Fun With Guns: Because Ka-Pow! Edition
Okay, so in Cleveland last March a police office shot and killed an 18 year old unarmed man who had just burglarized a convenience store. While the case is being investigated, Officer Alan Buford is assigned to desk duty and not allowed to work any extra security jobs on the side.
His fellow officer felt sorry for him so they decided to do a fundraiser and have a raffle to raise money for him. The raffle part is where I have a problem.
They are raffling a Glock 26, which is the same size most officers in the department use, and could have been the same kind of gun used to kill the 18 year old.
The police association said they didn’t find this distasteful in the least. “That is what we do. We take care of each other when nobody else does,” said an association representative.
This is not Officer Buford’s first brush with the law.
Buford was arrested in 2010 and charged with felony hit-and-run after police said he drove away from the scene of an accident. He eventually pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges and was allowed to return to work.
Yeah, I guess they do take care of each other.
Thanks to chloe bear for the heads up.
In some areas the police act like a cult. That means they consider all non-police to be outsiders and thus inferior, unimportant, and likely dangerous.
1Some people regard guns the way a lot of other people regard water bottles– if you leave the house, you’ve got one. And if you spill a little on somebody, it’s an oops, right?
2Gosh, though, I might have to send in my money to get that 40-ft tv….
3About that teevee–was that a typo? Or is it imported from Texas?
4LynnN, you are spot on! One thing they just don’t cover at police academy: taste and class.
5Maybe to distract people from the gun-shooting-unarmed-man-connection they can invite an Elvis impersonator to the event, have him shoot out a TV, and sing Jailhouse Rock.
Because:
Gun
TV
Elvis never shot anyone in the line of duty
(and good eye djw, obviously the tape measure guys on the Cleveland CSI crew weren’t involved in filling out and filing the raffle poster at the printers) (paperwork, am I right?)
6The least they could do was take up a collection among themselves.
7djw: And it’s a “smart” tv. That could come in handy for this crowd.
8This disappoints me. I can’t see employing deadly force against a burglar. Makes no sense.
9Raffling off a gun seems counter to all a police force should stand for. Protect and serve?
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