Corey Ruiz is not the cause; he’s a means to an end.
Our Platinum Subscribers know why Madison police, uniquely among large police agencies, are not equipped with body-worn cameras. “The Community,” as the chronically aggrieved describe themselves, does not want to see what the police officer sees on the job, is why. Because “The Community” is late-stage, Defund the Police, Woke crazy.
In the matter of the late Corey Durrell Ruiz, body cameras would have revealed the career criminal wildly slashing at police with a large, fixed-blade knife. Police body-worn cameras would have shown the officer — someone’s husband, brother, son or daughter — bleeding red blood.
“The Community” is baying for the police officer’s hide. At the City’s press conference Thursday, a troublemaker from Milwaukee, bullhorn at the ready, shouted “Zero power to Zionists, zero power to capitalists,” before hijacking Police Chief John Patterson’s microphone. (These people feed on road kill.) Sounds like Francesca Hong, doesn’t it? The interloper’s partner in crime waved a sign reading “Corrupt cops deserve to die, too.”
“The Community” demands the officer’s name — why? To harass his family? A little mob justice?
Can Madison’s mayor de-escalate?
The mayor wants to know what kind of de-escalation methods police are using. May we ask, what kind of de-escalation methods is SHE using? Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway, who just announced a bid for re-election, threw police under the bus by feeding “The Community‘s” blood lust:
“It doesn’t matter who you are or what your past is. No one should lose their life as a result with an encounter with law enforcement.”
No one? How about school shooters? The 9/11 terrorists? A drug-addled felon who wrestles you for your gun in a dim and narrow stairwell? No one de-escalates like Madison police. Our gendarmes already depend on neighboring Monona to apprehend lawbreakers who choose to scoot. At this rate, all compliance will be optional.
The Democrat(ic) party’s leading contender for governor wants to defund police entirely. Serves you right if your home gets broken into. Francesca Hong wants to end the “carceral state.” Corey Durrell Ruiz, a frequent jail bird, had “absconded” from Department of Corrections community supervision. Shouting into her own (?) bullhorn Wednesday and feeding the frenzy, State Rep. Hong (D-Madison) bleated:
We cannot protect a system that continues to bring harm and terror. We all deserve to feel safe. It is a human right to be safe.
But not safe from criminals, apparently.
In the midst of the Left’s siege of the city, not even Chief Patterson dares defend, at least in principle, his sworn officers. Imagine being slashed by a knife — enduring not a paper cut but pumping blood. (We pause here to recall the shower scene in Hitchcock’s Psycho.) Write all the policies you want, Mayor Satya, but how do you train for that? Are police only human, too? Doesn’t Corey Ruiz deserve some culpability?
Blaska’s Bottom Line: The city has been “studying” body-worn cameras for 12 years. Three black alders put body-worn cameras to a vote last November. Their effort was voted down, 17 to 3. Why is Madison the only large city in America without them? It is because “The Community” doesn’t want them. Not Progressive Dane, not the Democratic Socialists of America, not the local Democrat(ic) party that endorsed a veto-proof majority of alders who opposed cameras. Because Mayor Satya never budgeted for it, never used her bully pulpit. And because the cops themselves DID want them.
Because the devices might actually prove police in the right.
As for the likes of Francesca Hong, Maia Pearson, Brandi Grayson, and the anti-Zionist from Milwaukee, the death of Corey Durrell Ruiz is less a tragedy than an opportunity.
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