Cop Block Responds to Media "Hit Pieces"

Cop Block
Dec. 24, 2014

In the wake of the shooting deaths of two New York City police officers, it has come to our attention that a number of news websites and even the corporate giant, Fox News, have engaged in defamatory and libelous allegations about the police accountability organization known as Cop Block. While Cop Block is decentralized, based upon groundbreaking, alternative approaches to non-hierarchical leadership, we have agreed collectively to respond to some of the slander that is emanating from fear-mongers in the mainstream and “wanna-be” mainstream media.

In June of 2014, Cop Block released a very widely-circulated and publicized statement about our absolute commitment to the non-aggression principle.

The non-aggression principle asserts that initiating or threatening violence against a person or legitimately owned property of another is always illegitimate. We believe in self-defense rights. But self-defense is defined as protecting yourself or others from imminent harm. It is part of the non-aggression principle, as self-defense is, by definition not an act of aggression, but of defense.

In this statement, and in our denouncing of all political violence, and targeting of police officers with political violence, we preemptively made a statement about the killing of the two New York City police officers who were killed last weekend.

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