Black Lives Matter “activists” (read: agitators) took to Milwaukee’s streets for a weekend of rioting, ostensibly in response to the police shooting of a black man. As usual, leftists sympathized with the rioters’ anger by blaming police for a culture of racism and brutality. But once again there proves to be little factual support for this narrative. From the beginning, it has been reported that the officer shot the suspect, Sylville Smith, because he was armed after he refused to comply with instructions to put down his gun.

Problem is that the officer who shot Smith is himself black. So much for the cop-being-a-racist angle, and yet still that doesn’t matter to the leftists. Goddess Mathews, a community agitator from the Milwaukee area, stated, “Yes, a black man did the shooting but he was wearing a blue uniform with a badge.” Once again, the Leftmedia is placing the blame for violence not on those lawless individuals but upon the law enforcement community.

Now social media has spread the name and home address of the officer involved along with pictures. Death threats against him have been posted online, such as this one: “Now y'all see his face if he’s seen anywhere in the city drop him.” Another read, “shoot him right in his head.” Liberalism masquerades madness as reality, and it’s becoming a more deadly problem all the time.