The movement - Black Lives Matter movement - has four basic objectives with respect to diminishing law enforcement.
1) They want to disenfranchise the law enforcement from the community.
2) They want to defund law enforcement.
3) They want to diminish their involvement in the community and their stature, and
4) they want to basically dissolve law enforcement.
And the reason is because police officers are protectors of the rule of the law, and the Black Lives Matter movement is a black nationalist revolutionary Marxist movement that is tied into a much larger international movement referred to as One World One Struggle.
The most telling things are the research we do where we pulled up the actual videos of the founders of the movement going out and giving speeches and talks to various community groups.
The Black Lives Matter movement has done everything consistent with having a war on police. The rhetoric is violent. You know, the most recent killings - the killer stated that part of the reason that he was inflamed enough to kill the police officers was because of the rhetoric from the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Black Lives Matter movement is based on a lie, and not just the lie that a pacific Michael Brown was gunned down in cold blood by Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson in August 2014.
The idea that the U.S. is experiencing an epidemic of racially driven police shootings is also false, and dangerously so. Several studies released this year comparing rates of crimes and police encounters with whites and blacks show that police officers are far more likely to shoot whites than blacks. If this is systemic racism, it's certainly not against blacks.
Police critics have never answered the question of what they think non-biased policing data should look like, in light of the vast differences in rates of criminal offending between whites and blacks.
You would never know it from the activists, but police shootings are responsible for a lower percentage of black homicide deaths than white and Hispanic homicide deaths. Twelve percent of all whites and Hispanics who die of homicide are killed by police officers, compared to 4 percent of black homicide victims.
In Chicago in 2016, 2,870 people, mostly black, were shot. If you believed the Black Lives Matter narrative, you would assume that the assailants of those black victims were in large part cops. In fact, the police shot 17 people, most of whom were threatening lethal force, accounting for 0.6 percent of the total. That's most certainly not the "systemic problem" we were led to believe by BLM.
Ron Martinelli is a former police officer, a police detective. He served some 25 years in the San Jose Police Department. He now testifies as an expert witness on police procedure in cases around the country. He was kind enough to join us via Skype from Mexico. Mr. Martinelli, thank you so much for speaking with us.
