She did look pretty good in those tights, didn't she?
Posted on 07/08/2016 1:04:15 PM PDT by NRx
Few people understand loss better than David Brown, the Dallas police chief who stood before television cameras Friday morning and said, “We are heartbroken.”
Even before five police officers were killed Thursday at the site of a Black Lives Matter protest where seven other people were wounded, Brown had become intimate with loss, pummeled by it again and again in his career and personal life.
Before this week, violence had already taken from him a former partner, a brother, a son.
When Brown was named police chief in 2010, he entered the position with a reputation of being an intense and introspective leader, according to a Dallas Morning News profile, which quoted him as telling a friend, “You know I’m a loner, man.” But if he was a quiet force, his personal pain was very public — and would become even more so after the son who bore his name killed a police officer and another man before being fatally shot more than a dozen times.
At the time, in June 2010, Brown was only seven weeks into his new position as chief and again spoke of heartache, this time in a statement to his own officers.
“The past few days have been very troubling and emotional for all of us,” he told his 3,600-member department, according to an article by the Guardian. “My family has not only lost a son, but a fellow police officer and a private citizen lost their lives at the hands of our son. That hurts so deeply I cannot adequately express the sadness I feel inside my heart.”
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He threw a spectacular funeral and procession for his cop-killer son. They had to shut down the expressway for the parade through town. No quiet family ceremony for the drug dealing murderer. The police chief wanted to honor the boy for his accomplishments.
WHAT? When was that?
The word “partner” made me look twice. They were using the traditional meaning in this story. I hate how perfectly innocent words get co-opted by agenda groups.
Me too.
2010. Brown’s son killed a cop before being killed himself.
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2010/06/the-virulent-eruption-surround.html/
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.
Regardless of these issues, Brown was on borrowed time before yesterday. He won’t survive this.
His son was a COP KILLER???? And he’s Chief of Police?? WOW....weird.
Same here. I thought he probably went far enough back for “partner” not to be the distorted version.
Leave it to the WaPo to employ utter stupidity in their choice of article titles and euphemisms.
It must not have been due to the acts of any person, rather it was clearly the fault of that nasty, inexplicable, and unstoppable force of nature called 'violence'.
Shouldn't they at least be forthright enough to call it something catchy like "Murder Death Kill" instead?
(OK, now I have to search for some Sandra Bullock photos to put my mind at ease.)
When you think things can’t get any more weird in this country......
He acted weird at the press conference. Now I understand. Poor guy.
She did look pretty good in those tights, didn't she?
The largest contributor to this tragedy is the utter death of common sense brought about by the illogic that is the liberal mania.
All of us would love more than a dozen lives, although I would guess that being fatally shot the first dozen times is a painful experience most would rather not endure.
What is also unendurable is the now countless millions of times that the Compost has fatally shot the English language in their drive towards perfect liberal drivel.
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.
Agreed....
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.’” //
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