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The politicization of grief at Dallas PD

I've avoided before now discussing a terrible incident in Dallas which occurred last week, where the son of Dallas' brand-spanking new police chief, David Brown, shot and killed two people including a Lancaster police officer following what's being described as a "psychotic breakdown." Other officers then killed Brown, Jr.. When all was done, three fathers died that Father's Day - a tragedy of unspeakable proportions for all involved.The situation was complicated by the fact that Lancaster police had visited the apartment earlier in response to reported domestic violence and failed to arrest Brown's son, David Jr., who they found threatening his children with a belt for not reading their Bibles. As James Ragland wrote: "The tragedy has thrust the men and women in blue in highly unusual, if not uncharted, territory ? mourning the loss of a fallen colleague; sympathizing with the respected and accomplished father of the killer; grieving the death of another innocent victim and father, Jeremy McMillian...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 27, 2010 (boomark / email).