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I don’t see Dunphy’s point. He plainly concedes that the police stop was less than “professional” and that the behavior of at least half the officers involved was “inappropriate”. Does Dunphy really expect Al Sharpton to ignore the event?

Al Sharpton is a respected community activist. A champion of black folk and a darling of the mainstream media. Sharpton’s narrative, like Jeremiah Wright’s is that nearly ten years into the Twenty-first century America is a hotbed of racial tension and anti-negro violence. Cops stomping black suspects gives Reverend Al an opportunity he doesn’t deserve.

Al has no trouble getting up a crowd with nothing better to do than carry signs and holler. And as his role in the Tawana Brawley case and the crown Heights riots demonstrate, Al needs no evidence to cry discrimination. Al Sharpton like Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan is a talented provocateur and thug who has made a fortune from race baiting.

That’s why it is doubly infuriating when white cops take to stomping black suspects. It doesn’t express the sentiment or behavior of most Americans and it feeds the false racist narrative of seditious opportunists like Reverend Al.

Dunphy needs to recognize that black provocateurs and undisciplined white cops are two separate problems. Sharpton is every bit as bad and worse than Dunphy’s contempt for him suggests. But Sharpton is an independent operator. The cops are our representatives.

Dunphy needs to ignore Sharpton and concentrate instead on an apparently widespread and entirely unwarranted sense of entitlement among policeman. I have heard seasoned inner-city teachers complain about the daily challenges they face and I can only imagine the tenfold frustrations experienced every day by policemen.

But there is just no excuse for kicking and stomping a suspect when when he’s down on the ground and covering his head in a fetal crouch.
It aint Hoyle. It aint American.