NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton Blasts Black Lives Matter with Comparisons to Civil Rights Movement of Past

 

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