It really has to stop.
There is an epidemic in our land and it is growing. It is spreading like a wildfire and that fire is getting way too close to home now. It is a sickness born of hatred and fueled by hatred. I have never seen it so bad, because it has never been so bad.
It has to stop now before I have to write a story about one of my friends. I pray to God that my friends like Curtis Cole, Whitney James, James Prince, Kevin Gray or Shawne Walraven never end up in a story in our newspaper like the names of Deputy Darren Goforth in Houston or Trooper Steven Vincent in southern Louisiana.
I pray to God that I am never a journalist that has to do a story like my friend Charlie Haldeman and do my job, despite my personal feelings or relationship with a local law enforcement officer.