http://www.nationalreview.com/node/437610/print The War on Cops Comes to Dallas
By Andrew C. McCarthy — July 8, 2016
We have not yet learned the identity of the militant radicals who, in a patently coordinated attack targeting Dallas police, have killed five cops and wounded at least six others. I am thus sympathetic to the cautions against jumping to conclusions – to the notion that the Black Lives Matter protest that was the setting for the attack was hijacked by, as opposed to an abettor of, the militants.
That said, President Obama has wasted no time politicizing the attack. From Poland this morning, he punctuated his remarks praising the heroism and sacrifice of police, with the familiar demagoguery: We all need to be concerned about “racial disparity in the justice system” (as if there were no drastic racial disparities in offense behavior, and therefore that the police discriminate against African-Americans in enforcing the laws); and of course, “When people are armed with powerful weapons, it makes attacks more deadly and more tragic” (as if the real problem here is guns rather than radical ideology).
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