Capehart: Protestors Calling for Dead Cops Drowning Out Majority of Peaceful Protesters

Capehart: Protestors Calling for Dead Cops Were Drowning Out Majority of Peaceful Protesters (RealClearPolitics)

JONATHAN CAPEHART, WASHINGTON POST: I think cooler heads on both sides have to prevail. I mean, one thing we have to keep in mind that the families of Eric Garner and Michael Brown have been calling from the very beginning on people to -- if they are going to protest or when they protest to do so peacefully, to not take violent action in the name of their dead sons, nephews, brothers, husbands, partners. And, you know, the killing of these two officers, Officer Ramos and Officer Liu, just sort of strikes at the heart of a really bad situation here.

You have people demonstrating all over the country. And you have one instance shown on videotape of people calling for dead cops. Those voices are now drowning out hundreds of thousands of people who have been demonstrating around the country against police policies and police tactics, not against police. And so if we can just have this conversation where not only do black lives matter, but cops lives matter. When two sides can come together and say how can we make this whole situation better for all sides? If we can have that conversation with cooler heads, reasonable heads with leaders, then I think we can get somewhere.