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| Attacks on police: Inspired or directed by militant groups? |
| 2016-07-12 |
| Not so much the content of the article (it's the same drivel we expect from so-called professional journalists these days) - but the wording the reporter uses is telling... DALLAS (AP) -- Police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota were followed by calls from black militant groups and others to seek vengeance against officers. Almost immediately, several officers were attacked, including the five slain by a sniper in Dallas. notice the use of the word 'Militant Group' as opposed to 'Hate Group'... Now authorities are investigating whether the Dallas gunman was directed by those groups or merely emboldened by them. "I think it's safe to say we'll leave no stone unturned," Dallas Deputy Police Chief Scott Walton said. The number of black separatist groups nearly doubled in 2015, mirroring a similar increase among white hate groups that has taken place as police killings make frequent headlines, said Ryan Lenz, online editor and senior writer at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Ok so according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC - itself a hate group) only white people can form a 'hate' group. If they are black they are merely 'separatists'. Johnson followed black militant groups on Facebook, There's that word again. I wonder if the reporter has a macro for it...perhaps alt-shift-M or something... including the African American Defense League, which posted a message that referenced the police shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana: "You and I know what we must do and I don't mean marching, making a lot of noise, or attending conventions. We must 'Rally The Troops!' It is time to visit Louisiana and hold a barbeque." Nope... no call for violence or racism there... Johnson's Facebook photo showed him wearing a dashiki and raising his fist over the words "Black Power." His cover shot carried the red, black and green Pan-African flag. But he wasn't driven by hate of white people. he just wanted to get along, be 'separate'... In fact he was on his way to Choir practice when... There's no evidence such groups have directed violent events, but their rhetoric has served as inspiration, Lenz said. And even if there was evidence, the AP will be quick to bury it. See Obama's close association with a known unrepentant Domestic Terrorist... Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. are on guard for threats after the police killings and the Dallas attack. Protesters view the police slayings as further evidence of the law enforcement abuse that has energized the Black Lives Matter movement, which was fueled by the 2014 killing of Michael Brown by an officer in Ferguson, Missouri. And of course the 'Hands Up Don't shoot' reference. Proven totally false by direct evidence but the reporters here have little regard for facts when there is a narrative to push Recent threats ranged from generic promises of violence to specific video posts. In Dallas, officers swarmed police department headquarters Saturday after a report of a suspicious person in a garage before finally issuing an all-clear. A Louisiana man was accused of posting a video online showing him in his vehicle behind a police car, saying he wanted to shoot and kill an officer. Police say Kemonte Gilmore flashed a handgun in the video and talked about the slayings of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana. In Wisconsin, a man posted calls on social media for black men to gun down white officers, and a woman in Illinois threatened in an online video to shoot and kill any officer who pulled her over, police said. Another one of those peace-loving 'militant separatists', since, you know, only whites have hate groups. Mawuli Davis, an African-American attorney and activist in Atlanta, said the unrest continues because there has been no serious dialogue about issues of race and policing. Not that Davis really wants serious dialogue. His kind wants to keep kicking that hornets nest. Davis and his associates insist on peaceful protests as a means to an end, and most protests across the U.S. have gone on without a hint of violence. But until that discussion happens, Davis said, he fears "we're going to continue to see this kind of tragic incident" like the Dallas attack. "From an activist perspective, you're seeing a level of frustration and anger that very well may be at a tipping point," he said. Is that a threat? And of course to give the reporters credit for this piece of Associated Press writers Bill Cormier and Don Schanche in Atlanta and Nomaan Merchant in Dallas also contributed to this report. |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #8 Inspired or directed by militant groups? White House staff and DNC? Got to turn out the vote! |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-07-12 22:14 |
| #7 Worst president ever and running up the score. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-07-12 17:38 |
| #6 But did they come up with those ideas by themselves? All they need to do was follow the media and popular culture, that is more than enough. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-07-12 17:09 |
| #5 They took a soft headed individual, gave him a gun and training and put ideas in his head. Well, he had to be smart enough to absorb the training yet dumb enough to let them talk him into a suicide mission. You think about guys like Jack Ruby, Sirhan Sirhan, the guys at Columbine, the guy in Aurora, the guy in Orlando, etc. and you can say they were nuts and call for gun control all you want. OK, they were nuts. But did they come up with those ideas by themselves? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-07-12 16:25 |
| #4 An opinion: Somebody trained the Dallas shooter |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-07-12 14:47 |
| #3 But Holder said he would take care of "his" people. And his people are Lynch's and Obama's people. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2016-07-12 09:51 |
| #2 They are militant groups, trying to overthrow this nation. We should treat them as an enemy insurgent inside the US and round them up, military trials and all. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2016-07-12 09:30 |
| #1 Islamic lone wolves, now "african-american" lone wolves, what's next? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-07-12 06:41 |