Posted on 12/21/2014 6:20:39 PM PST by Libloather
The head of the NAACP said it is “not fair” for the leader of a prominent police union and former Gov. George Pataki (R-N.Y.) to blame Democratic politicians for the deaths of two New York City police officers.
“I don’t believe it’s fair to link the criminal insanity of a lone gunman to the peaceful protest and aspirations of many people across the country, including the attorney general, the mayor, and the president is simply not fair,” Cornell William Brooks, the president of the NAACP, told CBS's “Face the Nation.”
Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were shot and killed Saturday afternoon while sitting in their patrol car by a man who posted messages to his social media accounts described by New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton as “very anti-police.”
Images of an Instagram account believed to belong to the suspect, 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley, said he planned to undertake the killing as revenge for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, two unarmed black men who were killed in confrontations with white police officers. In both cases, grand juries declined to bring charges, sparking protests across the country.
Those revelations led some to charge that Democratic politicians who had been critical of police tactics and supportive of the protests were responsible for the killing.
"There's blood on many hands tonight. That blood on the hands starts at City Hall in the office of the mayor,” Pat Lynch, the president of the largest police union in New York City — the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association — said at a press conference.
In a tweet, Pataki said the deaths were the “predictable outcome of divisive anti-cop rhetoric” from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
While Brooks argued the shootings should not be attributed to those pushing for change following the deaths of Brown and Garner, he acknowledged they were “certainly not a step forward” toward that goal.
“We have a violence problem, and the policies we’re pushing forward protect not only the public, but police officers, and the families they hope to go home to at the end of the day,” Brooks said.
The NAACP and the traitorous libs are as guilty as hell, and the sooner they return home there, the better off this country will be.
I don’t listen to the rantings of racists from skin color-based advocacy groups ...
I’m concerned that there are more cards in his hand. We have a DA that is holding results from a copy shooting a black mentally ill man even longer than Browns grand jury and the demonstrations are getting bigger and the agitators are joining in.
The killer wasn’t a ‘lone gunman’ - he was part of an evil group-think... Yes, nuts - but the hatred in the so called ‘civil rights’ movement pushed him over the edge.
0bama is the driving force behind using four incidents with no racial components to reopen and inflame a racial divide in this country like nothing that has existed before.
Holder's doing his part too... and Sharpton. They need a race war...Too bad for them - it's not gonna happen... We're gonna run out the clock on Obama... He's down to his last two years and counting. The focus will shift to the new people running then he's outta here.
Everybody does.At Fergunson they were shooting at firemen who were trying to put out the fires.They were ordered to pull back.This is a sham,at a plan press conference a man took the stage in Fergunson who represented the family.He said Martin Luther King’s Son requested that Al Sharpton speak there. NAACP did I hear you condem the shooting at unarned firemen.NAACP did you not put Al Sharpton in charge of this.NAACP did you hear the chants of kill cops which Al Aharpton led.Blood on your hands.
F you Cornell Brooks.
You stood there throwing fuel onto these completely baseless charges and now people are being killed by those you instigated to violence.
F you and the entire Dem Party, F you all.
Well said.
Translation: Couldn't you find a way to pin this on Sarah Palin as usual?
-PJ
Let me see if I understand this, police unions support democrats, democrats are supporting riots, looting and mayhem. Democrat leaders are calling the police occupyers, well sorry for the two police officers but you sleep with dogs you come up with fleas.
RATS and RINOS are the biggest problem we face as a nation today.
Who else can we attribute it to? Obama started this race war, several of you NAACP members added gas to the flame. The race baiters were given free publicity by the MSM and Holder did nothing to stop the war on white people. You leaders are pathetic. All Democrats. All complicit.
Every democrat has blood on their hands tonight... and they don’t care.
Someone said he spoke arabic... The killing might have touches of democrat/workplace violence crap involved... The MSM will cover for him... he's a democrat after all and a member of two 'victim' groups...
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