We’re all so fortunate that the two cops who were deliberately attacked by a thug in a fleeing car on Friday are in stable condition and have been released from hospital.
KTVU-TV interviewed City Council member Charlene Wang, in whose district the assault occurred, and her reaction was one of surprise. She was shocked, shocked at how dangerous policing is in the Little Saigon neighborhood of East Oakland. Well, yes, being a cop is dangerous anywhere and everywhere in Oakland. Did it take this attack for Wang to realize it? I just hope she will keep that in mind when future measures affecting cops are being voted on in Council. So far, she’s been generally pro-public safety, but too often she straddles issues related to police funding, making it difficult to ascertain where she really stands. Some things can’t and shouldn’t be triangulated, and supporting the police is one of them.
It’s ironic that the treacherous, cowardly assault on the two cops occurred one day after the Oakland Police Officers Association held their annual day of remembrance for fallen police. Fifty-five have died in the line of duty over the years. That number could easily have risen to 56 or even 57 had the criminal succeeded in killing the two cops. Fortunately, one of them was able to shoot and wound the perp before he could do any more damage. Personally, I wish the perp had been killed.
When I say that, does it upset any of you? Seem a little extreme? Extreme times call for extreme measures. Had he died, we would have been spared further violence and criminality from him, as well as the high cost of imprisoning him. His family, if he has any, would have been heartbroken, but if we have to weigh the family’s grief against our collective safety plus getting retribution, I’ll go with safety + retribution. One less maniac on the street, is how I see it. Live by the sword, die by the sword; that’s from Jesus himself (Matthew 26, 26:52). He wasn’t justifying it, just pointing out a karmic reality.
Conceptually, it’s only a short hop from “defund the police” to “kill the police.” Anyone who says otherwise is lying. I would hope there aren’t many “defund the police” psychos left in Oakland anymore, not since that fraudulent movement has been exposed as crap. But there are a few, most notably at Cat Brooks’ Anti Police-Terror Project, whose website still features a link to DefundOPD. I clicked on it to see what kind of nonsense Brooks and her fellow haters are peddling these days, but I got an automated message: the browser “can’t connect to the server.” I don’t know if it was a technical glitch, or if Brooks, aware that being the leader of the defund crowd makes her appear insane, took the link down. But rest assured, that’s still her goal at APTP, a goal I believe Carroll Fife shares, although it’s not something Fife would ever publicly admit. There are lots of deviant things Fife doesn’t admit, in order to protect her image (and her fundraising), but I think most of us know what goes on inside her sick head. It’s not only as bad as you think, it’s worse.
But back to the two cops. I don’t want to hear a damn thing about “accountability” or “police brutality” or “excessive force” or “the community wants” or any of that woke crap. It’s all a bunch of gobbledygook dreamed up by the police haters to fool the public. It doesn’t work in most of the U.S., fortunately, but in Oakland it does, because this place tends to attract neurotic brokeass hippies whose critical thinking skills are non-existent. Lord knows I love Oakland’s oddness and penchant for attracting creative people, but why do so many of them have to be so dumb as to elect, and re-elect, Carroll Fife?
Election prediction: Recalled Madame District Attorney Price goes down to defeat in the D.A. race by more than twenty points.
Steve Heimoff