The original draft of this email was sent to Washington Post crime-beat reporter Peter Hermann and copied to several of his Post colleagues, D.C.’s mayor, attorney general, chief of police, City Council members and opportunistic lawyer Yaida Ford, a Ben Crump-wannabe who’ll now try to coerce a multimillion-dollar settlement out of law-abiding taxpayers to enrich herself and the dysfunctional family that imposed a dangerous gun criminal on society.
Dear Peter,
I’ve seen the same police body-cam video of 18-year-old Deon Kay’s sad death that you have, and it’s impossible to know whether he drew on Officer Alvarez or, as you subjectively insist, “threw the gun away about the same time the officer fired” [“Police right to fire but erred, audit finds,” B1, May 26].
Any dope stupid and boastful enough to live-stream his brandishing of an illegal firearm is certainly stupid enough to think he could Wyatt Earp some cop. And when I watch that video I can’t tell definitively whether Kay was drawing on Alvarez and the shot to his chest then caused an involuntary bodily spasm that looks like a gun-toss, or whether he actually intended to toss the gun as a signal to Alvarez that he was surrendering.
Of course, if Kay intended to surrender — as you, the so-called family that raised this li’l menace to society and their opportunistic lawyer would have us believe — he could have slowly stepped from the Dodge Caliber with his empty hands raised over his head, leaving his gun in the car. But he didn’t do that. He instead tried to flee with his gun in hand. So call me callous if you must, but this tax-paying D.C. citizen is glad that Officer Alvarez ended the threat Deon Kay posed to his law-abiding neighbors.
The officer should get a medal and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee should have enough stones to tell D.C.’s white-guilt radicals and criminal-martyring blacktivists that any punk with a gun who won’t stop when officers command him to “Stop!” is going to get shot in the chest. Our city’s rising rates of gun crimes would drop in a hurry if he did.
Darren McKinney, Washington, D.C.