Now before you all come after me with pitchforks and torches for strongly supporting law enforcement, I'll have you all know that I had a fallout shelter built in some remote part of the country and I'm hanging out there with my dog and some Taquitos, so joke's on you.
The only reason I say this is because I have a hefty number of Facebook friends who have been posting things along the lines of "If you support police officers, unfriend me. If you post anything about the #thinblueline, unfriend me. If you have common sense, unfriend me." So to those Facebook friends: bye guys! It's been real, it's been fun, can't say it's been real fun. Also, there are apparently people out there who support the Dallas massacre. To you guys, check with your insurance company; a psychoanalysis or some other mental health care may be free for you.
To the snipers who decided that they would destroy families, just because they were pissed off at white people: you are cowards. You're lower than the low; you're lesser than the dirt on my boots. You chose to hide like the scared, spineless creatures you are, hide somewhere safe and pick off cops.
How does it feel, huh? To know that you destroyed families, robbed children of parents, robbed spouses of their partners? Do you feel all big, bad and tough? Well, news flash, guys: we protect our own. I'm hopeful yet confident that you'll be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. To the dead suspect: you're lucky. You're lucky that you entered the sweet release of death and didn't have to face consequences for your actions. If you believe in a god, I hope you get yours from your higher power.
You murderers were “upset about Black Lives Matter” and “recent police shootings." I understand your pain, I do. I understand that you were confused and hurt that a life was taken for seemingly no reason. Seemingly. Yet all you saw was a grainy, shaky cell phone video and decided that officers were in the wrong and decided to slaughter officers who had NOTHING to do with the recent police shootings.
There are bad cops out there. There are also bad lawyers, bad doctors, bad EMTs, bad McDonald's workers, for God's sake. There are bad apples in every single profession. That doesn't mean that we shoot up a McDonald's because someone made your burger too hot. We investigate the bad officers, let the judicial system come to an informed decision and prosecute as necessary. We don't play vigilante and grab our rifles and post up on fire escapes to pick off cops like it's some messed up game of "Call of Duty."
Black Lives Matter is an incredible movement that's striving for change. I commend you all on that. I commend the peaceful protesters in Dallas who collaborated with officers to exercise their right to assemble. You individuals are respectable, commendable and deserve proper recognition as the backbone of the BLM movement.
Oftentimes, I see individuals who claim to be involved in the BLM movement who downright hate cops. Choruses of "kill the pigs" or similar stupid slogans grace my social media news feeds, and grace chants at otherwise "peaceful protests." I'm not sure what BLM thinks of you: are you what man-haters are to feminism? You misappropriate a group that's fighting for good, yet claim to stand behind said group?
Regardless of what you extremists are to BLM, you're worthless to me. If you want to "kill all cops" or whatever B.S. slogan you've come up with this time, you don't deserve the protection of cops. But wait...who would you call if you came home and your house had been broken into? What's your instinctive move if your daughter tells you she's been raped? Oh, that's right, call the police. Huh.
Peaceful protests are a great tool to obtain change. Peaceful protests are NOT putting down all law enforcement agents, or calling for the murder of police, or any of that junk we've been seeing lately. You don't see cops running around calling for the murder of all civilians, so why the hell should we call for the murder of cops? We shouldn't. It's really alarming that has to be said.
I wish that words could bring back the officers brutally murdered in Dallas. I wish that words could heal the wounds of the injured officers. I wish words could placate the families and friends of the officers involved. Just know, we stand behind you. We stand with the thin blue line, because we know that the vast majority of you are just trying to do your jobs as civil servants. We know that you put your uniform on every day, with the innate knowledge in the back of your head that you may never return to your families.
The officers murdered may be gone, but never forgotten. You've all answered the highest call -- and I wish you could know you didn't die in vain. You didn't die for the worthless maggots who murdered you. You didn't die for the individuals who don't appreciate or regard what you've done for us. You died protecting that thin blue line.
Rest in peace, our fallen friends.
