LeBron James shot his ignorant mouth off twice — about Ma'Khia Bryant's death — and so did the Lamestream

22 April 2021

Preliminary grammatical note

I do not capitalize 'black'. Arbitrarily elevating one alleged race over another — as in Black versus white — makes no societally defensible sense.

I also use quotation marks around race-indicators as a sign of my contempt for distinguishing people — as to their characters — based upon skin characteristics.

And a caveat — for those with tender minds

My anger at American society's wall-to-wall Snowflake brainlessness is escalating.

Today, we take up Ma'Khia Bryant's self-brought passing

American idiocy showed in two representative posts. Both rushed to judgment about the manner in which Ma'Khia Bryant caused herself to be carted — in deceased form — from our shared Vale of Tears.

First, LeBron James shot his blazingly ignorant mouth off twice. Both times in societally destructive ways.

Then, the AP did the Lamestream's now customary politicized twisting of facts. Also in a deliberately destructive way.

We will begun with Non-Paragon LeBron.

LeBron James' fame, apparently . . .

. . . has gone to his head and dispossessed his brains.

Now, he's spewing opinions — without looking at easily available evidence to their contrary:

Ma'Khia Bryant, a young Black girl, was shot and killed by a Columbus police officer Tuesday afternoon while yielding a knife and reportedly attempting to stab another female. Bryant's death has since sparked national outrage.

James, an outspoken advocate for social justice causes, tweeted out a picture Wednesday afternoon of the police officer who is believed to have shot and killed Bryant, writing "YOU’RE NEXT #ACCOUNTABILITY."

However, within hours of publishing the controversial comment, James deleted the tweet.

In a separate tweet sent out Wednesday evening, the former Cleveland Cavalier explained his reasoning for taking down the statement and photo, saying that the earlier tweet was being used to spread more hate.

"I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. I took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate -This isn’t about one officer," James wrote.

"It’s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY."

Perhaps, Mr. James, you should contemplate easily available facts . . .

. . . before announcing your shallow judgments.

Police bodycam video of the Ma'Khia Bryant shooting was available exceptionally soon after Ms. Bryant was shot.

Below is, for instance, a brief explanatory commentary — from former Tucson officer, Brandon Tatum — that uses the almost instantly available Police Department-released video:

The Officer Tatum, 16 Year Old Girl Shot By Columbus PD justified!, YouTube (20 April 2021)

A synopsis of what really happened to Ma'Khia Bryant goes like this

Columbus police officers were called to a party, reportedly because there was trouble of some kind. Perhaps, as one initial report supposedly indicated, a woman with a knife was trying to stab people.

When an officer arrived at the scene:

A very large, very adult-looking 16 year old 'black' girl — Ma'Khia Bryant, the person who was later shot to death — runs at and attacks a peer — and throws her to the ground — directly in front of the cop.

A 'black' man near Ms. Bryant — and also directly in front of the video-recording officer —kicks the fallen girl — who is apparently also 'black' — in the head — with great force.

Immediately afterward, Ms. Bryant displays a knife in her slash-motioning right hand. All this taking place within the bodycammed officer's line of sight. With Ma'Khia subsequently, vigorously trying to stab a pink-suited 'black' girl (who is peacefully standing beside a car) in the neck.

The officer shoots Bryant in her mid-stab motion — inferably, judging from the video — because he is a few feet too far away to grab her knife arm and prevent a murder.

So, tell me, LeBron . . .

. . . what would you have done in the same situation, working with that particular officer's much smaller than yours physique?

Pretend that you are in police uniform. And being paid comparatively low bucks to maintain societal order and protect people. Instead of (status-pertinently) raking in the gargantuan dollars that you currently are. For, let us note, playing an arguably societally useless game that burdens you with no (zip-zero) life and death responsibilities.

In short, the least that you can do (as the immensely privileged 'LeBron') is gather immediately available facts — before you sling your Famous Mouth into action.

Second, the AP

The AP published the below quoted, intentionally slanted drivel:

Just as the guilty verdict was about to be read in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, police in Ohio shot and killed a Black teenager in broad daylight during a confrontation.

The shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, who was swinging a knife during a fight with another person in Columbus, is in some ways more representative of how Black and other people of color are killed during police encounters than the death of George Floyd, pinned to the ground by Chauvin and captured on video for all the world to see.

Unlike Chauvin’s case, many killings by police involve a decision to shoot in a heated moment and are notoriously difficult to prosecute even when they spark grief and outrage. Juries have tended to give officers the benefit of the doubt when they claim to have acted in a life-or-death situation.

While Tuesday’s conviction was hailed as a sign of progress in the fight for equal justice, it still leaves unanswered difficult questions about law enforcement’s use of force and systemic racism in policing. The verdict in the Chauvin case might not be quickly repeated, even as the list of those killed at the hands of police grows.

Notice the AP's included brainwash

"broad daylight"

We are, the AP suggests, to assume that evil cops are going around executing 'black' folk — even in noonday's revealing sunlight.

How blatantly dismissive those police people are of our humane concerns. No shyness, at all (the AP implies) among that shots-spraying Execution Clan.

"notoriously difficult to prosecute"

How's that line for deliberately twisting Logic's required order?

Ordinarily, someone rational would decide that police had, indeed, acted unlawfully and/or with malice — before deciding that prosecution was warranted.

But for the AP, Logic's Order of Inquiry is reversed. The cops are always bad. They escape being thrown in jail simply because their crimes are so "notoriously difficult to prosecute".

In that one brain-twisting blow, we see that (i) cops are characteristically evil and (ii) our system of criminal justice is heavily distorted — on purpose — so as to protect and advance cops' (assumedly innate) penchant for killing 'black' people.

"they claim to have acted in a life-or-death situation"

Let's take this one, element by element.

According to the AP

and despite the fact that

Ma'Khia Bryant's death was clearly recorded

and further that

the same video justifies the involved officer's decision to shoot

(shooting so as to protect another 'black' girl's life)

the officer is nevertheless

soiled

for having forwarded

his anticipated "claim"

of 'necessaryness' —

a claim that we all should

(the AP implicitly advises us)

preliminarily conclude is bogus.

"leaves unanswered difficult questions about . . . systemic racism in policing"

This AP line accepts the existence of "systemic racism in policing" — without making any attempt to demonstrate its conclusion with facts.

The AP's bland assumption of police wrongdoing perfectly typifies the facts-disregarding times in which American culture now drowns itself.

All told, the AP report is an intentionally constructed, anti-police hatchet job.

It is the gasoline-on-fire equivalent of LeBron James' vapidly displayed 'From My Pedestal' idiocy.

Also pertinent is this observation (or non-observation)

Did you notice anything in the Ma'Khia Bryant bodycam video that indicates that the 'black' people at the scene were afraid of the responding officers?

For instance, was the man who kicked a girl-woman in her head — right in front of the cops — afraid that these (allegedly racist) officers might abuse and kill him?

Was Ma'Khia?

Recall that it was Ms. Bryant, who threw that the first girl onto the ground right in front of officers, who were already there. Thereby conveniently (conspiratorially?) allowing the head-kicking 'black' guy to further batter the fallen girl-woman.

And immediately after that, it was Ma'Khia who tried to stab a second 'black' (this time pink-suited) girl. Also directly in front of a 'white' officer.

Does any of this sound as if the involved 'black' folk were in fear for their lives, due to Columbus cops' supposedly racist and death-dealing ways?

Or are these (allegedly racially subjugated) victims' most prominently visible behaviors indicative of absurdly poor impulse control and a 100 percent disregard for law, police and common sense?

Might one categorize their violently displayed actions as inviting necessarily violent and containing responses?

Might one call their behavior self-destructive?

And, if one does conclude so, is that self-destructive trait the cops' fault?

Is it American society's?

Or is this particular sub-culture — and a sub-culture it is — diligently evading the process of growing up and taking responsibility for itself?

Worse, is America enabling this particular sub-culture's continuing escape from taking any responsibility at all?

On both those subjects, Professor Glenn Loury is reliably illuminating.

Recall — in entering this winnowing of fact from nonsense — that ours is a world in which many-many people, of all colors and cultures, have been burdened with societally and personally bestowed misfortunes.

The moral? — Perhaps police around the country should walk off the job . . .

. . . and let America burn down.

Maybe after our landscape turns the equivalent of Nuclear Post-Armageddon, some of limited structure that remains among the nation's ashes will come to its senses.

In guarding ourselves against that probability, I figuratively favor constructing gulags for Snowflakes. We might, thereby, survive the coming years with our brains intact and still functioning.

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LeBron James shot his ignorant mouth off twice — about Ma'Khia Bryant's death — and so did the Lamestream