Minutes before he was gunned down in his patrol car this wonderful officer bought cookies for a kid who was a complete stranger; the incident was caught on CCTV by McDonalds.
This is just…sickening. Such a wonderful mans life completely wasted while the cretin who shot him is still living. Not sure what I expect in terms of responses to this post, but I just wanted to talk about it a bit in an effort to honor this man and get my head right.
That story did bring tears to my eyes. He sounds like a good man.
I agree with you that it is not fair that someone who had such an honorable and constructive life is gone because of some dirtbag. To some extent I imagine that cops see the terrible side of humanity every day and it is no wonder many of them seem to become jaded by it.
I also think these kinds of unfair situations are why some people want so badly to believe in an afterlife for good people who didn’t get what they deserved in this life.
Yes. He seemed to be a great ambassador for the United States in his role as a marine and a fine example for the young man he purchased the cookies for. It is nice that he is being recognized for his generosity. It is ashame that he is only being recognized for his character after death. :smack:
Sad story indeed. I hope that kid makes something of himself.
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However . . . I am sick of having video as the only option to obtain a story. Can’t they put up a mother-cracking transcript? Being a fast reader, I’d rather skim an article for the meat of a story than wait for a video to load and sit through a commercial and then some talking head blabbing a bunch of filler before they get to the real story. </grump>
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Agreed. I get instantly flustered when a news website cannot be bothered to drop a few lines for those of us at work with no speakers or co-workers around.
