It requires this fix or that degree of support. Plano is a suburb of Dallas and about a 30- to 40-minute drive (without traffic) to the location of the shooting. To be sure they are all bad.
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Beyond that, though, I can’t figure out what all this means.
“If the police officer comes on the situation and he says: ‘Police, put the gun down, ‘ the good guy does”.
Micah Johnson, the man identified as the suspect in the shootings was unaffiliated with Black Lives Matter, although he was loosely associated with hate groups that advocated violence against white and Jewish people. Do black lives matter more than blue lives?
Having spent nearly 80 years on this earth, I have seen race relations come from the Jim Crow days of segregation and intentional deprivation, from the days when the best a black kid could wish for was a mid-level job in some industrial factory, to present day when the possibility of being a captain of industry, front office sports executive, congressman, senator or even the leader of the free world is real.
The more I learned about the victim Philando Castille – that he was a beloved school cafeteria worker; that he was a law-abiding citizen; that he properly disclosed to the officer that he had both a concealed carry permit and a legal firearm in the vehicle – the angrier I got.
So on Monday, I found myself in his living room asking some of these same questions. “For me, it was another example of the character of the people who wear the badge”, said Randall.
James pointed out that any group – including police departments – can have a bad apple. Although Sterling did have a gun in his pocket, the video shows he would have been unable to reach for it while pinned down, as police have claimed he did.
“I think what is happening is a scab has been ripped off the wound too soon, and all this stuff is gushing out”, she said. Isn’t there more that houses of worship have in common than they have different?
You may have also seen over the weekend black Americans in law enforcement speaking out firmly against the race baiting and anti-police vitriol that is being stoked by the progressive movement and the American left. “It hits home. I’ve been crying all the time, it could have been my son in that gay bar, it’s all of us”. In 1 John, 3:18, the writer tells us “My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth”. On Thursday, seemingly in response, five police officers were killed and six were wounded when snipers interrupted a peaceful protest in Dallas on July 7.
The slain officers were fathers and husbands, all killed in the line of duty. We must do something about it.
“Unless we get to have a serious dialogue and be honest about a relationship that sometimes doesn’t even exist at all, we will always be at this point where everyone loses”, said Pope, an officer of 29 years who serves as parliamentarian of the Black Police Association of Greater Dallas. “The phrase “my thoughts and prayers” has lost its meaning to me, and I do not know what it’s like to walk in a black man’s or a police officer’s shoes”.
Before they do, we should all look for ways to strengthen our systems. He knew he wanted to be a police officer since he was 12 years old. We will never forget the bravery and sacrifice of our officers on that day. If not, our local government should move to strengthen that process. Instead, he was targeting the police officers who had been tasked with patrolling the demonstration.
She says it is possible to support law enforcement while still holding them accountable. Authorities said four men broke into a pawn shop and stole eight handguns that they planned to use to harm police officers during the weekend protests.
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Those are just a few things police and residents can do to help keep from reading a headline in this newspaper about violence between police and the people who live here.
