David Lee died on Sunday, 22nd September.
Mr. Lee worked as a cop in St. Louis City. He was 44, had two children, a spouse, and 18 years of experience in the police force. He was helping a motorist stranded on I-70, and he was pulling traffic cones out of the back seat of his car when he was struck from behind by an illegal alien. You can help out here if you are so inclined.
I’m going. Commenting about this is also a difficult decision for me. It’s important to discuss the tragedy, but it could also be interpreted as a political use of the event. I don’t think anyone would believe that I would do such a thing. It’s not like this happens very often. It happens a lot. It’s 454 too many because this isn’t supposed to happen. Not here. When I looked at this, I was surprised at how frequently this happens.
From 2021-2024 (so far), U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has recorded many instances under their manslaughter/homicide category for Non-Citizen Statistics…454. For the years of 2017-2020, they only logged ….eleven. You read it right. Eleven.
In the last four years, eleven official government statistics have cited illegal aliens as the cause of death. See them here.
On that chart, you might have noticed that many other crime statistics started to rocket off in 2021. They then went into low earth orbit for the next three years. These were the Biden Years. They are now the Kamala Years. She has them under her control and it is disgusting to watch how she cries through them. She suddenly becomes very worried about the border just before the elections. After the election, I’m sure she will be equally and proportionally less concerned about it.
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It’s not about the numbers. 454 deaths caused by illegal aliens may not seem like much in a country with 350 million citizens, but that isn’t what matters. It’s not enough that one person dies because they aren’t allowed to be in this country. We arrest and prosecute murderers, regardless of whether they kill one or ten people. It must be incredibly frustrating to see your father, mother or child, your brother, sister, friend, uncle, aunt, or grandparent ejected from your life and taken too soon by someone who has a legal obligation to be somewhere else. How do the victims’ families live the rest of their lives with the question, “What if?” What if the question “What if?” is rattling in their minds?
What if the person hadn’t drunk that morning? What if this person hadn’t been drinking that morning? What if this person was not in the country today? If it was someone I loved, I don’t know how I would ever be able to answer those questions. You’d think, “Wow…their life would have continued on its proper course if someone had not entered their airspace illegally and thoughtlessly.” They’d be still here!
They would still exist. They would still be coming home in the evening. They would still love me. They would be right there in front of me. They should still be right there in front of me.
Remembering and honoring a fallen law enforcement hero–St. Louis Police Officer David Lee was struck and killed by a drunken driver on 9-22-24. https://t.co/vmQjXwgwog #behindbadge #officerdown #fallenhero
— Citizens Behind the Badge (@CitizensBTB) September 24, 2024
I guess I tend to get a little philosophical about these kinds of things. About a third of my college credits were accumulated in theology and philosophy, and it’s natural for me to gravitate toward those kinds of considerations. I often think of things in Aristotelian and Socratic terms, like what is the matter? What is an essence? What is causal pluralism, or the knowledge and appropriate cause of something? I also happen to like “Star Trek” (the old one), where the Prime Directive states that one can’t interfere with another society for fear that it will unalterably change something in that society that otherwise would not have happened if you didn’t. Like, what would Officer Lee be doing right now instead of getting buried if Ramon Arnaldo Chavez-Rodriguez (and any of the other surnames he might use) had stayed in Honduras rather than illegally coming here?
Chavez-Rodriguez was arrested for DUI and domestic assault. He was on probation when the incident occurred, but the reason he wasn’t expelled immediately is unknown. Maybe one knows. It’s just not appropriate to say it out loud.
Tonya, the wife of Officer Lee, is someone I would like to learn from. I hope I’d have the strength and wisdom to follow her example if I ever faced a situation like this. She said, “This young boy.” We forgive you, baby. But you did destroy my family. I know God will deal with you.
Rest in peace Officer David Lee.
