Remember Obama’s infamous “the Cambridge police acted stupidly” crack? New York’s de Blasio infuriated the NYPD rank and file by implying young black men have reason to fear the police, the same police that protect him and his family.ĭe Blasio went further implying race was behind the death of Eric Garner, “Centuries” of racism said the mayor, even though there is zero evidence to support that claim. In New York City, the number of shootings in which police are involved is down as are complaints of excessive use of force.Īdded to the media drumbeat are politicians, from the president on down, throwing the police under the bus at every turn. While it’s true more blacks are killed by police than whites in proportion to the population, in raw numbers, according to the Centers for Disease Control, a thousand more whites than blacks have been killed by police over the past decade. From Trayvon Martin to Michael Brown to Eric Garner, the media narrative only seems to focus on lethal use of force when the cop is white and the victim is African-American. CNN and other major media companies continue to view America through a racial prism.
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Still, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio hasn’t helped with a series of ill-considered remarks. To be clear, the blood is on the hands of the killer, period. “The mayor has blood on his hands” said Thomas Lynch, president of the New York Police Benevolent Association, the union that represents the nation’s largest municipal police department. Perhaps even more unnerving is the inflammatory rhetoric coming from people who should know better: Elected officials, community leaders, clergy members, and high ranking members of the police union have poured gas on the fire. After shooting his girlfriend in Maryland, Brinsley traveled to New York where he made good on his promise. For some, it’s simply a chance to loot for others, it’s a platform to incite murder.ĭisgusting online posts by assassins pledged to hand out “wings to pigs.” This was no idle threat. The non-indictments triggered an explosion of pent-up anger that has spilled into the streets of cities across America, including Los Angeles.Ĭrowds continue to shout, “Hands up, don’t shoot!”, “I can’t breathe!” and “Black Lives Matter.”īut commingling among the peaceful protesters are radical cop haters bent on violence.
Frustrated and embittered by his many failures, Ismaaiyl Brinsley latched onto the perceived injustice of two grand juries refusing to indict police officers first, Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo., for the shooting death of the unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown, the second, in New York, for the chokehold death of Eric Garner Jr.
Officers Ramos and Liu were killed by a habitual criminal and untreated mental patient who was the proverbial ticking time bomb that finally went off.
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