Like many other caring Philadelphians, I am hurt right now over the murder of Temple University Police Officer 31-year-old Christopher Fitzgerald, husband, and father of four children. From the time I first learned of his murder on the news, my heart sank for him, for all Philadelphia police officers, for his family, friends, neighbors, and others. I don’t care what anyone says. I still believe we have more good police officers on our force than we have bad.Â
I know many of us are still reeling and even angry from the evil, despicable actions of five African American police officers in Tennessee who murdered Tyree Nichols in January of this year. However, those five, the White, Black, and Hispanic officers who ended up in prison after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, and some other bad seeds in police departments across the nation, do not represent the thousands and thousands of well-meaning, decent men and women of the law who deserve our support because they put their lives on the line for strangers, every single day.
My heart hurts today for the family of Officer Christopher Fitzgerald because of his senseless murder at the hands of a teenager in North Philadelphia this past weekend.Â
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