The Interior Department’s communications director — a Biden political appointee — is being promoted to work “on communications inside the Biden White House, despite sparking controversy last year over social media posts attacking police, criticizing Republicans and supporting the anti-Israel movement,” reports Fox News:.
Tyler Cherry has written that “Police = Slave Patrols.”
Fox News describes his recent appointment by the White House:
“After more than three years at Interior working for Secretary Deb Haaland, Cherry started last week as an associate communications director at the White House,” Politico reported this week.
Tyler Cherry sparked controversy last year after social media posts surfaced in which he blasted law enforcement and promoted “Russiagate.”
“Praying … for an end to a capitalistic police state motivated by explicit and implicit racial biases,” Cherry posted in 2015 amid riots…”Apt (sic.) time to recall that the modern day police system is a direct evolution of slave patrols and lynch mobs,” he stated in a separate post months later.
In 2018, Cherry called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Homeland Security Department agency tasked with preventing cross-border crime and illegal immigration, to be abolished.
Cherry was also posting support for “Palestine” on social media in 2014 during the Gaza War in which Palestinian forces, led by the radical Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas, launched hundreds of rockets into Israel, sparking a forceful Israeli response that involved airstrikes and a ground invasion.
“Cheersing in bars to ending the occupation of Palestine — no shame and f— your glares #ISupportGaza #FreePalestine,” Cherry said on July 25, 2014, in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Contrary to what Cherry claims, the police are not — and did not come from — slave patrols. Police have existed since the ancient Sumerian civilization, thousands of years ago. As journalist Jonah Goldberg notes, police did not originate in America’s south:
Policing—enforcing the law, preventing crime, apprehending criminals—has a very long tradition of existence. I don’t know where it started, but for our purposes we can note that Augustus Caesar, born in 27 B.C., created the cohortes urbanae near the end of his reign, to police Ancient Rome. Policing in England takes rudimentary form with Henry II’s proclamation of the Assize of Arms of 1181. In the 1600s England established constables and justices of the peace to oversee them. The Metropolitan Police Act created the first recognizable police force in the U.K. in 1829.
Meanwhile, in America the first constables were created in the 1630s in what came to be known as New England. Boston has the oldest “modern” police department. It was created in 1838. New York and Philadelphia soon followed.
They were not created to search for runaway slaves.
Prior to the Civil War, police forces were so undeveloped or non-existent in most of the slave-holding south that vigilantism was common there, and people were lynched for offenses such as gambling in states like Mississippi, as the young Abraham Lincoln discussed in his Lyceum Address.
Defunding the police, and other forms of de-policing, increase the crime rate, and increase the rate of deadly traffic accidents.
