Posted on 07/11/2016 10:01:15 AM PDT by onyx
Not long after New York Mayor Bill De Blasio trashed law enforcement in 2014, two NYPD officers were murdered by a man who wanted to put "wings on pigs." The response from the police: thousands of officers literally turned their backs on the mayor at the officers' funeral. So the question is what kind of treatment is President Obama going to get when he arrives in Dallas on Tuesday? If statements from law enforcement — including a leader in a police union that represents 240,000 officers nationwide — is any indication, the president should plan for the worst.
Thursday, Obama gave a speech in which he repeated misleading statistics about law enforcement's treatment of minorities and condemned the justice system as being plagued by systemic racism. Hours later, five officers were murdered by a man who declared that he "wanted to kill white people, especially white officers." Within 24 hours, several other apparent assassination attempts on officers over racial grievances occurred in other states. President Obama has responded by attempting to downplay the anti-cop, anti-white motives of the Dallas killer, Micah Johnson, and push his gun control and social justice policing agendas as the solution to the war on cops.
The president's response hasn't gone over well with many in the law enforcement community. One of the most vocal critics of Obama in the aftermath of the devastating attack is William Johnson, executive director of the massively influential National Association of Police Organizations, which has around 240,000 members. In a series of interviews, Johnson has pointed directly to the president and his administration for creating the "climate that has made Dallas possible."
"I think [the Obama administration's] continued appeasements at the federal level with the Department of Justice, their appeasement of violent criminals, their refusal to condemn movements like Black Lives Matter, actively calling for the death of police officers, that type of thing, all the while blaming police for the problems in this country has led directly to the climate that has made Dallas possible," said Johnson in an interview with Fox on Friday morning.
"This president and his administration absolutely do not have our back and make our jobs more dangerous."
William Johnson, National Association of Police Organizations
Johnson doubled down on his accusations on Sunday, saying, "The man responsible for the murders [in Dallas] was Micah Johnson, but having said that, I do think the president by his inaction has contributed to a climate where these things can happen. This president and his administration absolutely do not have our back and make our jobs more dangerous."
Former Dallas police officer and Phoenix police chief Daniel Garcia, agrees, citing Obama's repeated failure to act in an unbiased way after racially charged situations.
"The right words would’ve gone a long way to quell both sides of this issue," said Mr. Garcia, according to the Wall Street Journal. "Do we have racial issues that need to be addressed? Absolutely. Were some of these shootings controversial and didn’t look good? Yes. But again, you can’t just jump to one side and say this side is right."
Williams' and Garcia's complaints point to a pattern by the president of dangerously connecting high-profile police-involved shootings with racism before any concrete evidence of racial motivation is ascertained. To make matters worse, Obama has consistently turned out to be wrong in assigning the blame for shootings to racial bias among cops, something he has tried to sidestep by pointing to alleged "systemic racism," both "conscious and unconscious" in the justice system.
The most notorious examples of Obama's reckless fanning of the racial flames in the wake of an attack include his racially charged response to the shooting of black teenager Michael Brown by white officer Darren Wilson (who was completely exonerated of all wrongdoing by Obama's own Department of Justice), his connection of the death of Freddie Gray to racially motivated crimes (all of the officers involved that have been tried so far have been cleared), his "stupid" lecture to the Massachusetts police for arresting famous African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates, and, most recently, his willful insertion of race into the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, which are still under investigation.
Obama is speaking at the interfaith memorial service to honor the five murdered officers Tuesday at the invitation of the Dallas mayor.
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I have no doubt Obama has created many more problems than he could ever solve. Obama as a President has been the biggest nothing in my lifetime.
Because of the access to social media, I believe it to be far worse now.
In his eyes, he has solved the problems; the problem is that what you see as a problem, he sees as a solution, and what you see as a desirable ideal, he sees as a problem.
I still say this isn’t necessary about racist cops. It’s about unhinged cops.
Back in the 50s and 60s in the South many, many cops were racists and it was accepted. But there are more instances of cops killing people, off all colors, today than back then.
With that said, I’m sure the percentage of perps behaving badly is a lot higher than back then. But if a black breaks the law and pulls a gun and threatens a cop and the cop shoots him it doesn’t have a damned thing to do with racism. And as long as the political “leaders” concentrate on police racism no improvements will be forthcoming. They need to concentrate on better psychological training on police recruits and telling all other agencies when a cop is fired for cause.
He should not even go to but stay with his BLM and Black Panthers pals.
Why are the families meeting him? What the hell is wrong with these people?
Omgoodness!! Clinton is an idiot for meeting with him.
Makes me think of O’s relationship with Bill Ayers. I wonder what Bill Ayers and his wife are mumbling about these days?
Famous?
Never heard of the guy....before the @%$%$ B. H. Obama got involved...
Who the hell is Henry Louis Gates?
Famous?
Geesh....
Ask this "reporter" who Aristotle is....
You will get a blank look...and a dodge.
So I guess........this B.S. will never stop...in my life time.
Er...obama? :)
Thank you, sent it on along with this.
Day of Rage Protests Are Scheduled for July 15th in These American Cities
Do not know if it is updated.
Thanks. I have sent the warning to relatives in or near those cities.
Hillary’s blatant pandering has to be obvious to even the dumbest of her supporters. She is one nasty piece of work.
Mo looks a little spooked by the camera. The rapist looks like a grinning corpse.
Link to Fox news re the cop getting beheaded on facebook.
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