When it comes to reactions in response to Obama’s increasingly more frequent, politicized speeches on the topic of police shootings, one expects republicans to express disgust and to accuse Obama of race baiting and hate-mongering: indeed, it barely registers. But when members of the very police force whose supreme commander resides in the White House accuse the same “commander” of having “blood on his hands” for his pandering rhetoric, suddenly visions of a countrywide police mutiny start to emerge.
In fact, such visions may be warranted right now, because following this morning’s latest police shooting in Baton Rouge, that killed three officers and injured at least three others, Cleveland Detective Steve Loomis who was invited on Fox to describe the unfolding situation, unleashed on none other than the president. As The Hill reports, Loomis – who is also president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association – didn’t hold back from assigning blame during his interview with anchor Harris Faulkner.
“It’s absolutely insane that we have a president of the United States and a governor of Minnesota making the statements they made less than one day after the police-involved shootings,” said an emotional Loomis.
“And those police-involved shootings, make no mistake, are what absolutely have triggered this rash of senseless murders of law enforcement officers across this country. It’s reprehensible. And the president of the United States has blood on his hands that will not be able to come washed off.”
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