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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere is how the Fraternity of Police turned out for ,,,,,
two Las Vegas policemen gunned down by a Tea Party activist while they ate lunch back in June.
Seems it has more to do with who killed them rather than being killed......
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)just posting a pic from NBC news of teh funeral
here a video ,,,,,, what you think....
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/vegas-cop-killers/man-who-tried-stop-vegas-gunman-remembered-n138061
sure seems like nothing in comparison to the funeral in NY today...
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)If your pic represents the total turnout for the AZ officers killed, then I get your point.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)in the pic....... but even the other link posted showed no more that a few hundred policemen in the possession, in comparision to the thousands in NY.... it begs the Q: why the difference? All I can see is who the killers were.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)from all across these Nation at the funeral in NY today.....thousands,,,,, an major commercial airline provide free transportation for them,,,,, geeez
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)It's not the content or quality of the post, it's the number of "Likes" right? Geez, indeed.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)"I am not the one who brought up numbers,,,,,," saved for posterity.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Step up your game, son.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)whose pics you want to use..... I cited my pics, All the pics show the same.
The policemen in LV were not honored like the Policemen in NY. You might not like it but it a fact......
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)If NYPD was an army they would be the eight largest army in the world. Since 911 they have been massively subsidized by the federal government.
Las Vegas has a population of 2.5 million vs. 19 million in NY.
It's apples and oranges.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)about the major airline flying in policemen from all over these Nation for the LV funerals.... Yep apple and oranges ,,,,,, it seems there are the killers that make the difference. .
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Because, you know, raw numbers and all, there's likely a LOT more former NYPD officers than there are former LVPD officers.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)If you paid attention they were thousnads active policemen fromacross our nation. Just the Facts.....
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Terrible example to use, regardless of intent.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/thousands-honor-slain-las-vegas-police-officer-igor-soldo
Big fail.
An intellectually dishonest comparision.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)If these two officers were murdered by 2" Black thugs"..Do you honestly feel that the procession seen in this video would have been this small?
Yea I know I know.. about the numbers..But how about a tag concerning how disgusting were the cops turning their backs on the mayor during the funeral... Now thats fucking Terrible.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)The LVPD is literally 10 times smaller than the NYPD. More people attended today's funeral than the total number of people who work for the LVPD.
You both are missing the forest for the (sic) bees. The total attendance is irrelevant, the noise the police apologists make is what matters. They flipped out because a black guy did it in NYC, they are rather mum because two of their conservative compatriots did it in LV.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Im just so sick to my stomach about the apologists...
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)They sure as hell didn't politicize it the way NYPD is doing in this case.
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)Free hotels and airline tickets to bring in even more supporters to the largest police force attending a funeral.
In spite of the sizes of the cities and police forces, I think the point of the OP is valid. It's about who the shooters were.
Triana
(22,666 posts)To a RWNJ it does. For them, it's not about killing cops or anarchy. That stuff is OK w/ them, depending on who's doing it or pushing for it. They have no answer for this hypocrisy.
kiva
(4,373 posts)I had to check the URL, figured I must have gotten diverted to some RW website.
nbc news is now a RWMSM?
kiva
(4,373 posts)since most of the images posted by NBC showed this:
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Pretty much everyone at DU disagrees with what the NYPD did today, but they aren't posting deceptive photos to try to support a bizarre theory...so cops don't go to funerals when other cops are killed by RW crazies? Not really.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)its their photo.
kiva
(4,373 posts)so that you could try to support your point. Do you think that maybe someone could find a photo of some NYPD cops who didn't turn their backs on the mayor? And if they posted it, would that negate the fact that the majority did turn away?
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)I never have said anything about anybody turning their backs..... I have already said that all the pics I have seen here on this thread and else were support my point. use which ever pics you want but it doesn't change the facts that the LV policemen were not honored in the magnitude as the NY policemen.
Have fun with your...um...theory.
TrollBuster9090
(5,953 posts)didn't make a show of turning their backs on any of the slew of professional 'anti-government/ pro-2nd Amendment remedy' politicians after this happened. The NYPD, through their attitude of arrogance and insubordination is PROVING THE POINT of the @blacklivesmatter protests.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)mountain grammy
(26,601 posts)we are hearing about the NYC funerals on every local newscast. Denver is sending cops to the funerals. None of this was true for the murdered Vegas cops.
While media connected the murders in NY to the protests against police brutality, they didn't in the Vegas killings even though the Vegas killings WERE directly connected to the Bundy protest and the NYC killings were only marginally connected to the NYC protests.
I actually heard a Denver anchor describe the NYC murders as revenge for the killing of Eric Garner.