Tough Times to Be A Cop

New York City, December 2014. Two police officers, one Asian the other Hispanic are killed in an ambush while seated in their cruiser. They likely never saw it coming. The killer, a black man, with a long crime rap-sheet that included robbery and the illegal carrying of a concealed gun, ran off and then killed himself as other officers closed in.

Al Sharpton was silent.

New York, May 2015. A plain-clothes police officer was shot in the head and later died of his injuries. The killer, a black man who likely stole the handgun he used was arrested as he tried to mix into the crowd of crime scene on-lookers. The killer had already spent eight years in prison for shooting at the individual he had just robbed. He has five prior arrests by the NYPD, on charges of criminal possession of a weapon, robbery, grand larceny and assault — twice — between 1999 and 2013.

Al Sharpton was silent.

Hattiesburg, Mississippi, May 2015. Two police officers, one white and one black are shot and killed. The killers, both black men and a black woman, fled in the police cruiser that they stole at the scene before abandoning it. One of the men faces two counts of capital murder, along with counts of grand theft auto and felon in possession of a firearm, while the other faces accessory after the fact charges.

So far, Al Sharpton has remained silent.

Sharpton injects himself into incendiary social issues—well just those that get him the exposure he wants. These would be the ones where he can promote his view of white supremacy and whites forcibly keeping the blacks down. Never mind the FACT that the Michael Brown case was found to be as the white police officer described. There was no “hands up, don’t shoot” moment. Proven. But Al Sharpton doesn’t let pesky facts get in the way of his agenda.

But when we have three high-profile cases of black men shooting and killing police officers of several races, nothing but crickets chirping from the Sharpton camp.

You do the math.