Sign of the Times

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This time last year there were so many yummy goodies on the table behind my desk that there wasn't room for anymore. This year we got one tin of yummy pecans (I was in pecan heven!) and that's been it. Hmmm...must be the economy.

Another sign of the times: I swear the insane are running the asylum! On sunday two cops tried to pull over a thug in a stolen SUV, which by the way they had reports that he had drugs and guns in said stolen SUV. When he wouldn't stop for them they boxed him in at which point is started raming the police cars. One of the officers had gotten out of his car to apprehend said thug who then tried to run the officer over. So the officer shot him in self defense. The people of the projects (where this upstanding young citizen tried to run from police and turned an SUV into a deadly weapon) rioted. When his family took him off life support, last night, they held a candle light vigil for the thug and then started throw bottles and rocks at the police. At one point an officer patroling in his car hear gun shots, turns out his car had been hit by a bullet. Thankfully he didn't get hit.
I read some of the comments in the newspaper's story online and it was absolutely ridiculous, people saying things like he was trying to flee they should have let him go. Yes of course because we should let all criminals do as they please. And of course it's a racial thing, damn those racial cops, nevermind that of the two cops involved in the incident, one was African American the other was Hispanic.
What I don't understand is why it is that when a known drug dealing thug who tries to run over a cop while fleeing in a stolen vehicle is shot in self defense riots break out and damned be the police; but if the officer wouldn't have shot the thug and he would have run over and killed the officer he would have been a cult hero in the projects. Where are the riots when a police officer is killed in the line of duty? Why are the no good piece of trash criminals exhalted and the people that go out there everyday and put their lives on the line to keep our communities safe treated like garbage?
Here is a history of the arrest record of this fine young citizen:

By the way all the comments to this video are along the lines of his past doesn't matter, he did so much good and you are making him look bad. No he made himself look bad.

And the outrage!


Don't you just love when this guy says they can't fight these men with their guns. That's how he talks about the deputies. Here's a thought, quit breaking the law!
It just seems so simple. Instead of inciting hate and the victim mentality why don't you teach your children to respect the law and to be good responsible citizens?
And by the way, in one of the comments I read from the news paper today it said that witnesses said he was just stoped at the stop sign when he was shot, but notice the stolen vehicle is on the grass. I guess things must be different on that side of town, you don't drive on the asphalt you drive on the lawn.