An open letter to a protester from a Baltimore
County police officer | Commentary
Baltimore Sun,
by
Seth Templeton
Original Article
Posted By: snapper451,
6/7/2020 5:28:18 PM
An open letter to a protester.
We might sit down over coffee, and I would start by telling you that I have done a lot of good things in my short 5-year career. I was the first officer on the scene for a call at a college campus where a delusional person was wandering the halls of a dormitory with a gun. In that incident, we found the person responsible just as he was about to commit a sexual assault.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 6/7/2020 5:40:48 PM (No. 436431)
I have a number of friends who were police officers, all are retired now, just an "old guy thing", almost all my friends are retired now.
Good letter, but I got a bit irritated that he seems required to jump on the side of Floyd rather than say something like "we don't know what really happened and a partial video probably doesn't tell the whole story".
But, my friends have many stories, good and bad, and I have done a couple of ride alongs. THAT is an eye opener, even for someone without illusions. To have the emotions that come with a domestic disturbance call in a tenement for real, and personally, not just imagining it. I encourage anyone who has never done a ride along to see if they can do it. Many departments have them.
Best wishes to the officer. This insanity about blaming all police is totally a political game, and very, very wrong. And it is dangerous.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 6/7/2020 6:15:48 PM (No. 436464)
You can't reason with a mob whose agenda is to destabilize and take down the USA. Their " grievances" are a veneer for their true intent. IF black lives really matter, why no outcry over the black on black gang violence that occurs everyday ? More unarmed whites are killed by police ( the number is low double digits ) than unarmed blacks, which were 9 . That's right , 9 in 2019. Take a look at " Prairie Fire". written by Bill Ayers ( friend of Obama ) of the Weatherman Underground. This is what's going on.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NYbob 6/7/2020 6:28:55 PM (No. 436472)
When some privileged snot is proud to wear a T-shirt with the murdering thug Che on it, and they scream about how great communism is, it is going to require a punch in the nose just to get their attention. There is a good chance they will never get it. If you never had to actually work or have any consequences for your actions, and you have no idea what is morally right or wrong, you could easily live your entire live as a tool of the Devil. Every one of those slobs on the street are either too stupid to understand the reality of crime enforcement, have some kind of weird PC grievance like made up gender nonsense or they are vicious punks to want to run amuck with a herd of sheep for cover.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Italiano 6/7/2020 6:41:42 PM (No. 436483)
The ones who should read this either: (a) won't, or (b) can't read anyway.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/7/2020 7:21:20 PM (No. 436515)
Simply comes down to …
If you're EVER in trouble call 911 and I'll come RUNNING.
nuff said.
Thank You officer.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
watashiyo 6/7/2020 7:50:39 PM (No. 436546)
The thought and intentions were good. However, with so many "I"s (about 81) in the letter, it started sounding like Doorknob Hussein's speech. And this is not counting the "me"s. Regardless, most BLM, ANTIFAs, LOOTERs, RIOTERs, ARSONISTs and the STUPIDs can't read and process anyway. The letter will only fall on deaf ears and blind eyes.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/7/2020 9:30:53 PM (No. 436610)
Nice apology to those who do not deserve it. They don't want to "have a dialogue" they just want to be treated like the superior beings that they think they are and now many whites do too.
I'm beginning to think that the best way to educate these people is to give them exactly what they want, no police protection. We'll see just how fast the jackals take over the Sarengeti and how fast the herbivores start screaming for help.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 6/7/2020 11:42:19 PM (No. 436710)
Thank you, Officer Templeton for sharing your thoughts and a perspective rarely held up for the public to see, although I'm sure held by the vast majority of your fellow officers nationwide. It's important that you wrote it, but sadly I fear will be dismissed and lost in the flurry of lessor minds with bullhorns who will fill the air and spaces with emotional knee-jerk wails and teeth gnashing, all seeking the else and others to blame. Know too, the vast majority of Americas people honor and support you and those who uphold the ideal: To Serve and Protect. May God bless you - we know - it ain't easy.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/7/2020 11:54:34 PM (No. 436721)
Officer, it's better to spread love to such criminals in three-round bursts.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 6/8/2020 12:31:50 AM (No. 436736)
Don't bother trying to reach a terrorist. A baseball bat they might comprehend.
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A letter worth reading. Perhaps he should send a copy to Obola since he is biracial too.
I will say it again: No LEO should have to leave home for a shift, not knowing if they will return in one piece or at all. There are bad apples in all professions. You know, like we get a bad president once in a while that stays eight years, bad cop, bad member of the House or Senate.
We have a generation without empathy, without fathers, without work ethics and sadly, without G-d.
Cookies For Cops.
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Not many of us L'dotters need this as much as the leftists do. This officer's perspective is so valuable and instead of de-funding or disbanding police we should seek to understand.