Chiefs of Police are more often in political positions than the business of public safety, and this story comes from Los Angeles. Pandering to specific squeaky wheels is expected. Required.
[LAPD Chief Michel] Moore explained that a flag displayed in one station’s lobby spurred a complaint and he added, “It’s unfortunate that extremist groups have hijacked the use of the ‘Thin Blue Line flag’ to symbolize their undemocratic, racist, and bigoted views.”
Moore claims the American flag “should be proudly displayed in our lobbies whenever possible,” but when is that? The same groups consider it to be racist or supremacist. There’s no way to win this culture war if you give ground on everything from statues to flags to hats. At some point, you have conceded speech and thought because a few folks claim to be offended. And they know that.
Why don’t you?
Perhaps a training exercise is in order. We take Chief Moore’s letter and make a few amendments.
“Yesterday, we received a community complaint of the presence of a BLM Flag” with “the view that it symbolized support for violent extremist views, such as those represented by BLM, ANTIFA, and others.”
“I directed to have the item taken down from the public lobby. …
Moore explained that a flag displayed in one station’s lobby spurred a complaint and he added, “It’s unfortunate that extremist groups have hijacked the use of the ‘BLM Flag’ to symbolize their undemocratic, racist, and bigoted views.”
BLM’s 2020 summer of love resulted in tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. Minority businesses, jobs, livelihoods, and lives were lost across the country; mainly in Democrat-Run urban areas where rioters looted, burned, attacked, and occupied public buildings and even declared autonomous zones where rape and murder were not uncommon.
The #woke left response was to cut public safety budgets, a signal to many police veterans that it was time to get out of Dodge. The result has been exponential spikes in property and violent crime in minority areas of large cities. In other words, they created a vacuum with violence that continues to harm the people for whom they marched.
The only resource available is the police because only criminals have guns in most urban crime islands. And the game is fixed against them. Officers who, knowing the score, suit up and try to make a difference. Their reward is to have the symbol of that sacrifice banned, at least in Los Angeles.
The Police Union isn’t having any of it.
“It is difficult to express the level of utter disgust and disappointment with Chief Moore’s politically pandering directive to remove Thin Blue Line flags and memorials for fallen officers from all public areas within our police stations. This direction came as a result of complaints from anti-police, criminal apologists, and activists who hold too much sway over our city leaders and, unfortunately, our Chief,” the Board of directors for the Los Angeles Police Protective League wrote in a statement.
The union said they “vehemently” opposed “this disrespectful and defeatist kowtowing by our department leadership to groups that praise the killing of police officers and outright call for violence against those of us in uniform. We have directly expressed our outrage to the Chief.”
And if they ban the BLM flag?
HT | Gateway Pundit
