The Fraternal Order of Police, the country’s largest group of sworn law-enforcement officers, is asking the Justice Department to “immediately” investigate the killing of five Dallas police officers as a hate crime.
“The U.S. Department of Justice is always quick to insert itself into local investigations,” group President Chuck Canterbury said Friday. “Today we expect action just as swift. We want a federal investigation into those who were motivated by their hatred of police to commit mass murder in Dallas.”
Police say the shooter in Thursday’s attack, Micah Johnson, a 25-year-old black Army veteran, was angry about two recent incidents in which a police officer fatally shot a black male.
And Dallas Police Chief David Brown said Johnson, killed by officers in a standoff, “wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.”
However, the Justice Department’s definition of a hate crime is limited to bigotry, violence or intimidation based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation or disability, despite the police group trying to get attacks on police officers addded to the list.
“If there has ever been an assassination of police officers that fits the current hate crime legislation, Dallas is it,” Canterbury told National Public Radio on Friday. “Though the main offender is dead, the hate crime investigation will show to the Justice Department and to the country that this was a hate-based crime.”
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My apologies to the people in Minneapolis and Baton Rouge. I was basing that thought on information from a MM email. I stand corrected. I'm in total agreement with you, however.
Mrspaul-In fairness to the folks in Minneapolis and Baton Rouge, I wouldn't classify them necessarily as criminals. The investigation rolls along. But it clearly appears that if LGBT, Islam, or certain ethnic groups are involved, conclusions are immediately drawn. On the other hand, a group beats up a Marine in a restaurant, jumps some old guy on a train in St. Louis, walks up and shoots a cop in NYC, and other incidents where the perpetrators are of some "oppressed" part of society, a pass is given. This dipshit in Dallas told the cops he wanted to "kill white people, especially cops". The jackass in Orlando said he was "killing in the name of ISIS". I say to the Feds, just fucking believe what the assholes say. One is a hate crime. The other is clearly an Islamic terrorist attack. Quit dancing around like normal people such as us believe otherwise if you avoid the topic.
It is rather sickening, isn't it LPD256? They will investigate the deaths of the two criminals, but certainly not the deaths and attack of innocent Law Enforcement Officers. This is a fucked up travesty...
Watching Sunday morning TV right now and the commentator asked Jeh Johnson whether this massacre was being investigated as a hate crime. His response was two minutes of BS rather than "yes". So disingenuous. Of course, the DOJ is sending a team to Minneapolis and Baton Rouge.