I wonder if it would be thought of as tacky if the gas station owner named the pump.
Yeah, all that’s needed is for cops around here to be even more jumpy.
(Note to self: drive very carefully, do not “roll stop”, make turn signals, do not speed).
Do you want to include the shooter’s in that?
Sandra got a street named after her, why not the cop?
Hanging yourself with a garbage can liner isn’t particularly heroic, either.
On the news tonight, we were told of the shooter’s criminal record–and ongoing mental problems. Sorry, I don’t think he was trying to start your race war. Someone wondered how he got a gun–but that question will not get much attention, this being Texas.
A black officer has already proposed naming a street after the victim. And his funeral will be held at the Second Baptist megachurch, open to the public. Pastor Ed Young is one of the more politically far right Southern Baptists–let’s hope he behaves.
Your point being, what? We should not have cared about the race of either the victim or the shooter from the start? That was what Bob was saying. When Bob posted what he posted, we didn’t no anything about the motive. And we still don’t know that, even with what you learned from the news tonight.
I’m not answering Bob, I’m answering you. Race might well have affected the shooter but it really seems he isn’t part of an organized group, as you suggested.
Millions of blacks in the country, one shoots a cop in the back of the head at a gas pump. Not exactly a trend.
I think the death penalty is in its last years. I would not be surprised to see the Supremes strike it down for the lack of truly painless ways to do it.
I didn’t suggest it was. I suggested ONE POSSIBLE REASON we might want to consider the race of the people involved in these type of shootings.
Don’t be dense, Bob. You’re smarter than that. And just how is one to determine if its a trend or not without considering the races of the people involved?
When the killing was first reported, I too wondered if it was a retribution killing for the recent spate of white officer / black victim violence but like Bridget after hearing more on the local news last night about Shannon Miles long history of violence against both officers and other members of the public and his battle with mental illness it’s now anybody’s guess what the motive was until he makes a statement on the matter. Obviously though anyone that will expend 15 bullets, all that Glock could hold in the mag and chamber, into the back of another innocent human is carrying a great deal of rage around.
The gas station where this happened is midway between my home and work. In fact since it happened on a H.S. football night friends called saying to stay away from the area, that it was locked down. It’s effect on much of the community has been palpable.
I think when you are mentally ill enough to pull a stunt like this (just like the TV shooting) race becomes an unlikely factor.
This is horribly disingenuous. No, it’s not a trend. That doesn’t mean we can’t draw certain conclusions from this killing, especially considering the prior rhetoric the shooter apparently posted.
It’s a tragedy when our public servants abuse their positions to murder people. It’s also a tragedy when people murder our public servants because of their positions.
I think his point is that the sample is defectively small in this case. Now, if we had 12 shootings, then examining race, among other things, would be relevant perhaps.
I take this part back. The killer hasn’t posted any rhetoric; the county sherriff just made some unsupported assertions.
That Dylann Roof shooting - that was a one-off, right? Do you think it was relevant to examine race then?
I think that’s fair. This guy may have had a beef against the cops and acted accordingly. Maybe race played a role in how he felt. That will come out.
Let’s try this angle. Suppose he had a beef with his cable company and murdered the first cable installer he came across. We wouldn’t see the same outrage and gnashing of teeth, though to his family his life would have been just as important as the cop’s life was to his. I’m just saying let’s keep the uniform worship out of these incidents.
Bill O is on the case.
And of course you got Ms. Hasselbach and Sen Cruz. I won’t link to them, I don’t like starting my morning by puking my guts out, gonna assume you don’t either.
What you’re too slow to see here is that a single example cannot evidence a trend. Until there are multiple examples, we have no dots to connect.
Ah so with Dylann Roof shooting, race was not relevant and should not be examined. Cuz just one dot. Nothing to connect. Gotcha.