{"id":1531653,"date":"2022-06-28T18:20:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T22:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531653"},"modified":"2022-06-28T18:20:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T22:20:04","slug":"black-lives-matter-supporter-says-activist-attacks-on-police-are-just-not-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-supporter-says-activist-attacks-on-police-are-just-not-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter Supporter Says Activist Attacks on Police Are \u2018Just Not Happening\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblack-lives-matter-supporter-says-activist-attacks-on-police-are-just-not-happening%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531653&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Protesters injured more than 2,000 officers in summer 2020 alone<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tBlack Lives Matter riots in Atlanta in July 2020 \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/elizabeth-troutman\/\" title=\"Posts by Elizabeth Troutman\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Elizabeth Troutman<\/a> \u2022 June 28, 2022 6:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>An anti-police activist said at a Tuesday <em>Washington Post<\/em> forum that activist attacks on police &#8220;literally&#8221; are &#8220;not happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m always interested when the police are, like, I don&#8217;t know, nervous about stuff,&#8221; Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PostLive\/status\/1541783540945256449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> at the forum, because &#8220;the community is not\u2014we&#8217;re not attacking the police. That literally is just not happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Protesters, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/this-week-in-leftist-violence-and-intimidation-vol-9\/\">many<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/this-week-in-leftist-violence-and-intimidation-vol-3\/\">with<\/a> ties to the BLM movement, injured more than 2,000 police officers in summer 2020 alone, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/summer-protests-led-to-violence-across-the-country-top-cop-group-says\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mckesson&#8217;s claim about attacks on police is not the only false assertion he made at the forum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number-one killer of the police is COVID today, and that&#8217;s because they are anti-vaxxers,&#8221; Mckesson\u00a0said, &#8220;and then the second is suicide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, firearm fatalities were the second-highest on-duty cause of death for law enforcement in 2021, a 36 percent jump from 2020, the<em>\u00a0Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/killings-of-cops-spiked-in-2021\/\">reported<\/a>\u00a0in January.<\/p>\n<p>Mckesson&#8217;s\u00a0claims are only the latest debunked <em>Post<\/em> narratives regarding law enforcement. The <em>Post<\/em> in May falsely <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/washington-post-rewrites-history-of-george-floyds-death\/\">said<\/a>\u00a0that George Floyd, who died when a police officer kneeled on his neck, was shot to death in police custody.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Protesters injured more than 2,000 officers in summer 2020 alone  Black Lives Matter riots in Atlanta in July 2020 \/ Getty Images  Elizabeth Troutman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":835,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}