A Moment of Silence
A moment of silence please, for the death of poor Devin Brown, the thirteen-year-old child who suffered his death at the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Devin, a good boy, had stolen a car sometime in the early hours of the morning and led the police on a chase across the streets of Los Angeles. It was near four in the morning when Devin lost control of the car and drove up on the sidewalk.
When the police parked their car immediately behind the stolen vehicle, Devin, a wise and thoughtful child, decided that it would be better to injure or kill those in pursuit than to go to jail and backed his stolen car into the police car that had been chasing him.
In a display of selfishness, one of the officers opened fire on the boy in the car, discharging his weapon ten times and killing the innocent child.
And now, people across Los Angeles are calling for a review of the case and the neck of the officer who, selfishly, valued his own life more than he valued the life of a thief who tried to kill him.
Furthermore, Mayor James Hahn has called for a review of the practices of shooting into moving vehicles by the police. Yes, it seems that, he too, sees the folly of a police officer trying to defend himself against a child armed with a two thousand pound moving weapon.
And, I too, have to ask the question, what did that police officer think that he was doing? Doesn't he know that, when a criminal attacks you with a weapon that, he is supposed to lay down and surrender to the inevitable, even if it means losing his life? Apparently, he doesn't.
Well, it's a good thing the mayor knows it! It's a good thing that Pastor Charlie Rushing and actor Steve Harvey and Snoop Dogg and City Council members Martin Ludlow, Bernard C. Parks, Janice Hahn and Jan Perry and the Farrakhan group knows it. These people have all leant their support to this mother over the death of her innocent child.
And I am glad that they have. I am glad that her parenting was not brought into question. I am glad that they ignored the fact that her son was a criminal who attempted murder. I am glad that no one seems to care that the lives of the police officers who chased him were in danger. I am glad that no one cares that the child put the lives of other innocents in danger.
Finally, I am glad that
it was the police who singled out as being in the wrong and not her child.
Police have no business shooting at someone attempting to kill them, anyway.
