by Robert M. Traxler
A police officer while on duty murders a person of color. People protest, and protests turn into riots.
The apologists for the rioters say dumb things like, I do not approve of riots, looting, killing police officers, arson and destruction, BUT I understand why they do it. It is tacit approval of the criminal activity disguised as being big hearted, open and accepting. The point is always made that police officers have a special position of trust, I will not deny that. So let us look at people with special trust in our society and ask why they do not cause people to riot.
Nurses murdering patients, in many cases mass murders. This has and is happening; why do folks not riot when people of color are murdered?
Doctors prescribing drugs that kill folks, oxycontin and others that killed thousands. A very large number are people of color. Riots?
Firemen setting fires that kill, it happens so often it has a name, “Firefighter Arson.” People of color die in these fires. Psychiatrists who take advantage of the trust given them.
Scoutmasters, both boy and girl, who abuse their charges. Priests who rape young boys, some of whom committed suicide. Teachers raping students; some died at their own hands after being raped, many people of color.
All of the examples above are of people who have a place of special trust in our society, such as police officers. We were told during the unrest in the 1960s and ’70s that all we have to do is set quotas for more minority police officers and things will change.
OK, the New York City Police Department is now 53% minority officers. Atlanta 58% African American, D.C. 64% minority, so how does that work? Simple; the race baiters and police haters seamlessly move into the position that minority officers are not black or brown or women, they are blue. After 60 years of this stuff I am coming to believe nothing will ever be good enough.
The major cities on fire are for the most part run by Democrats. And they have been, in the case of Boston for three generations, Atlanta two generations, most others for a very long time, even for generations. We are told we have “systemic” racism in the cities; OK, if the left and Democrats have run the cities for generations, just how does that work?
Who cares? They hate the police and blame them, not the people in charge, as it is politically correct to give the mayors a pass; wrong but politically correct. Folks, you can’t make this stuff up.
The socialist media have no problem with blaming the individual police officer or the entire department, minorities included, for an action, but not the leadership of the city? How does that work? Easy, the media just points at the police department and not the city government. Fair? Who cares, it fits the preconceived narrative.
Mayors who have been in charge for up to 12 years suddenly discover a problem with the police? And the media plays along, as long as it helps a city government they approve of.
Mayors who tacitly approve of riots and violence are never asked how the police department became a problem all of a sudden. Where were they for the last up to 12 years? My favorite is the media blaming the President and not the city leadership for unrest, or in their minds, bad local police. Correct? Fair? Just? No, but it works for the left, so the media joins in.
Time to ask the socialist, left, Democratic leadership of the major cities on fire how this happened and why they did not do anything to prevent it before it happened. Will the media ask them? Not a chance in hell. Liberal mayors will throw the police under the bus to help them stay in power and the media will help them.
How you blame the President and not the mayors for bad local policing baffles me; it is asinine but very politically correct. The police need to be held accountable but not the city government who hired them, trains them, pays them, funds the department, directs them and controls them? Hold the President responsible for the Minneapolis Police Department but not the mayor? Passes the common sense test for the left and media, monolithic thinking
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