‘Sea of Blue’ marchers turn out in Washington to support police

[alp227]

Source: Washington Post

Demonstrators carrying signs saying “Blue Lives Matter” marched to the U.S. Capitol on Saturday in a show of support for police officers across the country who organizers say are not thanked enough for the danger they face in the line of duty.

“They feel unsupported,” said Kelly Wince, 52, a District police officer’s wife who organized the march with two other officers’ wives. “When they walk out the door, we don’t know whether they are coming home. We wanted to let them know we care.”

The D.C. march comes weeks after several other “Sea of Blue” rallies were staged across the country as a counter to months of demonstrations against alleged police brutality. Those protests followed the fatal shooting in August of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo., and a grand jury’s decision not to indict a New York police officer in the July chokehold death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man whom police suspected of illegally selling single cigarettes on the street. (A New York medical examiner determined Garner’s death to be a homicide.)

More concern followed the November police shooting in Cleveland of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who had a toy gun in a park.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/sea-of-blue-marchers-come-out-to-support-police/2015/01/17/144cb3f8-9e82-11e4-96cc-e858eba91ced_story.html

[leveymg]

1. "Support swelled as more than 300 people dressed in blue marched through the streets of the city"

"more than 300," according to the WaPo - isn't that the same as less than 400?

[lark]

25. So, is this bout support police or about supporting police killing minorities?

I'd bet at least partially it was the later. When police stop murdering with impunity, people will trust them more. Right now, they're the last people I'd call, afraid they'd shoot me instead.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

27. This is clearly about supporting the police NO MATTER who they execute or why...

We have such big problems, I can see why some of my friends never watch the news.

[lark]

28. Yep, authority is ALWAYS right

bow down and worship.

[leveymg]

29. Harder to separate the two at this point.

While most Americans still compartmentalize, the truth becomes more difficult to deny. That's the only upside of this.

[olegramps]

30. Damn meager showing if you ask me.

Just another example of the MSM propaganda crap. The MSM newspapers aren't even worthy of lining bird cages.

[Chakab]

2. “They feel unsupported”

Funny. It seems to me that they have plenty of support from local prosecutors who literally let them get a way with murder on a regular basis.

[Taitertots]

3. 300? How do you find out about this stuff in advance? I could probably get 300 people....

to show up with hilarious sarcastic signs that expose the insanity of the police protesting in favor of murdering innocent unarmed people.

[frylock]

4. 300+ people wearing blue is more of a pond than a sea imho

[99th_Monkey]

5. Poor 'unappreciated' babies. Awww.

So how about you stop murdering unarmed citizens?

Is that so much to ask?

It would appear that it is.

[blkmusclmachine]

6. Whatever

[99th_Monkey]

7. I trust that the DC Police maced, assaulted & arrested "demonstrators" as usual

Oh wait.

Never mind.

[7962]

9. HAAAAAAA!

[brooklynite]

12. Unless you have evidence that they didn't get a permit in advance, the comparison doesn't work...

...actually it doesn't work anyway. Outside of Ferguson, how many protestors have been assaulted in the past few months?

[99th_Monkey]

17. In the past few months?

Nice one.

[BlueJazz]

8. I remember once when I was Forced to be a trapeze artist. I used to feel so unappreciated

...every time I slipped or fell into the net. Then there was the time when I was forced to change the bulbs on those high TV towers.

[NYC Liberal]

10. Being a cop happens to be a very safe job, statistically.

And cops get plenty of support.

[jtuck004]

11. "“When they walk out the door, we don’t know..." > Many black families say the same thing. n/t

[peacebird]

20. ^^^this!^^^

[peace13]

13. Note the lack of armed police lining the demonstration.

Not a single tear gas canister thrown. No horses trampling the ladies. Hmmm.

[brooklynite]

14. I saw a police brutality protest last week in Lower Manhattan...no difference.

[peace13]

15. Love to see a photo of that.

Pretty certain that they at least sent a photographer to record it. Just say in'.

[marmar]

16. Sounds more like a 'Puddle of Blue'

[SwankyXomb]

24. Isn't that what they leave on the ground

right before they start shooting people?

[lark]

26. Good one

[SunSeeker]

18. Oy. People protesting police brutality does not mean people do not appreciate the police.

Even in New York, voters approve 71 - 25 percent of the job police in their community are doing. This even though they don't approve of that idiot Lynch's antics, think police discipline has broken down and disapprove (69 - 27 percent!) of police officers turning their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio at funerals for two police officers, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released 1/15/15:

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/new-york-city/release-detail?ReleaseID=2124

[blackspade]

19. Fuck these assholes

As if there were not enough authoritarian badge sniffers out there.....

They feel 'unsupported?' Perhaps it's because they kill and abuse instead of serve and protect.

[ChosenUnWisely]

21. The DC Police marched more hookers over the 14th Street Bridge then attendees at this event!

For those who don't read the news or remember the story......

http://www.powerreporting.com/files/prostitutes_bridge.txt

[heaven05]

22. their lives won't matter

until THEY feel all lives matter. Period. "They feel unsupported"??????? That 'sea of blue' is polluted.

[notadmblnd]

23. Wow! A whole 300?

Not exactly the "sea of blue" they were hoping for. Perhaps if they actually upheld the laws of the land instead of committing crimes against those they have sworn to protect and serve, they would have the support they feel is lacking.

Poor babies. I guess they've forgotten that they chose to become LEOs. Howeve, I'm fairly certain they are not held in servitude and are free to seek employment elsewhere.

[TheKentuckian]

32. THIS IS SPARTA!!!

[Ramses]

31. 300..lol

I'll bet most of them were the wives and girlfriends of the cops. Probably some off duty out of area cops too.
Tens of thousands protest every day throughout America and not a peep by the corporate controlled media. Same thing with Occupy.