‘Huge a**hole': People are mad at Jets coach Rex Ryan for wearing a #NYPD hat

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39. Those players were black and that hit home. That coach isn't a cop and he's white.

And to project any kind of "equivalence" on the two scenarios is lame in the extreme.

"I can't breathe" was the final phrase of a man who was POWERLESS against the ALL-POWERFUL, CONTROLLING guys in blue with guns.

#NYPD is a statement of alliance with the all-powerful guys who choked the breath out of the powerless guy selling loosies.

If the coach wanted to make a statement of support for the fallen NYPD officers, he should do a PSA commercial advocating for better mental health screening and taking guns off the street, so crazy people won't shoot Hispanic and Asian cops in their patrol cars.

The way this bullshit is being framed, it's all about finding a way to BLAME black people who have a problem with the way that the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases were (mis)managed, versus "RAH RAH NYPD, and it's all the fault of those demonstrating (rioting--yeah, that's better) black people that those two officers are dead. They "incited" that lunatic who shot those guys. Blame THEM. Oh--and that MAYOR with his interracial family? He sucks, TOO! How dare he take 'their' side in all this!!!" for those who don't read.

BLAME is being placed, here. Anyone who can support a NYPD that turns their BACKS on the damn mayor at a MEMORIAL SERVICE needs to step back and take a reality pill.

Anyone who cannot see the power differential here does not want to see it.

The NBA did not fine any of the players who wore the shirts--but they TALKED about it. A LOT. Before they magnanimously decided to let it go /snark. Because, you know, uppity and all that stuff.

No one said a word about fining this tone-deaf fire-starting coach.

So what's up with that?