What Would Happen If Milwaukee Protesters Had Their Way?

The 2015-2016 academic year will likely be remembered by historians as “The Year of College Tantrums.” We saw conservative speakers banned or uninvited from campuses. Words written in chalk caused hysterical students to seek counseling and safe spaces. Far-left radical Mizzou Professor Melissa “I Need Some Muscle Over Here” Click forcefully stopped journalists from news gathering (Irony alert: She was a communications professor).

As the year progressed, we started seeing groups of students nationwide “occupying” various university administrators’ offices. They would present a list of demands, and promise to stay until their demands were met. Some school officials collapsed like a house of cards and gave in to the demands. Other officials had the fortitude to ignore the occupying groups, and had them removed from their no-longer safe spaces.

Once common and disturbing demand targeted university police departments. Headlines declared:

UC Irvine Black Student Union Demands End to Campus Police Department

Washington College Students Demand Power To Fire Police Who Microaggress Them

Portland State students stage ‘die-in,’ block traffic to demand unarmed police

Occidental Students Demand ‘No Bulletproof Vests’ for Safety Officers

This hatred and scorn of police by college students has been building for years. From President Obama, to Hillary Clinton, to the Justice Department, to big-city Mayors, to Black Lives Matter, police everywhere have been endangered by the volatile and caustic words and actions of the Left.

This is also, by no means, limited to college campuses. At most marches by Black Lives Matter and other aligned groups, you will see various signs to disband, defund, and/or disarm police departments. Earlier this month, The Village Voice reported that Protesters Say They Will Occupy City Hall Park Until the NYPD Is No More. Soon after, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton resigned. This seems only like a partial victory for the protesters, as the NYPD is still fighting crime in the five boroughs.

It is obviously a ridiculous concept that police departments take off their bulletproof vests, stop using guns, or disband altogether. But for argument’s sake, let’s give the special snowflakes on campus their fantasy of a police-free America.

Since history at many universities has been replaced by classes like “In Defense of Looting,” you might forgive college students for not knowing about the destruction that occurred in cities like Ferguson and Baltimore in the aftermath of the deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray. Students might have missed the videos of looting and arson of small businesses in their communities. The destruction would have been much more wide-spread were it not for law enforcement risking their lives to protect the very people that hate them.

Since it is summer, and students are not in class, you might also forgive them for not following the events in Milwaukee. The riots, looting, arson, and general violence seem to have taken a more sinister turn. There are videos all over the web of groups of people rampaging through sections of Milwaukee, like scenes from “The Purge” or any movie about dystopian anarchy. We are seeing cop cars getting pelted with bricks, and cops themselves being hit and knocked out by rocks and bottles.

Most disturbingly, there are many videos online of people specifically targeting whites, and yelling on camera about attacking them, some chanting “F**k white people!” A man named Tim Pool, known for live-streaming protests nationwide tweeted that “Due to escalating racial tensions I am pulling out of #Milwaukee and will no longer be covering it.”

I can’t imagine how the Milwaukee Police Department is working under such life-threatening conditions. I also cannot imagine a Milwaukee without a Milwaukee Police Department. What do those who want police departments to just vanish actually expect to happen? Somehow, magically, crime will stop and criminals will take up macramé?

It’s one thing to criticize and demand change if you sincerely believe that police are committing misdeeds. It’s complete madness to demand a world without police. The United States is a civil society and a nation of laws, regardless of what some moronic 19-year old working towards a degree in Intersectional Cis-Womyn Studies thinks. (For more from the author of “What Would Happen If Milwaukee Protesters Had Their Way?” please click HERE)

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