AOC doubles down on defunding cops: crime wave is "hysteria" after AR cop is murdered

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Far-left Rep. and former bartender Alexandria Obviously-Comatose (Socialist-NY) doubled down on her call for defunding the nation's police. In a video this week, the anti-American congresswoman claimed that concerns about exploding crime rates across the country are "hysteria," in spite of crime statistics proving otherwise. But why let facts get the better of your feelings when you're an unintelligent leftist?

Large cities have seen an average surge in crime by more than 30 percent.

“The FBI does not release full statistics until September, but homicide rates in large cities were up more than 30 percent on average last year, and up another 24 percent for the beginning of this year,” The New York Times, reported, adding that “in the aftermath [of George Floyd’s death], some criminologists attributed the spike in homicides to hesitancy among residents to turn to the police for help.”

Ocasio-Cortez downplayed the rise in crime, claiming that news headlines were “hysteria.”

WATCH: Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls the concerns over the spike in crime "hysteria" pic.twitter.com/MMZ2dlAhpM

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch)

Ocasio-Cortez agrees with far-left Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), who said during the video event that the police should be defunded. Idiots like Bowman and AOC base these feelings on outliers like George Floyd's death by former Officer Derek Chauvin. They fail to consider the facts that clearly show that Blacks disproportionately commit more violent crimes than any other demographic in the U.S. and unarmed Blacks are killed by police far less than Whites--less than 20 per year out of the millions of police interactions that happen annually.

But the left never lets the facts get in the way of their feelings. 

“I agree with Representative Bowman," AOC said through her nose, "that I do believe that we need to reallocate resources away [like her Green New Deal] and that a big, you know, major causes of this — and by the way, I also think it’s important context because we hear on the news and media, they perpetuate this idea of crime wave, crime wave, crime wave, right? And so this idea that a lot of us are panicked thinking that we are at some unprecedented level that we’ve never seen before.”

Bowman is facing controversy over his repeated calls to defund the police after The New York Post reported this weekend that he requested special police protection at his home in New York earlier this year. It's the do as I say, not as I do hypocrisy you frequently hear from the left.

“About a week after the Jan. 6th incident at the Capitol, we received a request from the Congressman’s office for increased police presence at his residence,” Yonkers PD Detective Lt. Dean Politopoulos told the New York Post. “In response, our Intelligence Unit was notified of the request and the local precinct instituted what is called a directed patrol at the Congressman’s home for the next two weeks.”

Politopoulos reportedly said that nothing unusual had been detected in Bowman’s neighborhood for years. The report noted that the day after the January 6 riot, Bowman told a radio host that he had been “safe pretty much throughout the event.”

A spokeswoman for Bowman claimed that the police were called because Bowman “received threats,” although she did not elaborate on the “threats,” and she reportedly ducked questions about Bowman’s hypocrisy given his repeated support for defunding the police.

Meanwhile, and Arkansas police officer was fatally run over and dragged by a vehicle on Saturday. Two suspects were captured and charged with capital murder and attempted murder.

Officer Kevin Apple

Shawna Rhae Cash, 22, and Elijah Anadoloza Sr., 18, were charged with capital murder and attempted capital murder and booked into the Benton County jail hours after they allegedly peeled out of a White Oaks, Arkansas, convenience store parking lot, leaving the officer dead, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

The suspects were finally caught in Bella Vista, approximately 100 miles north on the border with Missouri.

Pea Ridge Police Officer Kevin Apple, a 23-year law enforcement veteran, and his partner Officer Brian Stamps were attempting to speak with the driver of the parked Jeep when one of the suspects rammed a patrol vehicle and struck Apple, FOX 16 in Little Rock reported. He died at the scene.

Apple and Stamps wanted to speak to the driver because the department was searching for a Jeep suspected to be linked to a property crime. It appears they found it and it cost the officer's life.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson ordered flags in the state to be flown at half-staff Saturday.

U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas tweeted that he was praying for Apple's family and friends "during this terrible tragedy. Our police officers risk their lives each day to protect us from violent crimes, and we must continue to support their efforts."

AOC, ever the leftist, disagrees.

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UPDATE: Cowardly Arkansas governor vetoes bill limiting children's genital mutilation

The bravest political office holder is the lame duck. 

Lame ducks don't need to be concerned about being reelected, so they can vote for or against bills that come before them in the way they see fit. But there are some politicians on their way out of office who either need approval or are too cowardly to go against the cultural flow of the woke.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) is such a coward. He vetoed a bill banning the surgical mutilation of children's genitalia to make them look like the opposite gender. This is unconscionable and quite disgusting.

The law, titled the "Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act," would have prohibited doctors in the state from performing gender reassignment surgeries on minors [children under the age of 18] who are attempting or considering transitioning genders. 

Of course, one really cannot transition, or change sexes, but that's the lie we are being told by the left.

The law also banned access to reversible puberty blockers and hormones. Prior to the veto, Arkansas was poised to be the first state to ban these practices for minors, now due to this cowardly garbage heap of a governor, Arkansas has joined the blue states.

Hutchinson described the bill as a "product of the cultural war in America" and criticized it for being a "vast government overreach" of power. He's wrong--protecting children from the bad decisions they make needs to be done by their parents, and when that isn't possible, by the law. Hutchinson knows that but is too afraid to stand up to the woke mob.

The Republican Party needs to grow a pair.

UPDATE: The Arkansas legislature overrode the veto and the bill has passed.

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There are no "botched" capital punishment executions

(Photo: Ark. prison photo)

Varner, Arkansas -- Kenneth Williams was initially sentenced to life in prison for killing 10-year-old Dominique Hurd, a cheerleader at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. 

Dominique (aka "Nicki") was described by her college coach and friend, Karen Blunt. She said, "Dominique was very, very smart . . . intelligent and full of life. Her soul was beautiful."

Nicki was studying to become a physician.

Court documents explain that Kenneth Williams, 19, kidnapped Hurd and a male friend at gunpoint. He drove them to several ATMs to get money and shot them both, emptying his gun, and drove away in a stolen car. This all came after he made the friend pull down Nicki's underwear and photograph her before he shot them.

The friend survived but Nicki died at the hospital.

Dominique Hurd

He was found guilty and sent to Cummins prison. But at the conclusion of that trial, he taunted the Hurd family by turning to them after the sentence was announced and saying "You thought I was going to die, didn't you?"

While serving time for Hurd's murder, Williams escaped from the prison in October 1999 in a 500 gallon barrel of hog slop. 

He walked two miles down the road and broke into the home of Cecil Boren. He confiscated Boren's guns and shot him six times before stealing his vehicle. 

Then he drove to Missouri but crashed into another vehicle as he was being chased by police. The wreck killed the other driver, Michael Greenwood.

In 2000, he was sentenced to death.

Numerous appeals had been filed by Williams' attorneys, including the claim that he is "intellectually disabled" and thus is ineligible for execution. They filed a final appeal Thursday claiming his medical conditions such as his sickle cell trait and lupus, puts him at risk for severe suffering during the execution.

He even became a Christian in prison and is sorry he shot all those people and killed a man with a stolen car. 

Unfortunately for Williams, his attorneys didn't have expertise in medicine nor psychiatry and thus couldn't prove that he would suffer as he made others suffer in fear as he murdered them in cold blood.

In a final attempt to save his life, he wrote to Arkansas reporter Deborah Robinson saying that he is sorry.

"To the families of my victims, to whom I have brought pain, great loss, and suffering, as shallow as 'I am sorry for robbing you of your loved one' can sound, I would rather say it, and mean it, than not say it at all," Williams wrote, not sounding very mentally challenged as his attorneys once claimed.

He asked for clemency so he could demonstrate to the parole board "I was no longer the person I once was. God has transformed me, and even the worst of us can be reformed and renewed."

Along with Williams, seven other Death Row inmates fought against their executions like their victims fought for their lives before they were killed by them. The grounds for a stay of execution was that the sedative used by Arkansas--midazolam, a drug to render them unconscious in botched executions in other states--didn't reliably prevent a painful death. 

In other words, the execution may have caused them pain because they couldn't peacefully go unconscious before their lives ended. Kind of what happened to 19-year-old Dominique Hurd when she was shot repeatedly as she lied awake as bullets pierced her flesh and entered vital organs.

The Arkansas Supreme Court denied the claim.

Lethal injection historically required a 3-drug cocktail: first was sodium thiopental, aka pentobarbital, to put the killer to sleep; then pancuronium bromide to bring on paralysis; and finally, potassium chloride to stop the heart. 

When Williams was given a lethal injection (after the injection site was swabbed with alcohol to prevent infection) on Thursday, he began lurching and convulsing before he died. This prompted calls for investigations and renewed exploration of Arkansas' effort to do a wholesale execution of eight killers before the drug expired at the end of the month.

Williams became the fourth convicted killer in eight days to get what he gave to others.

An Associated Press reporter who witnessed the execution said that about 3 minutes after the injection was given, Williams' body rapidly jerked 15 times, lurching violently against the restraint across his chest. Then the rate of jerking slowed to a final five.

J.R. Davis, a spokesman for Gov. Asa Hutchinson (who didn't witness the execution, said the movements were "an involuntary muscular reaction" that is a widely known effect of midazolam, the first of the three drugs given.

Williams' lawyers, who themselves and whose own friends and families were not affected by the Williams' murders called witness accounts "horrifying" and demanding an investigation into what they termed the "problematic execution."

The ACLU of Arkansas called for a review, saying the state may have violated the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.

Blowing up a person, as Kim Jong Un had ordered, with an anti-aircraft gun is unusual, but it's probably quick and therefore not cruel. 

Beheading someone with a knife or sword is cruel, but unfortunately, it is not longer unusual.

But causing lurching and convulsions resulting from a tranquilizer injection just prior to death doesn't seem so terribly cruel to the victim as much as it does to the witnesses. 

Funny how people call upon the US Constitution when it suits their needs, but when it doesn't, they say it's irrelevant.

On Friday morning Republican Sen. Trent Garner, who witnessed the execution, tweeted that Williams did not "seem in pain . . . It was not cruel, unusual, botched or torture."

"Any amount of movement he might have had was far less than any of his victims," said Jodie Efird, one of Boren's daughters, who witnessed the execution.

State officials called the string of executions a huge success giving "closure" to victim's families.

All of the Arkansas inmates died within 20 minutes of their executions outset. In other states where midazolam was used, some executions took anywhere from 43 minutes to two hours.

Why not just give them something like ether to put them under before putting them out?

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