Police officer deaths deserve more coverage than the Black Lives Matter narrative
Zachary Faria
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After any incident in which a black man is killed by police, legacy media outlets will blow it up to fit the Black Lives Matter narrative, no matter how dubious the circumstances or how uncommon truly unjustified encounters are. Police officers get no such concern when these situations are reversed, however.
Multiple police officers have been shot in the line of duty already in 2023, and five have been killed. In Pennsylvania, Brackenridge Police Chief Justin McIntire was killed by a career criminal who was wanted for a weapons violation while on probation. In Riverside County, California, Deputy Darnell Calhoun was killed in an ambush after he responded to a call. This came just weeks after another Riverside County officer was killed on Dec. 29, when Deputy Isaiah Cordero was killed by a convicted felon during a traffic stop.
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Among the other three officers killed, all three were done in by criminals or men with violent histories. In Selma, California, officer Gonzalo Carrasco Jr. was ambushed and killed by a man who was released early from prison. In McKeesport, Pennsylvania, officer Sean Sluganski was killed and another officer was shot by a man who had threatened his mother (and others). And in Milwaukee, officer Peter Jerving was killed by a man who had been sentenced to probation the day before for two hit-and-run incidents.
Yet you hear no media squealing about national trends of violence, as accompanies any incident when a police officer kills a black man. The media will flock to tar any officer as racist, no matter the facts of the case. In both Columbus, Ohio, and Kenosha, Wisconsin, various media outlets portrayed police officers as villains despite the officers responding appropriately in both instances — all of this to continue peddling the narrative of the Black Lives Matter movement that black people were being hunted by police officers.
And yet, the percentage of unarmed black people killed by police over the last nine years is just 2%, according to the Washington Post’s police shooting database. There have been seven black men killed by police this year, according to the database. All seven were armed with either a gun or a knife. Seven unarmed black men were killed by police in all of 2022, with “unarmed” not necessarily accurately describing whether the men were threatening the lives of officers or not.
We are told this is a trend that is indicative of deep systemic racism in both America and in the profession of policing. What, then, is five police officers being killed in just six weeks of 2023, with four being killed by men with criminal records? If Black Lives Matter is propped up by the media when Jacob Blake turns a knife on officers in Kenosha, where is the media’s concern when police are being ambushed by criminals?
The Black Lives Matter narrative has been a fraud ever since Michael Brown was shot while attacking a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. The legacy media’s nonchalant attitude toward police officers being shot and killed only proves that shootings involving police only matter when they promote anti-police, anti-American narratives. The phrase “Blue Lives Matter” earns mockery from activists and pundits, but its use is far more justified than the Black Lives Matter movement.
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