During a Mardi Gras celebration in Pioneer Square, a young man is killed. Various civic and special interest groups proclaim outrage calling it a senseless and racially motivated event.
In Seattle a police officer fires shots that kill a man who tried to run him over in a car. Again, special interest groups cry that this is a senseless and racially motivated event.
An off-duty King County deputy is involved in a shooting and the first thing that is pointed out is the difference in race and how the man was gunned downed by the police.
On June 22, a King County deputy serving the city of Newcastle is doing what he has taken an oath to do – protect and serve. He is allegedly attacked by a man who wrestles his duty gun away from him, shoots him, and then allegedly stands over him and empties the gun into him. The special interest and civic groups are quiet. This is truly a senseless death, but it is quiet. Where are those special interest and civic groups now?
Before the races of either party involved were known, where were these groups? A deputy is gunned down in cold blood and no one stands up to say how senseless this is. No one except for the others that wear a badge and have sworn to protect and serve the community. But when we do this, we are accused of “just sticking together and protecting one another. Trying to cover up.” There is nothing further from the truth. Those that serve do so with pride and commitment, regardless of ethnic origin or political and religious beliefs.
King County Sheriff Dave Reichert was right when he said the law enforcement is sick and tired of being nit-picked to death for doing their job and constantly being accused of racial profiling.
Again, I ask, where are these special interest and civic groups who have been so quick to cry racism and police misconduct, when this deputy was gunned down in cold blood?
Everett
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