As the World Implodes: When People Put Their Agendas Ahead of the Truth

 The more I work in the public sector I realize people are even crazier than I thought they were. It seems like everyone is trying to get over on someone else and no one cares about the truth anymore. To see this you don't have to look any further than Washington D.C. to see it. Our politicians caring more about their parties and the people who donated campaign money. Media only caring about their agendas and  putting out false stories because they know that no one will check them. Even the people who follow them all like sheep. We could talk about how evil politicians are all day but I don't think the internet is even big enough to talk about all that corruption so I'll use a smaller incident.
  A man was killed today in San Francisco. It's always bad when someone dies but even worse when they are so young. He was only 19 years old. It's a tragedy. He was approached by a crime unit detail and asked some simple questions that they were asking alot of people. He chose to run and fired back at police officers. An officer returned fire and the kid was shot dying soon after.
  After the kid fell laying in a pool of blood someone grabbed the gun on the ground and took off running southbound up the street. Someone caught it on video and the officers caught him later and recovered the weapon. Now why would this person grab the gun and take off like that? They did it because they wanted it to look like the police shot an unarmed person. They had an agenda. They didn't care about the truth they wanted to nail police and laugh about it. Actions like this don't help anything. If you pulled a gun and shot at me I'd shoot back. Any of the people yelling obscenities in the below video would've done the same. That however didn't stop protests later in the day even though they were completely based on a lie. The gun had been recovered and others saw the kid shoot back at cops. But they didn't care. Some just want to hate police and they let their agenda get ahead of the truth. I'm going to post the video for you to watch. Someone uploaded it to youtube and called it "SFPD ruthlessly shoots and kills 19yr unarmed man over $2 bus fair." That ,by the way, is actually a lie. But the fact is none of these people care they want to hate police so they are going to regardless. I orginally saw this video on policeone.com where I post my seminars from time to time. There were some good comments about the videos afterward I'm going to post those as well I hope the people don't mind then I got a little more to say.

   Here are some comments made about it:

I understand it was a very chaotic scene, but get it under control and get those people off your crime scene... officer safety is key, this could have very easily turned a bad situation to a worse one....once back up arrives, rope that scene off and push em out so your rescue personnel can get in...That don't happen in Miami...we make that perimeter so big they need a satellite to get video!
Stay Safe! 

Gotta love the power of the observations of these fine citizens! AMAZING!(note from stonewall tactical - for those that don't understand it this is called sarcasm)
The truth always comes out. Videos like the first one mean nothing for or against involved parties and only serve to pull down good LEO's everywhere.

A great saying I love to reiterate, "Believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you see." So true is it when viewing videos like this one.

The cell phone video really shows chaos and not much more as far as the gun. It does show the mentality of the police haters, uninformed and uneducated people in the area. In most cases people may be curious during a shooting, but anyone with a brain in their head would star clear rather that getting in the middle of something like this. I have seen this here in Africa. People like to riot over small things and then the situation fuels itself and people in the riot are not there for any reason but to destroy things and be violent.

   Ok so those were the comments about the shooting. While I understand the fact that what they are saying is true I still don't like the cavalier attitude with which it was said. Please remember a young man is dead and attitudes like that are big reasons why some of these people hate police so much to begin with. I'll say it again, it's a tragedy anytime someone dies and when they are so young it's even worse. Now the fact is that he shot at police and they had to shoot back to protect themselves. There is no denying that.
   Right now everyone is frustrated. People are mad at the economy. Cops are tired and overworked. Everyone lately seems to have a short fuse and this isn't a good recipe for anyone. So to this guy that grabbed that gun and took off to try to set up police I just want to say...HOW DARE YOU! In areas like the bayview district in San Francisco there is enough problems already. What if the protests had gotten out of hand? What if more people got arrested or shot over your lie? Trust me it could happen. What were you trying to do and what did you hope to achieve? We all know what he wanted to achieve. Once again truth be damned someone else thinks an agenda is more important. We can't believe anything we see anymore. A person laying on the sidewalk dying in public is bad enough. What this jerk did is confirm that we've lost sight of the important things. Truth. I just want to ask people to take a long look at themselves as I will do the same. The truth isn't always pretty and it doesn't always feel good but it's still worth holding onto so please put your agendas aside. Let's make the truth worth something again