Chuck Hughes, Salisbury, N.C.
♦ When did multiethnic-Grand Juries become irrelevant? When did community disruption and destruction by looters become acceptable? When did the criminal become the victim and the police officer the perpetrator? A good guess is when self-serving leaders such as tax evader Reverend Al Sharpton said it was so. Inappropriate speeches from leaders such as New York mayor Bill De Blasio and the president of the United States and accepting shouts of “Burn this mother f—er down” from enraged step-fathers also contributed to the execution of the two New York police officers, both of whom were minorities themselves. There are a lot of bloody hands out there and very few of these hands belong to those who wear shiny badges on blue uniforms and put their lives at risk at every call in order to protect us.
Under no condition should being a minority justify disobeying a police officer much less become a threat to a police officer. If they do, they become responsible for the outcome of the encounter even if they believe it was racial based. The country also needs to realize that you do not have to be black, Hispanic or of any other ethnic entity to be considered a minority in the mind of someone else.
If a police officer stops me for any reason, with hands on the steering wheel, the first thing I will say is, “Officer, I have a concealed weapon permit and I have a 38 special in my arm rest.” I will then follow every command given to me. If I have the delusion that I am being profiled because the officer hates red-headed Welshman, I will register a complaint later.
Wake up America. Racial bias, real or imagined, does not validate disobedience to legal authority, looting of community establishments or assassination of police officers eating their lunch.
Comply then complain. It is lifesaving advice.
