There is blood on hands of those who demanded ‘dead cops’
By Bob McManus
It’s wrong to blame the protests wholly for the actions of one person — up to a point.
That is, right up to the point when the protesters began to demand dead cops — and nobody put a stop to it.
Right up to the point where protesters began to drop full garbage cans 10 feet down on unsuspecting cops, and nobody took it for what it was: An escalation that culminated in yesterday’s Bed-Stuy executions.
And now for the funerals — for the heartbreaking skirl of the pipes and the agony of the families; for the grim-faced officers from across America, lined to the horizon in silent tribute to ambushed brothers; for the folded flags and the endless motorcades to the cemetery.
You wanted dead cops, protesters? You got ’em.
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While I concur totally with the sentiment regarding affixing accountability here and the object upon which it is placed in this case namely those who restrained arrest for low level crimes then allowed to grow, personally, I think such elevation of an officer's funeral to the point of public spectacle is part of the problem. It escalates an "us versus them" mentality in the police that has led to significant abuses of power. This country went nearly 100 years without police, with citizens as law-enforcement. The press demonized "vigilante justice" while the courts injected procedure and precedent into law-enforcement thence demanding "professionalized" policing. It may have been a good thing in some respects, but it alienated the people from the law thereby inculcating a culture of "let the government handle it" with disastrous consequences.