Bratton throws his officers under the race-baiter driven bus.

Via HuffPo:

New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton acknowledged on Tuesday that police were to blame for “many of the worst parts of black history” in the United States. Yet advocates for police reform say the comments are merely lip service from an official who continues to reinforce the city’s racial tensions.

Bratton gave a speech Tuesday morning to a predominantly African-American crowd during a Black History Month breakfast at the Greater Allen AME Church in Queens.

“Slavery, our country’s original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers,” Bratton said.

The commissioner pointed out that the first thing Dutch colonist Peter Stuyvesant did upon arriving in what was then New Amsterdam was set up a police force to prop up a system of slavery.

“Since then, the stories of police and black citizens have intertwined again and again,” Bratton said. “The unequal nature of that relationship cannot and must not be denied.”