and in an instant it was gone...(Oakland's sorrow)

(this is taken from my blog on www.myspace.com/anitastout)

And in an instant it was gone... The father of this little child. The son of a mother. The peace in the Oakland streets. The coming together of America's black and white. The thought that racism was leaving us. The belief that the police are here to protect and to serve. The post racial America from Obama's win. The life of another man...

And in an instant it was gone... The father of this little child. The husband of a wife. The career he wanted to make. The good he had ever done before this day when he took the life of another man...

Pray for both families as they have lost young men...

Peace & Love.