Lowry Demands “Stop Lying About the Police”

Lowry Demands “Stop Lying About the Police”

Liberals have no problem lying  because they believe their lies are in the service of a BIGGER truth. It’s okay to lie about Tawana Brawley or the Duke University Lacrosse team or Michael Brown and so on because racism in America is real and rampant. But, of course, if it were real and rampant, they wouldn’t have to lie.   Here’s a great piece by Rich Lowry. Stop Lying About the Police By Rich Lowry – December 27, 2014 We have heard a lot lately about tensions between the police and the communities that they serve, and the urgent need to reduce them. Here’s an easy first step: Stop lying about the cops. The “national conversation” about race and policing we’ve been having ever since Michael Brown was shot by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo., last summer has been based on lies. The lie that Officer Wilson shot Brown while he had his hands up and was pleading “Don’t shoot.” The lie that New York City policemen targeted Eric Garner for a violent arrest because he was black. The lie, peddled especially by the progressive prince of New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio, that the police are racist. These are the lies that fuel hatred for the police, because if the police routinely execute black men in cold blood and serve a thoroughly racist system, they deserve to be hated. They should be the subject of nightly protests. They should be showered with obloquy. They should be harried by Attorney General Eric Holder. They should be considered a stain on the national conscience to be extricated at...