Am I the only one with empathy towards the police these days? I respect cops for the thankless job they do protecting the public, often putting their own lives at risk to protect law abiding citizens.

Recent news coverage of cops shooting unarmed suspects is fascinating only because of its predominance over other more significant issues like soaring inner city crime, terrorist acts, immigration irregularities, banking crises in Europe and cyber crime.

When reading and watching the breathy news reports about police brutality, I’m troubled by the dearth of coverage concerning the laws being broken and crimes being perpetrated by these so-called innocent, unarmed felons, all of whom were ‘preparing for college’ when shot.

Okay, okay, I’ll admit there are probably are some overzealous or poorly trained cops on the streets who should be removed from their positions of trust.

But there are also felonious people running banks, hedge funds, pharmaceuticals, insurance companies, even illegal cigar shops. Where is the outcry about these guys? I suspect the reason is that no political gain can be derived therefrom.

Making an ‘unarmed, black teen’,  the aggrieved victim generates votes for the politically correct, left leaning, voting blocks.  A recent example:

Yesterday there were nationwide protests against the fatal shooting of an ‘unarmed black man’, Alfred Olango, by police officers in El Cajon, CA. His sister had called 911 for help because he was acting ‘erratically’.

This was a man who arrived here in 1991 from Uganda and who federal authorities twice tried to deport. But Ugandan authorities refused to take him back; so, according to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning the ‘detention of foreign nationals after six months if deportation is unlikely’, he was released into American society.

In 2005, he was arrested on charges of selling cocaine, driving drunk and illegally possessing a 9-millimeter semiautomatic handgun. The police, on that occasion, found marijuana and the drug ecstasy in his car. He was sentenced to four years in prison for felonious possession of  a weapon.

Soon after his release in 2009, immigration authorities again took Olango into custody following a firearms conviction in Colorado but were unable to deport him due to a “lack of documentation”. (Say what?)

When stopped this week in El Cajon, he refused to obey the police order to exit his vehicle. When he  eventually got out of the car he assumed a two-handed shooters stance and pointed something at the officer. His sister claims it was a book. There was no book found at the scene but there was a handgun lying beside the car when Olango was shot.

Was he mentally deranged? Possibly, but how is a police officer in that situation to know? And, how is a mentally impaired individual able to purchase and carry a weapon?             Are we supposed to feel sorry for this guy?

Notwithstanding the incessant ranting, chanting and protesting by the Black Lives Matter crowd,  I don’t think so.

BUT: BREAKING NEWS !-

The proposed solution, according to the NY Times and Lester Holt, is to retrain police to be more understanding of the minority communities and the crises they face day to day. “We must talk them down from their anger.”

I respectfully disagree and submit that a better solution would be to educate the immigrants, legal and illegal, about how to conduct themselves in a community that is based on laws, self-discipline and the value of all lives.  Next we should re-educate the U.S. Supreme Court to avoid any future foolish decisions they hand down. (Anybody remember ‘Citizens United’?)

After these groups are educated, and only after, should we consider retraining the police.

You are welcome.

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