Simple Mind offers warns us not to judge those involved in
that police shooting this week that killed 34YO Casey Alarcon
:
Once again, shots have rang out in the little town of Sandpoint. Shots by a police officer. Then will come the judges..
not the ones in black robes, but the ones who sit in a coffee shop, get on social media and sit in the bars. They will judge the young man who lost his life.. They will judge the police officer… all with no facts .. only rumors that fly thru the town and over the social media. But who is anyone to judge? They were not there. They did not see the tortured soul of a young man. A young man who has had trouble with life for many years. The family who, God forbid, I hope did not watch it happen. With the exception of a brother. The parents who have watched their son be tore apart by demons of life. And the police officer, who had to make a decision to reach for that gun. To make a quick instant judgment, that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Do you seriously think he went home that night, and hugged his family, and said sadly, I had to take a life today, but that is part of my job?
More here.
(KHQ photo, of Casey Alarcon)