Liberal media try to reignite the Black Lives Matter anti-police narrative
Zachary Faria
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It has been too long since liberal media has whipped up Black Lives Matter mobs to encourage hatred of police officers, so some have decided they should just try to fabricate a Black Lives Matter narrative where it doesn’t exist.
The case in question comes from Georgia. Last month, a man named Leonard Cure was pulled over for reckless driving. The traffic stop ended with Cure being shot by Sheriff’s Deputy Buck Aldridge. This made some waves because Cure had been released from prison three years ago after serving 16 years for a crime he didn’t commit.
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The Associated Press is now trying to breathe life back into this story by digging through Aldridge’s history. “It wasn’t the first time a traffic stop involving” Aldridge “spiraled into violence,” we are told, citing one incident he faced no disciplinary action for and another that resulted in him being fired by a police department in the same county as the one he serves now. In that case, “he threw a woman to the ground and handcuffed her during a traffic stop.”
The Associated Press then ran to the local NAACP chapter to inform us that “Critics question whether he should have been wearing a badge at all, given his history of aggression.” The implication is, of course, that Cure was only killed because the officer who pulled him over was aggressive.
But this is false because we have video of the entire incident. Aldridge informed Cure he was under arrest after allegedly topping 100 miles per hour in a 60 mph zone. Cure resisted arrest, and was tased after Aldridge warned him he would be tased. Cure then attacked Aldridge, who at first tried to use his baton before being forced to resort to using his firearm. Whether Aldridge should have been on the force or not, nothing in the video suggests he did anything that another officer would not have done during the duration of the stop. They are entirely separate issues.
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But, of course, the Associated Press has Cure covered here too. Cure only resisted arrest “because of psychological trauma” from his false imprisonment, which is supposed to explain and tacitly justify his attacking a police officer after being pulled over for reckless driving. Again, you can certainly make a case that Aldridge should never have been on the force. But, if another officer with a squeaky clean record had pulled over Cure, what would have changed? Based on the video, it appears the answer is nothing.
This is a fabricated case of police brutality where the officer used his words, taser, and baton before being forced to use deadly force to apprehend a suspect who was resisting arrest and then decided to attack the officer. It is an attempt to shift blame and shift the narrative to again make police the enemy. It is precisely the same narrative building that led to riots in Ferguson, Missouri, and Kenosha, Wisconsin, and it is being driven by the same media culprits.