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Thursday, May 7, 2015

Sharpton, de Blasio, Obama only love cops when convenient

Sharpton, de Blasio, Obama only love cops when convenient

If you are grateful for small things, it is a good sign that even constant critics of the police are denouncing the murder of NYPD cop Brian Moore. No less thanPresident ObamaMayor Bill de Blasio and Al Sharptonhave expressed outrage and offered condolences.
Their remarks are welcome, with Sharpton calling the murder an “unpardonable crime.” His comments reinforce the old-fashioned idea that attacking law enforcement is out of bounds, always and everywhere.
Unfortunately, however, the progressive ringleaders could also have a less noble motive for joining the common-sense chorus. Maybe they concluded that dead cops are bad for business.
In their day jobs, all three routinely make excuses for those who break the law and blast cops first and get the facts later. Each offered encouragement to the law-breaking rabble known as Occupy Wall Street and expressed varying degrees of support for anti-police protesters in New York, Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., even as they criticized arsonists and looters.
The effort to separate good protesters from bad rioters is doomed to fail because too many people in both groups are motivated by hatred for cops. Fanning that flame while expecting to control the damage is mission impossible, even for Sharpton and the skilled community organizers in the White House and City Hall.
Recall that some anti-police protesters in New York last December chanted, “What do we want? Dead cops” a week before Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were assassinated. Only then did de Blasio stop praising the protesters and letting them shut down highways and invade stores with impunity.
Obama, even as Baltimore still smoldered over the Freddie Gray case, sneered that incidents involving dead black men and cops were “not new, ” then, after Moore died, switched gears to say cops have “a tough job.” The American Civil Liberties Uniontweeted after charges were filed against six Baltimore cops that the “Black Spring has begun,” an awkward phrase given that three of the charged cops are  black.
The blurred lines are creating the odd situation where the same people who spark a national war on police call a timeout for grief when an actual cop is murdered. Suddenly, everyone, including the instigators, are full of praise for the dead hero.
Their words would be more meaningful if they showed support on a regular basis for the dangerous work cops do, not just when they get killed.
The progressives condemn stop-and-frisk and virtually eliminate it, then profess to be shocked when young thugs carry and use illegal guns. Trying to avoid blame, the progressives demand another round of social programs to keep troublemakers out of trouble.
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Officer Brian MoorePhoto: Reuters
The one thing they won’t support is the one thing that has been proven to work — aggressive policing.
That’s what Officer Moore and his partner, Erik Jensen, were doing last Saturday. In plainclothes and an unmarked car, the officers askedDemetrius Blackwell if he had “something in your waistband.” Blackwell, a career criminal, allegedly said yes, and suddenly fired three shots, one of which hit Moore in the face.
If Blackwell had peacefully surrendered the gun, which had been stolen, a different kind of hell might have broken loose. Thanks to the courts and de Blasio’s attacks on the NYPD, Moore and Jensen would have had to fill out reams of paperwork to justify why they stopped and questioned Blackwell.
Because he is black and the cops were white, they would have faced extra scrutiny from supervisors, department lawyers, the inspector general and a federal monitor appointed by anti-cop judge Shira Scheind­lin. At any step, one of these official second-guessers might have rebuked the cops for being too aggressive, and the Civilian Complaint Review Board might have called for punishment.
Imagine another potential scenario — that Blackwell missed with his shots, and the cops killed him in self-defense. In that case, the City Council might have called a hearing on police shootings, Sharpton might have led a demonstration, and Moore and Jensen might have been likened to the KKK, while Blackwell would have been portrayed on CNN as a troubled man trying to turn his life around.
Instead, the same crowd now comes to praise Moore only because his family is burying him.
Brian Moore was only 25. There can be no justice for him, and the only peace he will know is the peace of the grave. In death, he is called a hero by some of the same people who, while he was alive, saw him only as a villain.
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Demetrius Blackwell appears in court for his arraignment on May 3.
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For Clintons, raise the ‘Bhar’

Even the nation’s most celebrated prosecutor needs a new challenge now and then.Preet Bharara’s immense talents would be wasted if he spends the rest of his life busting the bums in Albany.
A modest proposal: He should take a very close look at the Clinton Foundation. It’s based in New York, and there’s so much smoke that somebody has to see if there’s fire. Nobody else can be trusted to be as thorough and honest as Bharara.
The calls for an investigation are mushrooming because of the obvious conflicts of interest involving Bill and Hillary Clinton and the ocean of cash washing through their pockets and the foundation. Sheer size and complexity are part of the issue, with the foundation taking in a reported $2 billion and spinning off numerous subsidiaries, with names like the Clinton Global Initiative, Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative and the No Ceilings Project.
Each raises and spends money, and some have not revealed their donors, as Hillary promised. The foundation’s announcement that it is refiling years of tax returns because of “typos” is a red flag, and Charity Navigator has put it on a “watch list.”
Other troubling signs are that many donations came from foreign governments while Hillary was secretary of state, and both Clintons got huge speaking fees from donors.
Bill’s speech fees soared while she was in office, and many of his funders lobbied her.
The Clinton claim that there is no evidence of wrongdoing can’t be taken seriously given their dishonest history, her use of a private server at State and confession to erasing 30,000 emails.
Maybe there’s no evidence because she deleted it.
They could be innocent, but nobody should take their word for it. It’s true only if Preet says so.

Crooks are in Dean-ial

The Republican plan to keep Dean Skelos as state Senate majority leader as he faces corruption charges is more proof that Albany is rotten to the core. His colleagues probably are afraid to abandon him, lest he spill the beans on them.
What a government.

Times is in la-la land

Under the headline “Escape from New York,” the Times’ Sunday Style section declared that New Yorkers are fleeing to newly hip Los Angeles.
The same day, the Review section had a story asking if the drought means “The End of California?”
Wake me when the Gray Lady makes up her mind.
http://nypost.com/2015/05/05/sharpton-de-blasio-and-obama-only-love-cops-when-convenient/

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