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In another case of off-duty violence, Deborah McCormick was robbed, raped and murdered by a policeman she had seen multiple times, as per the official police report:

Michael Durwood Griffith was a regular customer of the Always and Forever Flower Shop in Houston, operated by 44 year old Deborah McCormick and her mother.

Griffith entered and after placing an order, pulled a pistol and robbed her of $400 and credit cards. He then forced her into the back room, made her perform sex acts, then stabbed her repeatedly with a butcher knife.

Griffith used one of the stolen credit cards only minutes after the murder. He used other over the next three weeks to entertain his girlfriends. Upon his arrest, he was in possession of the credit cards and the murder weapon.

DNA testing showed that the knife had on it the blood of both Griffith and McCormick.

Griffith also was convicted of two violent robberies involving women — one at a savings and loan office and another at a bridal shop — the same month as the McCormick slaying. Both women survived their attacks and testified against him.

Griffith was a 10 year veteran officer of the Harris County Sheriff's Department before his termination in 1993 due to domestic abuse. According to Prison officials, Griffith may have been the first ex-officer to be executed since the state resumed carrying out executions in 1982."

As one U.S. President would say, "quality people on both sides".

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from A Reflection On Police Brutality (Vol. 1), released May 31, 2020
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