kengrubb
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Rather amazing and inspiring. A cleaned up former crack addict reading a poem about a murdered cop.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003463823_vigil06m.html
"He was a godsend, an angel," Burien resident Whitney Horton said during the vigil.
Horton, 41, said that when she was addicted to crack cocaine four years ago Cox would scold her for loitering in White Center. The deputy was strict but always a role model, she said.
"He was just doing his job, I didn't take it personally," Horton said. "He was a father, a brother and a friend."
Horton read a poem she wrote about Cox before the nearly 200 people huddled outside the White Center Sheriff & Community Service Center for the vigil. "Gone too soon is what you are. In the blink of an eye you are an amazing star," Horton read.
And with so much black versus cops angst now, something that may help heal.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/295032_robert07.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003463823_vigil06m.html
"He was a godsend, an angel," Burien resident Whitney Horton said during the vigil.
Horton, 41, said that when she was addicted to crack cocaine four years ago Cox would scold her for loitering in White Center. The deputy was strict but always a role model, she said.
"He was just doing his job, I didn't take it personally," Horton said. "He was a father, a brother and a friend."
Horton read a poem she wrote about Cox before the nearly 200 people huddled outside the White Center Sheriff & Community Service Center for the vigil. "Gone too soon is what you are. In the blink of an eye you are an amazing star," Horton read.
And with so much black versus cops angst now, something that may help heal.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/295032_robert07.html