Report: Cops feel betrayed by politicians, say they encourage attacks

Washington Examiner ^ | May 3, 2017 | Paul Bedard

[KeyLargo]

Report: Cops feel betrayed by politicians, say they encourage attacks

by Paul Bedard | May 3, 2017, 10:32 AM

An internal FBI investigation into the spike of attacks on law enforcement has determined that revenge, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, the media's assault on police shootings, and criticism from politicians, is the what motivates a "majority" of those targeting cops.

"Law enforcement officials believe that defiance and hostility displayed by assailants toward law enforcement appears to be the new norm," said the internal report stamped "For Official Use Only." Portraits of the five murdered Dallas police officers sit in front of city hall in 2016. TONY GUTIERREZ/AP

Just Tuesday, the start of National Police Week, two Chicago police were wounded in "targeted" shootings, the latest in the escalation of attacks on the badge.

The four-page report provided to Secrets said that an anti-police wave following the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., is what drove most of those accused of killing law enforcement officers in 2016. In 53 shootings, 60 police were killed last year.

The report studied 50 of 64 killings of police in 2016 and found 14 simply wanted to kill police.

"The assailants inspired by social and/or political reasons believed that attacking police officers was their way to 'get justice' for those who had been, in their view, unjustly killed by law enforcement," said the report. In two horrific assassinations of police, the report said that "the assailants said they were influenced by the Black Lives Matter movement."

Another reason for killing police, according to the FBI, was a "desire to remain free."

The report said that in some 40 percent of the attacks on police, the assailants ran then turned and shot at oncoming police.

[KeyLargo]

[MrEdd]

Let me see if there is any problem of any sort here.

Not enough information to tell.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

These attacks began in the past eight years. I just can’t put my finger on the root cause. What was it that was different about the past eight years?

Signed,
Stumped

[KeyLargo]

"These attacks began in the past eight years. I just can’t put my finger on the root cause. What was it that was different about the past eight years? Signed, Stumped"

[pa_dweller]

Anyone with five brain cells to rub together - this excludes most democrats and their enablers - could see this coming after the Cambridge, Mass. professor had a dustup with cops at his house early on in the last administration.

[Parley Baer]

I agree with the police on this. Especially in the big cities.

[KeyLargo]

Sociopathic Killer Speaks at Posh Colleges Without a Single Protest

http://www.independentsentinel.com/look-speaks-posh-colleges-without-single-protest/

[Uncle Sam 911]

Obama, got exactly what he wanted.

[topher]

DINGBAT Obama, in my opinion, was responsible for the attacks in Dallas and Baton Rouge.

Everything indicates that the Sterling shooting in Baton Rouge was justified -- Sterling was armed, and according to reports, trying to shoot police as he resisted arrest.

It was also illegal for him to have the firearm since he was a convicted felon with a long rapsheet.

But DINGBAT Obama thought otherwise. He gave his opinion without knowing facts.

What are facts, anyway, to Democrats (or in this case, a DEMON-RAT - changing the "c" of Democrat to an "n")