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Ex-Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey predicts violence at political conventions this summer


In this March 23, 2015, file photo, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia. Ramsey announced his retirement Wednesday Oct. 14, 2015 at a news conference as the administration that brought him to Philadelphia comes ... more >

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times - Sunday, July 10, 2016

The “very volatile” state of race relations in America today is likely to lead to violence at the Republican and Democratic conventions this summer, Philadelphia’s former police chief predicted Sunday morning.

Charles H. Ramsey, who retired last year after heading Philadelphia’s police department for eight years, told NBC News Sunday that he believes heated rhetoric will lead to violence when both major political parties convene their conventions this month.

“We are sitting on a powder keg,” Mr. Ramsey, who also headed President Obama’s task force on 21st-century policing, told “Meet the Press.”

“Obviously when you look at what’s going on, we are at a very, very critical point in the history of this country,” he said. “I think you have two conventions coming up that are going to be very, very challenging to handle, and I don’t think they’re going to go without some incident taking place.

It’s unfortunate, but that’s what I personally think. I hope that’s not the case, but you’ve got too many people now that are with this extreme rhetoric and that is just not good for anybody.”

Mr. Ramsey also served as police chief in Washington, D.C., from 1998 to 2007.

Republicans will gather next week in Cleveland, and Democrats will meet the following week in Philadelphia.

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Rudy Giuliani: Black Lives Matter is ‘racist’ and ‘un-American’


Lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani comments on a lawsuit filed against video game giant Activision by former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega outside Los Angeles Superior court in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Noriega claims his ... more >

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times - Sunday, July 10, 2016

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani on Sunday called the Black Lives Matter movement “racist” and “un-American” and said African-American parents should teach their children not to be fearful of police but of other blacks “who are going to kill them.”

Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” the Republican slammed Black Lives Matter activists and said focusing only on the deaths of black men at the hands of police is wrong.

“If you want to deal with this on the black side, you need to teach your children to be respectful of police, and you need to teach your children that the real danger to them is not the police. The real danger to them, 99 times out of 100, 999 times out of 1,000, are other black kids who are going to kill them. That’s the way they’re going to die,” Mr. Giuliani said.

His comments come after a tumultuous week in which black men died at the hands of police in Louisiana and Minnesota. And on Thursday night, five Dallas police officers were killed and others wounded at a Black Lives Matter demonstration by a shooter who explicitly said he wanted to kill white officers.

Mr. Giuliani stated in no uncertain terms that he believes the Black Lives Matter movement is promoting racism and violence.

“When you say ‘black lives matter,’ that’s inherently racist,” he said. “Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That’s anti-American and it’s racist.”

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Police kill more whites than blacks, but minority deaths generate more outrage

The liberal funded groups are already on craigslist hiring anarchists and the left is pumping up the money to pay for the buses. They may need to just borrow a couple of the Israeli skunk weapons.