A new video in the Columbus, Ohio case…
…makes it even more clear that the police officer who shot the knife-wielding 16-year-old Bryant was doing what was unfortunately necessary to prevent a potentially fatal stabbing.
I predict that this story will be one that fades relatively quickly. Various people have tried to save it – “he should have shot the knife out of her hand”; “knife fights are just commonplace teenage hijinks” – but their efforts are so ridiculous that even some on the left are having more than the usual trouble fully embracing them. Instead, I believe that the BLM crowd will go on to the next incident to hype, and attorney Crump will find another ambulance to chase.
There are real issues here to explore, such as why the dead girl was in foster care, what lead to the situation escalating, what might have been done to prevent it. But they are questions that have nothing to do with the police. The police are a convenient scapegoat for the left, because the reality of the situation would require more self-searching and more actual thought.
It takes a village of idiots to police a homicidal teen?
This story may fade from the headlines, but all the idiocitic comments made by powerful Democrats and media figures (BIRM) about this situation will definetly be remembered. Didn’t Psaki and/or Biden say some silly things about this story, or am I misremembering? Honestly, I can’t keep track of all the inanities that are belched out by this administration on a daily basis.
Off-duty cop-y editor responding: Second line in the third paragraph should read “led to the situation,” not “lead,” which came out of the barrel of the officer’s gun in this incident.
Every time I watch those videos in real time I am in awe of the instantaneous response and accurate shooting of that officer.
The very amusing satirical piece by Charles Cooke at National Review (“In Defense of Teenage Knife Fighting”) is highly recommended for anyone desiring some humorous relief from all the grim tidings of late and from the incessant propaganda being promulgated by the unhinged arbiters of “wokeness.”
Some people suggest that he should have wielded a warning scalpel. Unfortunately, the risk was not imminent, not social, but an immediate threat to life. His choice, not Choice, in self-defense.
“I’m gonna stab the fuck out of you bitch” Ma’Khia Bryant shouted…
Jeez, that seems awfully discordant and hard to square with her mother’s statement that Ma’Khia was always “promoting peace.”
Her foster mother said that her former foster kids (in their 20s) were planning a birthday party for their grandmother, and she would not clean her room or make her bed. When they criticized her that is what set her off. She had only been with this foster mother since February. It sounds like she had serious mental problems.
Erasmus, Was that her real mother or her foster mother who said that?
Regarding expat’s statement; I seriously wonder if orphanages would not be an improvement over the foster care system. This is not a knock against foster parents. My wife has worked with many foster families and many are very well intentioned, but it’s a very difficult task. She’s seen kids in good foster families get abruptly pulled to live with a mother who is recently released from prison, or drug rehab. Even foster parents who move heaven and earth to try to adopt a child only to have their hard work negated when an Aunt or Grandma or recently rehabbed mother turns up.
It seems orphanages would have people specifically trained to deal with the issues many foster kids struggle to overcome. Many of them witness terrible abuse, even suffer terrible abuse, at very young ages. Most have had very little parenting or oversight.
I did some work at a junior high school for boys who showed aptitude on standardized test scores but came from difficult home environments. The school has an impressive record of success in instilling discipline, conscientiousness and manners in boys so that, after three years, many are testing into private, college prep high schools and then going on to University. But even when they get into a good system, that knows how to instill those characteristics, it’s a real challenge to turn boys who are already 12. Seeing older boys in the school toe the line and hearing from graduates who look like them (most all the boys in the school are black) come back from High School, College and the Professional ranks helps them to see a future that they do not see in their neighborhoods.
So, why not orphanages? I sent my sons to all boys High Schools partially because I knew the discipline was much stricter than at the public, co-ed schools. If a boy was caught in school with an untucked shirt, or out of uniform, it was not unusual for a male teacher to grab the boy and pin him against a locker and not release him until the boy would recite the school’s motto. Then, off to the principal’s office where the boy had to call mom or dad, explain his error and then figure out how to bet proper attire to get back to class.
We know how to instill discipline, respect and civility in teens. Why can’t we do what has been proven for thousands of years to work?
@#$% shoulda been shot just to get her ridiculous sub-literate @#$@%^ette name off the books.
Honestly, how many of you never had that thought? 🙂 Really.
Wondered on and off all my life just how much the naming of a child even with the most innocuous traditional name shapes their eventual fate. We’re so casual about it in the West — in parts of Asia one’s name has great significance and one might change it several times during one’s life to reflect where one is or where one is trying to get to.
One type of aircraft that flies directly over my house are the Lifeflights. When I see one of those, I know someone is having a bad and expensive day. When two go by, well…
Once, when I was researching one of my Lifeflight photos I came across this story:
https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/update-two-remain-in-seattle-hospital-after-wreck-north-of-quilcene/
Key info is Wambli Nevermissashot age 26, while driving on a suspended license got t-boned by a dump truck and trailer fully loaded with asphalt in a 55 MPH zone (ouch). I thought “Nevermissashot? Where have I heard that name before?
Here:
https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/quilcene-man-in-jail-charged-with-robbing-bank/
Ulysses Corwin Nevermissashot caught by the DNA evidence left at the scene on a smoldering hand-rolled cigarette.
@ChasesEagles:
With luck like that, they ought to start up their own Tribal Casino.
Do you listen to Aviation radio bands? Sometimes I do this in HK. Got a lot of mountain between me and the airport so can’t receive the taxi and ramp channels, but the rest is good. Listening to the highly-structured conversations between tower and pilots is strangely relaxing.
From what little I’ve read much police and emergency radio in the US is still analogue or unencrypted. This is not the case in UK, Australia, other places and guys who listened to scanners had to go find other hobbies after the changeover.
Back in “The Contract with America” days Newt Gingrich also mentioned orphanages as an antidote. The issue would be to have proper funding and hard eyed goals. They do have them in other countries. It would take a prolonged concise compelling case to get the black and Appalachian communities to buy in. Questions like should they be racially integrated (I say yes) proper exit gates needs to be set.
I would also recommend having group homes where dysfunctional families could be taught life skills. Particularly fathering. Destroy that “life of Julia” crap that was circulating. Also women and men that have multiple children with multiple partners should be put into group homes until they select a life partner of one of their children. They can have outside jobs but back to the group home unless they are visiting their children. With cell phone GPS that can be verified.
Maybe having the parents and the child in the same complex might reduce the sting. Also drug and other psychological treatments. Get the homeless off the streets. If the ACLU protests then put them in the neighborhoods where they live. See how the Chad’s and Karen’s react to crap and drugs in the street. Homeless around their little ones. Biden’s EO about restricting single family homes can be used to force them into affluent neighborhoods that are best able to handle them. And tell them. “You should be happy. You voted for this.”
Finally growing up in the 50’s/60’s remember all those health class videos we laughed at. Well we should update and bring them back and have the teenagers make fun of them but they do set an expected societal standard of behavior.
Something has to be done. I am willing to try any idea that works.
The sad thing about this story is that this girl clearly needed help that she wasn’t getting. And the police officer HAD to shoot her to save another’s life. This is a burden this young guy (I read that he was only 23 years old and was on the force for less than 2 years) will have to carry.
@Spartacus:
Racially Integrated Orphanages.
I stopped reading right there.
You sent your offspring to public schools in the Hood?
OK, I lied. I didn’t stop reading right there. You make some good points about making the Woke live with the consequences of their policy prescriptions for the rest of us. But you have suggested a policy prescription which I very much doubt you would like to see applied to any of your blood relations.
Zaphod – I go to a racially integrated church. I have many black, hispanic and asian friends and acquaintances. Generally I get along with most folks. In my neighborhood it is about 30% Asian and a few blacks. Anglos are becoming a minority.
So yes integrate using MLK words and examples. Put it into the CRT supporters faces.
People are people and I judge them by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. How about you?
@Spartacus:
That’s great. How do you like being a minority in your own country?
“A few Blacks”. That’s cool. But surely a LOT of Blacks would be even better, no?
I judge individual people ***I have prior experience and knowledge of*** by the content of their characters in daily one-on-one interactions in a functioning civil society.
^– None of this pertains when you don’t have a functioning civil society and are dealing with mobs and populations of this or that race on the move or rampage. Then you are the colour of your skin and nobody gives a flying you-know-what for the content of your character of what exemplary behaviour you exhibited during less stressful times.
I’m not calling you wrong. I am saying that you are very optimistic.
LeBron James has been taking flak from a few of the Important Black Conservatives (and also some Worried Black Democrats), but this is the best hit.
https://babylonbee.com/news/that-girl-getting-stabbed-wasnt-in-danger-says-man-who-flops-anytime-anyone-gets-within-six-feet-of-him
I Am Spartacus wrote, “Back in ‘The Contract with America’ days ….”
Spartacus, I’m sympathetic to your goals. Some of this is already being done locally by families and churches, and I would love to see more instances. I’m just not sure how to do this on a large scale without inviting federal government action.
Some random thoughts here, and some questions about the incident, which might eventually be answered, that is if we actually had anyone actually interested in digging into the background …
It looks like a very nice, stable neighborhood, actually: nice houses with well-groomed and well-kept yards, recent-model and well-maintained cars. Bet this is the sort of neighborhood that black people move to in order to escape the urban sink. I wonder if the close neighbors to the foster home had quiet worries about the foster kids living there, and that was why the camera aimed in that direction.
From several stories in the Daily Mail, it looks as if the foster mother had been doing this for some time and doing it relatively well, long enough to have former foster kids think fondly of her, and who returned to the home to help celebrate her birthday. I suspect that Bryant had uncontrollable anger issues, and was turned over to foster care because her biological mother couldn’t or didn’t want to cope.
Be nice if we still had any reporters willing to seriously dig into these questions, and if anyone directly involved is willing to answer truthfully.
it looks as if the foster mother had been doing this for some time and doing it relatively well
Yes, the rule. There are always exceptions of varying degrees. Most of which can be tolerated. Some that must be rejected. The assailant forced the choice. Now that there is time, we can assess and learn from the dysfunctional states and transitions, and strive to mitigate their progress.
On the subject of orphanages, I would suggest that we use the existing foster care system combined with orphanages for those incorrigible cases that foster care cannot handle. Funding shouldn’t be an issue. The money that would otherwise have gone to foster parents would go to the orphanages.
This would keep kids that haven’t really committed any crime out of juvenile detention centers.
I am making them mad to better destroy the system and traditions. It is working quite well. Too much pride in humans still at lower vibrations. They need a Hammer of God to fall on them a few times, to teach them humility.
One of the things that occurred to me as I watched the raving fat girl with the big knife chase others across the suburban lawns and walks, and then try to slash and slice them, was how right they were, back when our progressive forebears informed us that the root cause of violence and personal instability was dilapidated and crowded ghetto housing.
Enable people to dwell in pleasant, dignified, even green and spacious surroundings, and these problems will melt away forever, they said.
For, it is substandard housing, that drives people to crazy and criminal acts.
Remove that cause, and you will have eliminated the problem.
How right they were then; and how certain we should now be, that the progressives of our own time are just as correct in their dignoses of our present “social” ills.