Losing A Young, Unarmed Son Or Daughter To Needless Paid-For Violence: Unimaginable

We don't in any way need government-sanctioned slaughter of our children in the streets.
Police have no right to absolute power over any citizen in a free country.
My daughter was gotten off the sidewalk when she was a senior in high school. She was chalking
up her elevated view of her class at the city curb. The officer realized after a day or two she went right back out there when he wasn't looking. Did he shoot and kill her, no he didn't. His mom was
probably not a crack-head.
I still have my child. She is a grown woman with two kids of her own, but I have as one of my dearest memories the day I dressed her to get her home from the maternity ward when she was three
days old. Mike Brown Jr.'s mom deserved her grandchildren too. She remembers bringing her baby
home to introduce him to living in the world.
She never once imagined teen-aged high spirit in her boy would attract a freak in her neighborhood to
shoot the whole place up, and leave her child to lie in the streets full of "police" lead.
We no longer have a right to criticize Tiannamen Square. America is losing credibility quickly.
Heavily armed, full grown, professionally trained men happily profess to be terrified of unarmed,
individual youths.
How is anyone supposed to take people like that seriously?
Aren't the killers the ones who are murderous thugs when they have attack an unarmed person over cigarettes- six or seven to one?!
One of the policemen who was on duty at a popular island on the Detroit River saw my girl playing
there with her water-gun rifle. The officer stopped her and told her the play was unsafe because the gun looked too real.
Did he draw down on her when he told her to stop playing with that rifle toy?
No he didn't.
She was a bit of a fireball in those days, but she would never have killed anyone.
Thank heavens the parents of the officers my child encountered can probably say the same thing of their sons when those sons were able to realistically assess when no danger was threatening in their immediate environments.
The most decent parents of policemen are like the parents of other people; they know their children
are not very likely to be killed by unarmed citizens.
A lot of people in this world would have no life or very diminished lives if that policeman had killed
that particular seventeen-year-old child all those years ago.
She earned a degree in Honors Psychology from the Honors College at the University of Michigan,
and she did a lot of real world research on her professors projects with troubled portions of several
communities as she worked toward that degree. She even did some work in South Africa.
She actually used her calculus and statistics academics to translate problems of people who were part of the pools in her testing samples into problems with hopes of some realistic insight, if not change, for those most intimately affected by the troubled lifestyles she was studying.
Eric Garner's mom has been looking forward to her son being with her as she grew older.
Tamir Rice's mom deserved to see her grandchildren.
These people were killed because they had no sense of needing to show blind, unthinking obedience
to unreasonable, nutty, policemen?
Well- people still won't do that.
But we do have to find a way to protect our children from rabid dogs- even those on two legs.
The Klan has ripped off the white robes and replaced them with blue pants.
But garbage by any other name...you know.