Althouse: "It sounds like the police are just really angry at him for messing up their cars."

22 జులై, 2025

"It sounds like the police are just really angry at him for messing up their cars."

Said Ron Kuby, a lawyer for Jakhi McCray, quoted in "Brooklyn Activist Charged With Arson in Torching of 10 Police Vehicles/Jakhi McCray, 21, faces federal arson charges in connection with the burning of police vehicles in a parking lot last month" (NYT).

McCray is, according to the Times, a "pro-Palestinian activist" accused of burning 10 police cars. In the packed courtroom were "his mother and more than two dozen supporters in the courtroom, most of whom donned kaffiyehs, a symbol of Palestinian resistance."

"After the court proceeding, an expletive directed at the police was found scrawled on a bench in Judge Kovner’s courtroom."

Speaking of vandalism... did you see this: "AOC's campaign office vandalized with red paint in NYC" (CBS)? Note the sign: "AOC funds genocide in Gaza."

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Tina Trent చెప్పారు...: Isn't Ron Kuby dead yet?; 22-07-25 8:50 AM
Kai Akker చెప్పారు...: Let's deconstruct the logic of these events and their implied positions. It promises to be highly educational.; 22-07-25 8:51 AM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: He needs to be put in jail for decades or given the option to moving to "Palestine."

His choice.; 22-07-25 8:52 AM
RideSpaceMountain చెప్పారు...: "Jakhi McCray"

Now that's a weird combo. In all my time in the ME I've heard some strange "Ibn's", but never a Scots/Irish surname. That's like "Haji O'Toole" or "Muhammed Bin Murphy".

This timeline might be uber-screwed but it's not lacking in comedy, at least.; 22-07-25 8:53 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.; 22-07-25 8:56 AM
Steve చెప్పారు...: Two lawyers got prison time for firebombing police cars during the BLM disturbances.
https://abovethelaw.com/2023/01/suspended-biglaw-associate-sentenced-to-jail-time-after-molotov-cocktail-attack/; 22-07-25 8:58 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: is it really vandalism when it comes to khafiyeh cortez,; 22-07-25 8:58 AM
Mike Yancey చెప్పారు...: Ron Kuby and Bill Kunstler were Lebowki’s lawyers… No! Not the Big Lebowski! The Dude, man!; 22-07-25 8:59 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: Palestinian victim worship and Democratic Neo-Marxist Antifa thuggery = the same hot garbage.; 22-07-25 8:59 AM
Kirk Parker చెప్పారు...: Why is the federal government involved in a local arson case?; 22-07-25 9:00 AM
john mosby చెప్పారు...: "It sounds like the police are just really angry at him for messing up their cars."

"He hates these cans! Stay away from the cans!"

https://youtu.be/YPW9oGb6e7s?si=rwEP2CE5XIaTY9Hw

RR
JSM; 22-07-25 9:01 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: Torching Tesla dealerships and tesla automobiles, torching police cars, attempting to murder ICE agents = it's all the same insane cancer.; 22-07-25 9:03 AM
Aggie చెప్పారు...: I'm told these young people love tattoos. Why aren't they tattooing kaffiyehs on their face and neck, yet?; 22-07-25 9:06 AM
Gravel చెప్పారు...: Kirk Parker - per grok:

Jakhi McCray's case is being prosecuted in federal court because the arson involved damaging property owned by the New York City Police Department (NYPD), which can fall under federal jurisdiction when it impacts government functions or resources. Specifically, the charge of arson under federal law (likely 18 U.S.C. § 844) applies when the act affects interstate commerce, involves federal property, or disrupts government operations. The NYPD vehicles and trailer, valued at $800,000, are critical public safety resources, and their destruction ahead of planned protests could be seen as interfering with government functions, elevating the case to a federal level. Federal prosecutors, as noted by U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella, Jr., are treating this as a serious crime due to its impact on law enforcement capabilities, justifying federal jurisdiction over a local act of arson.; 22-07-25 9:07 AM
Krumhorn చెప్పారు...: Ron Kuby is an elderly hippie. That ponytail down to the crack of his ass has always been an alternative to toilet paper in a pinch.

- Krumhorn; 22-07-25 9:10 AM
Dave Begley చెప్పారు...: A breakdown in the Rule of Law fueled and encouraged by the Dems.; 22-07-25 9:10 AM
RideSpaceMountain చెప్పారు...: Aggie said, "Why aren't they tattooing kaffiyehs on their face and neck, yet?"

That would be haram. Burning stuff, while illegal, is halal.; 22-07-25 9:13 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: wearing a kaffiyeh is no different that showing up covered in swastika tattoos.; 22-07-25 9:14 AM
Wince చెప్పారు...: ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.; 22-07-25 9:16 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: Dave Begley - Indeed. 100% correct. 9:10; 22-07-25 9:16 AM
tcrosse చెప్పారు...: I fondly remember an SNL skit from years ago where someone playing Bill Clinton - Phil Hartman? - asks Yassir Arafat if he can borrow his dish towel for a minute.; 22-07-25 9:17 AM
Wince చెప్పారు...: "It sounds like the police are just really angry at him for messing up their cars." Said Ron Kuby, a lawyer for Jakhi McCray.

"I want a fucking lawyer, man. I want Bill Kunstler... or Ron Kuby""; 22-07-25 9:18 AM
RideSpaceMountain చెప్పారు...: "AOC funds genocide in Gaza."

Poor Sandy. Bless her heart. Lie down with the rabid, you'll get jihadis.; 22-07-25 9:23 AM
Wince చెప్పారు...: "It sounds like the police are just really angry at him for messing up their cars."

"What's more chicken shit than fucking with another man's automobile?"; 22-07-25 9:25 AM
n.n చెప్పారు...: Pyromania is one reason no one wants Hamasidols in their nation, community, etc.; 22-07-25 9:25 AM
Captain BillieBob చెప్పారు...: "AOC funds genocide in Gaza."
Is this one of those chickens coming home to roost moments?; 22-07-25 9:26 AM
RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...: Weird how certain Crimes get the NYTs/WaPos attention and others don't. How many stories has the NYT's run on the craziness and dangerous Antifa's in Portland? Did they write about the gang of Antifas that planned to bomb and murder large numbers of ICE agents?

And IRC, the couple that tossed dynamite in a police van in NYC during BLM riots of 2020, didn't get much NYTs ink either. You had to go to other Media outlets.; 22-07-25 9:28 AM
Kirk Parker చెప్పారు...: Thanks, Gravel.

My question was meant at least 50% rhetorically, but it's absolutely no surprise to find out the answer is: Yet More Commerce Clause Bullshit.; 22-07-25 9:29 AM
RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...: I wish they're revise the Code and make these sorts of crimes local/state and not Federal. Crimes punishable by the federal courts should not duplicate state/local laws already on the books. And get me started on the Legalizing of Double Jeopardy.; 22-07-25 9:30 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: what the NY Leg is going to do this, fat Alvin is going to prosecute,; 22-07-25 9:33 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: I didn't see it in the post,
but this is largely nostalgia bait, as they indulged in 2020
as with the leonard bernstein panther shindig, that Wolfe
eviscerated once upon a time when the panthers devolved into the Black Liberation Army, it was no longer that sporting for them; 22-07-25 9:43 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: then in the 90s there was the rehabilitation of the SLA, the Weathermen with Sydney Lumet with Classic Law and Order,; 22-07-25 9:46 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: a fossil of a by gone era, with michael ratner and kunstler gone whose holding down the forr; 22-07-25 9:50 AM
wendybar చెప్పారు...: Sandy helped build the Progressive monster the left created, and now the monster is attacking them. Can't blame MAGA. This is on THEM!!!; 22-07-25 9:54 AM
Political Junkie చెప్పారు...: He should be forced to live in Gaza.; 22-07-25 9:56 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Wolfe satirized this early prog delusion, as Sherman McCoy reminisces how he would go to work at Pierce and Pierce, doing the Panther salute,; 22-07-25 9:56 AM
Duty of Inquiry చెప్పారు...: “It sounds like the police are just really angry at him for messing up their cars,” Mr. Kuby said.

Sounds like stoner wisdom to me.; 22-07-25 9:58 AM
Dave Begley చెప్పారు...: Who is the new Tom Wolfe? We need someone to write a novel about this era.; 22-07-25 9:58 AM
hombre చెప్పారు...: Global jihad comes to the US, perpetrated by ignorant antisemitic American children infiltrated and indoctrinated by vicious Islamists.; 22-07-25 10:00 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: thats an intriguing question perhaps Lionel Shriver,; 22-07-25 10:01 AM
Dogma and Pony Show చెప్పారు...: What's infuriating, if Mr. Kuby wants to know, is not that someone damaged police property, but that people are attempting to NORMALIZE violence and property damage as a form of political expression. (IOW, normalize terrorism.); 22-07-25 10:14 AM
Biff చెప్పారు...: While Kuby makes arson resulting in $800,000 in damage seem like a trivial matter that barely merits a warning, McCray's supporters try to portray the 21-year-old as a friendly, angelic student.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DMX2xiNR8vL/; 22-07-25 10:15 AM
RideSpaceMountain చెప్పారు...: @Biff, thanks for the link, now the "McCray" isn't as weird as it seemed before. You've got to wonder where Farrakhan is these days...I assure you these inner-city intifadans don't belong to a mosque, least of all his.; 22-07-25 10:19 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: also from Bonfire, from an era, when Gotham seemed salvageable, as much as miss Tisch tries I don't think that is possible,; 22-07-25 10:21 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Clean Gene, is a fossil of that era, somewhere in his 90s,; 22-07-25 10:27 AM
FullMoon చెప్పారు...: From Biff's link @10:15

palestineswg

1d
⁨📷⁩ ⁨PACK THE COURT FOR JAKHI MCCRAY AT 2 PM TODAY

The time has come to rise in solidarity for our comrade, Jakhi McCray, who faces a crticial arraignment TODAY, July 21, at 2PM. Our comrade has turned himself in this morning, despite facing sham federal felony charges that carry a 5 year mandatory minimum and 20 year maximum. His voluntary turn in was a decision made out of love and true concern for his larger community.

This, just like every court date of defendents across the empire, is a moment to stand up and fight against the system that seeks to silence, oppress, criminalize, and divide us. This is a stand for every individual facing unjust charges, for every comrade targeted by the state, and for every community under siege by the State.

COURT DETAILS:; 22-07-25 10:31 AM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...: Why do we have to call vandals activists?; 22-07-25 10:46 AM
Another old lawyer చెప్పారు...: "Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who."; 22-07-25 10:51 AM
RideSpaceMountain చెప్పారు...: "Why do we have to call vandals activists?"

I wonder what actual Vandals would think of today's activists? I can imagine the Vandals, Goths, and Huns not wanting to be lumped in with them. They would've just stolen Roman chariots for their own use, not burned them.; 22-07-25 10:54 AM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: "Gravel said...
Kirk Parker - per grok:"

Quoting AI ChatBots in a comment section is lower than whaleshit. Do you actually think you are the only idiot who can access that gibberish?; 22-07-25 10:57 AM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: FullMoon said...

⁨📷⁩ ⁨PACK THE COURT FOR JAKHI MCCRAY AT 2 PM TODAY

Round them all up and give them a choice between death and exile.; 22-07-25 11:12 AM
mezzrow చెప్పారు...: Wasn't Lionel Hutz an intern for Ron Kuby? I hallucinate more since I started using AI.; 22-07-25 11:17 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: he was a wholly original hack,; 22-07-25 11:23 AM
Iman చెప్పారు...: Hope it all… no… hope it doesn’t work out for them.; 22-07-25 11:33 AM
baghdadbob చెప్పారు...: I used to enjoy the "Curtis & Kuby" radio show. The right/left pingpong between future NYC mayor Sliwa and radical lawyer Ron was even more entertaining than W.F. Buckley vs. Gore Vidal.; 22-07-25 11:42 AM
Clyde చెప్పారు...: @ RideSpaceMountain I think that "Jakhi" is just one of those Tragedeigh names by mothers who can't spell, or want their kid's name to be "special." Probably pronounced Jackie.; 22-07-25 11:46 AM
Paul చెప్పారు...: Arson is not 'messing up their cars.... it's a big felony.. book 'em Danno!; 22-07-25 11:51 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: https://notthebee.com/article/homeless-squatters-are-now-taking-over-the-empty-lots-of-la-fire-victims-and-the-victims-can-do-nothing meanwhile; 22-07-25 11:52 AM
RideSpaceMountain చెప్పారు...: @Clyde, I'm sure you're right, very much like "La-A" 'cause the dash don't be silent'. Just like La-A, 'Jakhi's' legend may live on as well.; 22-07-25 11:56 AM
john mosby చెప్పారు...: RSM: "I wonder what actual Vandals would think of today's activists"

They had a very rich culture. "Vandalism" as a pejorative was coined by neoclassicists in the 1700's who preferred Roman stuff to Germanic. The historical Vandals did deface Roman statues, but so did every conqueror back then, to show who was now in charge.

Andalusia/Al-Andalus, the supposed multiculti paradise of Moor-ruled Spain, is arguably named after the Vandals, who ruled the place before them.

RR
JSM; 22-07-25 12:04 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: I thought those were the Ostrogoths; 22-07-25 12:05 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: "It sounds like the police are just really angry at him for messing up their cars."

Isn't it disingenuous to say that while knowing the NY taxpayers will replace those cars with brand spanking new ones?; 22-07-25 12:10 PM
Quaestor చెప్పారు...: Ron Kuby. We've seen him before.

They say a man who chooses to act as his own lawyer has a fool for a client. That's so. But, there are degrees of foolishness. The greater fool is anyone who agrees to be represented by Ron Kuby, especially pro bono. (Don't worry about the money, Jakhi. It's all paid for. Did Jakhi ask who paid for it?) Even if you're ontologically innocent of all wrongdoing, Kuby will try to get you convicted and sentenced to hard time for the Cause, because the Cause needs martyrs.; 22-07-25 12:12 PM
Skeptical Voter చెప్పారు...: Ya know--burn my car up and I just might be mad at you you little twit.; 22-07-25 12:25 PM
RideSpaceMountain చెప్పారు...: Guten Abend...I mean good evening members of the press. I'm Gaiseric, President and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Gothic Peoples (NAAGP). I'm here to demand the AP stylebook put an end immediately to all racist references to "vandalism", Goths and Huns being in any way related to these 'scourge of god' activists. We are not barbarians. These people would've burned Rome for fun, we burned Rome because they had it coming! See? Big difference. Also, we really just wanted farmland, and these 'activists' don't look much like farmers, do they?

Auf Wiedersehen, and thank you for your attention to this matter.; 22-07-25 12:45 PM
Joe Bar చెప్పారు...: At what point do we stop accepting the violent behavior of these "Pro-Palestinian" agitators?; 22-07-25 12:46 PM
Tina Trent చెప్పారు...: It's let's educate RCOCEANII about jurisdiction versus double jeopardy time again. Eh, why bother?; 22-07-25 1:04 PM
Big Mike చెప్పారు...: … because the Cause needs martyrs.

Then let’s give the Cause a good one. Let’s suspend the 8th Amendment long enough to buy a junker automobile, soak the interior with kerosene, chain Jackie McCray inside, fill the gas tank, and toss in a burning match. It’s what he hoped to do to a random police officer isn’t it?; 22-07-25 1:05 PM
effinayright చెప్పారు...: Jupiter said...
"Gravel said...
Kirk Parker - per grok:"

Quoting AI ChatBots in a comment section is lower than whaleshit. Do you actually think you are the only idiot who can access that gibberish?
************

When our Blogmistress quotes AI in her posts, is that too "lower than whaleshit"?; 22-07-25 1:22 PM
Yancey Ward చెప్పారు...: This case is a test for whether or not civilization is still possible in New York and elsewhere. If he gets away with this, then two things will happen- there will be more arson and there will be vigilante justice for the arsonists. What would you if someone burnt your house down and got off scot-free because the juries and government decided it was political speech that isn't punishable? I know what I would do and it ain't sitting back and taking it.; 22-07-25 1:32 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/07/22/cbs-is-about-to-have-a-big-expensive-stephen-colbert-problem-and-howard-stern-is-the-precedent-n4941985; 22-07-25 1:39 PM
n.n చెప్పారు...: Protesters with terrorist intent. Abortive ideation? Planned Policehood.; 22-07-25 1:43 PM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: OM
"Why do we have to call vandals activists?"

Because leftists and Jew hating Activists are superior in every way. They are also above the law.; 22-07-25 3:32 PM
Howard చెప్పారు...: You J6 insurrectionists supporters are showing your nasty itchy festering partisanship wounds wanting to throw the book at this brand of revolutionary freedom fighter. I'm sure he torched the cops prowlers with all due caution and safety measures to insure the fires wouldn't spread to other things or people. How can we condemn a true believer finding his bliss in the manner of Bill Moyers interviewing Joseph Campbell.; 22-07-25 4:08 PM
buwaya చెప్పారు...: Andalusia is named for the Vandals, who did capture it and hold it for a couple of decades in the Fifth century. But the Vandals were the most footloose of the wandering hordes, so they soon went on to North Africa, where they besieged St Augustine at Hippo, from which they sacked Rome, etc. They were effectively exterminated in what is now Tunisia by the Byzanine Belisarius a century later. Coming in behind the Vandals were the Visigoths, who stayed in Spain. The Ostrogoths took Italy, not Spain.
The Vandals interestingly may take their name from the tribe of Wends, which were slavs, not germans. But nomenclature was assigned by often confused writers, not contemporary peoples.; 22-07-25 4:36 PM
Quaestor చెప్పారు...: "How can we condemn a true believer finding his bliss in the manner of Bill Moyers interviewing Joseph Campbell."

How about a hero's journey to the end of a short rope?; 22-07-25 4:38 PM
MikeD చెప్పారు...: "When our Blogmistress quotes AI in her posts, is that too "lower than whaleshit"? YES!; 22-07-25 4:41 PM
Mason G చెప్పారు...: "Quoting AI ChatBots in a comment section is lower than whaleshit."

Where does quoting NYT or CBS fit in the "lower than" hierarchy?; 22-07-25 5:27 PM
jim చెప్పారు...: This kid is from Maplewood NJ. Traditionally a VERY boojie Essex county town.; 22-07-25 6:25 PM
Mason G చెప్పారు...: "AOC's campaign office vandalized with red paint in NYC"

Mostly peaceful protesting, perhaps?; 22-07-25 7:21 PM
Darcy చెప్పారు...: "He hates these cans!" (Steve Martin in "The Jerk") Similar thought process (I think - but I'm an odd one).; 23-07-25 8:25 AM
Rocco చెప్పారు...: “Lower than whaleshit”

https://www.diveninjaexpeditions.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/whale-pump-infographic-v2-1536x1142-1.jpg

According to this graphic, whales poo at the surface, so whaleshit is not that low. phytoplankton feed on the poo while it is on the surface.

And since whaleshit eat at depth, they don’t shit where they eat.; 23-07-25 8:27 AM
Rick67 చెప్పారు...: "Angry for messing up their cars".

This sounds like the tired excuse for why destroying property is okay. "Hey we're only burning things not people". It's a form of the broken window fallacy. Replacing destroyed vehicles costs money. Money requires taxes. And taxes require work. Which means people's time and energy. If I have to work forty hours to replace the vehicle this protestor destroyed then that protestor stole forty hours of my life.; 23-07-25 12:42 PM

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