What’s happening in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, is a reminder that living under social justice, as so much of the country does now, means no longer having the right to due process. That’s a privilege taken away by the mob on a whim.
During a press conference on Monday, the now-former city manager, Curt Boganey, resisted calls for the immediate firing of the police officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop the previous day. The officer, Boganey said, deserved due process, as does everyone else.
That naturally incited the already-inflamed social justice mob, which doesn't care about quaint ideas such as civil rights, the presumption of innocence, or facts in general. Social justice is a form of deliberate injustice, interested only in narratives about black people being targeted by racist police officers. And so, if Boganey wouldn't fire the officer, the mob wanted Boganey to be the one to lose his job.
No doubt reacting out of fear of violence, the City Council just hours later voted to unseat Boganey and hand authority over the police to Mayor Mike Elliott. (Prayers up for him. He'll need them.)
Mind you, Boganey didn't defend the officer who shot Wright and who has been identified as Officer Kim Potter. He said she deserved due process and that he intended for an investigation to detail what happened this past weekend. After all, someone did die, and once upon a time in the United States, it mattered why and how.
Maybe the investigation would show that Potter is a crooked officer who deserves a murder conviction. Shouldn't we find that out? I know it's a process and that it takes time, something the social justice monsters don't appreciate, but that's how it's supposed to work.
As described in my book Privileged Victims: How America's Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated Its Worst People, the mob doesn't want due process. It denies it to the police, white people, men accused of sexual misconduct, and just about everyone else.
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin is at this moment on trial for the death of George Floyd. Due process entitles him the right to a defense, and yet, even that is deemed an offense by social justice acolytes. Relevant facts to the case are that Floyd, a tall and muscular man, was agitated and resisted arrest when he was confronted by the police. He had drugs in his system and threw himself to the ground.
None of that is in dispute, but to point it out, as the defense is required to do, is, we're told, racist.
"Through the first two weeks of the trial, it’s evident Chauvin’s defense is almost entirely reliant upon racist stereotypes and junk science," wrote Rolling Stone's race hustler Jamil Smith.
Brett Kavanaugh was nearly denied his seat on the Supreme Court after facing the flimsiest accusation of a 30-year-old attempted murder-rape. Liberals, feminists, and Democrats, also known as the social justice base, all called for his nomination to be withdrawn before he even got a chance to defend himself.
Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student, was painted by the media as the poster child of white male privilege in the U.S. based on a deliberately misrepresented video clip on the internet. His reputation was shattered based on a lie, but under social justice, that's OK. Due process and fairness are not the point. Tearing people down for the sake of some perverted idea of what's fair is the point.
Fair: Ensuring someone loses his or her job and is perhaps thrown in prison without recourse.
Unfair: Asking questions and waiting for information.
That's what's happening in Brooklyn Center. It's what's happening everywhere.
