If I'm expected to shed a bucketful of tears for a dead 13-year-old Chicago boy named Adam Toledo, as tabloid TV "news" shows post cutesy-poo photos of his pre-deceased countenance, that's not going to happen. I do, however, grieve for the police officer who had little choice but to take that extra horrible step in a dark night place, instantly blowing Toledo's parental-failure, gun-toting ass to the cosmos. Why cry about it? There are plenty more to take his place, far younger and surely much older.
Your babies aren't cute anymore.
Toledo, perhaps with the assistance of the 21-year-old "friend" accompanying him on that fateful night, and with just maybe a noggin full of gang influence, shed his image as an innocent child when he entered or was dragged into the dark side. We are ever so frustrated when family members of deceased wrongdoers inevitably step before the TV cameras to sob and tell us what a good boy their dead son, brother, cousin or nephew was before the mean, mean policeman blew him away for no reason other than being a racist. 13? It appears, as never before, that age IS just a number.
We tire of this bull crap, and we fear it, too, because a significant portion of this country is apparently inhabited by ignorant, vicious mobs willing to organize at a moment's notice to riot, burn, harm, kill and destroy when anybody not considered white screws around with cops and generally gets what he or she deserves in the end.
Statistics, if memory recalls, indicate that nearly twice as many white folk were killed in the line of duty by police last year as colored people (again, before you correct me repeat to yourself what NAACP stands for).
Maxine Waters, meanwhile, is out there fomenting "confrontational" street engagements by the mobs. What a credit to her congressional office and her race, destined to be a hero to her people for all time. Whomever her people are. Combine her brain power with that of the similarly outspoken law enforcement expert and fading singer Madonna over the weekend and the tiniest thimbles of the country at last have something with which to be filled at least partially.
I'm deeply sorry that a Chicago cop was forced to do his job and take down forever a young thug whose age will forever scar that officer's mind. Unfortunately, there's a war internally, and as much as I would prefer to find some way to blast Chinese communists to hell and force Putin to make himself a polonium sandwich (bless you and thank you Mr. Navalny -- Russia's suffering class might have been so much better off with your influence), right now I'm all for giving cops the respect they deserve again and providing them all the weapons and power they need to clean up humano-toxic cities.
Hey Chicago (etc., etc.), you want to take this "child execution" to the ultimate step? Find the person who made the 9-1-1 call complaining about gunshots, necessitating visits by the police, and arrest that caller! It's their fault that any of this started, obviously. Hold the caller responsible for Toledo's demise.
The leftist radical bunch would have us believe that our police officers equate with Nazi storm troopers, but obviously they do not. But what of a female office in Minnesota who accidentally shot and killed a young black man? I'd be nervous too, considering his gun warrant. Yes, she messed up badly, but for the first time in modern history every cop in every town and city across the country is faced with extraordinary emotional stress every day, wondering if the next day might be their last, forced to confront a generation of the most stupid, violent, unrestrained and undisciplined young people ever encountered domestically.
In a nut shell, men and women who should never have produced children at all had a good time in the sack but produced an assembly line of youth raised with no standards at all. And for many, gangs are their nannies.
So what do you do when a police officer grabs the gun instead of the taser? Easy -- get rid of the tasers, those troublesome devices that add one more piece of sh** to constrain officers with belts filled with things city councils determined they Must Carry. How about this -- let cops carry guns, nightsticks and cameras. Forget the medical kits they "must" carry on their persons to save drug abuse consumers. You drugged up, dude or ma'am? Your choice and death ride together.
Which reminds me of a new scientific study (I haven't read this in depth yet) claiming that human penises are "shrinking." Hmm. Good. Now maybe nature will do something for the ladies in the name of equality and leftist "equity."
By the time you read this, the George Floyd death trial jury will be in deliberation, or maybe they'll finish up in ten minutes. Whatever happens, be assured that the leftist-prompted street trash who exist on welfare, drugs and hate and give absolutely nothing back to the country will be out there setting fires, aiming makeshift or well-organized weaponry at cops, and probably looting stores which will ultimately have no choice but to go out of business as insurance companies refuse to insure their potential reincarnations.
Don't look to the Biden syndicate. They're too busy still blaming Trump, flooding the border utilizing their criminal incompetence & intent, and attempting to make us believe the Paris Climate Accord is our new God -- and among all of that the Biden folk still have time to reinitiate the Democrat/Obama practice of kissing Iran's ass.
But for the moment, the thin blue line in every community stands in jeopardy due to leftists and lunatics with legislative power. Anybody in any position of authority clamoring to de-fund the police, weaken their authority or insist upon some crackpot idea of having weapon-less cops or mental health workers rush to crime scenes to converse with perps -- with no hint of firepower bargaining availability -- is a fool.