug. 23, 2020, a Kenosha police officer shot Jacob Blake as he scuffled with law enforcement officers in one of several incidents that rocked the nation last summer. Riots that occurred in the ensuing days brought violence, destruction, and the national spotlight to the small Wisconsin city. The Washington Examiner recently went back to Kenosha to find out what has happened in the aftermath.
KENOSHA, WISCONSIN — Reminders of the shooting of Jacob Blake Jr. and the riots that followed are all over Kenosha.
The Dinosaur Discovery Museum in the middle of town still has plywood on all of its windows. The brick wall next to Hidden Treasures on 60th Street still reads “F— you, Rusten Sheskey,” despite numerous attempts to cover it up. Graffiti on side streets and boarded-up storefronts call out “racist” police. Nine months after the small Wisconsin city of fewer than 100,000 residents was thrust into the national spotlight, it is clear that the wound is still raw.
While there have been tensions in the past between police and Kenosha’s minority residents, none has compared to the 2020 shooting of Blake.
Officer Sheskey, a white man, shot Blake, a black man, seven times in the back. No charges were filed against him…
(Excerpts from The Washington Examiner)
Wisconsin | April 23, 2021
Senator Ron Johnson asks why police wrongly claimed Sicknick died of injuries sustained at Capitol riot
Wisconsin | April 23, 2021
A top GOP senator is demanding to know why the U.S. Capitol Police claimed Officer Brian Sicknick suffered mortal injuries while on duty and after clashing with protesters during the Capitol riot in light of the District of Columbia’s chief medical examiner’s ruling that Sicknick died of natural causes.
The Capitol Police announced Sicknick, 42, died on Jan. 7, one day after rioters broke into the Capitol as lawmakers counted electoral votes to affirm President Joe Biden‘s victory over former President Donald Trump. In its statement, the department said Sicknick “was injured while physically engaging with protesters” and that he “was taken to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.” While the department did not provide further details on the record, the New York Times would falsely report Jan. 8, citing “two law enforcement officials,” that the 13-year veteran was beaten with a fire extinguisher and died hours later at a hospital.
Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, on Thursday sent a letter to acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman, contending the determination from Chief Medical Officer Francisco Diaz, who told the Washington Examiner last week that Sicknick’s cause of death was a stroke, “raises more questions about what USCP knew and what actions USCP took to confirm certain facts regarding Officer Sicknick’s death before it released its Jan. 7 statement.”
“The death of any police officer is a tragedy, and the use of any officer’s death for political purposes or to create a false narrative is reprehensible,” Johnson added….
(Excerpts from Washington Examiner)
Wisconsin | April 20, 2021
The Truth About Police Shootings in America
Wisconsin | April 20, 2021
Perspective by Dan O’Donnell
“Policing in our country is inherently and intentionally racist,” Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib tweeted Monday in a predictably hysterical response to a deadly officer-involved shooting in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.
On Sunday, while arresting 20-year-old Daunte Wright for an outstanding warrant, Officer Kim Potter fired a single shot at Wright as he wrestled with fellow officers and tried to drive away.
“Taser! Taser! Taser!” Potter can be heard yelling on body camera video of the incident.
“As I watched the video and listened to the officer’s commands, it is my belief that the officer had the intention to deploy their taser but instead shot Mr. Wright with a single bullet,” Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said in a news conference the following day. “This appears to me, from what I viewed, and the officer’s reaction and distress immediately after, that this was an accidental discharge that resulted in a tragic death of Mr. Wright.”
An investigation is ongoing, but Potter—and, it seems, every police officer in America by extension—has already been judged to be guilty.
“We need to abolish American policing as it currently exists,” declared MSNBC pundit Jason Johnson…
(Excerpts from Maclver Institute)