Reposted from elsewhere:
First, a car carrying three New Jersey police officers from a visit to a strip club drove the wrong way down a New York City highway and crashed head-on into a tractor-trailer early Friday (4:50 a.m.), killing an officer and a civilian and critically injuring two other policemen.
The cops were drunk (drunk driving). Hours before the crash, the officer driving the car posted a photo on his Instagram page of three shot glasses filled with what he identified as “Jack Daniels Fire on the house.”
While not exactly making excuses for the cops, Linden Police Chief James Schulhafer said, “We were all young once and I’m sure we’ve all done stupid things in our life.” If it had been you or I that had killed a couple of Linden cops while driving drunk, you can bet his words would have been different.
On the same day, a few hours later, four firearms activists from Virginia were also killed in a head-on crash with a tractor-trailer about 7 a.m. on U.S. Route 68 in Ohio while driving here to Michigan to meet up with some Michigan firearms activists known as Hell's Saints to do public activism in Detroit like they regularly do. Among those who died when their car collided with a tractor-trailer was Jason Spitzer III, the founder of The Right To Bear Arms RVA, a grass-roots group of 2nd Amendment supporters who are known for openly carrying firearms in neighborhoods and shopping districts.
Friends and members of the Richmond group are stunned and heartbroken. Spitzer is being recalled as passionate, hard-working, honorable and one who loved to teach others about firearms safety and rights. He started marching through the city with his long gun and others followed, said one friend. On Sunday, Spitzer posted on Facebook that he had started a relationship with a wonderful woman – that they had a bright future and he praised God for it. He was also getting ready for a mission trip to Japan.
A study in contrasts.
