NYPD Patrol Officer Miosotis Familia was just doing her job.
She wasn't abusing the public, wasn't harassing citizens in the Bronx; the 48-year-old Familia was doing paperwork while sitting in one of the department's mobile command posts, a vehicle that had been placed in an area where crime had markedly increased over the last year.
She was there to protect the public from people like ex-convict Alexander Bonds.
The former Attica State Prison inmate, who served eight years on a robbery charge, had railed on social media late last year, alleging police abuse of blacks and prison guards raping and murdering inmates. "I'm not playing, Mr. Officer. I don't care about 100 police watching this," Bonds, who was black, stated in a video. "It's time people wisen up."
Police caught up to Bonds a block away from the scene where he'd walked up to Familia and shot her in the head; Bonds, still in possession of the murder weapon, was in turn shot and killed by officers.
Miosotis Familia was a black/hispanic police officer. She was brutally executed without warning.
So where is the outcry from Black Lives Matter? Didn't Familia's life count? Isn't her death at the hands of another worthy of protests, demonstrations or even a statement from Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton?
Silence.
No press releases or television appearances are forthcoming, the same as in January's shooting of Orlando Police Sergeant Debra Clayton. Clayton was shot three times at close range just outside a Wal Mart store by Markeith Lloyd, who was wanted for murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Both Clayton and Lloyd were black.
Therein lies the issue. Both black criminals murdered black police officers.
To the BLM movement, African-American lives only matter if their killers are of a different race.
