Posted on 08/30/2015 7:32:24 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Hundreds of people showed up at a Texas gas station Saturday to pay tribute to a sheriff's deputy who was gunned down from behind after filling up his patrol car the night before.
Many who attended the vigil for Harris County sheriff's deputy Darren H. Goforth said they were there to support the police, and some said they were frustrated with the "black lives matter" movement and what they said was an increased hostility against all police.
Those who knew Goforth described him as "just a really nice guy."
"It's not fair," said Mikayla Delossantos, whose father was friends with Goforth, through tears.
"When we were younger and we used to be home alone, he would always drive by and check to make sure we were OK," said Simone Langland, who has been friends with Delossantos since childhood. "It's just so sad, and it's not fair he couldn't even defend himself," she said.
Goforth, 47, a father of two, was ambushed by a gunman who shot him from behind at the gas station at around 8:20 p.m. (9:20 p.m. ET) Friday, police said. The gunman then shot the 10-year veteran again as he was on the ground.
On Saturday, suspect Shannon Miles, 30, was arrested and charged with capital murder. A motive has not been determined. Miles is black. Goforth is white.
"I wanted to demonstrate that all lives matter, regardless of color," said Carol Hayes, an African American woman who attended the vigil. Her family was one of the first black families to move to the neighborhood nearly 30 years ago, she said, and they always felt welcome.
Miles is charged with capital murder and is being held without bond, according to jail records. Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman called the killing a "senseless and cowardly act."
The crowd was led in a prayer. Balloons and flowers had been placed around the gas pump where the deputy was killed.
"This is really a senseless act," one of those who attended the vigil, Calvin Mitchell, said. "What did he do to deserve this?" he said.
Goforth had just filled up his patrol car at a Chevron gas station when a man "walked up behind him and literally shot him to death," Hickman said at a news conference overnight.
Hickman said investigators believe there had been no previous contact between Goforth and Miles before the shooting, and the killing appears to have been unprovoked.
While a motive in the killing has not been determined, some of those who attended the vigil were angry over what they said was a climate of mistrust toward police, and a lack of support for officers from politicians.
"I think there's a lot of people getting sick and tired of the way police are being portrayed — anytime there's a shooting and stuff, automatically they're guilty now," Mark Langland, Simone's father, said. "I think it's gone from the President on down. He has set the tone."
"I'm just tired of the double standard," he said.
A motive has not been determined
Hey, whenever muslim terrorists kill people they say the same thing.
“”who could forget Obama/Holder since they all but started this race war in the first place””
Sheriff David Clark spared no criticism last night for obozo....He was royally ticked!!! We need every sheriff in the country, every law enforcement officer in the country to speak out about this. Shame - IF POSSIBLE - the WH and the politicians. I would expect that Trump would be the one to call out Jackson and Sharpton on this but I don’t believe he has. Shame if he hasn’t!!! It’s the only way the whole country will hear about it if for no other reason than to criticize Trump.
FOX reported last night that 23 law enforcement officers have been murdered in this country just this year alone!!
Right on the money.
There’s no doubt we have the most racist, white-hating administration in charge, giving ‘their people’ the green light to commit murder.
Some of them are sure to get pardoned before Jan 2017.
There is no question they want a race war. Question is will it happen before or after they confiscate whitey’s guns?
You just laid out the damning evidence as to exactly who the racists & race-baiters are in this country.
I heard Clark last night - outstanding (as always). The sheriff in the county where Goforth was killed was also very good - referring to the “national” dialogue that led to the targeting of the police. Then there was a sheriff’s deputy on from the county next to where the assassination took place, been in his job for 28 years. Judge Jeanine asked him if he was referring to the president with his overall comments & he said “yes”. I would like for Trump to call Obama out - he has the media hanging on his every word & they’d have a hard time covering it up.
Sanders: Too Often, Unarmed Black People Dragged from Cars and Shot
National Review ^ | 08/30/2015 | Jim Geraghty Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/423281/sanders-too-often-unarmed-bl
Posted on 8/30/2015, 12:45:29 PM by E. Pluribus Unum
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders told the host that “unarmed black people” getting ”dragged out of cars” or getting shot “is happening too often.”
Sanders said this after Tapper showed him video of Ron Hickman, the sheriff of Harris County, Texas, responding to the murder of a deputy sheriff at a gas station, declaring, “This rhetoric has gotten out of control. We have heard black lives matter, all lives matter. Well, cops’ lives matter, too. So why don’t we just drop the qualifier and just say lives matter and take that to the bank?”
I saw the comments he made. Sanders: ..... “we end this absurdity in America of having more people in jail than any other major country on earth, including China.”
Maybe we should change the subject only slightly & have Bernie comment on this regarding all the people in jail in America .....
**28% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens.
**The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.
**The dark side of illegal immigration: Nearly one million sex crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in the United States!
**$3 Million Dollars ‘PER DAY’ is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. That’s $1.2 Billion a year.
VERSUS .... let’s see those HORRIBLE statistics .... all those unarmed black people gettting dragged out of cars or getting shot ......
**652 people have been shot dead by police so far this year; 24 were black and unarmed.
B.S. needs to do his homework.
CORRECTIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS
Qiviut to MarvinStinson
I saw the comments he made. Sanders: ..... “we end this absurdity in America of having more people in jail than any other major country on earth, including China.”
Maybe we should change the subject only slightly & have Bernie comment on this regarding all the people in jail in America .....
**28% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens.
YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO JSE THE TERM ‘ILLEGAL ALIENS’
THE PROPER TERM IS ‘IMMIGRANTS.’
**The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.
WHITES ARE ALL RACISTS.
YOUR POST SHOWS YOU ARE AGAINST “THE CHILDREN.’
**The dark side of illegal immigration: Nearly one million sex crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in the United States!
SOON THERE WILL BE NO SUCH THING AS A ‘SEX CRIME’ IN THE US, ONCE THE US MAN-BOY ASSOCIATION TAKES OVER COMPLETELY.
**$3 Million Dollars ‘PER DAY’ is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. That’s $1.2 Billion a year.
GOOD REASON TO LET THEM ALL GO FREE.
PUT THAT MONEY INTO WELFARE FOR THESE IMMIGRANTS.
VERSUS .... let’s see those HORRIBLE statistics .... all those unarmed black people gettting dragged out of cars or getting shot ......
**652 people have been shot dead by police so far this year; 24 were black and unarmed.
ONE IS TOO MANY.
THE POLICE ARE RACISTS.
BLACK LIVES MATTER.
B.S. needs to do his homework.
Texas Deputy Executed Days After Black Radical Group Calls for Killing Cops
breitbart ^ | 8/28/15 | Bob Price and Lana Shadwick
Posted on 8/29/2015, 8:04:10 AM by bestintxas
No one can make me “politically correct” without my consent OR the short & sweet version (as Greg Gutfeld said to Whorealdo the other day) Screw You!!!
JUST kidding!! :-)
“The dark side of illegal immigration: Nearly one million sex crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in the United States!”
Gee, Megyn Kelly, a stalwart for women’s rights (supposedly), never seems to mention this.
But a two decade old non-issue about Rosie O’Donnell bothers her. What a phony.
Speaking of Holder, it would seem the contempt of congress really did him a lot of damage. Not
Terrific point.
Over One Thousand Gather Where Deputy was Executed
8/30/2015, 5:58:04 PM · by PROCON · 18 replies
Breitbart ^ | Aug. 30, 2015 | Lana Shadwick
I agree with every point you made in your post #20 . Good work Marvin.
Exactly!
“”More like 82.””
That’s the total number of law enforcement officers dying in 2015 - not murdered by the scum of the earth!!!
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