During the 25 years I was working as a firefighter and fire officer, we had about a dozen police in the local area killed by criminals. We went to so many police funerals that our chief was embarassed that other agencies were better dressed than we were. The Union and the Fire Department reached an agreement where we were all required to purchase Class A uniforms.
This included November 29, 2009 when four police officers were gunned down and died while they were at a local coffee shop. They were killed by Maurice Clemmons, a black guy with a long criminal history who had been released by the Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee where he was serving a 108 year prison sentence for crimes there. He moved to Washington and continued his life of crime. He was in jail for assaulting a police officer and raping a child but was released after posting a $150,000 bail bond one week before he massacred the 4 officers.
He was helped by others before and after he killed the officers; it was a planned ambush. Several were convicted but all that I am aware of had their convictions reversed on appeal and by liberal judges in our area, who found that there was misconduct by the police.
And, oh, yes... the number of unarmed black people killed by the police while I was a fire officer a big fat ZERO. I may not have always seen eye to eye with the police on every call that we responded to with them, but they have a tough and dangerous job.
[[they have a tough and dangerous job.]]
They absolutely do-There are millions and millions of encounters every year across the nation- many of which can turn dangerous for the police in the blink of an eye-
I don’t know huckabee well, but from what i see of him- I would think he truly regrets that awful decision to release the dude- but still- if the dude was servicing 108, chances are he was a really bad dude- Wonder why mike released him?