Tradegy Takes the Life of Heroic Atlanta Police Officer
By all accounts Atlanta Police Sargent Darrell Johnson was an American Hero, Atlanta Police Officer, Policing Crooked Cops, Family man working two jobs, hard working, and friendly even to his professional adversaries. Another American Hero, Iraqi War Veteran, Brent Jacobs, alleged to be drinking and also allegedly already facing criminal charges of some type was alleged to be fleeing the Douglas County Sheriff's Deputies after a 911 caller reported his vehicle was all over the road. The Media focuses on the "apparent DUI" being murder on our roads and the obvious heroic character of the slain police sargent. The Heroes pathes colliding tragically on Friday Morning, October 24, 2008, when Jacobs is alleged to have crossed the centerline and caused a head on collision. The alleged DUI is the obvious cause. Police authorities indicated in press reports that alcohol "may" have been a factor. Only time and forensic investigations will tell the truth. What is left? Read between the lines and discover what was the real disease (DUI is a symptom not a disease) - high speed police chase for a hearsay traffic offense that could have been a DUI? Apparently traumatized Iraqi war veteran left to his own devices by the military to self medicate with alcohol? A police officer that had to work two jobs to make ends meet sleeping only a few hours a night? Hopefully all the families affected can find peace in these tradegies and their losses in the knowledge that in both life and death a part of a greater divine plan from an infinite God was realized that finite human minds cannot comprehend. The victims lawyers seeking justice should look for economic responsibility in not only impairment of an intoxicated driver's insurance company, but the high speed pursuit policies of law enforcement that fail to protect an innocent public; in a military that does not take care of its own; and a municipal authority whose sleep deprived officer have to work double shifts to make ends meet. For once attack the disease as aggresively as the symptom.
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