Texas Sheriff Investigates #BlackLivesMatter As Motive For Deputy’s Death
Source: ABC13.com & The Atlanta Daily World-2 hours ago
Shannon J. Miles, 30, was charged Saturday with the shooting death of Harris County sheriffs deputy Darren Goforth, 47, and Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman is investigating the dangerous rhetoric of the #BlackLivesMatter movement as Miles motive, ABC13.com reports.
Our system of justice absolutely requires that law enforcement be present to protect our community, Hickman said during a press conference. So any point when the rhetoric ramps up and calculated, cold-blooded, assassination of police officers happen, this rhetoric has gotten out of control.
Weve heard Black lives matter, all lives matter, well, cops lives matter, too, Hickman added. So why dont we just drop the qualifier and say lives matter.
Harris County DA Devon Anderson spoke next, saying, It is time for the silent majority in this country to support law enforcement
there are a few bad apples in every profession, that does not mean there should be open warfare declared on law enforcement
what happened last night is an assault on the very fabric of society.
According to Hickman, Miles had had no prior interaction with Goforth, before walking up while the deputy pumped gas and shot him 8-10 times in the back.
Read more: http://atlantadailyworld.com/2015/08/30/texas-sheriff-investigates-blacklivesmatter-as-motive-for-deputys-death/
http://abc13.com/news/suspect-charged-in-shooting-death-of-harris-co-deputy/961336/
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Even if this were true -- that it's just a few bad cops -- then if all the other cops
are so fucking good, WHY do the bad apples always get protected and never prosecuted
for murders & abuses they commit against the public, esp. the Black & Latino sectors.???????
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)every once in a while a person applying to be black will turn out-in spite of an extensive background test-to be a bad apple...
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)or if you're being sarcastic or not.
can you say it another way?
what's "not true"?
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)If I knew what they were even trying to say,I have a hunch I may
have Alerted it, but since it was indecipherable from the get-go ..
blackspade
(10,056 posts)A few bad apples spoil the barrel.
Our police forces are rotten to the core.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Why aren't they pointing out the 'dangerous' rhetoric of the racist right wing and supremacists groups (that many officers belong to)?
If law enforcement wants support, they should start acting like professionals (including in their speech) and stop beating and killing people.
Chakab
(1,727 posts)open to public commenters.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)talk about pandering. Assassination if meant for important people, not badge wearing bullies.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)You'd see a white sheriff saying, "Now why'd yew want to come come down heya and stir things up? Things was quiet until you outside agitators went and got everyone all riled up. Yew just don't get that OUR blacks* aren't like the black folks up North."
[font size=1]*Not the word that they used[/font]
still_one
(92,372 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Back then we could shame them. But these folks have learned from that, think they are in the right, and are, mostly, immune to our consultations. Their hearts will never change, and now they are going on the offensive.
It might be goin' on for awhile.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They were in public offices from the schools to the mayor. Police were a favorite. Best way of making a KKK terrorist act go unpunished was to have those charged with upholding the law behind it. The classic, "If a cross is burning on your lawn chances are good the sheriff you called is the one who struck the match".
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)The sad thing is things are to the point where they not only don't worry about hiding it, they BRAG about it.
WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)the silent majority, now that's a term that we haven't heard in a long time, its from the bad old days that I lived in.
How many times do we have to beat these bastards down.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)FarPoint
(12,429 posts)And is a threat to the opposition.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)They tried to join the Bundy protest, and were asked to leave, and then they shot and killed two police officers in a pizza place?
That had nothing to do with race or BLM.
Depaysement
(1,835 posts)You don't shoot black people and you don't shoot police officers. You don't shoot people, period.
Pretty simple rule, really.
lib87
(535 posts)Instead of focusing on catching the person responsible for Killing the deputy, the county used the deputy's murder to slam BLM. I guess 'the few bad apples' all just happened to be speaking at that press conference.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Thanks for finding an alternative source, tho.
Transparent.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)So they're trying to make BLM a voice of hate speech now? WTF I remember when Moose lady was drawing targets on the map but that was ok. Hate speech has many sources.
alp227
(32,047 posts)after the Cliven Bundy Posse followers Jerad & Amanda Miller killed Vegas officers? Please post a link if true.
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)black lives matter is in a fight for lives, they are going to come after black folks with a vengeance if we are liberals, if we love black people, if black lives matter we have to stand strong for the fight coming to a head.
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liberaltrucker
(9,130 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)Now the M$M floodgates will open for the new meme: BLM responsible for the escalation in racial tension.
It will be framed as a disingenuous question, but the message will be clear; Black anger is the problem, not racist paranoid cops.