Special Police
Questions for
My Law Enforcement Friends
by Angel Shamaya
Director/Founder
KeepAndBearArms.com
This past year taught us many things. Among
them, police officers who killed people under circumstances that seem like they
would have landed citizens in prison are still getting paid to follow orders.
What should we make of that?
A couple of examples? No problem. I've got
numerous such reports on file from the past year, but these two are in a recent
New York Times article
you can go read for yourself, so I will use them:
March 1: Malcolm Ferguson, 23, 1045
Boynton Ave., Bronx, New York
Ferguson was fatally shot in the head at
close range by narcotics cop Luis Rivera during a struggle. Ferguson, who was
unarmed, allegedly was selling heroin in the building�s vestibule.
Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson
declined to present the case to a grand jury, calling the shooting
"accidental." The attorney for Ferguson�s family said there was no
evidence of a struggle.
July 7: D�Ande Darnell Cisco, 25,
Grand Central Parkway at Francis Lewis Blvd., Queens, New York
Cisco was riding in his friend�s Kia when
he jumped out of the moving car. He ran to a pickup truck and punched the
driver, off-duty Sgt. Stephen Borchers. Cisco then ran to the passenger�s
side of the truck and attacked off-duty Detective Jean Weller. Borchers and
Weller shot Cisco five times.
An autopsy disclosed that Cisco had marijuana
in his system, but not enough to explain his actions. Queens prosecutors are
investigating.
Quite a few police officers read our site;
several of them are my friends. A couple of them have called me within the last
couple of days -- to offer moral support while I fend off false accusations that
I am "anti-cop." I'll ask these police officer friends of mine a
couple of questions, and you can listen:
- If an unarmed guy comes up and punches me
while I'm sitting in
my car, can I shoot him five times and kill him and go on about my business?
(If not, why aren't those cops in prison for murder?)
- If I suspect an unarmed guy sells drugs, can
I shoot him in the head at close range, call it an "accident" and go on
my merry way? (If not, why isn't that cop in
prison?)
I'd love to have a satisfying answer to
those questions. Please put your answers in an article here: http://www.keepandbeararms.com/newsarchives/XcNPAdd.asp.
Simple, direct answers to the questions are
what I'm looking for, but feel free use as many words as you need while answering the
questions.
