Some night, he might walk up a cold stairway in deep winter and see a plastic garbage bag on the open landing with something tiny and frozen inside, and he'll know what it was. But if he becomes isolated with only his blue tribe behind that blue line, he may become lost. He'll see them often at their worst, and that alone may brutalize him. So why would that young kid with the shades ever want to be a cop? And when shots were fired, cops rushed in to help the protesters, and immediately, #bluelivesmattered too, didn't they? Video and stories out of Dallas show Black Lives Matter protesters - who were there to rally against police brutality - were protected by police. Better to get it out and deal with it and try some other way than just the stoking of anger. The monster took a blood price from Dallas, from all police departments, and if Chief Brown hadn't made the killer's racist motivation clear, it would have leaked anyway, to crawl around in paranoid corners and grow. They're not riots, we were told all summer. Anyone with a brain can see how fragile things are now, how quickly something such as that could explode and get worse.īut it was what it was. Fry them like bacon.' 'Bottles, rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails. When he said it I thought of editors cringing, along with every mayor and police chief of every big city. The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers." "The suspect said he was upset at white people. "He said he was upset about the recent shootings," Dallas police Chief David O.
It could have happened in New York or Chicago. But there's also been the leveraging of legitimate grievances and rage. What happened in Dallas has been coming long before Ferguson, Mo., and long before black teenager Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times by a white cop in Chicago.Īll that pressure made something such as this inevitable, so much anger and politics and cheap hashtag thinking. It's been coming on for some time now, long before that horrible Black Lives Matter protest in New York, when a crowd shouted "What do we want? Dead cops. On Monday, March 27, a media room will be available during the procession and regimental funeral for Constable Travis Jordan and Constable Brett Ryan. We are just sick and tired of the organized slavery, but killing cops isn’t the answer because you may be killing one who is actually a good human being. The chief said the sniper wanted to kill white cops. And before what happened in Louisiana, and later that Dallas sniper began shooting at the Black Lives Matter rally, killing in retaliation for the police shootings. Following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and an outbreak of police violence in response to nationwide protests, calls for change in America’s police departments are coming from.
As I said, this was weeks ago, before that terrified cop in Minnesota killed the black man in his car, with the dead man's girlfriend live-streaming all that panic, and the governor attributing the shooting to racism.
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