The assassination of five Dallas police officers was entirely predictable when the false narrative of “hands up don’t shoot” became the mantra for black riots in Ferguson, Missouri and a battle cry against law enforcement.
Even after the Department of Justice’s 85 page investigative report revealed that Michael Brown spoke no such words before he was shot in self-defence by a Ferguson police officer, Black Lives Matter, assisted by the far left media, continued to promulgate the lie that Michael Brown, allegedly a gentle giant, was shot in the back as he was surrendering to police.
The fact that the Attorney General Eric Holder’s exhaustive investigation found that Michael Brown assaulted officer Darren Wilson, fresh off his robbery of a nearby convenience store, was pushed aside in order to advance an agenda based on lies. Political commentator, Pat Buchanan said: “The real story of Ferguson is the entrenched bigotry that propelled a mob-like rush to judgment by journalists and race hustlers that ruined the life of an honest cop who did his duty and told the truth.”
Next came chants of “pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon!” from protesters across the United States, an unmistakable threat to America’s police officers, although Black Lives Matters leaders suggested that the repetition of this phrase was meant to be “playful”, not intended to incite violence.
Well, the “pigs in a blanket” crowd must be very proud of themselves after the mayhem in Dallas, resulting in five deaths and seven injured police officers and civilians. Following the attack social media was jammed with posts from people urging more police deaths, as revenge for the recent police shootings of Philando Castile, 32, near St. Paul, Minnesota and Alton Sterling, 37, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Micah Xavier Johnson, a U.S. army reservist, who was asked to leave the Afghanistan combat theatre after allegations of sexual harassment, died at the scene after negotiations for him to give up were unsuccessful. His social media accounts showed his growing interest in the New Black Panthers and the African American Defence League, who have called for “death to every blue, bastard, hypocrites, killer pig across the nation.”
Five days before his murder spree he posted on the Black Panthers Party’s Facebook page:
““Why do so many whites (not all) enjoy killing and participating in the death of innocent beings.”
Police searched the apartment he shares with his mother and found a cache of bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, and ammunition.
Lawdiva aka Georgialee Lang
Evidence that one extreme and tragic situation leads to another. What goes around… Go back and listen to Bobby Kennedy’s speech in Indianapolis the night Martin Luther King was shot and shortly before he himself was assassinated (YouTube). The message remains no less true today that it was then.
Thanks for that reminder, Matk. I just went back and reviewed a summary of his speech; the summary was uplifting. If I can find the full transcription, I will read it later when I have time.
It is the experience of black people in the United States that they get stopped and targeted by law enforcement far disproportionately than their white counterparts. A black person driving along the highway fears for their lives once a police car pulls them over. There is a real racial issue that Americans must address and your post is very offensive to the many black people in the United States who have experienced racial profiling in mundane matters such traffic stops. Your post is offensive, very offensive and makes no sense at all.
The focus of my article is the assassination of five police officers. The simple fact remains that Black Lives Matter has incited violence and that is not surprising when their message is: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now” or “pigs in blankets, fry ’em like bacon”.
That’s what offends me.
That there is a “real race issue that Americans must address” is obvious, but Black Lives Matters is not innocent in the Dallas slayings…the perpetrator told police he was upset about Black Lives Matter and wanted to kill white people, especially police officers.