Violence Erupts in America's Heartland as Milwaukee Becomes the Latest U.S. City to Burn

Violence Erupts in America's Heartland as Milwaukee Becomes the Latest U.S. City to Burn - By Michael Snyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/violence-erupts-in-americas-heartland-as-milwaukee-becomes-the-latest-u-s-city-to-burn

 

The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin exploded in violence last night as the wave of chaos and civil unrest that is sweeping across America continues to intensify.  At this point, many of our largest cities have become powder kegs of anger and frustration, and a full-blown riot can be set off with a single bullet.  In this case, an armed suspect was shot and killed by Milwaukee police as he attempted to evade the police, and his death almost instantly set off pandemonium in the heart of the city.  America is being ripped apart, and much more violence is coming.  Decades of social decay and economic decline have fundamentally transformed many of our greatest cities, and tensions that have been simmering for a very long time are now being brought to a boil.  Sadly, it seems quite likely that we will see even more rage, hatred and divisiveness in the months ahead.

 

The sudden eruption of violence that we witnessed in Milwaukee last night was absolutely stunning.  Within just hours after the shooting of the armed suspect, fires were burning all over the city...

 

Protesters clashed with officers in the hours after a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed an armed suspect during a foot chase. After an hours-long confrontation with officers, police reported that a gas station was set on fire. Police said firefighters initially could not get close to the blaze because of gunshots.

 

Later, fires were started at a bank branch, a beauty supply company and an auto parts store as scores of people gathered near the crime scene on the city's north side, a grim Mayor Tom Barrett said at a news conference Saturday night. He said the unrest was driven by a social media frenzy urging people to gather in the area.

 

Of course police were one of the primary targets of the violence.  It is being reported that at least one squad car was set ablaze, and another had a brick thrown through a window.

 

One prominent Milwaukee city official is blaming racial injustice for the violence.  The following comes from CNN...

 

City Alderman Khalif Rainey said the area has been a "powder keg" for potential violence throughout the summer.

 

"What happened tonight may not have been right and I am not justifying that but no one can deny the fact that there are problems, racial problems in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that need to be rectified," Rainey said. "This community of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has become the worst place to live for African Americans in the entire country."

 

Rainey said Saturday's violence was a byproduct of inequities, injustice, unemployment and under-education.

 

"Something has to be done to address these issues," he said. "The black people of Milwaukee are tired, they are tired of living under this oppression, this is their life."

 

Without a doubt, the suffering that is going on in our inner cities is intense.  Our economic infrastructure has been gutted by decades of bad trade deals, and evidence of severe social and moral decay is all around us.

 

But no matter how bad things are, there is never any excuse for committing random acts of violence.  In addition to setting businesses on fire, it is being reported that rioters were trying to drag people out of their vehicles in order to beat them up.

 

How in the world does that solve anything?

 

Meanwhile, police all over the nation continue to be targets of violence.  In a previous article, I told my readers that the number of police officers that have been shot and killed this year has risen by 78 percent compared to last year.

 

Well, over the past few days some more officers have been added to the list.  For example, the following is an excerpt from a CNN report about an officer that was just shot and killed in south Georgia...

 

A police officer was shot dead while responding to a call of a suspicious person in south Georgia, authorities said.

 

The shooting occurred Saturday night after the officer, Tim Smith, got the call in a residential area in Eastman, special agent Scott Whitley of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations said.

 

While on patrol, Smith encountered the subject and exited his car. That's when he was fatally shot, Whitley said.

 

And this is from a Fox News report about an officer that was shot and killed in New Mexico...

 

Two Ohio fugitives wanted for a murder have been arrested after authorities say one of them fatally shot a New Mexico police officer.

 

Dona Ana County Sheriff's spokeswoman Kelly Jameson said Saturday that 38-year-old Jesse Hanes is suspected of gunning down Hatch Police Officer Jose Chavez during a traffic stop Friday.

 

In addition, there was another very disturbing incident that just happened a few days ago in Arkansas.  When a suspect started shooting at police officers, one was killed, one was wounded, and a police dog named Kina that got hit and ran away was just found on Saturday...

 

Police spokeswoman Kristin Faulkenberry told reporters the dog, named Kina, "was up and walking" when searchers found the animal Friday morning near where the shooting unfolded near Hackett, about 115 miles west of Little Rock.

 

The dog was shot and ran into a wooded area Wednesday when a man identified as Billy Monroe Jones opened fire on officers, killing Sebastian County Deputy Bill Cooper and wounding Hackett Police Chief Darrell Spells.

 

Earlier today I talked to a friend of mine that works as a police officer, and he admitted that he and his wife do think about all of this violence that is being directed at the police.  I suppose that it would be exceedingly difficult not to.  Those that are serving their communities in this way are going to have a very tough time moving forward.  At this point every single law enforcement officer in the entire nation is a potential target, and they are just going to have to find a way to deal with this new reality.

 

America is more divided than I have ever seen in my entire lifetime.  Instead of learning how to love one another, hatred is growing by the day.

 

More chaos is coming, more violence is coming, and more of our cities will burn.

 

Things didn't have to turn out this way, but thanks to decades of incredibly foolish decisions we will now reap what we have sown.

 

Feds Move to Takeover Police - By Daymond Duck - http://raptureready.com/featured/duck/dd241.html

 

On December 18, 2014, President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13684 establishing the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. 

 

On Mar. 6, 2015, he spoke about the rioting in Ferguson, MO and announced his plan to impose federal standards on state and local police forces.

 

He called for an increase in the kind and amount of data that is being collected and stored on citizens and to be able to retrieve it instantaneously from government data bases.

 

Critics pointed out that the German Gestapo and the Russian KGB were government controlled police forces that persecuted and killed millions of opponents.

 

They expressed opposition to his plan to control the local police, know more about U.S. citizens and to be better able to track everyone.

 

On Aug. 4, 2016, it was reported that Pres. Obama has found a way to take over local police departments and his Justice Dept. has already taken over the police in several large cities including Newark, NJ; Miami, FL; Los Angeles, Cal; Ferguson, Mo; Chicago, Ill; and more.

 

It goes like this: an incident is used by the Justice Dept. Civil Rights Division to file a federal lawsuit against a city, county or state alleging that the police have violated someone's civil rights following a demonstration or jailing.

 

The city, county or state is allowed to plead no contest under the condition that it signs a consent order to let the Justice Dept. regulate the police.

 

A UN Human Rights Council representative has already praised this and called for even greater federal control of the various police agencies.

 

A Google search found that the Justice Dept. filed a lawsuit against Newark, NJ and it was settled by Newark agreeing to federal monitoring; the Justice Dept. filed a lawsuit against Miami, FL and it was settled with Miami signing a court-enforceable mutual agreement.

 

The Justice Dept. filed a lawsuit against Ferguson, MO and it was settled with Ferguson signing a court-enforceable mutual agreement; and Justice Dept. is investigating the use of force by the Chicago, IL Police Dept.

 

In a previous article titled "Black Lives Matter Exposed," I wrote about a leader in that group named DeRay McKesson. Some of the groups funding originated with George Soros.

 

Mr. McKesson has had several meetings with Pres. Obama at the White House and the Black Lives Matter group has been officially endorsed by the Democratic National Committee.

 

Videos show Mr. McKesson's involvement in many of the demonstrations that have taken place this summer. At Ferguson, MO there was rioting, looting and property destruction.

 

At Baton Rouge, LA, Mr. McKesson and many others were arrested while demonstrating on July 9, 2016. One police officer lost several teeth when he was struck in the mouth by a projectile. Police said they confiscated eight firearms.

 

Guess what? Mr. McKesson has filed a federal lawsuit against the Louisiana police. He claims that they acted in a "militarized and aggressive manner."

 

I am not a betting man, but if I was, I would bet that his lawsuit will be settled by the signing of a court-enforceable mutual agreement with the U.S. Justice Dept. monitoring the police.

 

I will go one step further. As I started to send this article in I heard a TV reporter say that a man with a gun was shot in a chase in Milwaukee, WI.

 

I Googled it and read that a few hours later, a crowd gathered for what looked like a Black Lives Matter protest. It got out of control. Several vehicles were vandalized and set on fire. Several buildings were burned.

 

A policeman was hit in the head by a brick. Shots were fired when firemen arrived to put out the fire.

 

It is too early to know all of the details, but in less than 24 hours people are already calling for the police department and the criminal justice system to be reformed.

 

I cannot predict the future and, once more, I am not a betting man, but if I was, I would bet that a lawsuit will be filed and I would bet that it will be settled by the signing of a court-enforceable mutual agreement with the U.S. Justice Dept. monitoring the police.

 

The public is being told that the objective of these court-enforceable agreements is to promote trust between Law enforcement and the people. But this comes from a man in the White House that is now famous for not telling the truth.

 

I believe the real objective is federal control of the city, county and state police. And when that objective is realized it will be followed by the Justice Dept. ordering the city, county and state police forces that they control to confiscate everyone's guns.

 

Be aware that the upcoming election (if there is one) pits a candidate that opposes gun seizure against a candidate that supports it.

 

Prophecy Plus Ministries

Daymond & Rachel Duck

 

 

Gangs in Chicago Reportedly Agree to Use Snipers and Automatic Weapons Against the Police - By Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/gangs-in-chicago-reportedly-agree-to-use-snipers-and-automatic-weapons-against-the-police

 

Is the city of Chicago about to see a wave of unprecedented chaos and violence? The facts that I am about to share with you may seem fantastical at first glance, but they come from the Chicago police and they are being reported by the mainstream media. According to authorities, at a recent gathering of major gangs in the city it was agreed that they would use automatic weapons against the police, and at least one of the gangs already has "a sniper in place" but officials do not know where that sniper is located. As I have warned before, a spirit of violence and civil unrest is rising in America, and the number of police officers that were shot and killed during the first half of 2016 was 78 percent higher than during the first half of 2015. Anyone that does not understand that we have a major problem on our hands has simply not been paying attention.

 

This meeting of major gangs in Chicago was described as a "summit" by ABC Chicago, and an alert about the security threat that this poses was sent out to every police officer in the city on Friday...

 

Chicago police officers are being warned about a security threat involving possible attacks by gangs on the city's West Side.

 

ABC7 has obtained a warning that the department sent out to every police officer on Friday.

 

The warning described a summit between senior West Side gang members in which they "agreed to use automatic weapons against Chicago police officers." The alert also said one gang provided guns and placed a sniper at an unknown location.

 

An article published by the Chicago Sun-Times went into even greater detail about this story. Apparently the three gangs involved in the summit were the Vice Lords, the Black Disciples and the Four Corner Hustlers, and reportedly it is the Four Corner Hustlers that will be providing automatic weapons to members of the other two gangs...

 

The meeting took place Thursday between higher-ups from the Vice Lords, Black Disciples and Four Corner Hustlers, according to an alert issued to department members the day after the meeting.

 

The Four Corner Hustlers "provided guns" and have "a sniper in place" though authorities do not know where, according to the alert. The Four Corner Hustlers also are supplying the other two gangs with automatic weapons, which all three factions also have agreed to use against police, the alert states.

 

It appears that what precipitated this "summit" of major gangs was the shooting death of 18-year-old Paul O'Neal. That incident made headlines all over the nation and resulted in very large protests in downtown Chicago...

 

Tensions remain high in America's third-largest city just days after video footage emerged of the moments leading up to the fatal shooting of Paul O'Neal, an 18-year-old African-American teen.

 

O'Neal was gunned down by officers back in July after he stole a car and got into a chase with cops which ended in the city's South Shore neighborhood.

 

Last week, demonstrators in downtown Chicago blocked streets and traffic while protesting the shooting.

 

If you don't live in the Chicago area, you may not be aware of the massive gang problem in the city.

 

Four years ago, the Chicago Crime Commission estimated that there were 150,000 gang members currently living in the city. That was the highest number in the entire nation, and since then that number has certainly only gone up.

 

Meanwhile, there are just 13,318 law enforcement officers of all descriptions in the city of Chicago.

 

So essentially the police are outnumbered by a more than 10 to 1 margin, and now the gangs are planning to use automatic weapons?

 

These are ominous times for the Windy City.

 

Meanwhile, the threat of violence from Islamic terrorists continues to grow. We all saw what happened not too long ago at a small church in France, and there are a lot of people that are concerned that we could soon see similar scenarios play out all over this country.

 

For a moment, I would like for you to consider one incident that happened earlier this year at a church in Riverside, California...

 

As Father Josiah Trenham prepared to read the Gospel, several parishioners discreetly scooped up their babies, retreated up the aisles of St. Andrew Orthodox Church and out into the spring air, so as not to allow the crying of little ones to disturb the divine liturgy.

 

The time-honored tradition was shattered when a car passed by the Riverside, Calif., church, slowing down as the front passenger leaned out of his window and bellowed menacingly through a bullhorn, according to witnesses.

 

"Allahu Akbar!" the unidentified man repeated several times as the unnerved parents drew their infants close and exchanged worried glances.

 

Fortunately that unidentified man only had a bullhorn.

 

But what if he had been holding a gun or had thrown a grenade?

 

We do know that ISIS has been warning that there will be more attacks on churches, and in one recent article I described how an entire church in this country ended up on an ISIS kill list.

 

20 years ago, I couldn't have imagined writing articles about gangs using automatic weapons in Chicago or about Islamic terrorists potentially attacking churches in America.

 

But times have changed, and we need to deal with the new realities that are confronting us. In my new book I warn about the chaos and the violence that are coming to America, and what we have seen so far is just the very small tip of a very large iceberg.

 

Just remember what happened in Orlando. It was the largest mass shooting in American history, but moments before it happened most of the people in that club would have never even imagined that an Islamic terrorist was about to start shooting at them.

 

On Monday night, that terrorist's father made a very surprising appearance at a very unexpected location...

 

As they were covering Hillary Clinton's campaign rally in Kissimmee, Florida on Monday, a crew from Florida television station WPTV noticed the father of the Orlando nightclub shooter sitting in the audience, directly behind Hillary Clinton.

 

Apparently Seddique Mateen actually is a big supporter of Hillary Clinton, which somehow seems oddly appropriate.

 

But could you ever imagine Osama Bin Laden's father sitting behind George W. Bush at a campaign rally?

 

I couldn't either.

 

These are very, very strange times that we are living in, and they are about to get a whole lot stranger.

 

So hold on tight and buckle your seat belts, because it is going to be a very bumpy ride.

 

 

The fulcrum of destruction and choosing our leaders - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com

 

Proverbs 29:2 says, "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn." Throughout the Bible, we see examples of where unrighteous rulers brought devastation upon their people. We see that God uses nations to judge Israel, and in their harshness and wickedness against Israel, God then allows for the destruction of those nations. It is in these examples where the citizens of America must take great pause and repent because the vast majority of its leaders, irrespective of political party, behave un-righteously. These leaders also are enabling the enemies of Jerusalem to organize and unite under faux-democracy. It may be the perfect storm for America.

 

Galatians 4 speaks of how Christians are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. This is specifically dealing with those who follow the Messiah are not heirs of Ishmael, but are children of the promise--which is found in the line of Isaac, son of the "freewoman." Galatians 5:1 says, "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith the Messiah has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." Aside from the outright depravity permeating our American society, which is no small thing, America's leaders are taking our country--physically and spiritually--toward Ishmael, who is the father of Islam. Our leaders have rushed headlong into alliance with the most antichrist system known to the world.

 

Our tax money, to the tune of billions, has supported the establishment of Islam. So-called "democracies" have been set-up with Sharia Law constitutions using the financial and political assistance of the United States. In every case, from deposing the Shah of Iran to the Palestinian Authority to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Bosnia, Turkey, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Yeman, and Syria, leaders have used your tax money to institutionalize the very same nations named as coming against Jerusalem in the Day of the Lord. Zechariah 12:3 says, "And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces..."

 

America's sinful nature combined with its leaders insistence of becoming "entangled" with the yoke of bondage through materially supporting the antichrist system of the bondwoman--Islam--can only result in destruction. Already, our economy is weak, our people are out of work, folks are losing their homes, families are broken, and the government is encroaching on every freedom. Judgment is brooding over America as a dark devouring cloud. How harsh it is with wicked leaders. How much more will it be because Americans, whose majority call themselves Christians, have been given the God ordained right to choose their leaders? We must choose our leaders wisely, understanding their actions and their words.