Some 3 miles from the White House, two teenage girls killed UberEats driver Mohammad Anwar while carjacking the Pakistani immigrant with a Taser just last month. Such a murder by children too young to drive legally would be shocking enough any time, but amid a visible uptick in violent crime against Asian Americans and especially senior citizens, Anwar’s death was all the more shocking.
Neither President Joe Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris made any mention of the matter, despite their previous lip service toward solidarity with Asian Americans. This choice seems all the more baffling given the killings they have chosen to weigh in on.
Prior to the verdict in the case of Derek Chauvin, Biden made the baffling decision to proclaim publicly that a guilty verdict would be the “right” one, even after the judge in the trial warned elected officials not to make such proclamations, potentially giving the defense an arguments during an appeal.
Now, the White House has chimed in on the death of Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio. Bryant was killed by a cop as she, based on available body camera footage, tried to stab another girl with a knife. The shooting appeared so clearly justified that even CNN’s Chris Cuomo defended the cop on the grounds that a Taser wouldn’t have been effective, given the imminent risk of the other girl’s life. Don Lemon agreed that the cop had a duty to protect her, not Bryant.
But evidently, that’s not how the White House views it. Press secretary Jen Psaki said that the shooting was evidence that police violence “disproportionately impacts black and Latino people.” Mind you, the cop in question was protecting a black girl.
“She was a child,” Psaki said of the shooting, also ignoring that, based on the video, the other girl in question, who is still alive because of the shooting, was also a child.
The case of Chauvin was definitely about police brutality. It was only maybe about race. Whereas the men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery had a documented history of overt racism. Chauvin was more of a bad cop to people of all races. But the case of Bryant’s killing, based on the evidence at hand, is neither about police brutality nor race. So why is the White House pretending otherwise?
For one thing, Biden and Harris don’t want to complicate the narrative that helped them win the election. Just as prominent Democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders warned that Chauvin’s murder conviction didn’t actually constitute justice, Biden and Harris need to act as though racism is an unending and unsolvable problem that requires ever-more government power and control to solve. Cases like Bryant, then, must be misconstrued as racist violence rather than an unavoidable tragedy, and cases like Anwar, who was killed by two black girls, must remain unmentioned by the Left and their agents in the media.
And even more sinister, Biden and Harris must deflect from the real issue at hand: Why the hell are children trying to stab others to death and use Tasers on old folks to steal a car? Answering that question would bring about one of the great problems plaguing tens of millions of parents, namely why kids aren’t back in schools that would prevent them from this insanity in the first place.
