Instead of discussing the violence of police, we must now discuss violence against police and say the obvious: No cause justifies what these killers did.Beyonce’s Super Bowl Performance Was a Racist Political Statement In Support of Marxist Cop Killers. Jim Hoft Feb 8th, 2016 8:55 am Leave a Comment.
Fatal Shootings of Police Are Rising. As protesters filled the streets in cities across the United States following the killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota by police in early July, the normally sleepy Twitter account for Dallas Area Rapid Transit turned grim. After a two- hour standoff, authorities dispatched a bomb robot to neutralize the suspect, who made his motive clear before he died. Department of Justice has said it is investigating Sterling’s death. Those two shootings mobilized the Black Lives Matter movement, which has been speaking out against police violence in the U. S. Some law enforcement officials complain that the movement paints all cops as villains, and after the Dallas shooting, one Black Lives Matter organizer was quoted as saying, “I understand why it was done.”But most leaders from the black community and protest organizers said the sniper attack is more of the racially charged violence they are fighting. And a Twitter account for the Black Lives Matter movement said: “#Black. Lives. Matter advocates dignity, justice and freedom. Not murder.”With these killings in Dallas, the number of firearm- related deaths of law enforcement officers is up 4. National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, a nonprofit that researches officer fatalities and maintains the national monument to fallen officers in Washington, D. C. The fund reports that 2. At this point in 2. The event became known as known as the Young Brothers Massacre. The march protesting the recent shooting of a Baton Rouge man led to a tense standoff with police in that city. The killer died in a confrontation with police days later. His motive remains unclear, though officials said he was likely angry about the time he had spent in prison. But the Dallas killings are different from those incidents, Breul says, and far more disturbing: “I can’t think of anything . Officers pursued the suspect, James Boulware, in his van, and he died after law enforcement shot him.“Ambush shootings,” as Breul calls them, are happening increasingly often, numbers show. He says there have been 1. U. S. Since the beginning of 2. Craig Floyd, president and CEO of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, “assassinated because of the uniform that they wear, the job that they do.”“It’s a really troubling trend,” says Steve Weiss, director of research for the Officer Down Memorial Page and an active cop. Weiss traces the recent uptick back to the December 2. New York City Police Department officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, who were shot with a semi- automatic handgun as they sat in their patrol car. Dr. Michael Stone, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, who published a study last year in the journal Violence and Gender on the murder of 7. In his study, he cites one rallying cry of protesters in New York City in late 2. Liu and Ramos were killed: “What do we want? Now!”Floyd agrees: “If we’re going to spew anti- cop rhetoric, anti- government rhetoric, then we have to realize there could be consequences of the type we saw in Dallas.”By Stone’s count, there was a 3. He found that all of the killers in that period were male. Their ages ranged from 1. Most seemed to have killed on impulse, rather than planning their attacks. DART named its officer who died as Brent Thompson. The Memorial Fund identified the other victims as Sergeant Michael Smith, Senior Corporal Lorne Ahrens and police officers Michael Krol and Patrick Zamarripa, all of the Dallas Police Department. Police identified the suspected killer as Micah Johnson, 2. Dallas- area resident and an Army veteran with no criminal record. At press time, no other primary suspects had been identified. This latest attack has left many in law enforcement deeply shaken. He expects law enforcement agencies will increase training around “situational awareness,” or encouraging officers to keep alert about what’s going on around them, and perhaps do a better job of mining social media and web content for threats against police, the way they now look out for postings by extremists.“Law enforcement is a big family, whether you know an officer or not, whether you’re from New York or Texas or Alaska or Hawaii or somewhere in the middle,” he adds. Officials say there was one female perpetrator, who was omitted from the study. Lawmaker demands vote on tougher penalties for cop killers. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R- Fla., on Friday demanded an immediate vote on legislation to boost penalties against cop killers, as soon as the House returns to work in September. These senseless attacks on police must end. Among other things, the bill could force people who kill police or first responders to face the death penalty. Stay abreast of the latest developments from nation's capital and beyond with curated News Alerts from the Washington Examiner news desk and delivered to your inbox. Please try again later. You should receive your first alert soon!
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