Should anyone be surprised that policemen were killed in the wake of the protests over Ferguson and New York? Does anyone not understand that New York Mayor de Blasio fanned the flames of violence against the police? This is what happens when leaders like de Blasio and Obama choose to divide rather than unite in a time of unrest. Let’s not forget the famous words of former Obama White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel who said, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.”
People like de Blasio and Sharpton and Jackson say there should be justice. What does justice look like? Justice is when the judicial system takes a case and puts it before people in the community just like you. It’s called a grand jury. These are citizens who come from the same community as the people they serve. They’re ordinary working people whose racial and ethnic makeup match the community at large. They are tasked with poring over evidence and listening to testimony and determining whether or not someone in their own community, one of their own, should stand trial.
That’s what happened in Ferguson and New York City. A grand jury, made up of ordinary citizens, looked at each case and made a decision based on what they saw and heard. That’s as close to justice as anyone could ask. The problem is, they didn’t reach the decision that folks like de Blasio and Sharpton and Jackson wanted. Instead of explaining to the people that this is what justice looks like, these same so-called leaders called justice and injustice. They besmirched the grand jury system and the grand jurors themselves.
Mayor de Blasio launched into a tirade about how this was a continuation of centuries of racism. When there were blacks and Hispanics on the grand jury! This is not To Kill a Mockingbird, Mayor. This is 21st-century New York. Not only did he insult the grand jury system but he suggested that all cops in America are racists by saying that they all need to be “re-trained.”
Meanwhile, Al Sharpton is out there leading the cry of injustice and racism. Even the widow of the man who died while being arrested in New York said this had nothing to do with racism. Still, the raceaholics can’t get enough hatred. Each event was louder and more vitriolic than the last. The police are racists! America is racist!
And then it happens. One of those in their crowd decides he has to do something about it so he assassinates two cops on the streets of New York. And where is de Blasio? He’s at the funeral, acting as though he had nothing to do with it.
Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, said it best. He said the blame for the officers’ blood “starts on the steps of City Hall, in the office of the mayor.” De Blasio should be removed from office immediately. Anyone with as little sense as he displayed has no business being mayor of any city.
But Barack Obama is not without blame, either. He had dozens of chances to bring this country together but chose to rip it apart. Even before there was a Ferguson grand jury decision, he was meeting with the agitators. He never met with the police. But that’s what a professional community agitator does. They’re never about fixing problems. They’re all about exploiting them.
Now two officers are dead. The country is more divided racially than it has been in decades. So much for the post-racial presidency of Barack Obama.
