Dick Clarke wept:
Leaders of a group organizing demonstrations to protest the lack of an indictment in the choking death of Eric Garner snapped the olive branch Mayor Bill de Blasio had offered at a press conference in City Hall Plaza Tuesday afternoon.
Anybody who's surprised by this, stand on your head.
In his first comments in the wake of the murder Saturday of two police officers in Bedford-Stuyvesant, de Blasio pleaded Monday with activists to suspend their protests against police brutality until the two slain officers — Wenjian Liu, 32, and Rafael Morales, 40 — could be given a proper burial.
“This is a time for every New Yorker to think about these families. Focus on these families. Put them first,” he said. “We can do that by respecting their pain, respecting their time of mourning. I'm asking everyone — and this is across the spectrum — to put aside protests, put aside demonstrations. Until these funerals are past, let's focus just on these families, and what they have lost. I think that's the right way to try and build towards a more unified and decent city.”
"....and then you can all go back to killing more cops." Or so the unspoken portion of the Sandanista mayor's comments went. I guarantee you that's what the insurrectionists heard.
In a steady rain beneath overcast skies, protest organizers from Stop Mass Incarceration Network, an organization dedicated to wholesale reform of what they call racist policing practices, delivered an unequivocal rejection of de Blasio’s proposal.
Because they know he didn't mean it, and is only issuing this plaintive appeal to try and save his own political ass.
“There’s been no moratorium on the police killing our people,” said Travis Morales, head of the network’s New York chapter. “The police haven’t put aside murdering our people with impunity. We can’t back down.”
Of course, Eric Garner wasn't "murdered". And there's nothing divisive or racist about Mr. Morales' use of the phrase, "our people," now is there? Which entitles them to murder policeman with impunity. Just ask Judge Johnson.
Carl Dix, a co-founder of the organization along with professor and [extrem]ist Cornel West, said the mayor and police commissioner are trying to conflate cop-killer Ismaayil Brinsley with the efforts of protesters exercising their constitutional rights and trying to bring an end to police brutality.
“Our message has nothing to do with violence,” he said. “This is not a slap in the face of the grieving members of the killed officers. Ours is a message to stop police brutality.”
Please, Mr. Dix. Violence has EVERYTHING to do with your message. Otherwise your movement wouldn't be using inflammatory rhetoric like, "The police haven't put aside murdering our people with impunity." What (besides "Allah and his prophet") do you think motivated Ismaayil Abdullah Brinsley to go all "Allahu Akbar" on Officers Wen and Morales in the first place?
SMIN hasn't said exactly how they're going to disrupt "New Year's Rockin' Eve" - blowing up the ball as it descends, causing mass white casualties in Times Square? Pity Dick Clarke died two years ago, or they could have kidnapped and murdered him to "make a statement".
All I can say is, I'm glad Super Bowl XLVIII was last year. Otherwise, Peyton Manning might already be "retired".
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