Barron County, Wisconsin has now joined the ranks of Idaho in “Places I Wouldn’t Be Caught Dead”. Allow me to explain.
A domestic violence shelter, Embrace, was just stripped of 25K in funding, and lost their services from around a dozen local police departments. Why, you ask? Oh, I’ll be delighted to tell you why.
Apparantly, Embrace posted “Black Lives Matter” signs in their offices. This was tantamount to touting themselves as “anti-law enforcement”, according to these fucking Barneys.
Ok, correct me if I’m wrong (that’s funny, because we all know that doesn’t happen), but to plainly draw the line such as law enforcement did, to be either pro-black, or pro-law enforcement, isn’t that doing exactly as they claim they aren’t doing?
We state that law enforcement is blatantly anti-black. They deny it. We state that law enforcement is clearly using discriminatory practices. They, duh, deny it.
You know, I can’t help but feel this latest move is some Petty Ass Betty type of shit though. As though domestic violence shelters aren’t already struggling and always in dire need of funds. You petty bitches are taking the help from women fleeing abusers to be assholes? You’re just a different variety of evil in Barron county.
What gets me, though, is if we take a look at the statistics (because you already know I have them), the funds that you’re stripping aren’t helping the black community. Let’s take a look at the breakdown in abusers, and see who it is that we’re protecting these women and children from.
“This is especially true for the spouses of law enforcement. Multiple studies have found that 24-40% of police officer families experience domestic violence (in contrast to 10% of families in the general population). Not only are the abusers' friends and colleagues the very people victims would turn to for help, but the abuser is also trained to use a gun, which increases the risk of homicide by 500%. “
Well, that’s fucking embarrassing. Almost like you pieces of trash are utilizing yet another tool to trap these women, who are innocent victims being used as pawns in your race war.
I mean, this is the absolute embodiment of disgusting. It’s one thing to take a stance on a political movement, it is an entirely different matter altogether to use these type of strongarm techniques to strip away the only hope that some women have of making it out of a domestic violence situation alive.
If I were a citizen of this rathole, I would have something to say about it in terms of voting, which, of course, many of these elected officials seem to forget when they’re making decisions of this nature. This is a serious hit to saving women in Barron County, Wisconsin, and is exactly the type of shit that needs to be shut down before the sentiment can spread.
Unbelievable!! Thanks for bringing this to my attention - I’m going to see how I can get them a donation and some help from others. Keep up the excellent work April, this shit has to be stopped!