Critical thinking skills are evidently a rare commodity over on the left side of the political spectrum, given a recent online debate about the contrast between the arrests of the white El Paso mass shooter and Eric Garner, the black man who died in 2015 during a struggle with New York City police after being placed in a chokehold.
A Twitter user, Yvonne, wrote the contrast, “Looking at how they casually arrest a white man who just killed 19+ americans vs. how they treat an unarmed black man for ‘selling cigarettes’ tells you everything you need to know about the current state of America.”
Looking at how they casually arrest a white man who just killed 19+ americans vs how they treat an unarmed black man for “selling cigarettes” tells you everything you need to know about the current state of America#walmartshooting pic.twitter.com/HMRDY5CSRG
— Yvonne ? (@Yvonne_Nicole_) August 3, 2019
The straightforward difference is that the 21-year old El Paso shooting suspect did not resist arrest and was taken into custody “without incident,” according to El Paso Police Department Public Information Officer Sgt. Robert Gomez.
On the other hand, in the controversial and widely publicized Garner case, the suspect fought the officers who were attempting to place him under arrest.
One resisted, one didn’t. It’s not that complicated a concept, it really isn’t, if you resist the police, no matter what the crime committed, they will take you down by force. #walmartshooting pic.twitter.com/1vNyfKzhNM
— Jack Furnari (@JackBPR) August 3, 2019
Should the police have beaten the shooter to death rather than take him into custody for investigation?
— Jay Doolittle (@Thespis80) August 4, 2019
everything is always about race, how about he didn’t resist arrest????
— Brian (@BrianR1977) August 3, 2019
Don’t even bother . Idiot virtue signaling white girl . A dime a dozen . Liberals see race everywhere .. racist .
— BeckyLee01 (@Lee01Becky) August 3, 2019
The simple racist angle needed a bit more, so those who continued to argue the issue said that Garner’s alleged crime of selling untaxed cigarettes should not even be a crime.
Agreed. But whose person or property did Garner violate?
No victim, no crime.
— Locke Wiggin (@Locke_Wiggins) August 3, 2019
BPR President Jack Furnari aimed to set the wayward, misguided lefties straight in a series of tweets and responses:
No, he violated a law. Selling cigarettes without a tax stamp is a serious felony. It may be a stupid law, but it’s not the job of the police to adjudicate the law, they only enforce it.
— Jack Furnari (@JackBPR) August 3, 2019
Using the chokehold they used on him in New York especially is also violating a law…yet nothing happened to the officer and garners dead so where’s the justice in that
— Joshua? (@durodola_joshua) August 4, 2019
No, it’s not actually a criminal law, it’s a violation of NYPD policy. That’s not a law.
— Jack Furnari (@JackBPR) August 4, 2019
The argument took a more philosophical bent when Locke Wiggin talked about rightful authority:
Any legitimate authority police have is an extension of the authority we, as individuals have; to defend life, liberty and property. We pay police to act in that capacity, on our behalf. Beyond that, they have no legitimate authority, because we can’t give it to them.
— Locke Wiggin (@Locke_Wiggins) August 4, 2019
Funny, I’ve often described myself to political friends as a conservative-libertarian Anarcho-capitalist, but you’re talking political theory, not real life.
— Jack Furnari (@JackBPR) August 4, 2019
In the case of the El Paso shooting, what is most unusual is that the shooter does not seem to have had a death wish. It appears that at some point before his arrest he laid down his weapon and when he was confronted by law enforcement, he took no evasive or combative actions that would have potentially resulted in a justified and forceful police response.
The dialogue over the issue of police brutality and racial injustice is ongoing and unfortunately is not likely to be resolved anytime soon, given the determined efforts by many in politics and the media to focus on and inflate the worst-case examples that bolster their political positions.
CONFIRMED: The El-Paso shooter is 21 year old Patrick Crusius. A white nationalist. After slaughtering everybody in sight at a Wal-Mart, in spite of being heavily armed, police magically found a way to take him into custody ALIVE AND WELL.
He doesn’t have a single scratch. pic.twitter.com/shWwAO8AYv
— Shaun King (@shaunking) August 3, 2019
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Victor Rantala is an Army vet who lives in Minnesota, he is a former intelligence analyst and business owner, and is an NRA Life member who is officially retired but has yet to slow his roll.
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