Friday, June 27, 2014

Why Batman?

Hello everyone, hope all is well. I said after the month of March that I'd return to the subject of Batman and I am since I've been going through some of his comics reminding me of how great he is.

You see, I think Batman's great because he wasn't bitten by a radioactive spider, he wasn't rocketed to Earth from a distant planet, he wasn't given a powerful green ring by a dying alien.

No, he was born a natural birth, grew up, witnessed a terrible tragedy and was reborn into something different, different but still human. He thinks, he acts, he cries, he defends, he avenges, he protects, he withstands, he perseveres, he smiles, he scowls, he loves, he denies himself, he saves, he standsthey knew an officer had been shot in the head and that there had been a shooting in El Cajon but they did not know the connection yet.

Police later said that the gunman had first shot a man in the face with a shotgun as he got out of his car at a fast food restaurant. He then fled to City Heights where he drove up behind Henwood, flashed his lights at him and then shot him in the head when the officer pulled over and rolled his window down. Both shootings were determined to be random.

“Because of Officer Burns’ actions, the assailant was prevented from continuing on what was a clear plan to randomly shoot as many people as possible,” Jenkins said.

Probation officers typically aren’t in a