THE THIN BLUE LINE
The total number of law enforcement officers shot and killed this year is up 19 percent over last year. More officers have died in ambush incidents this year than in any other since 2000. There is a literal war on cops that has escalated tragically this year.
The Lakewood, Wash., massacre on Thanksgiving weekend took the lives of four police officers getting ready for work by Maurice Clemmons. Clemmons told his friends and family to “watch TV” because he was going to “kill a bunch of cops.” Several people have been arrested for aiding and abetting Clemmons with shelter, food, and medical aid before he was shot while threatening a police officer investigating Clemmons’ stolen vehicle.
I served as a police officer for 22 years. I came through the days of Angela Davis and Huey Newton of the Black Nationalist party who wanted to overthrow the government by force.
A hip-hop punk band glorified the assassination by wearing a T-shirt showing Monfort’s face covered with blood and overlaid with a Seattle Police Department badge that said Deliver Us from Evil
Glorification of cop-killers has risen to an astonishing level from all corners of our society, even, President Obama’s Harvard professor friend Henry Louis Gates when arrested told us the police acted inappropriately before he knew the circumstances show’s the bias toward our police officers.
These man and women put their lives on the line everyday to protect our society. They deserve our respect and trust and our support.