Obama Defends Black Lives Matter While Attacking FBI Director For His Insolence


While Comey believes that the rise in crime is due to a “chill wind” that’s blown through American Law Enforcement, President Obama believes he’s pushing an agenda. That sounds a slightly backwards. Comey’s comments come from a series of listening sessions, whereas President Obama’s comments come from a series of lecturing sessions.

After Comey’s October 23rd remarks at the University of Chicago Law School, where Comey said, “I do have a strong sense that some part of the explanation is a chill wind that has blown through American law enforcement,” President Obama hit back with thinly veiled comments in a speech on October 27th to the International Association of Chiefs of Police: “What we can’t do is cherry-pick data or use anecdotal evidence to drive policy or to feed political agendas.”

The day before Obama’s speech, protestors had held a #StopTheCops protest outside the international Association of Chiefs of Police conference.

However, Comey’s discussions with police officials were not merely off-the-cuff chit-chat. In fact, the information Comey got from law enforcement officials came in a series of “listening sessions” focused on issues of race and law enforcement.

The same day that the President criticized Comey’s comments, the editorial board of the New York Times also went on the attack against Comey in an op-ed titled “Political Lies About Police Brutality,” where they accepted the premise that there’s a widespread issue of police brutality and went after Comey, saying:

His formulation implies that for the police to do their jobs, they need to have free rein to be abusive. It also implies that the public would be safer if Americans with cellphones never started circulating videos of officers battering suspects in the first place.

The next day, Eric Holder spoke with reporters and compared the Black Lives Matter movement to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and echoed the criticism of Comey, saying, “I don’t agree with the comments that he’s made about, or the connection he’s drawn, between the so-called ‘Ferguson effect’ and this rise in crime.”

The comparisons between Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s are completely off. In the 1960s, they truly were looking for equality and they did it through peaceful demonstrations. There wasn’t an open season on police officers or city-wide looting, or a president who encouraged that behavior. When will Americans open their eyes and see that this race war exists because liberals are fueling it? The Ferguson Effect is real. Law Enforcement is becoming ineffective because they’ve been labeled as villains.

Source: breitbart.com

 



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