Out of evil, make good – Let’s create permanent honor for Officer Darron Burks

Columnist Norma Adams-Wade By Norma Adams-Wade Texas Metro News Correspondent For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, That it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease. …yet …it will bud, and…bring forth boughs like a plant. Job 14:7, 9 KJV The “premeditated execution” — as Dallas police chief Eddie Garcia termed it — is one of the one million times when your soul asks… “Why?!” If you are a pragmatist who does not believe in evil, this travesty surely has to make you reconsider. By now — out of the tsunami of media coverage – you surely know that Dallas police officer Darron Lee Burks, 46, was fatally shot on Aug. 29 while taking a break between assignments, sitting in his marked patrol car, in the parking lot of the nonprofit For Oak Cliff. The building on Ledbetter Drive previously was the longtime location of Moorland Branch YMCA before the Y moved to its current location on Hampton Road in Oak Cliff. The on-duty death of any police officer is prime-time news. However, Burks’ demise has an added quality because of how the community has almost lionized him for his...