Eric Bolling claimed he was “ready to cry” yesterday when he saw the black band on a policeman’s badge in honor of slain New York police officer Brian Moore. But Bolling got over his grief fast enough to exploit Moore’s death for political gain.

On The Five, Bolling declared – without offering proof – that questioning police conduct is tantamount to getting them killed:

BOLLING: Questioning cops and their tactics is emboldening bad guys. Bad guys now, for some reason… If you’re a bad guy, you’re doing something wrong and you’re carrying an illegal gun. They used to run. They didn’t want to get stopped and frisked. They didn’t want to be caught with a gun. Now they approach the squad car. Now they approach the unmarked car and now Officer Liu, Officer Ramos and Brian Moore are dead because they have been emboldened. Why are they being emboldened? Because people like de Blasio, people on the left who say we have to somehow point the finger at cops because there are bad cops. There are vast numbers of great cops and very, very few bad cops.

Apparently, in Bolling’s world, people should just shut up about those who get wrongly killed by the cops and stop making a fuss!

Watch it below, from yesterday’s The Five, via Media Matters.