CNN, Officer Acquittal, and Deficit
By: W. Island
Tags: BlackLivesMatter, News, Racism

5 Things That Will Piss You Off This Week

1. CNN is goes full Fox

With all the Mueller report coverage, let’s remember that CNN tried to hire a Trump political operator with no experience at a major network and no real journalism experience at all to run their 2020 political coverage. When they received the blowback they rightfully deserved, CNN decided to just go full Fox on their own. This was an actual tweet from the CNN verified twitter account.

That’s right. They described Trump as being “bathed in a golden light”. A golden light like a halo? A UFO behind his head? Melania peeping out with a flashlight so she could make a run for it? I cannot imagine the thought process behind the person that tweeted this nonsense or the editor who let it pass.

2. Officer goes free for shooting at autistic man

Officer Jonathan Aledda was acquitted of shooting at a Black, autistic man who was sitting in the middle of the street holding a toy truck and hitting his therapist who lay on the ground with his hands in the air begging the police not to shoot them.

If you ever for a second think that racism has died or that racism is not ingrained into this country’s institutions especially the justice system, think about this case right here. This man in the middle of the street was clearly mentally challenged. The therapist, Charles Kinsley, ran into the street to protect him from the POLICE. Just think about that. And for this, the officer shot Mr. Kinsley anyway. Mr. Kinsley asked the officer why did he shoot him and the officer said he didn’t know. Black America knows why. That’s the saddest part to this story.

3. Another officer says hold my beer

San Antonio officer, Matthew Luckhurst, feed a shit sandwich to a homeless man. That’s right. Officer Luckhurst took old pieces of bread and put dog feces in it and left it near a sleeping homeless man. The homeless man thought it was from a local charity and started to eat it until he smelled the sandwich. This wasn’t even the first time Luckhurst played with shit. He smeared it over the toilet seat after a female officer asked that the restroom be kept clean.

Officer Luckhurst was rightly fired for feeding this sandwich to a homeless man but now he’s an officer again after winning his appeal. An officer who has already harassed women and homeless people back on the streets with the knowledge that he will face no consequences for his actions, what could possibly go wrong?

4. Kamala in Texas

Christopher Cadelago sent this tweet out about Kamala Harris’ visit to Texas. He even included Kamala Harris in this tweet.

After the bombs mailed to congressmen and the shooting of Gabby Giffords, why is this type of harassment allowed? Look, I’m sure Kamala Harris can handle this random dude cosplaying soldier but she shouldn’t have to. Open carry state or not, he should have never been allowed near the event and we do a disservice to our politicians by allowing them to be threatened this way. Side note, if anyone thinks officers like the ones in #2 and #3 would not be called if a Black man showed up with this weapon at an event for a White politician, they are delusional.

5. Federal deficit keeps growing and growing and growing

The US federal deficit grew by 77% in one year. Obama came into office with a deficit at $1.294 trillion. It fell to around $650 billion when he left office in 2017. Now it’s on track to top $1 trillion in Trump’s first term. So where are all the republicans who were so concerned about the deficit when Obama was in office? It’s almost like all those tea party, deficit hawks just didn’t like the Black man in the White House.