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Councilwoman compares police who kill Black people to OKC bomber
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<blockquote data-quote="nemesis" data-source="post: 3389734" data-attributes="member: 12082"><p><a href="https://ktul.com/news/local/councilwoman-compares-police-who-kill-black-people-to-okc-bomber-in-social-media-post" target="_blank">https://ktul.com/news/local/councilwoman-compares-police-who-kill-black-people-to-okc-bomber-in-social-media-post</a></p><p></p><p>TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jbforokc/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARCWCzIUkmNNXoB4vLhfJOtHMuA2S3ccnMSaxWVVwQsIpa3Da7hNo0ztaSCaWza6v-CX6pcDfSLguaYE&fref=mentions&__xts__[0]=68.ARBMS9u4KAFbBE_JWPL0g7Vm_87GunuwsW1a6DZOIAlibJagwAENfX2V9A8dvD15eaHA6q8Tn4pBv0UcZdt46u9iht0zXmSLR6pekoA-m4_52R0mwVCQIZT81q89sfQBhqluNyz2i0gRusRadzhCXr-m9YLP_5So6iRU0KGfY5zvhwYrl2ahZasXlSAo3vXOoaLkx0gEYPPGkezwvPUwOjRYd10jJw9yiX7x8r_8g8F6Df3dXUOYDbtGtZ9I1HLHaKRw84zW_c_CELK6hCvW0tX206IU6CglZ5ITzvziF9WPQazYZ7_5GzvD6bPO50BDCPyIAt1llmXxEUKC36RUkPXVuQ" target="_blank">Oklahoma City Councilwoman Jobeth Hamon</a> is coming under fire for a controversial post she shared on Facebook earlier this week, in which she compares police who kill Black people to <a href="https://ktul.com/news/local/25-years-after-oklahoma-city-bombing-anxiety-remains-high-04-17-2020" target="_blank">Oklahoma City bomber</a> Timothy McVeigh.</p><p></p><p>In her post, she said, “25 years ago at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, mass murderer Timothy McVeigh took the lives of 168 innocent people. That was senseless violence. That was terrorism. The continued violent murder of Black lives by police is terrorism. A burned car is property damage.” The post, which is allegedly from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/blacklivesmatterokc/" target="_blank">Black Lives Matter OKC</a>, is currently circulating on social media.</p><p></p><p>In an<a href="https://www.koco.com/article/okc-city-councilwoman-under-fire-for-comparing-police-officers-to-timothy-mcveigh/33240817" target="_blank"> interview with our ABC affiliate in OKC</a>, the Fraternal Order of Police called Hamon out, saying that's not true.</p><p></p><p>"It's a false narrative because we don't have this epidemic of police officers murdering innocent black men in this country," said John George, president of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/okcfop/?tn-str=k*F" target="_blank">Oklahoma City Fraternal Order of Police</a>.</p><p></p><p>In the interview, George cites a statistic about the number of unarmed Black men killed in 2019 nationwide.</p><p></p><p>“You would think with this rhetoric that’s going on, it would be, what, in the hundreds? How about nine,” he said.</p><p></p><p>The FOP posted on its Facebook page, urging people to email Hamon and "let her know you don't appreciate this type of rhetoric."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nemesis, post: 3389734, member: 12082"] [URL]https://ktul.com/news/local/councilwoman-compares-police-who-kill-black-people-to-okc-bomber-in-social-media-post[/URL] TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — [URL='https://www.facebook.com/jbforokc/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARCWCzIUkmNNXoB4vLhfJOtHMuA2S3ccnMSaxWVVwQsIpa3Da7hNo0ztaSCaWza6v-CX6pcDfSLguaYE&fref=mentions&__xts__[0]=68.ARBMS9u4KAFbBE_JWPL0g7Vm_87GunuwsW1a6DZOIAlibJagwAENfX2V9A8dvD15eaHA6q8Tn4pBv0UcZdt46u9iht0zXmSLR6pekoA-m4_52R0mwVCQIZT81q89sfQBhqluNyz2i0gRusRadzhCXr-m9YLP_5So6iRU0KGfY5zvhwYrl2ahZasXlSAo3vXOoaLkx0gEYPPGkezwvPUwOjRYd10jJw9yiX7x8r_8g8F6Df3dXUOYDbtGtZ9I1HLHaKRw84zW_c_CELK6hCvW0tX206IU6CglZ5ITzvziF9WPQazYZ7_5GzvD6bPO50BDCPyIAt1llmXxEUKC36RUkPXVuQ']Oklahoma City Councilwoman Jobeth Hamon[/URL] is coming under fire for a controversial post she shared on Facebook earlier this week, in which she compares police who kill Black people to [URL='https://ktul.com/news/local/25-years-after-oklahoma-city-bombing-anxiety-remains-high-04-17-2020']Oklahoma City bomber[/URL] Timothy McVeigh. In her post, she said, “25 years ago at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, mass murderer Timothy McVeigh took the lives of 168 innocent people. That was senseless violence. That was terrorism. The continued violent murder of Black lives by police is terrorism. A burned car is property damage.” The post, which is allegedly from [URL='https://www.facebook.com/blacklivesmatterokc/']Black Lives Matter OKC[/URL], is currently circulating on social media. In an[URL='https://www.koco.com/article/okc-city-councilwoman-under-fire-for-comparing-police-officers-to-timothy-mcveigh/33240817'] interview with our ABC affiliate in OKC[/URL], the Fraternal Order of Police called Hamon out, saying that's not true. "It's a false narrative because we don't have this epidemic of police officers murdering innocent black men in this country," said John George, president of the [URL='https://www.facebook.com/okcfop/?tn-str=k*F']Oklahoma City Fraternal Order of Police[/URL]. In the interview, George cites a statistic about the number of unarmed Black men killed in 2019 nationwide. “You would think with this rhetoric that’s going on, it would be, what, in the hundreds? How about nine,” he said. The FOP posted on its Facebook page, urging people to email Hamon and "let her know you don't appreciate this type of rhetoric." [/QUOTE]
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