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SG: Here is a recent incident that highlights the absurdity and the tragedy of this situation – our last wannabe terrorist insurgent at the East Boston Shootout last month.



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EDITOR'S NOTE: All we can leave you with is a 2500-year-old quote from Heraclitus -

“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”

KJ: Jesus, my heart is beating fast just hearing about it. That is an extraordinary story!

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SG: That it is. A lot of heroes that night. We were all hanging out together at the front desk of the East Boston station 10 minutes before this happened. Some of the guys are asking why they had to leave the best wrestler in Department sitting at a desk when they had to wrestle a maniac for his gun 10 minutes later, and that maybe nobody would have gotten shot at all if I had been allowed to back them up.



KJ: Jesus man, that's awful!



SG: Yes it is. I disagree with Black Lives Matter on a lot of things - my own children are African Americans, so I don't like any movement that promotes racial division or hatred - but they do have a couple of valid points, and if management are refusing to put the guys most capable of resolving situations without the use of firearms to these points of contact, then they absolutely don't believe Black Lives Matter much. Or white lives. Or any lives, including officer lives. They can't put petty politics above public safety like that, it's wrong. If someone like me had been the officer in Ferguson, there wouldn't have been any riots, Michael Brown would have been cuffed and stuffed inside of a minute and in a Second Chance program right now. The whole thing would have a two liner in the police blotter on page 9. Back in the day, I had a guy try and do suicide by cop. He came at me with a knife and begged that I shoot him. When it was clear my firearm wouldn't de-escalate the situation, I holstered it and was able to take him in with hand to hand. Most officers don't have that option, and if management is intentionally keeping the guys that DO have the proven ability (and desire) to de-escalate these situations off the street, it shows their moral compass is WAY off. Maybe someday they'll go after murderers as hard as athletes and the streets will be safer.



KJ: Godspeed sir, to your hearing on the 8th.



SG: Thanks. And hopefully, it won't even get that far and the whole thing will get resolved....before they blow another million dollars of our tax money. And if any other reporters want further interviews, I'm free to talk until they rescind that ruling saying I can. You can make arrangements through the Boston Police Patrolman's Association at 617.989.2772 or through Lichten & Riss-Riordan at 617.994.5800.



Author's Note - The fight Gannon is most often criticized for (vs. Kimbo Slice) was actually a charity fundraiser organized on this very website 12 years ago. Profits from the DVD sales of the Kimbo fight were donated to St. Jude's Children's Hospital. Sean was not allowed to speak to the press, so he was never allowed to tell anybody about it, and was instead portrayed as a barbarian.

Further, Gannon expressed the highest respect for Slice, who passed away far too young in June.



"Kimbo deserves a lot of credit here too, he essentially agreed to fight for free for charity, and never felt the need to brag about it," explained Gannon. "That's the kind of guy he was, despite the rough exterior, always doing the right thing and never looking for a pat on the back afterwards. And that's what this sport is all about."



*For more information on the Schoolcraft case, please visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft