Four years ago a white man choking a black man in a major city, his death, the subsequent trial and a failure to convict would have led to non-stop media coverage and equally non-stop rioting.

Instead, New York BLM leader Hawk Newsome (pictured above) accompanied by a few pals, some elderly black people and a handful of white girls in keffiyahs hung around outside the downtown Manhattan courthouse like groupies for some band that had broken up years ago. In a city where radical politicians show up to every protest, Newsome’s entourage didn’t even rate a councilwoman.

Newsome, who seemed to have doubled his weight since the heyday of BLM, ranted,