Posted on 10/04/2022 10:55:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
How can the police say there is “no evidence” of a political motive when we have the accused’s own words suggesting that it was politically motivated?
North Dakota teenager Cayler Ellingson appears to be the latest victim of left-wing terrorism incited, then ignored by the national media. The lack of curiosity in the press about his senseless and apparently political murder is predictable, but what is surprising is the way local police appear to be following their lead.
Shannon Brandt, 41 and the accused in this case, told the authorities that Ellingson, 18, was a “Republican extremist” and that the two had been in a “political argument” before Brandt ran Ellingson over with his car late one night in September. Brandt told police that he feared Ellingson was calling other people to come and hurt him. But in a perplexing update, the North Dakota Highway Patrol stated there was “no evidence” of a political motive, or even that Ellingson was a “Republican extremist.”
How can the police say there is “no evidence” of a political motive when we have Brandt’s own words suggesting that it was politically motivated? And what is the purpose of the strangely gratuitous statement contradicting Brandt’s subjective, baseless characterization of Ellingson as an “Republican extremist?” The police almost appear to echo, if unintentionally, Brandt’s apparent belief that Ellingson’s murder would have been justified if he were a right-wing extremist. Ellingson’s politics, if he had any at all, are only relevant to the extent that Brandt’s perceptions of them motivated Brandt to kill.
Brandt’s paranoid, drunken rambling is that of a deranged man who sees neo-Nazis around every corner. “He’s [Ellingson] subdued. I was scared to death but he’s subdued, he can’t do anything to me now,” Brandt told police. What was Brandt scared of? Ellingson’s mother told police that her son, in her last conversations with him, considered calling up his “posse.” Did Brandt fear that an armed right-wing militia was on the way? If so, then Joe Biden has blood on his hands for stoking Brandt’s delusions.
This murder happened in a small town, and Brandt and Ellingson’s parents apparently knew each other. There’s a lot we don’t know. But as of right now, nobody has been able to answer this simple question: If the murder was not political, then why did Brandt say it was?
Some have speculated that Brandt tried to paint Ellingson as a right-wing extremist as a hastily conceived defense. But what would this “defense” say about Brandt? Would it suggest he is the kind of person with a strong distaste for political violence?
Brandt can find solace in this, at least: dehumanizing “MAGA Republicans” is a part of mainstream liberal politics in the Biden era, and to an increasing degree, it’s encoded in our justice system as well.
Last November, after an anti-white terrorist rammed his car through a crowd of Christmas revelers in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the police there rushed to deny what everyone could see with their own eyes. “This was not a terrorist event,” police chief Daniel Thompson said of the racialist bloodbath. The media were singing the same tune, even going so far as to blame the incident not on the attacker, but his SUV. It was pure gaslighting. When another black nationalist had fatally rammed his car into a Capitol Police officer on Good Friday months before, Metropolitan police chief Robert Contee rushed to declare, “it does not appear to be terrorism-related.”
Is the pattern repeating in the Ellingson case? Brandt was initially released on $50,000 bail before his charges were finally upgraded to murder, days later. The police are making what looks like a slipshod PR effort to defuse political controversy by suppressing rudimentary facts. The lefist media are all too happy for the help.
This teenager was murdered and Jo Jo the Puerto Rican Pedophile Clown was the one who put a hit out on him. Biden is a murderer.
There is a lot of coverup here. Some of it is just small town head in the sand don’t talk to outsider dumbass mentality. Some seems to be the state police trying to bury this case. Why? This is a very fed state and this happened in a red area. Who is bringing down the pressure to cover this case up?
DNC.....................
That might be but why does anyone in ND listen to them unless they are buying people off.
The Dems are wayyyyy more organized than the Pubbies.
They have their ducks in a row all the way down to the street level.
They know who, what, when and where to apply ‘pressure’ to make something ‘go away’...................
When this goes to trial, I wonder if the judge will prohibit any discussion of motive? With the J6 defendants, their “incorrect” political beliefs are being used to justify administering harsher sentences, but in this case, the opposite seems to be happening - the defendant’s political views are being swept under the rug.
Yes. Next question.
I think that everyone is misunderstanding the police statement.
I think what they meant was that there was no evidence that the POS’s lame statement of self defense was remotely true. The kid wasn’t political and there was no political argument or confrontation. This drunk yahoo ran the kid down for some other paranoid or pedestrian reason and made up the maga excuse as a cover story trying to present the murder victim as a perceived threat.
Which is why the charge has been upgraded to murder.
The police are saying what the politicians told them to say. They will lose their jobs if they say the truth.
Sounds reasonable.....................
From local coverage:
Upon completion of the autopsy, doctors reported that the nature and manner of Ellingson’s injuries showed that he was on the ground when he received them.
Doctors indicated that this meant that the injuries weren’t caused by being hit by Brandt’s vehicle — they were caused by being run over.
From local coverage:
Upon completion of the autopsy, doctors reported that the nature and manner of Ellingson’s injuries showed that he was on the ground when he received them.
Doctors indicated that this meant that the injuries weren’t caused by being hit by Brandt’s vehicle — they were caused by being run over.
Contrast this to when a Black child was ACCIDENTALLY run over by an Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn. Thanks in large part to Sharpton and other race pimps running their big mouths it triggered a spate of anti Semetic incidents, culminating in the stabbing of Yankel Rosenbaum. Funny how with this case suddenly the left tells us to avoid jumping to conclusions
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