A White Terrorist Gunned Down A Cop And The #BlueLivesMatter Crowd Revealed Its True Colors

[LiberalArkie]

By Julia Craven

On the afternoon of Nov. 28, officer Garrett Swasey responded to reports of an active shooter at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic. Alleged gunman Robert Lewis Dear had reportedly taken hostages, and Swasey was called to help figure out how to defuse the situation.

Dear didn't plan on going quietly, however, and in an exchange of gunfire with police, Swasey was killed in the line of duty -- one of three people who died during the incident.

Swasey's death was tragic, cruel and senseless. Swasey was doing his job, trying to protect the lives of those in the clinic. It's the kind of heroism that should be commended by everyone, and particularly supporters of the law enforcement community who have rallied around the slogan “Blue Lives Matter.”

The phrase, co-opted from the Black Lives Matter movement, claims to reflect the sacrifices police officers make on a daily basis. But in the wake of Swasey's death, the Blue Lives Matter crowd had little to say.

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[randys1]

1. It says police are being assassinated, NO, they are NOT.

Black people , on the other hand.

[LiberalArkie]

2. I was going to say something snarky and deleted it. I think today is a manic day for me.

I have to watch myself as they slip up on me.

[HereSince1628]

3. I'm struggling to understand how a terrorist killing can be senseless

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This phrase has been very popular of late, but an act of terror is intended to intimidate and cause behavioral and even political change.

It seems to me that murders can't be labelled acts of terrorism unless there is an acceptance that the motive of the killer was that intimidation/attempt to change behavior in others.

Ineffective, counter-productive etc are among terms that could modify a terrorist killing, but not senseless.

Granted people who don't share the terrorists motives don't see the 'sense of it' as valid. But, that's not the same as being senseless. If police are to ever put together a matrix that can be used to identify risky people who may perpetrate terrorist acts they will need to incorporate why it makes sense to the terrorists.

[leveymg]

4. It's really simple: the terrorist is them. So the shooter is not.

Blue Lives matter and similar authoritarians are paralyzed by their own Identity Politics cognitive dissonance. They look in the mirror and see him.

[HughBeaumont]

5. #bluelivesmatteronlywhenblackpeopletakethem ?

Even on FB, where this whole #bluelivesmatter thing started, there's not even nearly as much hem and haw as there was even when the police TOOK PoC lives. I remember when Tamir Rice and John Crawford died at the hands of police for merely holding pellet guns and people were calling for investigations . . . #bluelivesmatter sprung up EVERYWHERE and no police officer even died.

An evangelical end times white guy nutter ends an officer's life . . . . crickets.