This is Thanksgiving 2018, Thursday November 22nd and Detective Benjamin Marconi is on my mind. San Jose Police Department set a table on November 23rd, 2016 with the pictures of fallen officers in what seemed less than a week however the truth is evident for November 2016. As the shock and horror of Cops being shot dead was more than words could put to ink it was in the gentle tears in which I shed that I knew that the San Jose Police Department did for me a present however please be reminded that this was in November 2016 and this is now November 22, 2018, two solid years has passed. I am regarding and extremely thankful to the San Jose Police Association as the fact that four Cops were shot in less than 24 hours and I was still having to carry on conversation over a Thanksgiving dinner at a strangers house and not a person mentioned the horror that had happened two days before still makes me gag.
Now as I prose my gentle words to whom may find this read I pronounce these words with stern approach as this nation, the America that I love is numb and your on a path of horror. As such I state to course of the public at-large that you are as a person in the chair at the dentist office and your under the effects of novocaine, hence, you are numb and in this I state implicitly that being numb for this long has been a reality.
As the word numb has been used on the media reports I am not compelled to explain further the effects of that numb state to the understood basis of novocaine and the reality that I require only a brief listen as the novocaine will wear off and the public at-large will realize that November 21, 2016, 5:57 AM:
4 cops shot in 24 hours in 4 cities, 2 shootings called targeted - CBS ...
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... to avoid salmonella in turkey. CBS/AP November 21, 2016, 5:57 AM ... One died; the other was shot twice in the face but was expected to survive. They were two of four officers shot Sunday in four incidents. A San Antonio detective .... "
Has the US Become Numb to School Shootings? - VOA News
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Reporting On Mass Shootings: A Familiar Heartbreaking Script : NPR
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Nov 11, 2018 - In the past year, NPR's Leila Fadel has had to report on the mass ... National ... Heard on All Things Considered ... A gunman opened fire Wednesday evening inside a country music bar, killing multiple people, including a responding ... People grew numb to the carnage, they didn't let it sink in, didn't want ...
Aug 30, 2018 - After shooting the people in the arena, police say Katz killed himself with his own gun. ... As much coverage as there was, there seems to be a longer lasting coverage for ... National media should have done more to make the details of the ... There are Iowa State students who are from all over the country.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
“When did shooting at cops become OK?’’ asks the controversial San Jose Police Officers’ Association video released for Thanksgiving. If you were looking for respite over your turkey and stuffing, it was enough to unsettle you. It wasn’t quite a family-friendly question.
The quick answer is that for the vast majority of us, shooting at cops is never OK. But you can’t understand the POA video — which in the end pushes a point of view — without fathoming the outrage of an officer on the receiving end of gunfire, even errant gunfire.
The POA video was the somber and intimidating response to the protests that have erupted after a jumble of cellphone videos have shown cops killing young black men for questionable reasons. The video skirted the hashtag war — yes — but ended by saying that Blue Lives Matter.
As a huge First Amendment booster, I believe the cops have every right to assert their point of view. Those of us who have never put on a uniform or considered the need for a bulletproof vest cannot fully understand their sense of being under assault.
In some ways, though, that’s the problem with the video: It’s designed to express outrage. It doesn’t really change anyone’s mind or bring anyone closer to understanding. The bad guys, sadly, are not going to be dissuaded by the video’s pledge to draw a line in the sand.
“Where is the outrage when police officers are targeted for murder?’’ asks the video . You could answer that by pointing to Dallas: After five officers were killed there in July, thousands turned out to mourn. President Barack Obama and former President George Bush spoke at the memorial.
When San Jose police Officer Michael Johnson was killed by a sniper on Senter Road in March 2015, Mayor Sam Liccardo rushed to the scene, calling it “San Jose’s darkest hour.’’ The mayor understood just what an outrage Johnson’s killing was.
The POA video, to be sure, was making a slightly different rhetorical point: Implicitly pointing to the protests on behalf of victims of police, it was asking why there was no equivalent response when a young shooter fired on two San Jose officers on Nov. 13. “Enough is enough,’’ said POA President Sgt. Paul Kelly.
The problem here is two-fold: First, there is no easy equivalence between the outrage fueling the Black Lives Matter movement and the quick decision by an alleged gang member to shoot at cops near Independence High School. The political lines here are far muddier than the video would suggest.
Second, the pledge to “draw a line in the sand,’’ while understandable, suggests a brittleness that does not serve cops well. It offers the haters of police a chance to vilify the men and women on a beat.
Let me offer a different scenario, this time from Dallas: In the days after the killing of five officers in July, two protests clashed near Dallas’ NorthPark Center. One was sponsored by the “Black Lives Matter’’ movement. The second was a counterprotest of residents waving American and Texas flags.
After the temperatures had cooled, the two sides joined to offer a prayer for their common plight. The peace was brokered by Sgt. Jeff Hall, a 27-year Dallas police veteran who told reporters that he had never seen protests come together like that.
The sergeant deserves our thanks. In that one act, he accomplished far more than a stern video could ever hope to do.
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