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CHIMO

(9,223 posts)
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 07:35 PM Jan 2015

How Cops and GOP Are Teaming Up to Undermine the BlackLivesMatter Movement

Nearly 700 cops from around the country and Canada descended on New York City for the December 27 funeral of the murdered officer Rafael Ramos, taking advantage of an offer from Jet Blue of free flights to the memorial. Among those represented at the ceremony were members of the Albuquerque Police Department, a scandal-stained force with the highest rate of shootings of unarmed civilians in the country.

As soon as de Blasio appeared on a large screen monitor positioned outside the church where the funeral took place, cops who may never have heard the mayor’s name responded to the cue to turn their backs. “100% including Volunteer FD guys from Long Island and Cops from everywhere from Canadian Mounties to San Diego and San Francisco, and everywhere in between [turned their backs],” recalled Thee Rant member Thisroundsonme. “Even civilians in the rear behind the detail turned their backs as word spread as to what was going on.”
http://www.truthdig.com/report/page4/how_cops_gop_are_teaming_up_undermine_blacklivesmatter_movement_20141230

Seems like killing a Polish traveler in BC is not the only thing our new Force is up to!

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How Cops and GOP Are Teaming Up to Undermine the BlackLivesMatter Movement (Original Post) CHIMO Jan 2015 OP
Will this issue be the spark that starts something nobody can finish? Hope not randys1 Jan 2015 #1
Despicable behavior if true that RCMP officers joined the NYPD members and turned... Spazito Jan 2015 #2
Still waiting for the "good" Cops to speak up. Downwinder Jan 2015 #3
only 700? hopemountain Jan 2015 #4

Spazito

(54,357 posts)
2. Despicable behavior if true that RCMP officers joined the NYPD members and turned...
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 07:47 PM
Jan 2015

their backs. They spit on the families of the slain officers as did those NYPD officers. Disgusting.

hopemountain

(3,919 posts)
4. only 700?
Wed Jan 7, 2015, 12:14 AM
Jan 2015

according to main stream media sources it was "thousands upon thousands" of cops from all around the country and some from other parts of the world.

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