Parents Claim BLM Encouraging People to Shoot At Cops (interviews, Pennsylvania, state)

[DRob4JC]

Parents of teenagers jailed for opening fire on police officers blame Black Lives Matter saying the movement WANTS people to shoot at police

The parents of two boys who are behind bars after they opened fire on a group of police officers have blamed blaming Black Lives Matter for the teenagers' actions.

Marquell Rentas, 17, and and his cousin Trenton Nace, 18, were arrested on Friday after officers in the borough of Columbia, Pennsylvania came under fire for 45 minutes when they responded to an emergency call from someone who said that had heard gunshots.

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Now, Marquell's mother and Trenton's father are both saying in separate interviews that this is the fault of a movement that they claim wants people to hurt law enforcement officials.

'They are in jail for doing what Black Lives Matter wanted them to do: shoot at cops,' said Marquell's mother Luz Rentas and Trenton's father Roberto Rentas in a joint statement.

'The truth is that these are two punk kids following the orders of an irresponsible organization and now they're gonna pay for it.'

Kevin Ressler, a pastor and co-organizer of the Black Lives Matter chapter in Lancaster, responded to this by making it clear that the movement does not promote violence in any way, especially on police.

This would not be surprising. We know this will not have legs in the media, but I wonder if anyone else has had a similar experience.

[pknopp]

Berkowitz blamed the neighbors dog.....there is always someone or something else to blame.

[ATG5]

So basically, terrible parents are blaming someone/something else because they failed at parenthood and their kids are dumbarse criminals.

[DRob4JC]

Originally Posted by ATG5

So basically, terrible parents are blaming someone/something else because they failed at parenthood and their kids are dumbarse criminals.

Interesting that they referred to them as "punk kids".

But - it would have been easy to publicly not say anything about this.

[MPowering1]

There were reports last year that this was happening, so I'm surprised anyone is surprised.

And what do people think, 'fry 'em like bacon means' or 'ramp it up'?

Must be talking about breakfast and the Americans with Disabilities Act.