Do you feel safer under Donald Trump’s leadership? There has been a dramatic spike in homicides this year across our nation; 89 percent increase in Minneapolis, 105 percent in Milwaukee, Jacksonville, Miami & Phoenix; there’s been over 505 murders in Chicago this year. Domestic violence & property attacks have increased. There is a civil breakdown in our country. Shootings of civilians by police officers are up. The Washington Post reports: “1026 people have been shot & killed by police in the past year”; 36 percent Blacks, though they comprise only about 13 percent of our population. Recent high-profile incidents of Blacks killed or maimed, at the hands, knees or guns of police officers, have spurred protests & demands for criminal & social justice; we are facing a racial reckoning. Breonna Taylor’s MURDER — Unforgivable!
In Kenosha, WI, on 8/23/20, an officer shot 29-year-old, unarmed, Jacob Blake, in the back 7 times; he;s paralyzed, yet lives. Protests in the days since the shooting, we’ve seen arson, several businesses burned, and the Wisconsin national guard employed to extinguish the flames. There have been arrests of far-Right anarchists in Kenosha, in Portland, and elsewhere, for setting blazes and inciting violence. There have been instances of rioting & looting, but who are the culprits? Kyle Rittenhouse, 17-year-old militia-member, traveled from Illinois to Kenosha, with his mother; attended the 8/25 protest, where he killed 2 people, taking another’s arm with his AR-15. He was arrested 8/26 & charged with Intentional Homicide, yet Trump defended the vigilante on 8/31. Trump took his divisive fear-narrative to Kenosha on 9/1, even though both the mayor and Wisconsin governor, Tony Evers, asked him NOT to come. Kenosha was holding a community festival, seeking to heal their wounds; they do NOT need more division & angst instigated there. Trump said he was “going to create enthusiasm for law enforcement”, touting his bogus Law & Order campaign, actually a thinly-veiled provocation for a race-war. Some people hoped that Trump would try to unify the community, but how is that possible? Trump’s only campaign ploy is to try to blame Blacks & Democrats for the civil unrest, though he has stoked this chaos & violence. Trump is giving permission to all the white-extremists & Bugaloo-Boys to create Helter-Skelter. He warns of ‘bad times’ under a Biden presidency, and speaks of “dark shadows”, but this carnage, economic disaster, and Covid-19 spiking in many states is Trump’s America. Over 6.1 million cases, close to 200,000 deaths by week’s end. AWAKEN!
Trish Forsyth Voss
Sep 8 2020
We’re experiencing Trump’s America! Violence increasing under Trump’s leadership!
Do you feel safer under Donald Trump’s leadership? There has been a dramatic spike in homicides this year across our nation; 89 percent increase in Minneapolis, 105 percent in Milwaukee, Jacksonville, Miami & Phoenix; there’s been over 505 murders in Chicago this year. Domestic violence & property attacks have increased. There is a civil breakdown in our country. Shootings of civilians by police officers are up. The Washington Post reports: “1026 people have been shot & killed by police in the past year”; 36 percent Blacks, though they comprise only about 13 percent of our population. Recent high-profile incidents of Blacks killed or maimed, at the hands, knees or guns of police officers, have spurred protests & demands for criminal & social justice; we are facing a racial reckoning. Breonna Taylor’s MURDER — Unforgivable!
In Kenosha, WI, on 8/23/20, an officer shot 29-year-old, unarmed, Jacob Blake, in the back 7 times; he;s paralyzed, yet lives. Protests in the days since the shooting, we’ve seen arson, several businesses burned, and the Wisconsin national guard employed to extinguish the flames. There have been arrests of far-Right anarchists in Kenosha, in Portland, and elsewhere, for setting blazes and inciting violence. There have been instances of rioting & looting, but who are the culprits? Kyle Rittenhouse, 17-year-old militia-member, traveled from Illinois to Kenosha, with his mother; attended the 8/25 protest, where he killed 2 people, taking another’s arm with his AR-15. He was arrested 8/26 & charged with Intentional Homicide, yet Trump defended the vigilante on 8/31. Trump took his divisive fear-narrative to Kenosha on 9/1, even though both the mayor and Wisconsin governor, Tony Evers, asked him NOT to come. Kenosha was holding a community festival, seeking to heal their wounds; they do NOT need more division & angst instigated there. Trump said he was “going to create enthusiasm for law enforcement”, touting his bogus Law & Order campaign, actually a thinly-veiled provocation for a race-war. Some people hoped that Trump would try to unify the community, but how is that possible? Trump’s only campaign ploy is to try to blame Blacks & Democrats for the civil unrest, though he has stoked this chaos & violence. Trump is giving permission to all the white-extremists & Bugaloo-Boys to create Helter-Skelter. He warns of ‘bad times’ under a Biden presidency, and speaks of “dark shadows”, but this carnage, economic disaster, and Covid-19 spiking in many states is Trump’s America. Over 6.1 million cases, close to 200,000 deaths by week’s end. AWAKEN!
Trish Forsyth Voss
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