Curley questions anti-police protests after Othello Station officer-involved shooting

Following the officer-involved shooting at the Othello transit station in South Seattle that killed a suspect who pointed a gun at officers, anti-police activists began to protest as officers investigated the crime scene, asking for the names of the officers and claiming that the shooting was race-driven.

John Curley, host of “The John Curley Show” on KIRO Newsradio, questioned the motive of these anti-police protests that may be cherry-picking incidents to support their political agenda, instead of helping all families affected by violence.

“The saddest part is the people who lose their kids in this type of violence, and no one goes to those people,” Curley said. “You don’t hear anybody supporting them. Their names are not important. You only say the names, or remember the names when it’s a kid or a guy, and he’s black, and he’s shot by a white cop. ‘Say their names, say their names,’ but everybody else is completely invisible because none of them need to be used for political purposes. You’re just using different violent interactions with a police officer because you’re going to be able to make money off of it somehow.

“And by the way, those police officers that pull those guns and have to shoot those people, a lot of them need a lot of help,” Curley continued. “You don’t hear about that, they don’t want to kill somebody. They don’t want to pull the gun; they don’t want to pull the trigger. Don’t you think they’re bothered by it as well? You think they’re just some heartless machine that walks around beating people up or randomly shooting people. A lot of cops go home at the end of the day, and they bring home all that trauma with them.”

Watch the full discussion in the video above.

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