Posted on 05/11/2005 6:47:43 AM PDT by zaxxon
Cop watchers should lose us-them slant
By Jim Spencer Denver Post Columnist DenverPost.com
The "press advisory" from Denver CopWatch arrived by e-mail 24 hours after a cowardly piece of scum shot police Detective Donnie Young in the back of the head. The release called police behavior on the last night of the weekend Cinco de Mayo celebration "appalling."
"The good work done by the police force over the first three days of the holiday were undone in a single evening of police excess," the "press advisory" said.
Here's a little advice from the press for CopWatch and other groups that monitor police conduct:
If you want anything other than street cred with the gang bangers, better learn when to lose the "us and them" mentality.
The appalling thing that happened over the weekend was that a jackass murdered a cop in cold blood at a baptismal celebration at a banquet hall in southwest Denver.
Young and Detective Jack Bishop were working off-duty in uniform there. In the wee hours of Sunday morning, a guy shot both of them point-blank from behind.
Young, a decorated detective, a good husband and doting father of two girls, died. Bishop, blessedly, did not.
What this tragedy demanded from CopWatch was what it demanded from every organization and citizen: unity born of an outrage that diminished us all.
Rather than scouring Federal Boulevard on Sunday looking for cops inconveniencing Cinco de Mayo cruisers, groups such as CopWatch and One Nation United (ONE) could have better served their members and their city by devoting resources to finding Young's killer.
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Zot
On second thought, I'm not sure.
Huh?
Umm...why?
Sounds like the cop watchers are a bunch of liberal weenies who would rather blame the cops.
"after a cowardly piece of scum shot police Detective Donnie Young ....
Maybe he didn't see the verb in this sentence? That could do it.
Right. Like the same mentality that gang bangers display to everyone else in society.
I heard this filth was an illegal alien too.
Time for Cowboys and gang-bangers?
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