Rita Panahi: Black Lives Matter protesters use Walter Wallace’s death as excuse to riot
BLM protesters have unleashed mindless violence masquerading as social justice activism after a man wielding a knife charged at police and was shot dead, writes Rita Panahi.
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They’re rioting again.
A man wielding a knife charges at police, is shot dead and BLM protesters seize on the incident to engage in more looting, rioting and violence.
Here are the facts of the case: Walter Wallace, who had an extensive criminal history, was armed with a knife, refused repeated requests to drop his weapon and instead advanced towards police before being shot multiple times.
All this is on camera.
Wallace was then bundled into a police car and rushed to a hospital in Philadelphia but sadly he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
They’re looting Walmart now in Philadelphia tonight pic.twitter.com/62S1QD5QLd
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 28, 2020
As cops attempted to stop a car during a protest in NYC, they broke the windows and the car drove through the line of bike cops. We are unaware if there were any injuries. pic.twitter.com/0DPKPclJOm
— @SCOOTERCASTER (FNTV) (@ScooterCasterNY) October 28, 2020
I have two questions for those rioting and the activists and commentators who are already claiming this incident is an example of institutional racism.
What were the police meant to do?
Are police officers meant to allow themselves to be stabbed to prove they are not ‘systematically racist’?
The latest BLM unrest began in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but has already spread to New York where anti-police agitators left a trail of destruction in Brooklyn.
The Philadelphia riots will be making the Biden campaign nervous given Pennsylvania is a key swing state. Voters have grown weary of violent uprisings by Leftist agitators.
Democrats have proudly stood beside BLM and had hoped to capitalise on the racial unrest across the country after the killing of George Floyd.
Kamala Harris even encouraged people to donate to a fund raising bail money for those arrested during the often violent protests.
Mass looting breaks out at clothing and shoe store during tonight’s BLM riot in Philadelphia. pic.twitter.com/htXN1rsbCk
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) October 27, 2020
Chopper 6 over the scene as a Foot Locker in West Philadelphia is looted following the death of Walter Wallace, who police say was shot by officers after he would not drop a knife. https://t.co/BtTPSlQIwI pic.twitter.com/7hNeLEvJCM
— Action News on 6abc (@6abc) October 27, 2020
However, in August their internal polling and focus groups began to show that voters were disturbed by the violence of BLM and Antifa protesters who are uniformly anti-Trump.
CNN activist journalist Don Lemon said the quiet bit out loud when he said the “rioting has to stop” because it is “showing up in the polling”.
Support for BLM among white independent voters plummeted from a net 24 per cent in early June to 3 per cent in late August, according to research by polling company Civiqs.
Philadelphia has already seen two nights of violence with police losing control of multiple city blocks.
At least 30 officers have been injured including a female officer run over by a pick-up truck.
Other officers were hit with projectiles including bricks, bottles and rocks.
The rioting and looting has continued despite Wallace’s father, Walter Wallace Snr, imploring protesters to stop the mayhem.
“Stop this violence and chaos … People have businesses. We all got to eat,” he told the Philadelphia Inquirer.
BLM may be lauded by celebrities, academics, corporations and the Democrats but they are a toxic, neo-Marxist group who are openly anti-police, antinuclear family and of course anti-capitalist.
What they have unleashed is mindless violence masquerading as social justice activism.
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