“Isolated Incident” Waiting To Happen
Image is a capture from Facebook by Phoenix New Times
This story out of Phoenix today crossed my sight. It seems a police officer in Peoria, AZ Police Department posted a picture on his Facebook page showing a group of teens with weapons, proudly holding up a bullet-hole ridden Obama t-shirt.
In an interview with Sergeant Shearer, the officer in question, he says “I don’t think that the shooting of that T-shirt is that big of a deal.” …”It was more of a political statement.” He added, “It’s not like they were going to go out and shoot the president.”
Really? I wonder how many targets Jared Loughner used before he took aim and killed 9 last year? How does this police officer know that all of these kids were “just making a political statement”?
And when, just when, did this become something we’re expected to accept? Let’s look at just the last week, shall we? Crosshairs left on the offices of Democratic senators in Missouri. A Democratic campaign manager comes home with his family to find the family cat mutilated with the word “Liberal” painted on it. The governor of the state of Arizona shows the lack of respect we’d expect to see on Jerry Springer wagging her finger at the President, then lies about what happened (per the two mayors who were standing there). And this.
In one week.
The rhetoric is getting worse, and instead of figuring out how to cool it off, these kids are being featured on a cop’s Facebook page.
When the next nutjob goes after a Democrat, or kills innocent citizens because he’s afraid his guns are being taken away, it won’t be an “isolated incident”. We’ve seen it coming from a long way away.
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