According to the
latest reports, the homeless man gunned down the shoot-happy Fairfax County police
was unarmed. It appears that the cops
panicked, but that isn’t really what happened. According to witnesses, when the man attacked
the police, one of the cops pulled out his service revolver and fired three
shots at the man killing him.
Here’s what they
could have done instead;
There were two
cops and one man, with more cops on the way. They could have tried to psychically
restraint him. We paid for their training in psychically restraining a person.
They know how to do.
They could have
used clubs on him. We gave them the right to do it and no one would have blamed
them if they did.
They could have
tased him. We trained them to use the taser. We gave them the right to do it
and no one would have blamed them if they did.
But they shot him
dead.
At first glance,
a scared cop looks to be fault in this killing. But that isn’t it. What killed
that man is the culture of contempt that rules over the Fairfax County Police
Department and in a few months, it will kill others as well. The cop who pulled
the trigger along with every cop on the Fairfax County Police force and every
citizen in Fairfax County knows that nothing will come of this.
Watch
and see. Just like the killing of
the unarmed John Geer in Springfield earlier this year, nothing will become of
this killing either.
Watch and see. This is as
far as this story is going to go. In the end, once again, the Fairfax County
cops will investigate the Fairfax County cops and find the Fairfax County
harmless in the incident.