The following blog post is racist because it rejects the idea that killing cops helps black people. Apologies in advance.
Russ McQuaid, WXIN in Indianapolis:
March Eugene Ratney, according to Department of Correction records, wasn’t due to be released from prison until this past June 6 after serving half of a 12-year sentence following his conviction as a serious violent felon with a weapon. Ten days later, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) officers were called to an east side address where Ratney’s sister said he had pulled a gun and threatened to kill her.
Investigators now report, and neighbors confirmed, Ratney, on parole, was the man clad in a Black Lives Matter t-shirt and screaming profanities at police, who shot up an IMPD officer’s house not far from his own home early this morning…
The officer had just returned from work, but had not yet retired for the night, when approximately 17 shots were fired from a 9mm handgun into his house, fence and patrol car.
You’ll notice that this is a local news story, not a national one. That’s because this young man wasn’t wearing a t-shirt promoting the NRA or the Tea Party or the GOP. He was promoting, in word and deed, Black Lives Matter.
He was trying to do what Micah Xavier Johnson did to five Dallas police officers. He was trying to do what Tyler Gebhard tried to do to a St. Louis police officer and his family. He was trying to do what some anonymous coward did to another cop in St. Paul.
These guys want to kill cops, particularly white cops, and they’re doing it for the Black Lives Matter movement. That’s what they’re telling us. And that’s what our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters in the media don’t want to hear.
That’s why it becomes the NRA’s fault, and the cops’ fault, and white people’s fault, and everybody’s fault except the guys trying to kill cops and telling us exactly why.
Turn a blind eye if you want. That’s the easy thing to do, especially when you’ll be called a racist for paying these guys the courtesy of assuming they’re telling the truth. But I figure, if I’m going to be called a racist no matter what I do, why not tell the truth?
Stephen Miller at Heat Street has a lot more. As he notes:
BLM is currently in damage control not only over [Micah] Johnson, but also over a wave of violence towards police just this past weekend. It’s proclaiming Johnson was just one lone crazy person, who, while certainly inspired by their efforts, was still unaffiliated with the movement itself.
But what happened in Dallas is not an isolated case.
It sure isn’t. Just as we keep seeing with that other leftist-beloved group of designated victims, Muslims, a lot of people want to distance Black Lives Matter from these acts of violence. But ignoring it and deflecting it and downplaying it isn’t going to make the problem go away.
Black lives matter too much to let this keep happening. Nobody’s going to listen to your movement if people keep killing cops in your name. Stop making excuses. Stop playing victim. Just stop.
But what do I know, right? I’m white! Typical. #smdh
P.S. Baton Rouge police: Three arrested in plot to harm officers. The isolated incidents just keep piling up.
P.P.S. Black Lives Matter protest blocks ambulance with sick child headed for hospital. But don’t worry: The kid is white.