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Detroit Police Chief Offended By ‘Pigs In A Blanket — Fry ‘Em Like Bacon!’ Chant
DETROIT [[WWJ) – “Pigs in a blanket — fry ’em like bacon!”
Detroit Police Chief James Craig is among those outraged over that controversial chant during a “Black Lives Matter” rally outside the Minnesota State Fair over the weekend.
“I’m a police officer, and yes, I’m offended,” the chief told WWJ’s Vickie Thomas and other reporters on Tuesday. “Highly offended; I’ve been in this business 38 years. I am a cop….But we’re not gonna shirk our responsibility to providing the type of police services that we do.”
Craig was asked if there are fears police officers are being targeted.
“No doubt!” Craig said. “I have always realized throughout my career that the possibility of being a target is reality
Craig said it’s time to stand up and say enough is enough.
Protesters involved in the rally said the chant was not meant to advocate violence against law enforcement.
Detroit Police Chief James Craig speaks to reporters on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015
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"Scapegoating the police and white America for antisocial ghetto behavior"
Wall Street journal: Jason L. Riley. Sept. 8, 2015
" The reality is that Michael Brown is dead because he robbed a convenience store, assaulted a uniformed officer and then made a move for the officer’s gun. The reality is that a cop is six times more likely to be killed by someone black than the reverse. The reality is that the Michael Browns are a much bigger threat to black lives than are the police. “Every year, the casualty count of black-on-black crime is twice that of the death toll of 9/11,” wrote former New York City police detective Edward Conlon in a Journal essay on Saturday. “I don’t understand how a movement called ‘Black Lives Matter’ can ignore the leading cause of death among young black men in the U.S., which is homicide by their peers.”
" Asked recently about the increase in violent crime, New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton said what precious few public officials and commentators have been willing to say. He stated the obvious. “We have, unfortunately, a very large population of many young people who have grown up in an environment in which the . . . traditional norms and values are not there,” Mr. Bratton told MSNBC. The commissioner added that Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s 1965 report warning that the disintegration of the black family could lead to other social ills had proved prescient. “He was right on the money,” Mr. Bratton said, “the disintegration of family, the disintegration of values. There is something going on in our society and our inner cities.”