10 Takeaways from the Anti-Police Brutality Protests

Lessons from the intersection of cabin fever, Trump Derangement Syndrome, and the "cancel culture."

No. 10: CNN's Chris Cuomo believes people have a right to engage in violence. About the anti-police protests, some violent, CNN's Chris Cuomo said, "And, please, show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful." It's called the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble (emphasis added), and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

No. 9: Democratic politicians and the media focus like a laser on the rare occurrence of unarmed blacks shot and killed by white cops. When do the protests start over the approximately 2,600 blacks killed by blacks each year? And this is likely an understated number. About the FBI's annual crime data, U.S. News & World Report wrote in 2016: "The most detailed racial data have limits: They are confined to cases in which one person was killed and one person did the killing, eliminating about 17 percent of homicides. Also, police have to know and provide the backgrounds of not only the victims but the perpetrators, too — meaning that thousands of cases left unsolved and with no description of the person who committed the crimes are discounted. In total, about 61 percent of the 15,696 homicides committed in 2015 are excluded."

No. 8: According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2015, there were 53.5 million police/civilian contacts. Of those police/civilian interactions, over 10 million result in arrest and charges. Annually, between 50,000 and 60,000 officers are assaulted. Yet, despite all of these interactions — arrests, charges and officer assaults — "only" about 1,000 civilians are killed each year by the police. That is .002% of all of the police interactions.

No. 7: Where were the "defund the police/redirect the money" advocates during the eight years President Barack Obama was in office? The Rev. Al Sharpton visited the Obama White House 72 times in Obama's first six years, and Obama was close to the Congressional Black Caucus. What, the subject never came up? Did the "systemic, structural, institutional police oppression against blacks" take an eight-year holiday when Obama was president?

Read the rest from Larry Elder HERE.

If you like what you see, please "Like" us on Facebook either here or here. Please follow us on Twitter here.