Will There Be A Police Review Board For Those Who Shot Cop Killer?

A good man in Corpus Christi was run down and killed Wednesday by an asshole with a long criminal record who had already attacked one cop and was being chased by several others.

Lt. Stuart Alexander was only 47-years old, about the same age as my oldest daughter. He had been a Corpus Christi police officer for 20-years and was highly respected by everyone in the department. He was a "cops cop" said another officer in his department. That's a term of endearment in the police business.

As a Lieutenant and field supervisor, Alexander didn't have a partner riding with him. He was alone when he set up at a spot on a freeway to set out a spike strip in an effort to blow the tires on the car heading in his direction, being driven by 21-year old Daniel Lee Lopez. A pack of police cars hot on his tail.

Lopez, a local turd, known by the cops as a street thug, saw Stuart on the side of the road ahead of him and swerved to hit him, and he did.

Hearing about this good man's death makes my blood boil when I think of all the police antagonists we have been reading about lately. It makes be cringe when I see these people on city councils and in positions of public leadership, who make it their mission to micro-manage the police departments in their communities.

It make be want to puke when I watch some Galveston city council persons spend hours grilling the police chief over bullshit they know absolutely nothing about. I get sick to my stomach to watch an idiot on TV who mumbles and bumbles and repeats himself over and over, in and effort to make a sentence that others can understand. My gosh, who in hell elected this fool? And to think that Stuart Alexander laid down his life in Corpus Christi to protect people like this.

And it's not just in Galveston. These same self-annointed prima donnas (a vain or undisciplined person who finds it difficult to work under direction or as part of a team) are dealing misery to police officers in Bayou Vista. In Santa Fe they have a mayor who wanted to do away with the entire police department and turn their duties over to the Sheriff who told him right off he didn't want the job and didn't have the manpower to do it.

In Houston they have Quanell X who is mostly a TV performer who defends black criminals against the police department, doesn't have a real job, and wears high dollar suits and ties, drives a fancy car, lives in an upscale home and probably drinks something better than Bull Dog Malt Liquor. Where in the hell does he get his money and why don't he raise hell when a black cop kicks someone's ass?

These are the kinds of people that Stuart Alexander died protecting. These are the kind of people that any officer, from Galveston, Bayou Vista, Santa Fe, or anywhere else, would go to any early grave trying to protect.

Do you think that for one minute any of these so-called political or community leaders give a shit? Hell no! They never even think about it.

These kind of people don't care that Galveston cops gave up part of their monthtly pay to help the city recover from a devastaing storm. All they care about is having a civilian review board so they can hamstring the police department.

Have we ever heard of a review board for the public works department. Where do we complain about the city worker who leans on his shovel all day long while talking on his cell phone and drinking a Diet Pepsi? What about the bus driver we see driving a big city bus down the street while eating a hamburger and playing his I-Pod? Is there a review board for these people? Hell no!

I have found over the years that people of this ilk have usually had an experience with the police in which they didn't fare well. Maybe just a traffic ticket, may their delinquest kid was arrested, maybe someone stole something out of their unlocked car and the police didn't get it back and arrest the thief. They were busy trying to solve a double-murder somewhere.

People, wake up! How many cop funerals must you watch on TV before you realize that some people who sit in responsible positions, on city councils and commissioner courts, are idiots and are there to carry out their own personal agendas. They are supposed to be there to see that the people in their districts or precincts get the services they are entitled to. They are not elected to manage anything, especially the police or fire departments. Most of them have never even ridden in a police car, unless it was in the back seat.

The next time you hear about one of our police officers being shot down, run down or beat down, by some worthless piece of human fecal matter, just remember those who want him reviewed by a civilian review board.

If Stuart Alexander's wife and kids sues Daniel Lopez for the loss of their husband and father, what in the hell are they going to get? Not a damn thing. But if Alexander had killed that worthless scum, you can bet his criminal family would have sued the hell out of the city of Corpus Christi, the police department and Alexander himself. And you can also bet that he would have gotten a money settlement from one of them.

That's the way I see it, and if you see it different, I don't give a damn.

Breck Porter