Police Lives Matter, Too
Shannon Miles, right, has been charged with the execution-like murder of sheriff's deputy Darren Goforth in Houston. View Enlarged Image
War On Cops: Within hours of a black man assassinating a Houston police officer, "Black Lives Matter" protesters called for more violence on cops. The movement is putting lives in jeopardy. Will the president condemn it?
Over the weekend, Shannon Jaruay Miles, a college dropout with three previous convictions for resisting arrest, allegedly ran up behind Harris County Sheriff's Deputy Darren Goforth and shot him in the head as he filled his patrol car with gas.
The suspect then shot the deputy repeatedly in the back as he lay dying on the ground. Investigators found 15 shell casings at the scene, meaning the shooter unloaded his gun on Goforth, who leaves behind a wife and two children.
Police say Goforth had no previous contact with Miles and that the attack was unprovoked. They say Miles was targeting the deputy because he wore a uniform. They also suggest that his skin color played a role. Goforth was white and Miles is black.
Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman says Miles may have been motivated by anger over recent police killings of black men elsewhere in the U.S. Just days earlier, a caller to a black Internet radio show based in Texas had called for the "lynching" of white people, and the killing of police officers, to "turn the tide."
The host reportedly is connected to the Black Lives Matter movement protesting the death of Michael Brown and other suspects killed by police. The anti-police rhetoric has gotten out of hand.
"At any point where the rhetoric ramps up to the point where calculated cold-blooded assassination of police officers happens, this rhetoric has gotten out of control," Hickman said. "We've heard black lives matter . . . well, cops' lives matter, too."
Data show police are increasingly being targeted for assault. Deadly shootings and assaults on cops almost doubled last year to 51, according to the FBI. And so far this year the number of cops killed in ambush attacks have spiked to 15, tripling the total a year ago.
The Houston attack comes on the heels of the brutal beating of a white Birmingham, Ala., police officer by a black man. "Pistol whipped his ass to sleep," a triumphant witness tweeted under the hashtag #FckDaPolice. The injured officer said he didn't fight back because he didn't want to be accused of racism.
Similar gloating followed 2014's fatal ambushing of two NYPD cops by a black man claiming to avenge the police shooting of Brown and Staten Island's Eric Garner.
George Soros-sponsored Black Lives Matter marchers may be encouraging attacks on police. BLM protesters disrupting the Minnesota state fair over the weekend chanted in unison, "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon." BLM organizers say they're calling for peaceful reforms of police, not violence.
In Ferguson, hundreds of BLM protesters marching on the anniversary of Brown's death converged on police headquarters and placed a cooked pig with a police cap on its head in front of the building. Scrawled on the carcass was the name "Darren Wilson," the officer whom jurors agreed shot Brown in self defense.
"It's open season right now, there's no doubt about it," said Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke agreed, and President Obama gave them license. "The president of the United States started this war on police," Clarke asserted.
Indeed, Obama's many statements canonizing thugs like Brown, while demonizing cops have empowered criminals targeting police. Obama helped create the Black Lives Matter movement. Now it's up to him to rein the group in before it incites more cop-killings.
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