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.
Concur, completely fair.
Goofy Giffords was a card carrying moon bat . the cops were innocent public servants
The rabble are blowing the ramshackle narrative.
“0bama started this ‘Hate the Cops, America is Racist’ campaign in 2009 when he said the Boston police “acted stupidly.”
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I hate nitpicking but it was Cambridge police.
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Right. Blame the race pimps down at the NAACP.
They have been working all their lives to bring about the Glorious Revolution. Well, this is what the Glorious Revolution looks like.
And it gets a lot uglier from here.
BLOAT.
I also blame the NAACP and others for their anti cop hating talk who has instigated all of this.
You are braver than I.
OK
Duck and cover... Hey wait guys, why not blame.....the gun? That always diverts attention!
I don`t know if it is their fault or not but we need to do our protesting at the voter booths instead of out on the streets.
Protesting lead to the war of Independence and made this a great nation, but this one is all for the wrong reason.
Actually before she got shot, she was one of the more conservative Democrats, which you’d expect because she was from a district that had voted R for POTUS for many years previous.
I remember reading in Steve “the rat” Rattner’s book about the auto bailouts that she was a pain in the @ss to deal with because she was trying to assist dealers that the regime wanted to shut down.
Maybe you shouldn’t start race riots with Dead Cops chants. Of course it is Sharpton and the DNC trying to change the subject of their failed policies. How many NAACPers were chanting?
Pray America is waking
I believe that you are correct, it is going to get uglier, a lot uglier from here.
So we are not to blame those people yelling “pigs in a blanket” or “kill a cop” or any of that rioting mumbo-jumbo?
Stick a sock in it, NAACP.
Criminals comprise a huge Democratic constituency.
So can you blame them for pandering to criminals?
FU - NAACP.......... the democrats and you race baiting POS own this.
The entire Democrat Party is one criminal enterprise.
I’ll join that club.
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