Surprising Sympathy Dawns In Projects(UGH)

New York Post ^ | 3/3/03 | Douglas Montero

[Alberta's Child]

Good thing I have expensive tastes when it comes to shoes -- my foot is planted firmly in my mouth. LOL.

I got her confused with the Gladys Taylor woman at the top of the article.

[newwahoo]

I'm a white NYPD cop and some of things I've seen so far in my very short career make my hair stand on end. An article like this makes me wonder why I bother to do what I do. Maybe I should just go somewhere else and let the whole place go to hell.

I'll be going to my first inspectors funeral now, and only the way my fellow cops of all races treat each other makes me feel any better. We're all "blue", not white or black. If the rest of the country was as close as we are we'd all be a lot better off.

And G-d bless my fallen brothers.

[dead]

Mmmmmmm. Shoe leather.

(it happens to all of us)

[davisdoug]

May God go before you. Never let anyone or anything deter you from what you do. Lately many strong folks appear to concede when the fight is just beginning. In my mind everything we all have in common and represent is worth fighting for. Hang in there.

[T Lady]

"Racism is not acceptable, not even for "minorities.""

Couldn't have said better myself.

...Unfortunately, the Liberal media has given non-Whites a pass for this sort of thing, based on the faulty logic of victimhood. In "Hating Whitey", author David Horowitz documents incident after incident of this; one of the most notable of these being Camille Cosby's USA Today op-ed piece run a year or so after the murder of son Ennis, in which she asserts that America taught her son's killer to hate; this was the catalyst that compelled Mr. Horowitz to write this book.

As a former radical himself, Horowitz understands clearly how the Liberal Left mindset works, and why it is so dangerous to America. I recommend purchasing a copy-it's out on paperback.

-Regards, T.

[newwahoo]

Thank you. I guess I'm going to hang in there as best I can. The department is actually one of the most conservative institutions that the city has, and the people I work with make it all worthwhile. That being said, much of this leftist cesspool doesn't deserve the sacrifice that these two men gave.

[davisdoug]

And they never will. But that is not for us to decide. I have lived in Kalifornia for 29 of my 35 years and every day things seem to get worse. Police do nothing in La Habra while a 9/11 memorial is defaced. That is just the beginning. I have been self employed for ten years and when I feel used and beat down by the state agencies (I have to deal with two or three on a daily basis) I realize that if I don't stand up and go forward who will? The attacks come from within and around. Strange Days to say the least. Go make the NYPD proud. Lord knows the SFPD could use you. Good job on the ammo BTW. Tax $$ at work. Love it!

[Question_Assumptions]

If it makes you feel any better, what seemed to get the attention of the woman at the beginning of the article was how dazed (i.e., emotional) the white officer was about losing his partner. To take some of the racism bite off of this, a lot of black people simply don't believe that whites really care about blacks or can show them any affection or concern. The emotion that officer showed for his dead partner illustrated just how wrong that is.

[Sam Cree]

Yeah, I am pretty much of a Horowitz fan too. "Radical Son" was a revelation to me. Haven't read "Hating Whitey."

IMO, if we always treated each other as *individuals* instead of indentifying ourselves as members of a group, and then treating ourselves differently because of what group we are perceived to belong to, there would be no "minorities," we would all just be Americans. I believe that is the logical conclusion and end result of the thinking behind our original American traditions of individual freedom. That we have often not followed this, right from the very beginning, has caused us endless sorrow, I think.

I drove through the Delaware Water Gap unknowingly in western New Jersey a couple weeks ago, I had no idea such beauty existed in the state, I was kind of stunned. But I hear San Diego is beautiful too.

[Question_Assumptions]

There is a lot of beauty in New Jersey. You just need to leave the Turnpike and Parkway to find it. Just don't tell the liberal New Yorkers. We have enough of them already.

[newwahoo]

I love the fact that all these libs bought me a sweet sig sauer and provide me with some practice ammo every month! Take care in Kali, I know you have many of the same problems we do just with better weather....

[newwahoo]

Its one of the saving graces of this job. You see the best and worst of the world (mostly the latter), but the love and concern we have for one another, regardless of background, has surprised me. You hear about it, but you have to see it to believe it. Its so different from the other jobs I've had. I'm sure the military is the same way, and its America at its best.

[jrushing]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/849276/posts/
Read the above, then read below.


Police Chief Tommy Cicardo said Friday that Molette was lying in wait for officers to come into his hideout. Molette was armed with an AK-47-type assault rifle and a handgun. He opened fire, killing the first two officers - David Ezernack and Jeremy "Jay" Carruth - who came in the front door.



Black community debates response
By The Associated Press
ALEXANDRIA -- The brother of a man who gunned down two police officers before being killed in a shootout last week was arrested Thursday without incident.
Shon Molette, 24, surrendered to Rapides Parish Sheriff William Hilton, who was accompanied by the Rev. James Hardison, at an Alexandria intersection about 4:15 p.m. Thursday.
Earlier Thursday afternoon, in a scene eerily reminiscent of last week's deadly shootout, members of the Rapides Parish sheriff's SWAT team searched houses in the Wardville area for Shon Molette.
Residents were evacuated, and Slocum Elementary School went into lockdown after the Sheriff's Office received an anonymous tip that Molette was in a nearby house.
The tip turned out to be false, but it was taken seriously, Hilton said.
Molette was arrested in connection with a Feb. 16 shooting. Hilton said the arrest of Shon Molette was not related to the Feb. 20 gunfight involving his older brother, Anthony Molette.
Police said Anthony Molette ambushed them and opened fire as they arrived at his home to issue a search warrant. Molette was suspected of firing on another officer the day before he died and killed officers Jeremy Carruth and David Ezernack before he was fatally shot.
Meanwhile, at an NAACP-sponsored rally Wednesday night, local black community leaders demanded answers and listed a littany of complaints against officers.
"Why was our neighborhood invaded?" asked Joe Buckner, president of the Alexandria chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "Why was our community shot up? Why was our old people and children not evacuated?"
The Rev. Raymond Brown, Louisiana chapter president of Al Sharpton's National Action Network and minister of defense for the New Black Panther Party, advocated stronger resistance.
While saying people should not go out and kill cops, he said innocent people should use "a low level of force" to resist wrongful arrest.
"You have the right to resist and refuse to go to jail," Brown said. "If they (the police) go upside your head and beat you, you go upside their head."
Only the innocent should resist, however, he said.
"I advocate that you have the right to resist a beating," he said. "I do not advocate that you go out and hit a police officer," he said when the crowd began shouting loudly.
Molette's mother provided a calmer tone and said she is afraid some people may see her son Anthony as a hero.
"I don't want this. I don't want this at all," Janice Molette said.
She made it clear she did not want vengeance for her son's death, nor did she want others to seek retribution against the police who shot him.
"I want answers," she said. "I don't want revenge. I do not condone what my child has done, but I would like to know the full situation.
"I don't want my son's death to lead to more deaths. I want my son's death to lead to change."

[Sam Cree]

I'd had no idea the NJ was so beautiful, only saw it before from the Jersey turnpike and the Garden State Parkway.

But I have an idea that every state must contain real beauty.

[Chi-Town Lady]

"You have to understand the kind of people these are -- just useless @ssholes who rely on the government for every moment of their existence but who b!tch and complain over every perceived "injustice."

Maybe they should get off their lazy fat a$$es and get a job. That way they might be too tired to bi*ch and moan about every little thing.

[ArrogantBustard]

uddenly, they could relate to a loss magnified by the fact that the officers died trying to protect them from the guns they fear.
My goodness, what a bunch of drivel. Fear of guns, or fear of facing armed hoodlums, while forcibly disarmed by their own government. I believe the situation has been described as "anarcho-tyranny".

I think a lot of people out here weren't worried about[the shootings] because they were white cops," she said.
"But when they heard the cops were black, they're attitude changed totally," she said. "And they started expressing concern for the police officers families."
Racism, ladies and germs, is alive and well. But few dare to call it by its right name.

[sheik yerbouty]

Exactly right. This has been a long standing problem in many of those communities, but big city pols are invertebrates.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

Good Luck in your career freind, I remember taking the police test at some school(I forget where), and walking out when it was over. All the skels had woken up by that time, I looked around and said "No Thanks!"

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

Bump That.