That was the chant you may have seen time and again as a hundred or two tightly packed protesters walked the center line of a New York City street. It was only a week or less later that the nation was treated to the blind ambush of two NYC police officers as they sat, eating a sandwich in their patrol car. One was Asian, the other Hispanic. Do you think the shooter even knew they weren’t white? Doubtful.
Who was behind the organized group in the street? They didn’t just materialize. In fact the whole thing seemed staged, even in the way it was photographed. You’ll remember that the view of the “protesters” was from way up high where their chant could be clearly heard but no one could be identified. But in less than a week, they got what they said they wanted.
It is just pitiful to think that these two men, one just married and the other the father of a thirteen year old son, were just executed for no reason other than wearing their uniforms and sitting in a police cruiser. Their lives were snuffed out in a moment by a deranged thug who obviously (based on his social media postings) was caught up with the insistent drumbeat, from the president to the attorney general and NYC’s communistic mayor, that the police have a long record of inherent racism.
Rudy Gulianni is the man credited with cleaning up New York City, making it a clean, safe and civil environment to visit or conduct business. Before that, back in the 70’s and into the 80’s, downtown Manhattan was filthy, crime-ridden and dangerous. Anybody who worked in that area, which included some of the swankiest office buildings, housing major corporations and national publications, can vouch for that. Visit Times Square today, and you won’t see the legions of pan-handlers, the homeless drunks lurking in doorways; you won’t have to step over some poor guy unconscious and unsanitary sprawled out across the sidewalk. During and after Mayor Gulianni’s tenure, Times Square is as clean and wholesome as Main Street at Disneyland.
But boy did he set off a firestorm when he said that police are sent where the 9-1-1 calls come from. If that means Bedford-Stuyveson, where the two policemen were just murdered in their car, then that’s exactly what it means. If that means the area is predominantly black, should the police stay away and not answer calls for help when bullets are flying and someone’s been shot? No, no. Gulianni must be a racist too, or so goes the lack of logic.
Can anybody deny the rap/ hip-hop culture that has dominated the popular music scene for a couple of decades? Does it not glamorize dope dealers with untraceable guns, complaining that they aren’t getting due respect? How are we supposed to respect thugs in hoodies wearing blue jeans with waistbands catching them at mid-thigh or below. No wonder they don’t want the police around! Good luck trying to run with your pants down around your knees! Maybe you noticed, if you were watching the protests and their aftermath in Ferguson, Missouri. That’s their uniform.
And they are complaining that they get too much attention from the police, when everybody knows, and it has been widely advertised, that the saggy pants syndrome is a method for concealing weapons and contraband.
We got to see exactly what happens when the police stand by, protecting the police station and City Hall, but refusing to interfere with marauding protesters. They torched businesses all over Ferguson. In New York, protesters blocked the Brooklyn Bridge and numerous well-traveled thoroughfares. In Berkeley, they blocked I-80 along with other streets and important arteries. In each case, the police stood aside and let the protesters do as they did. But why? Why would the police stand by and let traffic back up for miles while protesters chain themselves together, or lie down in the middle of the street?
You don’t suppose law enforcement was told to stand down? Given the succession of speeches and interviews, from the president to the first lady and the attorney general, all giving their personal testimonies as to how they have had first-hand experience with America’s racist tendencies, coming right in the middle of the Ferguson and New York controversies, we can’t help wondering.
So now the police have to worry more about protecting themselves from the next would-be assassin who might burst out and shoot them at point blank range, than the communities they’re obligated to protect. They are certainly afraid of answering calls in the wrong neighborhood, and in the case of New York City have been ordered to avoid making arrests. That should make the city safer!
If it was dead cops the protesters wanted, they got them. An Asian and a Hispanic, just trying to do what had already become a thankless job. But is that all they want? Or do the thugs, dope dealers and thieves really want to be able to skulk about the cities late at night, doing what they live to do, without fear of interference from the police? That is apparently what the race hustlers and the organizers are calling for. The priority of getting offenders off the streets in precincts where thugs rule has been cast as a racist tactic.
When 13% of the population commits 50% of the murders, whose fault is that? It is a no win situation for the police, and for America’s cities. Either crime flourishes without interference or the cops are racist, there are no other alternatives in the debate. Which will it be?
The other and perhaps most dangerous aspect of the anti-police movement, is the infiltration by anarchists who simply want to overthrow capitalist society. Their signs calling for revolution show up in the demonstrations. It is the frustrated “Occupy Wall Street” crowd that tried to foment an “Arab Spring” style shutdown of society in 2011. The protests took place in NYC and in Berkeley, California. Ring any bells? Then, as now, the protests had the sympathy of those in high office, sworn to uphold “general tranquility” in the United States. Their actions and statements indicate otherwise.
