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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021 | The Jewish Home OCTOBER 29, 2015 | The Jewish Home
Notable Quotes “Say What?!”
While the situation facing Lt. Byrd was chaotic and frightening, video of the incident shows that Babbitt was merely breaking and entering. She was not presenting an imminent threat to anyone at the moment she was shot. Moreover, in his interview, Byrd admitted that, “I could not fully see her hands or what was in the backpack or what the intentions are.”
At the beginning of this, we all had to make the decision about how to handle nursing homes. Florida, we prevented, prohibited hospitals from discharging a sick nursing home patient back into nursing homes because we understood the hazard that that would have. Obviously, New York and other states made different decisions. The corporate media never talked about that or cared about that, even though that’s a decision that had a direct impact on the lives of a lot of very elderly people. And so, I think the media looked at somebody like Cuomo and thought it was an antiTrump, and I think that they were very much interested in weaponizing COVID against Trump. Trump was their villain, and Cuomo was kind of their hero. Obviously, it doesn’t necessarily work out for them in that regard. But at the end of the day, had they been doing their jobs back in March of 2020, some of these nursing home policies may have never been able to be sustained. - Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Fox News
- Jonathan Tobin, Newsweek, responding to Lt. Byrd’s interview in which Byrd explained why he killed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt on January 6
We may understand Byrd’s fears and not know exactly what was in his mind at the moment he fired. But if police had applied to the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots the same standard that was applied to Byrd’s shooting of Babbitt, then hundreds – if not thousands – of rioters around the country, including those who broke into government buildings, could have been legally gunned down, even if they were unarmed. Does anyone think that such shootings would have been justified by those who now laud Byrd, or that the cops involved would not have been dismissed and put on trial? - Ibid.
Thank you to the baseball writers, all but one of you, who voted for me. - Derek Jeter during his Hall of Fame Induction speech, noting how one writer’s no vote prevented him from being a unanimous Hall of Famer
White people should commit suicide as an ethical act. - Quote in a slide for a presentation on racism hosted by Duquesne University psychology professor Derek Hook
