One of the alleged organizers of last night’s sniper attack in Dallas that left five officers dead and another six fighting for their lives in hospital wrote on his blog last January 26 that Jesus would say “# tha (sic) police”. (Rev. Jeff Hood, Jan. 26. 2016)
...”Close to thirty years ago, rap supergroup NWA gave us words to deal with such a time as this. I believe Jesus would use them…
“# tha (sic) Police”
This is the sick and twisted mentality of Dallas resident Rev. Jeff Hood, a self-described police brutality activist, winner of the Next Generation Action Network’s Person of the Year for his work against police brutality, who had the gall to end his January post with the word “Amen”.
Who is Dr. Jeff Hood?
Certainly not the victim he described himself as in Dallas last night.
From his home page: “The Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood is a Baptist pastor, theologian and activist living and working in Texas. A graduate of Auburn University, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, University of Alabama and Creighton University, Dr. Hood also concluded a Doctorate of Ministry in Queer Theology at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University. Dr. Hood was ordained at a church within the Southern Baptist Convention in 2006 and received standing in the United Church of Christ in 2015.
The author of ten books (The Queer: An Interaction with The Gospel of John, The Queering of an American Evangelical, The Sociopathic Jesus, The Year of the Queer, Jesus on Death Row, Frances, Last Words from Texas: Meditations from the Execution Chamber, The Rearing of an American Evangelical, The Courage to Be Queer and The Basilica of the Swinging Dicks), Dr. Hood also serves in the governing leadership of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and Fellowship of Reconciliation USA. In 2013, Dr. Hood was awarded PFLAG Fort Worth’s Equality Award for Activism. In 2015, Hood was named Hope for Peace and Justice’s Ambassador of Justice for his theological activism and also the Next Generation Action Network’s Person of the Year for his work against police brutality. In addition to being the husband of Emily and father of Jeff III, Phillip, Quinley Mandela, Lucas & Madeleine, Dr. Hood also maintains a close friendship with Texas Death Row prisoner Will Speer. With deep soul and a belief that God is “calling us to something queerer,” Dr. Hood is a radical mystic and prophetic voice to a closed society.”
Within hours of a hate speech inciting violence by President Barack Obama, organizers and BlackLivesMatter brought their home-brew of anarchy to Dallas Texas, with the wholesale slaughter of five police officers.
BlackLivesMatter went out on a protest with the intention of taking down as many police officers as they could with snipers --who actually triangulated their shots at police. Aiming for anarchy, they left 5 police officers dead in their wake and another six fighting for their lives in city hospitals.
Dr. Hood--on site for the sniper attack--portrayed himself as a victim to CBSNews: “Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood, who told CBS DFW he was walking at the front of the protest, said he saw two officers fall down and immediately turned around. (WSJ July 8, 2016)
“I was screaming ‘Run, run, run, active shooter, active shooter.’ We felt like at any moment you could just see bullets coming off the parking garage so we just kept running.”
“Dallas Police Chief David Brown said the snipers had opened fire on officers from “elevated positions” during the protests. A civilian was also wounded.
“Three suspects were taken into custody, including a woman.
“A fourth suspect exchanged gunfire with police in a tense, hourslong standoff with police overnight, but that confrontation ended early Friday morning, according to a city spokesperson. Sana Syed, a Dallas public information officer, said she couldn’t confirm the status of the fourth and final suspect, but said “the standoff is over.”
“The suspect had told police negotiators that “the end is coming,” and that bombs had been placed around the garage and downtown with the aim of killing more law-enforcement personnel, Chief Brown said, adding that he had asked his staff for a plan to end the standoff.
Police are working on the assumption that all four may have been involved in the attack. It appeared the suspects had knowledge of the protest route, allowing them to take up “triangulated” positions above the march and target officers.”
“Protesters later said they believed the shootings were linked to the national turmoil over police shootings of minorities—most recently two black men in Minnesota and Louisiana in recent days.
“In the most recent police shooting, on Wednesday, Philando Castile, a school cafeteria worker, was fatally shot after being pulled over for a traffic stop in a suburb of Minneapolis and St. Paul, in Minnesota. The aftermath of that shooting was captured on video and livestreamed by the man’s girlfriend, sparking renewed anger over police brutality, and protests across the country on Thursday.”
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BlackLives Matter are certain to deny any connection to the triangular snipers.
Their protest attendees are not talking about how the lives of police officers were robbed--but how they were robbed of their protest.
“Jarissa Dotson, 26 years old, who works in finance in a Dallas suburb, said she and her cousin came to the protest to effect change but feel that the goal has now been shattered by the cop killers. She was about 100 feet away from where the shooting happened and ran along with everyone else as the bullets rang out. (WSJ)
“Our intention was to band together, to have our voices be heard, to influence change to the system,” she said. “But we’ve now been robbed of all of this.”
“Still, she says it clearly appears the officers in Louisiana and Minnesota murdered the black men. “But I want justice against them, those cops that were involved. Not any cop at all.”
Tragically, it’s now any cop at all and we must all ask ourselves how many more police officers will die during Barack Obama’s last six months in office.
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One of the alleged organizers of last night’s sniper attack in Dallas that left five officers dead and another six fighting for their lives in hospital wrote on his blog last January 26 that Jesus would say “# tha (sic) police”. (Rev. Jeff Hood, Jan. 26. 2016)
