Friday, July 31, 2020

Sheriff Tells Library 'Please Do Not Feel The Need To Call 911' After They Promote Black Lives Matter - The Police Tribune

Sheriff Tells Library 'Please Do Not Feel The Need To Call 911' After They Promote Black Lives Matter - The Police Tribune
"Minden, NV – The sheriff of Douglas County told the local public library he hoped they didn’t “feel the need to call 911 for help” after the library director posted a proposed diversity statement to social media in support of Black Lives Matter.
The draft diversity statement posted to the Douglas County Public Library’s official Facebook page said in part that the library “denounces all acts of violence, racism, and disregard for human rights. We support #Black Lives Matter. We resolutely assert and believe that all forms of racism, hatred, inequality, and injustice don’t belong in our society,” the Reno Gazette Journal reported.
...Douglas County Sheriff Dan Coverley sent a scathing letter to the library’s board on Monday night and shared it on the sheriff department’s website.
...“At the same time, data simply does not support claims that law enforcement is systemically racist or structurally biased.
Despite the lack of available evidence to support the anti-police narrative, it proliferates and has spawned radical reactions such as the current calls to ‘defund the police,’ as well as increases in violence against police—ranging from assaults to assassinations.”
The letter went on to quote accurate statistics on police shootings of civilians and data on assaults and murders of police officers.
The sheriff pointed out in the letter that when local leaders don’t support their law enforcement departments, officers get killed...
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