Last night a protest over the killing of a black man by a black police officer erupted into rioting in Charlotte, North Carolina. The rioters shut down part of Interstate 85 and attacked police vehicles. Police sought to protect a nearby Walmart from looting and dispersed the rioting mob with tear gas. Evidently, some people think looting of stores is an acceptable means of protesting injustice since it happens after every one of these incidents. At least 12 Charlotte police officers were injured by the rioters.

Once again the Leftmedia continues to promote the false narrative that all law enforcement is racist against blacks. Pointing to the recent shooting of an unarmed black man by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hillary Clinton argued that the narrative is justified. “Maybe I can, by speaking directly to white people, say, look, this is not who we are,” she said before the Charlotte riots broke out. “We have got to do everything possible to improve policing, to go right at implicit bias.” What more “justification” did rioters need?

The problem of assuming police racism before the completion of any investigation does nothing to promote true justice. Time and time again, as these investigations fully run their course, the police officers are exonerated. But that matters little to the Left. It’s the narrative of “racist cops” that matters most, irrespective of the actual circumstances and facts of a particular incident. Consider it part of what Barack Obama’s spokesman Josh Earnest recently called the “narrative battle.” The trouble is, cops pay a heavy price in this war.

This crusade by the Left against police is part of a larger effort to fundamentally transform America. History is reinterpreted through the prism of the Left’s worldview. For the Left, guilt is established not by facts but by association. Terminology such as “white-privilege” and “alt-right” is invented to further the leftist/socialist ideology that America is fundamentally an unequal and unfair nation. Therefore, the “cops are racist” narrative is a tool used to justify pushing for the radical transformation of the nation into a socialist state.