Police Union Leader Blasts Obama And Clinton For Vitriolic Cop-Bashing | Eastern North Carolina Now

    "General Peteraeus showed his girl friend secret documents he's charged; Hillary shows her girl friends [government secrets] and nothing has happened yet." - Luis Luna, Liberty Alliance.

    The nation's largest police union is currently launching a campaign called "Our True Heroes." The campaign will feature a website especially suitable for journalists to read positive stories of police officers instead of the hostile press releases of politicians seeking reelection on the backs of police and military professionals.

    During National Law Enforcement Week - May 15-21, 2016 - National Fraternal Order of Police President Chuck Canterbury had some choice words for President Barack Obama on what it means to be a police officer. During his administration, Obama and his minions were accused repeatedly of taking cheap shots against cops that may have increased the number of officers killed or wounded.


President Barack Obama and Chuck Canterbury, National President, Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) walk through a police honor guard cordon during the National Peace Officers Memorial Service, an annual ceremony honoring law enforcement who were killed in the line of duty in the previous year, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. May 15, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

    Canterbury told Daily Caller that police officers's trust of politicians and their own management are at its lowest level in decades. He echoed the fears of law enforcement officers of all ranks: that they'll become a scapegoat if something goes awry.

    For example, the five-time reelected FOP chief said Obama blames police officers and emphasizes de-escalation due to a lack of understanding of what it's like to be a cop.

    "All we're hearing from the Obama administration is de-escalate," Canterbury told The Daily Caller. "That's coming from somebody who has never been on the ground getting the crap beat out of them."

    For years, the Left - including Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and others - has smeared law enforcement officers as racists by claiming that black and other minority crime suspects are more likely to be shot by police. To hear them tell it, police cruise around looking for minority kids to gun down for sport, according to a well-known black sheriff who has been angry with the treatment of law enforcement by the likes of leftist.

    Milwaukee County (Wisconsin) Sheriff David Clarke reminds whomever is willing to listen that presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is a racist trying to use blacks to glide her into the White House. The main thrust of her black-vote getting is her vilifying police officers, especially white cops.

    But now science has shown this leftist narrative to be a lie. A study was conducted at Washington State University using active duty police and highly realistic simulators that mimic dangerous scenarios officers encounter in the line of duty. The result? Police are significantly less likely to mistakenly shoot minority suspects, and took significantly longer to fire at armed black suspects than armed white suspects.

    "While I'm happy to see my fellow law enforcement officers vindicated against this persistent liberal smear, there's also something very troubling about the results of this study. There are only two factors an officer should take into account when deciding whether to use their weapon against an armed suspect: his or her own safety and the safety of nearby civilians," said Sheriff Clarke.

    But the results of this study suggest that many officers' judgment in critical moments is affected by concerns of political correctness. In a life or death situation, law enforcement officers shouldn't have to second-guess themselves because of worries about how their actions will be judged after the fact by liberals looking to further a "cops are racists" narrative.

    This past Sunday was the 25th annual Law Enforcement Memorial Day, honoring officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty. The results of this study show another way cops are more at risk because of liberal anti-cop smears