Texas officials are blaming a #BlackLivesMatter chant for inciting the execution-style “assassination” of Deputy Darren Goforth last week and other similar acts of violence.
An African American male is in custody for the shooting death of the Caucasian law-enforcement veteran while he was in uniform pumping gas at a convenient store Late Friday night.
The mother of suspect Shannon Miles, however, claims her son could not be the Goforth gunman because the two were out shopping together at the time of the incident.
That assertion further confounds an already perplexing homicide, which investigators firmly believe was brought on by black activists and their dangerous “rhetoric.”
Otherwise they’ve “not been able to extract any details regarding a motive at this point,” but continue to investigate.
The unprovoked attack on a Sheriff’s deputy in Texas is one of several perpetrated after an extended period of violent protesting, looting and arson in communities where black suspects had fatal encounters with arresting officers.
Since those hostilities fully erupted in 2015, lawmen across the United States have been “under siege” in a host of ways, claim police spokesmen at various agencies nationwide -- including being targeted for murder while on or off duty.
Influential people fueling this volatile situation by chanting “pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon” or outright declaring “open warfare” on cops during #BlackLivesMatter rallies are culpable for such coldblooded killings, they now believe.
Threatening the life of anyone either publicly or in private is in fact unlawful in the U.S., and the pigs-in-a-blanket war cry has frequently been used by protesters this year, as well as by black gunmen who’ve subsequently hunted down and killed white officers.
