file photo by Boyd Loving
July 18,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
“Yes. There seems to be a lot of things fueling this but it is the constant misinformation that is reported by the mainstream media and the 24/7 liberal cable networks that stoke the fires with their political correct reporting, speculation on what happened and their team of has been FBI and political talking heads.” ex-Mayor Keith Killion,and Former Ridgewood Police Captain
Ridgewood NJ, in his comment Killion echoed a sentiment held by many law enforcement officials through out the country . In a recent opinion piece by Heather MacDonald ,”The war on cops: The big lie of the anti-cop left turns lethal”
MacDonald says that in the summer of 2014 a lie overtook significant parts of the country and grew into a kind of mass hysteria. That lie holds that the police pose a mortal threat to black Americans—indeed, that the police are the greatest threat facing black Americans today.
Several subsidiary untruths buttress that central myth: that the criminal-justice system is biased against blacks; that there is no such thing as a black underclass; and that crime rates are comparable between blacks and whites, so that disproportionate police action in minority neighborhoods cannot be explained without reference to racism.
The poisonous effect of these lies manifested itself in the cold-blooded assassination of two NYPD officers in December that year.
MacDonald goes on to assert that the highest reaches of American society promulgated those untruths and participated in the mass hysteria. President Barack Obama, speaking after a grand jury decided not to indict the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown, declared that blacks were right to believe that the criminal-justice system was often stacked against them. Obama repeated that message as he traveled around the country subsequently.
