Important to note: God forbid you are walking on a sidewalk & which some rando finds offensive and decides to verbally assault you and nearly poke your eye out. Your response will be fully documented. /1 https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1274552040417406977

But don’t ever think you will be safe documenting what is transpiring on the other side. /2 https://twitter.com/julio_rosas11/status/1274534745385381889

Mayor @KeishaBottoms needs to secure this site immediately. It is private property and the site of nightly mayhem.

Why she has not asked @GovKemp for National Guard support is just ridiculous.

By now it is clear to the entire nation that she has lost the support of the APD /3

Rightfully so. Having talked to officers in other nearby jurisdictions, they refuse to help.

Why would they after 8 officers have been fired or charged largely at her insistence? The officers are not going to risk their lives or careers with an /4

embattled & politically craven DA who is operating outside of all traditional norms.

The shocking lack of leadership by @KeishaBottoms to bring this insanity under control is now on the national stage. /5

And in crippling law enforcement after nearly 2 decades of reductions in crime she is going to cripple the city economically for years to come.

If she doesn’t exert some leaderhip, Atlanta will go down the same path New York is currently on. /6 https://nypost.com/2020/06/19/nyc-shootings-surge-after-nypds-anti-crime-unit-disbanded/

And Minneapolis. How many additional lives, to include black lives are going to be lost because these Mayors refuse to bring law & order to their cities?

Last count I saw, 15 people have lost their lives in these riots. Add the one in Seattle yesterday. And the gobsmacking /7

number of shootings in Chicago. They are on track to double the number of murders seen last year. Most of the victims are black & it’s not police doing the shooting.

Almost makes you think this is not about the value of black lives at all. /8

Here is the cofounder of the movement saying what ideology underscores their movement: /9

https://twitter.com/ritapanahi/status/1273739801464725504?s=21 https://twitter.com/ritapanahi/status/1273739801464725504

So why are corporate America & most of our major institutions supporting a Marxist movement?

Great question. And one everyone (which literally means everyone) who condemned the death of George Floyd should be asking. /10

How did that case, which had near universal agreement end up with anarchy & violence in the streets?

Why are poweful people & institutions taking a knee for a political movement that espouses an ideology that is diametrically opposed to the Anerican system /11

which has made them wealthy and powerful? Great question.

I would assert it is a lack of courage, principles & intestinal fortitude.

It would take courage to say that absolutely no one disagrees with the statement black lives matter. /12

Then courageously start a dialogue about the things that will actually improve lives in our inner cities & disadvantaged communities.

Hint: Marxism & a separatist movement isn’t it /13

Those who try to start those conversations in good faith based on research and data are routinely silenced. Probably why @larryelder made this movie: /14

I am all in for having discussions around solutions that INCREASE opportunity, mobility & individual freedom. American ideas that have helped to lift record numbers of people out of poverty globally.

I am not going to support a political movement that embraces an ideology /15

that our forefathers died to beat back from the European continent nearly 100 years ago.

One that only lifts up the powerful & has proven time & time again to make the lives of ordinary citizens equally shitty & drastically less safe. /16

So if I am going to donate, my dollars are going to go to @WoodsonCenter @SuccessCharters or @MAJTOURE

Their organizations focus on fundamental freedoms, opportunity & individual responsibility. Real solutions that improve lives. /end