So I see that has-beens Rudy Giuliani and former New York Governor George Pataki have joined New York Patrolman's Benevolent Association head Patrick Lynch and the rest of the hate-filled chorus of blind police supporters in blaming the stop-killing-unarmed-black-people wing of humanity for the horrifying murders of two NYPD officers on Saturday.
I'm looking at you too, Police Commissioner Bratton, who claims the killing of the two officers was a "spinoff of the issues of these protests."
I am so furious, I can barely spit these words out through my keyboard.
My first thought to Giuliani and the rest of the crew is: how motherfuckin' DARE YOU.
First of all, why is Giuliani even being given a platform to continue to decades-long campaign of terror against supporters of New York's minority communities?
As mayor of New York, Giuliani proved himself a ghoulish leader, repeatedly feasting on the blood innocent black and Latino men shot by the NYPD during his tenure. While many may remember the shocking case of Amadou Diallo, the black man gunned down outside his home in a 41-shot fusillade, fewer will remember the case of Patrick Dorismond.
Just weeks after an out-of-city jury had acquitted the four officers involved in Diallo's, another undercover NYPD cop accosted Dorismond as he was on his way home from work one night. Assuming, based on nothing presumably other than Dorismond's skin color, that he might be a drug dealer, the cop tried repeatedly to force Dorismond to sell him drugs. Weary from this pest's relentless efforts, Dorismond physically fought off cop. The cop, using the by-now familiar refrain of I-was-in-fear-for-my-life, pulled his gun out and smoked the guy.
Particularly in that it was coming right on the heels of the unsatisfactory closing of the Diallo incident, this latest incident threatened to unleash a blowtorch of righteous anger among the city's besieged minority communities. So how did Giuliani handle this most delicate crisis? He dug up and unsealed Dorismond's sealed juvenile arrest record, waving it before reporters at a press conference and informing the assembled audience that Dorismond was "no altar boy," a pathetic and disgusting attempt to besmirch the image of the victim as if to imply that his death was not so much of loss and that he probably deserved to be killed anyway.
I'm struggling at this moment to maintain consciousness against the suffocating effects of rage as I recall the various ways in which Giuliani's behavior offended the sensibilities of anyone born human.
First, unsealing a sealed court record without a court order -- which is what Giuliani did -- is ILLEGAL.
Second, Dorismond was 26 years old at the time of his death. Citing his juvenile arrest record -- meaning the most recent item in the record was at least 8 years old -- shed no light on what kind of person Dorismond was at the time of his death.
Third, it is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT what kind of person Dorismond was at the time of his death. He was not involved in any criminal activity at the time he was accosted by the cops.
Fourth, Giuliani justified his actions by asserting that Dorismond's right to privacy was terminated with his death.
Fifth, Dorismond actually had been an altar boy. In fact, he had been an altar boy at the very same Catholic school that Giuliani himself had attended.
Sixth, it is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT whether Dorismond had been an altar boy. He was doing nothing wrong at the time he was accosted by the cops.
All of this followed Giuliani's stellar performance following the Diallo shooting, in which he mocked the pain of protesters calling for the arrest of the officers involved, and complained that they were just "piling on" to make him look bad.
It is nothing short of heart-rending to see that Giuliani's deeply exaggerated reputation as a great crime fighter misleads news organizations to invite him to offer his ignorant, racist "thoughts" on recent events. As far as this news consumer is concerned, he has nothing of value to say on this matter, and shame on news organizations that allow themselves to be used as instruments of his transparent and harmful efforts to shore up his legacy as the White Knight that slayed the black dragons of New York city.
I just can't with this soulless, blood-sucking hyena. I can't.
As for the protests, it goes without saying that none of the allegedly violent anti-cop commentary attributed to the protest movement has actually been put forth by said movement. I'm fine with Mayor Di Blasio's call for a moratorium while the officers' families bury their loved-ones. But the protests will not, should not, be deterred. The message stays the same -- that people of color deserve to be treated the same way as anyone else by the justice system -- and will continue to be delivered, until it falls on the ears of justice-minded people of authority coast to coast.
