INGERSOLL: Brutal Bodycam Reveals Hidden Cost Of The Black Lives Matter Delusion

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Greetings, Dear Reader,

I have to keep this one short today (hopefully). My Thursdays are action packed and the schedule is super tight.

I came across a video yesterday …

THE HIDDEN COST OF BLACK LIVES MATTER

When held against the backdrop of human history, by the numbers, modern American policing is far and away the most humane and efficient iteration yet.

Yes, even for ethnic minorities. For that matter, even for violent criminals.

We all can thank Teddy Roosevelt for this revolution in peacekeeping. He modernized policing in New York City. He purged corruption. He formalized the training. He instituted the first police academy.

American police are, by and large, underpaid, but well trained and more often than not, patient well beyond a normal person’s capacity. Watch a half hour of bodycam videos online and you’ll see what I mean.

And if there’s even one third-order benefit of the “Black Lives Matter” movement, it’s bodycams. Coincidentally, liberal intellectuals who once overwhelmingly supported the notion now do not. The reason is obvious: It’s much harder to spawn a fake (neo marxist) narrative about police wantonly gunning down “unarmed” black people when the entire engagement is caught on tape that is publicly owned, and therefore public domain.

Take the case of one time Georgetown basketball athlete Sidney Wilson, who was gunned down by a police officer in her........

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