New York's hate machine

Michael Goodwin:

’Tis the season of magic, so let’s play pretend. Let’s make believe that only an itsy-bitsy handful of those anti-police protesters disrupting the city are hell-bent on mayhem.

To get there, you have to ignore the hundreds if not thousands in Manhattan caught on tape chanting,“What do we want?” and answering: “Dead cops.” They must have been in some other city.

You have to overlook those “shoot back” chants as well. As for that nut from CUNY caught trying to throw a garbage can onto the Brooklyn Bridge roadway and punching a cop — blame your lying eyes!

And pretend you didn’t see those “peaceful” protesters who were taped helping him escape, and kicked one cop when he was on the ground. Hey, the camera lies, too!

Now that we’re in full fiction mode, let’s pick up the rabble’s battle cry that the police are an occupying army of racist white brutes and that the five officers assaulted had it coming. Let’s ignore reality to pretend Mayor Bill de Blasio is on solid ground when he stokes the flames by saying police are a threat to his biracial son.

To believe that, you now have to erase two sets of facts. One, the fact that violent crime in New York is overwhelmingly the province of nonwhite males, both as victims and perpetrators. Two, you have to disregard that police shot at only 40 suspects last year, reaching, like crime, a historic low.
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It’s only by peeling back the layers of pretend that we get to the naked truth: The whole narrative of widespread police brutality is a big fat lie.

It’s a lie that turns truth on its head, meaning the movement the mayor praises as “organic” and says is raising legitimate concerns is a scam foisted on the public for the sole purpose of advancing a far-left political agenda.
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Like the campus rape hoax, the police brutality meme is also an untrue meme supported by teh liberal agenda.  It is left wing politics at its worse.  It is why liberals should never be elected to responsible positions.  They cannot be trusted to tell the truth about events.