90 Miles From Tyranny

Sunday, November 29, 2020

Dem Run City Hits Highest Homicide Rate in Over a Decade After Council Votes to Defund Police By $150 Million

Ill-informed social justice movements and progressive policy proposals have defined 2020.

Coronavirus lockdowns, universal mail-in voting and mask mandates were horrible ideas, but perhaps the worst social-justice-warrior proposal of all came in response to the neo-Marxist Black Lives Matter movement:

Defund the police.

In the wake of the May death of George Floyd, the Minneapolis man who died after an officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, BLM’s influence surged into mainstream America’s consciousness.

“Defund the police” then became one of the left’s favorite slogans.

Ultimately, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, a Democrat, caved to progressive demands by cutting his police force’s budget by $150 million, and the City Council approved the cut in July by a vote of 12-2, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The LAPD will be down to just under 10,000 officers by next summer — a staffing level not seen in the city since 2008, the Times reported.

L.A. citizens now are paying for that funding decision with their lives.

Nearly five months after the budget cuts were announced, Los Angeles has reached 300 homicides for the year, marking the highest such number within the city since 2009, as reported by KABC-TV.

According to Police Chief Michel Moore, the budget cuts are directly affecting the department’s response to this year’s rampant uptick in violence, which he described as “a pandemic of ...

2-4 Hour Lines Outside Supermarkets Due to New Mexico Gov’s Lockdown

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) has put immense pressure on businesses with her “abrupt” lockdown order – forcing “nonessential” businesses to close and creating what has been dubbed “modern breadlines” — with people waiting 2-4 hours to enter essential retailers, former GOP Senate candidate Elisa Martinez explained during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday.

Martinez, a former U.S. Senate candidate and Trump campaign surrogate, said that there has been a lot of downward pressure on the economy and people of New Mexico due to “ridiculous mandates” pushed by the governor, imposing some of the “strictest lockdowns” in the country. Martinez discussed the governor’s “abrupt” November 13 announcement, which put residents under another lockdown, closing businesses deemed nonessential.

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The lockdown, which went into effect November 16, created a “huge rush to all of the stores,” which Martinez said was “very counterintuitive if the idea is to stop the in-person contact.”

The governor ultimately capped capacity in retail stores to 75 people, regardless of size.

“So now we’re experiencing 2-4 hour lines outside in the cold — some areas of the state it’s snowing, raining,” she said.

“I had an elderly woman contact me. She was waiting in line for two hours to get their meds — to get their, you know, essential medicine. So it’s making a public health emergency worse in my opinion for the people of New Mexico, especially leading up to Thanksgiving,” she said:

The issues were further compounded, she said, “by the fact that she also declared that if you have four rapid response coronavirus tests that came back in one of these essential businesses, that the whole business, the whole store, had to shut down.”

That resulted in at least 12 stores across the state closing “in these smaller communities.” She added that it is “all up to the whims of the governor to declare what is essential and not.”

Lujan Grisham’s order ultimately put pressure on mom and pop stores, she continued, explaining that Democrat governors are “enriching corporate empires like Amazon and Walmart.” All the while, Hollywood productions are allowed to...