by Terrance Heath
December 23, 2014
On June 8, 2014, white, anti-government, tea party supporters shot and killed two Las Vegas police officers. Conservative media was conspicuously silent.
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Never mind that President Obama called for anyone who protests these shootings and grand jury decisions to “do so peacefully.” Never mind that the president has said that there’s “no excuse” for violence. The irony of a black president is that his most innocuous utterances that America still has racial problems are interpreted by conservatives as radical and “anti-white. ”Never mind that a majority of cop killers have been white. Conservatives blame police killings of, and violence against blacks, on black lawlessness run amok. Never mind that the #BlackLivesMatter movement has condemned the murders of officers Liu and Ramos. Conservatives blame the movement collectively for the murder of officers Liu and Ramos.
This conservative penchant for collective blaming was absent on June 8, when Jerad and Amanda Miller — both white — shot and killed Las Vegas police officers Igor Soldo and Alyn Beck, as they had lunch at a strip mall. The couple dragged the officers’ bodies from their booth, draped Beck’s body with the yellow “Gasden flag” popular with the tea party movement, and pinned a note to Soldo’s body reading “This is the beginning of the revolution.” ...
Reports surfaced of Jerad Miller’s anti-government posts to Facebook, and Alex Jones “Infowars” message board — including a post titled, “The Police (to kill or not to kill).” The Millers camped out at Cliven Bundy’s ranch, where Bundy’s “militia” pointed guns at sheriff’s deputy’s and threatened to kill federal officers. Jerad Miller was even interviewed at the ranch, before being booted for his “radical” views.
Conservatives were less than outraged. Instead of blaming Cliven Bundy, Alex Jones, or the tea party movement, they tried to paint the Millers as radical leftists. Conservative media refused to call the Las Vegas shooting terrorism.
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