Posted on 12/20/2014 4:35:29 PM PST by KeyLargo
CNN Guest on Brooklyn Cop Shooting: ‘Al Sharpton Got What He Wanted’ by Josh Feldman | 5:30 pm, December 20th, 2014 video 397
No information is yet known about the motivations of the man who fatally shot two NYPD officers today, but that hasn’t stopped people from already drawing conclusions, most noticeably connecting this gunning-down of two officers to recent anti-police sentiment in New York.
Retired NYPD detective Harry Houck wasted no time in blaming those protests and the people behind them for what happened today. He said the demonstrations have “all be predicated on lies,” and even went so far as to declare, “We have two dead police officers, and I guess Al Sharpton got what he wanted.”
Watch the video below, via CNN:
We could repeal asinine pro-social engineering laws like the cigarette tax one that led to the death of Eric Garner. Why was the law Garner was breaking even on the books in the first place? And how have those who passed it been held to account for his death - and now these two police officers?
There is blood on hands of those who demanded ‘dead cops’
By Bob McManus
It’s wrong to blame the protests wholly for the actions of one person — up to a point.
That is, right up to the point when the protesters began to demand dead cops — and nobody put a stop to it.
Right up to the point where protesters began to drop full garbage cans 10 feet down on unsuspecting cops, and nobody took it for what it was: An escalation that culminated in yesterday’s Bed-Stuy executions.
And now for the funerals — for the heartbreaking skirl of the pipes and the agony of the families; for the grim-faced officers from across America, lined to the horizon in silent tribute to ambushed brothers; for the folded flags and the endless motorcades to the cemetery.
You wanted dead cops, protesters? You got ’em.
http://nypost.com/2014/12/21/there-is-blood-on-hands-of-those-who-demanded-dead-cops/
Off-Duty Police Officer Shot Multiple Times in North St. Louis
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, December 19, 2014, 9:31 PM
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/12/off-duty-police-officer-shot-dead-in-north-st-louis/
While I concur totally with the sentiment regarding affixing accountability here and the object upon which it is placed in this case namely those who restrained arrest for low level crimes then allowed to grow, personally, I think such elevation of an officer's funeral to the point of public spectacle is part of the problem. It escalates an "us versus them" mentality in the police that has led to significant abuses of power. This country went nearly 100 years without police, with citizens as law-enforcement. The press demonized "vigilante justice" while the courts injected procedure and precedent into law-enforcement thence demanding "professionalized" policing. It may have been a good thing in some respects, but it alienated the people from the law thereby inculcating a culture of "let the government handle it" with disastrous consequences.
These officers deserve the fullest, best, most magnificent funerals possible. They are our heroes.
I’d like to see how you get along whenever you call 9-1-1 and no one shows up at your door.
Considering what I see of most California cops, I don't want them. The Sheriffs on the other hand...
Let's see, one of them is responsible to politicians, and the other is responsible to the people... Naah you know all about it.
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