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Great position

I was very encouraged to read a recent article describing the work of Tyler Police Department’s Homeless Outreach Officer. I commend the city for creating such a position.

Attending to these persons requires a special degree of compassion and skill to determine their immediate needs and future directions. It seems that Tyler Police Department has the perfect officer to handle this assignment, and I hope that the city will continue to develop a comprehensive approach to mitigating the suffering and despair affecting this population.

Padraic O’Bryan

Flint

Carnage continues

The media seems to imply that killing civilians remotely by dropping bombs and white phosphorus on them is more civilized that with guns, knives or direct combat.

The Hamas attack on Oct. 7 is routinely described as brutal, barbaric, savage and murderous while bombing civilians remotely from the air is somehow more civilized and doesn’t merit the same adjectives in its description, although children have some or even all their limbs blown off and families are crushed to death under tons of rubble from collapsed buildings.

Meanwhile, the carnage continues with Biden citing there are no red lines that the U.S. will apply to Israel with the bombs we send them regardless of the war crimes committed against the civilian population. I thought it interesting to read of the top recipients of the Israel lobby money. Number one was none other than Joe Biden, followed by Bob Menendez, Mitch McConnell, Steny Hoyer, Chuck Schumer, and our own Ted Cruz in that order. So now no ceasefire and why.

Jerry King

Kilgore