| I am writing to display my disgust with the church leader and the Sudanese community leaders who think that anytime an ethnic minority runs afoul of the law and meets with consequences that it automatically is discrimination.
I guess that Deng Kuol was only initiating his right as an ethnic minority to lunge at a police officer with a knife because he was stepping all over Deng’s newfound constitutional rights, as a Canadian citizen, to do any damn thing he feels he can. I’m sorry, this is a democracy, not a dictatorship where you can take the law into your own hands or make them up as you go along.
Yes, there was racism and discrimination displayed at the crime scene that night. A black man was initiating racism against a white man and a black criminal was discriminating against a white police officer.
If Deng was harmless, and just minding his own business, then why were the police called to that housing complex? With the methamphetamine freaks running around this city, who wouldn’t use deadly force when attacked by someone brandishing a knife?
I do feel sorry for the family of Deng, for a life was lost. I do, however, feel more sorry for the police officer that had to take a life while protecting his own. Who knows how many others might have come face to face with this knife-wielding man and what lives could have been changed forever.
Ira Macumber will have to live with this memory for the rest of his life. His only crime was doing his duty, as a police officer, in keeping our city streets safe for all.
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