In future presidential editorialization about the shooting deaths of police officers, perhaps the president himself might first offer a few \u201cwords matter\u201d gestures that would reassure law enforcement, to use another Obama phrase, that he \u201chas their back.\u201d Here are just three low-bar proposals for how to discourage those who glorify or advocate lethal violence against criminal-justice officers:<\/p>\n
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No longer invite into the White House any leaders whose affiliated members have marched chanting their desire to kill police officers (e.g., \u201cWhat do we want? Dead cops\u201d \/ \u201cPigs in a blanket; fry \u2019em like bacon\u201d).<\/p>\n
Do not consult with any self-appointed leader in the White House whose past has included overt and implicit calls to shoot police officers (e.g., Al Sharpton:\u00a0\u201cI believe in offing the pigs. Well, they got pigs out here. You ain\u2019t offed one of them. What I believe in, I do. Do what you believe in. Or shut up and admit you\u2019ve lost your courage and your guts to stand up\u201d).<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think that is too much to ask of the president of the United States \u2014 and perhaps such simple gestures might do a lot more for police reconciliation than the usual Obama summits and community \u201cdialogues.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Online In future presidential editorialization about the shooting deaths of police officers, perhaps the president himself might first offer a few \u201cwords matter\u201d gestures that would reassure law enforcement, to use another Obama phrase, that he \u201chas their back.\u201d Here are just three low-bar proposals for how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11,86,383,23,46],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2rq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9383,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/fundamentally-transformed\/","url_meta":{"origin":9388,"position":0},"title":"Fundamentally Transformed","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Have we reached a point of no return? 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