On Thursday night, snipers gunned down 11 officers, killing five, while they were working a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas. According to the Dallas police chief, one suspect told a hostile negotiator that he “wanted to kill white people” because he was angry about police shootings and the Black Lives Matter movement. The chief emphasized that the suspect acted alone and was not affiliated with any movement, including Black Lives Matter.
Even so, right-wing commentators and media organizations are seizing on the tragedy to revive a baseless narrative that the racial justice movement is promoting a “war on cops.”...
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/07/08/3796587/dallas-shooting-sparks-war-on-cops-debate/
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