by Stephen Mills, Chief of Police, Apache, OK
I have purposely refrained from commenting on the recent police involved shootings. I have a long standing practice of not jumping to conclusions before we have all the facts. I will leave that to the mainstream media and the Obama Administration.
I have purposely refrained from commenting on the recent police involved shootings. I have a long standing practice of not jumping to conclusions before we have all the facts. I will leave that to the mainstream media and the Obama Administration.
But, with the recent attack on the peaceful Black Lives Matter protest and murder of police officers in Dallas I feel compelled to speak out. Notice I said attack on the Black Lives Matter protest as that is exactly what it was. I also didn’t say White police officers as they weren’t all white. It wasn’t just white people, or black people, or Asians or Hispanics, etc. that were attacked, it was all of us.
This was an attack by an individual who was so overcome by hate for white people and police officers that he wanted to kill his fellow human beings and didn’t care who might get in the way. Black lives didn’t matter to him. No lives mattered to him. The only thing that mattered was killing white people.
