One of my biggest pet peeves is when people just assume all police officers and law enforcement officers are corrupt. Let me let you in on a little secret, they're not. These men and women risk their lives everyday to keep us safe, yet they are always the first to be blamed in every situation. Police involved shooting, oh, the police had no right to shoot that person (even though this person has killed other people and if that police officer hadn't, he/she probably wouldn't be alive today either.) Basically any chance the media or public has to blame law enforcement, they take it. Because of this we never hear the good things they do.
In August of 2011, Officer Jeremy Henwood, a police officer for San Diego and a veteran who served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, had his final moments caught on camera. While on duty, he stopped off at McDonalds to get lunch. While there, a 10-year old boy asked him for ten cents to buy some cookies. Jeremy, rather than giving this boy the ten cents, he simply bought the boy the cookies. He talked to the boy for a little while then headed back to his car. (This was all caught on camera.) Several minutes later, after Officer Henwood was back in his patrol car, he was shot in the head and died.
Reading the comments made on this video angered me. While some people did say he was a good man and they were thankful for what he did, others used it as a chance to talk about how our government is corrupt and the shooter was black so why weren't people protesting it, Blah Blah, Blah. A man was killed and all people care about is the fact that our government was corrupt and the shooter was black.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4h_2vBVwUA
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