Posted on 07/10/2016 1:19:17 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The chief of police in El Paso, Texas, labeled Black Lives Matter a “radical hate group” Friday night, blaming them for Thursday’s shooting in Dallas and calling on policymakers to take a closer look at the movement.
Greg Allen was in attendance at a news conference Friday where various leaders in the El Paso area expressed solidarity with Dallas while also trying to appeal to those who feel marginalized by a recent spate of high-profile police shootings. Allen didn’t deliver a statement at the conference, but he gave an interview to local press afterwards.
During the interview, Allen was asked to comment on an upcoming protest vigil El Paso’s Black Lives Matter group is planning to hold Sunday night. He responded by denouncing the group in remarkably harsh terms.
“Black Lives Matter, as far as I am concerned, is a radical hate group,” Allen said. “And for that purpose alone, I think the leadership of this country needs to look a little bit harder at that particular group. The consequences of what we saw in Dallas is due to their efforts.”
Notably, Allen himself is black. He has led El Paso’s 1,100-officer force, one of the country’s 50 largest police departments, since 2007. Under his leadership, El Paso has consistently rated as one of America’s safest large cities.
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Allen has something of a reputation for speaking his mind. In 2011, he said that widespread political correctness was “poisoning the world.”
When informed of Allen’s remarks, El Paso County Sheriff Richard Wiles disagreed. He said the actions of Dallas shooter Micah Johnson cannot simply be pinned on the broader Black Lives Matter movement, even though Johnson said he hated white people and wanted to kill police as form of revenge for the shooting of black men.
“Black Lives Matter is a radical group? That is not my belief,” Wiles said, according to the El Paso Times. “I certainly understand that there are incidents occurring throughout the country that are bringing attention to things that are important to communities all across this nation and I think we have to, and what has worked well, is that we have to sit down and communicate about our problems. Now whether that affected this, I don’t know … I think unfortunately there are evil people who will do terrible things and clearly this person (the Dallas gunman) was an evil person. What was in his heart and mind, I don’t know and I really don’t care.
Anything pushed by Soros money is diabolical.
the sheriff is a politician, and I’m being polite
BLM is the DNC
What leadership? That's the problem.
Please share with us what you know about him ... specifically ... Please ...
He’s already taking tons of crap for these mild comments. I’m guessing you’re not a public figure.
Democrats have allied themselves with the radical hate group... but that’s what you get when you elect a community agitator as POTUS....
It is worth commenting that during and after the shooting in Dallas, a goodly number of the protesters discovered a respect for and appreciation of the Dallas police who they suddenly realized were there to protect them.
Yeah I saw that. BLM is 1% Soros operatives and 99% useful idiots. A lot of LIVs get a big wake up!
Death to whore-hay sore-ass!
What gave you your first clue, Sherlock?
This is a communist front group.
BLM is a Soros progressive inspired group to make sure the black vote gets out in Nov. They ginning up the bros.
I know nothing about him, except that he is an elected official and speaks like one.
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