Racial politics at the expense of the LAPD

Jack Dunphy:

Of the recent Compton shooting, Dominick wrote, “It’s an L.A. story so old, predictable and familiar — remember 13-year-old Devin Brown? — that it seems almost banal to discuss it again . . .” Yes, we remember Devin Brown, who in February was shot and killed as he attempted to run over an LAPD officer with a stolen car. We were told at the time he was an honor student when he in fact wasn’t, and we were told he wasn’t a gang member when he in fact was.

But some of us also remember Ricardo Lizarraga, Brian Brown, Filbert Cuesta, Steven Gajda, and Mario Navidad, only the last five of the many LAPD officers to be shot and killed in the line of duty. And we remember Stephen Sorensen, David Powell, David March, Jake Kuredjian, and Michael Honeig, the last five L.A. County sheriff’s deputies to be similarly murdered. And, since Domanick and so many others find relevance in such facts, it should be pointed out that nearly all of these officers were gunned down by black or Latino men. If the learned Professor Domanick found any outrage at all in the death of any of these officers, it apparently did not rise to a level that inspired him to publish anything about it.

Taking Racial Politics to a New Low