WARREN AMBITION CUFFS COPS
Shameless bid for votes makes all police a target
If she weren’t so ruthlessly ambitious you could almost muster a sympathetic wince for Liz Warren’s misfortune to have six Philadelphia cops shot a day before full-page newspaper ads from the Massachusetts Coalition of Police appeared, blasting her anticop “pandering,” calling it “appalling,” charging it’s getting “officers and citizens hurt and killed.”
Politically, it was bad timing, nothing more, because personally it’s obvious our senator’s insatiable lust for power knows no bounds and takes no prisoners.
Bashing cops? It plays well to some demographics. It’s indecent but effective. So, charging our criminal justice system is “racist, front to back,” and claiming Michael Brown “was murdered by a white police officer,” igniting a riot in Ferguson, Missouri, was good stuff in Warren’s campaign playbook, guaranteed to win the huzzahs of nitwits who hate cops, unless of course they need one.
Cops just can’t win; they have to die to be seen as the good guys.
Boston had a terrific cop named Wayne Anderson who, off duty, confronted a young driver barreling the wrong way down the Dorchester street where he lived. That driver then shot him to death.
“So we’re at his service,” his friend and partner, Bobby Luongo, later recalled. “It was beautiful, but different from what a lot of us were used to, like people shouting ‘Amen!’ The minister talked about how Wayne didn’t want to hurt this kid and how he acted professionally.
“Then he said, ‘But if Wayne had shot first, all we would have heard about was police brutality.’ Now the whole front row of cops is going, ‘Amen!’ Me, too.”
Cops are just punching bags for cheap-shot artists like Warren.
A few days before Christmas 2014, two New York cops were randomly assassinated as they sat in their cruiser.
When Mayor Bill de Blasio piously arrived to attend the first funeral, many cops on the sidewalk turned their backs to him, a mute but powerful response to his notorious anti-cop rhetoric.
Wouldn’t it be great if one of his Democratic primary opponents asked Hizzoner whether he would give American’s youth the same advice he boasted of giving his son Dante, then 17, warning him to be leery of police because he was of mixed heritage.
In other words, cops would view him as expendable.
Yet those assassinated cops were of Asian and Hispanic heritage.
So there was Dante’s dad, crying crocodile tears from the pulpit, telling the family of Officer Rafael Ramos, “We have lost such a good man.”
De Blasio and Warren? They’re free to be phonies.
But president? Please.