PAX Centurion - Fall 2017

www.bppa.org PAX CENTURION • Fall 2017 • Page 11 D espite detestable efforts by racist, cop-hating “activists” and their pro-bono radical-progressive legal advocates, Suffolk County D.A. Dan Conley, after an exhaustive and thorough investigation, completely vindicated the officers who were involved in the tragic but unavoidable circumstances leading to the death of a mentally-ill man, Terrance Coleman, at 245 Shawmut Ave, South End, on October 30 th , 2016. (Excerpts taken verbatim from D.A. Conley’s report): “The investigation …revealed that Officer Boyle acted in the lawful exercise of his duties, both in self-defense and the defense of others. …Officer Boyle fired his service weapon only after Mr. Coleman had attacked two…EMT’s…who had been called to the home by Mr. Coleman’s mother… her son suffered from “schizophrenic paranoia”… and had not taken medication…During the attack, Mr. Coleman knocked one of the EMT’s to the ground and attempted to stab him with a ten-inch kitchen knife…Mr. Coleman attempted to stab the officers too…” [footnote 1- Page 2] “neither the responding officers nor the EMT’s were informed that, twice in the past, police had been called to the home to respond to incidents in which the defendant acted erratically and wielded a knife.” But, once again, as has become the raison d’etre (reason for living) for the demented racists of theAmerican political left, the FACTS cannot be allowed to disrupt the political narrative. And the desired political narrative of the cop-haters is: “the brutal, evil racist police officers killed an innocent, unarmed black man who was suffering from mental illness.”Any FACTS that interrupt that political narrative must be repudiated and dismissed as part of the vast, right-wing police conspiracy. The drum of racism must be beaten continuously until it literally supplants the truth, as Josef Goebbels (Hitler’s minister of propaganda – “ a lie, repeated often enough, becomes the truth…” ) would have nodded in approval. Or, as the legendary British poet Rudyard Kipling said eloquently in his famous poem “If” about the spoken truth “…twisted by knaves, to make a trap for fools…”. The “Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice” (the name alone tells you everything you need to know; in practical effect, they represent neither…) issued a statement following D.A. Conley’s exhaustive report saying that “…the decision by D.A. Conley continues a disturbing national pattern of prosecutors failing to hold police officers accountable for fatal shootings of black men,” said [LCCR staff attorney] Sophia Hall. She was followed in the press statement by drivel offered by (the aptly-named) Attorney BPD officers cleared by D.A. Conley in tragic shooting of knife-wielding man Despite attempts by radical opportunists to politicize and racialize a mentally-ill man’s assault on police, EMTs By James W. Carnell, Pax Editor Daniel Marx, who offered his opinion about training issues in regards to interactions between the police and mentally ill persons. Of course, what neither Attorney Hall nor Attorney Marx can offer, other than their obscene and obvious hatred of police officers, is any viable, legitimate option that the police officers might have had when dealing with a knife- wielding, mentally-ill man in a very tightly-confined hallway foyer who had slashed at two EMT’s attempting to help him and was now using the 10”-long kitchen knife – which his Mother insisted he did not possess, but crime-scene photos prove otherwise- to attack them during a violent struggle. NO, neither Attorney Hall nor Attorney Marx – neither of whom were physically present as were the EMT’s and police officers- can offer any concrete answers to what alternatives the officers might have employed while dealing with this knife-wielding madman becauseA.) There were none, other than the actions the officers were forced to take, and B.) because egomaniac, politically-driven attorneys who pontificate from behind the safety of their desks and sue people and governments and businesses to collect their contingency fees while criticizing the cops who protect them are among the lowest forms of life on earth. I can only guess what the barristers of the Lawyer’s Committee would do if, for example, a knife-wielding, mentally-ill, paranoid-schizophrenic client upset with their representation had entered their offices at 61 Batterymarch St. or 100 Franklin St.?Would they call the police? Or would they try to reason with him? Perhaps engage in the much- ballyhooed “de-escalation” tactics which they are so familiar with? What if the mentally-ill man was swinging his knife in their office board- room while they were holding a meeting, similar to the tight confines of the foyer where our officers encountered Mr. Coleman? Please, by all means, Attorney Hall andAttorney Marx, instruct us brutal, ignorant, racist cops on exactly how to handle this situation, and all within the split-seconds afforded the officers who had the misfortune to be assigned to the Coleman call on that night. Although it took an enormous amount of time, the BPPA and the Officers and their families are thankful the agony of waiting for a definitive, final report is over. And although the attacks and frivolous lawsuits from cop-hating, politically-motivated lawyers will not end any time soon, the Officers have been vindicated and should, at least, rest assured that their actions were just, legal, proper and totally correct in light of the circumstances they encountered almost a year ago.