By John Annese and Leonard Greene
Top cop Bill Bratton touched a racial nerve Sunday, calling the Black
Lives Matter movement a “leaderless” crusade that could learn from the
NAACP and the civil rights campaign.
Just weeks after calling rappers thugs, the city’s police commissioner
made the condescending comparison between demonstrators who stood
shoulder to shoulder with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev.
Jesse Jackson and today’s anti-police protesters.
Bratton, in an interview with radio host Rita Cosby, took it even
further, saying Black Lives Matter protesters should stop “yelling and
screaming” at cops about police brutality because it “accomplishes
nothing.”
He said modern-day protesters have chosen whooping and hollering over
meaningful dialogue because “it makes for good TV.” Bratton also
launched into a history lesson about meaningful social protest.
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Source: The New York Daily News and the Empire Report
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