Most people don’t know this, but the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, as have lower federal courts, that police have no Constitutional duty to protect the public. The only exception is someone who is already in police custody.
McAllen resident Randy Francis Davis, who turns 61 this August, hasn’t had it so easy since his divorce in the spring of 2019. Impossible question to answer for those who don’t know him very well: Did the divorce somehow facilitate his downward spiral, or did his bad habits lead to his divorce?
I have two friends going through cancer treatments, which is tough to watch even though I know both will fully recover. It’s the journey from here to there that’s the hard part. One guy I’ve known for about 25 years; the other dates back 55 years.
This week’s opinion column should garner me some type of “Friend of the Catholic Church” award from the Brownsville Diocese. Or maybe a visit from a NYC-based devout Catholic mob guy who hates newspaper people — who knows.
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