Justice

The Planned Parenthood Shooting Prompted the Colorado Police Union to Attack 'Black Lives Matter'

A statement attacked a “national lie rooted in the Michael Brown incident,” among other non sequiturs.
Robert Louis Dear Jr. shown with his defender in a video-recorded appearance before court.Daniel Owen/The Gazette via AP

Robert Lewis Dear, Jr. has been accused of killing a mother, a veteran, and a police officer in a mass shooting apparently intended to terrorize patients at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. Police officers in Colorado have every right to be angry about losing their colleague, Garrett Swasey.

But the Colorado state police union is taking out its frustration on a group who had nothing to do with the Planned Parenthood shooting: protesters affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement.