Posted on 11/17/2015 3:37:43 PM PST by Isara
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz admonished the Obama administration's interactions with law enforcement as creating a culture where police officers feel under attack.
Cruz chaired a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Tuesday titled, "The war on police: How the federal government undermines state and local law enforcement." While Cruz was back in Washington, D.C., on official business, the senator wasted little time using the heated rhetoric he vents from the stump on the campaign trail.
"Everyone here agrees that we should enforce the law and we should vigorously enforce America's civil rights laws. In any government organization, there can be bad actors," Cruz said during his opening remarks. "But in my view, it is deeply harmful - not only for the men and women of law enforcement but for the safety of the American people - for the federal government to treat police officers as the enemy; for the president or the attorney general to be holding up police officers for vilification."
"I believe every one of us, Republican and Democrat, should stand unequivocally with the brave men and women of law enforcement. I do not believe it is beneficial for this country to have a culture where the men and women of law enforcement feel under siege."
Cruz's decision to frame the federal government's interaction with law enforcement as a "war on police" has far-reaching implications into the 2016 presidential race, where the Black Lives Matter protests, which seek to call attention to police brutality and discrimination, could become an important factor. Cruz currently ranks second in the Washington Examiner's GOP presidential power rankings.
No offense to Ted, but the police are doing plenty of damage to their reputations all on their own. Obama is exploiting this, of course, but he didn’t cause it.
Feel free to see no end of police and police departments immolating their good will...
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Obama and his lackeys at all levels are real bottom feeders.
It’s about time a candidate called-out the left for its war on the police. The murder rate is growing by the month. I sense a growing number of residents of urban ‘hoods who are troubled by this war and its effect on their families’ safety.
Cruz is right on target.
It is pitiful that the corrupt idiots in our police departments end up giving the left the opportunity to smear all police officers with the crimes and arrogance of a few.
I saw it coming... On the other hand, the good officers did not take out the trash.
Ted Cruz is right. You are going to need to read what he actually said.
No offense to Ted, but the police are doing plenty of damage to their reputations all on their own. Obama is exploiting this, of course, but he didn’t cause it.
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Proved cases of abuse get a lot of media attention, but they are actually few and far between. Exoneration is common, a good example being Darren Wilson in Ferguson, MO. In today’s climate of moral anarchy and lack of respect for authority, blacks believe they have a right to resist arrest, and leftists and libertarians jump to believe the worst about our police.
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