"The Untold Story Behind New York’s Most Brutal Cop Killings"
Legendary figure Robert Daley, far left, is now 94. When the black liberation army began slaughtering policemen in 1971, then-mayor John V. Lindsay, the new york press, and the nycpd sought to cover up the national conspiracy behind the assassinations. Daley, possibly the last honest nycpd propaganda chief, went public. According to Bryan Burrough, author of
Days of Rage, the assassinations were justified, because of:
1. pervasive police brutality by White cops against black men;
2. White cops' penchant for murdering innocent black civilians; and
3. The black liberation army acted based on 1 & 2.
So, I can simply ignore Burroughs, who provides no support for his claims, right? Isn't the saying, "Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus" in effect?
Well, no. I have stacks of books, some of which (e.g., on race and on Hollywood) are nothing but lies. But then I own books that are false in part. As my chief of research argued, a few years ago, being a purist, "You won't be able to use anything."
During the 1960s and '70s, the ultra-violence of black supremacists was not at all in response to murderous, White cops. If anything, the opposite was the case.
I happen to have bought Burrough's magnum opus about ten years ago. I had only skimmed it, when my CofR "requisitioned" it. The parts I read treated of White, leftwing radicals (e.g., the weather underground) who, during the 1970s, set off thousands of bombs.
Now I see that Burrough was a longtime operative at vanity fair, the same joint whose editor Graydon Carter and operative, William Cohan, sought to revive the Duke rape hoax. So, caveat emptor.
"The Untold Story Behind New York’s Most Brutal Cop Killings"
By BRYAN BURROUGH
April 21, 2015
Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and the author of six books. This article has been adapted from his recent book, DAYS OF RAGE, which published April 7, and reprinted by arrangement of Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Random House, Inc. Copyright (c) 2015 by Bryan Burrough.
A fter the social upheavals of the 1960s failed to trigger the vast systemic changes many protesters sought, the early 1970s saw a number of militant groups form secret underground cells that pledged to use violence in an attempt to fight for civil rights, end the Vietnam War and, in the minds of the hard core, trigger a violent revolution in the streets of America.
While groups like the Weather Underground, the Black Liberation Army and the Symbionese Liberation Army were vehemently anti-war, their core motivation was rallying the black community toward open revolt. It was a time when police brutality was rampant—far worse than today, by most measures—and white police officers rarely were prosecuted when they killed black civilians. The underground groups of the ‘70s thus made police their first and most frequent targets. The Weather Underground did so with bombs, until one went off accidentally, killing three of its members, leading the group to disavow murderous violence.
But it was the Black Liberation Army, known as the BLA and a violent offshoot of the Black Panther Party, that posed the greatest threat to police. Loosely led by the Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, then in exile in Algeria, the group emerged in May 1971 with a pair of attacks on New York policemen that left two cops dead; there were later ambush attacks on police in San Francisco and Atlanta as well. The BLA’s most notorious attack, however, came in 1972, when it carried out perhaps the most gruesome assassination of police officers in the history of New York, killing two patrolmen, Greg Foster and Rocco Laurie, on an East Village sidewalk. Officially the killings remain unsolved. This is the untold story behind them.
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/the-untold-story-behind-new-yorks-most-brutal-cop-killing-117207/
2 comments:
bla...bpp...blm--what's the difference? Can't think of anything between 'em.
--GRA
To credit blacks as having any goal in their violent crimes against Whites and White cops is quite a theory. They may have talked themselves into thinking that falsehood,but I doubt it--liars are liars and blacks are the biggest liars on the planet. The goal was to kill--period--in a semi-organized way.
--GRA
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