Texas Police Chief Murdered.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-chief-small-texas-town-killed-25099751

" A 24-year-old Texas man has been charged in the shooting death of a small-town police chief, a sheriff's spokeswoman said Sunday.

Joshua Manuel Lopez faces a charge of capital murder of a police officer in the killing of Elmendorf Police Chief Michael Pimentel, said Bexar County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Rosanne Hughes.

Pimentel was shot in the shoulder and abdomen while making a stop Saturday to serve an active misdemeanor warrant for graffiti. He was flown to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead."

 

It was just graffiti, man. #alsharpton

 

Let's see how many protests this generates compared to what happened in Ferguson, Missouri.

 

This is fucking terrible. Painting it as some sort of equivalent or counterpoint to the Ferguson case is idiotic.

 

It illustrates the danger that cops face every day. They don't know if they're going to make it home at the end of their shift. And then everyone wonders why cops seem so trigger-happy in dangerous neighborhoods.

 

Awful that this is; it certainly does not justify trigger-happy policeman, never, ever, unacceptable.

 

If the choice is between a dead criminal and a dead cop, I'll take a dead criminal every time.

 

Well, what if it's not a criminal?

 

That's not the foundation of our society and not even the equation. You don't get to gun down Michael Brown because someone else killed the chief 2000 miles away.

 

One does not justify the other, of course.

But people went into an outrage when an officer shot and killed someone. Now the shoe is on the other foot and an officer has been killed. Shouldn't that justify an equal amount of outrage?

 

Then they should have no problem cooperating with police, right?

 

No, but the bad neighborhoods increase the risk that a cop could get killed. While they are trained, there's still a human element.