A SECOND CHAPTER FOR BLACK LIVES MATTER?

The police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., resulted in nationwide Black Lives Matter protests. The demonstrations that turned into unrest in many cities featured the chant “hands up, don’t shoot,” which was awarded four Pinocchios by the Washington Post fact-checker.

Whatever the result of their passion, Black Lives Matter supporters have pointed America’s attention toward police officers who seemed to be out of bureaucratic control. The Black Lives Matter protests also gave President Obama the incentive to stop the Pentagon from granting surplus military equipment to local police departments.

Now, Richard R. Boykin, a Cook County, Ill., commissioner, and William Julius Wilson, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a center-left research and lobbying organization, are calling on Black Lives Matter to start protesting all black lives cut down by violence, instead of just those lost in confrontations with police officers.

I doubt the Democrat-Media Complex wants to spotlight how spectacularly successful they’ve been at Defining Deviancy Downward.