Max Eternity - This morning 4 police officers were murdered in a Forza coffee shop located in Parkland, Washington.
Details are still unfolding--questions remain. And yet rage--violence--aggression seem so commonplace in contemporary US society. Why?
Is this situation part of a larger trend? Is this outburst to be seen as an isolated incident?
Is this fatal assualt some kind of "payback"?
In killing those 4 individuals, was it the shooters intent to "kill" what was percieved as corrupt and unjust power? Or is this just the worst example of a complete disrespect for authority?
What's the point of this horror, and why can't our nation get a grip on the seeminly endless sea of unmitigated violence, visceral aggression, bloodshed, anguish, tragedy and misery.
So much hurt--so much saddness, and one can only wonder how law enforcement and corporate media will interpret this incident.
Is race, class and/or gender at play?
Have we resigned ourselves to a society of fear, locked in an endless dance of heroism, persecution and victimization?
Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer says the officers - four male and one female - were in full uniform and wearing bulletproof vests, sitting in Forza coffee shop near 116th Street and Steele Street on the east side of the Air Force base at about 8:30 a.m.
Troyer says the officers were preparing for their shift when a suspect or suspects "walked in with a handgun, opened fire multiple times and then fled the scene," said Troyer.
Troyer called it an "ambush." Read more [1].
Links:
[1] http://www.king5.com/news/local/Police-officers-shot-78089882.html