This week, in Richfield, MN two Latinx teenagers shot and killed Jahmari Rice, outside the school they all attended. Speculation is that it was over some conflict, likely involving race. Details are sketchy and the media is barely covering it.
The victim’s father is local BLM Activist Cortez Rice who was in the workhouse awaiting trial for allegedly harassing the judge in the Kim Potter Trial.
The evidence against him is video evidence he posted to social media.
We also had another police shooting in Downtown Minneapolis. A young, registered gun owner named Amir Locke, who was killed in a no-knock raid, on a warrant that wasn’t for him.
My deepest and most sincere condolences to both the Locke and Cortez families. One of you is about to be completely overwhelmed by a Death Cult that worships dead Black Men, and has been doing everything they can to make more of them.
I wanted to be the first person to make sure that Amir Locke was added to the record of Black History. State Representative John Thompson literally beat me to it while I was writing this article.
Jahmari Rice – Feb 1st
The death of Jahmari Rice will likely be remembered as a mere footnote in the history of his father Cortez Rice, who was instrumental in getting the trial Kim Potter televised.
Cortez, a prominent MN Black Lives Matter activist, was unhappy with Judge Regina Chou’s decision to ban cameras in the courtroom.
He and a group of other activists filmed themselves outside her home and released the footage to social media. This type of direct action has become a hallmark of those seeking justice in Minnesota courts.
Since late last year, Cortez has been in the county workhouse, awaiting trial due to Covid restrictions and the fact that he’d been accused of harassing a judge.
And systemic racism.
During this time, his son, Jahmari, was without a father in the home. He went from being a rising star Richfield football player, to being the first school shooting casualty being attributed to a school district whose teachers are openly and unapologetically trained in Critical Race Theory.
This shooting occurred near my home on the first day of February, a kick-off to Black History Month.
The following day, Groundhogs Day, Cortez appeared in court, and brokedown in understandable grief, via Zoom.
Due to his affiliation with the Kim Potter Trial and Black Lives Matter, Cortez Rice will go down in Black History. I wanted to make sure his son was not forgotten.
The local and national media are hardly covering this story.
Amir Locke – Feb 2nd
Another local story that’s not receiving a lot of national attention was a licensed Minnesota gun owner who was killed while Minneapolis Police were executing a “no-knock raid”.
Amir Locke, whose name was not on the warrant, was sleeping on his cousin’s couch. Crime against Black people in downtown Minneapolis has inexplicably skyrocketed in the last 18 months.
Many activists believe this spike in violent crime is overblown in the local media, still, gun purchases have spiked, and more and more Minnesotans are sleeping with loaded guns to protect themselves. Including Amir Locke.
Nekima Levy Pounds Armstrong – Feb 3
In what was clearly not a motion to insert herself into a political media opportunity, former Law Professor turned full time Black Lives Matter and Progressive Reparations activist, Nekima Levy Armstrong Pounds the Mayor and Minneapolis’s first white woman Interim Police Chief at their press conference.
Something curious and notable about this press conference is @NVLEVY’s sudden transformation from advocating for gun control and reparations for Black people, to advocating for the 2nd Amendment, for Black People.
It would be easy to predict this has become a winning political strategy in Minneapolis right now.
State Representative John Thompson – February 4th
I stopped writing this article to watch the Locke Family’s press conference. After they left, local activists took to the lectern. KARE11, a major news outlet, cut their stream,(1:32:14) just as Thompson, who was presumably invited to speak, got on mic.
Perhaps it was because Michelle Gross of Citizen’s United Against Police Brutality (CUPB) also became a 2A advocate, or that she called a white woman a liar, which is bad for ratings. Either way, they cut off State Representative John Thompson immediately after he acknowledged Locke as part of Black History Month with “Happy Black History Month.”
He speaks of the Systemic Problem in Minneapolis while exonerating the City Council. His entire speech is worth watching if you’re going to understand Black History. He corrected City Councilman Jamal Osman who’d earlier blamed those who set the policy, until he was notified that it was literally him. After this realization, he promptly called for the Police officer to be fired.
State Representative John Thompson’s entire speech and the rest of the activists can be found on the local Fox Affiliate, Fox9 News.
Charges were subsequently dropped against Cortez Rice on February 4th.
The Protest – Feb 5th
The temperature in Mpls will be 30F, which for this time of year is quite warm in Minnesota. These two men will be honored with chants, vigils, and prayers. They will say their names, repeatedly.
They stopped being young Black Men, and now will be turned into Black History, right along with George Floyd and Philando Castile, who have been the two biggest spikes in BLM’s search history.
All Black Lives Matter, but some Black Lives seem to Matter more than other Black Lives Matter.
