OPINION:
The suspect in a recent Texas shooting was armed with a gun. What were the police supposed to do (“Cops shoot armed man at Texas club fight; bystanders throw bottles at police,” Web, Dec. 27)? Should they have waited it out, hoping the person would put the gun down? The police ended up having to shoot the shooter. The people around the area started throwing bottles at the police.
Let me remind these people that on a daily basis police put their lives on the line to stop criminals. The police in America, thanks to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., are getting a bad rap by these people. Mr. Holder, et al., need to apologize to law enforcement. The two New York police officers murdered this month did not deserve to be executed. The people in Ferguson, Missouri, did not deserve having their businesses destroyed and looted. Some of those protesters have not been peaceful. When are the race-baiting “leaders” going to tell these people to stop?
VICTORIA COSTANZA
Sacramento, California
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