So, his “son who bore his name killed a police officer and another man before being fatally shot more than a dozen times.”
Maybe it’s me, but I posit that your son being a drug dealing cop killer would preclude you from holding any position of authority, ever. Especially in law enforcement.
He failed as a father.
I have to respectfully disagree. People have free will. You can do everything right as a parent and your kid(s) can still choose to be a douche nozzle. I have a good friend with a kid who got involved in drugs in college and ended up dropping out and later did time for grand larceny and possession with intent. Good family, nice Christian people. But Old Scratch looks for the weak link and not everyone chooses to resist temptation.
This is on the kid unless you have some evidence that the father was negligent or abusive.
His son was a COP KILLER???? And he’s Chief of Police?? WOW....weird.
I can’t agree with the “failed father” thing. I know a number of folks who are good people that have either worthless or criminal children. It can be the parents fault, but that sure isn’t the rule. I have seen this in my own family, unfortunately.
This isn't a perfect world and no child or parent is perfect either........I find your comment extremely sickening.
// But even as Brown mourned his 27-year-old son, a young man who struggled with mental illness, Brown asked Humphrey for help. He asked if he could reach out to his son’s victims and arrange a meeting. On the two consecutive evenings Brown walked into their homes, Humphrey recalled, he did so not as a police chief but as a father who was hurting, too.
“He approached those families as David Brown, the father of a young man that caused so much hurt in both of these families lives,” he said. After Humphrey made the introductions and hugs were exchanged, Humphrey walked outside to give the families and Brown privacy. “As I was walking out the door, I heard David say, ‘First of all, I’m sorry,’ and ‘My son was not raised this way.’” //