Posted on 06/27/2010 5:22:20 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
The virulent eruption surrounding the decision to order an apparent last-minute escort Friday for the funeral procession of a cop-killer, who is the son of Dallas' police chief, shows no sign of abating.
Since word leaked Friday afternoon about the order made by Dallas police DC Julian Bernal, I have been inundated by outraged phone calls, emails and text messages from current and retired Dallas police officers.
The general sentiment is that it dishonored the memory of slain Lancaster police Officer Craig Shaw and the innocent bystander who were killed by Brown Jr. in a Father's Day shootout.
On Undergroundcop.com, a private message board for Dallas police officers, they are saying that a protest march is being scheduled for 8 a.m. Monday in front of Police Headquarters. There is also word on the the site that a meeting has been scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Dallas Police Association's Headquarters, and that City Manager Mary Suhm is invited.
In my eight years of covering the Dallas Police Department, I have never witnessed officers more upset about a decision made by a member of the command staff. Even officers that I would normally consider mild-mannered and even-keeled are up in arms.
"While I feel for Chief Brown, this is the first time ... that I felt ashamed to put on the uniform," one veteran supervisor wrote in a text message. "I kept thinking of all those across the country who have grieved an officer killed in the line of duty."
The story has even gone national with my original blog post even getting a mention on the Drudge Report. That post already has generated more than 550 comments, and the number keeps climbing. Many of those have opposed Bernal's decision.
"I am DPD and I am ashamed," one commenter wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at crimeblog.dallasnews.com ...
It just doesn’t seem to be good form to make a big to-do for the funeral of someone who was killed in the commission of a major violent crime, especially murder.
Just seems disrespectful to the survivors.
The Chief should be fired immediately.
Grounds for mutiny and fragging.
This is beyond bizarre.
This goes way over the line. Is Dallas still in Texas? It used to be a beautiful city, sounds like they are really developing some problems.
The entire DPD, including clerical staff, should just stop obeying the chief’s orders until he is removed from office.
People come together on stupid stuff all the time.
Why can’t they ever come together on real outrages?
The order was given by a deputy chief, not Chief Brown. Right now, nobody at police headquarters is saying anything, so it's anyone's guess if the deputy chief was acting on the instructions of the chief or not. The cops are livid and the city manager is distancing herself from the decision.
People had held off on criticizing Brown prior to this, as he had just lost his son in circumstances that would make any parent of conscience suicidal. They won't let this pass, though.
Brown must go, or at the very least Julian Bernal does (if Brown had no hand in getting the escort, which seems unlikely)
Perhaps some justice-loving Patriot should find this cop-killers grave and give it the ole’ Cleveland Steamer....
LEO bump......
Local tribal chieftain uses trophy wealth for feast in honor of slain successor.
Two possibilities. One is that Brown ordered Bernal to do it. The other is that Bernal, knowing his boss would be in the funeral procession, did it as a gesture of support. I doubt Bernal or Brown expected this kind of explosion.
Blood before honor. That’s how Obama got elected.
Deputy Chief Julian Bernal, who oversees the traffic unit, said that as the funeral procession was headed to the cemetery, the private motorcycle escort was having trouble keeping up.
He said other motorists were zipping past the slow-moving line of cars and weaving in and out of the procession to try to exit Central Expressway. He also said an accident at Walnut Hill Lane added to the problems.
Bernal, who was in the funeral procession, said he then ordered on-duty assistance to help control traffic.
“It was dangerous, and it was a matter of public safety,” Bernal said.......
“This action was also conducted without Chief David Brown’s knowledge,” Suhm stated.
Bernal said he knew his decision would be controversial.
“I want to take full responsibility. I made the decision to do it, and this was absolutely not planned,” Bernal said. “I did it out of respect for my chief and for a family who had lost somebody.”
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chief Brown should have cancelled this order, unless he personally approved of it, whuch I suspect he did.
Will Baraq be attending the funeral and issuing a posthumous pardon?
And yet, for the same error in judgment McChrystal got fired.
Sounds like every funeral procession I encounter on a nearby state parkway and the cops never intervene.
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