Shot in the Dark

This Is What Evil Looks Like

Man tries to rob parking lot attendant in New York. Shoots him twice. Attendant nonetheless takes the gun away, and shoots the attacker.

Police arrest the victim, charge him with illegal gun possession. For taking the gun used to try to kill him.

[Attendant Moussa Diarra, age 57] was shot twice during a tussle with suspected thief Charles Rhodie at Carolan’s West 31st Street garage early Saturday before using the accused man’s weapon to shoot him back.

Diarra was initially charged by cops in the case, including with criminal possession of a weapon for having Rhodie’s gun at one point, but Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office Sunday dropped the raps. Rhodie still faces charges including attempted murder.

Bragg’s office dropped the charges after public outcry.

Let’s emphasize that properly – it took public outcry to get these morally depraved charges against an innocent man who defended himself dropped.

And just so I’m clear, by “depraved” i mean “evil”.

When governments goal is to make people more afraid of the consequences of protecting themselves than of being victimized, there is no other word for it.

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52 responses to “This Is What Evil Looks Like”

  1. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    The most frightening aspect in my mind, is that the police actually filed the charges! Sorry, but when LEOs are more frightened about losing their pensions than delivering fair justice, that’s where they lose me. I’ve had discussions about this with family and friends that were LEOs and they totally understand. In fact, the wokeness and political weaponization that has infiltrated our law enforcement entities, actually encouraged three of them to retire as soon as they were eligible. Obviously, this is happening all over the country.

  2. AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    It wasn’t as though Bragg deceived people to get elected. He won 83% of the vote in his last election.

  3. Pig Bodine Avatar
    Pig Bodine

    Why do malignant actors like Bragg thrive? Because in the world our Democrat friends are building for us there are only rewards for the bien pensant, there are no consequences. This is drilled into them from pre-school on, why should we expect anything else. Mr Bragg is the end product of that system. Think what Law Enforcement will be like in a couple decades after 20 years of TrannyFest™.

  4. AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    The nature of large language model (LLM) based AI is that it is centralized under a single authority. For some reason, unlike a human 8th grader, to communicate as well as an 8th grader, LLM’s need to be trained on billions and trillions of examples of human speech.
    Whoever decides what “truth” these AI’s will communicate will be decided by the people who backed Bragg, with people like Bragg implementing the model.

  5. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    You raise a lot of good points, Pig, but I don’t think of Bragg as an actor, malignant or not. I see him as a puppet for others.

    When he started his reign, he was not all that interested in the process against Trump and as a consequence, two assistant DAs working that case resigned. So, he let the case continue… then remember last week when the indictment looked in danger of collapsing because the whole case was so weak? Then remember, how, outta the blue, the indictment was suddenly a thing? And here we are; multiple lawyers, both for *and* against Trump have expressed how weak the indictment is. I think Bragg was simply told to go ahead – or else.

    Bragg also indicated right after starting that he is among those Mary Moriarty-like DAs. Because he was told to.

  6. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    This post should focus on the two key questions rather than attacking the prosecutor.
    • Is what Trump is accused of a crime?
    • Did he do it?
    Everything else — is arguing for a two tier justice system.

  7. MacArthur Wheeler Avatar
    MacArthur Wheeler

    Bill Gleason’s protégé Emery doesn’t want us to confront evil only to get on the witch hunt band wagon.

  8. MacArthur Wheeler Avatar
    MacArthur Wheeler

    Emery (Bill Gleason’s protégé)

    You’re not an expert if you don’t have the credentials!

    You love to brag about your indicia of wealth and privilege, why not brag about your CV?
    What colleges count you among their alum?
    What bachelor degrees do you hold?
    Where did you get your Masters?
    Where did you get your JD?
    Where did you get your PhD(s)? What was it like to work with Bill Gleason?
    Where did you get your MD, what internships did you complete?

    We know for sure Emery got his AS degree in (organic) chemistry while incarcerated at The Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Hospital (CABHH) via advanced placement classes from Ridgewater College in Wilmar MN. He was accepted as a chemical engineer (ht Bikebubba) doctoral student by his mentor Dr Bill Gleason. His Dr of Divinity Degree was granted from getordained(dot)org.

  9. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    What Has Chicago Done?
    Chicagoans cheered Mayor Lightfoot’s exit.

    Gone was her toxic attitude. Her flippant dismissal of the city’s many crises. Her dismal record on crime. And her destruction of police morale.

    She was an absolute failure by any measure.

    From the beginning, she was more interested in imposing a progressive vision and an “equity” agenda on Chicago than enacting the many reforms the city needed.

    So Chicagoans kicked out Lightfoot. Change was possible.

    But what Chicagoans voted for on April 4 was someone more extreme and exactly opposite of what the city needed.

    Yeah, not gonna feel bad about the consequences.

  10. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    I miss the lower profile coverage of the OJ trial.

  11. AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    As a non-lawyer, it seems problematic that Bragg indictment is for crimes that are not crimes unless committed in furtherance of another crime, which Trump has never been prosecuted for.
    So Bragg is assuming guilt that has never been proven.
    Seems un-American, to say the least.
    The biggest proof of the Dem F – up is the trial — if it gets that far, will take place in the primary season next year.

  12. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Unless Bragg is holding something back that won’t be revealed until the discovery process— I’m unimpressed with the indictment and statement of facts.

    As MBerg illustrates:
    • Unsurprisingly all the media is covering an unprecedented event in US political history. This is standard practice.
    • Trump has been accused of committing a large number of crimes and has been judged guilty or innocent in the court of public opinion based on partisan biases. So it is good that due process is being followed to determine the legal facts.
    • It is good that readership of traditional media grew in response to the fake news spun by the post-truth politicians.
    • Both sides of the political aisle are keen to understand Trumpism and its causes better and so the media is following the story closely.
    • Biden is sensibly keeping the power of the US Presidency out of a legal matter involving his likely opponent.

    Unless and until the US and the global public lose interest in Trump, the media will keep covering him.

  13. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Ha! The media needs Trump to bulk up their sagging ratings, Bot Boy.

  14. Vlad the Impaler Avatar
    Vlad the Impaler

    Say rAT?

    Unless and until you come clean, per ChatGPT’s suggestion, and divulge the University you obtained your JD from, we take you to be nothing more than another witless, leftist buffoon doing an asshat dance for our amusement.

    And while you’re at it, where did you get your MBA, MD, and various PhD’s?

    tia rAT!

  15. Vlad the Impaler Avatar
    Vlad the Impaler

    Don’t forget Patriots™

    BACK THE BLUE®

  16. Vlad the Impaler Avatar
    Vlad the Impaler

    So Chicagoans kicked out Lightfoot. Change was possible.

    jdm, I fully expect the new mayor to show up for his inauguration wearing a military uniform of his own design, replete with yards of gold braid, medals of indeterminate origin, topped off with a crown made of a leopard’s head.

    He will declare himself Chicongo’s Mayor for Life and the city will erupt with celebratory gunfire. Oprah will officiate at the inaugural dinner of roasted wildebeest paired with lion’s blood, served in the skull of his vanquished foe.

  17. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Back the Blue —😆 just like on Jan6 🤣🤣

    Because of Trump’s long streak of non-accountability, I know people want him prosecuted on literally anything and even though illegal, it’s going to seem like a nothing burger. It’s just messy sex and will likely illicit him more sympathy for his victimhood.

    The problem here is Bragg. He balked at the tax evasion issue. He has opted to go for the least of Trump’s alleged crimes and will probably go for something like probation.

  18. AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    Does any reader of this blog GAF what gibberish the troll is spouting today?

  19. MacArthur Wheeler Avatar
    MacArthur Wheeler

    Emery (Bill Gleason’s protégé)
    clearly didn’t get a degree in English lit:
    “and will likely illicit him more sympathy”

  20. Vlad the Impaler Avatar
    Vlad the Impaler

    Not until he establishes his creds, AIUMMP.

    We’re all sure he’s a lowIQ, pathological liar, with a dose of Dunning Kruger Syndrome. Seems like that’s a constant pathology among the leftist slobs that find there way to SiTD.

  21. Vlad the Impaler Avatar
    Vlad the Impaler

    Say rAT? Did Bill Gleason ever shower with you and your ER nurse daughter?

    tia!

  22. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    non-accountability

    For what?

    Bragg […] balked at the tax evasion issue

    Tax evasion? He’s district attorney for a county. He didn’t pay his property taxes?

  23. AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    There is a beleif on the part of some Democrats & #nevertrumper republicans that the Bragg indictment serves Democrat purposes by giving Trump a boost that will carry Trump through the R primaries next year. The idea is that they want Trump to be the R nominee because Biden has already shown that he can beat Trump.
    But I am reminded that the same sort of talk was flying around in 2016. Hillary would have an easier time beating Trump than someone like Cruz or Kasich.
    Never forget that the Dems are just as f*cked up as the R’s. They have elite & institutional support the GOP does not, but they are dumb as a box of rocks. They literally believe that a woman can get a man pregnant. Seriously, just ask them. They think people can be convinced that poverty is a virtue. They believe that airplanes will continue to fly when engineers are taught that 2+2=4 is racist.

  24. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Emery, doesn’t it bother you that Bragg is prosecuting crime victims for self-defense, failing to prosecute real violent criminals, and spending his time on arcane financial dealings alleged to have something to do with an election, and after the statute of limitations has expired–all while not naming the most significant part of the crimes in the indictment?

    Really, this is something that ought, in a sane world, to lead to disbarment for Alvin Bragg, and really prosecution for him. Monkeying around with people like he’s doing is a very real moral offense.

  25. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    Found the answer about that taxes thing.
    “The statement of facts [Manhattan District Attorney Alvin] Bragg filed along with the indictment makes a surprising claim,” and when Gerstein describes it as “surprising,” what I took away from it was “gob-smackingly stupid.” The problem, you see, is “that Trump and his associates engaged in deception by paying New York state more in taxes than it was owed.”

    Trump cheated on his taxes by paying too much in taxes?

    More here

  26. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Trump has been a gift to the Democrats — not only has he turned off the traditional GOP base of the wealthy educated business class, but he has permanently run off an entire generation of young people from the GOP. He is the perfect boogeyman for Democrats to rally support around. With the GOP’s base now being “working class” blue collar whites; it’s hard to see the GOP turning this around anytime soon. Until we eject Trump, the damage will only get worse.

    Having said all that, this indictment wreaks of political persecution and personal vendetta with a prosecution looking for (creating) a crime. You know it’s bad when so many legal experts (notoriously liberal) say it is flimsy. This sets a very bad precedent for our country and the battle will by highly divisive. And for what? A pretty small payment made to a blackmailing porn star? They are only legitimizing his grievances! That political capital should’ve been saved for the Georgia or Jan 6 cases.

  27. AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    Just a reminder that in 2020, Trump received the most votes of any presidential candidate in the history of the United States.
    The same “smart people” who thought Hillary would easily win over Trump in 2016 are now convinced that Trump can’t win over Biden (or Kamala) in 2024.
    Emery, BTW, was one of the Dems who thought that Hillary would win over Trump by a landslide in 2016, And Emery still believes in the Russian collusion hoax, so take his political commentary with a large grain of salt. He really should put a disclaimer on his comments so i wouldn’t have to.

  28. MacArthur Wheeler Avatar
    MacArthur Wheeler

    Emery, the unlettered dolt, wrote:
    “this indictment wreaks of political persecution “

    Emery, you ignorant mountebank, take Mark Twain’s advice
    Use the right word, not its second cousin.

  29. Vlad the Impaler Avatar
    Vlad the Impaler

    LMAO! Look at Mr. Bubble reasoning with rAT! 🤤🤣

    “See here, Mr. pathological liar, Dunning Kruger patient, and Doctor of Chemistry, rAT… can’t you see reason?”

    Hahaha!

    Forget it, Mr. Bubble. There’s no lakefront estate, and even if there was, rAT isn’t sharing his ER nurse showers with anyone else.

  30. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    China’s Warnings Loom Over Speaker McCarthy’s Meeting With Taiwan’s Leader
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-warnings-loom-over-speaker-mccarthys-meeting-with-taiwans-leader-ca4e8062

    Good for McCarthy. Glad to see the GOP in the fight against Chinese tyranny and dictatorship. Let’s hope the talks between Tsai and McCarthy (and earlier with House minority leader Jeffries) will lead to some concrete progress on trade and security between the US and Taiwan.

  31. AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    Here is the New York statute Bragg is using to prosecute Trump:
    A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree when he commits the crime of falsifying business records in the second degree, and when his intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.
    You see the problem? It’s in the 2nd clause.
    Trump has not been convicted of a crime.

  32. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Even if the Federal election laws weren’t violated per se, expensing the payments as business expenditures was done with the intent to commit tax fraud, which is illegal at both the Federal and state levels. If Trump had just made the payments out of his own pocketbook and called it a day, he wouldn’t have been charged. Trump thought he could reduce his tax burden so he expensed them instead, hence the crime.

  33. Vlad the Impaler Avatar
    Vlad the Impaler

    rAT squeaked: “Let’s hope the talks between Tsai and McCarthy (and earlier with House minority leader Jeffries) will lead to some concrete progress on trade and security between the US and Taiwan.”

    lMAO! You fucking.idiot…the Chinese just solidified their support of Russia, and agreed with Russia, along with Brazil (the largest economy in S. America) to use their own currencies in trade. That means the USD is out, Mr. MBA.

    The Chinese are flying daily sorties into Taiwan airspace… They’re giving fair warning. There is nothing NATO will, or can do to stop them and they know it…NATO is out of ammo and Russia just whipped their asses with rent-a-troops.

    I’m sure Jeffries gave the Chinese a real good look at the kind of 80IQ nitwits that are running Weimeruca, McCarthy will tell them the going price of selling everyone off.

    Where was it you say you got your MBA and PhD in Foreign relations from, rAT?

    Hahahaha!

  34. Vlad the Impaler Avatar
    Vlad the Impaler

    I wonder if any of you conservative Patriots™ realize what is coming.

    Very soon, maybe this year, US federal fiat currency will no longer be the benchmark for world trade…it won’t even be accepted in many big countries.

    Your retirement portfolio’s are Kaput, friends. Buy silver, and increase the value of my holdings.

  35. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    There is no legitimate basis for China’s claim of sovereignty over Taiwan, or that the territory of Taiwan belongs to mainland China. The Qing dynasty lost Taiwan to Japan in 1895, which in turn ceded control of Taiwan in the Treaty of San Francisco, which was Japan’s post-WWII peace treaty. Most notably, Japan did not cede control of Taiwan to another nation. Under the UN Charter, sovereignty in such cases defaults to self-determination. Taiwan has exercised their right to self-determination ever since and has enjoyed the most peaceful and prosperous period of its entire history. Taiwan is self-governed, with democratic institutions, free elections, its own military, constitution, trade agreements, and all the other elements of an independent country—and has for generations. Indeed, Taiwan was once recognized as a sovereign nation by the UN and most countries in the world at one time or another.

  36. Vlad the Impaler Avatar
    Vlad the Impaler

    Coming soon to a Walmart near you:

    “Hi! Welcome to Walmart! De plata o plomo?”

    LMAO

  37. Vlad the Impaler Avatar
    Vlad the Impaler

    rAT squeaked: “There is no legitimate basis for China’s claim of sovereignty over Taiwan,”

    Yeah well, there’s no legitimate basis for you to claim expertise in finance, medicine, foreign relations, wealth, palatial estates or anything else, rAT…but you do it anyway.

    China re: Taiwan = Samey Same

    Difference here is, China actually has the shit to do it.

  38. Vlad the Impaler Avatar
    Vlad the Impaler

    BTW, rAT lifted that latest squeak straight off Wiki…Bikebubble would be proud.

    wikipedia(dot)org/wiki/Taiwan_under_Japanese_rule#:~:text=The%20island%20of%20Taiwan%2C%20together,the%20First%20Sino%2DJapanese%20War.

  39. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    ‘But I read some stuff on reddit so I am now a professional trader.’ ~ T Swift

  40. Vlad the Impaler Avatar
    Vlad the Impaler

    Was T Swift your PhD advisor, rAT? Did he guide you to your MBA?

    Where is T Swift tenured, rAT?

  41. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Tax fraud, Emery? Seems to me that that would be an issue for the DOJ and IRS to handle, not Alvin Bragg. Besides, directing personal money through the “Trump organization” does not reduce the tax implications for either Trump or the recipient. Trump even rounded up so that Cohen wouldn’t get slammed for the income tax implications.

    Clara Peller has a lot to say about Bragg’s methods here. Lots of bun. Lots and lots of bun. Really big bun.

  42. Vlad the Impaler Avatar
    Vlad the Impaler

    The Soci@list President of a Cartel government says Trump is being railroaded.

    What’s your take, rAT Esq.?

    Hahahahaha

    What a fucking circus

  43. Vlad the Impaler Avatar
    Vlad the Impaler

    http://www.theepochtimes(dot)com/mexicos-president-responds-to-trump-arrest-i-dont-agree_5174858.html

  44. AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    Andy McCarthy on the Trump indictment:
    the indictment fails to say what the crime is. Bragg says he is charging Trump with felony falsification of records, under Section 175.10 of New York’s penal code. To establish that offense, Bragg must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump caused a false entry to be made in his business records, and did so with an intent to defraud that specifically included trying to “commit another crime or aid or conceal the commission” of that other crime. Nowhere in the indictment does the grand jury specify what other crime Trump fraudulently endeavored to commit or conceal by falsifying his records.
    The D’s are beclowning themselves. Trump has driven them mad.

  45. AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    Don’t worry, Dems. Sure, you believe that sterilizing gender confused youth is the only way to prevent their genocide, and of course it is possible for a woman to rape a man and get him pregnant, and that 2+2=4 is a racist statement, but hey! Look at that picture of the QAnon buffalo guy! See, they are the crazy ones, not you!

  46. AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    Biden has spent almost half his time in office on va-cay. Remeber the Dems pokes pokes at trump for taking time off. Silence on that now. The curtain has been drawn. Biden also routinely calls a cap to his day at 3:30 PM. Three-Fucking-Thirty. Look up “sundowning” on wikipedia.
    Dems pretend that Biden is okay, and that he is up to a grueling re-election campaign in 2024. They are lying. They are terrified that Trump will simply outperform Biden on the election trail in 2024. Biden does not have the mental or physical capability to compete with Trump in the media space. Biden is 80 years old, and a very old 80 years old. Kamala is worthless as a Biden Proxy. You can see Biden’s physical and mental decline from a decade ago and even from two years ago. IMHO, this failure to simply acknowledge the obvious will one day be seen as a sign of the failure of American journalism. Trump, in comparison, is energized.

  47. Vlad the Impaler Avatar
    Vlad the Impaler

    Idaho and Indiana just passed laws making cutting bits off kids, or drugging them a crime.

    Some might find that reassuring… Leftist degenerates are outraged… I think the fact they had to do that is very sad.

  48. golfdoc50 Avatar
    golfdoc50

    Biden may indeed be on vacation a lot, but if one looks at his itinerary, it seems more like campaign fundraising. He was here in NC not long ago, touring a semi-conductor plant in Durham, touting his efforts to improve the economy by spending other peoples’ money (sarc). Here is the White House press release: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/24/president-biden-to-kick-off-investing-in-america-tour-in-north-carolina/
    The Deep State has deep pockets. All those corporations pushing woke TV commercials in your face, all the Soros-funded prosecutors are having a huge effect. Bragg is a bit player in a larger drama. The Left is betting they can stir Trump’s base into securing the npmination, then defeat him at the polls. The New York prosecution serves only to distract. But it does warn opponents: we can do this to you as well.

  49. AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    AI Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    I am not making an endorsement (not that anyone cares what I think), but . . .
    The other day on the Commentary podcast, John Podhoretz said in a rant that if Trump wins the nomination, he hopes that he & his supporters are beaten so badly in 2024 that Republicans are locked out of national politics for a generation.
    Podhoretz claims that he is a conservative.
    Trump received more votes in 2016 and 2020 than any other republican candidate in American history. For good or bad, no Republican presidential candidate can win without Trump’s voters.

  50. Vlad the Impaler Avatar
    Vlad the Impaler

    Podhoretz is the gold standard among Boomer neo-cons, AIUMMP.

    He’s cheered for every disastrous clusterfuck Reagan did (amnesty is good!), and was a prime mover in Bush Jr’s reign of failure. Don’t forget to check that Early Life tab!

    They’re dying off, but not fast enough to save Weimerica.

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