Cruz defends cops against Obama and Black Lives Matter

September 2, 2015

Ted Cruz has come out in defense of the police, this week in interviews, saying that law enforcement is under attack, due partly to the hostile treatment of the police by the Obama administration.

When questioned about the murder of Texas Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth, who was shot 15 times at close range at a suburban Houston gas station Friday night, Cruz came out defending the police in the current hostile climate.

“Cops across this country are feeling the assault. They’re feeling the assault from the president, from the top on down as we see,” Cruz said Monday in New Hampshire. “Whether it’s in Ferguson or Baltimore, the response of senior officials of the President, of the Attorney General, is to vilify law enforcement. That is fundamentally wrong, and it is endangering the safety and security of us all.”

Cruz hit out at Obama for staying silent on Goforth’s murder calling it “completely wrong” and is a “manifestation of the divisiveness, the partisanship and of the hostility to law enforcement that has characterized the entire Obama administration.”

Cruz took the opportunity to assert that President Obama has “inflamed racial tensions” in the wake of events including protests that turned violent in Baltimore and the killing of seven people at a historically black church in Charleston, S.C., in June.

On WBAP, Cruz was asked about Black Lives Matter and how marchers in St. Paul, Minn., were captured on video yelling “pigs in a blanket.”

“Much of this is the fruit of the divisiveness and vilification of law enforcement that we’ve seen throughout the Obama administration,” Cruz said. He noted that crime rates are spiking in major cities and said it is a direct effect of law enforcement pulling back after being criticized.

Source: Washington Post

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