Obituary: Brianna Kupfer

Masks, LA’s mayor, Black Lives Matter and the murder of a young designer

This is an article about the death of one of America’s able ones. Designer Brianna Kupfer was murdered at random hours before she was scheduled to depart to celebrate a friend’s birthday. Unlike George Floyd, Brianna’s name won’t appear on a Black Lives Matter banner. There’s no Me, Too movement for victims like her. There have been and will be no protests for the memory of Brianna Kupfer, let alone riots in American cities and summers of anarchy in city streets. Because Brianna’s life mattered, this article considers her short life as a woman of ability and examines the systemized injustice which brought Brianna down.

Brianna Kupfer

Judge the facts of Brianna’s life. Here are certain facts in terms of numbers, because while numbers are not the ultimate standard by which to gauge value, they’re what drives what passes for today’s news. This is part of the lesson of Brianna Kupfer, which explains why she’s been forgotten within weeks of her barbaric death. Numbers can be used to frame Brianna’s life and death.

Twenty-four—this is the number of years Brianna’s life lasted before she was stabbed to death. Twenty—the number of minutes between the estimated time a vagrant attacked her and when someone found her body lying in blood. Thirteen—the date on the new year’s first month on which she died. Twelve—the percentage of increase in Los Angeles, California’s reported homicides in a single year.

Numbers are the standard by which Americans, especially in LA, have been controlled by the state for over two years: numbers of pandemic cases, numbers of vaccinated persons, numbers of hospital beds. Numbers, not names of individuals—unless, like Floyd, a name’s expected to incur or incite the anarchy enacted, endorsed or enabled by seekers of a totalitarian state—dominate headlines, articles and lives. Certain names may be emblazoned. But not the names of persons of ability—they are never heralded for their ability—these names are forgotten. These persons’ names are purged from the press, increasingly under pressure from the government.

Brianna Kupfer was a woman of ability. Brianna attended Brentwood High School, earned a degree from the University of Miami, studied at the University of Sydney and was enrolled in a graduate program studying architectural design at UCLA. Brianna, who lived in Pacific Palisades, worked as a design consultant at Croft House on La Brea Avenue in mid-city LA. As the store’s website explains:

Founded in 2010, Croft House aims to encompass the sophisticated, relaxed feel of the California lifestyle through their handmade pieces of statement furniture. Croft prides itself on creating timeless pieces, individually crafted to fit a client’s specific needs. Their extensive design experience effortlessly transforms ideas and vision into functional, quality furniture.

Brianna was hired to create the design experience to which Croft House refers. She had a ticket to travel to New York City to celebrate a friend’s birthday. Brianna, who was also passionate about dancing, was stabbed to death hours before the flight.

Here are the facts of Brianna’s murder. The Los Angeles Police Department asserts that on January 13, a customer who had entered the store discovered Brianna deceased on the floor. Police detectives “determined the suspect was not known to the victim and was a random walk in to the store. The suspect attacked the victim with a knife and fled the scene through the back door. There is no known motive at this time.”

Various mugshots of Brianna Kupfer’s accused murderer

Security footage caught the murderer leaving the scene and calmly walking away after he knifed Brianna. Other footage shows him buying a vape pen among other items. Police later identified the suspect as 31-year-old Shawn Laval Smith. Warning Southern Californians that Smith was “armed and dangerous,” police initially described him as:

…a male [b]lack, unknown age, tall, thin, wearing a dark hoody, sunglasses, a white N-95 mask, dark skinny jeans, dark shoes and carrying a dark back pack. Based on evidence discovered by detectives, the suspect is believed to be homeless.

Six days after Brianna’s murder, a stranger in Pasadena recognized Smith near Fair Oaks and Colorado Boulevard. Police took fingerprints, which proved Smith’s identity, because Smith reportedly gave a fake name. Shawn Smith was detained, handcuffed at a bus stop, arrested and taken into custody. Pasadena Police transferred Smith to LAPD, which booked him into jail. Shawn Smith remains held on bail.

Brianna’s accused murderer had reportedly been out on $1,000 bond for committing another crime. Smith’s been arrested—everywhere from South Carolina to Los Angeles—many times, according to judicial records. The multiple arrests range from firing a weapon into a vehicle to assaulting a peace officer.

Mugshots mark Smith’s long, criminal life, tracing in pictures that he became a menace to civilization who repeatedly was freed. In the final mugshot, Smith’s vacant eyes look off to the side, as if his mind is blank. Whatever his mental state, whatever the accusations, Smith, too, is failed by America’s judicial system, which is controlled by sleazy tyrants and bureaucrats opposed to justice, police, bail, courts and law.

These same tyrants cry about so-called systemic racism, “social justice” and threats to blacks and females, mindlessly parroting and promoting the goals of the feminist Me, Too and racist Black Lives Matter activists, groups or policy proposals—all of which contradict objective law and instead spread anarchy, collectivism and statism on purpose. These power-lusting tyrants hold the individual in contempt. They regard every person of ability as “privileged.” They crush the innocent—especially the healthy, youthful, proud, productive and rational innocent.

Brianna, who messaged a friend that she had a bad feeling about the vagrant that entered Croft House, was murdered for being able, productive and innocent—she was downed for being in love with life.

Think about what love, which Americans celebrate today, really means. Love is the requisite of life. Brianna’s father, Todd Kupfer, who is married to Brianna’s mother, Lori, with whom he has three other children (Mikaela, Brandon and Tucker), appears to know what love is and what’s at stake. Five days after his daughter was murdered, unlike most Americans, who are silent, compliant and too obedient, he chose to exercise his absolute right to free speech; he granted an interview to the only major national broadcaster to report the facts and context of his child’s murder, Fox News. Brianna’s father correctly blames tyrants—Democrats—for murdering his child.

As Brianna’s dad told Fox News:

Crime is truly spiking, and we have a lot of criminals on the streets that shouldn’t be out. We have a lot of politicians that somehow forgot about people and think the key to getting elected is to support the lowest rung of our society and to give them [non-existent] rights…somebody who is doing evil shouldn’t just get a slap on the wrist.”

Todd Kupfer, who described Brianna as a "kind soul…trying to make herself better and everything around her better", is 100 percent right. While tyrants exploit Americans’ fear—irrational and rational fear alike—enacting indiscriminate, unchecked controls, mandates and lockdown, rioting, anarchy and violent crime spread like a plague. American cities, from Portland to Minneapolis to Washington, D.C., fall to gangs, thugs and anarchists. Capitalist Michelle Go was pushed in front of a New York City train. Nurse Sandra Shells was murdered as she waited for a bus in LA. Looting, dubbed “smash-and-grab” shoplifting, is the norm.

Those who want to create, make money and live free are doomed. Those who live through others, loot and oppress are glorified and go free to attack at random.

Who is causing this inversion?

San Francisco Mayor Breed, billionaire HIV immune-deficient Johnson and Brianna Kupfer’s unaccused murderer, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti

Among those who ought to be held accountable for Brianna’s murder are the tyrants responsible for letting America’s second largest city rot: unmasked LA Mayor Garcetti, as well as unmasked California Governor Newsom—also unmasked Speaker of the House Pelosi, as well as unmasked Barack Obama’s protege, ex-California Senator and attorney general Kamala Harris and anyone supporting calls to abolish, defund and weaken the police—and their supporters, including unmasked LA crony billionaire Earvin Johnson.

While these bureaucrats, tyrants and cronies lord over Californians with unconstitutional mandates that they themselves breach, the damage they’ve done to the lives, fortunes and properties of rational, productive and decent people is incalculable. From soaring sickness, suicide, homicide and serious crime rates to the ruin of businesses through decimated trade, labor and other practices, pandemic lockdown and anti-police, anti-capitalism hysteria caused the death of Brianna Kupfer.

The state mandated that all healthy persons be subjugated to presumably unhealthy—those most “at risk” of contracting a new virus—persons. This fear-based lockdown crusade made it possible for a hooded criminal to roam LA’s empty back alleys in daylight, prowling to murder at random while free on bond and compliant with the mandate to wear a mask recommended by government disease control bureaucracy. The state mandated and suppressed trade, all but forcing a 24-year-old designer to work alone—thrusting those most at risk into harm’s way. All this while the tyrants, including the crony billionaire with an infectious disease, flout mandates they enact by force. Brianna’s blood is on the hands of Newsom, Garcetti, Harris, Pelosi, Breed and Johnson. They each support mask mandates, lockdown and anti-police groups such as Black Lives Matter. They each made it possible for masked criminal Shawn Smith to murder productive, innocent Brianna Kupfer.

Brianna’s father, Todd Kupfer, thanked Southern Californians for their support during his family’s grief. “[W]e feel the love,” he told the free press. Valentine’s Day evokes the innocence of childlike love. Is there a place in your heart for love? If so, know that Brianna’s murderers put you and what you love at risk. They are here to cause havoc, atrocity and mass death. So, now is the moment to be defiant, not obedient. You can start by expressing yourself against tyranny in the name of love for your life.