Two police officers in McAllen, Texas, were murdered in an ambush while responding to a call on Saturday.
The details make it painfully clear that these police officers never had a chance.
Speaking during a news conference held at the scene of the shooting, (Police Chief Victor) Rodriguez identified the fallen policemen as officers Edelmiro Garza, 45, and Ismael Chavez, 39.”
Garza had more than eight years of experience as an officer with the McAllen Police Department, while Chavez had more than two.”
According to Rodriguez, the officers answered a disturbance call in the vicinity of the 3500 block of Queta Street at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday, initially meeting two individuals who reported assaults occurring inside a nearby home.”
When officers tried to enter the home, the alleged shooter, whom police identified as 23-year-old Audon Ignacio Camarillo, opened fire.”
“They were doing their job,” Rodriguez said. “That is what they were supposed to do. The person was a suspect of the incident, met our officers at the door, and shot at both officers. Both officers suffered fatal wounds, they have both passed away as a result…”
“The officers never had a chance to suspect deadly assault on them, much less death.”
The gunman then killed himself after exchanging shots with other officers. There is absolutely nothing good about this story. There is only heartbreak and devastation for the families of the officers, and the community at large. All the officers did was respond to a call. According to the police chief, they never even drew their weapons and had no chance to radio for help. In every conceivable way, this is a horrible murder of police officers.
And then the ghouls of Twitter (who always appear) made a horrible situation worse. The daughter of Officer Ismael Chavez posted a tribute to her father on Twitter, whom she clearly loved deeply. In her first tweet (now unfortunately deleted, but the text can still be seen via Twitchy), she used the hashtag “Blue Lives Matter.” Enter the worst kind of equivocating scum of Twitter. It’s not enough that this girl has lost her father in an act of brutal and senseless violence simply for doing his job. Noooooo, the social justice warriors of Twitter MUST now tell her just how WRONG she is for thinking her father’s life mattered.
Behold these fools, and despair at their inhumanity.
I'm very sorry for your loss..
It's always sad to lose a parent…
however he did make a choice to be a policeman…knowing any day it could happen…
That is what his job was…
I hope you heal
However….#BlueLivesMatter
CANNOT MATTER UNTIL#BlackLivesMatter— KellyJames (@KellyJamesKey) July 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/angiebeltran26y/status/1282335220084215808
I don’t agree with u saying #BlueLivesMatter ,only because it implies that there is a system that oppresses cops and finds them at the receiving end of a criminal justice system that fails them every time. I’m sure he was a good one and the problem is that we need more good ones.
— Phil Baltazar (@piratebaltazar) July 12, 2020
Now, there are plenty of people who are supporting this sorrowing daughter and her family on Twitter. But the sheer ugliness of those who are so morally bankrupt to try and scold someone in their deepest grief by LECTURING HER ABOUT A HASHTAG, and minimizing her father’s job by indicating with a “BUT” that his life did not matter to them, is just sickening.
Twitter is a boil on the butt of humanity at the best of times. At the worst of times, like this, is turns into a literal cesspool of the soulless who do their social justice preening for likes, and get off on telling others in deep emotional pain just how much better they are than those who used a hashtag they didn’t like.
We here at Victory Girls express our deepest condolences to the families of Officer Ismael Chavez and Officer Edelmiro Garza, and to the McAllen Police Department. The reason “Blue Lives Matter” is because we call on them to come to our aid and take a risk in doing so. We ask for great sacrifice from police officers. The least we can do is to mourn them and honor them when they are killed in the line of duty, without burdening their families with social justice pablum.
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Scott says: RIP Officers Chavez and Garza, your watch is over.
For the twitter trolls, who constantly scream about how black and brown lives matter, like the innocent children in Chicago, apparently these two men were the “wrong kind” of brown… F@*K the trolls!
GWB says: However….#BlueLivesMatter
CANNOT MATTER UNTIL#BlackLivesMatter
Once again, the progressives can’t understand it’s not a single pie, and think if someone gains, someone else has to lose. It’s not just economics where they hold this mentality.
you the fucking problem
You so excellent in English. No, honey, you are the problem.
only because it implies …
No, it only implies that in your ignorant, short-sighted worldview based on an idiotic religion called progressivism (the intersectionalism denomination).
Twitter is a boil on the butt of humanity
No. It’s just a spotlight and a magnifying glass that points out and amplifies the sickness and stupidity of so much of mankind. It’s also a reminder of why a democracy is a very bad idea, and a republic (representational democracy bounded by a constitution) is precariously balanced.
[it] turns into a literal cesspool
Note that a cesspool is only nasty because of what’s floating in it, not the pool/cistern itself.
I will sometimes critique what happened in an incident. Or criticize the choice of words – even of a grieving relative. But I will do it in a general forum, not to the person’s virtual face. Specifically because – unless they are weaponizing their grief – that’s just terribly rude.
I have mostly lost sympathy for any on the side of BLM and AntiFa. If they get run over, dropped off a building, shot in the face, beat to a pulp, I really just don’t care. If they contract diseases? Oh well. These people are in a dangerous cult. (I do try to maintain some compassion, since they are fellow human beings, but it’s hard to do when they act like animals.)
GWB says: Bugger, and I failed to properly turn off the <strong> tag after “not” and before “to the person’s face.” Sigh.
(If you ladies can fix that, it would be appreciated. I don’t want to be shouting that last paragraph.)
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