Jeezus! Don't do that again!

la la la, call up INDC from blogroll:

WHAM! MONKEYHEAD!

(and what's up with that little guy over on the left?)

wait a minute..that's a monkey in a turban? lion in a lamb's cloak? Bad acid?

Wow. What a great tribute!

BTW, why does the memorial stone look like those cement barricades? Is it intentional?

Sincerely,
-Not A Moron

Thanks, and no, the stone walls just happen to be low and similarly-colored ... the wall is actually more curved and smooth ...

That's a moving tribute - both the ceremony and the blog.

Thanks also for the background on the BLA.

nicely done. tupac shakur's aunt? and did the nasty in the courtroom? sounds to me like we need to reintroduce her to prison.

abu ghraib?

She's a very pleasant woman, clearly.

I see you deftly photoshopped out the pics of the police fighting the man-eating Cicadas!

not for nothing...(jeez, there's a useless line) but all those headlines in the newspaer pic seem to have come from the NY POST!!!

Well it was one person's tribute, they probably did ...

You DO know why they're called kilts, right?

Because anyone who calls it a dress gets kilt!

(and yes, I'm a proud kilt wearing Right Wing Wacko!)

Thank you for a touching and quite beautiful website. While reading the section on the BLA, I didn't know that Tupac's aunt was related to the BLA.
I hope that any BLA member is either rotting in prison or six feet under where they belong!

I'm very interested in learning more on the BLA.

I work around police officers everyday and it saddens me to hear of any LOD. I keep them in my prayers.

Sincerely,
Karen

yeah its so sad, human died.
But why dont you say somethin about police brutality, racism nor human rights ?
I didnt know the man, but believe me theres more blacks to shed tears for.

its sad someone died.

in the last two years three different white cops either beatdown or shot a black/hispanic teen to death here in colorado, one cop even shot and killed a mentally disabled black kid while responding to an emergency phone call and showing up at the wrong place.

or the guy who got beat to death by some cops in cincinatti.

and there is new video of cops beating a guy in los angeles.

i'm not saying this cop deserved to die but they need to realize what some cops do to people and other good policeman are paying with their lives for a crooked cops wrong doings.

sad, very sad.

The fact that the previous two commenters feel the knee-jerk need to point out wrongs committed by police officers in reaction to a story of cold-blooded murder strikes me as something rather annoying/sad/disturbing. This story isn't about police brutality, it's about a band of thugs that ran around and gunned down cops that pulled them over for traffic violations. Get it? No?

You disgust me. Here's a hint - any sentence that begins with "I'm not sayin' that cop had to die, BUT ..." after the story that I presented is probably going to make you a jerk.

same with "theres more blacks to shed tears for." Right, like the BLACK cops that this group gunned down? Or don't they count because they were in league with the man?

im not black, and i said its sad that someone died but your missing the point of my comment.

im sayin the police departments need to realize they are responsible for their cops deaths. they go and kill innocent civilians on the street and then they wonder why people are afraid of them and shoot them or run from them.

i hate seeing good policeman who serve their country by doing their jobs correct die because of something a crooked cop did.

the police department don't do shit about it, they let them cops go back to work like they did nothing wrong.

"im sayin the police departments need to realize they are responsible for their cops deaths."

WRONG.

The people who shot the cops are responsible for their own actions, not the police department. Furthermore who are you to assume that criminals who shoot cops are all doing so because some police officers shot innocents, whether by accident or on purpose? Are we to believe, as you seem to suggest, that all or the vast majority of police being shot to death on the job are dying because of something some other cop did? Are you actually ignorant enough to think anyone should make such a huge leap of faith based on...what exactly..got any evidence??

Nobody would seriously argue against at least one instance of this, but for you to assert that it's the rule instead of the exception is ludicrous.

"then they wonder why people are afraid of them and shoot them or run from them."

Your whole post is one long gratuitous assertion. Yes I posted again because I was so flabbergasted with your response to Bill I just had to re-read it.

So criminals run from the cops because they are afraid they will be beaten or killed. Rediculous, just plain stupid.
I guess the threat of going to prison and losing their freedom has nothing to do with it.

So much for personal responsibility, let's heap it all on some false sense of *collective* responsibility, yeah, that's the ticket! ...And the decline of western civilization continues on unabated.

This is truly a heartbraking story but look at how many people get killed in the projects every day. If someone's fighting for food, justice and freedom they will not succeed by just asking for it. This story is written by someone who doesn't know how it feels to be the underdog. It's always easy to write stories like this because you are only portraing one side.

"So criminals run from the cops because they are afraid they will be beaten or killed. Rediculous, just plain stupid"

where im from they do.

"So criminals run from the cops because they are afraid they will be beaten or killed. Rediculous, just plain stupid"

i agree with colorado and jerry, where im from people are afraid of police because of all these police brutalities.

and i think colorado isn't saying all criminals respond because of this, but most of them do.

This thread has been hijacked by idiots from the Tupac board I see ... listen, all you numbnuts, this post is not an extended commentary on "both sides," police brutality, etc. THIS IS ABOUT COPS THAT DIE IN THE LINE OF DUTY, and the story of one cop that was gunned down in cold blood. You don't serve your cause by saying, "but what about ..."

There is NO BUT. You may not believe this in your worship of street culture, but 99% of police don't die because of repercussions from oppressed people, they die because criminals grow up in hard societies and don't want to get put in jail.

There is right, and there is wrong, and I won't tolerate "wigga" (s) trying to make a morally relativistic point that somehow believes that two wrongs make a right.

Not all cops are saints, but the vast majority of them just try to do a good job. How do I know this? Because I know tons of 'em. And to all of you that want to make this all about race and da man, there are MANY BLACK NAMES ON THAT WALL. Black cops, gunned down.

You want to hear a story? My brother pulled over a black guy that was speeding through a neighborhood. He walked up to the car, and the guy took off. he gets in huis car andchases him, the guy runs himself into a tree, goes through the windshield. My brother pulls him out, starts performing CPR, gets him breathing again. EMT's show up, an angry crowd gathers, but the guy winds up dying in the hospital.

You know what that neighborhood did? The drug dealers (that had employed the kid), got together a pool, and put a $15,000 price on my brother's head. hy? Because when he pulled the guy over for doing 60 MPH in a residential neighborhood, and the guy ran, and wrapped himself aropund a tree ... SOMEHOW my brother was responsible for KILLING HIM.

Bullshit. that is the type of thing that gets cops killed. And it's bullshit propagated by drug dealers and criminals. Actions bear responsibility, no matter how unfair the world seems to be to you.

I don't care about from what race somebody is and I do think all these stories are sad. That doesn't change the fact that this article is down talking Assata Shakur while she did a lot of good things for her people. I'm not saying that what she did was good because I think the opposite. I think for something like that anybody deserves to be punished.

Your story about your brother is sad as well. I wish it would have been different but stories like that are an everyday thing. Ask yourself why all the drugdealers in that story decided to put a price on your brothers head. America made them that way and it's time for America to not only help the people in countries like Iraq but also help the people that are struggling within their own borders.

Can you please name two "good things" that Assata Shakur did for "her people?"

And then explain to me how they balance out putting a bullet through the head of a man with two children that was helpless and begging for his life? And the fact that she chanted at my father that she wanted to kill him, merely for being white?

Assata Shakur and violent people like her, SET BACK race relations. I'm sure that the Klu Klux Klan was heavily involved in community works for WHITE PEOPLE, but I don't see you making any excuses for them.

well, one of the good things she has done is to fight for her people. She did it with violent measures unlike other people. Like I said before, you can't just ask for freedom and justice. If you truly want those things you have to fight for it. You can't really say that she did this or that. She was part of a group and they fought for their rights. Maybe you are right about the violence setting back race relations but I think that you are wrong with saying that the Klu Klux Klan fight for the same thing. Assata fought for being equal to the white people. That means having the same rights. The Klu Klux Klan on the other hand is fighting for white supremacy. They want one race to rule the other and they want the white race to have more rights.

"fight for her people" - how did her executing cops help "her people?"

She worked AGAINST her people. violent revolution DOESN'T WORK in our society. It only strengthens feeling against the perpetrator when there are other mechanisms, as ably exploited by Martin luther King.

Seriously, your logic offends me. She's a murderer and a despicable human being that had sex in the middle of a courtroom like an animal and chanted hateful epithets. Racism is racism is racism. Nothing makes it right.

We have nothing more to talk about.

I'm sorry if I have offended you. That was never my intention. Don't get me wrong, I do believe a non violent way to strive for what you want is always better but I can understand that if that doesn't work, people will look for violent ways to get the job done. Please don't think that I'm defending Assata Shakur for the violent things she has done (on the contrary, she should be punished), I'm only defending her for THE THINGS she was fighting FOR. Now I know I was probably a bit off topic here so you are right about the fact that we have nothing more to talk about.

Good grief, an article about the dignity and honor due to police officers fallen in the line of duty, and some nimrods show up to disgrace these men and women who died doing what they were sworn to do: protect and defend.

The American people honor and salute these men and women. Thank you for your service.

I hope you don't see mee as one of those nimrods, because if you do I suggest you read my posts again. By the way, I'm not American and I still salute and honor these men and women. Being an American has nothing to do with saluting and honoring these people.

I would like to say that i am disgusted with Michelle Malkins comments on Tupac Shakur. It is clear that she has no idea who Tupac is. How dare you say the smart ass remarks you did. You claimed that Tupac is amoung the one of the literacy worlds greatest poets beacuse of his 4 letter word that rhymes with rap? You should be ashamed in yourself because every single Tupac fan out there that read your garbage article is ashamed of you. You have no right to insult a figure like Tupac especially since he isn't here to defend himslef no longer. But you can go ahead and insult because his fans are ready to defend him. Tupac will always be a rolemodel for anyone that is real. For anyone that is in pain, oppression and deppression. Tupac represents all that poetry should be, emotions, feelings and messages. Tupac is what no one else ever can be and regardless of what filth you have said we all know that there will never again be another person like Tupac. Don't blame Tupac for being real and saying what he said. Everything he did was a reflection of how the world is and how his life was. Tupac is the figure he is to this day for bringing the hope and messages that he did. He taught us to keep your head up even when the road gets hard, no matter what you have to say about Tupac he will always be the figure he is. Someone that will be repected more than you ever will be. Rest in Peace Tupac.