Steve Sailer writes: It’s a cliche, but I have to say that police pursuits televised from helicopters still make for pretty hypnotic TV. The cops have been chasing a carjacked pickup truck around the San Fernando Valley this afternoon. Finally, about ten minutes ago, the truck slows down and the cops bump it into a spin. Four cops level their guns at the driver who slowly gets out … and it’s a black lady in a purple Easter coat. She raises her hands in submission … and then she dashes (in a feminine Tracy Morgan-in-drag way) for the driver’s seat of an empty police cruiser.
The cops jump on her, yank her out of their cop car, and eventually handcuff her.
Yeah, the San Fernando Valley is only a few percent black, but if you stipulated that the driver who is committing about 175 felonies and moving violations is a lady in a purple Easter coat, well the odds of her being black go way up.
COMMENTS: * I’ll never forget the line a WN commentator told a liberal interviewer when he was asked about the late James “Yankee Jim” Leshkevich, an East Coast member of various white power outfits and podcaster who killed his wife and then himself after a particularly ugly marital conflict. He was asked why the late Yankee Jim “hated blacks so much”.
“Jim didn’t hate blacks! He thought they were funny as hell…when they weren’t robbing, raping, and killing”.
While not condoning what Leshkevich did, I do think it was hilarious what Leshkevich himself did immediately before his own demise. He put up a picture of Ariel Sharon’s son (who did something illegal in Israel and was in big trouble, as I recall) and captioned it as himself on his blog. News sources all over the country, including the Jewish Daily Forward’s website, ran the picture with the story as being Leshkevich. It took at least two weeks for the shoe to drop on that one as I recall.
* What is an Easter coat?
Something purple or yellow you wear on Easter.
* LAPD has toned it down a lot, They’ll often sit back and let the perp run out of road so to speak in many cases. It’s only when the the perp is a threat to other drivers do they try to take him down ASAP. San Bernadino also allows a police sharpshooter to shoot the vehicle and driver from a helicopter if they perceive the perp as a threat and did so a few months back.
* That was fun. These car chases could easily replace football as America’s favorite spectator sport.
* Fox News showed one of these chases a few years ago, which ended with the fugitive shooting himself. Shepard Smith apologized for them showing that, and I thought: you’d really show the whole chase and not the climax of it?
* They were supposed to put the live feed on a ten-second delay. Someone in the control room screwed up (and doubtlessly lost his job for it).
Right after the guy dropped to the ground, having blown a hole in his head on national television, they cut to Smith at the anchor desk shouting “Get off it! Get off it! GET OFF IT!” for roughly ten seconds.
If you watch the clip, you can see how royally pissed off* he was when he realized that the suicide, live and uncensored, had gone out over the air.
Fox then cut to a commercial. When Smith came back, he apologized and explained what had happened.
*Incidentally, there are reports that Smith, who is often seen on the town in the company of a tall, dark man who is some 25 years his junior, is not the nicest, most-even-tempered guy you’ll ever meet. But anyone would have been angry about what’d happened.
