LOL! The whole story was made up. Fake News!
And “Not one thing” other than mentioning the surge in police shooting and the BLM movement in the same ******* sentence. Sure.
The rise in BLM DID contribute to the surge in police violence. See Micah Johnson in Dallas. It's increased since.
Obama DID sow the seeds of distrust towards law enforcement after both the Martin and Brown incidents.
BLM formed after this. BLM is on video, numerous times, advocating for violence against police. Michah Johson was BLM inspired. There have been numerous calls to label BLM a domestic terror organization due to their document violence and calls for violence.
To say these factors did not contribute to this rise in violence against police is to be willfully obtuse.
By the end of the year 2015, 86 police officers were killed in the line of duty. These deaths encompass all line-of-duty deaths including traffic accidents and rescue-related deaths. By the end of 2016, that number rose to 135 killed in the line-of-duty, an increase of 36% from 2015.
In 2015, 41 police officers were killed by criminal gunfire. In 2016, that number rose to 64 officers killed, a rise of 53%.
In 2015, eight police officers were killed in ambush-style attacks which accounted for just under 20% of police officer deaths that year. In 2016, the number of officers killed in ambush attacks was 21, a rise of 62% from the previous year.
Violence against police officers in Tennessee is on the rise, according to a new report by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. The Law Enforcement Officers Killed Assaulted (LEOKA) report found 2,313 victims last year, including one officer who was murdered. It's a 27 percent increase in just three years, TBI said.
I don't have more recent data, but it's not an argument that violence against police, including ambush attacks, is on the rise.
You can say I'm being racist by pointing out facts, but that would just make you a lemming Liberal to do so.
