Stephanie
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So true. it's not the BLMs, Obama or Sharptons running in putting their lives on the line.
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The Heroes of San Bernardino
Kurt Schlichter
Los Angeles, CA
You didn’t back down.
We would have understood if you did, if you hesitated, if you backed off. Confronting a gang of heavily-armed terrorists with a bloody track record of murder – did you really sign up for that? When you kissed your spouse going out the door Wednesday morning, did you expect to be in a firefight that other law enforcement officers will dissect, discuss, and learn from long after you retire?
No. But you didn’t back down.
You didn’t back down because you made a promise, a promise to defend the people of San Bernardino with your lives if that’s what it came to. For most cops, it will never come to that, being face to face with three committed criminals who intended to take as many people with them as possible on their one-way trip to Hell. But it came to that for you on Wednesday.
And you didn’t back down.
You came from many different agencies, like the San Bernardino Sheriff Department and California Highway Patrol, but for you San Bernardino Police Department guys, it was your home. I know you. I was the senior officer at the 1st Battalion, 185 Armor’s armory down on Third Street for about six months back in the 2000s. You had a good relationship with the citizen soldiers of the Army Guard. In fact, one of the other officers there was on your force at the time; I thought of him a lot on Wednesday as the events unfolded.
San Bernardino’s a tough place, and you get saddled with dealing with the myriad social problems you did not create, but which you sure as hell get blamed for. The city teeters on the edge of bankruptcy and the town decays, but you still do your job. It’s easy to criticize the cops, mostly because you’re the ones who have to enforce the standard, and because you’re too busy doing your job and too professional to jump into the debate. You’re always the scapegoats. Politicians kiss up to punks who march calling for you to be murdered; sometimes people try to actually kill you. You are underpaid, under-supported, under-appreciated.
And yet, when you stood between those murderers and the people of San Bernardino, you didn’t back down.
ALL of it here:
The Heroes of San Bernardino
Snip:
The Heroes of San Bernardino
Kurt Schlichter
Los Angeles, CA
You didn’t back down.
We would have understood if you did, if you hesitated, if you backed off. Confronting a gang of heavily-armed terrorists with a bloody track record of murder – did you really sign up for that? When you kissed your spouse going out the door Wednesday morning, did you expect to be in a firefight that other law enforcement officers will dissect, discuss, and learn from long after you retire?
No. But you didn’t back down.
You didn’t back down because you made a promise, a promise to defend the people of San Bernardino with your lives if that’s what it came to. For most cops, it will never come to that, being face to face with three committed criminals who intended to take as many people with them as possible on their one-way trip to Hell. But it came to that for you on Wednesday.
And you didn’t back down.
You came from many different agencies, like the San Bernardino Sheriff Department and California Highway Patrol, but for you San Bernardino Police Department guys, it was your home. I know you. I was the senior officer at the 1st Battalion, 185 Armor’s armory down on Third Street for about six months back in the 2000s. You had a good relationship with the citizen soldiers of the Army Guard. In fact, one of the other officers there was on your force at the time; I thought of him a lot on Wednesday as the events unfolded.
San Bernardino’s a tough place, and you get saddled with dealing with the myriad social problems you did not create, but which you sure as hell get blamed for. The city teeters on the edge of bankruptcy and the town decays, but you still do your job. It’s easy to criticize the cops, mostly because you’re the ones who have to enforce the standard, and because you’re too busy doing your job and too professional to jump into the debate. You’re always the scapegoats. Politicians kiss up to punks who march calling for you to be murdered; sometimes people try to actually kill you. You are underpaid, under-supported, under-appreciated.
And yet, when you stood between those murderers and the people of San Bernardino, you didn’t back down.
ALL of it here:
The Heroes of San Bernardino
