[img]2953|right|Ezell Ford||no_popup[/img]Although “social justice”: seekers in Los Angeles strained so hard veins in their foreheads came out for daily airings, last August’s Ezell Ford cop shooting by the LAPD this afternoon appears to have crashed and burned as surely as the Air Asia flight.
An egg has been laid. Souring fast.
As my dear late non-friend Dorothy Parker said in another context, “There is no there there.”
Three shots, said the utopsy report. One, at close range in the back, killed him.
For four months, otherwise unemployed “social justice” marchers have had no more success gaining traction than they have spitting into a reverse-direction wind tunnel.
Is the Game Over?
Can we finally rest for awhile? Endless rounds of phony claims against assorted police departments by anti-ambitious young men and women have become as wearisome as President Obama’s lies. The poorly disciplined protestors should be supporting themselves instead of relying on their parents so they can read from giant-lettered scripts written by the Rev. Sharpton, etched in craggy crayon.
We read in Thomas Sowell’s latest essay that a black Alabama cop lately shot and killed an unarmed white teenager. The grand jury declined to indict. So? So what? Ditto for the baseless Brown and Garner cases wrought by the liberal media.
Liberal boys and girls are blowing smoke again, their favorite medicine for driving away an unnatural desire to become gainfully employed.
The kids are making a handsome life out of stoking the furnace of fake-racism. Liberal journalists embrace anti-cop claims with both feet, and the kids get their pictures in the newspaper, don’t you know.
Fishing for Bass
Guess who checked in this morning with a predictably meaningless We Wuz Robbed wail? The lovely U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Culver City, who read this unoriginal claim:
“I appreciate Mayor Garcetti’s actions today in requesting Ezell Ford’s autopsy be released to the public. I join with Mr. Ford’s family in grieving his death as well as wanting to make sure that justice is served.
“The information in the autopsy is one piece of evidence, but it does not tell the complete story. I echo calls for all witnesses to come forward to share their reports of what they saw last August. This information is vital to ensuring we have the full story of what happened.
“Ezell Ford’s family and the South Los Angeles community deserve a full and impartial investigation surrounding the tragic events from this summer. There are many facts to consider—including Mr. Ford’s mental illness as well Mr. Ford being shot in the back.
“I will continue to closely monitor the Los Angeles Police Dept.’s, the Office of Inspector General’s and the District Attorney's office’s investigations.”
