{"id":12096,"date":"2016-07-13T10:51:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/townehouse.net\/?p=12096"},"modified":"2016-07-13T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:51:57","slug":"its-time-to-start-being-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/?p=12096","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time to Start Being Adults!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"84982525_901468161e_m2\"<\/a>The rhetoric is getting tedious. The false cause and effect statements are getting boring. The arguments are meaningless and the majority of the opinion makers are uninformed. I am, of course, talking about all the claims of brutality surrounding each and every time a police officer is forced to take the life of a black person. If one follows the news as reported on main stream media and social media one would be inclined to think that the police are committing genocide on the African-American segment of our society. Allow me to elaborate.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Alton Sterling was not killed for selling CD\u2019s. The police were not dispatched to the scene on a report that Alton Sterling was selling CD\u2019s. The police were dispatched to a report of a man with a gun. On arrival a witness pointed out Alton Sterling as that man. The officers, for their own safety, attempted to secure Alton Sterling who made a choice to fight police. He probably made that choice since he had an illegal firearm in his pocket and knew, with his record, that he would be going to jail, maybe for a long time. Thus, he chose to fight the police, he chose\u00a0to attempt to retrieve the pocketed weapon, and these choices led to his ultimate demise. On the other side of that coin, the police had no choice but to answer the radio call. The police officer has no choice but to approach Alton Sterling once he was identified as the man with a gun, and the police officer had no choice but to do all that he could to overcome resistance and effect the arrest. The police officer did make a choice however; he chose to live.<\/p>\n

A \u201clist\u201d, recently read at a Black Lives Matter<\/a> rally in Cincinnati, Ohio was a list of people killed by the police, but it was not a list of black people unjustly killed by the police. Had a list of black people unjustly killed by the police been read it would have been a very short list. If a list of black people unjustly killed by the police whereby the officer was not criminally indicted, it would have been an extremely short list. The point being, people do get killed by the police. It is a fact of life. People hardly ever get killed by the police when they do the right thing. A person who does as instructed (let me see your hands), a person who follows orders (keep your hands out of your pockets), a person who does not fight the police (Alton Sterling) a person who does not attack a police officer (Michael Brown) all live to tell the story. That seems to me to be a simple choice. Would one want to live to tell the story, or would one want to die so others can tell the story for them?<\/p>\n

Quite frankly, I am sick and tired of it. I am tired of the whining, the brow beating, the finger-pointing and the blame making. It is time for people to start taking responsibility for their own actions and the consequences of these actions. If you choose to resist arrest and get killed, that is on you. If you choose to point a gun at a police officer and get killed, that is on you. It is time people accept responsibility for their actions and the rest of society stop accepting responsibility for those actions. Tax payers should not have to foot the bill for frivolous lawsuits, such as wrongful death, of an individual killed by the police because a police officer was put into a position of kill or be killed. Citizens should not have to be inconvenienced by being denied the use of streets and public right of ways because some feel mistreated and need to vent while marching and repeating inane slogans.<\/p>\n

To put it simple, quit the crybaby routine and put your grown up clothes on, and act like an adult. Be responsible for yourself, that is how it is supposed to work.<\/p>\n

Those are my thoughts, what are yours?<\/p>\n

Feel free to comment, like, share, agree or disagree with this post. Please consider a free subscription<\/a>. Options to like and subscribe can be found elsewhere on the page. Thank you for reading the Townehouse Blog.<\/p>\n

This material may be published, broadcast, or redistributed. In fact, I encourage it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The rhetoric is getting tedious. The false cause and effect statements are getting boring. The arguments are meaningless and the majority of the opinion makers are uninformed. I am, of course, talking about all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_daextrevo_audio_file_creation_date":"","_daextrevo_text_to_speech":"","_daextrevo_document_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"It\u2019s Time to Start Being Adults!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-rants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lighttravels.jpg?fit=496%2C315&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12102,"url":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/?p=12102","url_meta":{"origin":12096,"position":0},"title":"How to become an Asshat","author":"Tom Lind","date":"July 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I am certain all are familiar with the popular definition of insanity.In case you are not, the Urban Dictionary defines insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. I have discovered that this definition is quite applicable to debating subject matter such as politics,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Commentary"","block_context":{"text":"Commentary","link":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/fb-debate.jpg?fit=740%2C400&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/fb-debate.jpg?fit=740%2C400&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/fb-debate.jpg?fit=740%2C400&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/fb-debate.jpg?fit=740%2C400&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11954,"url":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/?p=11954","url_meta":{"origin":12096,"position":1},"title":"Tamir Rice Was . . .","author":"Tom Lind","date":"January 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the past several weeks I have heard the three words \u201cTamir Rice Was\u201d over and over again. The three words do not change, but what follows is quite varied. For example, Tamir Rice was gunned down by the police for playing while black, or Tamir Rice was a little\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Commentary"","block_context":{"text":"Commentary","link":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"Cleveland City Hall","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/8010974364_441a009410_b.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/8010974364_441a009410_b.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/8010974364_441a009410_b.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/8010974364_441a009410_b.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11984,"url":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/?p=11984","url_meta":{"origin":12096,"position":2},"title":"The Good Guys Wear White Hats","author":"Tom Lind","date":"February 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"When I was growing up, many years ago, times were simpler. As a child, I was taught the difference between right and wrong and when I failed to acknowledge this difference, or chose to violate my parents teachings, punishment was sure and swift. I did not always do the right\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Commentary"","block_context":{"text":"Commentary","link":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1399886333000-policememorial2.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1399886333000-policememorial2.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1399886333000-policememorial2.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1399886333000-policememorial2.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1181,"url":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/?p=1181","url_meta":{"origin":12096,"position":3},"title":"Cincinnati Police Department Serves As Role Model","author":"Tom Lind","date":"November 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently I viewed a news article regarding the civil unrest currently taking place in Ferguson, Missouri, published by KDSK in St. Louis Missouri. The topic of the article was that Ferguson could learn valuable lessons from Cincinnati, specifically with regards to the efforts taken by Cincinnati following its own period\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Commentary"","block_context":{"text":"Commentary","link":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"oh-cincinnati optimized","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/oh-cincinnati-optimized.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1314,"url":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/?p=1314","url_meta":{"origin":12096,"position":4},"title":"The Wrong Man","author":"Tom Lind","date":"April 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I have followed\u00a0\u00a0the news regarding the incident in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9th, 2014 when a man, Michael Brown, viciously attacked a Police Officer, Darren Wilson, who subsequently had to resort to deadly force in order to defend himself from life threatening violence. Notice how the preceding relates the basic\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Commentary"","block_context":{"text":"Commentary","link":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/o-FAKE-SMILE-facebook.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/o-FAKE-SMILE-facebook.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/o-FAKE-SMILE-facebook.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/o-FAKE-SMILE-facebook.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/o-FAKE-SMILE-facebook.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":733,"url":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/?p=733","url_meta":{"origin":12096,"position":5},"title":"A Tale of Two Chiefs","author":"Tom Lind","date":"October 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently it was brought to me attention of an incident that allegedly occurred involving a former Police Chief of the City of Cincinnati and a carjacking incident. To make sure the incident was singular to one individual I googled the name of the current chief, and three former police chiefs,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Commentary"","block_context":{"text":"Commentary","link":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"Huh?","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/townehouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Question-Mark-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38YRh-396","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}