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Two Iowa police officers were killed early Wednesday in a pair of ambush-style murders. Before the suspect was identified, some people rushed to social media to blame the Black Lives Matter movement. The accused killer turned out to be a Confederate-flag-waving supporter of Donald Trump, white man named Scott Michael Greene. Just a few weeks prior to the shooting, Greene had proudly placed a Trump placard in his front yard. A week before that, he was kicked out of a local high school football game for waving a Confederate flag in the face of black fans.
On Friday, two more police officers were shot outside of St. Louis, Mo. by a 52-year-old white man named Noel Kuebler, Jr. after an armed standoff at the mobile home park where he lived. Unlike the shooting in Iowa, both officers survived.
On Sunday evening in rural Georgia, it happened again. Another angry white man ambushed law enforcement officers. Ralph Elrod, seeing and hearing his black neighbors ride around on 4-wheelers, reportedly decided to leave the house and threaten to kill them. When the neighbors called authorities, Elrod fatally shot one deputy and seriously wounded another, officials said.
In a span of five days, three white men shot at least six different officers. Beyond their whiteness, each shooter has one clear thing in common—they are still alive. That’s wild to me because unarmed African-Americans are far too often shot and killed by police because those officers claimed they feared for their safety. But all three of these suspects are still alive to face charges despite having fired their weapons at police.
The majority of people who shoot and kill police in this country are white men. We’ve crossed the threshold where blaming Black Lives Matter or President Obama for the violence faced by police in this country is about as ridiculous as letting a pedophile host a sleepover with your teenage daughters.
In addition to these three horrific shootings, three different trials and court hearings are being held this week for white men who shot and killed unarmed, non-violent black folk in Ohio and South Carolina.
*read more here: KING: 3 white men shot 6 cops & 3 other white men are on trial
Looks like the White Lives Matter people missed these stories
Two Iowa police officers were killed early Wednesday in a pair of ambush-style murders. Before the suspect was identified, some people rushed to social media to blame the Black Lives Matter movement. The accused killer turned out to be a Confederate-flag-waving supporter of Donald Trump, white man named Scott Michael Greene. Just a few weeks prior to the shooting, Greene had proudly placed a Trump placard in his front yard. A week before that, he was kicked out of a local high school football game for waving a Confederate flag in the face of black fans.
On Friday, two more police officers were shot outside of St. Louis, Mo. by a 52-year-old white man named Noel Kuebler, Jr. after an armed standoff at the mobile home park where he lived. Unlike the shooting in Iowa, both officers survived.
On Sunday evening in rural Georgia, it happened again. Another angry white man ambushed law enforcement officers. Ralph Elrod, seeing and hearing his black neighbors ride around on 4-wheelers, reportedly decided to leave the house and threaten to kill them. When the neighbors called authorities, Elrod fatally shot one deputy and seriously wounded another, officials said.
In a span of five days, three white men shot at least six different officers. Beyond their whiteness, each shooter has one clear thing in common—they are still alive. That’s wild to me because unarmed African-Americans are far too often shot and killed by police because those officers claimed they feared for their safety. But all three of these suspects are still alive to face charges despite having fired their weapons at police.
The majority of people who shoot and kill police in this country are white men. We’ve crossed the threshold where blaming Black Lives Matter or President Obama for the violence faced by police in this country is about as ridiculous as letting a pedophile host a sleepover with your teenage daughters.
In addition to these three horrific shootings, three different trials and court hearings are being held this week for white men who shot and killed unarmed, non-violent black folk in Ohio and South Carolina.
*read more here: KING: 3 white men shot 6 cops & 3 other white men are on trial
Looks like the White Lives Matter people missed these stories