Yesterday in Dallas, Texas, Micah Johnson–and perhaps several others–opened fire on police during a Black Lives Matter demonstration. Five officers were killed and seven were wounded. Two bystanders were also hit. Johnson told a police negotiator during a standoff that he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers, because he was angry about police killings of blacks. Johnson, who was later blown up by a police robot bomb, fought in Afghanistan but “went all Black Panther” when he returned to the United States.
Johnson said he acted alone but a group called the Black Power Political Organization claimed it was behind the police killings and promised “more will be assassinated in the coming days!” Some blacks in Dallas celebrated with they heard that police had been killed.
These murders were entirely predictable. They are the logical–even inevitable–result of hatred for the police whipped up by black activists and encouraged by politicians and the media. These killings will not be the last.
Nor were they the first. In December 2014 BLM demonstrators marched through Manhattan shouting: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.” Exactly one week later a black named Ismaaiyl Brinsley ambushed two police officers in a patrol car in Brooklyn, shooting them both in the head. In an Internet posting that day he said he wanted to kill police as vengeance for the deaths of blacks. A local man who walked up to the crime scene later said that “a lot of people were clapping and laughing,” saying “serves them right.” ...
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