The Clear and Present Danger of Lawlessness in California

In a brutal killing spree in Fresno recently, a black man, filled with hate and who had killed a 25-year-old Motel 6 security guard only days before, additionally murdered three other white men in what the city’s police chief stated was an attempt “to kill as many people as he could… and that is what he set out to do." Fresno Chief of Police, Jerry Dyer, in a statement following the arrest, explained that although the shooter yelled "Allahu Akbar" as he was loaded into a police car, investigators do not believe the shootings had anything to do with terrorism. The shooter had social media accounts that expressed anti-white and anti-government sentiments. While the Fresno police reacted quickly to the shooting rampage, and possibly spared other’s lives, all police forces in California are not committed to protecting the citizens equally. Recent violent clashes between anti-Trump and pro-Trump demonstrators have the public becoming increasingly alarmed by the shocking violence present. In Berkeley, on more than one occasion, violence erupted between those who were openly supporting President Trump and those who are against the president’s policies. Berkeley police on both occasions apparently did nothing to intervene or make any arrests. The clashes represent more of the same kind of confrontations that occurred during the presidential campaign that brought out the haters of Donald Trump.