Police Chaplains Today

I saw a friend of mine post on this topic today and realized that with all the discussion and protesting about racism, I have a story to tell that most of my friends are unfamiliar with. Even some of my Estonian friends don't have a similar story to tell of their ancestors. If Black Lives Matter then hopefully so will the lives lost to Communism during and after WW2. Russia invaded Estonia in 1940 and the immediate goal was ethnic cleansing. By the summer of 1941, thousands of Estonians had been designated as enemies of the Communist state. It is important to remember that Russia and Germany began the war as allies after agreeing to split up Europe through what was known as the "Molotov-Ribbentrop" pact. Estonia fell to the Russians until Germany decided to take it over in late 1941. What we are remembering today are the deportations of thousands in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania. This is the story of the Alkok family. My grandfather (Ado Alkok) ...

The past couple of weeks has been hard on the emotions for this old white guy. I have discovered that going on social media can be very dangerous if you do not "totally" agree with the masses that are BLM and their old and new followers. Racism has come to the forefront of everyone's conversations and that is good, except where it is not. Let me try to explain. Here in Toronto, over the past two months, citizens captured 3 separate confrontations on their cell phones between emotionally disturbed black men and cops. At the time most people were saying how well our cops handled the situations. One had a guy running after someone with a machete (in our division where I am chaplain); the second had a black man throwing rocks and smashing the windows of a police cruiser  and eventually trying to strike the female cop with the same rock; the third was just north of the city when a black man approached a cop sitting in his vehicle and attacked him, continuing to do so by stom...