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    Ed SpockHudson Hongo
    7/17/16 11:24pm

    I’m sure this heartbreaking story will cause police officers, and their unions around the country, to march en masse on the offices of the NRA, and their Republicans puppets, and demand once and for all that this country stop screwing around by hiding behind the 2nd amendment and make some serious goddamn changes to the gun laws of this country.

    Oh wait, actually it won’t. There’ll just be another tear jerking memorial service, and some empty words about stopping the violence.

    Carry on everyone. Nothing new to see here.

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      MarcospEd Spock
      7/17/16 11:29pm

      Yup! Let’s blame the tool. Not the people.

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      Ed SpockMarcosp
      7/17/16 11:30pm

      Funny you mention “tool”

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    FelixElixHudson Hongo
    7/17/16 11:02pm

    That poor little baby will never get to know his dad because of a deranged madman.

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      Sid and FinancyFelixElix
      7/17/16 11:25pm

      Yeah, thanks, Obama.

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      Fresh Courage TakeFelixElix
      7/17/16 11:45pm

      You’ll be the only one on Gawker who points out something innocent and sweet. That’s not edgy enough around here, or provocative enough, nor does it help the race war (false) narrative the left is trying to push, but I saw his child right away, too. Tragic. So tragic.

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    bassguitarheroHudson Hongo
    7/17/16 10:57pm

    Prayers out to and for black folks across the country. There’s probably gonna be a whole lot less of us by the end of the summer :(

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      Xan1567bassguitarhero
      7/17/16 11:14pm

      Wait, this is gawker.... I'm supposed to ridicule and demean you for offering prayers and condolences in such a situation. Right!?!?

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      cremoso1bassguitarhero
      7/17/16 11:22pm

      stop it. pray for EVERYONE.

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    ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeHudson Hongo
    7/17/16 10:55pm

    Goddamit, Night Gawker.

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      DrVinnyBoombatz╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      7/17/16 11:02pm

      Hongo is our Crypt Keeper.

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      NewYorkCityBoy╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      7/18/16 1:03am
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    TheBurnersMyDestinationHudson Hongo
    7/17/16 10:56pm

    NPR did an interview with Lt. Thomas Glover, president of the Black Police Association of Greater Dallas, which also speaks to some of these same feelings and issues:

    http://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/486…

    A quote from that interview:

    And there are black officers that you talk to on a daily basis who will tell you that it’s tough. I see this, and I still have to be accepted. I still have to be a part of the police culture, living in two worlds.

    But I’ll say that if you’re a black police officer in America, there are some difficulties simply because you know that your race and gender has been on the receiving end of some very serious and questionable uses of force, whether they be deadly or just plain force used to make an arrest. So it is seen as something that - a burden that we carry as African-American men who also work in police profession.

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      DecentAttemptTheBurnersMyDestination
      7/17/16 11:20pm

      A burden that they gladly accept. There is no record of this man speaking out against any of the bad cops in his department.

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      ThemorethingschangeDecentAttempt
      7/17/16 11:46pm

      Did you make this comment on every thread? Shut the fuck up

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    filmgirlHudson Hongo
    7/18/16 12:50pm

    I find it ironic that these killers are former military. I am sad for this officer and his family, he was one of the good ones.

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      PerennialParkerfilmgirl
      7/18/16 3:26pm

      I had the same thought and imagined that it might be they feel way more frustration in seeing all their brothers and sisters getting gunned down by the police in a country they served and risked their own lives to defend. That combined with the fact that they’ve probably seen combat, and are well familiar with guns, might make it easier for them to take that step. Even for me, not being black, it’s enraging and heartbreaking to see what’s the ongoing brutality of blacks by police in every fucking state. I can’t even begin to imagine what it must feel like for all the black men in this country.

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      filmgirlPerennialParker
      7/18/16 3:47pm

      Agreed, I will never know what it is like to be black, it must be very difficult worrying about how people perceive you.

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    The Original SunshineHudson Hongo
    7/18/16 9:45am

    That is utterly tragic. I am genuinely upset when crazy people do crazy shit like this and when good people die in the process.

    I wonder why most police shootings don’t get this kind of attention. Oh yeah, the shooters are white and not as scary.

    I have the answer to this spate of black on blue violence. The cops should just crack down even harder on black people in order to discourage people speaking out against excessive force. They should do utterly unfair and baffling things that cause us to fear them so much that we stop speaking out and demonstrating when they crack down harder on black people. If people would just stopped speaking out, crazy people wouldn’t want to shoot cops any more and we can all go back to believing that they are there to protect us.

    When people blame Obama for setting the country back, what they are really thinking is that a black man had the nerve to run for president and gave people of color the idea that they were some kind of human being deserving of respect. Making America great again means going back to a place and time where black people knew their place. That was great.

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      ww1383Hudson Hongo
      7/18/16 6:23am

      I wonder if we will hear any updates about the Sterling case at the next press conference since it’s the same peopleon charge of both situations.

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        GoonerbhoyHudson Hongo
        7/18/16 8:40am

        Sure, a good, uneducated guy might accidentally slip into the cop profession. But my cop neighbor and his co workers repeating things about “goddamn ni***rs” all day yesterday is more the reality. And it’s that sort of thing that reminds me that the origin of the profession is one of slave catchers here in the USA and forcing poor homeless people into workhouses in Europe.

        The “thin blue line” isn’t one between order and chaos but one between the poor and oppressed and those people truly responsible for the oppression.

        Cops are just being used as henchman for the rich. They are as much victims in all this as the rest of us.

        But yea, tell me more about them being well intentioned heros.

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          MaclinHudson Hongo
          7/17/16 10:54pm

          But what about my liberal hot-takes?

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