Given that Hunter Biden skated on a gun crime, Governor Ralph “Blackface” Northam is still in office, and Jim Comey and James Clapper never got the Roger Stone treatment despite lying to Congress, it’s understandable that State Representative Park Cannon (D-Ga.) would be upset. Cannon, a black woman, is the victim of a blatant double standard.
While it’s now customary to let Democrats commit crimes for the cause, she was actually arrested for breaking the law.
“Oh, the humanity!” was basically the attitude of the left-wing media. As NPR reported:
Repeatedly knocking on the office door of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp got one state lawmaker arrested at the Capitol on Thursday.
Democratic state Rep. Park Cannon, a Black woman, continued knocking on Kemp’s office door after Georgia State Patrol troopers instructed her to stop.
She said later she was arrested for “fighting voter suppression.” A law signed by Kemp on Thursday includes new limitations on mail-in voting, expands most voters’ access to in-person early voting and caps a months-long battle over voting in a battleground state.
… Cannon is facing a charge of obstructing law enforcement officers by use of threats or violence and she faces a second charge of disrupting general assembly sessions or other meetings of members.
Yes, she was arrested for “fighting voter suppression” — and the guy doing 140 through a school zone was arrested for just driving his car.
Obviously shocked at being arrested for CCWD (Committing Crimes While Democrat) and wholly fired up, Cannon “is seen yelling in one video: ‘There is no reason for me to be arrested. I am a legislator!’” NPR also informs.
Completely understandable. Whence comes this accountability? As we’ve witnessed for decades with Congress’s tax policies, for example, theft is only actionable when committed by non-legislators. Congress is also not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. (But we can’t be sure what our legislators would have to offer, anyway: Their lawmaking indicates that they apparently operate without information.)
CNN was also shocked that there was an arrest for CCWD and penned the headline, “Georgia state lawmaker arrested protesting voting restriction bill outside governor’s office.” Such professionalism is humbling. If only I’d possessed it, I wouldn’t have missed the boat early this year and could have crafted the headline, “Jan. 6 Citizens Arrested Protesting Election Theft at the Capitol.”
CNN did provide some detail, though, writing that in “a statement Thursday night, Georgia State Patrol said that at 6:33 p.m., Cannon ‘was beating on the door to the Governor’s Office,’ and, when told to stop, moved on to the Governor’s Ceremonial Office door marked with a ‘Governor’s Staff Only’ sign and knocked on that door.”
“After being told twice to stop knocking on the door in light of the press conference occurring inside, and twice warned that she would be arrested if she did not stop, ‘Rep. Cannon refused to stop knocking on the door. Rep. Cannon was placed under arrest and escorted out of the Capitol,’ according to the statement,” CNN continued. “She was taken to Fulton County Jail and later released late Thursday night.”
Cannon’s arrest warrant also states that she “stomped” on an officer’s foot thrice during the incident.
Of course, the legislator likely relished the arrest, as it gave her cause much attention and provided a photo op and an opportunity to play the race card. In fact, she was released from custody by 11 p.m. and then was joined outside the jail by U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.).
The senator’s office “said in a statement that Cannon is a parishioner at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where Warnock has served as senior pastor,” CNN further reports.
The media also noted that Cannon was short on more than just sense and morality — and that this is a problem. “Cannon is 5 foot 2, according to her arrest record,” NPR wrote. “Her arrest by several larger, white law enforcement officers and the image of her being brought through the Capitol prompted widespread condemnation on social media overnight. And her arrest prompted comparisons to civil rights and police brutality protests from this summer as well as those of the 1960s.”
Understandable. As with the summer “protesters,” Cannon was CCWD; unlike most of them, however, she’s being held accountable (at least for now).
As for her arrest by “larger” police officers, when you’re 5’ 2”, it’s hard finding smaller ones. But is the standard now that people can only be arrested by cops their own race and size? Can multiracial dwarves now commit crimes with virtual impunity?
Cannon’s alleged diminutive status could be fake news, anyway. I mean, in the video below, she’s talking to an officer while he’s standing in an elevated area, and she’s still at least his height.
Whatever the case, that officer didn’t shrink from the challenge of enforcing the law on an imperious legislator. And Cannon certainly reached the heights of demagoguery in complaining about the prevention of SEWD (Stealing Elections While Democrat).
It’s an issue, too. After all, diversity is a priority today, and how will incompetents be represented in government if elections can’t be stolen? So whatever you say about Cannon and her door assault, don’t knock her.
