by Jesse J. Lewis, Sr.
It doesn’t make any difference whether you are Black or white, killing anyone in retribution is wrong. Even if you were to kill someone who murdered an individual close to you, it’s still wrong. As the old saying goes, two wrongs don’t make a right.
One of the first to speak out was Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York, who said:
“What happened was an assassination, which we haven’t had since 1988. It could be connected in an insane way, but it’s not unfair to create a connection between these two things,” said Giuliani, “and it’s certainly true that we have been treated to about three to four months of propaganda about how the police are the enemy; the police are the problem; the major problem between the police and the Black community.”
From the words of the killer, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, the killings were connected to the deaths of Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Missouri. The two officers were shot while sitting in their marked car in the Bedford-Stuyvesants section of Brooklyn after Brinsley posted messages on Instagram saying. “I’m Putting Wings on Pigs Today.”
He had seriously wounded his girlfriend about 5:45 a.m. After shooting the two policemen, he killed himself.
The most gratifying article I read regarding these two officers was written by Frank James Matthews, founder of Outcast Voters League. He called for a candle-lighting/sitdown for the NYPD police officers doing their job.
As two candles are lit in honor of the two killed police officers, the Outcast Voters League President will spend Christmas Day in front of the Birmingham Police Department Headquarters from 12 to 2:45 p.m., almost the time the officers were shot.
The President of the United States and the Afro-American community have spoken in one voice. That voice says this was a senseless killing and, in no uncertain terms, it was despicable.
