Via
RawStory
“Cops across this country are feeling the assault,” Cruz said Tuesday after a presidential campaign event in Milford, New Hampshire.
“They’re feeling the assault from the president,” the senator continued. “From the top on down, as we see—whether it’s in Ferguson or Baltimore—the response of senior officials of the president, of the attorney general, is to vilify law enforcement. That is fundamentally wrong, and it is endangering the safety and security of us all.”
Except that President Obama hasn't done anything like vilify police when he issued this
statement on the shooting of Deputy Goforth.
“Targeting police officers is completely unacceptable—an affront to civilized society,” Obama said. “We’ve got to be able to put ourselves in the shoes of the wife who won’t rest until the police officer she married walks through the door at the end of his shift.”
This is really just part of a larger attempt to discredit and vilify the efforts of Black Lives Matter to implement police reform. Particularly coming from Fox News, which has declared that BLM is a "
Murder, Movement," "
Hate Group" and "
criminal organization".
“This group with the Black Lives Matters are a bunch of anarchists, the same faces that popped up in Ferguson—the same garbage cans,” said frequent Fox News guest Bo Dietl during an appearance Monday on Sean Hannity’s program. “Now you’ve got another corpse. What about the young deputy who got shot in the head?”
Today's count, according to The Guardian, of those
killed by police in the United States so far this year: 784.
Video from Young Turks over the flip.