There is blood on hands of those who demanded ‘dead cops’

NY POST ^ | December 21, 2014 | By Bob McManus

[COUNTrecount]

“What do we want?” drones the blood chant.

“Dead cops!” comes the reply.

Done.

Thus does rhetoric have consequences.

There may have been just a single shooter in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Saturday afternoon. But New York’s failure to denounce without nuance the bloodlust that’s been boiling out of the corners of the Eric Garner-Michael Brown demonstrations for weeks now boils down to this:

There is blood on many hands this morning.

Yes, First Amendment. Yes, redress of grievances. Yes, peaceful protests — even as clogged bridges and mobbed boulevards created, however temporarily, very real peril for tens of thousands of New Yorkers every night for a week.

The free-speech trope is so obviously true that it’s a deflection even to raise it.

Here’s the real issue: It was, and it remains, the responsibility of protest organizers — such as they may be in the face of ubiquitous social media — to directly address murderous incantations, to unequivocally condemn those who call down harm on the city’s protectors.

And they didn’t do that.

Moreover, when two of the six people who “allegedly” attacked two cops on the Brooklyn Bridge a week ago Saturday night turn out to be, respectively, a CUNY professor and an organizer for a union that placed five one-time senior union leaders in top de Blasio ­administration posts, it’s clear that New York isn’t dealing with bearded Bolsheviks living in caves.

[Don Corleone]

So, what is anyone going to do about it? The short answer is NOTHING.

That is also the long answer as long as Obola and Holder are at the throttles.

[Vaduz]

Can you spot a non felon in Obama’s army?.

Zulu and Tutu grab sticks

[deadrock]

Liberals commies leftists are never held accountable or responsible for anything.

[mulligan]

They will all enjoy their time in hell.

[RayChuang88]

In the end, those St. Louis Rams players who sympathized with the Ferguson, MO protesters and one LeBron James have to experience very mixed feelings over this, because their actions inspired someone to actually do something tragic like kill two police officers.