Officer Brian Moore died today. He had been shot in the face when he stopped Demetrius Blackwell who obviously had a gun in his pants. Officer Moore was a plainclothes anti-crime cop just 25 years old.
There will be no protest because of the murder of Brian Moore. No professor or pundit will go on MSNBC or CNN and rant and rave about how unfair it was. How Officer Moore was a young man with his whole life ahead of him. How he played it straight and by all the rules. How he came every day to protect and serve a community that hated him. By a skell who should have been incarcerated but who they would want to go free because there are just "too many minorities in jail." It doesn't matter that Blackwell was a career violent criminal. He is exactly the type of person that they want to go free.
If Officer Moore had tazed this mook they would have started a riot. God forbid he had shot him while he was pulling out his gun. They would have demanded that he shoot the gun out of his hand. They would have asked why did he even stop and frisk him. They would have shut down the Brooklyn Bridge for weeks. Officer Moore probably hesitated for that split second because he didn't want to be the next cop thrown under the bus by the racialists.
You will not see one tenth of the blog posts or comments decrying the murder of Officer Brian Moore. There will be no protests. No press conference by President Obama expressing outrage at his murder. No demands that the Justice Department get invovled. No demonstrations. No outrage at all. They save that all for the skells and career criminals like Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and Freddie Grey. I expect Demetrius Blackwell to be the commencement speaker at Oberlin college next year.
Because these people think that this is how it should be. Another cop shot dead. Big deal. If they don't like it they should go do something else.
Police lives matter. Just not to them.
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Damn.
I would be happy if Chickie or Lem or Haz would post it over at Lem's to share with people who don't have access here.
Thanks.
Loretta Lynch is travelling to Baltimore to meet with the family of the late Freddie Gray.
Very slim chance that she'll stop in NYC to meet with the family of this murdered officer. That's not on the Obama administration's list of things that matter.
I'll attend the annual Peace Officers Memorial ceremony in Milwaukee tomorrow. I do so every year, escorting my sister-in-law.
The officer looks like a young Trey Gowdy. Tragic. This is going to be a rough summer.
Looks like I broke my own rule. I'll do penance tomorrow.
Mrs. Haz and I, along with our sister-in-law, attended this year's Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Ceremony this afternoon. It was duly professional and somber, and at the same time thankful that we have among us people who serve and protect, knowing that they may give their lives for their fellow citizens.
We had a few minutes to catch up with people we've known for decades now, talk about their families, their careers and their love for doing what they do.
There were speeches, of course, every on of them short, and good. We got to spend a few minutes chatting with Governor Walker before the ceremony, and with Sheriff David Clarke afterwards. Such good men.
The most emotional part of the ceremony is hearing Taps played at the end. But it is also the most joyful because it is a reminder that we'll all hear Taps, sooner or later, and that's how our lives are.
Attending the ceremony helped me remember that the few idiots on the internet who hate police are a small, small minority. And they seem to live very angry and unhappy lives.
The world is mostly decent place, filled with mostly decent people.
In another part of the state a few days ago, a man randomly began shooting people who were walking on a trail through a park on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Before killing himself, he killed a father and a daughter in a family, and seriously wounded the mother and two other kids.
The father's last words to his horribly injured wife (who is on the way to surviving three gunshot wounds) were "forgive the shooter".
Forgive the shooter. Remarkable. And a reminder that we all have received, and should give others, a measure of forgiveness. Life is too short to spend it being angry.
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