Dallas shooting

[Armed Eye Doc]

I was at my Lions club meeting today.  The father of the DART policeman, Brent Thompson, spoke to us today.  It has been 5 months since this happened.  He recounted many stories of the places he had been invited and the people that he had met.  At the public Dallas funeral, his and the other officer's families privately met with GW Bush and Obama and Biden.  He said they all wept with the families and he had respect even for Obama (even though he didn't vote for him).

To this day it was still hard for him to talk about.  He has been honored at all manor of sporting events.  His wife was on a show with Dr. Oz.  

He has tremendous pride in his son.  The final report of the incident was apparently completed a couple of weeks ago and was presented to the families.  His son was the one who engaged the shooter shortly after he had shot 3 other policemen in the back.  Brent shot him in the chest 5 time and wounded the shooter even though he had on armor.  Brent followed the shooter around his cover expecting him to be dead.  But the shooed came around the other way and shot 11 times.  Due to his training from the Marines and as a police officer, they estimated that he saved 20-50 more lives since the protest and the police were coming towards the shooter.

Just thought y'all might appreciate an update.  The world moves on for most of us, but for some it moves at a different pace.

[Rsquared]

2 minutes ago, Armed Eye Doc said:

The world moves on for most of us, but for some it moves at a different pace.

True words there. Thanks for the update Doc.

[sketch]

Thanks Doc. 

[98Z5V]

1 hour ago, Rsquared said:

True words there. Thanks for the update Doc.

I was gonna say the exact same thing about that exact same phrase from Doc...