BackboneAmerica

“Cops lie: Don’t trust cops!” was the theme for an hour-long training session for would-be protesters at the Democratic National Convention, held in Denver on April 14 by hard-left activist groups, according to a Denver Post story.  

The event took place at the University of Denver law school, under arrangements made by individual DU students and with no official sponsorship by the university.  It included simulations of protesters being “bullied by… nightstick-bearing police officers,” and outlined a plan for “hundreds of ‘legal observers’… who bring video cameras to document any disruption.” 

“I don’t think it’s helpful to portray the police in that light,” said Denver city attorney David Fine. “Frankly, that’s not the reality, so… it will give the participant a false sense of what their relationship will be like with police during the convention.” 

After repeated calls to the DU office of news and public affairs this morning, I spoke with staffer David Brendsel, asking whether Chancellor Robert Coombs, Law School Dean Jose Juarez, or any other DU official wanted to go on the record as Fine had done, specifically dissociating the university from the event’s unhelpful, unreal, and false portrayal of police ethics and methods. 

His answer: “We have no statement to make in response to that.”  The studied pose of moral neutrality reminded me of those MSM news anchors (not to mention Barack Obama) who have made a point of not wearing American flag lapel pins in these wartime years.  Wouldn’t want to take sides, you know.  Wouldn’t want to compromise our objectivity. How pathetic.