The police chief of New Hampshire’s biggest city, Chief Nick Willard, had some words for the Media and the White House on the rise in anti-law enforcement rhetoric that is leading to violence.
(NPR) “I often push back against the media and politicians portraying LE (law enforcement) as killers of young black men, as if we do so systematically, and even the administration in the White House seems to feed that narrative,” Willard said, in a letter to officers in his department reflecting on the shooting in Dallas in which five officers were killed.
“I’ve said such vitriol toward LE is going to bring the crazy out of people and place police officers lives in jeopardy, well, here are are.”
Chief Willard was being too kind. While there are crazy people, he knows as well as you and me (I hope) that this is a well-funded, organized, revolution with the full-throated support of the organizer in chief and his political party. They have been trying to light this fire for eight years. It appears they have finally succeeded.
Targeting police officers is just a phase in the escalation of violence. The violence is just a phase in the escalation to power.
