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Belafon12/10/2019 12:26:35 pm PST
Houston Police Sgt. Christopher Brewster, 32, was shot and killed Saturday night on a domestic violence call. The man who shot him with semi-automatic pistol had a long criminal history, including domestic assault, and he had two guns with him during the assault on his girlfriend that Brewster responded to.

This week, Houston Police Department Chief Art Acevedo is seeing Brewster buried, and he’s enraged at the men who are continuing to allow this to happen. “We all know in law enforcement that one of the biggest reasons that the Senate, Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and others are not getting into a room and having a conference committee with the House and getting the Violence Against Women Act, is because the NRA doesn’t like the fact that we want to take firearms out of the hands of boyfriends that abuse their girlfriends,” he said Monday morning.

Acevedo continued, “And who killed our sergeant? A boyfriend abusing his girlfriend. So you’re either here for women and children and our daughters and our sisters and our aunts, or you’re here for the NRA.” The Republican Senate is indeed cowering in the face of the NRA’s opposition to taking guns out of the hands of abusive boyfriends. The VAWA expired in February, and with it billions in funding that has helped law enforcement and social services combat domestic abuse. The Senate won’t take up the House bill that passed in April, mostly because of the NRA.

“So I don’t want to see their little smug faces about how much they care about law enforcement when I’m burying a sergeant because they don’t want to piss off the NRA. Make up your minds, whose side are you on?” Acevedo said. “Gun manufacturers? The gun lobby? Or the children who are getting gunned down in this country every single day? [….] Who are you coming to work for?” That’s not all he had to say. “Don’t tell me, Senators, with all due respect, it’s about the impeachment. Because you brag every day […] about getting judges confirmed.”

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We can’t do anything about the people already dead, but we can stand up with people like this Sheriff.