OPINION:
With the executions of New York Police Department Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos on Dec. 20, America must examine what has occurred post-Ferguson and post-Staten Island. Black leaders, including President Obama, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and the race hustler, the Rev. Al Sharpton, practice outcome-based justice: predetermining guilt without any evidentiary basis in fact, as illustrated by the reactions they fomented in the Brown-Wilson and Garner-Staten Island cases.
Pathologically anti-cop, the left has racially exploited these two cases nationally for political and ideological advantage. The same media that fictionalized former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s culpability in the 2011 Tucson shootings can’t find the nexus of Mr. Obama, Mr. Holder and Mr. Sharpton in this one.
Will we now see factually challenged basketball star LeBron James wearing a T-shirt honoring murdered Officers Liu and Ramos? Will we see St. Louis Rams players with their hands raised in support of these slaughtered men? Should we expect nationwide protests of their killings, protests that stop traffic and disrupt commerce in malls?
We have on our hands a modern-day lynch mob that uses media and microphones rather than rope and torches, a social justice charlatan with a bullhorn and sharkskin suit rather than a hood. The new mob takes everything but your life. Just ask ex-Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson.
The “thin blue line” separating societal order from chaos is now razor-thin, with the nation’s men and women in blue forced to balance on the line’s edge.
STEVEN DONNELLY
Cowansville, Pennsylvania
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