His name is Jeronimo Yanez.
And Yanez has been identified as the police officer in Minnesota who killed Philando Castile, the young man killed as his girlfriend streamed the terrifying incident live on Facebook.
What’s missing in the media coverage? As his surname appears to indicate, Officer Yanez is….Hispanic. Indeed, over at ancestry.com we are told that “Jeronimo” is the “Americanized spelling of Spanish Gerónimo.”
So. Huge headlines, right? Lots of media coverage about racial tensions between the Hispanic and black communities. Thumb sucker after thumb sucker in one paper after another discussing Hispanic officers shooting black motorists or vice versa and how the liberal myth of kumbaya between two groups they consider politically to be theirs by right is, in fact, a myth. Well, no.
Not to mention that you no doubt saw the huge headlines about the Black Political Power Organization - they who put messages like this on their Facebook page - messages that were thankfully captured with a screenshot before they disappeared.
That would be a pretty big story. A group openly celebrating the “take down” of five police officers and threatening that “more will be assassinated in the coming days!” Mammoth story, yes? No.
And the Dallas shooter? That would be one Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, an Army reservist with service in Afghanistan who returned home to be ginned up by Black Lives Matters. According to Dallas police chief David Brown, Johnson said he was “upset by Black Lives Matters….The suspect said he was upset at white people. The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.” And so, he did.
Oh yes. You heard about the shooting in Ballwin, Missouri, right? Well unless you were listening to Rush Limbaugh on Friday afternoon or you are a St. Louis area resident, you may have missed this story as reported by the St. Louis Fox affiliate
Police officer shot during traffic stop in Ballwin; suspect apprehended
“BALLWIN, MO (KTVI)- Authorities are investigating after a police officer was shot during a traffic stop Friday morning in west St. Louis County. It happened shortly around 11 a.m. near the 300 block of New Ballwin Road, near Old Ballwin Road. According to our partners at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the wound was in the neck.
The officer, who works for the Ballwin Police Department, was transported to a local hospital for treatment. His condition is unknown at this time.
Sources tell the Post that the officer was shot at least once from behind and there were at least three shots fired at him. The suspect fled the scene before leaving his car abandoned in the Westridge Manor subdivision.
He was apprehended after a foot pursuit in the 800 block of Burgundy Drive. St. Louis County officials say a weapon was recovered.
Police say he is a tall, thin African-American male who was wearing a gray tee-shirt and blue jeans. He was allegedly driving a blue Ford Taurus with Illinois temporary tags during the time of the shooting.”
Notice a pattern? Of course you do.
By chance, over at The American Spectator, before the Dallas shootings erupted, by chance I had taken note of what the Spectator’s R.Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. had long ago called the “Kultursmog.” Tyrrell had cited it this way in his book After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery and I will quote it again as it applies now even more after Dallas, bold print for emphasis supplied by me:
James Piereson, the former executive director of a foundation famous for sustaining the growth of American conservatism, the John M. Olin Foundation, describes Kultursmog as “the Liberal understanding of events ratified as a matter of morals and etiquette” within the media and academe. At another point he summed up Kultursmog as “Liberal prejudices built into the culture as truths.” The Kultursmog is created in two ways: (1) the endless repetition of falsehood and (2) either the complete neglect or the utter misrepresentation of those who do not share Liberalism’s values."
In the hours after the Dallas disaster, along with the coverage of the Minnesota shooting, we see the liberal media narrative at work. The first assumption was that the Minnesota officer was white - and the video goes everywhere. Then we find out that…oops!….the officer is Hispanic. Coverage? Essentially…silence of the fact.
Eerily, the treatment of the Minnesota police officer mirrors the media treatment of George Zimmerman, the man acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman, is Hispanic. This did not suit the liberal media narrative so The New York Times made a point of describing him as a “white Hispanic.” The word “white” thus inserted to low-ball Zimmerman’s Hispanic heritage. Noted Zimmerman’s brother Robert at the time: “If his last name was Gonzalez or Lopez, would this have turned into what it is? Hard to tell but I doubt it.”
Then we find from the Dallas police chief - a black man himself - that in the aftermath of Dallas the shooter was “upset by Black Lives Matters….The suspect said he was upset at white people. The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.”
Does Black Lives Matter get massive media attention as an essentially racist group that sows the seeds of violence? Of course not. What does get attention is this tweet from Hillary Clinton: “America woke up to yet another tragedy of a life cut down too soon. Black Lives Matter. #PhilandoCastile -H.”
And long before Dallas there was this, as reported in Breitbart:
Valerie Jarrett Meets With Black Lives Matter Leaders At The White House
What does all this communicate? It’s not hard to figure out. Unless one of these killings meets the standards of the liberal media narrative the facts will just disappear from public view. White cop kills black motorist! Turn on the camera lights! Wait, he’s Hispanic? Let’s not go there. The Dallas killer was inspired by Black Lives Matter! Let’s celebrate that group in a Hillary tweet! Better yet, send these people back to the White House for another meeting!
Does it ever occur anywhere that this liberal media narrative, well aside from being fundamentally disingenuous when not dishonest, is in fact doing serious damage to the “communities” it thinks it is helping? Not to mention the country as a whole?
Answer: No.
And that is only the tip of the iceberg that is the nation’s problem with political correctness.
