Posted on 12/21/2014 11:45:30 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
My heart breaks for New York City tonight.
NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu had their lives stolen from them. Ismaaiyl Brinsley allegedly approached their marked police car and opened fire before later turning the gun on himself.
His Instagram account told the story: "I'm putting wings on pigs today. They take 1 of ours, let's take 2 of theirs" - vengeance for the death of New York's Eric Garner, who died after an officer's use of an illegal chokehold.
According to authorities, Brinsley shot and wounded his girlfriend earlier in the day. Clearly, Brinsley was a disturbed man. But sadly, the narrative won't be of an erratic, lone gunman, singling out New York's finest. It will be one of violent, evil retaliation, furthering the divide of a distrustful community and the officers sworn to protect it.
Brinsley's perverted brand of justice cannot be justified. Confronting injustice with more injustice just breeds more sorrow, more pain and more hate. My heart breaks for New Yorkers who now live in fear of further retaliation.
My heart breaks for the protesters, whose diligence was nearly unraveled by Brinsley's heinous actions. Peaceful protests, from New York last weekend to those in Birmingham just Friday, aimed to bring awareness to injustices that have plagued minority communities for generations. Those demonstrations have now been tainted, albeit unfairly, by the actions of a disturbed individual....
(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...
“Senseless murders”? - “social justice” is such a vague meaningless term that to some “killing two of theirs for one of ours” is probably perfectly justifiable as they define it.......
Just what does it “stain” Edward?
Thugs attacking cops, breaking laws, burning down city blocks?
You can take your “stain” and tattoo it right to your rectum.
Which, by the way may be where it is going to be applied very soon.
"The struggle" was NEVER about justice ... it was always about "gibsmedat".
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