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I am going to spend a lot time examining the various stories connected with the killings of the four police persons and the people who, in any way, are found to have supported the individual who killed them. I am sure there will be a great deal I can learn about who I am, who we, as various communities and diverse individuals, are,and what steps we take to support each other and to separate ourselves from one another.
There is NO hole in MY heart!
Four more job openings at the Lakewood PD...anyone interested? So what another four officers got killed? It comes with the territory! It's part of the job hazards! So many officers think and act like they are above any law! You think they are out to protect and serve...a bunch of crock! And it was the judicial office itself that let that hero lose to kill them anyways!! Hahahahaha...such irony! And now the begging for money begins! Money for the families of the fallen...another bunch of crock! Do military families who have lost loved ones who protect this country go public and beg the public to donate money? The Police, Sheriff and other law enforcers need to get off their high horses! It's a good thing events like this happens..so as to remind these arrogant people "they" are not above all laws!
It is an occasion for sorrow for me when any human being is killed... police persons, members of the military, individuals who have been assaulted and killed...
I think that there are individuals in every group who use and abuse others for so many very sad, sick reasons...
Othes of us either choose to support all those who have been hurt or deny either that anyone is being cruelly used or that they themselves are the ones who do the abuse...
And many people go way, way out of their way to help the families of women and men who have sacrificed their lives for their fellow human beings... in the police or the military, for example
I think it is very important that I ask myself and that we ask ourselves this question: in what ways am I choosing to use and abuse others...
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