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 violent, drug-addled felon who wrestles a police officer for his 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 and more an opportunity.
22 responses to “There will be blood”
Allowing the loudmouth from Milwaukee to walk in to a presser with the Chief of Police, and literally take it over was shameful. I watched in disbelief as two (2) Assistant Chiefs stood with backs against the wall never coming to the aid of Chief Patterson. MPD has now been debased by the Mayor, Council, Hong, and BLM and the list goes on. MPD is no doubt become a laughing stock among Law Enforcement Agencies across America. God help us.
Six years ago, the entire Madison police force stood with their backs against he wall–following the orders of the socialist cow who’s still in the mayor’s office–and allowed a mob of BLM hooligans to destroy the Capitol Square and State Street. Now we can look forward to the canonization of yet another black thug and a multi-million dollar payout to his “survivors.”
I believe there were three (3) assistant Chiefs to the right of Patterson. I’d like to know;
• How did the “peaceful” protesters get in there (Yes, some were peaceful),
• Why didn’t Patterson shut down the presser?
• How the hell did Sabrina Madison get elected to be president of the common council? Did she threaten the rest of the council? Per usual, she talked a lot but didn’t say anything.
Feel the same but tell me how tasing the guy would have worked?
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The left thinks every police officer goes to work thinking “Today will be a good day to kill a person of color” when it’s the furthest from the truth.
Morale in the MPD is going to be at an all-time low after this episode.
Did we ever determine this guy’s actual race – I saw in one of his 42 run-ins with the law that he was labeled as white.
His “actual race” is irrelevant since his official race will be determined by BLM “activists” (formerly known as the unemployed) who have every reason to want him black; that way his victimization will be complete.
Crump has landed. He smells blood. And money.
Am I the only one who thinks this guy strolled straight out of an Amos ‘n’ Andy skit?
The Willy Street “community” should be red-lined by the police, with no officers allowed to go in for at least a year. Let those who live there determine their own level of protection from criminals.
Didn’t they try that after Tony Robinson? They wanted a police free zone and would police themselves.
After viewing 2 full pages of Corey’s CCAP history, I tend to agree with the family’s contention that he was indeed an “exceptional” person. Not many people can accumulate that much contact with law enforcement over that many years. That’s exceptional.
Painful to watch that clip. I never got a sense of what any of the officials actually felt about this bigoted maniac and his mob. Were they just politely waiting him out, or did they actually think he had a legitimate right to rant away? Do they understand how much he humiliated them and how entirely the act of humiliating them is the ONLY actual thing he cares about? Oh, yeah, and the Jew hatred. There is always that? Are they really okay with that, too?
Perusing Madison’s Reddit and seems like the general public are sick of the protestor’s antics. It may even be enough to torpedo Hong’s campaign. Will one of the other Dem candidates come out as a voice of reason?
Any Democrat who comes out, however tentatively, as “a voice of reason” will be branded as a racist, a fascist, and a Trump enabler. The mob will be allowed to perform their antics for as long as they wish. They’re already in the process of turning the intersection of Willy and Baldwin streets into Madison’s very own George Floyd Square, complete with a raised fist “sculpture.”
Be a shame if someone rented a bobcat and lost control of it near that sculpture. Yup, a real shame.
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Excellent essay
“Is anyone guarding the statue of Hans Christian Heg?”
Remember what Francesca Hong’s chief of staff Nada Elmikashfi proudly and repeatedly proclaimed after the statues of abolitionist Colonel Heg and “Forward” were torn down in 2020?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UHtM6Hr383Es3mCXlaJmEzibJxJzjP0-/view?usp=sharing
Put on my Roddy Piper Ray-Bans yesterday. All the “Justice for Corey” signs morphed into “Give us more free shit… or else”.
Scene: The near future. Interior of a cozy Monroe Street coffee shop in Madison, WI. Morning light filters in.
ALEX and JORDAN, a middle-aged progressive couple in Patagonia fleeces, sit at a corner table with lattes and half-eaten avocado toast. Outside, distant chanting can be faintly heard.
ALEX (stirring their drink anxiously):
I still can’t believe they shut down the farmers market again yesterday. We drove all the way over there for the good bread and those heirloom tomatoes… and it was just blocked off with signs and drums. Karen from book club said the same thing happened at concerts on the square last week. She left during the second set.
JORDAN(sighing heavily, scrolling phone):
This is not what we meant. We put up the “In This House, We Believe…” sign in 2020 like everyone else. Black Lives Matter. Defund the police. All of it. We hosted that yard sign workshop, for God’s sake. Now they’re yelling at families buying zucchini and disrupting live music? It’s like the monster we cheered on just turned around and bit our hand.
ALEX (leaning in, voice low):
Exactly. I voted for every progressive DA, every council member who talked about “reimagining public safety.” Now the square feels like a war zone every weekend and the businesses are getting crushed. My friend at the co-op said even some of the old-line liberals are whispering about it. We wanted equity, not… this.
JORDAN(glancing around nervously):
We can’t say any of this out loud, obviously. The neighborhood listserv would eviscerate us.
ALEX (after a long pause, pulls out a napkin and scribbles quickly):
There might be… a way out. But we keep this between us.(Alex slides the napkin across the table. Written in careful block letters: “BLASKA FOR MADISON”)
JORDAN (audible gasp, eyes widening, then nodding slowly):
…God help us.
I’m planning to nominate One Eye for a Pulitzer Prize in Drama (or maybe Farce). I wonder how many old-timey Madison liberals saw themselves here. Yes, Paul Fanlund, I’m looking at you!