Might one more cop car have saved that girl?

Madison is using a tragedy to signal its Woke bonafides

Announcing the arrest of a suspect for the brutalization of a University of Wisconsin student in downtown Madison, Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway put in a plug for her mental health intervention team, created two years ago. 

You’re supposed to call the Community Alternative Response Emergency Services (aka CARES) instead of the police when you don’t want anyone to get shot — the theory goes — because cops like to shoot black people. The university itself teaches that Woke B.S.

Here’s a thought exercise:

if the City had devoted more resources to more police patrols — uniformed cops with guns in marked squad cars — might one of them have been cruising Bedford Street downtown and thereby prevented the Labor Day weekend tragedy?

We took note in the previous thrilling episode (“Can Madison stop celebrating criminals?”) of the juxtaposition on Page One in Madison’s daily fish wrap of the arrest of Brandon A. Thompson for the savage Labor Day weekend beating and — on the same page — a report that a mural will be given place of honor in a city park that celebrates a druggie named Tony Terrell Robinson Jr., a mixed-race, dark-skinned man shot by a white police officer.

→ E-mail the Parks Department. Tell them they screwed up!

One more scalp in the progressive’s War on Cops even as heroic police work brought to justice a suspect who raped and beat an innocent victim. The battered UW student will never be the same, physically or emotionally. Tony T. Robinson Jr. was a victim, too, but of his own decisions and those of his immediate circle, not of racist police.

Could Satya’s mental health intervention team have saved Tony? The powerful 19 year old — higher than the Space Lab — had been beating complete strangers at random on Willy Street that night in March 2015 and jumping in front of moving vehicles. Not even his three young-adult companions could control him; it was they who summoned police.

[One of Tony’s companions] J.L.said he called 911 because Robinson was out of control and getting more violent. … J.L. [said] that Robinson was punching holes in the walls of their apartment and “going crazy.”

— Page 14, WI Dept Justice investigative report

That day he ingested off-prescription Xanax, marijuana, and an heroic amount of hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms. Arriving on the street in front of the house, Officer Matt Kenny told police he could hear “sounds of incoherent yelling and screaming.” Cop haters second-guess the officer’s decision not to wait for back-up. What if another UW student was being victimized? “It sounded like someone was striking someone or something,” the officer told state Department of Justice investigators. Entirely plausible, since Tony Robinson had been striking some ones and some things all night long, as witnesses told DOJ.

What happened in that narrow staircase is reminiscent of that scene in Hitchcock’s Psycho: 

Officer Kenny continued up the stairs to the step just before the top. … The subject immediately appeared from around the corner at the top of the stairs and struck Officer Kenny with a closed fist on the left side of [his] head, knocking [him] back and into the wall. … The subject … continued to swing. 

— Page 19 WI Dept Justice investigative report

The officer feared being disabled and losing control of his service weapon. Might he and others be shot to death if he failed to act? I don’t think this has been reported: the young man’s rage at his absent father — absent because Tony senior was once again in prison.

J.L. said Robinson was staring at a wall … and shouting “Oh my god!” … and”Fuck you, dad! Where’s my father? Where’s my mother? Don’t call the police!” and “Fuck you!” J.L. describes Robinson as yelling at his father who was not there. … After a few seconds of shouting “Tony, Tony, Tony!” Robinson finally replied “Javie, bro,” then began yelling “Fuck you, dad” in the air repeatedly.

— Pages 12-13 WI Dept Justice investigative report

Might Tony Terrell Robinson Jr's death been suicide by cop?

Anyone else feel Tony Robinson Jr. is being USED?