Check out this white woman's view from today's Daily News:
Christine M. Flowers: A LITTLE PROPORTION, PLEASE
Philadelphia Daily News
Liberal critics like this usually don't worry too much about being inconsistent. They never met a specious comparison they didn't like.
So it isn't a surprise that they've now focused on an
alleged case of "police brutality" in the heated hours after Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski was executed.
Although you hate to see this type of behavior, it's certainly
understandable how officers who'd lost a brother and who were under a heightened state of stress might have flown off the handle when apprehending suspects involved in a triple shooting, two of whom turn out to have records involving drugs and firearms.
But hey, why worry about details when you have a chance to scream about police brutality?
The lawyer for the unlucky trio really stepped up to the plate. He said that the police had "engaged in behavior that is indicative of guerrilla-warfare tactics that we would see in Iraq before we liberated that country."
Right. Philadelphia police and al Qaeda operatives. Apple here, orange there, same darn thing.
That a law-school graduate could make that kind of comment shows just how far into Wonderland we've wandered. Police apprehend three suspects
who might have resisted arrest, and get a little kick-happy for a few minutes and civilization as we know it has come to an end.
Meanwhile, preparations are being made to bury a fallen hero. He wasn't kicked to death. He was assassinated in cold blood. And yet his death is pushed slightly to the side so we can bash a few of his devastated comrades, men and women who haven't slept in days and who are struggling to deal with a common grief.
My suggestion: Let's ignore the unfortunates who got slapped around a bit because they were up to no good. Instead, let's turn our attention to the ones who matter:
The monsters behind the execution of Officer Liczbinski have rap sheets you could paper the walls with, but were sent back again and again into the communities they polluted like sewage.
Blame the judges who sentenced them, the lawyers who navigated them through the justice system, and the social workers and parole boards who said they deserved second and third and fourth chances.
AND BLAME the people who think that roughing up a suspect rises to the same level as murdering a police officer. Whose knee-jerk reaction is to blame the "pigs" while giving a pass to the true swine.
Another hero is gone. His brothers in heaven await him with open arms, beside the gate with St. Michael, patron of police.
But it's a sure bet that while his earthly body is being carried to its final resting place, someone somewhere will be watching a tape of three thugs getting roughed up.
And will say a prayer for the wrong people. *
Christine M. Flowers is a lawyer.
E-mail
cflowers1961@yahoo.com.