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When the shadow did
not respond, he immediately opened fired and killed the
homeowner.
Of course, the police
are investigating it and are trying to dampen down the
impact of this house shooting coming on the heels of the
recent police shooting in Dallas of Botham Jean by the cop,
Amber Guyger.
As you may know, in
Texas, there is an open carry law and a “Castle” law, so the
homeowner was totally within her rights to arm up when she
saw, in the dark, an unknown person carrying a flashlight
out and about her property.
According to Texas
law, she had every right to be armed in her own home and to
stand and defend herself and her property from this yet to
be known possibly armed intruder.
Too little, too late
for Ms. Jefferson. She was immediately determined to be a
threat and was promptly disposed of by this trigger-happy
cop (according to reports, he has resigned from the police
force).
Again, a black person
meets her fate at the end of a barrel of a police gun and
again, she is minding her own business not knowing that in a
few seconds, she will be thrust into eternity by a person
who is ostensibly supposed to protect and serve.
This leads me to
compile a list of activities that you can be engaged in but
if you are confronted by the wrong police officer, you
hopefully will have burial insurance and a church home in
which to have the after-funeral repast.
So, here they are in
no particular order. Remember! If you are engaged in any of
these activities, beware you may not know that you are being
watched and are now targeted for an easy and deadly kill
shot!
Note: If you are the
shooter, simply say, “I was fearful for my live or he/she
made a “furtive” move and I shot in self-defense!” It works
almost 95 percent of the time!
One: You are in a
laundromat and as you are reaching into the deep dryer to
pull out clothes, you pull out a shiny object (the metal
strap to your bra); and the nervous onsite security guard
sees it and panics and shoots you. Moral of the story: stop
wearing bras!
Two: You are at Kroger and
you have a sudden asthma attack!
You drop the package, it
makes a loud metallic sound and you reach for your inhaler
which is in your waistband, the off-duty cop sees you
reaching for a shiny object and says, “Halt!” but you
continue, not realizing that he is yelling at you. Too bad!
By the time you look up, you have been shot four times in
the chest.
Moral of the story: Attach
your inhaler to your collar for all to see.
Three: Your daughter,
Tyl-Linquella, just arrived at the school dance. As she
exits the car, you tell her to call you. You drive away but
at some distance your car backfires and your daughter takes
out her silver phone to call you to make sure the car is
OK. The off-duty police officer hears the backfire thinking
it is a gun and sees you standing there with a shiny object
in your hand. The next thing you know, you are in surgery
for a gunshot wound to the head. Moral of the story: stop
going to school dances!
Four: You are at college.
You just came back from the grocer with two packages and are
about to carry them up the outside stairs to your apartment.
The undercover cops are on a stake out looking for someone
in a striped shirt with dark green pants. You are wearing a
white shirt and brown shorts. You are told to stop but you
keep on going up the stairs. The two cops approach you with
guns drawn. You slowly put down the bags and turn to them.
One officer yells out,
“He’s got a gun!” The last look on your puzzled face is, “whaaaaa?”
Moral of the story: It is best to order groceries on-line
and have them delivered to you.
Five: You are driving in
Ottawa Hills in a hooptie of a car. You do a “Californa
stop” at a stop sign and blue lights appear in your
rear-view mirror. You pull over to the side, roll down your
window and turn off the radio. The cop comes up and asks for
your registration and insurance. You say, “Sure, officer…”
and reach for your glove compartment. Inside you
accidentally knock out the silver flashlight onto the floor.
The officer panics and
says, “Gun!” You look up and see the barrel of his gun at
your head. Bingo! You are history.
Moral of the story: When
driving at night, use Uber or Lyft and then the driver will
get shot, not you.
Six: You are at a park
with your two girls when you see two police officers
approaching you. You nervously wonder what this is about to
be. The cops say that two women reported that there is a
black man chasing around two little girls who are screaming.
You tell the cops that
those two girls are your kids and you are playing hide and
seek. The officers tell you to get on your knees so they can
cuff you, but you resist saying that you have done nothing
wrong. You reach inside your coat for your picture ID
showing that you are an assistant professor at Toledo
University. Bad move! One officer thinks he saw a butt of a
gun and fires three shots. One hit their mark.
Moral of the story: Do
not go to public places and make fun with your kids. It can
be very dangerous.
Seven: Your brother is
accused of shoplifting by a story security detective. You
are across the store floor but start to come to the scene of
the incident. The cop tries puts your brother in a choke
hold and you protest and struggle to free your brother, but
you do not touch the cop. The cop yells and the other store
cop comes over and shoots you thinking you were trying to
reach for the detective gun. Moral of the story: Whenever
possible, shop alone.
Eight: You are in your
backyard listening to a ballgame. Suddenly, a person runs
into your yard being chased by three police officers. You
sit there and wonder what is going on!
You get up and go into the
house to get your cellphone to record to what is happening.
When you return and raise the camera up, one of the cop
yells, “Gun!” You wake up later in a hospital with no
feeling from your neck on down. Moral of the story:
It is better to listen to
sport programming inside a house…not outside.
As you can see, police
can and will invent practically any excuse to use deadly
force when other least drastic means are available to the
officer to defuse the situation.
But these cops
seemingly would rather rely upon deadly force than engage
themselves into a fray so that innocent lives are not lost.
What does all this
mean? Simple: Any confrontation with police can be a deadly
encounter and for reasons that you had nothing to do with.
Remedy? Demand how police are taught at the academy on the
use of deadly force and other means of control that do not
involve your family meeting with members of The Day Funeral
Home.
Contact Lafe Tolliver at
tolliver@juno.com
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