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Twitter conservatives blame media, Obama, and #BlackLivesMatter for #DallasPoliceShooting

The urge to say "I told you so!" outweighs anything resembling legitimate grief

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(AP/Tony Gutierrez)
(AP/Tony Gutierrez)

Conservatives on Twitter are finding it difficult not to say that the deadliest attack on police officers since 9/11 — that would be 15 years ago — proves that liberalism generally, and the #BlackLivesMatter movement specifically, are the real problem with America today. That and the media, of course:

Then there’s this guy:

And then there’s this guy:

The irony, of course, is that the protest — like the overwhelming majority of anti-brutality protests — was exceptionally peaceful:

By Scott Eric Kaufman


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