VIDEO: Democrat Mayor’s rhetoric leads to Philadelphia’s Anti-Cop Graffiti?

Philadelphia police are offering a $5,000 reward for information about the anti-cop graffiti discovered in South Philadelphia this week. Democrat Mayor Jim Kenney condemned the graffiti and said officials will “pursue all possible criminal charges against [the vandals].”

In July 2016 Mayor Kenney spoke out strongly in defense of Black Lives Matter movement, stating:

“The issue of Black Lives Matter is that they do because they haven’t mattered in our country over the history of law enforcement and in the criminal courts, and in the way people have been treated from the 1600s up until now.”

Since Mayor Kenney took office in January 2016, some activists have maligned him for seemingly modifying his views on the practice of stop-and-frisk policing in black communities.

Here’s the full interview with Democrat Mayor of Philadelphia Kenney’s remarks on Morning Joe.

The Washington Post’s Sean Higgins reported:

Former Chicago Superintendent of Police Garry McCarthy said Sunday that the Black Lives Matter movement was ultimately responsible for rising crimes rates in his city and nationally because it was making it harder for police to do their jobs.

McCarthy said that the movement was responsible for a rise in “noncompliance” — people refusing to cooperate or surrender to police.

“What is happening is — and this is ironic — that a movement with the goal of saving black lives is at this point is getting black lives taken because 80 percent of our murder victims here in Chicago are male blacks,” McCarthy told New York radio talk show host John Catsimatidis.

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