In the days and hours leading up to attack on police officers at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas Thursday that left five officers dead and six others wounded, calls for violence against police flooded social media. Following the attack, Black Lives Matter supporters took to Twitter to make clear that they would not stop their anti-police protests because, as one put it, “some cops died.”
Some activists blamed cops for the deaths of five of their own, saying this is “what happens when you ‘good’ cops sit idle as the KKKops kill us,” while a few even floated conspiracy theories that the shooters were actually cops. Still others found ways to blame Donald Trump and, of course, the Second Amendment. Some simply posted callous messages declaring they couldn’t feel sympathy for dead cops.
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