SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2016

Blue Lives Matter Too, Mr. President

Investors Business Daily says a chilling new report finds the number of police officers murdered in the line of duty has doubled so far this year compared with the first quarter of last year. Yet the president remains silent about the spike in cop killings.

While that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given his disrespect for law enforcement, it is nonetheless wrong. Recall that Obama has loudly supported a black militant movement that has called for violence against cops.

These threats by Black Lives Matter have manifested in the shooting deaths of 16 officers through April 8 of this year vs. eight in the comparable period in 2015, which was already historically high, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, which maintains a database on police fatalities.

Recent deaths include:

Virginia State Trooper Chad Phillip Dermyer, a former U.S. Marine who last month was gunned down at point-blank range by 34-year-old James Brown III at a Greyhound bus station in Richmond, Va.

Allen Lee Jacobs, a Greenville, N.C., police officer and decorated U.S. Army veteran, who last month was shot multiple times by gang member Deontea Mackey.

Maj. Greg Barney of the Clayton County, Ga., police department, who in February was shot twice in the chest while serving a warrant on career criminal Jerand Ross.

Ashley Marie Guindon, a Prince William County, Va., Police Department officer who in February was shot and killed by 32-year-old Ronald Hamilton after responding to a domestic violence call.

Guindon had been sworn in the previous day and was working her first day on the street with her training officer. She was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.

So When a 28-year-old police officer was killed in Virginia, just miles from the White House, and another was targeted and killed in Richmond, the president was mute, apparently too busy talking with leaders of Black Lives Matter, who have had access to the Oval Office.

Obama embraces them even as they’ve led protestors in marches demonizing cops as “pigs” and calling for them to “fry” — a phrase they borrowed from the murderer who ambushed two NYPD cops in the name of Michael Brown.

Obama shamelessly echoes Blacks Lives Matter in jawboning cops as racist. His rhetoric has contributed to the atmosphere of hate.

Before any more cops are ambushed, we urge the president to for once defend them and demand a halt to the violence targeting them. Blue lives matter, too.

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