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-War on Police-
Liberals Hate the Police
2019-11-12
[Townhall] There was a time when any candidate for any office with a background in law enforcement would proudly talk about their record and make it a cornerstone of their campaign. In the last few years, however, the Democratic Party has not only moved away from this former truth, but they’ve actually embraced an anti-police hatred that is dangerous and destructive.

It started on a large scale in Ferguson, Missouri, with Michael Brown. This was the guy, who all the evidence showed was the aggressor who went after officer Darren Wilson, who was shot and killed while charging the officer for round two. The death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, sped up the process. From there, no incident involving police was too insignificant to make national news, as long as the "victim" was black. White or Hispanic confrontations with police, regardless of fault, don’t register.

From this, the "police are racist and hunting young black men" mantra was born. And the birth of a liberal narrative is the only birth they don’t want to abort.

It led to the "Ferguson Effect"; police doing the bare minimum required of their job because they know if things go sideways, even if it’s not their fault, politicians and the media will demonize them if the circumstances fit their narrative.

This caused countless lives to be damaged, as police defensively ignored obvious signs of crimes because they weren’t called in to dispatch. But it’s not the only damage liberal policies and attitudes have done.

"Confronting" police ‐ which is the polite way of pointing out people being complete a-holes to cops ‐ is now a point of pride on the left. Why not? When you’ve been told police are racist monsters who start their shifts hoping to be able to harass minorities, why wouldn’t you view them as the enemy?
Posted by:Besoeker

#3  1972 or 1984.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-11-12 14:46  

#2  Beginning to feel like 1972 again. Unbelievable that a major political party is throwing in its lot with cop-killers and people chanting F--- the police

2020 election is just 12 months away.
Will 1972 repeat itself? Will the Silent Majority re-elect the president in a landslide?
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-12 07:49  

#1  Guess who the commies believe are going to go out like obedient robots and collect the guns?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-11-12 07:44  

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