“I have always believed deliberate killing to be a crime against humanity”, said Dr. West, who teaches at Princeton University. “That really struck a chord in my heart, and I thought, wow, this is what it’s about”.
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“Yeah”, the checker said, and paused. I mean, you’re going to have his family speaking.
Ray Hunt, President of the Houston Police Officers Union, and Harris County Precinct 1 Constable Allen Rosen talked with NewsFix to talk about the dangers being a police officer these days pose. Sunday’s shooting in Baton Rouge was no different. He praised the Dallas police for their restraint and bravery, while urging police everywhere to acknowledge the legitimacy of complaints from African American communities and Black Lives Matter about police brutality. But he doesn’t think the Black Lives Matter movement should be blamed for recent violence against police. But the killings, following the murder of five police officers in Dallas earlier this month, reinforced impressions that the nation is teetering on a crisis driven by deep racial, economic and political polarization.
President Barack Obama condemned the violence Sunday from the White House briefing room.
Libartarian presidential candidate Gov. Gary Johnson called the attack senseless.
“How do we take accountability for ourselves?” he asked. Three other officers were injured. He came down south when the Dallas officers were shot.
Obama’s presidency has been pockmarked with knee-jerk reactions against law enforcement. “This has to stop”, the governor of Louisiana cried.
“We need to eat at the same table and break bread and talk and get things out”, said Cotton, who’s also the founder of the Charity Contributors of Chicago, which raises money for nonprofit groups to help minority communities. Even in the wake of prominent killings of police officers, people who insist they support cops will politicize such killings to stymie broader conversations about reform.
Authorities say 29-year-old Gavin Long carried out a coordinated attack on law enforcement that killed Baton Rouge police officers Montrell Jackson and Matthew Gerald and East Baton Rouge Deputy Sheriff Brad Garafola.
“Law enforcement and security personnel are dealing with an extremely high risk threat environment – while at the same time trying to allow people to lawfully protest”.
This is not to say that in law enforcement there are no “bad apples”.
There have been 31 fatal police shootings this year, on pace for 71, according to data from the National Law Enforcement Officers’ Memorial Fund. None. These attacks are the work of cowards who speak for no one. “They advance no causes”. “There’s a good chance that we will play for the Dallas officer from MI and probably these officers also”. Obama had no problem publicly indicting the police officers, right or wrong, before all the facts came out. Watch a video of the shooting and it is hard to figure why police shot Sterling. Our team of seasoned political reporters will be on the ground in Cleveland and Philadelphia to bring you every development from these pivotal campaign events.
Then there was a time when Trump was being panned for the rollout of Mike Pence, and how he spent most of the appearance talking about himself and other subjects.
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“Even if you look at the loss of life in the Dallas situation just generally speaking, to equate the danger that the police face as it relates to that, as well as what we know is going on in this country particularly around Black and Brown communities with the police, it’s a false equivalency”, she continued.
