Posted on 09/05/2016 8:05:49 AM PDT by rktman
Retired police officer Chris Amos, a father of three, had the spotlight shone on him while he was still in uniform. Amos shot and killed a young minority male and was given paid leave.
He is exactly the type of police officer that Kaepernick spoke about when he said, “There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”
However, Amos decided to show Kaepernick something that the NFL player didn’t know: that they were more alike than he realized.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativetribune.com ...
Not clicking on your blog link. I don’t play the blogger tease game.
Your blog sucks
My blog? Dang, I get the blame for everything.
P.S. I used to be stuck in NOLA.
Oh, that is good.
"You know, Colin, the more I think about it, the more we seem to have in common. I really pushed myself in rehab to get back on the street, kind of like you do to get back on the field. You probably have had a broken bone or two and some muscle strains and deep bruising that needed a lot of work. I just had to bounce back from a gunshot wound to the chest and thigh. Good thing we both get paid when we are too banged up to “play,” huh? We both also know what it’s like to get blindsided. You by a 280-pound defensive end, ouch! Me, by a couple of rounds fired from a gun about 2 feet away into my chest and thigh. We also both make our living wearing uniforms, right? You have probably ruined a jersey or two on the field of play. I still have my blood-stained shirt that my partner and paramedics literally ripped off my back that cold night in January. Fortunately, like you I was given a new one. Speaking of paramedics aren’t you glad the second we get hurt trainers and doctors are standing by waiting to rush onto the field to scoop us up. I’m thankful they get to you in seconds. It only took them about 10 minutes to get to me. By the grace of God, the artery in my thigh didn’t rupture or else 10 minutes would have been about 9 minutes too late. We also have both experienced the hate and disgust others have just because of those uniforms we wear. I sure am glad for your sake that the folks who wear my uniform are on hand to escort you and those folks that wear your uniform into stadiums in places like Seattle!
I guess that’s where the similarities end, Colin. You entertain for a living, I and almost 800,000 others across this country serve and protect. Are there some bad apples within my profession? Absolutely, and they need to be identified and fired or arrested! But you know what, the vast majority do the right thing, the right way, for the right reason. Did I mention that seconds before I was shot, an elderly African-American gentleman walking down the sidewalk, turned to my partner and I as we rode past and said, “Get them.” Get who, you ask? The thugs terrorizing an otherwise good and decent neighborhood, home to dozens of good, decent African-American families trying to raise those families in communities not protected by gates and security guards. No these folks and families depend on America’s law enforcement officers.
Colin, I have buried 7 friends killed in the line of duty and three others who have committed suicide. I have attended more funerals than I care to remember of neighboring departments who have lost officers in the line of duty, during my career. Law enforcement officers with different backgrounds, upbringings and experiences united by their willingness to answer the call to protect and serve their fellow citizens.
Colin, I am sorry for the endorsement deals you may lose and the dip in jersey sales, but please know you will NEVER lose what these men and women and their families have lost. And so whether you stand or sit during the national anthem means very little to me. As for me and the men and women on whose team I was privileged to serve, we will put on our ballistic vests, badge and gun, kiss our loved ones goodbye, for some tragically for the last time, and out into a shift of uncertainty we will go. We will continue to protect and continue to serve and we will be standing at attention, Colin, not just for the playing of our national anthem, but far more importantly for the playing of Taps."
V/R (very respectfully),
Chris Amos
Thanks. I get confused on occasion about how long a post can be.
Look out! For that rutabaga...
thank you for posting.
But I have never understood the objection to someone trying to steer people towards a blog of his own.
If you don't want to read it, fine. Why do you find it necessary you say so, and in somewhat contemptuous terms?
Not that I care if you do, either. It's just that sometimes I fail to understand people's motivations, often in fact, and I don't like that.
If you would care to explain, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
I thought it was very good, and I can never understand those who feel they must respond in the negative when they do not even bother to read. Especially when they wrongly call the site a blog site, when it clearly isn’t. But even if it was that doesn’t make it any less informative. So sad that these people cannot just ignore the post if they chose not to see what is there.
I do too. Some things have to be excerpted to about 300 words. In this case, I thought it would be ok to post the whole thing because it is a open letter, and I believe that the author's intent was to have it published and widely read without the constraint of having to excerpt.
Thank you.
Because some people here (cough, cough) think they are the Posting Police.
They are quite tiresome.
FReegards, ‘Pod.
As a third party to this conversation I hope you dont mind my $.02. In the past some people have frequently reposted their own blog here, essentially co opting FR into being their blog with other FR articles. I dont think anyone would care if people posted a link a month to their own blog, but they never do. Its usually once a day.
August most violent month in Chicago in nearly 20 years
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-august-most-violent-shootings-chicago-20160829-story.htm
Far More Whites Killed by US Police
http://newobserveronline.com/far-more-whites-killed-by-us-police/
Recidivism
http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=17
Parole and Probation
https://www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/ppvsp91.txt
Vielen Dank.
Simple. Nobody likes click bait.
Bitte schön! :)
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