APD (thankfully) Removes Another Thug From Our Streets

So the big story raging in Austin today is that an Austin Police Officer shot two young black men yesterday, killing one of them, 18-year old Nathaniel Sanders.

Police Chief Art Acevedo said Quintana [Senior Police Officer Leonardo Quintana] had been looking into whether a champagne-color Mercedes-Benz station wagon occupied by Sanders, Smith and a third man was linked to a series of recent incidents involving gunfire at the apartment complex.

Acevedo said Quintana first arrested the driver of the Mercedes-Benz, who is also African American, without incident. After returning to the car, Quintana noticed that Sanders, who had been asleep in the back seat, had a handgun, Acevedo said. He said Quintana opened fire after Sanders reached for the weapon.

The shots awoke Smith, who lunged at Quintana, and the officer fired again, Acevedo said. Smith was taken to the University Medical Center at Brackenridge and is expected to make a full recovery, according to officials.

Thank goodness the officer wasn’t white. Because under no circumstances — not even under threat of his life — is a white officer ever justified in shooting a black man…

And of course the black community acted like they almost always do in such situations — by acting like criminals, attacking and blaming the police, and pretending that the thugs who were shot were innocent choirboys.

Which they weren’t.

Sanders had recently been arrested for possession of crack cocaine and again for attacking and robbing an Austin man at an ATM machine downtown.

Of course his parents describe him as “a good kid”. Uh huh. Because good kids do crack cocaine and assault and rob people. He might have been a good kid at one time…but at the time of his death, when reaching for a loaded gun while sleeping in the back of a gold Mercedes Benz, he was anything but a good kid.

The term that comes to mind is “common thug”. While his death was tragic, this kid was heading down a path that was going to eventually end up with him seriously hurting or killing his next victim.

What is the matter with black culture in America?

This might be politically incorrect to say…but something is wrong with parts of black culture in America.

This kid was a thug with a gun. The cop was not shooting at him because he was black; he shot the kid because he was reaching for a gun. Should the officer have waited for this punk kid to shoot him first before returning fire?

The black community’s inability to realize that more often than not, the police actions are justified and the black person is a criminal engaged in criminal acts is the real tragedy. The true outrage should be at the criminal/ gangster/drug culture that infects their communities.

Instead, they attack the police who are doing their job:

The shooting sparked outrage among dozens of residents and onlookers outside the apartment complex, many of whom spilled into the parking lot before dawn wearing their pajamas.

By 9 a.m., residents had begun yelling obscenities and statements such as “You’re killing our children” and throwing bottles, rocks and other objects at officers and their patrol cars.

Officers donned riot gear at one point, and several were seen with shotguns.

Officials said the windows of eight police cars were smashed, and several officers suffered minor injuries, including a motorcycle officer who was punched in the mouth. Acevedo swatted away a thrown object before it hit him.

Police said they arrested three people who will be charged.

Too bad blacks can’t direct this kind of angry and energy at the thugs, drug dealers, and gangsters in their communities. Instead they apologize for and accept the thug life, and attack the police and the laws of our community.

So while the black community rages that police removed a violent thug from our streets, I’m thankful for APD’s duty and service to our city.