While the photo
is
at least a dozen years old,
what it symbolizes makes
MISTRUST OF THE POLICE..?
at least a dozen years old,
news almost every day:
The picture was taken about 15 years ago, and both of these men are no longer cops. One is in prison, and the other was fired for appearing in this photo, which appears to be a mock-up of some sort of perverse hunting scene in which white police officers find their African-American prey.
The FBI uncovered the photo during its investigation of the former officer on the left, Jerome Finnigan. He was convicted of leading a crew of rogue cops who shook down drug dealers and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars. Finnigan was also convicted of plotting to kill another police officer.
The other special operations officer in the photo is Timothy McDermott, a decorated detective who told the police board he only "very, very vaguely" remembered posing for the picture.
McDermott said, "I remember walking through (the police station) and someone saying 'Hey, Timmie, take a picture.'"
While the photo is at least a dozen years old, what it symbolizes makes news almost every day: mistrust of the police.
The FBI turned the photo over to Chicago police in 2013. It took a while for Internal Affairs and the police board to investigate and finally approve Superintendent Garry McCarthy's recommendation to fire Officer McDermott. He's now fighting his firing in court.
McDermott's attorney told ABC7 a simple snapshot doesn't tell the whole story, and there's no evidence the African-American man was in custody, so he questions whether the photo was even taken against the man's will.
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Matthew 6
22 “The eye is the lamp of the body.
If your eyes are healthy (Greek for healthy here implies generous), your whole body will be full of light.
23 But if your eyes are unhealthy (Greek for unhealthy here implies stingy), your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
24 “No one can serve two masters.
Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,
what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.
Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
(Or single cubit to your height)
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
MATTHEW 6
GENESIS IN REVERSE
33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life or single cubit to your height?
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.
24 “No one can serve two masters.
22 “The eye is the lamp of the body.
???
Lamp shades! How bout lamp shades?!
They didn't have as huge a selection of lamp shades back then from which to choose;
that will makes a huge difference...
won't it?
I really do not believe our Jesus of Nazareth would have approved of what today's Christians are claiming in his name.
Churches as I'm witnessing them my lifetime; nothing more than walls acting as lamp shades do with the light emanating from the bulbs they hide.
Although worldview shapes morality, it's ones intention creating the reality.
Not liking how I'm seeing this all adding up.
Just as important as everything we say and do having repercussions halfway around the world from us this digitally connected global day and age; so is everything we don't say and do also having repercussions halfway around the world from us.
They didn't have as huge a selection of lamp shades back then from which to choose;
that will makes a huge difference...
won't it?
I really do not believe our Jesus of Nazareth would have approved of what today's Christians are claiming in his name.
Churches as I'm witnessing them my lifetime; nothing more than walls acting as lamp shades do with the light emanating from the bulbs they hide.
Although worldview shapes morality, it's ones intention creating the reality.
Not liking how I'm seeing this all adding up.
Just as important as everything we say and do having repercussions halfway around the world from us this digitally connected global day and age; so is everything we don't say and do also having repercussions halfway around the world from us.
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