My latest in PJ Media:
In San Francisco on Wednesday, a man named Ajmal Amani, screaming “Allahu akbar,” charged at police with a large kitchen knife and was shot multiple times with a handgun and beanbag projectiles. Amani had previously threatened to kill a man in his residential hotel with the same large knife and later died of his wounds. Amani was, according to the Associated Press, “a former Afghan interpreter for U.S. special forces who had been shot several times during more than five years of service and struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder.” That is a tragedy, but it’s also a warning: how many of the tens of thousands of unvetted Afghans who have been brought to the U.S. by Old Joe Biden’s handlers are a similar threat?
The police video should be required viewing for all the “Defund the Police” advocates, as it shows calm, cautious, and careful police officers being charged unprovoked by Amani, who continues to invoke Allah even after he charges the officers and is shot. Nor was this the Afghan refugee’s first run-in with the law: according to the AP, he “was charged with assault with a deadly weapon in 2019 for allegedly slashing a city park ranger with a box cutter who said he appeared to be in an ‘altered mental state.’”
According to the San Francisco Standard, “in November 2019, Amani was arrested after crashing a woman’s car near the Seventh Street off-ramp of Highway 80 in San Francisco. He was accused of using a boxcutter to cut a city park ranger who stopped at the scene of the crash and tried to pull him from the vehicle…Amani faced attempted murder and other charges in connection with the incident, but a judge dismissed the attempted murder charge at a preliminary hearing.”
Public defender Scott Grant, who represented Amani in that case, said his former client was having a “clear mental health episode.” Grant explained that Amani “was an Afghan interpreter who contracted with the U.S. government over the course of a decade.” He translated for the Navy SEALs and “survived being shot multiple times during his five-year tenure working with the military.” He was given a visa and came to the U.S. but “struggled with severe post-traumatic stress disorder” once here. Grant concluded: “He suffered some of the most horrific trauma anyone could have gone through.” In accord with that, “the remaining assault charges against him were dismissed after he completed mental health diversion.”
But clearly, the mental health treatment didn’t work, and Amani wasn’t pacified by the fact that the country that welcomed him as a refugee was also providing for his welfare: his room in the residential hotel in which he charged the police was paid for by the city of San Francisco.
There is more. Read the rest here.
Frank Anderson says
It would not surprise me to see claims made for the man’s release based on Tarasoff v. Board of Regents, a California case where a psychiatric inmate was released only to kill Ms. Tarasoff, after stating his intention repeatedly to the doctors.
Fitna says
It should be a law that for every politician that supports importing vast numbers of refugees that they should be forced to have at least one of them live in their home, preferably their whole extended family.
You’ll see how quickly they’ll change their tune and how carefully each would be vetted. Democrats know how dangerous Muslim and Mexican invaders are but they don’t see it as their problem. It’s nothing but virtue-signalling and creating vote banks for Dems to stay in permanent power.
If a Muslim goes squirrely, for them it’s worth the price, as long as it isn’t their family members that are being raped, beaten, killed.
Demography is destiny. If you bring in more foreigners, you lose your culture and way of life and the foreigners eventually take over or ruin your nation if they’re like Muslims.
Look at the UK, now they’re calling for people to stop mentioning Christmas to ‘avoid offending minorities.’ It’s the same pattern in most western nations. What next is Boris Johnson going to convert to Islam to avoid offending minorities? Poland and Hungary understand this and they wisely keep out all Muslims for this very reason.
Wellington says
The “shot dead” is easily the best “element” here. A total no-brainer for anyone who still uses their brain.
Frank Anderson says
W., I am sure you notice the words “large knife”. The MISSING words are “unregistered, unlicensed and uninsured”.
There are about 130 MILLION motor vehicles in the US. I propose that about 100 million are in regular use and the remainder are parked most or all of the time. There are about 300 MILLION firearms in the US.
Motor vehicles kill about 100 people a day; every one of those deaths involves some violation of law. Firearms are involved in about 50 deaths a day, with half of them being self-inflicted. At least some of the remaining half are for lawful defense of self or third persons. But, assume all of the remaining half are for illegal purposes.
That makes motor vehicles between 9 and 12 times deadlier than firearms; and the vehicles are registered, licensed and insured. Tell me that works to protect us? But “gun violence” gets all the media attention when motor vehicle violence kills far more people, and other violence such as knives and other weapons are ignored totally.
“God made men. Samuel Colt made them equal.”
Frank.
Wellington says
Seems, Frank, we need “car control.” Hell, more kids die yearly from drownings in back-yard pools than do from guns. Then there is the additional “deadly factor” of more people being beaten to death by fists than by guns so I guess we need “fist control.”
People kill people. Politicians going after guns (which would be acquired in any case by thugs even if virtually all guns were made illegal) serves as the classic scapegoat.
Actually, if a neighborhood of law-abiding citizens all had guns and gun training and this was widely disseminated, that neighborhood would be a far safer neighborhood. And this is why someone like the stupid Mayor of Philadelphia, Jim Kenney, blaming guns and not thugs is an effing idiot and a totally irresponsible effing idiot. (N.B., Almost all effing urban idiots belong to the same egregious party, i.e., the Democratic Party, and which is why by now you’d think that the vast majority of city residents in one city after another in America would cease voting Democrat—stupidity on steroids here).
Frank Anderson says
W., I have a surgically repaired neck which is threatened with my death or quadriplegia every time I drive OR RIDE by people who tailgate. The law against tailgating is never enforced, and most frequently broken by law enforcement officers who love to be recorded by Garmin 66W video, audio and GPS recorders. But all we hear about on local media is “gun violence”. You see my point.
Walter Sieruk says
The duty of any genuine President of the United States is to protect the safety, security and lives of the American citizens.
That duty President impostor Joe Biden completely refuses to perform, for by allowing all those unvetted Afghan/Muslims into America is a recipe for disaster.
For some of them might be secret jihadists just waiting and scheming for a specific US city or large town to engage in a murderous and destructive jihad Islamic terror attack in.
Some of the other Afghan refugees might be criminals. In both cases Biden will have the blood of many innocent Americans on his wicked hands.
Walter Sieruk says
If it wasn’t for Joe Biden who create that total catastrophe in Afghanistan there wouldn’t be problem of Afghan refugees in the first place.
Furthermore, that Biden scheme to settle all those Afghan refugees in the different States in American is a recipe for disaster.
Take England for example , The United Kingdom has already experienced many vicious and malice-filled murderous Muslims terrorists attacks ,as those ,for example, those different malicious and deadly jihadists attacks in London and that horrendous mass murder jihad homicide bombing in the city of Manchester in which so many innocent young girls died.
Another way to illustrate the folly of foolish and reckless kindness is by the fable of Aesop which of a kind old farmer who saw outside a poor helpless viper that was freezing to death in the winter cold. The compassionate but foolish farmer felt sorry for that creature so he went outside and put it in his vest pocket to warm it up and therefore save its live. The viper revived in the warmed of vest ,felt better then bit the farmer through the vest and the kind but foolish farmer died a slow and painful death from that viper’s bite.
So it might be in America by Afghan jihadists playing the part of a desperate “refugee” from Afghanistan who claimed that he was just fleeing the Taliban. For no amount of caring and kindness will change the murderous and destructive nature of a violent /jihadist/Muslim because such a man has been infected with an evil and deadly nature because of the evil and deadly religion.
Eleanor says
Well, that’s one down, probably quite a few more to go. Hold on, “residential hotel” ?? How much is this costing the American taxpayer?
Infidel says
Precisely! Wouldn’t it have been a lot less expensive to have left him in Afghanistan? For all one knows, he may still have been alive
David M says
I’ve always wondered what’s going on in the mind of people with a knife who charge at armed police. I’m guessing not much is going on in their mind, they really haven’t thought it through. Do they think they are going to get to the police before the police draw their guns & open fire? What’s that saying, “don’t bring a knife to a gun fight”, you are going to lose. Allah is not going to save you, even if you invoke his name when you charge them.
Fitna says
I think it’s a matter of being seen by Allah as waging jihad. So whether they kill 10 people or none, the fact that they tried (in their mind) is an automatic win and they go to paradise, since it takes courage to try to kill someone for your religion.
For a Muslim, they belief this life is like a doormat that you wipe your dirty shoes on. The ‘real’ life begins after they die. This is why they pour money into missiles and warfare than their own infrastructure like for water, power and so on.
In order to defeat this enemy we in the West must understand their motivations and what they get priority to in their lives. Unfortunately about half the population (mostly Conservatives) realize Islam to be a danger to us, while the other half (Leftists/Dems), are embracing this evil enemy and making the process of saving ourselves 10 times more difficult.
Fitna says
*they believe
*give priority
gravenimage says
David, this is refered to as “Suicide by Cop”, and this is the Jihadist variant. Jihadists always prefer to murder some Infidels along the way, but just being killed by police while waging Jihad terror is seen as getting them into paradise. Ugly stuff, but definitely not an error on their parts.
Don McKellar says
There has to be large scale Islamic terror plots coming together from all these Afghans who are completely unknown. The Taliban, Islamic State, and all the rest are itching for revenge. They have to be getting ready to strike multiple targets under this dotard fraud president.
roberta says
Clear cut case of mental illness, most certainly. Maybe the covid lock downs are at the root of this. Could be colonialism mixed with lack of opportunity. Obviously he was also a victim of our systemic racism (it’s existential you know) Once we peel back all the layers of the onion, Israel will somehow have its hand in this.
We should try to be more tolerant and inclusive, it’s worked so well in Europe.
OLD GUY says
Roberta you said it all, let’s go W.O.K.E. it will cure everything.
Kagman says
Other than the fact that I thought all San Fran police were armed with water pistols, courtesy of Nancy Pelosi, et-al, this certainly is NOT bad news…
notnolib says
I fully enjoyed the part of the article stating “later died of his wounds”.
I agree with the poster who said that politicians who support this sort of thing should take one of the “refugees” into their own home. That would have been perfect for the illegal that lied about his age so JoJo Cabbage Brain Biden would fly him to Florida so he could separate a father of 4 from his children. Let’s say for example that instead of him being shipped to Florida, that he go live with……let’s say….Chuckie Schumer…..there would have been NO DOWN SIDE to his placement should he have acted the same as he did in Florida. No Down Side whatsoever.