a man in Alabama recently reminded us once again that, in fact, the most lethal threat to police lives from a radical terrorist element in the United States comes from the white far right.
To be more specific…
In addition to the charges for shooting three police officers, he also faces attempted strangulation and domestic violence charges for his assault on the woman police found at the home.
…the most lethal threat to police lives from a radical terrorist element in the United States comes from white far right extremists with a history of domestic violence.
Whoa, wait… the guy put bullets into three cops, killing one, and he’s still alive?
But… But… But… I thought blue lives mattered?
Oh right. They only matter as long as they’re serving as fugitive slave patrols. The rest of the time these asshats think they have a Second Amendment right to kill them.
Interestingly, this is statistically the most common background for members of the police force
They said he was white.
Huh. I had thought that phenomenon was on the wane.
That Bruce Wayne fellow always struck me as a bit off kilter
Beat me to it…
When I saw the caption for the booking photo, I wondered if News of the Weird was still around and keeping tally.
Right? it’s like Bizarro Elsewhere.
Trauma from domestic violence backgrounds is a huge issue for cops. Many police officers get into it because they grew up in families where their fathers were abusing their mothers. As an older teen, they stepped in as a protector. Then this protective mentality became their MO; their job.
There is a very good teacher about emotional intelligence, Karla McClaren, who talks in her book about how police officers are empaths who often take on a lot of the trauma that they are surrounded by. They generally do not have very good emotional coping tools; they tend to use dark humor and shutting down to cope with the emotional connection that they feel toward the people they help. Domestic violence cases are really hard for cops to deal with effectively because of the emotional triggers there, and because it is rare for dv victims to go through a prosecution; so, there is very little sense of actually “saving” anyone in these cases.
This is why the suicide rate among police officers is sky high.
I think that the white nationalist aspect of it comes along with the trauma and sense of helplessness (even though they have the power that they thought would help them escape).
I personally think that bringing some real trauma healing to our police officers could be one of the most powerful things we could do for our country; however, it’ll probably be a cold day in hell when any of these departments actually acknowledge the emotional wounds and need for healing of their officers.
It’s in Funny Times at least, but I think Chuck Shepherd retired from it.
Funny Times is a monthly newspaper of cartoons (political and otherwise), columns, essays, etc., all with a leftist bent.
Did you not notice his skin color?
I used to get that publication regularly I should pick it up more often.
I feel like we need to have a Re-Klanification of America thread, because it’s still white supremacy, but manifests slightly differently:
You say ‘Get, get’ to a stray dog that’s on your porch,” she told WCBI. “That ‘Get, get’ got to me more than ‘You don’t belong here.’
Richie Incognito. That is a name I have not heard in a long time.
Hopefully he ends up as a tackle dummy.
That was my first thought, too.