Via The Blue State Conservative
The recent murder of 22-year-old Jason Rivera in New York City highlights a continuing trend begun by former president Barack Obama of burying murdered police officers. Buying into the BLM/1619 narrative demands allegiance to one of the fundamental tenets that police are a root cause of black despair. If police are both historical and contemporary evil, it is not only justified but imperative for believers to act.
In the case of Black Lives Matter, acting translates into capricious murder. Does it matter that black deaths are most often precipitated by earlier black choices? Does it matter that black cops are killed in the process of violent revolt? Of course not. Neither truth nor consequences are relevant; only the power derived from the narrative. As a bit of an aside, Heather MacDonald made this striking observation last month:
“Historically, black males have made up over 40 percent of cop-killers nationwide, though black males are 6 percent of the population. Conservatively estimating that 40 percent of the cop-killers this year have been black, 26 officers have been killed by a black suspect in 2021, for a rate of nearly four cops per 100,000 officers killed by black civilians. A police officer is about 400 times as likely to be killed by a black suspect as an unarmed black is to be killed by a police officer.”
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