Glad to see that, after initial shock, expressions of unmitigated revulsion are pouring in not only for yesterdays heinous assassination of two New York City police officers, but also for a segment of right wing provocateurs seeking to blame Mayor de Blasio for it, because he had the effrontery to question another group of police officers killing of Eric Garner, an unarmed man who was not engaged in violent or threatening behavior - who was not even committing a felony - when killed. These commentators also cast blame on the 40,000-odd New Yorkers who marched last week in protest against the grand jury decision not to indict Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer who applied the chokehold that killed Garner. That means they are blaming my 14-year old daughter, too. The killing of the two police officers yesterday was a disgusting, inexcusable crime. To exploit that crime for political expediency, as ex-Mayor Guiliani, ex-Governor Pataki and PBA President Lynch sought to do, is nearly as disgusting. Lynch, in particular, is emerging as an opposite number to Al Sharpton: another shameless bottom-feeder ready to exploit the most awful events for political advantage and personal power aggrandizement. Damned straight we have the right - and duty - to question the killing of unarmed civilians by police officers, and damned straight, no one has the right to try to suppress or intimidate us from asking those questions by claiming that, by doing so, we encourage and give license to the killing of police officers.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:00:35 +0000
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