Racial pogroms and excessive violence
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has presented statistics on deaths in 2020. The number of pandemic deaths was up 15% from 2019. But not all of them died from the coronavirus: the number of homicides, for example, jumped by as much as 29% over the year.
Back this spring, FBI statistics showed: America is back in the ’90s in terms of violent crime. Now it was confirmed by CDC officials: such a significant number of homicides America has not seen since at least 1997.
The excess death toll from murder exceeded 5,500 people on the back of a wave of “liberation pogroms”. Their lives were laid on the altar of the “progressive revolution” and the “fight against racism”. As the revolutionaries themselves say in such cases: wood is cut, wood splinters fly.
By comparison, during the same year 2020, the US police shot and killed 951 people on arrest. Of those, only 60 were unarmed, and 244 of those killed were black. The rampant police brutality, which the liberal public never fails to criticise, is easily outweighed by the scale of the new wave of street crime.
CDC statistics do not break down the ethnicity of the dead, but many thousands of the people killed are likely to be minorities. They are the first to suffer from street gang warfare and the bloody aftermath of pogroms in America’s major metropolitan areas.
Over the US Independence Day holiday weekend, 618 people were shot across the country, of whom 230 died. Criminals, emboldened by a sense of impunity due to police cuts and the tolerance of the liberal establishment, are taking full advantage of the situation.
The situation in some cities like Chicago has become so desperate that the local government is already asking Biden to send in federal troops to help them restore order. They opposed such measures under Trump, but now the concept has changed.
Not surprisingly, with dysfunctional law enforcement, the population continues to rapidly arm itself. Tens of millions of people picked up weapons for the first time in 2020 and understood that there is no way they would defend themselves in a force majeure situation.
Malek Dudakov