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NAACP chief: Don't blame Democrats for NYPD shootings
The Hill ^ | 12/21/14 | Justin Sink

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: blame; democrats; georgepataki; naacp; newyork; newyorkcity; nypd
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Why not? I do.
1 posted on 12/21/2014 6:20:39 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I do. Life is not fair, you whiner. AND the Democrats have set this exact scenario up to happen. Should own it.


2 posted on 12/21/2014 6:22:08 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Libloather
0bama started this ‘Hate the Cops, America is Racist’ campaign in 2009 when he said the Boston police “acted stupidly.”

0bama was wrong about Henry Gates he was wrong about Trayvon Martin and he was wrong about Michael Brown. Race had nothing to do with any of those incidents and even the Garner family doesn't believe race had anything to do with Eric Garner's arrest and death.

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.

3 posted on 12/21/2014 6:22:29 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Libloather

they didn’t have a problem blaming sarah palin for that gabby whatsherface person, and she was halfway across the world at the time — not politicians in charge of the same city that is exploding


4 posted on 12/21/2014 6:22:33 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Libloather

I happened to see this idiot’s interview.
I blame the demonic-rats.


5 posted on 12/21/2014 6:23:09 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Libloather

Heh.


6 posted on 12/21/2014 6:23:21 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: Libloather

As Rudy Giuliani said yesterday, “For four months starting with the President, the like of Al Sharpton, Eric Holder and Bill De Blasio have done nothing but promote hatred of the police and this is the result.”

Well said Rudy.


7 posted on 12/21/2014 6:23:34 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: Libloather

They sure weren’t reticent about trying to hang Gabby Giffords around Sarah Palin’s neck.


8 posted on 12/21/2014 6:23:36 PM PST by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: Libloather

I think it it eminently fair to link them. They are inextricably linked. And by the way you tried to link Palin to a democRAT shooting democRAT Giffords.

It’s clear that this is exactly what you wanted and not that the chickens have come home to roost you’re not liking it.


9 posted on 12/21/2014 6:23:49 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Libloather

eff these idiots. They all jumped the bandwagon in an attempt to blame a certain ex VP candidate for the shooting of a Congresswoman. rant off.


10 posted on 12/21/2014 6:23:53 PM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: Libloather

Give Al Sharpton, The Obamanation, and Eric Holder an assist for these killings.


11 posted on 12/21/2014 6:24:16 PM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: Libloather

Sorry, NAACP + Dems: you own this one 100%.

CC


12 posted on 12/21/2014 6:24:49 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Tagline Constructon zone- low humor ahead)
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To: Libloather

This coming from one of the most notoriously racist organizations in the USA.


13 posted on 12/21/2014 6:25:08 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Libloather

why not the shooter was obviously a democrat


14 posted on 12/21/2014 6:25:14 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Libloather

Why not? It’s easy to blame criminals for everything. BTW what was Brinsley’s voting record?


15 posted on 12/21/2014 6:25:26 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Libloather

Relax Mr. Brooks, we blame your buddy Al Sharpton equally.


16 posted on 12/21/2014 6:25:37 PM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: Libloather

Freep you. We blame you.


17 posted on 12/21/2014 6:26:07 PM PST by Tax-chick (Remember Malmedy!)
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To: Libloather

I’ve been waiting all day to hear what the NAACP had to say about this incident.

It’s opinion is really important to me. /s

.


18 posted on 12/21/2014 6:26:15 PM PST by Mears
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To: onyx; All
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19 posted on 12/21/2014 6:26:29 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Libloather

You get to wear the blame like a burning tire all the same, d-baggers!!!


20 posted on 12/21/2014 6:26:38 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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