LeBron James threatens officer who shot Ma’Khia Bryant: “You’re Next”
A policeman killed a black girl who was about to stab another black girl. The media, activists, and LeBron James don’t care that this policeman saved the life of one of those girls. They only care about the narrative.
One of the themes of our live event last night about the Derek Chauvin verdict is that mob rule and threats to burn cities made it difficult if not impossible to get a truly fair and impartial jury. The video of the event will be posted in a few days.
The Chauvin jurors, knowing that cities would burn and they would be doxxed and attacked if they voted not guilty, had to have felt the pressure. Even if there was sufficient evidence to sustain the verdicts, the threat of violence hung over and tainted the entire proceeding.
We have another good example of mob rule. LeBron James, possibly the most famous athlete in the world, issued at threat against the police officer who shot and killed Ma’Khia Bryant as she was about to stab another girl.
BREAKING: here’s the police body camera video just released by Columbus OH police showing an officer shoot and killed a 16 year old girl this afternoon. The police chief released no further details Other than to say the officer took action to protect another girl in the community pic.twitter.com/WXEzKIJRQ7
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) April 21, 2021
As we covered yesterday, the media and activists immediately created a narrative of a racist cop killing an innocent black girl, but it was all a lie, as we covered in Ma’Khia Bryant Police Shooting: Media and Activists Try To Stoke Racial Tension With False Narrative. Like so many other narrative lies in so many other cases, including the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, once a narrative is set, the actual evidence is disregarded and the deaths are exploited for political purposes.
Here is an image of LeBron’s tweet (via Hot Air) which now has been deleted and which in the original showed the officer’s face:
LeBron isn’t apologizing for the threat, he’s playing the victim of the outrage he created:
A policeman killed a black girl who was about to stab another black girl. The media, activists, and LeBron James don’t care that this policeman saved the life of one of those girls. They only care about the narrative, and will use threats to get their way.
(added) Heather Mac Donald accurately assesses the state of mob rule hovering over cases of police use-of-force cases:
America’s cities did not burn last night. But the terrified preparations in Minneapolis and elsewhere in anticipation of the George Floyd verdict—the razor wire and barricades around government buildings, the activation of the National Guard, the declaration in Minnesota of a “peacetime emergency,” the fortified police presence, the curfews, the cancellation of school, the boarded up businesses—raise serious questions about the rule of law in the United States. Had the jury failed to convict Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin on all three counts of murder and manslaughter, the ensuing riots would likely have made the conflagrations of 2020 look like a Girl Scout campfire.
This likely outcome was evident long before Congresswoman Maxine Waters encouraged such violence over the weekend. Last year’s precedent, the ensuing 12 months of wildly inaccurate rhetoric about white supremacy, and the recent looting in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, over a fatal police shooting made such rioting a virtual certainty. That inflammatory rhetoric poured forth from every institution in the country—from the presidency, Congress, corporations, law firms, banks, tech companies, academia, and the public school system. The mainstream media pounded home the narrative about unchanging black oppression. And even after the verdict, the White House (perhaps that name will be gone in another year) and the press have doubled down on the systemic racism conceit, despite the coordinated effort to convict among Minnesota’s public officials and the state’s most prestigious members of the private bar.
Going forward, it is an open question whether any police officer can receive a trial free from mob pressure, should he be prosecuted for use of lethal force.
LeBron James is a symptom of the problem.
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the SCOTUS has already spoken on punishing the mentally challenged.
maybe we should cut Mr’ 85 IQ a little slack.
85 is their average, LeBron their average. strikes me as being below
He may be a symptom (or result) of the problem but he is also a part of the problem.
No laughing matter – Le Bron James is actually a dumb guy, desperatey trying very, very hard to appear intelligent. Uh, not happening.
His desperation matches Bill Gates’ desperation to appear important to the world.
The “ad hominem” attacks are not very useful. I doubt any of those commenting on LeBron James’ IQ know him, and therefore, their comments say more about their critical thinking than Mr. James’. Keep in mind his background: pampered until he graduated from hight school and then moved directly into the NBA. I am sure he has not had the advantage of an education comparable to those reading this site.
On the other hand, everyone, including Mr. James should know you do not threaten anyone nor put a target on their back. If I were the policeman, I would look for the assistance of a good lawyer and sue Mr. James for $100,000,000, which is probably Mr. James’ two years income, for threatening him and inciting others to attack the policeman. In this regard, Mr. James has not, it appears, apologized to the policeman for the threat.
If the city of Columbus has to pay out one dime on this clean shot, then it is the end of policing everywhere.
which means the inner cities will revert back to the rule of the jungle, loosely tied Chiefdoms. where the strongest and the biggest rule.
in many places, this already exists
go long on NOGO zones, increasing every moment
Sort of a reverse Hunger Games?
hey, you don’t happen to comment on the AOS ?
The girl was HANGRY!
All said and done: that officer had INCREDIBLE reflexes and a superior mind.
Imagine someone as dumb as Le Bron James in that situation?
But they want to build low income, really no income but your tax dollars neighborhoods,
In our backyards!
But not in LeBron James’ backyard. Or any other rich, liberal elites backyard for that matter.
If James and the rest of the rich, liberal elites had to deal with these criminal blacks as their neighbors I assure you their response(s) would be quite different.
I so hope the NBA totally is done away with
Their money revenues have been hit with this BLM crap biggly
It’s time to put a fork in it and walk away… forever
I used to work part-time for the NBA and I quit watching the games when they started making it all about politics. That was before Covid.
I stopped watching the NBA long before The Covid™ pandemic when I realized it was just a bunch of overpaid, low IQ blacks bouncing a ball around a wood court for their white owners.
“I so hope the NBA totally is done away with”
The National Basketball Association is becoming the Chinese Basketball Association, and I could care less.
They could do something more useful than throwing a ball in a hoop, like picking cotton.
Chimpout forever! Time to surround these cities with walks, let nobody out, and keep the drugs and ammo rolling in.
Why was this girl in foster care and not living with her family?
Something’s wrong there.
this is trick question, right ??
She was getting into too many knife fights?
You mean something like mom not paying to raise her kid but she has enough to get her hair all done up? That entire community has their priorities backwards, and nothing will change until they get honest about it.
That’s not her hair. She appropriated it.
There was a name for the likes of James. “Uppity “. And, the uppity were put in their place. They still should be. James, and that (alleged) “Reverend ” from yesterday.
“THAT’S RACIST!:” It’s also fact, and we were all safer and things were far more stable.
you’re not the moderator of this site–try and remember that–whatever grizz wants to say or imply is his business–whether agreeable or not to me, is his right to express himself
regards james, he’s clearly in the wrong–his actions publicly reveal his character(or his lack thereof)
were he a man of honor, he’d admit his mistake and apologize to this officer and his family–again, his actions(or lack thereof) reveal his character
had james threatened a member of my family or one of my loved ones and then posted their picture on the internet, whatever i chose to call him would be the very least of his worries
the police are now gambling in a casino where there is sign above the door
YOU CANNOT WIN HERE
please cash your chips in
This type of crap will be driving quality people away from policing and leaving us protected by marginal cops.
Marginal cops could be the goal. The violent and corruptible make a more compatible match for the Democrats.
The Democrats are focused on a much larger goal: Nationalizing all police under federal government control.
It’s an exclusive club to the black community only WHITE officers are guilty. Given them what they want, NO WHITE OFFICER IN A BLACK MAJORITY NEIGHBORHOOD PERIOD!! No more should we keep putting white officers in danger, the blacks do not want to be policed AT ALL! So only PUT black officers in their neighborhoods! NEVER AGAIN PUT WHITE OFFICERS IN DANGER OF HELPING PEOPLE WHO DO NOT WANT HELP. ONLY BLACK OFFICERS IN BLACK AREAS!
I’d go along with that, as long as black cops stay away from whites.
Let me know where you want the segregated water fountains/bubblers, bathrooms, diner counters, and schools. Also, should all public transit have separate sections, or should each bus/train car be segregated & labeled?
This is insanity. We need to call it out for what it is.
The headline should read “LeBron James threatens officer who saved the life of a 13-year-old black girl: ‘You’re Next'”
how about “In the LeBron’s world, the victim would dead and Lebron is asking why the cops didn’t save her”
you cannot win with these goofballs
stay as far away from them as you can
Everyone is forgetting the she took a swipe with the knife at the other girl who fell backwards to avoid getting shanked. Pink girl would have been victim #2.
And I agree, distance is your friend.
Did an arrest of the guy who was kicking the downed girl in the head get announced?
Got it spot on! Stay away, put your money where you get a better return!
SOCIAL DISTANCING TODAY, SOCIAL DISTANCING TOMORROW, SOCIAL DISTANCING FOREVER
Why does LJ still have a Twitter account? There are so many mysteries in life. We shall never sort them all out.
Will Garland have the FBI investigate James? Show up at his mansion with a Swat team at 3:00 am? I have an idea: why not put James on the no fly list and designated as a domestic terrorist?
Wait. What? Are you saying James is not white?
White flight will increase and blue flight will become the new norm.
Cops need to get out of cities, and society needs to wall them off. Separate civilized people from uncivilized people.
I live a rural blue area. Big bust for cop is towing a vehicle with expired tags. Of course, there is a reason why it is peaceful and safe here.
I’ll let you guess why
As Basketball now has reached a new low. If his nose what not up the butt of Amy Schumer, he might realize that he is the white establishment that is hurting the rest of America.
LeBron, Shaun King, Deray McKesson and the rest of the blacktivist cult have bought into the absurd premise that ALL uses of force should be punished no matter how objectively reasonable.
https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1385051005344051203
No, it’s all use of force by “white” people against people deemed “non-white.” They do not seem to mind the “black” knife wielding girl attacking the unarmed girl (it’s claimed to be some sort of healthy right of passage by some deranged individuals), or the nightly slaughter total of “black on black” crime, or when a “black” person attacks someone of another race.
Not true. Black cops who use force against minority suspects routinely get the “uncle tom” treatment from progressives.
All cops are “white” by definition.
can’t argue with this
Too bad for them. Not my business.
With their exception which is: punish WHITE OFFICERS ONLY!
LeBron is too stupid to see that there was accountability, Murderous black B was terminated. She was held accountable. Now, when will Lebron be held accountable?
A good place to start is by boycotting all professional sports, stop feeding the beast.
There is tons of deranged blabbering on the progressive left about “holding people accountable.” They just never get around to a rational fact based reason for what their target de jour should be held accountable for.
Watch them howl when they are being held accountable.
I have !
They’re sowing the wind.
@LeBronMustFall
As I’ve said elsewhere, the white officer should have turned around and walked away from the altercation when he saw that it involved blacks and not gotten involved in the matter. He wouldn’t be any worse off if he had simply allowed the black perpetrator to stab (and potentially kill) the other black. At least he couldn’t be accused of killing an “innocent little 13-years old black girl”. Of course, the usual suspects and idiots like James would be howling in outrage that the officer didn’t stop the crime, but I guess you can’t have everything.
No really sure why my comment ended up as a reply to UJ’s comment. It wasn’t supposed to be that way. Don’t know what happened. Sorry, UJ
is it just me or does that cop look black ??
He’s in blackface.
Hey Jack Dorsey, where’s the twitter ban of James, that tweet certainly violated your use policy.
oh that’s right your AI didn’t find that one out of bounds.
Could we maybe tone down the racial rhetoric? The racial make up of any of the people involved isn’t the issue.
All LEO are in the ‘Blue/Cop tribe’. Surely we.all agree that, based on available information, any reasonable LEO would have responded the same: using deadly force to protect the life of a person being attacked by a knife wielding person who refused lawful commands to stop.
In the current environment every LEO, regardless of their race or gender are viewed, mistakenly IMO, as some sort of oppressive occupation force. The immutable characteristics of the LEO, the attacker, the girl being attacked, the man who kicked the the first girl the knife wielding attacker originally shoved down, the bystanders is not relevant.
By choosing to focus on the ‘racial’ composition of those involved we are playing into the hands of the d/progressive whackos who view everything through the prism of immutable characteristics.
Are you ignorant to the fact “a racial makeup’ idea is lead by blacks? Is this NOT racism on their part? Their condemnation is AGAINST WHITE OFFICERS, please explain that!
gran2ten,
‘.Are you ignorant to the fact a racial make up idea is lead by blacks’
No. I am quite aware of the current focus on immutable characteristics by d/progressive. I simply refuse to play by their rules. IMO, these abhorrent ideas of superiority or virtue solely due ‘race’ have long since been discredited and condemned.
‘Is this not racism on their part’
Of course it is, I didn’t state otherwise. I simply refuse to be bullied into adopting the false notion that I should view everything through a lens of ‘race’.
‘Their condemnation is against white officers, please explain that’
From my vantage point I see every LEO, regardless of ‘race’ being cast as a villain. Many videos exist showing LEO of every ‘race’ being castigated by angry weirdo mobs.
I would simply urge you to reject the d/progressive narrative that everything is about ‘race’ or must be viewed through some ‘racial’ lens.
Sorry they made it racial and it is about black culture
I wish they all had gone back to Africa
I never felt that way before
Liberia was a dream of Wakanda.
Keep your head in the sand, or wherever. The alt-light must eventually learn that reality is real, probably the hard way,
Binks,
I see the world for what it is. I choose not to be bullied or bludgeoned into adopting the false narrative being pushed by d/progressive/BLM that race is the only way of viewing life.
I reject that philosophy as false. The people who actually do choose to view everything through a ‘racial’ lens are, IMO, the true racists.
My home is secluded and has plenty of standoff distance with only one avenue of approach. Lots of thought, preparation and applied combat experience went into the design and placement.
I am well positioned to ride out any issues but I appreciate your concern. Others may not be.
“Surely we. all agree that, based on available information, any reasonable LEO would have responded the same:”
I am not sure about this. I think, based on available information, a reasonable LEO would have been sitting in the Dunkin Donuts waiting for the news of arrival of fire and EMT to the scene. Then I would expect him to leisurely finish his cup of Joe and stroll over to the scene Code 1 and take a report.
It’s not quite reasonable, yet, to expect a reasonable LEO not to respond to a call for service at, but we are headed in that direction.
I thought “Stormfront” was taken off the Internet.
Then I read “Legal Insurrection’s” comment sections.
funny, I’ve never seen that brought up here until an interloper posts it.
you lost me at “I thought”
@cgray451, if you want to make these stupid, inane, troll comments then I suggest your run back to Twitter® and do so with the rest of the sycophant liberal a-holes that infest that place. You’ll blend in much better there. Guaranteed.
So you are disappointed the cop didn’t let the girl stab the other girl. As for complaining about “Stormfront” that’s rich coming from a Jew-hater who supports the party of antisemititc demagogues like Sharpton and Omar.
In the name of equality, I propose that everyone in the NBA donate half of their income/salaries to the WNBA. It’s only fair.
LABRON: “I’m so damn of seeing black people killed by police.”
to which I rejoin, “I’m so damn tired of seeing black people.”
On tv
Al, Jesse, L’il Boy Crump, Black Nancy, Ole Black Joe, and the like …
I’m only tired of seeing the ones who think their skin color should give them a pass for bad behavior, and the ones that enable them.
He had me at…
James is vile; utterly despicable. Just another self-serving, self-aggrandizing, infantile Dhimmi-crat narcissist from the sports/entertainment industries.
It is long past time to put these people out of business.
This Ohio incident demonstrates for only the gazillionth time the Dhimmi-crats’ immutable and intrinsic dishonesty.
Actual instances of police misconduct involving black Americans are exceptionally rare, so, naturally, the Dhimmi-crats exploit and distort any incident they can, in order to gin up the black mob. They did it with Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, et al. Too many incidents to count. This dishonesty goes way back, to lionizing murdered Mumia Abu-Jamal, to lionizing the Black Panthers and their terrorism in the 1960’s and 1970’s. In other words, what we are witnessing unfold, today, is the bitter fruit of seeds planted by the Dhimmi-crats many decades ago.
Trayvon Martin doesn’t belong on that list, because it wasn’t even alleged to be police misconduct.
So why did this obscure shooting attract so much attention and become a bloody shirt for the black supremacist movement? My theory is that Al Sharpton, being a New Yorker, saw the name Zimmerman and jumped to the conclusion that the shooter was a Jew, and jumped at the chance to aggrandize himself by going after a Jew.
In New York and some other places, including southern Florida, that would not have been an unreasonable guess, though it could still easily have been wrong. In central Florida it was more likely to be wrong than right. And in this case it was very wrong.
And that’s how we got the “white hispanic” fiasco. Sharpton couldn’t actually say “Jooo”, so he said “white”, so that’s how the incurious and incompetent press reported it and believed it. When they heard he was hispanic they were still convinced he must be white, because Sharpton had said so, so they pointed out that many hispanics are white. Which is true, though this one wasn’t. By the time they realized their error it was too late to walk it back so they stuck with it.
Had Zimmerman used his mother’s name and gone by the name Jorge Mesa, none of us would ever have heard of him.
I referred to “any incident” in my post, Milhouse. I wasn’t writing exclusively about incidents of alleged police misconduct — I was referring to any incident that the Left will use to gin up the mob. This includes police shootings and civilian shootings (e.g., George Zimmerman). Obviously, George Zimmerman wasn’t a police officer, but, I put Trayvon Martin in the group for the reason of his martyrdom.That’s the commonality with the other incidents involving police — a black, sociopath criminal who was unjustly lionized by the Left and turned into a cause célèbre.
An interesting take on the development of that clown show. I think the only exception I may take is that the press ever had any intention to “walk back” or were “stuck” with their gross and deliberately misleading characterization of Zimmerman, Martin, and the incident.
Your post seems to indicate the press followed the Reverend Al. I think he sparked the idea perhaps, but the corrupt press took that idea and ran with it all the way in full leadership of content and purpose.
Watch vile Xi-den launch a DOJ investigation of the officer to placate the black mob. An investigation with even less of a credible basis than the one vile Obama and Holder launched into officer Wilson, after he justifiably killed Michael Brown in self-defense. Wilson didn’t have the benefit of body-cam footage to help clear his name.
Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren libelously accused Wilson of murder. Both are attorneys and ought to know better. https://www.factcheck.org/2019/08/harris-warren-wrong-about-brown-shooting/
Elsewhere:
Well, for one thing, Ibbie, she wouldn’t have been out on the street, swinging a shiv, brawling in public like it was “Yes Day” at the county zoo.
OK, maybe Lena Dunham. Or a Kardashian. But they’re just (what’s that black term?) “skinfolk.”
That’s the racist answer. The correct answer is that the policeman would have done exactly the same thing, but the bystanders would have immediately thanked him and cheered for him, there would have been no protest, and nobody outside that neighborhood would ever have heard of the incident.
Oh, unless the cop got a commendation, in which case it might have been reported somewhere on page 36 or so of the local rag.
Watch. At his next appearance on the court, his adoring fans will be cheering and shouting with glee.
The girl reminded |ebron of his momma.
That rookie officer did one helluva job in my book. It happened so fast and he made the right decision and managed to shoot the aggressor without hitting the girl in pink. Guys a hero and if LJ was any kind of man he would suck it up apologize and recognize the heroism of the cop.
Wake me up when lebron actually tries to change the black culture that hasn’t put any dent in black on black crime.
Same day as the shooting a 13 year old girl killed a 13 year old girl with a knife.
Haven’t heard a peep out of lebron on that one for any specific reason.
No wonder that in ancient Rome, entertainers who involved themselves in politics or government affairs were swiftly taken out and executed. The crime? Misusing their platform to influence the gullible.
The position of BLM and the woke “Left” is obvious. If the Black assailant had been allowed to kill the other Black person, the latter would have been just one more victim of Black-on-Black violence and therefore not useful to the Cause (as the woman who was forced out of Hardin-Simmons University pointed out quite accurately, they do not care about Black on Black violence, or white on white violence, or indeed any violence that is not white-on-Black regardless of justification).
The assailant’s death is however useful to the Cause because now they can bleat that “a pig killed a Black person,” same as they did when a cop shot a man, Hakim Littleton, who was on bodycam video aiming a gun at the head of the cop’s partner. The life of the Black woman who was going to be stabbed does not matter to them, and neither does the cop’s.
By the way, see what the Sandefer family has to say about Hardin-Simmons. It is not very complimentary.