Yesterday, a police officer friend of mine was killed outside of a project in Richmond. He left 3 kids behind.
He was shot, assassination style, in the back of the neck/head behind while he met with 3 suspected drug dealers at a street corner known for high criminal activity.
No one even bothered to call the police, and everyone fled the scene after it happened. He laid there in his own blood and died in the ten minutes it took the police to figure out something had gone wrong.
Maybe this is not the best time for me to address this issue, but I am sick of people I have known for years being killed for senseless crap in crime zones that make the Vietnam war look like a glamour parlor. To think of the callous person who saw this happening, and refused to call the police infuriates me. To think of the media making these little criminal darlings out to be victims pisses me off more than words can describe.
Its time to call these people to account and confront them with the people, like my friend, who have died while they encourage this crap. I, personally wont stand for it anymore. I've been to enough police funerals in my life.
For anyone interested, this is the thread I posted about my friends death:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/955927/posts How would we be percieved in Liberia? Just a thought.
I am very sorry for your loss...
I was told about my Grandmother and the way she demonstrated kindness to German soldiers when they were POW's near Mexia, TX during WWII...
She said "That is someone's son or father and there is someone out there who is missing them. They deserve to be treated with humanity."
Never let anyone forget that this police officer, this man who carried a gun, who arrested people, who locked people up, who did what his duty required...is still a human being with family, friends, and loved ones...
True evil is the lack of empathy....Who would want their loved ones or their friends left in the street? .....
As a black person, I can not tell you how much it embarasses me when Jesse Jackson and the like are there when the black community is wronged but nowhere to be found when our community has done the wrong...
Once again, sorry for your loss...