by Pa rock
Citizen Journalist
A nineteen-year-old man from Chesterfield, Missouri, rammed a 26-foot U Haul moving van into one of the cement barriers on a street outside of the White House late yesterday evening in an apparent attempt to storm the President's home. According to one eye witness, when the man hit the barrier with his truck and the barrier didn't move, he backed up and tried again.
The incident, which was scary in part be because a moving van was used twenty years ago to blow up the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, caused city streets to be closed and traffic to be re-routed, but no serious injuries to people or property were reported. The nearby Hay-Adams Hotel was also temporarily evacuated at the request of the Secret Service.
One news report said that the initial search of the van was conducted by a remote-controlled police robot. The cargo area of the van contained only a moving dolly, but a Nazi flag was reportedly found in the cab of the truck, along with a black backpack and a roll of duct tape. The young driver also was said to have made threatening comments about the White House at the scene.
The driver was arrested on numerous charges including threatening to kill or harm a president, vice president , or family member - as well as assault with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, destruction of federal property, and trespassing.
Last night as this story was breaking, the Nazi contingent on Twitter began referring to it as some sort of "false flag" operation, something dreamed up and carried out by the government in order to make the American Nazi's look bad - but clearly those folks do not need anyone's help in that regard, and they continue to be a punchline for the MAGA movement of right-wing extremists.
1 comment:
Talk about a tale of two cities! Chesterfield has a median family income of $124,551. Compare that to Ferguson, you remember Mike Brown and Ferguson, don't you? Ferguson has a median family income of $40,195. 35% of Chesterfield's residents have a Master's degree or higher. Meanwhile in Ferguson only 7% have reached that level of education. Nationally, only 13% of Americans are so well educated.
On August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. In 2019 a Chesterfield police officer shot and killed the driver of a car that struck him. The State of Missouri responded to Mike Brown's death by bringing a large military styled show of force. There was an investigation into the officer involved shooting in Chesterfield. He was found not to be at fault. The police officer that killed Mike Brown, Darren Wilson, was not brought to justice.
It is true that a prosecuting attorney can take a ham sandwich to a grand jury and get an indictment. In Saint Louis the prosecuting attorney, in my opinion, didn't try very hard to indict Darren Wilson.
There are some people in Saint Louis County that may have legitimate grievances with the government. By all objective measures the fold in Ferguson got the stick while those living in Chesterfield got the carrot.
But it wasn't a kid from the underprivileged city of Ferguson that pulled a stupid stunt in Washington, D.C. It was a member of the privileged community of Chesterfield who did that. And the kid from Chesterfield was arrested. I'll give you odds that if it had been a kid from Ferguson, he would have ended up DOA at the nearest trauma center.
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