Tuesday, July 7, 2020

"Blue Lives Matter Too"

The Black Lives Matter crowd doesn’t want to hear this, but the fact is, black men kill cops at a much higher rate than do cops kill blacks. And many of those cop killings are from ambush. Cops being killed by black men as they sit in their very distinctive cruisers wearing their very distinctive uniforms are rife. But there are no parades, no “demonstrations,” no riots when a black man kills a white cop. Only when a cop kills a black man. Is it any wonder that cops are a little quicker to shoot black men these days? Those ubiquitous (to BLM) cop shootings of unarmed black men (most of which are errors made by cops who are very frightened of being ambushed and killed by black men and are an overreaction) are to be expected with all the pressure being applied to cops who are scared for their lives while just doing their jobs. What happened to George Floyd is an exception I suspect was a “grudge killing” by an out-of-control cop who was not punished after many instances of abuse of power and who thought he could get away with it. The Washington Post disputes former Mayor Juliani’s figures on this, citing their own “study,” which is questionable, at best, but the fact remains that black men are killing cops without notice in the media, while the media plays up every single cop killing of a black man.(Market Watch)

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