whats wrong with this country is scumbags like that arent publicly hanged and made an example of.
Respect? so shooting a cop is going to get him respected by the cops? More like he's perpetuating the problem or IS the problem.
So what if he grew up in a scummy neighborhood, wasnt coddled as a kid, was too cool for school and decides to be a the scourge of society? Did his environment did make him buy an illegal firearm and shoot a cop. Hell no. He did. His choice PERIOD. There are lots of decent people living in the same conditions, they didnt do what he did. People have choices to make in life, the environment may limit opportunities, but if he choses not to grasp any of them, well I guess my tax dollars will buy him a nice cot in a cement cage or support his sorry butt via welfare when he gets out.
Cops, people in public service, they put their life on the line everyday, BY CHOICE, to defend even scumbags like this. So who isnt getting respect?
I'm tired of people making excuses for these low lifes and blaming the environment or anything else for making them do what they do. It's disgusting.
Hey, I'm all for it...as long as the scumbag CEO white collar criminals that bilk thousands of retirees out of their pensions every time we turn around are hanging right there beside them...as long as corupt cops that get caught tampering with evidence to make an charge stick are swinging too...and how about judges, DAs and yes, even juries in cases where someone was found guilty, spent half their life in jail, then were cleared by DNA evidence, let's get them fitted for nooses too...but that's never the case is it?
As far as the respect thing, no of course shooting cops isn't going to garner respect from cops, that's not what I was implying. As far as cops getting respected, it would help if every time they came into one of those high-risk communities it wasn't to arrest someone or shake every one in sight down because they "fit the description"...it's people like you that had no idea that police brutality even existed because it had never and would never happen to you. Most of mainstream America thought it was just "minorities whining" until the King video, then everybody gasped in astonishment. And those cops were coddled, had the trial moved to a cop-friendly jurisdiction to ensure the jurors were sympathetic, and were exonerated despite video taped evidence of those disgraces to the uniform going WAY above and beyond what would be considered justifiable force...and for every King tape we see, there are a thousand cases you don't hear about...unless you're living in those environments. So you tell me, where is this respect for the justice system and police officers supposed to come from? And I know brutality wasn't a factor in this case, I'm just illustrating where most of the attitudes towards cops and the law in general come from, and it's not just the criminal element...I've been profiled more times than I can count, stopped for no reason...I was even held in the middle of the street at gunpoint with those spotlights shining on me so someone that was assaulted could sit in the cruiser and "identify" me as the shooter, whom I was later told by friends on the force AND relatives of the victim was Asian, a description given to the responding officers at the time, and one that I don't fit...if you can't say the same then what you say in the matter holds no weight, you won't understand. Again, not defending the guy or making excuses...I just don't have the luxury of living life and looking at these kinds of issues with blinders on because I've EXPERIENCED the dark side.
And if you think that kid woke up that morning and said "I'm going to shoot a cop today", I'd suggest the decaf. Yeah, he made a choice. He made a choice to do what he had to do to survive in his enviornment, which involved joining a gang and getting a gun for protection, probably selling drugs or whatever for money, all bad choices yes, and ones that put him on the path to shooting that cop, but it's not a straight shot and it's definitely not cut and dry. PERIOD.