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The illegal alien, Abdul Jalloh, that is the center of this story was arrested not once, not twice, not three times, but THIRTY times.
Before he was released yet again to stab Stephanie Minter to death in Virginia.
Because Virginia is not just soft on crime, but it also doesn't turn over illegal criminals to ICE even when there was already an order issued for their removal from the country . . . in 2020.
AWFULs, while supporting such sanctuary state and city policies, are very much in the pool of victims from the failure to deport criminals under these polices they support.
Must be something about AWFULs and not understanding the concept of consequences from the support of these virtue-signalling policies.
A student was stabbed by a classmate during school Wednesday at Gompers Elementary-Middle School, according to officials.
The stabbing occurred after the child’s mother reportedly gave her child a “small knife,” said a statement from the Detroit Public Schools Community District.
How did the eighth grader get the knife in past the metal detectors? Mom.
The mother entered the school through a metal detector that went off, the district said. The school’s security guard did not search the mother, according to DPSCD.
Bit of a security lapse there, and the guard was suspended for that breach in security.
Meanwhile, mom and child were arrested for the stabbing.
A stabbing on the University of Michigan Campus led to the following description of the attacker in the Detroit Free Press:
The alert, sent at 6:22 p.m., asked people to avoid the area of the Zina Pitcher and Catherine Street. A follow up alert, sent at 7:11 p.m., identified a suspect as a heavyset male wearing a white shirt, tie and jeans, and asked anyone who sees him to call 911.
Funny how this news article giving the description of the alert failed to mention a rather salient, useful, and kinda distinctive identifying feature.
I mean, there's a wide range of heavyset males wearing a white shirt, tie and jeans, even in Ann Arbor.
Oh yeah, that identifying feature, courtesy of the helpful campus alert.
You'd think that additional descriptor would be helpful in catching the attacker, but the mainstream media does not.
Anyhoo, the suspect is now thankfully under arrest and in custody.
Well he is for now, at least until Washtenaw County's progressive prosecutor's focus on racial equity and progressive justice lets him out the revolving door.
While not featured, and the media here is at least admitting that it was a man with a pistol that helped stop the mentally-ill stabber that attacked 11 people in a Walmart in Taraverse City.
About five minutes later, the man was surrounded by shoppers in the parking lot, including one who was holding a gun.
Both the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News managed to fail to mention that the hero with the gun who stopped the stabber happened to be Black - because that really wouldn't have fit the narrative.
Nor did they so much as mention that this hero was a law-abiding Black man who had a concealed carry permit and was legally carrying at the time.
Hero? Yes, he and the others certainly are heroes by taking action then and there to stop the attack and subdue the attacker - long before the police arrived.
And the stabber, to no one's surprise has a long history of both criminal convictions (with minimal sentences) and of mental illness.
We need to treat mental illness a lot more seriously in this country, and actually institutionalize those who are a danger to themselves and others, rather than let them wander free and assault others at will.
So a fellow, Porter Burks, with known mental issues, and prior run-ins with police, takes a knife and slashes his brother's car tires in Detroit and is roaming around the street.
Brother concerned for safety of Porter and the public considering that Porter is out wandering the street with a knife and acting psycho, calls the police.
Police then confront the fellow who refuses to drop the knife and who then decides to run towards the officers while still holding the knife and gets to within 6 feet of the nearest officer before being dropped by police, and he dies soon thereafter after being shot multiple times. Most of the incident video available at the link above with the Detroit News, but not the entire event.
The mentally-ill attacker is now, of course, being described as a happy straight-A student that liked to sing and dance (and apparently liked to stab people and things with knives, but that part is being left unsaid, natch).
Fieger is actually and rather very disingenuously suggesting that the police should have let themselves be stabbed rather than stopping the threat:
"Why you can’t figure out a better way to deal with him
than executing him by firing squad?” Fieger asked at Thursday's news
conference.
"You have all sorts of equipment, all that body armor
that police have," he said. "They have helmets, they have arm and
chest armor. They have bulletproof vests everywhere. Are you telling me that
today, you don't have sufficient equipment to send an officer toward somebody
with a 3-inch knife and instead you have to execute him?
"If that’s crisis intervention, God help us all.”
That actually is an effective crisis intervention when dealing with a person psychotically waving a knife around in public that decides to run towards someone with knife in hand after ignoring repeated requests and commands to drop the knife.
It's true that mental health care services suck and are overwhelmed, and we lack enough in-patient hospital beds to handle all the mentally ill in Michigan and the US for that matter. That was a choice made by politicians to both save money and the quaint idea that the dangerously mentally-ill were just seeing the world different and it was fine for them to be out and about until they kill someone, then politicians act all surprised that that occurred. So the police and jail become the first line of treatment for mentally ill individuals that choose to act out violently.
But, one could still ask why the family didn't have the fellow getting in-patient treatment or at least regular out-patient treatment, considering he had stabbed at least one family member previously (report is unclear if it was multiple family members or multiple incidents), and was known to have what have been described by the family as "psychotic breaks", but that wouldn't help with the chances for winning the ghetto lottery, now would it?
In the place Where Great Britain used to be, there's a current push to ban knives, because someone might very well hurt themselves, and the Brits are going through a spot of "knife violence" with London overtaking New York in murders. Just like gun control, it's a wrong-headed focus on the tool rather than the criminal, continues the obsession of blaming crime on inanimate objects, and will likely give much the same results.
But, in their quest for a fully disarmed citizenry, the Essex police have stooped so low as to defame Cookie Monster and associate him with knives, violence, and cowardice.
To depict Cookie Monster in a picture under the title "Only Cowards Carry" depicts him as a craven coward associated with criminals that use knives, including Swiss army knives (yes, really), screwdrivers, and broken bottles is a most base insult.
