Obama’s Legacy on Display in Philadelphia

RUSH: Let’s go to Philadelphia next. “Police sources identified the gunman in a standoff” at a Tioga apartment building that left six police officers injured as Maurice Hill, 36, a Philadelphia man with a lengthy history of gun convictions,” and yet he had guns! He had “a lengthy history of gun convictions and of resisting attempts to bring him to justice. [Maurice] Hill’s history in the adult criminal justice system began in 2001 when he was 18 and was arrested with a gun that had an altered serial number. Public records show that he has been arrested about a dozen times since turning 18, and convicted six times on charges that involved illegal possession of guns,”

Everything the guy did is illegal! He was not permitted to have guns and yet he had them. How can that be? Oh, I know! “We didn’t have a red flag law to nab the guy. That’s right! If we would have just had red flag laws…” But that’s not the story here. Some lunatic going crazy and shooting cops, sadly, is not the story. The story is Philadelphia residents of this apartment building harassing, taunting and throwing objects at the police, who were responding to an active shooting that was endangering every citizen in this neighborhood.

’m going to tell you whose legacy this is: Barack Hussein Obama. Black Lives Matter saying, “The cops are murdering black people;e.” Lies. Just this week we had Elizabeth Warren and I forgot the other presidential candidate — oh, Kamala Harris — lying about the “fact” that a black citizen in Ferguson was “murdered” by white cops. The fact checkers can’t be bothered to correct this. So the embrace of Black Lives Matter — and by the way, Obama praised the leaders to the hilt. He was inviting them to the White House.

At the same time, Black Lives Matter members were in the streets chanting, “What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Right now!”

Another chant said, “Pigs in a blanket! Fry ’em like bacon.”

During the Obama administration, police were indiscriminately accused. They were tried and convicted by Democrats. Rallies to support the police in Dallas were not permitted. The police were assaulted. It all started with Obama’s Beer Summit and “Skip” Gates and this never-ending… It was added to by Colin Kaepernick and the NFL players who kneeled and refused to stand for the anthem and the flag, on the basis that African-Americans are being shot dead and murdered by the cops.

So here we have a guy with a rap sheet longer than he’s been alive shooting up an apartment building, injuring six cops — and the crowd is cheering him on!

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