Chris Christie: Black Lives Matter ‘create’ call to kill police officers

During an appearance on “Face the Nation” Sunday, Gov. Chris Christie said that black lives don’t matter, defended officers who engage in police brutality and criticized President Obama for having “justified” the activist movement working to stop abuses perpetrated against African Americans.

“Listen, I don’t believe that that movement should be justified when they’re calling for the murder of police officers, no”, said Christie.

Sitting down for an interview with New York’s Hot 97 radio station, the rapper took a moment to share his thoughts on the Black Lives Matter movement and what he thinks would help to fix the broken relationship between people of color and police officers. The group said on its Facebook page in September that conservatives are trying to turn the movement into a danger to officers.“Were targeting the brutal system of policing, not individual police, ” the movement said in its statement.

“And they are”, said Christie, “and you have seen it in a city like Camden, where, in the last three years, after we replaced the police department there, John, and backed them up completely, all the political folks, murder rate is down 61 percent in the last three years in Camden”.

Police groups have bristled at that comment and pointed out people in marches drawing awareness to the issue have been recorded chanting for the deaths of police officers. “Whether you’re a black man or a man of another race, you understand that Black lives matter…” It also steals from the movement and attaches it to a gun, bringing back the image of a police officer’s finger on a trigger. When there are bad cops they need to be prosecuted like there are bad lawyers and bad doctors and bad engineers. In response, the leader of one prominent police union has called for a boycott of Tarantino’s films. And they’re making fewer collars, particularly in the inner city, because they fear they’ll be framed for civil-rights abuses by Obama’s civil-rights prosecutors and goons in the Black Lives Matter movement.

Critics claim that Black Lives Matter protesters unfairly target the police and omit discussions about the values of other lives. Everybody wants strong, effective law enforcement.

Collandus Francis, president of the Camden NAACP for the last 18 years, said it was “insane” for Christie to say Obama was fostering a climate of violence against police.

Speaking with us this afternoon, Dix insisted that Christie and Lynch have pulled the idea of an organized “war on police” out of “thin air”.

A former federal prosecutor, Christie promised to “back up” the police if he became president.

“We should not have sanctuary cities in this country”, the 2016 contender said.