The Word Has Come Down: the democrat party is using the Patrick Lyoya hoax as its get-out-the-vote campaign for the 2022 mid-terms, and the current cornerstone of its abolition movement for issuing black criminal drivers free crimes, and disarming the police

By N.S.

Michael Tomasky, in The New Republic

Item two: Stop traffic stops

This police execution, and it can only be called that, of Patrick Lyoya of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is beyond belief. Lyoya, who was on his hands and knees with the cop on his back, had apparently reached for the cop’s Taser, but for God’s sakes, doing so doesn’t invite a cop to put a bullet in the back of a human being’s head—“like an animal,” as Lyoya’s father said. What kind of depraved mind thinks that is an appropriate use of force? If this cop, whose name we don’t yet know (and what right has the Grand Rapids Police Department to withhold his name, by the way?), is ultimately acquitted, God help us.

The policy issue here is traffic stops. You’ll have noticed, I’m sure, that many of these killings start as traffic stops, this one included.

Question: Why do armed police officers make traffic stops? There’s no logical reason for it. There should be an unarmed force of traffic officers who make these stops. Even if the motorist has a gun, how likely is he to use it on a uniformed officer who is unarmed? I’d say extremely unlikely. [N.S.: He can’t believe his own words. Then again, he’s paid to lie.] The armed motorist will know that shooting an unarmed peace officer is a really bad idea and will likely land him in prison for many years. The presence of the cop’s gun serves only to escalate matters.

[First, it was that police were doing something which somehow escalated matters in encounters with black criminals. Now, it’s the mere presence of their gun. What’s next? The mere presence of a White in a police uniform? Bet on it!]

In addition, traffic stops should just be minimized anyway. What’s the point? If somebody’s doing 60 in a 25 mph zone, sure, pull them over, they’re a danger. But say someone has expired tags. [N.S.: This wasn’t the issue with Patrick Lyoya, but it’s one of the lies that democrats and black supremacists formulated and are running with.] Just take a picture and send them a letter telling them they need to renew or pay a fine by X date. [The nypd tried that years ago. Black scofflaws simply ignored the dunning notices, and when the police came to arrest them years later, screamed “racism!” and “That was years ago,” and “It wasn’t me!” Tomaskey can’t possibly be that ignorant.] And some of the reasons for these stops are so picayune as to suggest that cops are looking for action—looking to hassle black people specifically. Sandra Bland, the Texas woman whose 2015 death in a jail cell was ruled a suicide [It was ruled a suicide, because it was a suicide, not as Tomaskey insinuates, a murder. And why did Sandra Bland commit suicide? Because her black family refused to spend the $500 necessary to bail her out!] was stopped because she failed to engage her turn indicator while changing lanes. [But that’s not why she was arrested. She was arrested, because she went crazy and picked a fight with the hispanic cop who’d pulled her over.]

Think about that. The cop in her case had a history of making “pretextual” traffic stops on very minor infractions and hoping to find evidence of criminality [Garbage.]. What’s the point? Obviously, cops are given incentives to make these arrests. That incentive structure has to be decimated. The vast majority of people aren’t breaking the law.

A number of jurisdictions are considering or have recently implemented putting unarmed officers in charge of traffic stops. In a few years, we’ll have good data, and I have no doubt it will show that deaths are down. But of course, just once, one of these unarmed officers will be shot, and fox news will go crazy with it, and Republicans will demagogue it, and whatever progress has been made will be lost.

[Anticipatory lying.]