By Capt Joseph R. John, June 4, 2020: Op Ed #491 

Law Enforcement Officers across the nation are well aware and saddened by the tragic death of George Floyd by the actions of rogue Police Officers who did not follow the standard restraint procedures taught to all Police Officers.  The peaceful demonstrations in memory of George Floyd have been highjacked by Black Lives Matter and Antifa, turning those demonstrations into violent riots, looting of businesses, and anarchy.   

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international movement; it has 16 chapters in the US and Canada, and campaigns to call attention to violence against black people by Police Officers.  BLM regularly protests police brutality and police shootings of black people, and degrades the moral character and respect for Police Officers.    

When Obama was the occupant of the Oval Office, he held meetings in The White House with the leaders of Black Lives Matter (which can be viewed in the below listed video with Bill Whittle, in meetings with Obama and then Attorney General Loretta Lynch).   

Obama raised large amount of funds in a short period of time to fund Black Lives Matter with $130 million, in order to help BLM expand its activities and demonstrations throughout the nation, before the last presidential election to provide funding for BLM to oppose the election of Donald Trump. 

Since 2013, BLM has organized over 3,000 protest demonstrations and has become a movement employing very violent tactics aimed at instilling fear in Police Officers, with the ultimate goal in defunding police forces.  BLM was founded by three black women Alicia Garza age 39, who supports trans and gender non-conforming people of color, Patrisse Cullors age 36, who identifies herself as a queer activist, and Opal Tometi age 36, an Nigerian-American who was a community organizer.

“Ostensibly, the current protests are about the alleged epidemic of widespread and race-based police brutality against blacks and the lack of confidence, in the case of George Floyd, that justice will be done.  The problem with those assertions are that they are false, and not supported by data.  In recent years, police have killed an average of about 1,000 Americans per year.  Of that number, half are white and one-quarter are black, with the race of remaining suspects of another race or unknown.  Of the approximately 1,000 killed by police, less than 4% involve a white officer and an unarmed black man.” (Larry Elder)

The violent demonstrations across the nation are being organized and executed by a coalition of Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Leftists, Marxists, Progressives, Socialists, and The Communists Party USA.  There are prepositioned caches of homemade weapons, bricks, water bottled filled with concrete, and baseball bats wrapped with barbed wire in 140 cities where riots are taking place.  The well-coordinated riots are erupting in over 140 cities about the same time each evening, often in poor black districts, and result in anarchy, terrorism, arson, and looting of one business after another, employing U-Haul rental trucks to haul away tons of the stolen goods.  

US Post Offices, banks, grocery stores, small businesses, the possessions of homeless people living on the street, and police cars have been torched.  Large businesses like Target, Macy’s, Coach, CVS, Arby’s, Footlocker, Liquor Stores, Auto Zone, etc. have been looted.  Now military troops are required to guard the Lincoln Memorial, the WWII Memorial, and the Vietnam Memorial that have been defaced.  Police Officers are under attack. 

Rioters killed a black Police Officer in Oakland, and killed a black Police Sargent in Louisville.  A Police Officer in Las Vegas was shot in the head, 4 black Police Officers were shot in Louisville, a Police Officer in NYC was beaten down to the ground, 30 Secret Service Agents and 50 Federal Park Rangers were hit in the head with bricks and concrete water bottles, two Police Officers were run down by a hit and run driver in NYC, two Police Officers were run down in Buffalo, three Police Officers were stabbed and shot in Brooklyn, and Molotov Cocktails are being thrown at Police Officers.  

Former FBI Director James Comey stated that the BLM demonstrations are partly responsible for a national rise in crime, because Police Officers have held back from doing their normal duties on patrol, or have been afraid to leave their patrol cars to do proper and thorough policing. 

Over the past years, Black Lives Matter has been supported by Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nazi Collaborator George Soros, the Ford Foundation, the WK Kellogg Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the California Endowment Fund, etc.  They energized and motivated the black youth to demonstrate against Police Officers.  BLM has falsely blamed Police Officers for targeting black youth for murder.    

Since those demonstrations blaming Police Officers for intentionally killing black youth began, there have been over 40 ambush-style police assassination throughout the nation, including the assassinations of 5 Police Officers in Dallas (after a BLM demonstration), 3 Police Officers in Baton Rouge (after a BLM demonstration), 2 Police Officers in Houston, 1 Police Officer in Milwaukee, 2 Police Officers in New York City, 1 Police Officer in Kansas City, etc.

Chaziel Sunz who left the BLM, posted the video in this paragraph, warning Black Lives Matter activists, to wake up to the fact that George Soros has taken over the movement. “What I’m trying to get the black population to understand, and this is critical……is the movement has been compromised… BLM is no longer an actual black organization… If you have any kind of brain you know BLM is controlled by the Soros and Clinton family.” (Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft, November 2, 2017)  https://youtu.be/TD3GjkikUyw >  

American voters should watch the below listed short video by Bill Whittle, in order to learn that Nazi Collaborator George Soros and the Ford Foundation, with the strong support of Obama, raised $130 million for the Black Lives Movement in order to promote and expand Black Lives Matter demonstrations.  Police Officers have never targeted black youth for killing; by watching the below listed video, you will understand who has been killing thousands of black youth each year.
https://youtu.be/fL9j_s_eLvU  

When Hillary Clinton graduated from college she went to work for the Black Panthers, and since then she has never been supportive of law enforcement.  Hillary Clinton has often called for the retraining of Police Officers.  “In 2018, there were approximately 7,400 black homicide victims, more than half of the nation's total number of homicides, out of a black population of 13% of blacks in the US.  Of that number, the police killed a little over 200 blacks, and nearly all of them had a weapon or violently resisted arrest.” (Larry Elder)   

Hillary never opposed BLM demonstrations with their threatening chants that are designed to instigate violence against Police Officers.  At the Minnesota State Fair BLM activists chanted “Pigs in a blanket!  Fry E’m like bacon!”  In New York after 2 Police Officers were assassinated demonstrators chanted “No justice, no peace!”  In Phoenix BLM demonstrators chanted to Police “We should shoot you!”  In Chicago BLM demonstrators chanted “No Racist police!”  There are many more chants threatening Police Officers. 

Every time a black youth is killed in a confrontation with Police Officers, even when the black youth is armed with a gun and is threatening a Police Officer, Hillary calls attention to what she terms another Police Officer shooting of a black youth, insinuating the Police Officer was solely responsible for killing the black youth who was innocent.    

Recent studies not only find no "systemic" abuse of black suspects by the cops, but if anything, cops are more hesitant, more reluctant, to use deadly force against a black suspect than against a white suspect. The Manhattan Institute's Heather MacDonald writes: "Regarding threats to blacks from the police: A police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer." (Larry Elder)   

Black Lives Matter demonstrations throughout the nation, have contributed significantly to the ambush-style shootings of Police Officers.  Those ambush-style shootings are planned and executed to blind side and kill unsuspecting Police Officers, have not only resulted in 40 assassinations of Police Officers, but have also resulted in the wounding of many other Police Officers.   

If there is systemic, structural, or institutional police brutality in the nation, then why, for eight years, didn't the left of center liberal media establishment ask the Obama administration to deal with the alleged "systemic" or "structural" or "institutional" police brutality against blacks while Obama was in office? 

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