To the Protesters...

Here's a question (or two) for anyone protesting against police brutality.

Do you recognize any of the names in the picture below? Where is your righteous indignation at their deaths? Where are the protests of their killings at the hands of others? Does the fact that they were all law enforcement officers somehow make it alright for for someone to have murdered them?

Read through this list, there are 24 names on it. These heroes are the officers who have been murdered at the hands of criminals since August 9, 2014. This list does not include the names of the other 23 heroes killed in accidents since then.

 

These are the names of heroes who, even though I have never met them, I consider my family. These are people who took an oath to protect you, your friends and your family even though they did not know you.

And they died living up to their oaths.

FOR YOU.

And despite these murders, the rest of us in law enforcement will mourn them, pin our shields on and be back out there protecting you and your right to protest, chant, curse and spit at us.

But we don't care do we?