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Brickbats

Brickbat: What Matters Most

Charles Oliver | 4.19.2022 4:00 AM

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The Palo Alto, California, police department said it is investigating the vandalism of a "Black Lives Matter" sign as a hate crime. Someone replaced the word "black" with the word "Asian" on a sign in the yard of a woman's home. The woman said the sign was valued at $10.

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  1. rbike   3 years ago

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    2. squid_hunt   3 years ago

      Peace = War

  2. Fist of Etiquette   3 years ago

    When you see that Asians are white now, it's not so harmless a prank, now is it?

    1. Cyto   3 years ago

      Asians are the utility infielders of race. The manager mostly ignores them, but can put them in wherever he needs them.

      1. R Mac   3 years ago

        Nice.

      2. Quo Usque Tandem   3 years ago

        +

  3. Cyto   3 years ago

    Holy crap... police are investigating that???

    They couldn't be bothered to investigate smashing storefronts, or cars or organized assaults captured on video.. . But putting "Asian" over the word "black" on a sign? That is big stuff.... send in the SVU!

    I have had 2 hit and run incidents. The police declined to respond in both cases. They simply took a report. Did not even collect evidence. In the first instance it was in traffic, so the guy was in front of me after sideswiping me. I told the 911 operator the tag and description, and as we were talking we passed the police precinct. I gave her the numbers off of 2 patrol cars passing the other way. Not interested. Said someone would be along to take my statement, not to follow the guy.

    But put a sticker on a gas pump, or Ober a BLM sign.... that, we got time for.

    1. R Mac   3 years ago

      How much longer until all law enforcement is politically driven? Because we’re heading that way, quicker than I ever thought we would. Then what?

      1. SQRLSY One   3 years ago

        Then, Trumpanzees gone apeshit will replace democracy with mobocracy, as they tried to do before! And Der TrumpfenFuhrer will be Dicktator of the DicktatorShit... For life!

        1. R Mac   3 years ago

          Fuck off fascist.

      2. Jerry B.   3 years ago

        "How much longer until all law enforcement is politically driven?"

        We passed that point long ago.

      3. Social Justice is neither   3 years ago

        T-6 years at this point in an explicit manner, probably more in more subtle ways.

      4. CE   3 years ago

        The Congressionals will be the worst. I saw that in a documentary from the future.

    2. jimc5499   3 years ago

      Let's see. Some leftist Politician heard about the sign, was appalled, leaned on the Chief of Police, who then leaned on the Commander of the area where it happened and he leaned on his officers and instant investigation. That's how it works. That's also why things like smashed storefronts or theft ISN'T investigated.

      1. Quo Usque Tandem   3 years ago

        The COP decided it was behoove the force to get in front of this, lest they be accused of violence by silence.

  4. Will Nonya   3 years ago

    Such hate! I sure hope they catch such an evil person.

  5. sarcasmic   3 years ago

    I'm sure by "investigating" they mean "waiting by the phone."

  6. Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland   3 years ago

    A better one would be to put a question mark at the end

  7. Rich   3 years ago

    The woman said the sign was valued at $10.

    At which point *she* was charged with a hate crime.

  8. Hank Phillips   3 years ago

    Ayn Rand had the temerity to renounce collectivism and declare in writing that life matters. And to this day all colectivizers of counterfeit rights take time out, from kicking and stabbing each other, to accuse her of having been wrong, evil, socially dangerous... for rejecting their worthless initiation of force.

  9. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   3 years ago

    Islam is right on women.

  10. Dillinger   3 years ago

    lol cops won't even show up to an injury accident in Dallas anymore but fuck up a yard sign and there's trouble.

  11. Its_Not_Inevitable   3 years ago

    So it's a "hate crime"? Not vandalism, trespassing or destruction of private property? They don't give a crap about those things.

    ""Officers will thoroughly investigate any reported hate crimes in Palo Alto, including stolen or destroyed yard signs if the incident appears to be motivated by the victim's real or perceived protected social group," the department said."

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