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juneaubound, LEOs are not going through anything now that is new. Outside of the Dec 2014 ambush in NYC of 2 cops executed, the others are typical of encountering violent criminals. I'm saddened by the news tonight, but sometimes traffic stops involve encountering murderous thugs.
If these shooters are taken alive will they be allowed to investigate themselves? After all if the roles were reversed that's what would happen.
Exactly, people are killed every day in this country. And many of these people are killed just for who they are, what religion they profess, what job they do, etc. Yet, there is this obnoxious worship of the police.
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As an aside - this coming week is National Police Week. If you care anything at all about what law enforcement officers are going through right now - or if you care anything at all about all of the law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty - please take the time to thank an officer for his or her service to your community. They live and work in dangerous times and need your support.
First, what is the most dangerous profession in America? The way you hear people talk you would think it was definitely being a police officer.
In reality, police are one of the safer professions. You are about ten times more likely to die as a lumberjack than as a police officer. You are twice as likely to die as a farmer than as a police officer.
In fact, police officers represent only 2% of all on-the-job deaths. The profession with the most deaths of them all, is any sort of "vehicle driver"(taxi cabs, truck drivers, delivery drivers, sales drivers, couriers, etc), with 19% of all deaths(which is the field of work I've been employed most in during my life).
So why are we supposed to worship the police? Well, who benefits the most from the existence of the police? Rich people. And who controls the media? Rich people.
Its also why we obsess about planes being hijacked, but no one really cares if someone gets stabbed on the greyhound bus. Rich people don't ride the bus.
I'm not happy that police officers are being shot. But, I find myself having less and less pity for a class of people who regularly break the same laws they are supposed to be enforcing. A group of men who protect each other, even when they are wrong(blue code of silence), through a system they control, at the expense of the rest of society. And even to enforce laws in ways that were never intended, for reasons which are obviously either politically or personally-motivated. And then to behave in an obviously ethically deplorable way, while claiming they were "just doing their job".
As someone said recently, "If We're Afraid Of The Police And The Police Are Afraid Of Us, What Are We Supposed To Do?"
Two more Americans who have exercised their Right to "keep and bare arms! Makes you proud to live in a Country where two low lives can off two of our finest. Thanks NRA!!!
Wonder if you also blame GM whenever someone is killed by a Chevy?
Who is it that helps low lifes like these 2 acquire weapons?
My answer would be a system that refused to put them away or attempt to rehabilitate them while in jail in the past.
Both men have multiple arrests for weapons and gun charges, and both have felony convictions.
If indeed it was even these two.
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Two Mississippi Cops Murdered
