OUTRAGED AT THE LACK OF OUTRAGE

Why are there mass protests across the country when the police kill black lawbreakers but not when lawbreakers kill a cop?

When a police officer is murdered in the line of duty anywhere in this country, a part of American society dies with him!

On the night of April 28, Deputy Darren Goforth, 47, a married father of two and a 10-year veteran of the Harris County Sheriff’s Department, was gunned down at a Houston area gas station as he was refueling his patrol car. It was an unprovoked assassination. The shooter simply walked up behind the uniformed deputy, fired a shot execution style into the back of his head, and then fired 14 more shots into his body, most of them after the officer fell to the ground. The piece of shit then walked to a red pickup truck and fled.

After making a computer search for similar trucks in the area, officers located a red pickup truck parked in a residential driveway that matched the description of the truck in which the shooter fled. In less than 24 hours, the police had their man.

Deputy Goforth’s assassin was Shannon J. Miles, a 30-year-old black man with a misdemeanor arrest history and one felony arrest. In 2012 he nearly stomped a homeless man to death but was declared incompetent to stand trial and spent several months in a mental hospital. There is no known contact between the slain deputy and Miles prior to the unprovoked attack. Miles has been charged with capital murder.

There have been an alarming number of police officers killed since the death of 350-pound Eric Garner, who died in July 2014 as he struggled with NYPD cops who responded to complaints from small business owners that he was selling untaxed cigarettes. Except for the December 2014 assassination of NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos by a black man seeking revenge for the death of Garner and other blacks killed by cops, the killings of police officers have received only a few days of nationwide coverage, if any, by the media.

The deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and other black men at the hands of the police saturated the TV networks and newspapers for weeks on end. The endless media coverage undoubtably fueled mass protests and riots across the country. Even the suicide of Sandra Bland in a Texas jail generated weeks of news coverage and demonstrations from coast to coast.

I am outraged at the lack of outrage over the killing of cops by black men when there is so much outrage over the killing of black men by white cops.

I am outraged that it took President Obama three days before he sent his condolences to Deputy Goforth’s family. While the President condemned the revenge killings of NYPD officers Liu and Ramos, he also quickly sent his condolences to Michael Brown’s family and Ferguson’s black community, expressed his outrage over a grand jury’s refusal to indict the cops involved in the death of Eric Garner, and supported peaceful demonstrations over the death of Freddie Gray.

I am outraged that Al Sharpton has not come down to Houston to lead a demonstration by African-Americans in protest of the assassination of Deputy Goforth by Shannon Miles, and that he has not met with the family of the slain officer.

Although the TV network 30-minute newscasts have been giving the shooting of Deputy Goforth one or two minutes of daily coverage, I am outraged that they have not given him the ten minutes or more of daily coverage they gave the deaths of lawbreakers Michael Brown and Eric Garner, and of Freddie Gray who had served time in prison for dealing drugs.

I am out raged that since the assassination of Deputy Goforth, anti-police graffiti started showing up in Houston. “Fuck Cops” has been painted on walls. And worse yet, faces wearing a police hat with a gun pointed at it have been stenciled on walls, lighted business signs and other surfaces in a number of places.

I am outraged, extremely out raged, that ‘Black Lives Matter’ rabble parades around chanting “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon,” a clear call for the killing of cops.

And I am outraged by the lack of outrage across the country whenever a police officer gets killed. It certainly does not matter to ‘Black Lives Matter.’ Apparently, except for the local folks, no one else gives a shit either.