In the wake of a grand jury’s ruling to not indict three officers in Breonna Taylor’s death, Antifa and Black Lives Matter have moved on the city of Louisville, Kentucky in protest of the verdict. At the time of this writing, police have already clashed with protestors, two police officers have been shot, and several arrests have been made.
Much like when Officer Darren Wilson was not indicted for the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, trials such as these are powder keg situations. With both cases, and even before the rulings, mass protests, rioting, arson, and looting took place, with more chaos after the trials. These events between law enforcement and black civilians, whether justified or not, mobilizes the Left to take action and deepens the divide in the country as everyone picks a side.
From 1854 to 1861, the debate over whether Kansas should be a free or slave state also created civil unrest, which involved assault, murder, looting, and arson. Bleeding Kansas was one of the powder keg events that eventually led to secession and the War of Northern Aggression. Political lines were drawn, tensions were high, and violence erupted. After all, political parties are nothing more than warring factions fighting for control, whether it be through voting or violence.
Louisville, Kentucky may burn, just like the cities that fell victim to earlier protests; however, they may be able to mitigate the damage better than some of the other cities. Antifa and BLM will riot and loot as usual. Law enforcement will either crush the riots immediately or, under political pressure from elected officials, sit on their hands while rightwingers flock to protect their businesses and property and more Kyle Rittenhouses and Jake Gardners will be made. While I pray a war never comes, and peaceful separation is achieved, events like Breonna Taylor’s and Michael Brown’s are much like Bleeding Kansas; largely isolated unrest that will trigger a devasting event, regardless of which side it comes from.
Crawling out of the Everglades and guzzling a Monster energy drink.
Last time they rioted in Louisville the KYNG shot a black business owner with a M4. Course they didnt say in the news that the man was shooting a handgun at the troops from the door of his BBQ shop. As far as i know we were the only state to actually arm our troops for riot control.
for this riot they sent most of the state police force into Louisville armed with 1/2 inch hickory dowel rods.
last night i was watching the LMPD official riot response stream and the rioters came one ass hair of getting kent stated. after the one fired into the police lines they were ordered to load lethal rounds into their shotguns.
some other events:
A home invasion resulted in several shot. the intruders were 3 black clad whites in a suburban area. likely antifa goons taking advantage of diverted response.
A week or so ago a black man murdered 3 whites who were dining on a patio at a resturant in cold blood. he was wearing a BLM/Breonna taylor shirt and was smiling when arrested. this never left the local/state news.
outside the city a BLM group was going to a Confederate statue marking the crossing place of Gen. John hunt Morgan’s raid into Indiana and Ohio. they were going to pull it down. they were met with several hundred armed Kentuckians.
there have been many smaller events like this around the bigger 3 cities (Louisville, Lexington and Ashland). curiously i havent seen anything happening in the capitol but its a small town really.
the only true blue place in KY is Louisville. despite Lexington’s population of 1 million its more purple than blue.
That vast majority of these people are White Yankees bussed in from up North. But like last time, they’ll be frustrated by the Southern People’s stiffening resistance and failure to see them as liberators.
That any of this, including that which occurred in the middle 19th Century, is happening, is due simply to the fact that the North is a different and foreign nation from the rest of America.
As long as those people remain in the same political union as us, there will never be peace, social stability, or a return to a semblance of both normalcy and a republican form of government. Nor will there be an end to seemingly endless, new fangled social revolutions.