Celebrating Death & Enacting Violence Will Do Nothing to Stop Police Brutality, It Will Get Worse

By Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Dec. 22, 2014

Last week Americans witnessed the murder of two NYPD officers by a man claiming to be retaliating for the death of Eric Garner.

Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, 28, walked up behind two unsuspecting police officers, sitting in their patrol car and shot and killed them.

These apparently unprovoked attacks on individuals who were not directly involved in threatening the life of the shooter are a hindrance to the progression of liberty and police accountability.

Random acts of violence will only serve to undo what little progress those of us in the peaceful movement have accomplished and in fact will reverse it and prevent any future progress.

It is already happening.

#NYPD officer denounces his oath to "protect & serve" the citizens of #NYC. #NYPDShooting pic.twitter.com/FiwVY5uMQh
— Bipartisan Report (@Bipartisanism) December 21, 2014

Violently attacking the government creates victims out of the ones we are trying to expose as criminals.

Those who initiate and support such violence will be complicit in creating the hellish police state that will inevitably ensue as a consequence of their actions.

We can simply look back to 9-11 as an example of what is to come if this violence continues.

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