More lockdown racism
This entry is further proof that lockdown totalitarians were not the great social justice watchdogs that they claimed to be. What a shock!
A lawsuit is being filed over an incident that took place in Brooklyn back on May 2, 2020—during the height of COVID lockdowns. A Black woman is suing the city of New York and several police officers because police brutalized her during a gathering after a funeral.
The fact that police got involved at all debunks the claim that lockdowns were never enforced. While enforcement was more lax in some regions, it is simply incorrect to say that there was never any enforcement or arrests of lockdown violators—or that the only arrests were outside the United States.
A video captured police kneeling on the woman’s back during the incident. She was then taken away in a police vehicle. Cops had also harassed the woman’s friends and relatives who were gathering outside. Police slammed the woman to the ground when she recorded this harassment.
The woman faced charges of obstructing governmental administration in the second degree—a catch-all often used by New York police to go after lockdown violators. After she was taken to the police station, she was denied food, drink, and restroom access. It appears that prosecutors did not ultimately pursue charges, but the arrest was bad enough.
This lawsuit also says New York cops did not arrest or harass whites who violated lockdown, and that the plaintiff was a victim of racial profiling.
A lot of COVID catastrophists like to talk about how they fight against injustices like racism, but there’s very little evidence that they’ve ever fought racism in any meaningful way—or in any way, period. A decade ago, there were so many people of all backgrounds united to fight inequitable policies that plagued society. That accomplished a lot more than what has been vomited by the “new normal” town criers in more recent times—which has set back progress by a lifetime.
Here’s a more recent example of the “new normal” not being what it claims to be. In Portland, Oregon, a group of COVID maximalists who claimed to be anarchists recently crashed a real anarchist gathering because it distributed a newspaper opposing mask mandates. The fake anarchist group boasted about the incident on a website and announced their intent to burn all the newspapers. Instead, they ended up starting a big fight that injured some of the real anarchists. According to a post on Reddit’s “LockdownCriticalLeft” forum, some of the attackers had earlier gone to the playground where the event was held and dumped feces everywhere.
There’s a lot wrong in this world. The past 40 years have generally not been a time of great public policy advancements. But what has the COVID industrial complex done to improve things? It’s amazing they’re still telling people to lock down harder after four years. A vast majority of the public have moved on, yet a tiny, elitist cabal with big megaphones are still beating people over the heads with “new normal” bullshit. They must be lots of fun at parties.