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| 6410 Independence Way Childhood home of the great & powerful Wizard Of eVille |
It was a sizable place at about 80,000 population back then, but never much more than a bedroom community, where you had the wife and kids stashed in 3-bedroom ranch-style tract home that looked almost exactly like everybody else's joint - Dad carpooled into Denver while Mom either stayed home or did some secretarying for the local insurance company or whatever.
Sleepy and uneventful and exactly the way it should be in a low-stress upwardly mobile middle class white suburban landscape.
But this is USAmerica Inc, where the shit is never far from your own backyard, and will eventually get to your place.
Police officer killed in ‘ambush’ by man who ‘expressed hatred’ of law enforcement, officials say
A veteran police officer and a bystander were gunned down in a Denver suburb on Monday in what authorities now describe as a targeted attack by someone who “expressed hatred” for members of law enforcement.
The episode in Arvada, a city of more than 120,000 people, was at least the third high-profile shooting in Colorado during the past three months. The investigation into the incident is still ongoing, but Police Chief Link Strate said Tuesday that the officer, Gordon Beesley, “was targeted because he was wearing an Arvada police uniform and a badge.” He was a 19-year veteran of the department.
“Officer Beasley was ambushed by someone who expressed hatred of police officers,” Strate said at a news conference.
The shooting was “a deliberate act of violence,” Strate added, but officials “believe this is an isolated incident.” He identified the second victim as 40-year-old John Hurley and described him as a “good Samaritan” who intervened in the violence.
“He is a true hero who likely disrupted what could have been a larger loss of life,” Strate said.
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We used to pull some pretty squirrely shit in Jr High and High School - sometimes just to get the cops out for a little exercise. There's still an element of that in some of the crap going on, but the stakes are obviously a lot higher, and there's always that shitty paranoid feeling that somebody wants it this way. Like somebody sees us as scorpions in a jar, and they're going to shake that jar to keep us at each other's throats while "they" profit in some way that's not apparent to us.
Arvada's been around since the late 1800s. Officer Beesley is the first cop ever to be killed by gunfire in the line of duty.
There's just too much that isn't being made public on this one and I've got a real bad feelin'.
HELTER SKELTER,
MOTHERFUCKER
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