‘It’s unacceptable’: Police chief breaks down after protesters set fire to home with child inside

A Virginia police chief grew emotional as he recounted rioters torching a home with a child inside, saying that it was “unacceptable.”

Richmond Police Chief Will Smith repeatedly stopped to compose himself as he detailed how protesters blocked the fire department from responding to a multi-family residence that was set ablaze early Sunday during George Floyd demonstrations.

In Richmond, under the Democrats including former Mayor Ralph Northam, now the governor, “fire” is used as a form of “urban renewal”.

If the POS and his men didn’t arrest any rioters, then fu*k them. I had to pull my daughter out of college in Richmond because drugs were rampant and all the cops would do was to give college students tons of parking tickets despite knowing that there was limited parking at apartments and at school.

Richmond is a Potemkin village of liberalism. Underneath it is rotten.

But had anyone shot and killed the person who set the fire, that exact same cry-baby police chief would be telling the world how he was going to crucify the person who pulled the trigger.

This is why the police are the enemy during periods like this.

JoMa

[Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi bucked President Kennedy, and he went to jail.]

I remember hearing about that confrontation, but forgot the denouement. Thanks. However, the whole thing was a face-saving charade, disclosure of which may have destroyed his future electoral prospects:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Miss_riot_of_1962
[Governor Barnett, under pressure from the courts, conducted secret backdoor discussions in response to calls from the Kennedy administration between Thursday, September 27 and Sunday, September 30.[4]

Barnett was committed to maintaining civil order and reluctantly agreed to allow Meredith to register in exchange for a scripted face-saving event. Robert Kennedy ordered 127 U.S. Marshals, 316 deputized U.S. Border Patrol agents and 97 federalized Federal Bureau of Prisons officers to accompany Meredith during his arrival and registration.[5][6] ]

If he hadn’t buckled and actually gone to prison, there might have been real civil strife. I expect he wasn’t prepared to be a martyr for the cause.

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