Actually … A Word from Tim Wise:

The killing of the two officers in NYC is a terrible, horrible crime. AND, here’s the thing: If you treat communities like you are an occupying army don’t be surprised when folks assume you have declared war on them. And then don’t be shocked when some decide to declare war back. Doesn’t make it right, but it’s damned sure predictable.

So long as the NYPD continues to excuse every act of violence done by their members, and so long as they act as though they are above criticism, the war will likely continue, which is tragic for everyone on all sides of it.

But unlike the cops, who can’t and won’t express real remorse for anyone they kill, we who protest them do express remorse for those officers who are killed. That’s the difference between us, and it matters.

And so long as black people are expected to express remorse for murdered officers who they did not personally kill, while officers are free to say they have no remorse for the black people they kill — and they would “do it again” — where supremacy remains in full effect.

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We the People of the United States of America unconditionally condemn the unjustifiable homicides of hundreds of thousands of Black men and women who never made it home to see their loved ones and did not live to finish raising their own families or to even see any children be born to go home to.

For that, there is no justification.

The people who have supported and respected the police who have murdered, even when their own and everyone else’s “safety” was not at risk, have had their senses and their sensibilities assaulted in plain view of the whole wide world. Those people also deserve our respect and gratitude.

They are the thankless “heroes” who have attempted to tell the world “all cops are not bad cops” and who have not been given just credit for the work they have done in attempting to move the conversation into the proper columns.

Today, we ask that the police officers, sheriff’s, judges and justices who have not come to the Peace Table with Truth in one hand and True Justice in the other hand “man up” this day, admit their wrongdoings and show and seek out their commitment to overhaul every police department in America so that no one else can dream up excuses for this one-sided lack of justice.

It has gone to such extremes as to cause senseless and needless violence and loss of life for no justifiable reason on ALL sides of the equation.

If #coplivesmatter, “#blacklivesmatter, too.