And now there’s Corey Ruiz (or, do all leftist roads lead to Israel-hatred?)
Crowds in Madison, Wisconsin, are claiming that Corey Ruiz is the latest victim of police violence against black men. Here’s the story:
The Madison police officer who shot and killed Corey Ruiz should face criminal charges, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said Friday, after protests erupted in anger over videos of their struggle.
“They not only tackled him, not only tased him, not only kicked him, but you saw they shot him three times in his head and other parts of his body,” Crump said.
He spoke at an emotional news conference with Ruiz’s mother, siblings and 13-year-old daughter, Kah’liyah Aliomar.
Crump again.
What is left out? This:
Ruiz, 38, was killed on a busy city street Wednesday, just a couple of blocks away from his daughter’s home and along the route she walks to school. Police say Ruiz pulled a knife during a struggle with four officers, injuring one of them. That officer then fired the shots, according to police.
There is video, but it’s not from the police, it’s from a cellphone, and it does not show the incident from the police point of view. Madison is one of the few municipalities where the use of police videocams has been repeatedly blocked:
But unlike nearly every other similarly sized city, Madison doesn’t require its police to use body-worn cameras, so there is no footage from the officers’ perspective. Over the last decade city officials have repeatedly debated adopting the cameras — at times creating subcommittees and doing studies on the idea — but local officials have primarily blamed budget concerns and political inertia for the ongoing stalemate.
Another common source of opposition, identified in a 2021 feasibility study, came from community groups worried the cameras would be used to surveil and criminalize marginalized groups. Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway said Thursday that she expects the new budget that takes effect in January to include funding for body-worn cameras.
I wonder how the protestors address the fact that the police officer was stabbed. Perhaps they deny it happened. Or perhaps they think a little stab wound isn’t so much; police should just let themselves be knifed.
More:
Wisconsin court records show Ruiz had been in and out of jail over the past decade for mostly misdemeanor offenses including disorderly conduct, drug possession, auto theft, battery and invasion of privacy. He was also convicted of felonies including possession of cocaine and marijuana, robbery, strangulation, resisting an officer and causing bodily harm.
“People are saying he’s a criminal. So what? He had a family, he had me,” Aliomar said, breaking down into tears.
A person can be a dangerous criminal and also have a family. In fact, most criminals have families. The two things are unrelated.
More:
Police said they were at the street to investigate reports that someone was trying to enter parked cars, something Crump said amounted to only the suspicion of a low-level property crime.
Well then, no need for the police to be there at all, right?
And then you have this sort of thing:
Nearly 500 people marched from the intersection of Williamson Street and South Baldwin Street [in Madison] — where the 38-year-old was shot three times on Wednesday during a struggle with several police officers — to the Madison Police Department headquarters on Friday.
Video showed some demonstrators stopping traffic and confronting at a female motorist who insisted she was an “ally” during a streetside struggle session.
“You’re going to sit there and watch it all go by and you’re going to think about it, c–t!” one yelled at the helpless driver.
“I am 100 percent an ally of the community,” she pleaded with the protestors who surrounded her car.
“I have lived in this neighborhood for 27 years. F–k the cops. I wanted to join the protest!” she said. “This guy calling me a c–t doesn’t help anyone’s cause.”
She added: “I’m an ally. I wanted to join the protest. I want to be part of this.”
That may read like a Monty Python skit, but it’s very real.
Also this:
“White silence is violence!” protesters chanted at others sitting outside [at a restaurant] enjoying their dinner.
A few hours later, a pair of protesters hit a car window when the driver refused to stop for their procession.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation held signs reading “jail killer cop. Kiel Peterson. Justice for Corey Ruiz.” …
One woman held up a sign that read: “Corrupt cops deserve to die too!! …
“You’re gonna say the same thing you all say every time a black body gets shot down in this city!” [a] man, who identified himself as Carlos Jackson, shouted. Jackson then launched into a tirade about corruption, revolution and “Zionists.”
It all comes back to the Zionists, right?
I wonder who funds the so-called “Party for Socialism and Liberation.” Here’s the Wiki entry:
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is a communist political party in the United States. PSL formed in 2004, when its members split from the Workers World Party.
PSL describes itself as a revolutionary socialist party in the Leninist tradition, because the party believes that only a revolution can end capitalism and establish socialism. PSL pursues this goal by participating in local protests, running candidates in elections, and conducting political education. …
PSL does not release membership numbers. In 2019, PSL reported branches in “some 90 cities” or “nearly 100 cities”. In 2022, PSL reported an “organized presence in over 100 cities”. In 2024, PSL reported being “in over 50 cities”.
PSL is a democratic centralist party, which means that “all members, including those who disagree, are duty bound to publicly defend and carry out” all PSL decisions.
So, “liberated” party members are not allowed to disagree with the Party of Liberation.
It’s no real surprise to learn that they are heavily involved in pro-Palestinian causes:
Since 2023, PSL has organized numerous rallies in favor of Palestinian liberation, including many of the Gaza war protests in the United States.
In 2024, PSL and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) organized a protest outside of Ohr Torah synagogue in Edison, New Jersey, in opposition to the synagogue holding auctions for property in illegal Israel settlements in the West Bank. A minor scuffle ensured. …
In May 2025, Elias Rodriguez killed two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. Rodriguez was a former PSL member. PSL stated that they “do not support” the shooting. …
In May 2026, PSL campaigned with Hasan Piker on behalf of Cori Bush in Missouri. In June 2026, PSL campaigned for Seattle socialist Kshama Sawant.
This group seems to have its finger in a lot of pies. The group also unites with some of the “woke right” in blaming the US and NATO for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It also supported Assad in Syria. More here on its campaign against Israel and Jews, which turns out not to be peripheral but rather central to its purposes:
[The party] incorporates virulent anti-Zionism as a core organizing principle.
PSL has been involved in anti-Israel organizing since its establishment in 2004, ramping up its activity significantly following the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led terror massacre against Israel. In the first 18 months after Hamas’s attack, PSL sponsored or co-sponsored over 1,700 anti-Israel rallies around the U.S.; the majority of these rallies featured antisemitic rhetoric, as well as expressions of support for Hamas’s attack, belligerent calls to “smash Zionism,” and flags and other materials of U.S.-designated terror groups and more. Some PSL events also included on-the-ground harassment.
The party legitimized Hamas’s attack in an October 7, 2023, statement as a “bold counter-offensive,” said “the actions of the resistance” were a “morally and legally legitimate response to occupation” and called to cut off all U.S. aid to Israel.
One of the group’s members is Jodi Dean, who is still a professor at Hobart teaching courses such as Feminist Theory as well as Communism. Shortly after 10/7 she wrote this:
The images from October 7 of paragliders evading Israeli air defenses were for many of us exhilarating. Here were moments of freedom, that defeated Zionist expectations of submission to occupation and siege…The paragliders who flew into Israel on October 7 continue the revolutionary association of liberation and flight.
Helping to shape young minds.
But the reason I went to that ADL link was to find out about funding of the group. This is all I discovered:
PSL offers little organizational transparency and does not release membership numbers. …
PSL’s funding sources are also unclear. The group claims not to take money from foundations or corporate sources. Members are expected to contribute to PSL’s major annual fundraiser, the National Fund Drive.
The article discusses the funding of an affiliated group, The People’s Forum (there are many many affiliated groups; it’s really a huge web):
The PSL-affiliated group is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that receives funding from various sources. In 2022 and 2021, for example, The People’s Forum received $21,539 from the Amalgamated Charitable Foundation and $8,350 from CodePink, a virulently anti-Zionist group, respectively. In 2018, The People’s Forum received $3,015,000 from the United Community Fund (UCF), a grantmaking body primarily associated with Neville Roy Singham, an American businessman who has been accused of having associations with the Chinese Communist Party.
UCF has given most of its grants to The People’s Forum and the left-wing research institute Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. The People’s Forum’s Manolo de los Santos is also a researcher at Tricontinental.
In the fiscal year ending 2022, The People’s Forum had revenue of $4,428,869, significantly more than 2021’s $486,926. …
In 2023, the Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) granted The People’s Forum $26,894. AFGJ is an Arizona-based organization that serves as a fiscal sponsor to several progressive and anti-Israel initiatives, including Samidoun, which is labeled as the international fundraiser of the U.S.-designated terror group the PFLP, and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).
And this utterance by a speaker at one of the many meetings organized by the group says a lot about their point of view on the relationship between capitalism and Israel:
As far as organizational activity, The People’s Forum convenes numerous panels, protests, events, and other “educational” experiences, many of which are virulently anti-Israel.
At one such event, De Los Santos said: “When we finally deal that final blow to destroy Israel. When the state of Israel is finally destroyed and erased from history, that will be the single most important blow we can give to destroying capitalism.”
Whether or not that has any logic isn’t especially relevant. It has logic to a large group of very dedicated leftists.
When I began this post I did not expect it to end up with anything to do with Israel. And yet here we are. To the left, these things are all related – or at least can be described as related to a mostly ignorant and willing group of mostly young people.
For leftists, logic is not required, or perhaps it is affirmatively denied as a capitalist ideology.
Ruiz was stopped, and then sped away, leading cops on a high-speed chase. When apprehended, he pulled a knife on officers. His death is his own fault.
Re: “civil rights attorney Ben Crump”
Today I ran into a video of Crump unable to read a document aloud before the camera. Shocking.
It’s hard to believe he graduated eighth grade, much less passed the Bar:
https://x.com/AmiriKing/status/2080748417412747292
“I wonder how the protestors address the fact that the police officer was stabbed. Perhaps they deny it happened. Or perhaps they think a little stab wound isn’t so much; police should just let themselves be knifed.”
B * I * N * G * O
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“It all comes back to the Zionists, right?”
Also “BINGO”?
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“When I began this post I did not expect it to end up with anything to do with Israel. And yet here we are.”
S * I * G * H
Crump is a black.
So are Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas, CICERO.
‘…..People are saying he’s a criminal. So what?….’
Where do you start, when this is the mentality that is preached and coached through our public and private school system?
‘People’ don’t say he’s a criminal, his own police record does. His behavior is against the norms of society, which means figuratively, it’s against anyone who obeys the laws and expects the laws to protect their person and property.
Perhaps it’s time to challenge those craven fools who ask such inane questions, and yet take an outraged, argumentative tack when it’s their home that’s burgled, or their kid that’s bullied or molested.
CICERO:
Your point is NOT at all well taken.
What Crump actually is is this: an abominable race-hustling grifting liar who latches on to every case of a black criminal killed or injured by police while in the act of trying to kill or injure them, and stirs up the crowd to rage and hatred.
“People are saying he’s a criminal…so what?” How many times have we heard something similar with illegal aliens like Kilmar? He has a baby! He’s just a “Maryland dad.”
And with the horrible person that Tim Walz pardoned in MI recently…he (Walz) actually said, “Did that (deporting him) make us any safer?” “Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable?”
“Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day?”
My view: this has NOTHING to do with anything. Perps who are American citizens are separated from their children and put in jail/prison every single day and I don’t hear any of this malarky. No one (at least no one I’ve ever heard) says, “Oh, no! You can’t put that rapist/murderer/lifetime criminal in jail/prison! He has CHILDREN! What will happen to them?”
Shut up and take it normies.
The issue is power, that Corey Ruiz lived or how he died matters only as long as it is useful to those utterly evil pukes.
I’m going to agree with om this time.
I have a suspicion that the Madison police do not have body cams because the sh!tty council discovered they tend to discredit the accounts of criminals and race hustlers.
Your point is NOT at all well taken.
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I’m not sure what his point is; it was a bland statement of fact. You have popular opinion, you have the chatterati, and you have elite opinion. The issue the black population faces is that in the political class and the media there are few black voices which speak in counterpoint to creatures like Crump or Al Sharpton. Crump accomplishes what he does with the assistance of a sidekick named Ryan Julison, who is white; he does so with the connivance of the bar and public officials, nearly all of whom are partisan Democrats (and are generally white). He has an audience among (white) leftoid meat puppets. However, much of his effectiveness is derived from the audience he has in his own demographic segment. His rancid pottage sells and no one is selling anything else. One thing we are desperately in need of in our society is a set of leadership elements who are happy to ignore the world’s elderly tantrum throwers. We do not have that.
“Crump is… black.”
“So are Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas.”
And thus we see both the error and accuracy of generalization. Not all blacks are like Crump, but not all blacks are like Sowell and Thomas. Question: between the Crump and Sowell/Thomas examples, where do most blacks aggregate? If the former, it is justifiable to be suspicious of their motives and intentions; if the latter, it is not. Statistics can be of great use in determining the proper outcome of the inquiry. I believe John Derbyshire was a proponent of examining relevant statistics, but he was defenestrated for his efforts. There are some questions that it is not allowed to pose in today’s polite society. Proceed at your own risk.
Most blacks aren’t much like Crump or Thomas and Sowell. They’re wage earners most common in personal service occupations or what you might call porting occupations. Delivery drivers, CNAs &c. Most don’t have the time or the motivation to devote much thought to anything outside their personal responsibilities and the goings on in their social circle. I suspect you’d discover that they find stories more engaging than discursive reasoning or statistical data and they do not differ from most people in this respect. A certain sort of folklore is common and, at times, motivating. (I’m recalling the paving contractor on Long Island who shot a troublesome youth on this lawn; in recounting the event for an interviewer, he talked about ‘night riders’ &c, something rare as hen’s teeth in the last 90 years).
Derbyshire was a proponent of examining relevant statistics, but he was defenestrated for his efforts. T
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No, he was defenestrated for writing an amusing lampoon of media-generated hoo-ha about ‘the talk’ that white reporters fancy black parents have with their children. He offered a counterpoint (for his own children). His was sociologically more sensible than the media meat puppets but went off the rails when he began chuffering about ‘Intelligent-Well-Socialized-Blacks’. Derbyshire had previously make in print vitriolic attacks on the writing of those advocating a prohibition on abortion, including one of the magazine’s salaried editors. That didn’t get him canned, but the yap about blacks did; because Richard Lowry cares much more about offending liberal twits who see blacks as their pets than he does about offending orthodox Catholics and evangelicals. It was another indicator that National Review is not your friend and should fold (and also that R. Lowry is too other-directed to hold such a position).
It was interesting to read that some of his crimes were considered misdemeanors, e.g. car theft, strangulation, etc. “Defining Deviancy Down” by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1993 foresaw this.
I have been reading about a cultural “thing” called Black Fatigue whereby black people are tired of be discriminated against. It has since been co-opted to offer up how many non-blacks are just as tired of the Benjamin Crump types running their race hustles. Good and tired.
Someone, (I think it was Heather MacDonald, not sure) compared the Crumps to people like MLK, James Farmer, Ralph Abernathy etc who could articulate a problem and advocate for a solution that reasonable people would be willing to discuss. What a difference! I hope a charismatic leader steps forth to pick up their torch. And soon.
The police are not there to protect us from the criminals. The police are there to protect the criminals from us.
Abolish the police? Is there a more sure way to generate vigilantes? These fools have not thought of all the rifles which would be directed their way in the anarchy they favor.
Thinking of people in this country as “white” or “black” puts them into broad categories which avoid dealing with their specific backgrounds. There is no question, at least among commenters here, that there is a very negative low-income “black” culture which breeds gangs, crime, and ignorance. This culture has unfortunately spread by means of mass media to some groups outside the core poverty areas. Experiences with educated professional black Americans and with immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa should be balanced against the sad stories of gang-related violence.
Not holding out for a charismatic leader. We would benefit if the malignant elements in the political class, the legal profession, the educational apparat, and the media were all struck with profound aphasia. That’s not happening either.
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What we would benefit from is a commitment to impose and maintain public order (in the slums especially), dramatic reductions in the population of foreigners resident in the country and in the population given permission to settle here (as well as requiring long residency ‘ere one may apply for naturalization), placing programs of common provision on an actuarially sound basis; an overhaul of the financing scheme for medical care, long term care, and schooling; a dramatic simplification of the array of programs of common provision; an excision of perverse incentives from programs of common provision; excision of sectoral preferences from the tax code; replacement of core city school systems with voucher programs; a restoration of freedom of contract and freedom of association in private transactions; regulation of recruitment and promotion in the public sector by timely, competitive, and impersonal examinations; an end to collective bargaining in the public sector; transparent compensation schemes in the public sector; excision of ill-considered regulations and ungainly processes in the real estate market; and an overhaul of local tax schemes one element of which would be reduction in or elimination of property tax burdens in slum neighborhoods.
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The foregoing would be (with some qualifications) beneficial to blacks. It would not give the current corps of black politicians and black media figures what they actually want and the black rank-and-file might not appreciate it either.
This culture has unfortunately spread by means of mass media to some groups outside the core poverty areas.
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Not really. I’m recalling the local paper where I grew up publishing a map in 2005 of where the homicides had been in the region that year. The region covers 11 counties with a population over 1.3 million. About 2/3 of the homicides were in a section of the core city with a population of about 140,000. The homicide rate outside that area was 2.4 per 100,000. In that area, it averages 27 per 100,000.
A considerable fraction of the black population understand themselves as an aristocratic stratum who should not be subject to the authority of low status people like police officers. A considerable fraction of the bourgeoisie fancies their black clients should not be subject to the authority of low status people like police officers (and should only be ‘ministered to’ by higher status people like social workers). That bourgeois element considers the moral understandings of ordinary people to be crude and thus demand it be disregarded by high status people like judges.
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It’s all an exercise in status games.
Grok, do all American Citizens break some laws? Grok:
Claude, what say ye? {INTERRUPTION} No, not you Ye, I’m asking Claude. Go ahead ‘Sidekick’. Claude:
After some years in prison humble me was released on parole, when parole was up I also had 10 years of probation that was part of the original sentence. Lived with the same woman in Dade county, then we moved to Levy county, then to Alachua county, and then to Suwannee county:
(NOTE: Never any issues in the other counties—including Marion county later.) Reporting in to the Suwannee County Probation & Parole Office — the chief probation officer yelled at humble me to take off my hat. Apologized for having it on and for being in dirty and sweaty clothes. Stated that I had just came from my new property where I was building a cabin (growing hut – shhh) with my female pardner. He asked if we were living together and I replied yes. More yelling, with threats this time, and He was going to violate my probation if we continued “Cohabiting” together (Old law still on books – could sleep with a different woman every night, but could not live with just one). Well, I had just rented out our house in Gainesville, Fl and we had moved to the new place. We ended up separating. I’m white — just imagine how the black parolees and/or probationers were treated up there. Met some in their jail later after other charges…I had it easy.
National Use-of-Force Data Collection
Google AI Mode, do FBI police brutality statistics show a large number of crimes? AI Overview:
Back in the day – I was one of the few City of Miami white officers that didn’t mind riding with black officers. I was less brutal when riding with them tho. Hard not to be brutal when working in the ghettos. ‘Break a Law to Enforce a Law’…so to speak.
Plenty of racists on both sides. Can’t stand any of the Black Overseers tho…
AI slop.
Doesn’t “AI” stand for “always incorrect”?
There was a time when black Americans, though under segregation, had more intact families and correspondingly less dysfunction. What happened? Here is part of the answer (from a PowerLine “pick”). Yes you can blame the left.
https://philanthropydaily.com/what-broke-black-america-a-review-of-howard-husocks-the-projects/
Everyone else had more intact and durable families as well in 1960. The social architecture was more fragile among blacks then and it is more fragile among blacks now.
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Public housing and urban renewal were disasters, but both phenomena are much less prevalent than they were in 1970 (now encompassing fewer than 1% of all households) and the situation in regard to family formation and durability is worse. It’s a reasonable inference that the efflorescence of public housing wasn’t a strong vector in family breakdown.
You would think that Israel is the geographic size of Brazil with the population of Bangladesh given how everything revolves around Israel in the warped minds of its haters.
You would think that Israel is the geographic size Brazil with the same population given how everything revolves around Israel in the warped minds of its haters. Nothing involving Israel is considered to be not newsworthy even a one day teachers strike in Haifa.