Joycelyn Jackson, sister of 32-year-old slain Baton Rouge police officer Montrell Jackson, said she understands the anger behind the movement Black Lives Matter but that "God gives nobody the right to kill and take another person’s life."
As The Washington Post reports, Joycelyn Jackson was already sitting in church when she found herself needing God most. She hadn’t yet learned that her little brother Montrell Jackson was among the three officer killed in Baton Rouge when her pastor asked the congregation to send prayers to her family.
"I didn't want to break down in church but it was just something I couldn’t hold," Jackson, 49, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, said. "He was a wonderful person. A wonderful person.”
“It’s coming to the point where no lives matter,” she said, “whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or whatever.”
Joycelyn Jackson said her brother towered over many at 6-foot-3, but in her memories he will always be that little boy who was a picky eater. If she could talk to the shooter, or anyone considering violence against more officers, she said she’d remind them of a judgment beyond the penal system.
“If I could say anything to anyone, it is to get their lives right with God,” she said. “Hell is a horrible, horrible place to be.”
In a dismally ironic twist, as WaPo details, Montrell Jackson had written an emotional Facebook post just days ago saying that that he was “tired physically and emotionally.”
“I swear to God I love this city but I wonder if this city loves me,” he wrote.
“In uniform I get nasty hateful looks and out of uniform some consider me a threat… These are trying times. Please don’t let hate infect your heart. This city MUST and WILL get better.”
We suspect, however, his words will go unheeded.
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