Previous NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg was termed “loathsome”. A better word for current NYC mayor Bill De Blasio would be ignominious, but, that doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue
NY mayor: No protests until after officer funerals
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called Monday for a temporary halt to protests over police conduct as he faced a widening rift with a force preparing Christmastime burials for two of its own and decrying the demonstrations as a factor in the officers’ cold-blooded executions.
“I think it’s important that, regardless of people’s viewpoints, that everyone step back,” de Blasio said in a speech Monday at the Police Athletic League. “I think it’s a time for everyone to put aside political debates, put aside protests, put aside all of the things that we will talk about in all due time.”
Where was Odious Bill when protesters were calling for dead cops? Why did he not call for people to “step back” at that point? As far as political debates go, OB was right in the forefront of those slurring the NYPD. Will OB say that #CopLivesMatter? Will he acknowledge that the shooter was pushed by the outlandish and dangerous rhetoric of the protesters?
Is it unconstitutional for the government to suppress anti-government protest?
It’s lazy of the right and the police union to blame the murders on the Mayor or the protesters.
Why not blame the killer?
We do blame the killer. But what pushed him to killing cops? You honestly think it was just a spur of the moment decision?
It is also the mantra of the LEFT that likes to blame killings on everything including inanimate objects. Wasn’t it the left that blamed a map with crosshairs for a shooting? Didn’t the left blame a scary looking gun for a shooting? Wasn’t it that left that blamed a cop for killing a thug that was attacking him? The list goes on.
It was the left and their leaders that kept egging the protesters on to more and more violence and it eventually led to two cops being executed. But you go ahead and keep telling yourself that the protests, and those pushing them on, had nothing to do with those cops being executed. just remember this when you decide to blame a rifle or picture for the next shooting.
“It’s lazy of the right and the police union to blame the murders on the Mayor or the protesters.”
No lazier than the left and the MSM trying to blame the right for the Aurora shootings, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Times Square bomber, the IRS kamikaze attack, and most famously, the Gabby Gifford shooting.
With these police assassinations, it takes a special myopia to discount the affect of organized demonstrations calling for the death of cops.
Nighthawk,
More police officers are killed by right-wing nutjobs each year than by left-wing nutjobs.
In November, Leon County Florida Officer Christopher Smith was ambushed at a house fire by a right-wing so-called “Sovereign” citizen. The cowardly murderer set the house ablaze and killed Officer Smith as he arrived. Was the killer motivated by right-wing chatter about “taking our country back”?
In September, Bryon K. Dickson, of the Pennsylvania State Police was assassinated and Trooper Alex Douglass critically wounded by a survivalist, right-wing, anti-government thug. He lived like a feral animal in the woods for a month before being captured. Did the anti-government rhetoric of the Tea Party egg him into his cowardly act?
In June, Las Vegas Police Officers Igor Soldo and Alyn Beck, were ambushed and assassinated by a cowardly husband and wife team of right-wing anti-government thugs who had just left the Bundy Ranch conclave. Did you conclude that the reactionary rhetoric from the ranch egged them on to assassinate Soldo and Beck?
In June, a so-called “Sovereign” citizen drove onto the steps of the Cummings, GA courthouse and shot and wounded a deputy. Fortunately the deputy survived. Fortunately the would-be assassin did not.
In previous years, right-wingers killed other on-duty officers.
Yet, the right doesn’t blame violent rhetoric for any of these killings.
With conservatives, “It’s always projection”.