Castile first came to work for the City of Greenville in June 1995 and worked in the Recreation Division  until May 1999 when he left the City to serve as Executive Director of Within Reach, a non-profit  organization originally developed to implement a $5 million drug-elimination program grant secured by the City to address drugs in its at-risk communities. In September 1999, he was recruited back to the City of Greenville by then City Manager, Steve Thompson, who had identified the City’s need to create a  high-level position that could provide problem-solving across the entire organization and could manage city-wide projects versus individual department-driven projects.

Hmmmm. If I’m reading this right Castile “left” the city government to run a non-profit that was being funded by a grant to the city, and stayed at that non-profit for five months. That non-profit, Within Reach, has no website and the last number I could find for it ((864) 467-4305) has been disconnected. The reports are that it was a anti-drug program but in its last filing (2005) it was listed as running a daycare center and youth services. It also listed their income at $50,099. Within Reach may be defunct but the organization is still used in sales pitches for membership to groups like Greenville’s Interfaith Forum. Sounds like he did a bang up job.

Of covering his tracks.

The 467 prefix this “non-profit” used is coincidentally the same one dedicated to Greenville county government. Lucky for Castile that he was able to get a number that was easy to remember number when he “left” public service.

The story has a stink to it, but the local hacks are too busy lauding Greenville’s first African American city manager to care about whether John Castile’s previous dealings with your tax money were on the up and up.

But not to AP writer Mark Sherman, who demonstrates hard left living in denial syndrome with his coverage:

WASHINGTON  (AP) – The Supreme Court says the Constitution’s “right to keep and bear arms” applies nationwide as a restraint on the ability of government to limit its application.

The justices on Monday cast doubt on a Chicago area handgun ban, but also signaled in their 5-4 decision that less severe restrictions could survive legal challenges.

Notice the quotes. But the crux of the matter is that this ruling doesn’t “cast doubt” on Chicago’s handgun ban, it straight out declares that it’s unconstitutional and thus, illegal. Mark Sherman couldn’t bring himself to report the facts, so he downplays it. Why?

Because we no longer produce reporters who understand or care about objective facts. Until we fix our higher education system, this is the best we can expect from the mainstream media.

h/t Newsbusters

From GreenvilleOnline:

One person was arrested and two teenagers were detained after scattered fights broke out near Falls Park on Saturday night in downtown Greenville.

A squad of 15 to 20 police officers brought the crowd under control near 11 p.m.

The two teenagers were detained shortly after the 10 p.m. curfew, when anyone younger than 18 and unaccompanied by an adult must be off the streets in the downtown area.

Greenville Police Lt. Mike Hudson said one woman was arrested.

Hudson said he ordered every officer who “wasn’t on a (911) call” into the area.

15-20 officers aren’t needed to “bring a crowd under control” due to “scattered fights” and a few rowdies in a downtown don’t usually prompt whoever is in charge that evening to order every cop not dealing with an emergency to flood an area. Sorry Mr. Walton, but I’m thinking this incident was more serious than you’re making it out to be.

Being a homebody I’m rarely downtown these days, but I’m told that there’s a rough element out and about. Falls Park is popular at night for both the atmosphere and the drugs. The plaza next to Spill the Beans is known to be a “corner” for dealers and the park itself provides plenty of unlit areas where kids like to get high among other things. Parents are apparently still in the habit of dropping off their spoiled brats with a wad of cash in the downtown on the weekends, and frankly we should be charging them for the damage those kids are causing.

At the very least the parents of the children involved should be forced to pay for the hours our police weren’t able to deal with other crimes while babysitting their ill-spawn brood.

-Sherlock Holmes ,The Sign of Four

For the last week or so I have watched with some amusement while supposed journalists struggle with the strange case of Alvin Greene. The unemployed alleged pervert was able to put up the hefty $10,400 filing fee to run in the Democratic primaries even though he asked for a public defender in his lurid criminal case. While spinning odd conspiracy theories about the GOP running him (because they were terrified of Jim DeMint losing his seat? Really?) the “hard working” news agencies seem to have given up trying figure out where an unemployed man who often seems like he might be high came up with ten grand.

Hmmm. Let’s think about this. Alvin Greene is unemployed and lives with his parents. He was apparently booted out the military and speaks in the halting, confused manner of a long time pot smoker. He showed up at a computer lab on a college campus with nothing better to do than look at porn; a campus that some reports indicate had asked him not to hang around. While in that lab he hit on a teen by showing her porn and giggled about it, you know, like someone who was high.

Now let me think. Where would a person who spends a lot of time getting high get a large amount of cash? And what would such a person be doing on a college campus, where there are hundreds of kids looking to score weed at any one time?

Word on the street is that Greene, aside from being a card carrying communist who supports this North Korean propaganda outfit, is a low level dealer who remains low level because of he’s also a user. I’ll point out that this is just a rumor a semi-enterprising blogger with his ear to the ground heard from a chummer I like to call Dr. Know. But I’ll match my info to any of the culture vultures out there more who are more likely to try to figure out where I picked up these slang terms than how Greene makes his cash. All it would take is an intern and a $20 to test it out.

Instead these “journalists” are scratching their heads, outsmarted by Alvin Greene. It’s sad really. But what do I know? I’m not a “real” media outfit. I’ll leave figuring out Alvin Greene to the professionals.

NEWBERRY, S.C. — Several members of a black group say federal officials need to take over the investigation of a South Carolina black man authorities think was killed by a white friend, then dragged behind his truck.

Multiple media outlets reported several members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense came to Newberry on Thursday to demand more information in the death of 30-year-old Anthony Hill.

Police say Hill was shot in the head by 19-year-old Gregory Collins, who then drug Hill’s body behind a pickup truck for more than 10 miles last week.

Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster says federal and state officials are helping his deputies decide if the killing is a hate crime or there was a different motive.

What WSPA doesn’t cover is the important part.. The NBPP is listed as an anti-Semitic hate group by the Anti-Defamation League. They were recently investigated for voter intimidation in Philadelphia (they lucked out when the charges were dropped by the Holder Justice Department for political  reasons) and are known to promote the genocide of Whites, Asians, Jews and any other group beside Blacks.

And nowadays Muslims.

Their move toward radical Islam and away from the traditional Marxist views found in Black Nationalism came after the involvement of Khalid Abdul Mohammad, the disgraced Nation of Islam spokesman who joined the NBPP after his falling out with the Nation. While in the NOI was in Libya Mohammad became acquainted with Muammar el-Qaddafi. Mohammad led the NBPP from the early 90s. Mohammad Died in 2001 and his successor in NBPP leadership is Malik Zulu Shabazz. Both men have promoted violence against Americans and both have supported not only race hatred and class warfare, but Jihadism. Want to see the hate? Here’s NBPP preaching in Brooklyn:

Notice they aren’t big fans of Obama.

The NBPP are here to cause trouble. South Carolinians need to shun this hate cult and send them packing.

Of course that little factoid just gets in the way of a good old fashioned “smear the South with charges of redneck racism” story. Even now sites like Hip Hop Wire are running photos of Klan lynchings even though they are aware that Collins was friends with the victim. Global Grind is claiming that this is a racist killing and they too are aware that that is not the case.

Police are looking at an argument over a girl as a possible motive. For my money, and I don’t mean to offend anyone, but when a 30-year-old man is “friends” with a 19-year-old who kills him in a love triangle, I tend to doubt a woman was involved at all. But none of that matters. The dragging of Hill may have been an ill-conceived notion to get rid of evidence or a psycho’s attempt to desecrate a corpse. Either way it’s horrendous enough without injecting the class/race warfare narrative into the discussion that tends to be the fall back position of the lazy and those with an agenda.

People want this to be a hate crime because, secretly, they want the South to be full of people they hate so that their elitist bigotry is justified. South Carolina deserves better, and so does Anthony Hill. He deserves better than to be used to promote a hateful agenda. He deserves justice so let’s concentrate on that.

His two friends are both expected to survive.

It seems cut and dried. Three gunmen shot down by potential victims who didn’t know if the trio would or wouldn’t kill them. In South Carolina this type of shooting is justified.

The family of Davidson, grieving and perhaps deserving of our condolences if not sympathy, have started to claim that their son was shot in the back, and that he “didn’t need to die” in an indictment of the clerks. At the risk of receiving another C&D letter from WYFF, read this little section of their report which is titled Family of Teen Shot, Killed Seeks Answers:

“I just want to see justice for my cousin. He was shot down like a dog,” said Alex Davidson.

“From what I’m getting, they was running. They was leaving the store; running out of the store,” said the teen’s uncle and namesake, Michael Davidson. “So I mean, if they was running out of the store, why would you shoot them in the back?”

Several family members said they had heard that Davidson and the other two teens had been shot in the back.

Problem is that isn’t true. WYFF itself reports that the coroner is saying the teen was shot in the chest not the back. He was facing the people who shot him. Of course, no where in this interview where the Davidson family is allowed to weave a conspiracy theory does the reporter ask the proper questions.

Why was a 16-year-old out at 3:00 in the morning with a gun? Why was he robbing stores? Was he in trouble before?

I understand the sensitivity needed to deal with a grieving family, but their son was robbing a store at gunpoint. The “answers” to why he was shot and killed are right there but the reporter allowed the family to use their outlet to claim the robber was a victim of some trigger happy lunatic. This is rotten reporting at best, but in reality it was WYFF playing accomplice to an attempt to create animosity among the Black community by using loaded metaphors like Davidson being shot down like an animal.

There is clearly a political bias at work here, and attempt even when the facts were obvious make this a story that fits into a class/race warfare paradigm where evil, racist clerks at a store shoot some innocent kid. The problem is the kid was already an armed robber. How did they know he wasn’t a soon to be murderer?

WYFF rightfully keeps personal judgments out of reporting on Davidson, but the people Davidson robbed and terrorized at gunpoint don’t get the same consideration. Why?

h/t Gateway Pundit.

The Times Square car bomber’s terrorist ties are numerous. Fox is reporting that he has connections with the same town in Colorado that attempted NYC subway bomber Najibullah Zazi. An Examiner article points out that many recent terror arrests have involved people who travel to Pakistan, assumedly to attend terror training camps.

Time is reporting that the bomber may have ties to Kashmiri Jihadist groups, whose main goal is to drive India out of Kashmir. But his attempts to bomb American targets seems to make that unlikely to be his main political goal.

Jake Tapper says the High Value Interrogation Group is involved in questioning the bomber.

I wonder if all these facts bum out Contessa Brewer as well.

And even after reporting that Denver Anarchist group Black Cross called the rioters, who were clearly participating in a Black Bloc protest, comrades WYFF claims a motive is not known for the mayhem. The motive for the protesters is easy to divine, spoiled rich kids radicalized in college have little else to do with their time and were raised to feel entitled to “expressing” themselves in any way they see fit. Their motive is to destroy things because they like doing it and use Anarchism and Socialism as a justification for what is essentially misanthropy fueled by elitism.

What’s more interesting is the motive of people who bend over backwards to avoid pointing out this truth. These kids are criminals, many are drug users, and every May Day they will gather in large numbers for drug fueled orgies of violence which have absentee parenting and a culture that artificially inflates self-esteem as their root causes.

The notoriously liberal residents of Asheville are confused as to why they were targeted since they “aren’t corporate” as one woman in the WYFF video report puts it. Again, that’s easy to answer. You encourage these “radicals” to flock to your town, get high on your streets, and then present yourselves as passive targets who will not only be unlikely to fight back, but will side with the criminals against police. This is like people who put bells on their cats complaining that the coyotes kill their pets. Stop being a doormat and people will stop walking all over you.

The Asheville Citizen-Times has a good report on the escalating violence of May Day. Maybe WYFF should send a reporter over there to see what the motive of anarchists rioting on May Day could possibly be.

I’m surprised this didn’t happen in Greenville.

By any standard he died a hero.

Police have arrested a 23-year-old thug named Tremain Orlando Davis for the crime. But an interesting thing happened to this story when the local media got to it. The narrative changed to subtly (and in some cases not so subtly) imply that Joshua Bryant brought his death on himself by being unreasonable, and that compliance with criminals is not only to be expected but is indeed what civilized people should do.

Compliance with criminality doesn’t work. One need only ask those who survived encounters with Ted Bundy what saved them and they will tell you clearly that they fought for their lives; those who didn’t were raped and murdered. What did compliance with gunmen get Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom? What did compliance with gunmen get the victims of the Wichita Massacre?

Those are questions, and cases, the media doesn’t deal with mainly because the mainstream media deals in illusion, not reality. The news media is populated with people who see the world through a post-modernist lens; class and race warfare colored glasses that alter their very perceptions of reality and truth. Thus the average reporter runs into this story of tragic heroism and condescendingly frames it as suicide by crook by one of the rubes they need to buy their papers but have no respect for.

For example here’s how Fox Carolina describes the death of Joshua Bryant:

Deputies said that shortly after that, Bryant saw a man wearing a bandanna and carrying a gun walk into the store. They said that Bryant went in after him to check on his mother.

Investigators said that Bryant and the gunman, who they believe planned to rob the store, argued. Then the gunman shot and killed Bryant and fled the store with $194 in cash, investigators said.

Now I’m not a professional journalist, but when a man runs into the store his mother is shopping in to confront a thug with a gun, I would probably use a verb other than argued. This makes it sound almost as if Bryant was looking for trouble. But this is nowhere near as disgusting as WYFF.com’s write up, which tries to humanize the coldblooded murderer.

Behold the absolute pinnacle of hug-a-thug reporting:

“I mean, I wasn’t expecting someone to be Superman, you know?” Davis said as guards walked him into the Greenville County Detention Center Wednesday night.

According to the victim’s brother, Roger Bryant, the victim and the shooter started fighting before shots were fired.

“From what I was told, they got into an altercation, wrestling around, then he shot him in the neck. Killed him,” Bryant said.

When asked if he had anything to say to the victim’s family, Davis gave a one-word answer: “Apologies.”

Well, if he apologizes all is well, no? So the victim and shooter just started fighting and shots were fired according to this report. Again it makes Bryant’s actions seem unreasonable, as if these were two drunks brawling in the street. Tremain Orlando Davis went to hold up the store Bryant’s mother was shopping at and Bryant, heroically, intervened and perhaps saved the lives of others. Would it kill WYFF to throw his grieving family that bone, since it’s the truth?

Davis, the murderer, is even given a little extra ink in the piece to tell his family he loves them. The same family that raised him to think it was acceptable to stick up Dollar General and murder anyone who tried to stop him.

Where’s the ink on how well Josh Bryant was raised? Where is the praise for a man who died defending his mother and all the other people in that store? Where are the kind words and thoughts for Bryant’s mother, who judging by her son’s heroism is an exemplary woman?

They’re not coming. Ever. Even now commenters on the WYFF story are lamenting the fact that “two mothers” lost their sons today. This is disgusting moral relativism driven by the media’s contempt for anyone they don’t understand. Davis isn’t dead, he is going to prison where he obviously belongs. That the media feeds the idea somehow Davis going to prison is equal in tragedy to Joshua Bryant being murdered by Davis is the most obvious example of the ivory tower pseudo-intellectualism that is killing the print media.

Joshua Bryant is a hero. It’s too bad we have a media in this country that won’t tell you that. Instead they sneer at defiance in the face of criminality because they don’t understand it, and they equate thugs and heroes because they can understand neither.