Can Madison stop celebrating criminals?

‘One of the most horrifying things I have seen’

Has it occurred to anyone what an insult it is to the memory of Milton McPike that the City of Madison is installing in the park named in his honor a mural — 21 feet wide — of a criminal? 

Aside from having been convicted of felony armed robbery, high-as-a-kite substance abuser Tony Robinson attacked a police officer responding to a call— placed by his fellow dopers that evening in 2015 — that the 19 year old man was assaulting citizens at random. In a narrow and dimly lit stairwell, Robinson fought the officer, who shot in self-defense rather than yield his service weapon to his assailant. 

These are statements of fact, as established by several independent reviews. But Tony Robinson was black and the police officer is white and that is all you need to know about Woke Madison WI.

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“Our goal is to promote our efforts in receiving justice in the death of Tony,” said Kristin Matthew, a board member for the Social Justice Center. “The artwork would bring the community together around these efforts.” (Read & Weep!)  

Tony Robinson might still be alive today — possibly as a productive citizen — had he been privileged to experience the late Milton McPike at Madison East high school. Principal McPike was known to drag miscreants by the ear out onto the sidewalk and to a waiting police squad car. Principal McPike was black, a former pro football player, and nobody’s fool. That was before discipline was outlawed in our public schools.

The Social Justice Center might also seek justice for a real victim, a University of Wisconsin student raped and left near death in downtown Madison over Labor Day weekend as school was about to convene for another academic year. Damn good police work caught the suspect. An hour before the attack, police in nearby Fitchburg stopped Brandon A. Thompson, age 26, for a vehicle registration violation. That would be what social justice warriors call “driving while black.”

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Police body cameras?

Fitchburg Police wear something called “body cameras,” which cause Madison social justice warriors to pucker their exhaust pipes, lest they prove local police are not the Gestapo. A time-limited experiment will permit Madison police in the North district to experiment with them if they promise not to “profile” the wrong people.

The Fitchburg body camera video matched the perp and his automobile to the brazen “witness” who claimed to have come across the victim but fled in that automobile before he could be questioned. 

Downtown Madison blogger Greg Humphrey notices that “The law [firm] now representing Thompson put out a press release along with a photo of him in graduation attire upon completing his studies at UW-Milwaukee.” Remember how Tony Robinson’s apologists published his high school mortar and gown photograph? 

Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway thanked Police Chief Shon Barnes (known to be black, himself), his assistant chief, “and all the detectives and officers who put aside their weekend plans to rush in and solve this case.” Well good for Mayor Satya! Seriously! We well remember when the mayor apologized for praising the police in the aftermath of the George Floyd and Jacob Blake (another criminal) looting and vandalism riots of 2020.

Didn’t we just write “So much for over-policing”?

“This case will not be complete until this cowardly attacker receives the justice he deserves.”

— Madison PD Chief Shon Barnes

Blaska’s Bottom Line: Milton McPike could not have said it better.

If the victim had popped her attacker between the eyes (or a bit lower)
with her concealed carry firearm,
would the Social Justice Center be painting another mural?