https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-tishaura-jones-joseph-klein/
Racist Mayor: Tishaura Jones (7th in a series)
Joseph Kline | Jun 17,2021
“The murder rate in St. Louis, Missouri, which is at a 50-year high, is reportedly the highest in the country. Tishaura Jones, who became St. Louis’s first African American female mayor last April, rejects the notion that it is the individuals who commit the violent crimes who should be held fully responsible for their crimes and serve their sentences in prison. Jones, a radical leftist who has been described as a “champion of Black Lives Matter,” believes that society is responsible. She blames “systemic racism” and poverty as the root causes of the rampant crime afflicting her city. The newly elected mayor believes the answers to the crime problem in St. Louis are to cut the police department budget, close a jail, end cash bail, mandate mental health evaluations for police officers, and send social workers in response to 911 calls.”
“In one of her first decisions as mayor, Jones proposed an initial $4 million reduction in the St. Louis Police Department budget, including the elimination of 98 officers’ positions from the police force.“
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“More police doesn't prevent crime,” Jones asserted last month. Nevertheless, in the typical left-wing hypocrisy of “rules for thee but not for me,” Mayor Jones “doubled the number of police officers on her personal security team,” according to the Police Tribune. While “Jones is beefing up her personal security,” the Police Tribune added, “she doesn’t seem as worried about the security of her voters.” . . . .
[Comment: the SLMPD has been under-staffed and overworked as seen during the violent summer riots on the St. Louis streets which included the murder of retired St. Louis PD Captain David Dorn. Mayor Tishuara wants to eliminate 98 officer positions!]
The article continues:
“…in Tishaura Jones’ racially divided world of "oppressors" versus the "oppressed," whites have no business running St. Louis solely because they are of the wrong skin color. Jones reiterated this message during her victory lap as Mayor-Elect. During a CNN interview on April 8th, Jones said that “what I heard from voters is that they are ready for a black woman to lead this city, that a black woman has lived experiences that others do not.” Jones is a purveyor of racist identity politics.”
“This wasn’t Jones’ first run for mayor. “St. Louis is the epicenter of Black Lives Matter,” Jones declared back in 2017 when she ran against and lost to a white female, Lyda Krewson, who chose not to run for re-election in 2021. After winning this time against another white female opponent, Jones spitefully declined to invite Krewson to her April 20th inaugural ceremony – breaking a decades-old tradition.”
“Mayor Jones is now busy making St. Louis City Hall the epicenter of Black Lives Matter and its anti-white, far left progressive platform. . . “
“Mayor Tishaura Jones blames St. Louis’s out-of-control crime rate on systemic racism and poverty. The police, she believes, are a major part of the problem rather than a key part of the solution. . . If systemic racism and poverty are the long-term root causes of crime as Jones and her Black Lives Matter allies claim, how do they explain the much lower homicide rate between 1997 and 2001, when a former African American mayor who had previously served as chief of police was in charge?”
[Comment: Tishuara Jones avoided the low rated City Public School System and graduated from Affton High School in 1990. AHS is a predominantly white suburban school district.
Tishuara Jones’ father, Virvus Jones was Comptroller for the City of St. Louis. He served time for tax fraud.]