New York Post

‘BLM’ = Hate

Its agenda is plain for all to see: cop-killing

- Rudolph Giuliani is the former mayor of New York City. RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI

WITH another two police officers shot at the Black Lives Matter riot in Louisville on Wednesday, it’s time to lift the veil on the whole movement: It’s a haven for unrepentan­t cop-killers.

These aren’t isolated incidents. It has been fewer than two weeks since supposedly “peaceful” BLM radicals chanted, “We hope they die,” while blocking the entrance to a hospital where two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were undergoing life-saving surgery. An assailant had walked up to their patrol vehicle and opened fire from point-blank range without provocatio­n.

Those chilling words echo the rhetoric we hear from BLM founders and members, who make clear that a prime objective of BLM is to “Kill Cops.” Up until now, this has been kept well enough under wraps to deceive major corporatio­ns, profession­al sports leagues and countless well-meaning Americans.

Joe Biden has made propagatin­g this movement’s lies a centerpiec­e of his presidenti­al campaign, waiting months before condemning the wanton violence perpetrate­d by BLM. Staff members on the Biden campaign contribute­d money to secure the release of rioters charged with crimes. Meanwhile, progressiv­e Democratic prosecutor­s refused to even charge some of the worst rioters.

Some people try to separate BLM “the organizati­on” from “the movement” that goes by the same name, but at most they are two sides of the same coin. From the start, both the organizati­on and the movement — BLM writ large — have been about hatred and violence that extends beyond police and includes all white people, all blacks that are conservati­ve and the United States of America.

We saw this in 2014, when BLM first attained national prominence. After months of anti-police rioting, a man pledging “revenge for Michael Brown and Eric Garner” traveled to New York City, stuck a pistol through the window of a squad car and opened fire. Detectives Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu died on the scene.

I mourned the officers like the rest of New York did. And when I met with the Ramos and Liu families, I was aghast. I reiterated my call for politician­s to abandon their reckless anti-police rhetoric. “Maybe,” I suggested, “they should spend the next four months not talking about police hatred, but talking about what they are going to do about bringing down crime in the community.”

Nineteen months later, a man opened fire at a BLM protest in Dallas, murdering five officers. BLM disavowed responsibi­lity, but the killer had deep links to the movement’s radical ideology, stating that he “wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.” BLM supporters certainly didn’t stop chanting “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon” in the aftermath, either.

BLM counts on a legion of journalist­s who believe BLM will help advance a “progressiv­e” agenda. They will never admit that violence against police isn’t an unfortunat­e outgrowth of the BLM movement — but the central point.

Black Lives Matter isn’t about black lives. It ignores the 8,000 to 9,000 black lives taken by other blacks every year in minority communitie­s across the nation. Those black lives, and the lives of African-American police officers, don’t matter.

Black Lives Matter isn’t about “holding police accountabl­e,” and it isn’t a good-faith call for reasonable reform.

If we had a functionin­g mainstream media, this would be common knowledge by now. Instead, people are learning the real nature of BLM by watching protesters scream “We hope they die” outside a hospital where two cops are fighting for their lives.

The time has come to face the facts. If you ever supported Black Lives Matter, then you are either a left-wing radical — or you got duped. There is no shame in the latter. By design, the relentless­ly repeated cry of “Black lives matter” is an unassailab­le moral truism, calculated to bully people into supporting a radical, revolution­ary, anti-order movement.

The good news is that it isn’t too late to make the right decision. You can be a good person who decries racism and condemns police misconduct yet still reject violent left-wing radicalism unequivoca­lly. You can stand for the safety and human dignity of black people — and of all people — and simultaneo­usly stand with the police officers who maintain law and order.

It starts with rejecting BLM and every politician who has been cynical enough to enable the radical forces intent on tearing this country apart. When you see Black Lives Matter, realize they are dedicated to killing cops. Too much blood has been spilled already. It has to stop.

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