This article is adapted from:

Hate Spew: Cop-shooter’s wife wishes more police died, by Caitlin Nolan, Christian Zhang and Daniel Beekman of the New York Daily News, Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Angelique Campbell, in head scarf and ho-hoop earrings six inches across, responded to her husband’s death in a shootout with cops that he initiated with quite a tirade, which included, ‘If they was going to stand over my husband and shoot him like a fucking dog, he should’ve took all of them fuckers out…”

The distraught woman’s late husband, Lawrence Campbell, of whom the police conveniently had a mug shot available for the newspaper, told people to watch the news that he was ‘going to be famous’. He then went to a 24-hours Walgreens store in the wonderful and creatively named resort town of Jersey City, New Jersey. At around 4 a.m. he ‘chatted up’ the armed security guard about a greeting card, beat him up, took his gun, and then walked up to unsuspecting rookie police officer Melvin Santiago and shot him in the head. He was soon gunned down by police.

The interesting thing about this tragedy is the ghetto memorial on a brownstone building and the sidewalk beneath it around the corner from Campbell’s home which consisted of signed T-shirts, candles and liquor bottles.

For all of you tribalism advocates out there, I would like to point out that this is what postmodern tribalism means: ‘us over them, right or wrong.’ This display of unqualified support for the actions of a man who was clearly committing suicide by cop, are not purely tribal, but the kind of warped tribalism you get when feral tribes form out of conglomerate societies. This unqualified ‘us over them, right or wrong’ attitude was much more flexible among most of the aboriginal peoples I have studied. The Crow, Shoshone, Flathead, Lakota, and other North American native nations, often withheld support and even condemned such actions on the part aberrant young men. However, when you build a tribal identity within an antagonistic social situation, you get this urban guerilla mentality which is often reflected in equally severe police behavior.

Of course, the nature of feral tribalism is that both groups will forever blame the other for their own negative attitudes and behaviors. Welcome to the budding ‘feral-tribalism’ future for mid-sized urban centers.