The lunatic left-wing fringe, and its mouthpieces in the media, are trying to describe any law enforcement action against persons of color as “racist.” The latest example is a tragic case arising from Senatobia, Mississippi.

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A black one-year-old baby, Kohen Wiley, was accidentally shot and killed by police on June 14, after a shoplifting call from Wal-Mart reported that a box of diapers had been stolen.

Those are the key facts that BLM is reporting in its social media accounts.

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Before I write another word, it must be said that nobody deserved this: certainly not the Wiley family, not the cop who fired the fatal round, and not the community. The death of an innocent child is always a tragedy.

What disgusts me is the way the opportunistic vultures have gathered, as they so often do these days, around the latest unarmed black person shot to death by police. This is the latest bloody shirt that the lunatic left-wing fringe is waving.

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BLM has carefully ignored the most relevant allegation—because BLM is trying to turn this tragedy into another Michael Brown, or George Floyd, or Trayvon Martin. Such cases are cash cows for BLM. And BLM milks such cash cows for every dollar, and every microgram of fury, it can squeeze out.

From The Grio, via Yahoo News:

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After a shoplifting complaint was called in, alleging that someone stole a box of diapers, officers arrived at the scene. In their report, they alleged that the driver of the vehicle Wiley was in was driving toward them, prompting the officer to open fire. Wiley was shot and later died at a hospital. The driver of the vehicle was hospitalized in critical condition.

[snip]

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In an interview with ABC24 Memphis, Vellesiya Wiley disputed the officers’ claims, saying her friend drove in the opposite direction of officers as they were trying to leave. She said she lifted her son in the air to show officers there was a baby in the vehicle, but officers opened fire. Kohen was shot in his rib cage, while her [Vellesiya] friend was shot in her arm and thigh.

Does this sound familiar? Remember Renee Good?

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Of course, an investigation is underway, and the officer has been placed on administrative leave.

As I’ve observed previously, using a vehicle as a weapon against armed police officers is a very, very bad idea. It forces split second decisions. The officers always choose self-preservation. And I will add that as we see here, regardless of what happens to the driver and the police, there can be horrific collateral damage. I choose the term “collateral damage” because this is becoming a war, between black people and the police.

It would be shocking if the investigation indicates that an adult in the Wiley vehicle stole the diapers, and that Wiley was being used as a human shield.

It would be even more shocking if the Wiley family were spin-doctoring the entire story, for some political or financial motive. But very little surprises me any more.

For BLM, other racial grievance NGOs and podcasters, and individual keyboard warriors on the left who are eager to capitalize politically on this tragedy, this case could be a gold mine. Even the Wiley family could cash in, as Karmelo Anthony’s family demonstrated.

But one more case comes to mind.

In August 1992, a sniper with the U.S. Marshals Service opened fire on a cabin, knowing a white mother and a white baby were inside; the mother, Vicki Weaver, holding her baby in her arms, was killed.

While it occurred near the end of an intense cabin-in-the-woods standoff in which two people had already been killed, the basic fact is the same: an unarmed person, who apparently was totally innocent of any crime, was hit by a stray law enforcement bullet. And the sniper was a person of color. His name was Lon Horiuchi.

There were zero consequences for Horiuchi. A feeble attempt to prosecute him was quickly dismissed, by the prosecutor himself. The family was paid a settlement of $3.1 million.

This is the true story of Ruby Ridge. And while I remember most of these details and found the rest with a quick internet search, I don’t remember any riots, any looting, or any arsons arising from the death of an innocent, unarmed white person at the hands of a non-white law enforcement officer.

However, two anti-government extremists cited Ruby Ridge as a motivating factor when they blew up a federal courthouse in Oklahoma City. Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh killed 167 people. Besides January 6, this is the case most often cited by leftists, when claiming that “those crazy right-wing white people” are the ones who are most dangerous—which isn’t too compelling.

I derive no joy or pleasure in expressing these matters in racial terms. None at all. But that’s where we are, as a nation. Some of us need to be reminded to put down the bricks and the Molotov cocktails, and react reasonably to such disasters as Kohen Wiley’s death, with some historic perspective. Thinking about Ruby Ridge and its aftermath is a good way to gain an appropriate vantage point on all of this.

Jim Davis is an IT specialist and paralegal, with degrees in political science and statistical analysis: the underpinning of all science. His work has appeared in Daily Caller, Newsmax and American Thinker. You can find him as RealProfessor219 on Rumble.

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