Democrats Put Police in the Crosshairs

The latest assasination of uniformed officers in blue at the hands of a radicalized murderer may finally have woken-up Democrats to the lethal potency of their noxious race baiting.

Three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were killed Sunday and at least three others were wounded during an attack that officials think was conducted by lone gunmen Gavin Eugene Long. The attack comes just ten days after the tragic massacre of five police officers in Dallas, Texas that Democrats responded to by perpetuating the myth of endemic racism in the ranks of the police.

“People think that these events are somehow isolated and random acts by individuals who have their share of issues – and they’d be mistaken.”

“We haven’t even had a chance to give our fallen officers in Dallas a proper send-off, and have not had a chance to even digest what happened, and here we are again,” NYPD police officer Paul Grattan, Jr. told LifeZette Sunday. “It’s incredibly sad.”

The Dallas shooting marked the deadliest attack on police officers in the United States since the events of Sept. 11, 2001. In the ten days since cops are been targeted in shootings at least an additional five times.

Escalating animosity directed against police and stoked by liberal politicians and agitators in the “Black Lives Matter” movement has created a lethal situation for cops in America and driven their morale to a dangerous low.

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“The morale on the street with cops here is frankly very, very low — our law enforcement personnel feel incredibly beaten down, and it only gets worse after an event like this,” Grattan said. “People think that these events are somehow isolated and random acts by individuals who have their share of issues – and they’d be mistaken.”

Following the massacre of police in Dallas, President Obama chose to lecture white America on discrimination and imply that somehow the shooting was the result of legitimate problems with racism, rather than the anarchist, senseless, hate-driven murder that it was.

“And while some suffer far more under racism’s burden, some feel to a far greater extent discrimination’s sting. Although most of us do our best to guard against it and teach our children better, none of us is entirely innocent,” Obama said at a memorial service for the fallen Dallas officers, “No institution is entirely immune. And that includes our police departments. We know this.”

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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton also used the opportunity to stoke racial tensions — presumably for her own political benefit.

“White Americans need to do a better job of listening when African Americans talk about the seen and unseen barriers you face every day,” Clinton said in an interview with CNN after the Dallas shooting. “We do need police and criminal justice reforms, to save lives and make sure all Americans are treated as equal in rights and dignity.”

But after the Baton Rouge shooting, Obama seemed to recognize that stronger condemnation was needed in what could almost be read as an admission of his failure to more vocally condemn the massacre in Dallas or speak out on the subsequent copy cat attacks on police.

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“I condemn, in the strongest sense of the word, the attack on law enforcement in Baton Rouge.,” Obama said in a statement Sunday. “For the second time in two weeks, police officers who put their lives on the line for ours every day were doing their job when they were killed in a cowardly and reprehensible assault. These are attacks on public servants, on the rule of law, and on civilized society, and they have to stop.”

The stronger condemnation and lack of focus on pushing a political agenda of gun control may be a signal of backtracking on the president’s part even though the statement did not even acknowledge the increasing scope of the problem, since it omitted reference to the several cop-targeted attacks in between the Dallas and Baton Rouge shooting.

The official response for Hillary Clinton similarly left out the racial undertones present in her reaction to Dallas and her enthusiastic cheering for more gun control.

“Today’s devastating assault on police officers in Baton Rouge is an assault on all of us. There is no justification for violence, for hate, for attacks on men and women who put their lives on the line every day in service of our families and communities,” Clinton’s statement on Baton Rouge said.

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Law enforcement advocates said political leaders need to wake up.

“I am sick and tired of leaders standing around yelling at each other and not doing anything. Our leaders in America have got to start prioritizing law enforcement safety and respect, and it is now time for our leaders to stand up, speak out and get involved in a positive way to support law enforcement,” Toni Brinker Pickens, founder of Operation Blue Shield in Dallas, Texas told LifeZette. “We need to turn mistrust to trust immediately. We are at a pivotal point and leaders don’t seem to realize it. We cannot possibly accomplish this without leaders who have the inner strength to say ‘Stop. We are all Americans and we need to do this now.’”

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East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux condemned anti-cop rhetoric and the liberal attempt to turn every shooting into an opportunity to push for greater gun control.

“To me, this is not so much about gun control as it is about what’s in men’s hearts,” Gautreaux said during a press conference Sunday. “And until we come together as a nation, as a people, to heal as a people, if we don’t do that and this madness continues, we will surely perish as a people.”

The rising police death toll and the spread of violence across the country, directed at cops, and in America’s inner-cities where demoralized police are laying-low, may finally have given pause to leading Democrats partly to blame for the spiraling situation.

It remains unclear whether the tragedies in Dallas, Baton Rouge and smaller incidents in-between will be enough to force Democrats to pull back their dangerous rhetoric. It may only be enough to give them pause for a day before they’re back on television bashing cops, lecturing white America and howling for more gun control.

LifeZette Senior Writer Deirdre Reilly contributed to this report.